The Living-Related Kidney Transplant Program in Brunei Darussalam: Lessons Learnt from a Nascent National Program in a Small, Muslim, and Asian Country by Jackson Tan, Muhammad Abdul Mabood Khalil, Dalinatul Ahmed, Jayakrishnan Pisharam, Chiao Yuen Lim, Hock Beng Chua, William Chong, Kim Khee Tan

“…Between 2013 and 2019, ten kidney transplants were performed, with two being done in 2018 and three in 2019. We hope to inspire other similar countries to develop their own self-sustainable and independent local program.…”
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The genus Entomophthora: bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century by Carolyn Elya, Henrik H. De Fine Licht

“…Finally, we propose six major directions for future Entomophthora research and in doing so hope to provide a foundation for future studies of these fungi and their interaction with insects.…”
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Case Study on Incentive Mechanism of Energy Efficiency Retrofit in Coal-Fueled Power Plant in China by Donghai Yuan, Xujing Guo, Yuan Cao, Liansheng He, Jinggang Wang, Beidou Xi, Junqi Li, Wenlin Ma, Mingshun Zhang

“…Design of incentive mechanism will help these low efficiency enterprises improve efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions, which can provide the power plants sufficient incentive to implement energy efficiency retrofit project in existing coal-fuel power generation-units, and we hope it will make a good demonstration for the other low efficiency coal-fueled power generation units in China.…”
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Examining the effectiveness of psychological interventions for marginalised and disadvantaged women and individuals who have experienced gender-based violence: protocol for a scopi... by Dillon Thomas Browne, Busra Yalcinoz-Ucan, Laura Zilney, Agnes Zientarska-Kayko, Timothy Ireland

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Diet, Physical Activity, Weight Status, and Culture in a Sample of Children from the Developing World by Pamela S. Gaskin, Pamela Lai, Devon Guy, JaDon Knight, Maria Jackson, Anders L. Nielsen

“…Barbados, a small developing state at the end of the nutrition transition, faces an obesity epidemic. Although there is hope of stemming the epidemic in childhood, no descriptions of children's dietary and physical activity (PA) patterns are available for planning purposes. …”
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Towards a Rational Design of an Asymptomatic Clinical Herpes Vaccine: The Old, the New, and the Unknown by Aziz Alami Chentoufi, Elizabeth Kritzer, David M. Yu, Anthony B. Nesburn, Lbachir BenMohamed

“…The best hope of controlling the herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) pandemic is the development of an effective vaccine. …”
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Nano theranostics involved in bladder cancer treatment by Kunpeng Liu, Qixi Mo, Zhenshan Ding, Shicong Lai, Jian Ren, Qingsong Yu

“…The rapid development of nanomedicine has been a source of hope for the improvement of BC therapies and diagnostics by reducing side effects, enhancing tumor suppression, and overcoming drug resistance. …”
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The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV/AIDS Prevention in Rwamucucu Sub-County Rukiga District. by Owembabazi, Rabecca

“…The study concluded that FBOs provide services like religion as it provides consolation to people with HIV, including the poor, and is part of 'their identity, the foundation of their sense of community, and the basis of their hope and FBOs influence people on conduct, ethics, and morality. …”
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Diagnosis and Classification of Tuberculosis Chest X-ray Images of Children Less Than 15 years at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Using Deep Learning. by Kawuma, Simon, Kumbakumba, Elias, Mabirizi, Vicent, Nanjebe, Deborah, Mworozi, Kenneth, Mukama, Adolf Oyesigye, Kyasimire, Lydia

“…TL models; VGG16, VGG19, Inception V3, and ResNet50 outperformed scratch model with validation accuracy of 79.91%, 69.21%, 53.0%, 51.09% and 50.01% respectively. We hope that once the deep learning models are implemented and adopted by the radiologist, it will reduce the time spent by radiologist while analysing CXR images.…”
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Drosophila Cul3 contributes to Diap2-mediated innate immune signaling for antimicrobial defense by Fanrui Kong, Zixuan Wang, Chuchu Zhang, Yihua Xiao, Muhammad Abdul Rehman Saeed, Weini Li, Akira Goto, Qingshuang Cai, Shanming Ji

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The anti-oxidation related bioactive materials for intervertebral disc degeneration regeneration and repair by Yingjie Mai, Siying Wu, Penghui Zhang, Ningning Chen, Jun Wu, Fuxin Wei

“…However, recent advancements in biomaterials have opened new avenues of hope for IVDD treatment by addressing oxidative stress. …”
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Upregulated Expression of Indoleamine 2, 3-Dioxygenase in Primary Breast Cancer Correlates with Increase of Infiltrated Regulatory T Cells In Situ and Lymph Node Metastasis by Jinpu Yu, Jingyan Sun, Shizhen Emily Wang, Hui Li, Shui Cao, Yizi Cong, Juntian Liu, Xiubao Ren

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When math legitimizes knowledge: a step by step approach to Bayes’ rule in diagnostic reasoning by Yung Bruno de Mello Gonzaga, André Demambre Bacchi, Vitor Borin Pardo de Souza

“…Bad clinical reasoning results in bad clinical decisions, despite how accurate the diagnostic test: garbage in, garbage out. We hope our step-by-step approach to Bayes' rule can help demystify this powerful statistical tool and strengthen the idea that the value of a diagnostic test is directly proportional to the quality of clinical reasoning that led to its request. …”
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Cutting-edge: bionanomaterial solutions in the battle against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 by U. Saeed, R. Uppal, M. H. Najmi, I. Fazal, A. A. Khan, Z. Z. Piracha, M. R. Uppal, H. N. Ijaz, D. U. Ozsahin, B. Uzun, I. Ozsahin

“…The indomitable force of iron nanoparticles, duly sanctioned by the esteemed FDA, shines as a beacon of hope in the treatment of infection. Their interaction with the glycoprotein spikes of the virus unleashes an inhibitory action of profound consequence. …”
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On the space of SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence variants by A. Yu. Palyanov, N. V. Palyanova

“…Thus it can be assumed that it is determined to some extent, which allows us to hope for a possibility of modeling the evolution of the coronavirus.…”
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Analytical Approach to the Selection of Research Topics for Gallstone Disease and Acute Cholecystitis (an Overview of Cochrane Reviews) by S. I. Panin, T. V. Nechay, A. V. Sazhin, A. V. Puzikova

“…On the contrary, the achieved values from the estimated DARIS in establishing the differences in the duration between minimally invasive surgery options (21.2 to 76 %), in some issues of pain management in the immediate postoperative period (43.6 to 92.6 %) and additional intraoperative anesthesia (13.7 to 14.9 %) and Z-curve monitoring give hope for their achievement in the foreseeable future. …”
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History of Pain Research and Management in Canada by Harold Merskey

“…Such contributions reflect work done in a country that would not want to claim that its efforts are unique, but would hope to be seen as maintaining some of the best standards in the developed world.…”
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The Estimation of First-Phase Insulin Secretion by Using Components of the Metabolic Syndrome in a Chinese Population by Jiunn-diann Lin, Chun-Hsien Hsu, Yao-Jen Liang, Wei-Cheng Lian, Chang-Hsun Hsieh, Chung-Ze Wu, Dee Pei, Yen-Lin Chen

“…After adding FPI into the equation, the predictive power increased further. We hope that these equations could be widely used in daily practice.…”
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Chronic Stress Mediates Inflammatory Cytokines Alterations and Its Role in Tumorigenesis by Liu Z, Lei M, Bai Y

“…By enhancing our understanding of the complex mechanisms through which stress contributes to cancer, we hope to identify new targets for cancer prevention and treatment.Conclusion: Chronic stress establishes an inflammatory microenvironment by activating STAT-3 and NF-κB in inflammatory cells. …”
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Hypoglycemic natural products with in vivo activities and their mechanisms: a review by Wenyi Ma, Longgao Xiao, Haiyang Liu, Xiaojiang Hao

“…In the end, the trend of natural products treating diabetes was discussed. We hope this review provide a comprehensive and convincing summary, thus lending support to anti-diabetic natural products research.…”
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