Thank You to Our 2020 Reviewers by Noé Lugaz, Delores J. Knipp, Jennifer L. Gannon, Michael Hapgood, Huixin Liu, T. Paul O'Brien, Steven K. Morley

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Fixed Point Theorems for an Elastic Nonlinear Mapping in Banach Spaces by Hiroko Manaka

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Question de la taille des arbres dans des jardins japonais de France : rencontres et réflexions entre jardiniers français et japonais by Yoko Mizuma

“…In France, where the historical background in the development of pruning techniques as well as the climatic conditions differ from those in Japan, pruning is one of the key aspects affecting the form of Japanese gardens. …”
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Effects of information on consumer attitudes towards gene-edited foods: a comparison between livestock and vegetables by Naoko Kato-Nitta, Yusuke Inagaki, Tadahiko Maeda, Masashi Tachikawa

“…Due to the strict regulations regarding genetically modified (GM) food, GM crops are not commercially cultivated in Japan. Consumers worldwide have concerns about application of this technology to food. …”
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Lipid metabolism indicators provide tools for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: results of a nationwide survey by Yongxin Wang, Chang Fu, Hengwei Jin, Yibo Yang, Xiaocong Li, Xiaocong Li, Kai Liu

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Inflammation and Immune Escape in Ovarian Cancer: Pathways and Therapeutic Opportunities by Liu C, Yin Q, Wu Z, Li W, Huang J, Chen B, Yang Y, Zheng X, Zeng L, Wang J

“…Chunyan Liu,1,* Qinan Yin,2,3,* Zhaoying Wu,1 Wenhui Li,1 Jun Huang,1 Bo Chen,1 Yanjun Yang,1 Xuewei Zheng,3 Li Zeng,3 Jingjing Wang3 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Radiation Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, People’s Republic of China; 3Precision Medicine Laboratory, School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Chunyan Liu, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, No. 2 Yinghua Dongjie, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, People’s Republic of China, Email juneliu2022@126.comAbstract: Ovarian cancer (OC) remains one of the most lethal gynecological malignancies, largely due to its late-stage diagnosis and high recurrence rates. …”
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A Parallel Image Denoising Network Based on Nonparametric Attention and Multiscale Feature Fusion by Jing Mao, Lianming Sun, Jie Chen, Shunyuan Yu

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Development of cohort definitions and algorithms to identify patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome or Dravet syndrome from real-world administrative healthcare databases by Drishti Shah, Victoria Divino, Justin Chen, Arturo Benitez, Jeannine Roth, J. Scott Andrews

“…Objective: To develop cohort definitions and algorithms that can be applied to a range of real-world retrospective data sources in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, China, and Japan to identify patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) or Dravet syndrome (DS) to aid future research. …”
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The People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) of the USSR in the City of Kuibyshev (1941-1943) by S. I. Chernyavsky

“…Due to the opposition of the Western powers, domestic diplomacy failed to create a collective security system to prevent the aggression of Germany, Italy and Japan. Negotiations with representatives of Great Britain and France, which were conducted in 1939, were interrupted and relations with these countries were virtually frozen.Some important strategic tasks were set before Soviet diplomacy. …”
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Non-inferiority study to compare the efficacy of relugolix with dienogest for endometriosis-associated pain and usefulness of administering relugolix prior to dienogest (READY stud... by Fuminori Taniguchi, Motoko Fukui, Yutaka Osuga, Tasuku Harada, Jo Kitawaki

“…The results will support treatment decisions regarding endometriosis-associated pain, and the introduction of new treatments to reduce dienogest-induced abnormal uterine bleeding. Trial registration Japan Registry of Clinical Trials ID jRCTs061230064. …”
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In Vivo Evaluation of the Combined Anticancer Effects of Cisplatin and SAHA in Nonsmall Cell Lung Carcinoma Using [18F]FAHA and [18F]FDG PET/CT Imaging by Skye Hsin-Hsien Yeh, Ming Hsien Lin, I. I. Leo Garcia Flores, Uday Mukhopadhyay, Danial Young, Kazuma Ogawa, Jeong-Hwan Jeong, William Tong, Juri G. Gelovani, Nobuyoshi Fukumitsu

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Solution-Processed Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Silyl End-Capped Sexithiophene by Jung Hei Choi, Mohamed E. El-Khouly, Taehee Kim, Youn-Su Kim, Ung Chan Yoon, Shunichi Fukuzumi, Kyungkon Kim

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Application of amorphous zirconium (hydr)oxide/MgFe layered double hydroxides composite in fixed-bed column for phosphate removal from water by A. Nuryadin, T. Imai

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Numerical Simulation of Surface Energy and Water Balances over a Semiarid Grassland Ecosystem in the West African Savanna by Emmanuel Quansah, Genki Katata, Matthias Mauder, Thompson Annor, Leonard K. Amekudzi, Jan Bliefernicht, Dominikus Heinzeller, Ahmed A. Balogun, Harald Kunstmann

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Acupuncture for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with dry eye: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ting Li, Xin Xu, Juan Wei, Qingbo Wei, Zhouyu Xie, Xiangyu Bian, Yunchuan Wu

“…However, systematic reviews on the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture are lacking, therefore this systematic review aims to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for T2DM with dry eye.Methods and analysis Four English databases (PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase and Ovid), three Chinese databases (China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, Chonqing VIP Information), three Japanese databases (Japan Science, Technology Agency and Japan Medical Abstracts Society) and three Korean databases (Korean Medical database, Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System and Research Information Service System) will be searched for reports published between 1 January 2007 and 1 October 2021. …”
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Serum laminin γ2 monomer as a novel diagnostic and prognostic marker for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by Takeshi Terashima, Kouki Nio, Naohiko Koshikawa, Makoto Ueno, Tadashi Toyama, Masaki Miyazawa, Tomoyuki Hayashi, Akihiro Seki, Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Noriho Iida, Shinya Yamada, Hajime Takatori, Tetsuro Shimakami, Toru Yoshimura, Eisaku Yoshida, Masatoshi Nakagawa, Motoharu Seiki, Taro Yamashita

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Wastewater-based estimation of temporal variation in shedding amount of influenza A virus and clinically identified cases using the PRESENS model by Hiroki Ando, Michio Murakami, Masaaki Kitajima, Kelly A. Reynolds

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The complete chloroplast genome sequences of monotypic genus Pseudogalium, and comparative analyses with its relative genera by Wei Yu, Xiao-Juan Li, Zhen Lv, Li-E Yang, De-Li Peng

“…Abstract Background Pseudogalium is a new monotypic genus with two subspecies in China and one in Japan, which holds a distinctive phylogenetic position and ecological significance within the tribe Rubieae. …”
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Heterogeneity in Fluorescence-Stained Sperm Membrane Patterns and Their Dynamic Changes Towards Fertilization in Mice by Momoka Hirai, Satoshi Kishigami

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Outstanding fatigue performance of Mg-Gd-Zn-Zr alloy enriched with SFs rather than LPSO Structure by Yao Chen, Fulin Liu, Yujuan Wu, Liming Peng, Lang Li, Chao He, Qiang Chen, Yongjie Liu, Qingyuan Wang

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