Unique quantitative electroencephalography differences and related behavioral dynamics in Crohn’s disease by Yihan Zhuang, Hairu Yang, Xinyi Huang, Guanghua Guo, Quan Shi, Yiting Lin, Wenwen Xue, Zeyu Huang, Sisi Zhou, Jiahui Cai, Haizhu Tan, Jing Yu

“…Crohn's disease (CD) is a major type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) characterized by idiopathic, chronic inflammation with a patchy transmural inflammatory pattern. …”
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Novel MFSD8 Variants in a Chinese Family with Nonsyndromic Macular Dystrophy by Qin Xiang, Yanna Cao, Hongbo Xu, Zhijian Yang, Liang Tang, Ju Xiang, Jianming Li, Hao Deng, Lamei Yuan

“…Novel compound heterozygous variants, c.1066C>T (p.Pro356Ser) and c.1102+2T>C, in the major facilitator superfamily domain containing 8 gene (MFSD8) were suspected to be involved in this family’s macular dystrophy phenotype. …”
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Anomaly Detection Based on Local Nearest Neighbor Distance Descriptor in Crowded Scenes by Xing Hu, Shiqiang Hu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Huanlong Zhang, Lingkun Luo

“…Comparing with the commonly used low-level feature descriptors in previous works, LNND descriptor has two major advantages. First, LNND descriptor efficiently incorporates spatial and temporal contextual information around the video event that is important for detecting anomalous interaction among multiple events, while most existing feature descriptors only contain the information of single event. …”
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Dynamic Parameter Identification of Tool-Spindle Interface Based on RCSA and Particle Swarm Optimization by Erhua Wang, Bo Wu, Youmin Hu, Shuzi Yang, Yao Cheng

“…By the receptance coupling substructure analysis (RCSA), the tool point FRFs can be generated quickly for any combination of holder and tool without the need of repeated measurements. A major difficulty in the sub-structuring analysis is to determine the connection parameters at the tool-holder interface. …”
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Targeting Oxidative Stress Injury after Ischemic Stroke in Conscious Rats: Limited Benefits with Apocynin Highlight the Need to Incorporate Long Term Recovery by Robert M. Weston, Bin Lin, Gregory J. Dusting, Carli L. Roulston

“…NADPH oxidase is a major source of superoxide anion following stroke and reperfusion. …”
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Fast Determination of the Main Reduced Sulfur Species in Aquatic Systems by a Direct and Second-Derivative Spectrophotometric Method by Sébastien Dupraz, Bénédicte Ménez, François Guyot

“…This method has been successfully tested and has demonstrated liability to (i) avoid the biases due to absorbance overlaps between the different major chemical species and (ii) keep, as a direct method, the advantages over indirect methods on interferences reduction. …”
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Working animal welfare and their multidimensional roles on livelihood improvement in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Getasew Daru Tariku, Tarekegn Derbib Biza, Senait Kehali Tesfaye, Sinkie Alemu Kebede

“…Hence, a clear understanding of the major welfare problems faced by working animals is key to helping improve their welfare status and to maximise their economic contribution. …”
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Ultrasound Biomicroscopy Detects Peters’ Anomaly and Rieger’s Anomaly in Infants by Wen-Si Chen, Dao-Man Xiang, Lan-Xiang Hu

“…Congenital corneal opacities (CCOs) are the major causes of early visual deprivation in infants. …”
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Ear Infection and Its Associated Risk Factors in First Nations and Rural School-Aged Canadian Children by Chandima P. Karunanayake, William Albritton, Donna C. Rennie, Joshua A. Lawson, Laura McCallum, P. Jenny Gardipy, Jeremy Seeseequasis, Arnold Naytowhow, Louise Hagel, Kathleen McMullin, Vivian Ramsden, Sylvia Abonyi, Jo-Ann Episkenew, James A. Dosman, Punam Pahwa, The First Nations Lung Health Project Research Team, The Saskatchewan Rural Health Study Team

“…Ear infections in children are a major health problem and may be associated with hearing impairment and delayed language development. …”
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Connecting Cerebral White Matter Lesions and Hypertensive Target Organ Damage by Cristina Sierra, Alfons López-Soto, Antonio Coca

“…The brain is an early target of organ damage due to high blood pressure, which is the major modifiable risk factor for stroke and small vessel disease. …”
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Effect of the Cash Support from the Vision Umurenge Programme on Household Financial Behaviour in Rwanda: The Case of Direct Support (DS) by Emmanuel Munyemana, Charles Ruranga, Joseph K. Mung’atu

“…This study aims to quantify the extent to which poor households receiving cash support from the Vision Umurenge Programme (VUP) allocate their income across major spending categories, mainly consumption, savings, household-level investment, and cash transfers for community participation. …”
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Predatory ability of <i>Sycanus annulicornis</i> Dohrn. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) on nettle caterpillar prey (<i>Setora nitens</i> Walker.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the laboratory by Rusli Rustam, Dwi Yuwanda Nasution, Yunandra Yunandra, Mukhlis Ibrahim

“… The nettle caterpillar (Setora nitens) is a major pest affecting oil palm plants and is predominantly found in oil palm plantations in Riau. …”
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Wet-Chemical Surface Texturing of Sputter-Deposited ZnO:Al Films as Front Electrode for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells by Xia Yan, Selvaraj Venkataraj, Armin G. Aberle

“…Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) play a major role as the front electrodes of thin-film silicon (Si) solar cells, as they can provide optical scattering and hence improved photon absorption inside the devices. …”
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Psychosocial and mental health in cystic fibrosis in the modern era of care: time to evolve by Beth Smith, Tonia A Douglas, Alexandra L Quittner, Anna M Georgiopoulos, Maggie Harrigan

“…Cystic fibrosis (CF) treatment has revolutionised care over the past three decades with major advances in survival. Despite these advances, CF continues to create psychological and social challenges for people with CF (PWCF) throughout their life and is associated with worse health outcomes and higher healthcare costs. …”
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Integrated Remote Sensing and Geophysical Investigations of the Geodynamic Activities at Lake Magadi, Southern Kenyan Rift by Akinola Adesuji Komolafe, Zacharia Njuguna Kuria, Tsehaie Woldai, Marleen Noomen, Adeleye Yekini Biodun Anifowose

“…The observed faults extend from the surface to a depth of 7.5 km and are probably the ones that bound the graben laterally. They serve as major conduits for the upward heat flux in the study area. …”
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Polycystin-1 regulates tendon-derived mesenchymal stem cells fate and matrix organization in heterotopic ossification by Yi Li Xu, Mei Huang, Yang Zhang, Xin Ying Su, Min Huang, Nan Yu Zou, Yu Rui Jiao, Yu Chen Sun, Ling Liu, Yong Hua Lei, Chang Jun Li

“…First, we revealed that CTSK lineage TDMSCs are the major source of osteoblasts and fibroblasts in HO and are responsive to mechanical cues via single-cell RNA sequencing analysis and experiments with a lineage tracing mouse model. …”
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Effect of almond shell addition to substrates in Phaseolus vulgaris L. (cv. Saxa) growth, and physiological and biochemical characteristics by Ivo Oliveira, Anne Meyer, Rita Silva, Sílvia Afonso, Berta Gonçalves

“…Abstract Purpose In the almond industry, the major by-product is the shell, the woody outer layer of the almond fruits. …”
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Mediastinal Tracheostoma for Treatment of Tracheostenosis after Tracheostomy in a Patient with Mucopolysaccharidosis-Induced Tracheomalacia by Yasuhiro Chikaishi, Kenichi Kobayashi, Shuichi Shinohara, Akihiro Taira, Yusuke Nabe, Shinji Shinohara, Taiji Kuwata, Masaru Takenaka, Soichi Oka, Ayako Hirai, Kazue Yoneda, Koji Kuroda, Naoko Imanishi, Yoshinobu Ichiki, Fumihiro Tanaka

“…One week prior to presentation, he was admitted to another hospital on an emergency basis for major dyspnea. He was diagnosed with tracheostenosis caused by granulation. …”
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Human intestinal Caco-2 cell model to evaluate the absorption of 7-ketophytosterols and their effects on cholesterol transport by Mengmeng Wang, Min Yu, Amel Thanina Amrouche, Fan Jie, Shengyang Ji, Baiyi Lu

“…7-Ketophytosterols are the major oxidation products of phytosterols in foods, which have been associated with atherosclerosis. …”
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A Concept Mapping Study of Physicians’ Perceptions of Factors Influencing Management and Control of Hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa by Juliet Iwelunmor, Sarah Blackstone, Joyce Gyamfi, Collins Airhihenbuwa, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Bamidele Tayo, Richard Adanu, Gbenga Ogedegbe

“…Hypertension, once a rare problem in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), is predicted to be a major cause of death by 2020 with mortality rates as high as 75%. …”
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