Replication and Meta-Analysis of 13,000 Cases Defines the Risk for Interleukin-23 Receptor and Autophagy-Related 16-Like 1 Variants in Crohn’s Disease by Lynn Cotterill, Debbie Payne, Scott Levison, John McLaughlin, Emma Wesley, Mark Feeney, Hilary Durbin, Simon Lal, Alistair Makin, Simon Campbell, Stephen A Roberts, Catherine O’Neill, Cathryn Edwards, William G Newman

“…BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Variants in the interleukin-23 receptor (IL23R) and the autophagy-related 16-like 1 (ATG16L1) genes have been associated with an increased risk of Crohn’s disease (CD). …”
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Efficacy of Bluetooth-Based Data Collection for Road Traffic Analysis and Visualization Using Big Data Analytics by Ashish Rajeshwar Kulkarni, Narendra Kumar, K. Ramachandra Rao

“…All data analytics and visualizations are carried out off-line in R Studio environment. Reliability aspects of the collected and processed data are also investigated. …”
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التشخيص الجزيئي لنبات البوثس Epipremnum aureum المستزرع في محافظة نينوى لاول مرة في العراق by شهد ابراهيم, جهان الحاتم, انوار الطائي

“…تم في هذا البحث دراسة المؤشر الوراثي الجزيئي للنبات المدروس البوثس Epipremnum aureum باستعمال تقنية تفاعل التضاعفي المتخصص Specific - PCR اذ تم مكاثرة قطع الDNA باستعمال الكت الموصى به Favor PrepTM (Genomic DNA Extraction Mini Kit) وتضمينها من خلال تفاعل البلمرة المتسلسل Polymerase Chain Reaction واظهرت نتيجة الكشف عند المستوى الجزيئي لجينوم اوراق نبات البوثس أن حجوم الحزم الناتجة كان مطابقاً لما جاء في تصميم زوج البوادئ (ITS1F: 5:TCCGTAGGTGAACCTGCGG-3)) (ITS4R:5:TCCTCCGCTTATTGATAGC-3) المسؤول كمحدد عن وجود المورث قيد الدراسة وظهرت الحزم اثناء الترحيل الكهربائي بحجم 473 زوج قاعدة , أدخلت تسلسلات القواعد النتروجينية في برنامج NCBI-BLAST وبرنامج MEGA 6.0 لبيان مدى تقاربها مع المورثات الموجودة والمسجلة في بنك الجينات Gene Bank . …”
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Pengembangan bahan ajar pendidikan agama Islam (PAI) berbasis kontekstual untuk meningkatkan capaian hasil belajar by Najaruddin Butar-Butar, Nurmawati Nurmawati, Rusydi Ananda

“…Dalam penelitian ini, metode penelitian yang penulis gunakan adalah metode penelitian dan pengembangan (Research and Development/ R&D). Metode penelitian dan pengembangan ini adalah metode penelitian yang digunakan untuk menghasilkan produk tertentu dan menguji keefektifan produk tersebut. …”
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Exploration of Use of Copulas in Analysing the Relationship between Precipitation and Meteorological Drought in Beijing, China by Linlin Fan, Hongrui Wang, Cheng Wang, Wenli Lai, Yong Zhao

“…From a quantitative perspective, when R≤10 mm, the probabilities of moderate drought, severe drought, and extreme drought were 22.1%, 18%, and 13.6%, respectively. …”
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Long-Term Survival of More than 5 Years with Maintenance Therapy Using Single-Agent Pemetrexed in a Patient with Diffuse Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma by Yasuo Otsuka, Yoriaki Komeda, Masayuki Takeda, Takayuki Takahama, Masashi Kono, Mamoru Takenaka, Satoru Hagiwara, Naoshi Nishida, Hiroshi Kashida, Masatoshi Kudo

“…The tumor cells were positive for AE1/AE2, calretinin, WT-1, D2-40, HEG1, EMA, BAP1, and MTAP and negative for carcinoembryonic antigen, MOC-31, Ber-Ep4, ER, PgR, TTF-1, claudin 4, and desmin. A diagnosis of epithelioid mesothelioma was made. …”
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Osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells in cell-laden culture of self-assembling peptide hydrogels by Faye Fouladgar, Robert Powell, Vishalakshi Irukuvarjula, Akhila Joy, Xiao Li, Neda Habibi

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Structural Characterization of Functional Ingredient Levan Synthesized by Bacillus siamensis Isolated from Traditional Fermented Food in Thailand by Nattapong Thakham, Supphasin Thaweesak, Nuttinee Teerakulkittipong, Natthiwut Traiosot, Autaipohn Kaikaew, Gary Antonio Lirio, Witawat Jangiam

“…The highest enzyme activity was exhibited by bacterium B-6 identified as Bacillus siamensis NR 11274.1 based on the 16s rDNA gene sequence analyses. Thus, the isolated bacterium from the traditional food was confirmed to produce levansucrase enzyme of high industrial importance for the synthesis of levan as a functional food.…”
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Excavating trajectory planning of electric shovel based on dynamic excavating volume prediction by Juan Wu, Rui Liu, Baoguo Lin

“…The correlation coefficient R2 values between the test results and the simulation results are both greater than 0.85, and the deviation between the material amount in the bucket and the planned excavation volume is about 5%, which verifies the reliability of the trajectory optimization model and the accuracy of dynamic modeling.…”
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Study on the temperature prediction model of residual coal in goaf based on ACO-KELM by ZHAI Xiaowei, WANG Chen, HAO Le, LI Xintian, HOU Qinyuan, MA Teng

“…The coefficient of determination (R2) for the ACO-KELM model on the test set was 0.9635, which was only 0.01 lower than that of the training set, indicating that the model was not overfitted and demonstrated a high degree of accuracy.…”
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Are Women More Risk Averse? A Sequel by Christos I. Giannikos, Efstathia D. Korkou

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The relationship between health literacy and COVID-19 prevention behaviors among people living with HIV by Iman Navidi, Raheleh Soltani

“…The HL had a significant relationship with behaviors (r = 0.48; p < 0.001). Multiple linear regression indicated that HL had a significant association with age (P = 0.002), education (P = 0.046), and economic status (p < 0.001) and explained 32% of the variance of HL. …”
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Isolation and characterization of cadmium-resistant Bacillus cereus strains from Cd-contaminated mining areas for potential bioremediation applications by Bixia Liang, Yimeng Feng, Xiyue Ji, Chune Li, Qian Li, Zhenshun Zeng, Yuqi Wang

“…Morphological analysis and 16S rDNA sequencing identified both strains as Bacillus cereus. …”
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Prognostic Value of GPNMB, EGFR, p-PI3K, and Ki-67 in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Bo Wang, Mengyan Li, Anna Su, Yongmei Gao, Yan Shi, Chao Li, Wenying Liu, Liping Su, Wan Li, Yuqing Ma

“…Statistical analysis was done by SPSS 22.0 and R. Results. GPNMB mRNA expression is higher in ESCC compared with paracancerous tissues. …”
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Impact of smoking cessation, coffee and bread consumption on the intestinal microbial composition among Saudis: A cross-sectional study. by Steve Harakeh, Emmanouil Angelakis, Timokratis Karamitros, Dipankar Bachar, Suhad Bahijri, Ghada Ajabnoor, Sulaiman M Alfadul, Suha A Farraj, Turki Al Amri, Ahmed Al-Hejin, Abdalla Ahmed, Ahmed A Mirza, Raoult Didier, Esam I Azhar

“…Feces from 104 Saudi volunteers (48% males) were tested for microbiota by sequencing the V3-V4 region of bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA). For all participants, data were collected related to their lifestyle habits and dietary practices. …”
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Determination of Ketotifen Fumarate in Syrup Dosage Form by High Performance Liquid Chromatography by Mohammed Ali Salih, Dlivan Fattah Aziz, Salar Ibrahim Ali

“…The concentration curves were linear in the range of 10.0 to 35.0 ?g / ml (R2 = 0.9999). The developed method was tested for the specificity, precision, linearity, precision, reliability, robustness, and consistency of the solution. …”
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Presja ze strony konkurentów a aktywność innowacyjna przedsiębiorstw w państwach rozwijających się by Agnieszka Brelik, Marek Tomaszewski

“…Z kolei jako zmienne zależne przyjęto występowanie w przedsiębiorstwie: a) działalności inwestycyjnej, b) działalność B+R, c) wprowadzonych do produkcji nowych wyrobów, d) ulepszonych wyrobów, e) międzynarodowych certyfikatów jakości. …”
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An Observational Cohort Study on Delayed-Onset Infections after Mandibular Third-Molar Extractions by Giulia Brunello, Marleen De Biagi, Giulia Crepaldi, Fernanda Izaura Rodrigues, Stefano Sivolella

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تحلیل مخاطرات لرزه ای حوضه آبریز تالار و بابل رود بر اساس ارزیابی شاخص های مورفوتکتونیک by محمد خلج

“…در این مطالعه با استفاده از شاخص­های کمی ریخت­سنجی بخشی از البرز مرکزی که در محدوده حوضه­های آبریز تالار و بابل­رود قرار دارد مورد بررسی قرار گرفته است و 5 شاخص ناهنجاری سلسله مراتبی (∆a)، انشعابات (R)، شکل حوضه (Ff)، تراکم زهکشی (Dd) و برجستگی نسبی (Bh) در 15 حوضه زهکشی در محیط نرم­افزاری Arc GIS به منظور تعیین کمی میزان تکتونیک فعال این منطقه محاسبه شده است. …”
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Equity and gender mainstreaming in public policy: A scoping review protocol. by Michelle Amri, Jinny Yang, Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault, Amne Haikal, Kathryn Barrett, Jesse B Bump

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A scoping review will be undertaken by drawing on the PRISMA guidelines for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). With the expert guidance of a research librarian, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, PAIS Index, and Scopus databases will be searched, in addition to custom Google searches of government documents. …”
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