Deep learning–based assessment of missense variants in the COG4 gene presented with bilateral congenital cataract by Shaohua Zhang, Yang Sun, Yinghong Ji, Li Ning, Binghe Xiao, Maierdanjiang Ainiwaer, Houyi Liu, Yingying Hong

“…Despite classified as VUS (American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics criteria: PM1, PP4), the pathogenicity in this Cog4 variant cannot be ruled out and warrants further investigation.…”
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The Impact of Selenium on the Physiological Activity of Yeast Cells Saccharomyces cerevisiae ATCC 7090 and Rhodotorula glutinis CCY 20-2-26 by Wioletta Sęk, Anna M. Kot, Marek Kieliszek

“…Background: This study investigated the selenium-binding capacity of the biomass of two yeast strains, Saccharomyces cerevisiae American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 7090 and Rhodotorula glutinis CCY 20-2-26. …”
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Student perceptions of U.S. based school day physical activity best practices in relation to accelerometer-based sedentary behavior and activity by Ann Pulling Kuhn, Ajuni Choudhary, Amy Zemanick, Hannah Lane, Bridget Armstrong, Yan Wang, Rachel Deitch, Erin R. Hager

“…Methods: The sample was 758 students in grades 3rd-4th or 6th–7th (female-58 %; 31 % Black/African American) from 33 schools across five school districts in a Mid-Atlantic state in the U.S. …”
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Music Theory, Historically-Informed Performance, and The Significance of Cities by Adam Krims

“…It isolates the feature of wind/string balance, widely touted at the time as an advantage of the HIP approach, and measures them at key points of the movement; the resulting similarities of two of the recordings, both from London-based performers, and their pronounced divergence from the third, featuring East-Coast American performers, suggests the possibility that music workers (performers, but also engineers, producers, etc.) informed each others’ aesthetic preference and priorities, whether implicitly or explicitly. …”
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Police/Militia in (Post-)Soviet Popular Culture (Towards a Historical Iconography of Power) by D. V. Popov

“…From constructing the myth of cooperation between the government and the population, militia cinema moves on to deconstructing the myth, achieving an effect of denigration. The fashion for American cinema brings elements of action, thriller, horror. …”
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A year of COVID-19: effects of a global pandemic on a hip fracture bundled care protocol by Khai Cheong Wong, Kenny Xian Khing Tay, Suang Bee Koh, Tet Sen Howe

“…The COVID group had a higher proportion of American Society of Anesthesiologists classification III and IV patients (61.4% vs. 50.2% in the PRE-COVID group; P = 0.004). …”
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Knowledge, behaviour and attitudes towards Chagas disease among the Bolivian migrant population living in Japan: a cross-sectional study by Chris Smith, Kenji Hirayama, Nguyen Tien Huy, Inés María Iglesias Rodríguez, Dao Huy Manh, Tieu Minh Thuan, Hugo Alberto Justiniano, Sachio Miura, George Ito

“…Objectives This study aimed to investigate the knowledge, behaviour and attitudes towards Chagas disease (CD) among Latin American migrants in Japan and to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational activity (EA) in increasing knowledge of CD.Design A cross-sectional, mixed-methods study employing a preknowledge and postknowledge test and focus group discussion, conducted from March 2018 to June 2018.Participants Seventy-two participants were included, all born in Bolivia and residents in four Japanese cities. …”
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Towards culturally inclusive healthcare in Peru: Mapping epistemic concepts in contemporary Indigenous Amazonian medicine-Traditional healers' perspectives. by Ilana Berlowitz, Maria Amalia Pesantes, Cynthia Cárdenas Palacios, Chantal Martin-Soelch, Ursula Wolf, Caroline Maake

“…Peru is among Latin American countries with the largest Indigenous population, yet ethnical health disparities persist, particularly in the Amazon region which comprises 60% of the national territory. …”
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2b-RAD genotyping for population genomic studies of Chagas disease vectors: Rhodnius ecuadoriensis in Ecuador. by Luis E Hernandez-Castro, Marta Paterno, Anita G Villacís, Björn Andersson, Jaime A Costales, Michele De Noia, Sofía Ocaña-Mayorga, Cesar A Yumiseva, Mario J Grijalva, Martin S Llewellyn

“…<h4>Background</h4>Rhodnius ecuadoriensis is the main triatomine vector of Chagas disease, American trypanosomiasis, in Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru. …”
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Experimental gillnet study to inform future large fish monitoring in the San Francisco Estuary by Dylan Keating Stompe, James A. Hobbs

“…To help fill this monitoring gap, we conducted an experimental gillnetting effort in the spring of 2023. We employed American Fisheries Society experimental gillnets in a stratified random sampling design in the North Delta, California, USA. …”
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Brazilian criminal organizations as subjects of non-classical wars in the form of criminal rebellion by K. S. Strigunov

“…In this regard, the case of Latin American and Caribbean countries and, in particular, Brazil is of special interest. …”
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Prevalence of Emergence Delirium in Children Undergoing Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy by Katie Liu, Christopher Liu, Seckin O. Ulualp

“…Data collection included demographics, body mass index, indication for T&A, Pediatric Anesthesia Emergence Delirium (PAED) score, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification, total anesthesia time, postanesthesia care phase I time, and postanesthesia care phase II time. …”
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Osteoperiosteal versus osteochondral for autologous transplantation in the treatment of large cystic osteochondral lesions of the talus by Lequan Liu, Jiangtao Jin, Jinping Pan, Huikang Guo, Sen Li, Jisheng Li, Zheng Zhang

“…Clinical outcomes were compared between both groups with the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) ankle-hindfoot score and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). …”
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Acute Coronary Syndromes and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: “Un Affaire de Coeur” by Abdulrahman Ismaiel, Stefan-Lucian Popa, Dan L. Dumitrascu

“…NAFLD patients are associated with an independently increased risk of developing ACS, mainly in Asian populations, with inconsistent results in North American and European individuals. Moreover, NAFLD and hepatic steatosis severity were both independently correlated with complex multivessel CAD, mortality, and in-hospital MACE in ACS patients.…”
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Serum stromal cell-derived factor 1α as a prognostic indicator in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia receiving CAG-based chemotherapy by Zhenzhen Wang, Jing Yuan, Nan Zhou, Jianfeng Zhang

“…Factors such as age, French-American-British (FAB) classification, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status, primary AML status, white blood cell count, and bone marrow blast cell ratio, were confirmed to be prognostically relevant. …”
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Preoperative Education is Associated with Adherence to Downstream Components and Outcomes in a Colorectal Surgery Enhanced Recovery Program by Bayley A. Jones, MD, Joshua Richman, MD, PhD, Michael Rubyan, PhD, MPH, Lauren Wood, MSPH, Alfonsus Adrian H. Harsono, MD, MSPH, Wendelyn Oslock, MD, MBA, Nathan English, MBChB, Burkely P. Smith, MD, Robert Hollis, MD, MSPH, Larry R. Hearld, PhD, Isabel Scarinci, PhD, MPH, Daniel I. Chu, MD, MSPH

“…Our institutional ERP database was linked with American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data and stratified by adherence to preoperative education. …”
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Month-to-Month Variability of Autumn Sea Ice in the Barents and Kara Seas and Its Relationship to Winter Air Temperature in China by Chuhan Lu, Kaili Li, Shaoqing Xie, Zhaomin Wang, Yujing Qin

“…The retreat of autumn Arctic sea ice is typically accompanied by negative anomalous winter temperatures over the Eurasian and North American continents. However, such sea ice temperature linkages notably change from month to month. …”
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Association between prenatal exposure to phthalate esters and blood pressure in children aged 3–7 years: A prospective cohort study by Zihao Wang, Yu Zhang, Wenwen Yang, Mengfei Xu, Beini Li, Ping Wu, Zhongqiang Cao, Wei Wu

“…Systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were measured by physicians using an automated oscillometric sphygmomanometer and childhood hypertension was defined according to the American Academy of Pediatrics 2017 guidelines. Mixed-effects linear regression models were used to estimate the correlations between individual mPAEs and the SBP and DBP z-scores of preschoolers. …”
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Superior suspensory complex of the shoulder reconstruction for acute and chronic acromioclavicular joint dislocations: the Queensland Unit for Advanced Shoulder Research 3-tunnel t... by Helen Ingoe, MBBS, FRCS Eng, MD, MSc, PGCert, Jashint Maharaj, MBBS, MPHTM, FRSPH, Nagmani Singh, MBBS, MS, Kathir Azhagan Stalin, MBBS, MS, MRCS, DNB, Kristine Italia, MD, FPOA, Roberto Pareyon, MD, Mohammad N. Jomaa, MD, Kenneth Cutbush, MBBS, FRACS, FAOrthA, Ashish Gupta, MBBS, MSc, FRACS

“…Mean postoperative scores with associated 95% confidence interval were Specific Acromioclavicular Score 87.38 (confidence interval 75.38-99.37), American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons score 94.60 (87.85-101.35), Constant 79.47 (71.87-87.07), simple shoulder test 85.44 (72.34-98.54) and visual analog score 0.50 (−0.15 to 1.15). …”
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A study of introduced apple cultivars according to the main components of winter hardiness by simulating damaging factors under controlled conditions by А. M. Galasheva, N. G. Krasova, Z. E. Ozherelieva

“…Freezing of one-year-old branches under –25°C after a 3-day artificial thaw at +2°C revealed bud and tissue resistance in the American cv. ‘Red Free’ and in cv. ‘Coremolda’ (Component III).…”
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