The Association between Adolescent’s Weight Perception and Health Behaviors: Analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data, 2011–2014 by Furong Xu, Mary L. Greaney, Steven A. Cohen, Deborah Riebe, Geoffrey W. Greene

“…Similar patterns were observed for weight perception accuracy among individuals with obesity. …”
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Application of Response Surface Methodology for Optimization of Urea Grafted Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes in Enhancing Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Nitrogen Uptake by Paddy Plants by Norazlina Mohamad Yatim, Azizah Shaaban, Mohd Fairuz Dimin, Faridah Yusof, Jeefferie Abd Razak

“…Homogeneous dispersion of UF-MWCNTs was observed via FESEM and TEM. The chemical changes were monitored by FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy. …”
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Improved Dark Channel Defogging Algorithm for Defect Detection in Underwater Structures by Longsheng Bao, Chunyan Zhao, Xingwei Xue, Ling Yu

“…Comparing the effect of the image with only the dark channel defogging and DR algorithm processing, the DR algorithm is observed to achieve “defogging” processing of underwater structural disease images to achieve better enhancement effects. …”
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Anatomy, ploidy level, and essential oil composition of <i>Hyssopus officinalis</i> ʻNikitskiy Beliyʼ <i>in vitro</i> and <i>ex situ</i> by I. V. Bulavin, N. N. Ivanova, N. N. Miroshnichenko, N. M. Saplev, S. A. Feskov

“…According to the results obtained, with 6-BAP introduced into MS nutrient medium in optimal concentrations (0.3– 0.5 mg/L), the general in vitro structure of leaf blades in the developed microshoots was similar to those in ex situ plants, while the qualitative and quantitative changes observed were induced by the effect of specific culturing conditions and plant rejuvenation. …”
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Formulation of new drug delivery systems for insulin from natural bioactive biocompatible polymers by Howida A. Fetouh, Engy E. A. Aleem, Najiyah H. Mohammed, Jihad M. Abd-Almajeed Aldesouky, Amel M. Ismail

“…Insulin released from insulin@chitin only at pH 7.4. No release observed at pH 1.2, 6.8 due strong bonding to acetyl group of chitin. …”
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Adipokines in Breast Cancer: Decoding Genetic and Proteomic Mechanisms Underlying Migration, Invasion, and Proliferation by Ließem A, Leimer U, Germann GK, Köllensperger E

“…A concentration-dependent increase in migration and invasion was generally observed, with no significant reductions in any approaches.Conclusion: We could show a robust promoting effect of several adipokines on different breast cancer cells in vitro. …”
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Hemophilia A Haplotypes in Southwestern Iran by Bizhen Keikhaei Dehdezi, Ali Khodadadi, Arta Farhadi Kia, Faezeh Abbasi, Saeed Bitraf, Roya Salehi Kahyesh

“…A high mutation diversity was observed in gene mutations and inversions; the most reported case was intron-22 gene inversion. …”
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Variation in soil enzyme activity with amendments of biochar and polyacrylamide in coal gangue soils by Qiuyun Fan, Na Li, Yuqing Geng, Ying Dong, ChaoYing Zhang

“…The results indicate that (1) the lowest bulk density was observed in the B5P10 treatment. The organic carbon content in B5P10 increased by 57.98% compared to the CK. (2) The activities of α-glucosidase, N-acetyl-glucosidase, and alkaline phosphatase in the B5P10 treatment increased by 112.34%, 110.77%, and 52.40%, respectively. …”
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Burnout Syndrome among Healthcare Workers in Lithuania as a Former Soviet Country by Aušra Deksnytė, Ramūnas Aranauskas, Vytautas Kasiulevičius, Lukas Aranauskas, Alvydas Navickas, Rugilė Jurkytė, Karolina Palinauskaitė, Diana Zlotnikovienė

“…No links between gender, years of work experience, salary, healthcare chain, healthcare sector, and BOS were observed.Conclusions. BOS is highly prevalent among Lithuania’s medical staff, and it is more prevalent than in most other EU and non-EU countries. …”
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Docosahexaenoic and Eicosapentaenoic Acid Supplementation Could Attenuate Negative Effects of Maternal Metabolic Syndrome on Liver Lipid Metabolism and Liver Betacellulin Expressio... by Tomislav Mašek, Petra Roškarić, Sunčica Sertić, Kristina Starčević

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: The changes observed in this study suggest that DHA/EPA supplementation may modulate the effects of maternal programming on disorders of the lipid metabolism in the offspring.…”
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Impact of Postpartum Dexamethasone on Postpartum Disease Stabilization in Women with HELLP Syndrome by Ayla Sargın Oruç, Figen Türkçapar, Serdar Oğuz, Necati Hançerlioğulları, Ümit Bilge, Nuri Danışman

“…Treatment group had higher mean platelet count for all time intervals and the difference between the groups was significant after the postpartum 42nd hour (p=0.03). CONCLUSION: We observed a rapid resolution of the laboratory and clinical parameters in patients with HELLP syndrome treated with corticosteroids postpartum. …”
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Les installations portuaires romaines d’Irun/Oiasso (Pays basque, Espagne) : entre équipement fonctionnel et façade urbaine by Mertxe Urteaga

“…Its use was therefore limited to a relatively short period and varied depending on the lunar cycles. These observations have led to the suggestion that these installations may have been built as contributions toward the development of monumentality within the settlement.…”
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Quantitative Complexity Theory Used in the Prediction of Head-Up Tilt Testing Outcome by Paweł Krzesiński, Jacek Marczyk, Bartosz Wolszczak, Grzegorz Gielerak

“…An area under the curve (AUC) over 0.700 was observed for complexity from 120 s before HUTT_end, with a sensitivity of 63% and specificity of 78% at this time point. …”
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Proteomic insights into dual-species biofilm formation of E. coli and E. faecalis on urinary catheters by Kidon Sung, Miseon Park, Ohgew Kweon, Angel Paredes, Alena Savenka, Saeed A Khan

“…Notably, elongated E. faecalis cells were observed in dual-species biofilms, a novel finding in mixed-species biofilm cultures. …”
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Sorbitol induces flavonoid accumulation as a secondary signal via the nanoencapsulated SPc/lncRNA809-MmNAC17 module against Alternaria alternata in Malus micromalus by Tingting Du, Dong Meng, Hongyan Cao, Yi Lian, Rui Wu, Tengyue Liu, Tianyi Wang, Cai Qin, Zhihua Song, Biying Dong, Yujie Fu, Qing Yang

“…To elucidate the effect of SPc/lncRNA809 on flavonoids catechin synthesis, we observed the expression of lncRNA809 was consistent with that of MmNAC17 which regulates the synthesis of catechin and both could jointly respond to sorbitol. …”
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Loss of SNHG4 Attenuated Spinal Nerve Ligation-Triggered Neuropathic Pain through Sponging miR-423-5p by Xia Pan, Cheng Shen, Yayi Huang, Long Wang, Zhongyuan Xia

“…Here, we evaluated the function of SNHG4 in spinal nerve ligation (SNL) rat models. We observed that SNHG4 was significantly upregulated in SNL rat. …”
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Fundus Examination of 23,861 Newborns by Digital Imaging in Ningbo by Delin Liu, Jiao Zheng, Yi Lu

“…Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) was observed in 617 newborns accounting for 21.1% of all screened premature infants. …”
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Real-Time HIL Simulation of Nonlinear Generalized Model Predictive-Based High-Order SMC for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Drive by Hafidh Djouadi, Kamel Ouari, Youcef Belkhier, Hocine Lehouche

“…Importantly, this strategy circumvents the need for direct measurement and observation of external disturbances and parameter uncertainties. …”
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Influence of Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells on the Burn Wound Healing Process by Claudio Luciano Franck, Alexandra Cristina Senegaglia, Lidiane Maria Boldrini Leite, Sérgio Adriane Bezerra de Moura, Nathália Forti Francisco, Jurandir Marcondes Ribas Filho

“…Despite the quantitative similarity of blood vessels and the inflammatory infiltrate observed by H&E, there were statistically significant differences between the groups on the fourteenth day of evolution. …”
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Tumor-associated macrophage-derived exosome miR-194 confers cisplatin resistance in GC cells by Yi Zhou, Yang-cheng Sun, Qiong-yan Zhang, Jing Wang, Xian-ya Zhu, Xiang-yu Su

“…Furthermore, a mouse GC model was established, and miR-194 was injected to observe tumor growth. Results Results indicate that M2 macrophages enhance cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer cells mainly through miR-194, as demonstrated by CCK-8 and apoptosis assays. …”
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