Seasonal Changes in Sleep Duration in African American and African College Students Living In Washington, D.C. by Janna Volkov, Kelly J. Rohan, Samina M. Yousufi, Minh-Chau Nguyen, Michael A. Jackson, Courtney M. Thrower, John W. Stiller, Teodor T. Postolache

“…In addition, based on our previous observation that Africans report more “problems” with change in seasons than African Americans, we expected that the seasonal changes in sleep duration would be greater in African students than in African American students. …”
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Carcinoembryonic antigen trajectory predicts pathological complete response in advanced gastric cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy by Yonghe Chen, Yonghe Chen, Yonghe Chen, Dan Liu, Kaikai Wei, Yi Lin, Yi Lin, Yi Lin, Zhong Wang, Qian Sun, Huashe Wang, Huashe Wang, Huashe Wang, Junsheng Peng, Junsheng Peng, Junsheng Peng, Lei Lian, Lei Lian, Lei Lian

“…Although no significant differences in overall survival were observed between subtypes, higher initial CEA levels were associated with worse survival.ConclusionThe trajectory of CEA change during NAC is a promising predictor of pCR in AGC. …”
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Omega-3 Status and the Relationship between Plasma Asymmetric Dimethylarginine and Risk of Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease by Heidi Borgeraas, Elin Strand, Eva Ringdal Pedersen, Jutta Dierkes, Per Magne Ueland, Reinhard Seifert, Eirik Rebnord Wilberg, Pavol Bohov, Rolf K. Berge, Dennis W. T. Nilsen, Ottar Nygård

“…No association between concentration of any n-3 PUFA and ADMA was observed. Only ADMA levels in upper decile were significantly associated with AMI with a multivariate adjusted hazard ratio (HR) (95% confidence interval) versus the rest of the population of 2.11 (1.34, 3.32). …”
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Pathologic Response Rates of Gemcitabine/Cisplatin versus Methotrexate/Vinblastine/Adriamycin/Cisplatin Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Muscle Invasive Urothelial Bladder Cancer by Franklin C. Lee, William Harris, Heather H. Cheng, Jaideep Shenoi, Song Zhao, Junfeng Wang, Thomas Champion, Jason Izard, John L. Gore, Michael Porter, Evan Y. Yu, Jonathan L. Wright

“…Any response (≤pT1) was achieved in 56% of GC and 45% of MVAC patients (multivariate OR 0.45, 95% CI 0.12–1.71). Conclusions. We observed similar pathologic response rates for GC and MVAC neoadjuvant chemotherapy in this cohort of patients with muscle invasive urothelial cancer (MIBC). …”
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Bone Loss Rate May Interact with Other Risk Factors for Fractures among Elderly Women: A 15-Year Population-Based Study by Joonas Sirola, Anna-Kaisa Koistinen, Kari Salovaara, Toni Rikkonen, Marjo Tuppurainen, Jukka S. Jurvelin, Risto Honkanen, Esko Alhava, Heikki Kröger

“…BL predicted FR in women with mother's fracture in univariate and multivariate model (OR 2.6; 1.15–5.7, P=.021) but with sister's fracture this was observed only in multivariate model (OR 2.66; 1.09–6.7, P=.039). …”
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Endothelial Differentiation of Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells on Polyglycolic Acid/Polylactic Acid Mesh by Meng Deng, Yunpeng Gu, Zhenjun Liu, Yue Qi, Gui E. Ma, Ning Kang

“…Cell adhesion, viability, and distribution of hADSCs on PGA/PLA mesh were observed by CM-Dil labeling, live/dead staining, and SEM examination while endothelial differentiation was evaluated by flow cytometry, Ac-LDL/UEA-1 uptake assay, immunofluorescence stainings, and gene expression analysis of endothelial related markers. …”
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DAB2IP Downregulation Enhances the Proliferation and Metastasis of Human Gastric Cancer Cells by Derepressing the ERK1/2 Pathway by Liang Sun, Yizhou Yao, Ting Lu, Zengfu Shang, Shenghua Zhan, Weiqiang Shi, Guofeng Pan, Xinguo Zhu, Songbing He

“…The molecular signaling was determined to understand the mechanisms of observed DAB2IP effects. DAB2IP level is lower in gastric cancer tissues as compared to paired normal tissues. …”
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Coinfection of Herpes Simplex virus 2 and Mycobacterium chelonae in acute hydrops associated with keratoconus: A case report by Pedro Marques-Couto, Ana Gama-Castro, Teresa Carvalho, Rodrigo Vilares-Morgado, João Pinheiro-Costa, Dolores Pinheiro, Ana Maria Cunha

“…While Mycobacterium chelonae is known to cause various ophthalmic infections, most commonly following surgery, there are no reported cases of infection by this microorganism in the context of acute hydrops, nor concurrent with Herpes Simplex virus 2 infection. Observations: A 33-year-old Portuguese woman of Caucasian ethnicity with a history of keratoconus presented with a red eye and ocular discomfort in the right eye at the Ophthalmology Emergency Department. …”
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Investigating the Role of Gut Microbiota in Pediatric Patients with Severe COVID-19 or MIS-C by Elena Franchitti, Paolo Bottino, Francesca Sidoti, Andrea Carpino, Giulia Pruccoli, Ugo Ramenghi, Cristina Costa, Ugo Ala, Emilia Parodi, Deborah Traversi

“…Significant differences in alpha and beta diversity were observed between COVID-19 and MIS-C patients, particularly concerning low-abundance species. …”
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Incentivizing Demand-Side Response Through Discount Scheduling Using Hybrid Quantum Optimization by David Bucher, Jonas Nuslein, Corey O'Meara, Ivan Angelov, Benedikt Wimmer, Kumar Ghosh, Giorgio Cortiana, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

“…Using synthetic data generated from real-world data, we observe that the classical decomposition method obtains the best overall solution quality for problem sizes up to 3200 consumers; however, the hybrid quantum approach provides more evenly distributed discounts across consumers.…”
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Quality of reporting in abstracts of clinical trials using physical activity interventions: a cross-sectional analysis using the CONSORT for Abstracts by Angélica Trevisan De Nardi, Leony Morgana Galliano, Nórton Luís Oliveira, Daniel Umpierre

“…The lowest reporting was observed in the number of participants analyzed (6%), allocation and randomization (1%), and funding (1%). …”
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Unraveling the response of the apparent temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration to rising temperature by Zhentao Liu, Junguo Liu, Deliang Chen

“…This study leverages observational data from 254 sites from the FLUXNET2015 and AmeriFlux datasets to address this knowledge gap. …”
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Status and influential factors of soil nutrients and acidification in Chinese tea plantations: a meta-analysis by D. Wang, D. Wang, D. Wang, B. Liu, B. Liu, B. Liu, F. Li, F. Li, F. Li, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, J. Hou, J. Hou, J. Hou, R. Cao, R. Cao, R. Cao, Y. Zheng, Y. Zheng, Y. Zheng, W. Yang, W. Yang, W. Yang

“…The results showed that only 40.9 % of the observed tea plantations meet the standards of high-quality tea plantations. …”
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Relationship between neutropenia caused by nanoliposomal irinotecan/fluorouracil/leucovorin and treatment outcomes in the NAPOLEON-2 study (NN-2301) by Tomonori Araki, Yuki Sonoda, Mototsugu Shimokawa, Taiga Otsuka, Kohei Hayashi, Takuya Honda, Kazuhiko Nakao, Taro Shibuki, Junichi Nakazawa, Shiho Arima, Keisuke Miwa, Yoshinobu Okabe, Futa Koga, Yujiro Ueda, Yoshihito Kubotsu, Hozumi Shimokawa, Shigeyuki Takeshita, Azusa Komori, Kazuo Nishikawa, Satoshi Otsu, Ayumu Hosokawa, Hisanobu Oda, Tatsunori Sakai, Shuji Arita, Machiko Kawahira, Hiroki Taguchi, Kengo Tsuneyoshi, Yasunori Kawaguchi, Toshihiro Fujita, Takahiro Sakae, Tsuyoshi Shirakawa, Toshihiko Mizuta, Kenji Mitsugi

“…Significant differences in OS were observed at cutoffs A (hazard ratio [HR], 0.65; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.44–0.94; p = 0.02) and B (HR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.43–0.92, p = 0.02). …”
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The Effect of Combination Therapy with Rituximab and Intravenous Immunoglobulin on the Progression of Chronic Antibody Mediated Rejection in Renal Transplant Recipients by Gun Hee An, Jintak Yun, Yu Ah Hong, Marina Khvan, Byung Ha Chung, Bum Soon Choi, Cheol Whee Park, Yeong Jin Choi, Yong-Soo Kim, Chul Woo Yang

“…Response rate to RIT was 66.7% (12/18), and overall ΔeGFR decreased significantly to 0.4± 1.7 mL·min−1·1.73 m−2 per month 6 months after RIT compared to that observed 6 months before RIT (1.8±1.0, P<0.05). Clinical and histological features between the 12 responders and the 6 nonresponders were not significantly different, but nonresponders had a significantly higher proteinuria levels at the time of RIT (2.5±2.5 versus 7.0±3.5 protein/creatinine (g/g), P<0.001). …”
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Construction of Multi-Scale Fusion Attention Unified Perceptual Parsing Networks for Semantic Segmentation of Mangrove Remote Sensing Images by Xin Wang, Yu Zhang, Wenquan Xu, Hanxi Wang, Jingye Cai, Qin Qin, Qin Wang, Jing Zeng

“…To address these challenges, we present two main contributions. (1) Using multi-source high-resolution satellite imagery from China’s new generation of Earth observation satellites, we constructed the Mangrove Semantic Segmentation Dataset of Beihai, Guangxi (MSSDBG); (2) We propose a novel Multi-scale Fusion Attention Unified Perceptual Network (MFA-UperNet) for precise mangrove segmentation. …”
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Nanoemulsified Butenafine for Enhanced Performance against Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis by Adriana Bezerra-Souza, Jéssica A. Jesus, Márcia D. Laurenti, Aikaterini Lalatsa, Dolores R. Serrano, Luiz Felipe D. Passero

“…Increased levels of IFN-γ were observed in animals treated with BUT-SNEDDS gel or butenafine. …”
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Can CT Image Reconstruction Parameters Impact the Predictive Value of Radiomics Features in Grading Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms? by Florent Tixier, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Alejandra Blanco, Mohammad Yasrab, Ammar A. Javed, Linda C. Chu, Elliot K. Fishman, Satomi Kawamoto

“…Significant differences, after correction for multiple testing, were observed in 69% of features in the pancreatic volume and 51% in the tumor volume with B20f and I26f kernels. …”
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Infection-Related Stillbirths: A Detailed Examination of a Nine-Year Multidisciplinary Study by Liliana Gabrielli, Matteo Pavoni, Francesca Monari, Federico Baiesi Pillastrini, Maria Paola Bonasoni, Chiara Locatelli, Maria Bisulli, Alessandra Vancini, Ilaria Cataneo, Margherita Ortalli, Giulia Piccirilli, Alessia Cantiani, Simone Ambretti, Fabio Facchinetti, Tiziana Lazzarotto

“…Positive results of microbiological investigations, in association with histological features suggestive of infection, were observed in six cases, indicating that fetal death was likely related to a bacterial infection. …”
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Functional Connectivity Alterations in Children with Spastic and Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy by Yun Qin, Yanan Li, Bo Sun, Hui He, Rui Peng, Tao Zhang, Jianfu Li, Cheng Luo, Chengyan Sun, Dezhong Yao

“…Furthermore, the disconnections of the FNC consistently focused on the visual pathway; covariance of the default mode network (DMN) with other networks was observed both in DCP and SCP groups, while the DCP group had a distinct connectivity abnormality in motor pathway and self-referential processing-related connections. …”
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