Chinese cabbage orphan gene BR3 confers bolting resistance to Arabidopsis through the gibberellin pathway by Yuting Zhang, Mingliang Jiang, Shurui Sun, Zongxiang Zhan, Xiaonan Li, Zhongyun Piao

“…BR3OE plants similarly exhibited delayed bolting and flowering times, and an increased number of rosette leaves under short-day (SD) conditions. …”
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Interaction of Hypertension and Insulin Resistance Exacerbates the Occurrence of Diabetes Mellitus in Healthy Individuals by Baomin Wang, Yumei Yang, Xiaomu Li

“…After adjusting for gender and age, for every unit increase in HOMA-IR, the risk of developing newly diagnosed diabetes increased 9.67 times [OR: 9.670, 95% CI 5.086-18.384, P<0.001]. …”
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Role of sulphate-based additives on the early age properties of Portland cement incorporating alumina-rich ladle furnace slag by Chee Lok Yong, Tee How Tan, Haider Hamad Ghayeb, Suhana Koting, Kim Hung Mo

“…In the present work, CS and SS at 1 %, 3 %, and 5 % dosages are added to blended cement containing 25 % and 50 % LFS replacement to investigate the setting time, soundness and strength development. The inclusion of 5 % SS results in a reduction of 50–57 % in setting times for specimens with 25 % LFS compared to the control. …”
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The Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Flow Heterogeneity During Water Flooding for an Artificial Core Plate Model by Chen Jiang, Qingjie Liu, Kaiqi Leng, Zubo Zhang, Xu Chen, Tong Wu

“…During the drastic change stage, the fluctuation amplitude of the water-phase permeability variation coefficient is 114.5 times that of the relative stable phase, while the fluctuation amplitude of the oil-phase permeability variation coefficient is 5.2 times that of the stable stage. …”
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Incidence and Risk Factors of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia among Patients with Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Observational Study by Morteza Shamsizadeh, Ali Fathi Jouzdani, Farshid Rahimi-Bashar

“…However, the expected hazard for VAP was 1.854 times and 4.604 times higher in patients with longer ICU stay (HR: 1.854, 95% CI: 1.689–3.059, P=0.032) and in patients with a prolonged MV duration (HR: 4.604, 95%CI: 1.567–6.708, P=0.023). …”
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Cytokines in Liver Cirrhosis (Their Importance in Assessing Activity and Decompensation) by G. K. Mirodzhov, S. D. Pulatova

“…At the decompensated stage of Class C cirrhosis, a huge release of pro-inflammatory cytokines occurs — the content of TNF-α increases by 80 times, of interleukin-2 — by more than 60 times, аs for interleukin-10, its content is progressively reduced.Conclusion. …”
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Study on Dynamic Characteristics of Deep Siltstone under High Static Stress and Frequent Dynamic Disturbance by Lu-ping Cheng, Chun Wang, Li-zhong Tang, Cheng Wang, Zhu-qiang Xiong, Shi-ming Wei, Yuan Chen, Tao Liu, Yong-heng Wei

“…The strain rate rises in a linear trend with the increasing times of dynamic disturbance, but the value of the strain rate is approximately constant in the process of one impact. …”
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Research on the effect of eco-friendly additives on selected parameters and microbial decomposition of marine diesel oil (MDO) by Rafał Krakowski, Kazimierz Witkowski

“…For each type of mixture, a value of less than 1 × 102 cfu/1 dm3 for bacteria was obtained, while in terms of fungal counts in the mixtures, a decrease of 73 times is also observed for diesel mixed with effective microorganisms in liquid form and ceramics, 48 times less was recorded after the use of non-ionic silver. …”
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A Massively Parallel SMC Sampler for Decision Trees by Efthyvoulos Drousiotis, Alessandro Varsi, Alexander M. Phillips, Simon Maskell, Paul G. Spirakis

“…For both computer architectures, the experimental results show that our approach has comparable or better accuracy than MCMC but runs up to 51 times faster on SM and 640 times faster on DM. In this paper, we share the GitHub link to the source code.…”
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Age-related effects on dynamic postural stability and prefrontal cortex activation during precision fitting tasks by Jiahao Pan, Hui Tang

“…Methods Participant performed precision fitting tasks under four different conditions: large opening size with their arm’s length (close-large), small opening size with their arm’s length (close-small), large opening size with 1.3 times arm’s length (far-large), and small opening size with 1.3 times arm’s length (far-small). …”
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Advances and Pitfalls of Specialized Pain Care through Public and Private Health Care Providers in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands: A Physician’s Survey by Javier Medel, Ancor Serrano, Carme Batet, Lluis Lorente, Susana Bella, Marta Ferrandiz, María-del-Mar Monerris, Sergi Boada, Jesus Villoria, Maria-Victoria Ribera, Antonio Montes, Sebastian Videla

“…The public practices should reduce wait times.…”
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Magnitude and Associated Factors of Unintended Pregnancy among Pregnant Women at Saesie Tsaeda Emba Woreda Eastern Zone of Tigray, North Ethiopia, 2018 by Gebrehiwot Gebremariam Weldearegawi, Kidanemaryam Berhe Tekola, Berhane Fseha Teklehaymanot

“…Unintended pregnancy among ever visited by health extension workers was 1.7 times higher than not visited (AOR 1.7, 95% CI: 1.09, 5. 128). …”
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Predictors of insecticide-treated nets utilization among children under five years in refugee settlements in Uganda: analysis of the 2018–2019 Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey by Henry Musoke Semakula, Frank Mugagga

“…Results The odds of children sleeping under ITN were higher if their mothers had secondary and higher education (8.1 times) as well as primary education (1.5 times). …”
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OUTCOME OF DEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY CHILDREN: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT by Erum Afzal, Tanveer Ahmad, Muhammad Khalid Iqbal, Kausar Aftab, Rubeena Muein

“…The patient who visited >2times/month were considered compliant and those visited <2times/month were considered non-compliant. …”
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Thermal and Fluid Flow Performance Analysis of Tubular Microchannel Heat Sinks with Inward Protrusions and Nanofluids by Ibrahim Ademola Fetuga, Olabode Thomas Olakoyejo, Antônio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira, Joshua Kolawole Gbegudu, Ebenezer Aderibigbe Adeyemi

“…At Re=2 000  , for Al2O3 nanofluid (NAN) with a volume fraction ( of 4% and a protrusion height (H)  of  2um to 6um yielded a thermal performance value of 1.59, 1.68, 1.77, 1.86, and 1.96 times that of MCHS without the protrusion, respectively. …”
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Prediction of Heavy Oil Production Based on Geomechanical Analysis in Entire Lifecycle of SAGD by Dengke Li, Shaowen Zhu, Yanchao Li, Shijie Shen, Zupeng Chen, Zhanli Ren, Yuxuan Zhou, Yanfang Gao

“…For Karamay heavy oil in Xinjiang, China, the steam breakout time predicted by the new model is 0.72, 1.50, 1.37, and 1.44 times the conventional model when the volumetric strain is 6%. …”
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Tetracycline and chloramphenicol exposure induce decreased susceptibility to tigecycline and genetic alterations in AcrAB-TolC efflux pump regulators in Escherichia coli and Klebsi... by Nian Anwar Nasralddin, Mehri Haeili, Sasan Karimzadeh, Fatemeh Alsahlani

“…A Tet and Chl-susceptible isolate of K. pneumoniae and E. coli were exposed to successively increasing concentrations of tetracycline and chloramphenicol separately until a ≥4 times increase in Tet and Chl MICs was observed. …”
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What are the characteristics of disposable electronic cigarettes users in Switzerland? A quantitative study among 14–25 year olds by Luc Lebon, Karin Zürcher, Lorraine Chok, Diana Fernandes-Palhares, Jérémy Cros, Alexandre Dubuis, Cathy Berthouzoz, Yara Barrense-Dias

“…Additional questions such as purchase methods and motivations were asked to the user groups.Results Among the 1362 participants, 41.2% had never used a DEC (NEVER), 14.4% once (ONCE), 15.1% several times but not in the last 30 days (PAST) and 29.2% several times in the last 30 days (CURRENT). …”
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Body Mass Index and Associated Factors of School Absenteeism by School Feeding Program at Selected Primary Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Comparative Study by Solomon Muluken Ayehu, Addisu Tadesse Sahile

“…The odds of having school absenteeism were 1.796 times higher among feeding participants than among nonfeeding participants (AOR: 1.796; 95CI:1.061–3.042, p<0.05). …”
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Genetic Comparison of Stemness of Human Umbilical Cord and Dental Pulp by Chung-Min Kang, Hyunok Kim, Je Seon Song, Byung-Jai Choi, Seong-Oh Kim, Han-Sung Jung, Seok-Jun Moon, Hyung-Jun Choi

“…Although UC and DP tissues exhibited similar expression of surface markers for MSCs, UC showed higher expression of CD29, CD34, CD44, CD73, CD105, CD146, and CD166. qRT-PCR analysis showed that CD146, CD166, and MYC were expressed 18.3, 8.24, and 1.63 times more highly in UC, whereas the expression of CD34 was 2.15 times higher in DP. …”
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