Social role performance and self-identity among breast cancer patients in Lagos, Nigeria by Samuel Ojima Adejoh, Deborah Tolulope Esan, Adeola Adejayan

“…Our findings showed that breast cancer diagnosis and treatment may alter role performance of women in their families, workplaces and community in which they live, and may affect negatively their self-identity, due to negative self-image and self-perception, and due to fear to be socially stigmatised by neighbours. …”
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Seismic Performance-Based Evaluation of Cold-Rolled Steel Structures by Samira Zekri, Javad Salajegheh

“…To do this, considering sources of seismic and structural uncertainty such as spectral acceleration, live load, cross-sectional dimension, and modulus elasticity of steel has been selected. …”
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Neonatal mortality outcome and trends: A 6-year retrospective analysis from a North Indian teaching college hospital by Ritu Rakholia, Mohd Maroof, Damini Kharkwal, Gurpreet Singh

“…Targeted interventions can be planned after a specific analysis of region-specific causes if India is to achieve the sustainable development goal (SDG 3.2) of neonatal mortality of 12 per 1000 live births. Material and Methods: A retrospective study of medical records of all neonates admitted in the special care neonatal unit (SCNU) over the 6-year period of 2018–23 at a teaching medical college. …”
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Partner Choices in Long Established Migrant Communities in Belgium by Emilien Dupont, Amelie Van Pottelberge, Bart Van de Putte, John Lievens, Frank Caestecker

“…We focused on the role of migration history and transnational links, culture (religion, language), skin colour and structural characteristics of the district migrants live in (mainly community size) to gain further insight into the partner choices of migrants in Belgium. …”
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Dual-Path Adaptive Channel Attention Network Based on Feature Constraints for Face Anti-Spoofing by Nana Li, Zhipeng Weng, Fangmei Liu, Zuhe Li, Wei Wang

“…We test our method on the CASIA SURF dataset, CASIA SURF-CeFA dataset, and CASIA FASD dataset, which shows that our method has significant advantages in distinguishing between live and spoofed faces.…”
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Cultural Moduses of Students and Their Influence on the Formation of Life Plans by M. A. Golovchin

“…In particular, holders of the “IC” modus (who are represented most massively in the sample) after receiving a profession are less likely to remain inclined to live and work in the country.The scientific novelty of the research lies in the development of the author’s approach to the study of the planning process on the part of the younger generation through the analysis of four cultural moduses, as well as its testing. …”
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Morphological and Molecular Characteristics of Endophytic Fungi in Sugarcane as Antagonists of the Pathogen Fusarium sacchari by Asniah Asniah, Muhammad Taufik

“…One of the environmentally friendly control methods is the use of endophytic fungi. Endophytic fungi live within plant tissues without causing disease symptoms. …”
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Maternal Serum Ferritin, C-Reactive Protein, and Procalcitonin Levels for Predicting Subclinical Intra-Amniotic Infection in Preterm Premature Rupture of Membrane by Balsam N. Nahedh, Mahdi M. Shalal

“…A convenient sample of 90 singleton pregnant women with a live fetus between 24 - 36 weeks of gestation were divided into three groups: Group 1 (controls) included 30 women with intact membranes and no signs of labour seen in the outpatient obstetrics clinic in Baghdad Teaching Hospital; Group 2 included 30 women with preterm premature rupture of membrane (PPROM) but without chorioamnionitis; and Group 3 included 30 women with PPROM and chorioamnionitis. …”
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Les bonobos se rappellent-ils la voix de leurs anciens partenaires ? by Florence Levréro, Sumir Keenan, Nicolas Mathevon, Jeroen MG Stevens, Jean Pascal Guéry, Klaus Zuberbühler

“…For non-human primates who live in dense forest environments, visual access to one another is often limited, and recognition of social partners over distances largely depends on vocal communication. …”
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Using HBmito Crimson to Observe Mitochondrial Cristae Through STED Microscopy by Xichuan Ge, Wei Ren, Chunyan Shan, Peng Xi, Baoxiang Gao

“…Here, we describe a detailed imaging protocol for the mitochondrial inner membrane using the Si-rhodamine dye HBmito Crimson, which has excellent photophysical properties, to label live cells for imaging via stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. …”
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Control of Intracellular Francisella tularensis by Different Cell Types and the Role of Nitric Oxide by Sarah L. Newstead, Amanda J. Gates, M. Gillian Hartley, Caroline A. Rowland, E. Diane Williamson, Roman A. Lukaszewski

“…Cells were infected with the highly virulent Schu S4 strain or with the avirulent live vaccine strain (LVS) with and without stimuli. …”
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Genetic and Shared-Environment Effects on Stature and Lifespan. A Study of Dutch Birth Cohorts (1785–1920) Based on Genealogies by Jan Kok

“…Determining the relative importance of heritability versus shared environment in historical populations for which only genealogies are available poses a challenge. Kin may live in different periods, and in different cultural and social settings. …”
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A climatically significant abiotic mechanism driving carbon loss and nitrogen limitation in peat bogs by Alexandra B. Cory, Rachel M. Wilson, M. Elizabeth Holmes, William J. Riley, Yueh-Fen Li, Malak M. Tfaily, Sarah C. Bagby, Isogenie Field Team, EMERGE Project Coordinators, Patrick M. Crill, Jessica G. Ernakovich, Virginia I. Rich, Jeffrey P. Chanton

“…We tested this hypothesis using incubations of sterilized Maillard reactants, and live and sterilized bog peat. Consistent with our hypotheses, CO2 production in the sterilized peat was equivalent to 8–13% of CO2 production in unsterilized peat, and the increased formation of aromatic N compounds decreased N-availability. …”
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Protocol for cell image-based spatiotemporal proteomics in budding yeast by Athanasios Litsios, Myra Paz David Masinas, Helena Friesen, Charles Boone, Brenda J. Andrews

“…Here, we present a protocol for the spatiotemporal analysis of the proteome during the budding yeast cell division cycle using live-cell imaging. We describe steps for strain construction, cell cultivation, microscopy, and image analysis. …”
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Perception of vocoded speech in domestic dogs by Amritha Mallikarjun, Emily Shroads, Rochelle S. Newman

“…Abstract Humans have an impressive ability to comprehend signal-degraded speech; however, the extent to which comprehension of degraded speech relies on human-specific features of speech perception vs. more general cognitive processes is unknown. Since dogs live alongside humans and regularly hear speech, they can be used as a model to differentiate between these possibilities. …”
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Freezing of Oocytes and Its Effect on the Displacement of the Meiotic Spindle: Short Communication by János Konc, Katalin Kanyo, Rita Kriston, József Zeke, Sándor Cseh

“…A total of 143 embryos were transferred into 63 patients resulting in 11 clinical pregnancies (17.5%), 7 of which resulted in live birth of 8 babies (1 twin pregnancy). We were able to detect the spindle in 221 of 259 oocytes (85.3%). …”
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Mutual coordination of behaviors in human–chimpanzee interactions: A case study in a laboratory setting by Akira Takada

“…Our results suggest that captive chimpanzees can adapt to live in accordance with the rhythm of humans in an environment largely constructed by humans, and that humans can coordinate their actions in accordance with the rhythm of chimpanzees. …”
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A Case of Unilateral Coccidioidal Chorioretinitis in a Patient with HIV-Associated Meningoencephalitis by Christopher Toomey, Andrew Gross, Jeffrey Lee, Doran B. Spencer

“…Intraocular coccidioidomycosis is a rare condition, with the most commonly reported presentation being an idiopathic iritis in patients who live in or have traveled thorough endemic areas. …”
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Marital adjustment and quality of life among HIV discordant couples by Subhasis Bhadra, Nupur Tayal

“…HIV discordant couple (DC), live as family unit, in sexual relationship having mismatch HIV status. …”
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Rotational Dynamics of Optically Trapped Human Spermatozoa by Elavarasan Subramani, Himanish Basu, Shyam Thangaraju, Sucheta Dandekar, Deepak Mathur, Koel Chaudhury

“…An integrated optical system with near-infrared laser beam has been used to analyze rotational dynamics of live sperm cells from oligozoospermic and asthenozoospermic cases and compared with controls. …”
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