The Taking Charge After Stroke (TaCAS) study protocol: a multicentre, investigator-blinded, randomised controlled trial comparing the effect of a single Take Charge session, two Ta... by Mark Weatherall, Harry McNaughton, Vivian Wai Yin Fu

“…Universal trial number U1111-1171-4127.…”
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Combined effects of pollution and bacterial infection in Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1971) by M. Dara, F. Bertini, C. La Corte, L. Bisanti, M. Staropoli, J. Vizioli, D. Parrinello, M. Cammarata, M. G. Parisi

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Chemical compatibility at the interface of garnet-type Ga-LLZO solid electrolyte and high-energy Li-rich layered oxide cathode for all-solid-state batteries by Natalia B. Timusheva, Alexander A. Golubnichiy, Anatolii V. Morozov, Arseniy S. Burov, Dmitry A. Aksyonov, Aleksandra A. Savina, Roman G. Markopolskii, Artem M. Abakumov

“…Li2ZrO3 was discovered for the first time as a reaction product, and its formation in the case of Li-rich layered cathode material was rationalized with DFT + U calculations. The results were also compared with those obtained for a typical layered high-energy-density cathode material LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 (NMC811).…”
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No Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on Urethral Swab in Patients with Positive Nasopharyngeal Swab by Lorenzo Spirito, Biagio Pinchera, Angela Patrì, Mario Delfino, Ciro Imbimbo, Paola Salvatore, Ivan Gentile, Gabriella Fabbrocini

“…We enrolled ten patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection who attended the Infectious Diseases Unit of the A.O.U. Federico II of Naples, from March 2020 to April 2020. …”
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Uncertainty-Aware Semi-Supervised Method for Pectoral Muscle Segmentation by Yutao Tang, Yongze Guo, Huayu Wang, Ting Song, Yao Lu

“…Compared with the baseline method, the proposed method showed an average improvement in DICE index of 1.76, an average reduction in IoU index of 3.21, and an average reduction in HD index of 5.48. …”
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Influenza Vaccination Rates, Perceptions, and Vaccine Hesitancy in K-12 Teachers and Staff by Kevin Cleveland, Kathy Eroschenko, Dalys Davenport, Elaine Nguyen

“…Response differences between those who most recently received their influenza vaccine and those who did not were also compared using chi-square or Mann-Whitney U tests when appropriate.  RESULTS: A total of 503 surveys were completed, with all respondents college educated and teaching throughout the K-12 curriculum. …”
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Psychological distress is associated with pain and symptom severity in patients with longstanding hip and groin pain: A cross-sectional study by Anders Pålsson, Carl Bjerkelund, Andreas Ivarsson, Ioannis Kostogiannis, Eva Ageberg

“…The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) was used to assess psychological distress and the Copenhagen Hip and Groin Outcome Score (HAGOS) subscale for pain and symptoms to assess hip and groin pain and symptoms. The Mann–Whitney U test was used for between-group comparisons, and the Spearman's rank-order correlation to examine the association between the K10 and HAGOS. …”
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Towards The Future of Crab Farming: The Application Of AI with Yolox And Yolov9 To Detect Crab Larvae by Furqan Zakiyabarsi, Rezty Amalia Aras, Yabes Dwi Nugroho H, Muhammad Muhaimin Nur, Dimas Aditya Alfarizi, Muhammad Ulil Amri

“…The YOLOX-S model struggled with accuracy in detecting larvae, whereas the YOLOv9 model demonstrated superior performance, achieving a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 0.85 at IoU=0.5 and successfully detecting 93% of crab larvae objects accurately. …”
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Elotuzumab Enhances CD16-Independent NK Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity against Myeloma Cells by Upregulating Several NK Cell-Enhancing Genes by Yan-Hua Wang, Shotaro Hagiwara, Hiroshi Kazama, Yuki Iizuka, Norina Tanaka, Junji Tanaka

“…In this study, we demonstrated that Elo pretreatment significantly enhanced CD16-independent NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity in both SLAMF7-positive MM.1S and SLAMF7-negative K562, U266, and RPMI 8226 tumor cells. Upon direct simulation of CD16-independent NK cells with Elo, increased levels of CD107a degranulation and IFN-γ secretion were observed along with the upregulation of granzyme B, TNF-α, and IL-1α gene expression. …”
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MINERALOGICAL FEATURES AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL FORMATION CONDITIONS OF VEIN MINERALIZATION OF THE SOUTHERN FLANK OF THE SAF´YANOVKA MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT (CENTRAL URALS) by N.P. Safina, A.V. Korovko, I.A. Blinov, N.N. Ankusheva, M.A. Rassomakhin, K.A. Filippova

“…The elevated (ppm) Th (1.69) и U (4.79) and REE + Y (447) content is determined in fluorite veins. …”
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Case report: Rituximab combined with plasma exchange treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus complicated with thrombotic microangiopathy and non-cirrhotic portal hypertension by Jinmei Huang, Wei Fan, Xuyan Chen, Shufan Wu, Zhigao Dong, Yi Zhang, Yiwan Lin, Pingping Xiao

“…She was treated with high-dose methylprednisolone (500 mg) for 3 days and immunoglobulin (0.4 g/kg/day) for 5 days, followed by rituximab (500 mg) for suppressive immunotherapy combined with plasma exchange (seven times), low-molecular-weight heparin (5,000 U every 12 h) for anticoagulation, and a diuretic. …”
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A pan-European perspective of third space professionals located in learning and teaching centres by Graham William Scott, Manuel Joao Costa, Mike Ewen, Catherine Lillie, Helene Peterbauer, Oliver Vettori, Carina Weiß, Johanna Warm, Aune Valk, Mari Karm, Hanna-Britt Soots, Guðrún Geirsdóttir, Francesco Magni, Laura Sara Agrati, Nikos Basbas, Daniela Căprioară, Mihai Girtu, Gunvor Larsson Torstensdotter, Peter Dalenius, Josefine Kilborn, Berrin Yanıkkaya, Mehmet Korman, Denizalp Şimşek, Toprak Cem Savaş

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Survival of radioiodine treated hyperthyroid cats that are euthyroid and hypothyroid after treatment, and effect of levothyroxine supplementation on survival time of cats with iatr... by Sarah E. Cox, Jennifer Wakeling, Teresa Hall, Tim L. Williams

“…The log rank test was used to compare survival times between groups, and the Mann‐Whitney U test was used to compare age and renal variables. …”
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Sampling mass mortality events to enable diagnoses: A protocol using freshwater mussels by Daniel A. Cossey, Michelle M. Dennis, Jordan Richard, Camilla Della Torre, Andrew McElwain, Diane L. Waller, Susan Knowles, Joshua I. Brian, Eric Leis, Erika A. V. Burioli, David C. Aldridge

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Efficacy of 1.5% Dish Washing Solution and 95% Lemon Water in Substituting Perilous Xylene as a Deparaffinizing Agent for Routine H and E Staining Procedure: A Short Study by Anuradha Ananthaneni, Srilekha Namala, Vijay Srinivas Guduru, V. V. S. Ramprasad, Sabitha Devi Ramisetty, Urmila Udayashankar, Kiran Kumar Naik

“…Chi-square test, Kruskal Wallis ANOVA test, and Mann-Whitney U test were used. Results. Adequacy of nuclear staining, crispness, and staining for diagnosis were greater in both Groups A and C (100%) than Group B (95%). …”
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Plasma Sterilization Effectively Reduces Bacterial Contamination in Dental Unit Waterlines by Sarocha Noopan, Phattranit Unchui, Supitcha Techotinnakorn, Ruchanee Salingcarnboriboon Ampornaramveth

“…All statistical analyses were performed using the Mann–Whitney U test. A value of p<0.05 was considered significant. …”
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肝硬化患者临床输血合理性分析 by 刘相富, 方志刚, 邝丽华, 廖思红, 冯宝莹, 林东军

“…69例输血肝硬化病例中，首次血液输注以治疗和预防为目的的病例分别为 11 例和 58 例；18 例输注红细胞，输注总量为 90.5 U。INR > 1.3 的 110 例肝硬化病例中，分别有 54.55 %（60/110）、60.91% （67/110）未输注新鲜和冰冻血浆，而在INR ≤ 1.3的病例中有2.27%（2/88）的病例输注了血浆。…”
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Surprising features of nuclear receptor interaction networks revealed by live-cell single-molecule imaging by Liza Dahal, Thomas GW Graham, Gina M Dailey, Alec Heckert, Robert Tjian, Xavier Darzacq

“…Unexpectedly, we find that higher expression of RAR, but not RXR, increases heterodimerization and chromatin binding in U2OS cells. This surprising finding indicates the limiting factor is not RXR but likely its cadre of obligate dimer binding partners. …”
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Molecular Detection, Phylogenetic Analysis, and Identification of Transcription Motifs in Feline Leukemia Virus from Naturally Infected Cats in Malaysia by Faruku Bande, Siti Suri Arshad, Latiffah Hassan, Zunita Zakaria

“…Different enhancer motifs including NF-GMa, Krox-20/WT1I-del2, BAF1, AP-2, TBP, TFIIF-beta, TRF, and TFIID are found to occur either in single, duplicate, triplicate, or sets of 5 in different positions within the U3-LTR-gag region. The present result confirms the occurrence of FeLV viral RNA and provirus DNA in naturally infected cats. …”
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PECULIARITIES OF THE COURSE OF PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY IN WOMEN WITH IN VITRO FERTILIZATION AT HIGH RISK OF PRETERM BIRTH by Ya.V. Shymanska

“…The article is a part of the research project at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology No.2 of Higher Education Institution Poltava State Medical University "The role of chronic infection of the uterus and lower genital tract in the formation of obstetric and gynecological pathology" (state registration No. 0117U005276, implementation period 2017-2022). In modern reproductive medicine, infertility in marriage is considered a problem of particular importance. …”
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