Metagenomic Profiling of Oral Microbiome Dynamics During Chemoradiotherapy in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients by Dominique A. Torozan, Cédric Christian Laczny, Kirsten Roomp, Paul Wilmes, Jochen Fleckenstein, Jochen G. Schneider

“…Results Patients exhibited significantly reduced alpha diversity compared to controls at all times (p ⟨ 0.05). …”
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Validation of the advance care planning engagement survey in Singapore by Gwendoline Wan Hua Tan, Ginny Si Min Quek, Nathaniel Jun Xian Lum, Lian Leng Low, Yu Xian Loo

“…We assessed content validity, internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha, construct validity with hypotheses testing and test-retest reliability using intraclass correlation coefficients. …”
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Analysing Methods of Measuring the Level of Development Based on the Experimental Data by Farzad Karimi, Mostafa Ahmadvand, Ali Heidari

“…For determining the content validity of the questionnaire, a factor analysis and for internal consistency reliability, Cronbach's alpha was used. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.561-0.955) indicated the optimality of the questionnaire. …”
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Features of therapy selection in patients with glaucoma and “dry eye” syndrome by Zh.G. Oganezova, E.A. Egorov

“…<br> <br> <b>Key words:</b> POAG, neuroprotection, alpha-agonists, dry eye syndrome, brimonidine, Luxfen.…”
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Structural and Functional Characterization of Recombinant Interleukin-10 from Indian Major Carp Labeo rohita by Sweta Karan, Pujarini Dash, Himani Kaushik, Pramoda K. Sahoo, Lalit C. Garg, Aparna Dixit

“…Far-UV CD spectroscopy showed presence of predominantly alpha helices. The tertiary structure of the purified rLrIL-10 was verified by fluorescence spectroscopy. …”
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TNF-α Dysregulation in Asthma: Relationship to Ongoing Corticosteroid Therapy by Susan Waserman, Jerry Dolovich, Mary Conway, Jean S Marshall

“…BACKGROUND: Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) is a major proinflammatory cytokine that is thought to be important in the pathogenesis of asthma. …”
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Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a... by Claire Goodman, Julienne Meyer, Karen Spilsbury, Barbara Hanratty, Rachael Carroll, Adam L Gordon, Gizdem Akdur, Anne Killett, Jennifer Burton, Ann-Marie Towers, Stacey Rand, Nick Smith, Sinead Palmer, Stephen Allan, Lucy Anne Webster

“…None of the scales had floor effects. Cronbach’s alpha indicated adequate internal consistency (α ≥0.70) for the ASCOT-Proxy-Resident, ICECAP-O and EQ-5D-5L proxy. …”
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Decrease in phase angle after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is related to increase of anti-inflammatory status by Amanda Cristina Araújo Gomes, Amanda Machado Fiorotti, Amanda Motta de Bortoli, Beatriz Bobbio de Brito, João Arthur Souza Fiorido, Luciane Bresciani Salaroli, Andressa Bolsoni Lopes, Fabiano Kenji Haraguchi

“…Assessments included serum levels of alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (AGP), C-reactive protein (CRP), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), adiponectin, and resistin, as well as anthropometric data and body composition. …”
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Improvement of Lumbar Bone Mass after Infliximab Therapy in Crohn’s Disease Patients by Marina Mauro, Vladimir Radovic, David Armstrong

“…Elevated proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα), have been implicated in the pathogenesis of bone resorption.…”
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Pulsating Different Curves of Zero Velocity around Triangular Equilibrium Points in Elliptical Restricted Three-Body Problem by A. Narayan, Amit Shrivastava

“…The stability of the triangular points under the photogravitational and oblateness effects of both the primaries around the binary systems Achird, Lyeten, Alpha Cen-AB, Kruger 60, and Xi-Bootis, has been studied using simulation techniques by drawing different curves of zero velocity.…”
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Elimination of pulse-noise from mixed-noise based on fractional lower order ICA by QIU Tian-shuang1, LI Bing1, ZHA Dai-feng2

“…In order to solve the problem that traditional denoising methods based on the second order statistics were usually degraded in their performance when the received signal was contaminated by both Gaussian and Alpha stable noises.A fractional lower order statistics based ICA method was introduced.It eliminated the pulse noise from the mixed noise first,and then removed the Gaussian noise with the SVD method.The simulations show that the new method is effective on the noise elimination,and the pure signal in the received signal is not deteriorated.…”
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The Safety of Infliximab Infusions in the Community Setting by James Ducharme, Cindy Pelletier, Ramesh Zacharias

“…BACKGROUND: Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) has an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and psoriasis. …”
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The Effect of TNF-α on CHD and the Relationship between TNF-α Antagonist and CHD in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review by Yezhou Qian, Menghui Mao, Feige Nian

“…Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) plays an important role in coronary heart disease (CHD), a chronic inflammatory process. …”
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Fractional time delay estimation method based on the minimum CIM and the Farrow structure by ULing Y, IUTian-shuang Q

“…A fractional time delay estimation algorithm is proposed which is based on the minimum CIM and the Farrow structure (referred to as MCIMFarrow).The proposed MCIMFarrow algorithm performs well in symmetric Alpha stable noise conditions.And it needs little observation data to gain high accuracy estimation results.The theoretical analyses and the simulation results show that the MCIMFarrow is much better than the LETDE algorithm based on the fractional lower order moments in the accuracy of the time delay estimation and the robustness in impulsive noise conditions.…”
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Reliability and validity validation of the Chinese version of the family vitiligo impact scale by Jian Sun, Linna Li, Xue Tian, Yuping Fu

“…The internal consistency of the scale was assessed by calculating Cronbach’s alpha coefcient, Omega coefcient, split-half reliability, and test-retest reliability. …”
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Insights into microbial compositions of the respiratory tract of neonatal dairy calves in a longitudinal probiotic trial through 16S rRNA sequencing by Jia W. Tan, Susan D. Eicher, Janice E. Kritchevsky, Keith A. Bryan, Aaron Dickey, Carol G. Chitko-McKown, Tara G. McDaneld

“…Oral probiotic treatment did not change alpha diversity in any respiratory tissue, however, spatial variability in bacterial taxa composition was observed among the three respiratory tract regions. …”
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Model-Free Change Point Detection for Mixing Processes by Hao Chen, Abhishek Gupta, Yin Sun, Ness Shroff

“…The MMD-CUSUM test also achieves strong performance under exponentially <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha$</tex-math></inline-formula>/<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta$</tex-math></inline-formula>-mixing processes, which are significantly more relaxed than existing results. …”
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The Short-Term Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Electroencephalography in Children with Autism: A Randomized Crossover Controlled Trial by Anuwat Amatachaya, Mark P. Jensen, Niramol Patjanasoontorn, Narong Auvichayapat, Chanyut Suphakunpinyo, Suparerk Janjarasjitt, Niran Ngernyam, Benchaporn Aree-uea, Paradee Auvichayapat

“…Previous studies showed significantly less alpha activity in autism than normal children. Therefore, we studied the effects of anodal tDCS on peak alpha frequency (PAF) related to autism treatment evaluation checklist (ATEC). …”
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Diversity and Abundance of the Species of Arboreal Mammals in a Tropical Rainforest in Southeast Mexico by J. Vladimir Rojas‐Sánchez, Rosamond Ione Coates, Víctor Sánchez‐Cordero, Mario C. Lavariega, José J. Flores‐Martínez

“…Seasonality showed no significant effect over abundance, alpha, and beta diversities. This protected area holds the natural habitat conditions to ensure the persistence of this rich arboreal mammal community.…”
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Fimasartan Ameliorates Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease through PPARδ Regulation in Hyperlipidemic and Hypertensive Conditions by Yong-Jik Lee, Yoo-Na Jang, Yoon-Mi Han, Hyun-Min Kim, Jong-Min Jeong, Hong Seog Seo

“…In HepG2 cells and liver tissues, fimasartan was shown to increase the protein levels of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARδ), phosphorylated 5′ adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (p-AMPK), phosphorylated acetyl-CoA carboxylase (p-ACC), malonyl-CoA decarboxylase (MCD), medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD), and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-alpha (PGC-1α), and it led to a decrease in the protein levels of 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 (11β-HSDH1), fatty acid synthase (FAS), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). …”
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