The negative impact of missing primary teeth with the importance of space maintainer among children attending the college of dentistry, hawler medical university in Erbil: Iraq. by Hozan Farid Tawfiq, Alaa Mahmud Mustafa

“…According to the results of the study, patients aging 6 to 12 years old were more likely to have space maintainers constructed in the lower left side of the dental arch. …”
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GPR176 Is a Biomarker for Predicting Prognosis and Immune Infiltration in Stomach Adenocarcinoma by Lin Ni, Shuming Chen, Jianyong Liu, He Li, Hu Zhao, Chunhua Zheng, Yawei Zhang, Hancong Huang, Junjie Huang, Bing Wang, Chengzhi Lin

“…Moreover, we performed univariate and multivariate regression analyses on the immunomodulators and finally obtained 4 genes (CRCR4, TNSF18, PDCD1, and TGFB1). Then, we constructed a GRP176-related immunomodulator prognostic model (GRIM) based on the above 4 genes, which was validated to have good predictive power. …”
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Social support and aging: psychometric analysis of the ENRICHD Social Support Instrument in a Chilean population over 50 by Belén Salinas-Rehbein, Oscar Terán-Mendoza, Vicente Cancino

“…The SEM analysis evidenced an inverse correlation between the ESSI and Newsom's social negativity scale, demonstrating evidence of construct validity. Furthermore, in the sex invariance analyses, the scalar level was reached, implying that the items’ meanings are the same for men and women. …”
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CNN-Based Time Series Decomposition Model for Video Prediction by Jinyoung Lee, Gyeyoung Kim

“…They stack frames in temporal order to construct a spatiotemporal axis and employ standard <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1\times 1$ </tex-math></inline-formula> convolution operations. …”
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NLRP3 Inflammasome Simultaneously Involved in Autophagy and Phagocytosis of THP-1 Cells to Clear Aged Erythrocytes by Qin Li, Fengyong Zhao, Jiamin Zhang, Ying Yang, Zhonghui Guo, Chen Wang, Qixiu Yang, Ying Sun, Ziyan Zhu

“…In addition, the ability of NLR family pyrin domain containing protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome to regulate erythrocyte clearance by phagocytes and its association with autophagy-related protein 16-like protein 1 (ATG16L1) are confirmed. We constructed a stable and low-NLRP3 expression THP-1 cell line using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. …”
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Antioxidative Reactivity of L-Ascorbic Acid and D-Isoascorbic Acid Species towards Reduction of Hexachloroiridate (IV) by Han Zhang, Yanqing Xia, Peng Zhang, Liqian Hou, Ying Sun, Zhaozhan Lu, Yunfeng Tang, Hongwu Tian, Tiesheng Shi

“…The species versus pH and the species reactivity versus pH distribution diagrams were constructed endowing that the ascorbate/isoascorbate monoanionic form dominated the total reactivity at physiological pH. …”
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Determining the factors affecting cattle and small ruminant enterprises to get animal life insurance by Burak Mat, Mustafa Bahadır Çevrimli, Mustafa Agah Tekindal, Aytekin Günlü

“…It can be said that the data of the relevant scale are suitable for factor analysis (p <0,05) and that the construct validity of the measuring tool is generally provided according to the factor analysis results. …”
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A grounded theory study on medical students’ proxy online health information seeking behavior by Pan Minghao, He Leyun, Yang Jingying, Huang Wanyu, Wang Fan, Wang Linlin, Shen Meiyu

“…Through the procedure of three-level coding, the theoretical framework of medical students’ proxy online health information seeking behavior was constructed. Results Findings of this study include the factors influencing medical student’ proxy online health information seeking, the emotional attitudes of the interviewees, and the results of proxy information seeking behavior. …”
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The Role of Humanitarian Organizations in Promotion of The Rights of Refugees in The Host Communities: A Case Study of Nyakabande Reception Centre. by Nyirabavakure, Catherine

“…The researcher concluded that the effort towards promoting refugee livelihoods is doomed to fail if refugees in Nyakabande reception center are not empowered to construct gainful livelihoods. To improve the socioeconomic status of the refugees in the Nyakabande reception center, and consequently their contribution to the host economy, there is a need to create an enabling environment that will promote individual and collective innovativeness and opportunities, and tap into the synergies and potential of the refugees.…”
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Organisational Culture and Performance of Urban Local Governments in Uganda: A Case of Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Tushemereirwe, Juliet

“…The findings revealed that all constructs of organizational culture (adhocracy culture, hierarch culture, clan culture, and market culture) combined, predicted the performance of KMC by 86.1%. …”
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Task-Oriented Leadership and Employee Performance: A Case Study of Buhoma Mukono Community Development Association (BMCDA) in Kanungu, Uganda by Orikyiriza, Elli, Moses, Agaba, Alex, Kanyesiime

“…The researchers recommend that a more significant and more positive focus should be put on leadership behaviour that involves giving constructive feedback about performance, providing resources to employees to help them accomplish tasks, and implementing procedures to improve work processes, to improve employee performance. …”
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A novel approach for target deconvolution from phenotype-based screening using knowledge graph by Xiaohong Wang, Meifang Zhang, Jianliang Xu, Xin Li, Jing Xiong, Haowei Cao, Fangkun Dou, Xue Zhai, Hua Sun

“…Knowledge graphs have emerged as powerful tools that offer strengths in link prediction and knowledge inference to address these issues. In this study, we constructed a protein-protein interaction knowledge graph (PPIKG) and pioneered an integrated drug target deconvolution system that combines AI with molecular docking techniques. …”
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The impact of channel density, inverse solutions, connectivity metrics and calibration errors on OPM-MEG connectivity analysis: A simulation study by Shengjie Qi, Xinda Song, Le Jia, Hongyu Cui, Yuchen Suo, Tengyue Long, Zhendong Wu, Xiaolin Ning

“…Six intersensor spacings were constructed, and six inverse algorithms and six functional connectivity measures were selected to assess their impact on the network reconstruction accuracy. …”
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Two-Step Transfer Learning Improves Deep Learning–Based Drug Response Prediction in Small Datasets: A Case Study of Glioblastoma by Jie Ju, Ioannis Ntafoulis, Michelle Klein, Marcel JT Reinders, Martine Lamfers, Andrew P Stubbs, Yunlei Li

“…A 2-step TL framework was constructed for a difficult task: predicting the response of the drug temozolomide (TMZ) in glioblastoma (GBM) cell cultures. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Different Numerical Pain Scales Used for Pain Estimation during Debonding of Orthodontic Brackets by Mohmed Isaqali Karobari, Ali A Assiry, Mubashir Baig Mirza, Fazlur Rahman Sayed, Sufiyan Shaik, Anand Marya, Adith Venugopal, Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Rithvitou Horn

“…In terms of cognitive-affective constructs, although the VAS has been widely used in previous studies, the PCS has been detailed to show the most reliable association with physical discomfort and emotional distress.…”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Differentially Expressed miRNAs and mRNAs Reveals That miR-181a-5p Plays a Key Role in Diabetic Dermal Fibroblasts by Peng Liu, Yi Zhu, Qin Li, Biao Cheng

“…Enrichment analyses showed that these genes are closely related to wound healing, for example, extracellular matrix (ECM) organization, angiogenesis, cell proliferation, and migration. Subsequently, we constructed the gene correlation network of DEGs to identify hub genes by merging the protein-protein interaction network, weighted gene coexpression network, and predicted miRNA-mRNA regulatory network. …”
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MnS/MnO heterostructures with dual ion defects for high-performance aqueous magnesium ion capacitors by Minghui Liu, Mudi Li, Siwen Zhang, Yaxi Ding, Ying Sun, Jiazhuo Li, Haixi Gu, Bosi Yin, Hui Li, Tianyi Ma

“…As anticipated, using a three-electrode system, the developed DID-MnS/MnO demonstrated a discharge specific capacity of 237.9 mAh/g at a current density of 0.1 A/g. Remarkably, the constructed AMIC maintained a capacity retention rate of 94.3% after 10000 cycles at a current density of 1.0 A/g, with a specific capacitance of 165.7 F/g. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Fully Automatic Segmentation of the Paranasal Sinuses in Chronic Rhinosinusitis Patients Using Computed Tomographic Images by Yuhang Wang, Xiaolei Zhang, Weidong Du, Na Dai, Yi Lyv, Keying Wu, Yiyang Tian, Yuxin Jie, Yu Lin, Weipiao Kang

“…The study involved 242 Computed Tomography (CT) images of patients with CRSwNP, constructing a high-quality professional CRSwNP database for the training, validation, and testing of neural networks. …”
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miR-21 Overexpression Promotes Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Invasion and Migration by Repressing Tropomyosin 1 by Zhuojian Shen, Xia Xu, Liangzhan Lv, Honglue Dai, Ju Chen, Baishen Chen

“…TPM1 3′UTR luciferase reporter constructs were used to investigate targeting of TPM1 by miR-21. …”
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Association of autistic personality traits with the EEG scores in non-clinical subjects during the facial video viewing by A. N. Savostyanov, D. A. Kuleshov, D. I. Klemeshova, M. S. Vlasov, A. E. Saprygin

“…A software information module of the experimental computer platform “EEG_Self-Construct” was developed and tested in the framework of this study. …”
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