Preventing HIV Transmission in Chinese Internal Migrants: A Behavioral Approach by Xiaona Liu, Vicki Erasmus, Xinying Sun, Rui Cai, Yuhui Shi, Jan Hendrik Richardus

“…They agreed that attitude towards condom use was the most important and changeable determinant, while applying behavioral theory, increasing sexual education and condom access, performing worksite health promotion, detecting risk factors, and working closely with relevant organizations and the government were effective and feasible methods to increase condom use among internal migrants in China. …”
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Vibration Frequencies Extraction of the Forth Road Bridge Using High Sampling GPS Data by Jian Wang, Xiaolin Meng, Changbiao Qin, Jiaohong Yi

“…It is evident that the frequencies detected using the filtered deflection time series in different direction show quite different characteristics, and more stable results can be obtained from the height displacement time series. …”
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Identification of a Mutation in the Novel Compound Heterozygous CFTR in a Chinese Family with Cystic Fibrosis by Hongxia Shao, Jingna Hua, Qi Wu, Xiaoge Li, Ming Zhang, Herong Wang, Junping Wu, Long Xu, Yi Xie, Li Li, Huaiyong Chen

“…As this mutation is consistent with the observed clinical manifestations of CF and no other mutations were detected after scanning the gene sequence, we suggest that their CF phenotypes are caused by the compound heterozygous mutation, c.400 A > G p.Arg134Gly and c.3484 C > T p.Arg1162∗. …”
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Experimentally Induced Pulpal Lesion and Substance P Expression: Effect of Ketoprofen—A Preliminary Study by Gian Marco Abbate, Paola Sacerdote, Giada Amodeo, Alessandro Mangano, Luca Levrini

“…No statistically significant difference could be detected in SP expression between the two groups. In group 1, pain manifestation was significantly delayed in comparison with group 2. …”
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The 256 kb mitochondrial genome of Clavaria fumosa is the largest among phylum Basidiomycota and is rich in introns and intronic ORFs by Xu Wang, Yajie Wang, Wen Yao, Jinwen Shen, Mingyue Chen, Ming Gao, Jiening Ren, Qiang Li, Na Liu

“…We found frequent intron gain/loss events in Agaricales mitogenomes, and four novel intron classes were detected in the C. fumosa mitogenome. Large-scale gene rearrangements were found occurred in Agaricales species and the C. fumosa mitogenome had a unique gene arrangement which differed from other Agaricales species. …”
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Extracellular HMGB1 Induced Glomerular Endothelial Cell Injury via TLR4/MyD88 Signaling Pathway in Lupus Nephritis by Tian Yu, Feng Xiaojuan, Liu Jinxi, Miao Xinyan, Xu Jie, Tian Yuexin, Liu Qingjuan, Zhang Wei, Gu Cunyang, Huang Jie, Wu Lunbi, Zhao Hang, Liu Shuxia, Guo Huifang

“…But whether extracellular HMGB1 is involved in the injury of glomerular endothelial cells (GECs) in LN still needs further investigation. Firstly, we detected the levels of SDC-1, VCAM-1, and proteinuria in LN patients and MRL/lpr mice and analyzed their correlations. …”
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Partial Block by Riluzole of Muscle Sodium Channels in Myotubes from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients by Cristina Deflorio, Emanuela Onesti, Clotilde Lauro, Giorgio Tartaglia, Aldo Giovannelli, Cristina Limatola, Maurizio Inghilleri, Francesca Grassi

“…The rate of rise and amplitude of spikes evoked by depolarizing stimuli were also reduced. Fibs were detected in all patients tested during riluzole treatment and riluzole washout had no univocal effect. …”
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Novel Approaches for Concurrent Irradiation in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: Platinum Combinations, Non-Platinum-Containing Regimens, and Molecular Targeted Agents by Giannis Mountzios, Aspasia Soultati, Dimitrios Pectasides, Meletios A. Dimopoulos, Christos A. Papadimitriou

“…Despite the available prevention and early detection strategies, squamous-cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix is still diagnosed as locally advanced disease in a considerable proportion of patients. …”
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Estimation of Landslides and Road Capacity after August 8, 2017, MS7.0 Jiuzhaigou Earthquake Using High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images by Xiao Fu, Qing Zhu, Chao Liu, Naiwen Li, Wenhua Zhuang, Zhengli Yang, Heng Lu, Min Tang

“…Then, a knowledge-based method for postearthquake road detection and road capacity assessment from preearthquake road data and postearthquake high-resolution remote sensing imagery is proposed, as well as the quantitative road capacity assessment indicators to classify the road grades. …”
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Active Thermometry Based DS18B20 Temperature Sensor Network for Offshore Pipeline Scour Monitoring Using -Means Clustering Algorithm by Xuefeng Zhao, Weijie Li, Lei Zhou, Gang-Bing Song, Qin Ba, Jinping Ou

“…Based on these two features, K -means clustering algorithm is adopted for pattern classification of the system, which was implemented in MATLAB and facilitated the automatic detection of the scour monitoring sensor network system. …”
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Simple Spectrophotometric Method for Determination of Paroxetine in Tablets Using 1,2-Naphthoquinone-4-Sulphonate as a Chromogenic Reagent by Ibrahim A. Darwish, Heba H. Abdine, Sawsan M. Amer, Lama I. Al-Rayes

“…The molar absorptivity (𝜀) was 5.9×105 L mol−1 1 cm−1. The limits of detection and quantitation were 0.3 and 0.8 𝜇g mL−1, respectively. …”
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Sub-nanometer depth resolution and single dopant visualization achieved by tilt-coupled multislice electron ptychography by Zehao Dong, Yang Zhang, Chun-Chien Chiu, Sicheng Lu, Jianbing Zhang, Yu-Chen Liu, Suya Liu, Jan-Chi Yang, Pu Yu, Yayu Wang, Zhen Chen

“…This technique maintains high resolving power for both light and heavy atoms, significantly enhancing the detection of individual dopants. We experimentally demonstrate three-dimensional visualization of dilute praseodymium dopants in a brownmillerite oxide, Ca2Co2O5, along with the accompanying lattice distortions. …”
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Gene drive-based population suppression in the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi by Xuejiao Xu, Jingheng Chen, You Wang, Yiran Liu, Yongjie Zhang, Jie Yang, Xiaozhen Yang, Bin Chen, Zhengbo He, Jackson Champer

“…By amplicon sequencing, we detect a very low level of resistance allele formation. …”
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New Spectrophotometric and Fluorimetric Methods for Determination of Fluoxetine in Pharmaceutical Formulations by Ibrahim A. Darwish, Sawsan M. Amer, Heba H. Abdine, Lama I. Al-Rayes

“…Under the optimum reaction conditions, good linear relationships were found between the readings and the concentrations of FLX in the ranges of 0.3–6 and 0.035–0.5 μg mL−1 for the spectrophotometric and fluorimetric methods, respectively. The limits of detection were 0.1 and 0.01 μg mL−1 for the spectrophotometric and fluorimetric methods, respectively. …”
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New Long-Term Use Solid Bismuth Microelectrode Arrays for Rapid and Sensitive Determination of Sunset Yellow in Isotonic Beverages and Water Samples by Adsorptive Stripping Voltamm... by Mieczyslaw Korolczuk, Iwona Gęca, Artur Mazurek, Paulina Mrózek

“…The calibration graph was linear from 5 × 10⁻⁹ to 1 × 10⁻⁷ mol L⁻¹ (time of accumulation, 60 s). The detection limit was equal to 1.7 × 10⁻⁹ mol L⁻¹. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Spontaneous and Stimulus-Evoked Calcium Transients in Proliferating and Differentiating Human Midbrain-Derived Stem Cells by Torben Johansen, Christina Krabbe, Sissel Ida Schmidt, Alberto Martínez Serrano, Morten Meyer

“…Spontaneous calcium transients were detected in a large fraction of both proliferating (>50%) and differentiating (>55%) cells. …”
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Sequence Variants of ADIPOQ and Association with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Taiwan Chinese Han Population by Ming-Kai Tsai, Hui-Min David Wang, Jeng-Chuan Shiang, I-Hung Chen, Chih-Chiang Wang, Ya-Fen Shiao, Wen-Sheng Liu, Tai-Jung Lin, Tsung-Ming Chen, Ya-Huey Chen

“…However, both polymorphisms rs7903146 and rs12255372 of TCF7L2 were rarely detected in Taiwanese people. This study avers that ADIPOQ rs1501299 polymorphism contributes to risk of T2DM in the Taiwanese population.…”
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Multivendor Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Dataset, Observer Annotation Performance Evaluation, and Standardized Evaluation Framework for Intraretinal Cystoid Fluid S... by Jing Wu, Ana-Maria Philip, Dominika Podkowinski, Bianca S. Gerendas, Georg Langs, Christian Simader, Sebastian M. Waldstein, Ursula M. Schmidt-Erfurth

“…Development of image analysis and machine learning methods for segmentation of clinically significant pathology in retinal spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), used in disease detection and prediction, is limited due to the availability of expertly annotated reference data. …”
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Serum Magnesium and Vitamin D Levels as Indicators of Asthma Severity by Mohammed Nadeem Shaikh, Brahma Reddy Malapati, Ruchi Gokani, Bhavita Patel, Mitul Chatriwala

“…Asthma, in adults, is less studied and hypomagnesemia along with vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency is common in asthmatic individuals, which causes frequent asthma attacks, respiratory infections, severe exacerbations, and poor response to bronchodilators. Objective. To detect the magnitude of vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency and serum magnesium levels among asthmatic patients and to correlate them with the severity of asthma. …”
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Desmosomal Component Expression in Normal, Dysplastic, and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Nagamani Narayana, Julie Gist, Tyler Smith, Daniel Tylka, Gavin Trogdon, James K. Wahl

“…Despite recent advances in detection and treatment, there has been little improvement in the five-year survival rate for this devastating disease. …”
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