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

“…Using confocal microfluorimetry, we studied spontaneous calcium transients and calcium-regulating mechanisms in a human ventral mesencephalic stem cell line undergoing proliferation and neuronal differentiation. …”
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Development of New Models for the Estimation of Hourly Components of Solar Radiation: Tests, Comparisons, and Application for the Generation of a Solar Database in Morocco by Mohammed Benchrifa, Rachid Tadili, Ahmed Idrissi, Hajar Essalhi, Abdellah Mechaqrane

“…Then, these equations will be verified by using statistical tests. Moreover, we compared our results with those obtained by similar studies. …”
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Hybrid Graph Representation Learning for Carotid Artery Stenosis Detection Based on Multimodal Retinal OCTA Images by Wenting Lan, Jinkui Hao, Shengjun Zhou, Jingfeng Zhang, Shaodong Ma, Yitian Zhao

“…For evaluation, we enrolled 182 CAS and 239 control subjects in this study. …”
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Distribution and Conservation of Ephedra rhytidosperma by Chao Tan, David Kay Ferguson, Yong Yang

“…This shrubby species is endemic to the Helan Mountains in northwestern China where it dominates the lowland vegetation. We have conducted an integrative investigation on the conservation of the species. …”
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Nanobody screening and machine learning guided identification of cross-variant anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing heavy-chain only antibodies. by Peter R McIlroy, Le Thanh Mai Pham, Thomas Sheffield, Maxwell A Stefan, Christine E Thatcher, James Jaryenneh, Jennifer L Schwedler, Anupama Sinha, Christopher A Sumner, Iris K A Jones, Stephen Won, Ryan C Bruneau, Dina R Weilhammer, Zhuoming Liu, Sean Whelan, Oscar A Negrete, Kenneth L Sale, Brooke Harmon

“…To start, we screened our highly diverse Nb phage display library against several pre-Omicron VOI and VOC receptor binding domains (RBDs) to identify panels of cross-reactive HCAbs. …”
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Toward improving precision and complexity of transformer-based cost-sensitive learning models for plant disease detection by Manh-Tuan Do, Manh-Hung Ha, Duc-Chinh Nguyen, Oscal Tzyh-Chiang Chen, Oscal Tzyh-Chiang Chen

“…To optimize a model to a lightweight version, we integrated the proposed transformer model with the Ghost module. …”
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Association between nutritional level, menstrual-related symptoms, and mental health in female medical students. by Keiko Fukushima, Noritoshi Fukushima, Hiroki Sato, Jinko Yokota, Keiko Uchida

“…The levels of psychological distress were evaluated using the Japanese General Health Questionnaire (J-GHQ)-30. We defined high GHQ scores as GHQ-30 ≥7. We checked dysmenorrhea levels and assessed menstrual symptoms according to the presence of premenstrual syndrome (PMS). …”
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Zonisamide Enhances Motor Effects of Levodopa, Not of Apomorphine, in a Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease by Haruo Nishijima, Yasuo Miki, Shinya Ueno, Masahiko Tomiyama

“…We examined the effects of zonisamide on motor symptoms in a hemiparkinsonian rat model when administered singly, coadministered with levodopa, a dopamine precursor, or apomorphine, a D1 and D2 dopamine receptor agonist. …”
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A Data Quality Control Program for Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews by Janet E. Squires, Alison M. Hutchinson, Anne-Marie Bostrom, Kelly Deis, Peter G. Norton, Greta G. Cummings, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…To illustrate the value of the program, we assess its use in the Translating Research in Elder Care Study. …”
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Optimizing Stroke Detection Using Evidential Networks and Uncertainty-Based Refinement by Faranak Akbarifar, Sean P. Dukelow, Albert Jin, Parvin Mousavi, Stephen H. Scott

“…Using deep learning methods, particularly an evidential network, we distinguished impaired participants from healthy controls while generating measures of prediction uncertainty. …”
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Empirical prediction intervals applied to short term mortality forecasts and excess deaths by Ricarda Duerst, Jonas Schöley

“…By deriving empirical prediction intervals, we provide a more accurate probabilistic study of weekly expected and excess deaths compared to the use of conventional parametric intervals. …”
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Waterflood Management Using Hybrid Approach of Streamline-Based Interwell Flux Information and Finite Volume Reservoir Simulation by Zhouyuan Zhu, Zhengdong Lei, Zhangxin Chen

“…We have introduced two basic modules here: a commercial reservoir simulator and our own streamline tracing and waterflood management program. …”
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Hybrid Power Generation Supply Chain Financing and Purchasing Strategies with Option Hedging against Disruption by Guoshu Dong, Qing Xia, Bo Xu, Ziguang Dong

“…We find that for the power grid, high self-owned funds level or affluent credit line encourages procurement. …”
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The Clinical and Steroid-Free Remission of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: A Meta-Analysis by Wai Ching Lam, Chen Zhao, Wen Juan Ma, Liang Yao

“…Methods. We searched Ovid Medline, Ovid EMBASE, and Cochrane Library, focusing prospective studies including randomized controlled trials and cohort studies. …”
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Uncovering Deterministic Behavior of Black Hole IGR J17091–3624: A Twin of GRS 1915+105 by Anindya Guria, Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

“…We find signs of determinism in IGR J17091–3624, thus supporting the hypothesis of it being similar to GRS 1915+105, even as a dynamical system. …”
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How to Recondition Ex Vivo Initially Rejected Donor Lungs for Clinical Transplantation: Clinical Experience from Lund University Hospital by Sandra Lindstedt, Atli Eyjolfsson, Bansi Koul, Per Wierup, Leif Pierre, Ronny Gustafsson, Richard Ingemansson

“…We also present the technique we used in detail with flowchart.…”
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Isthmin 1 is Expressed by Progenitor-Like Cells in the Lung: Phenotypical Analysis of Isthmin 1+ Hematopoietic Stem-Like Cells in Homeostasis and during Infection by Guadalupe Rivera-Torruco, Carolina A. Martínez-Mendiola, Tania Angeles-Floriano, Gustavo Alberto Jaimes-Ortega, José Luis Maravillas-Montero, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Yolanda González, Esmeralda Juárez, Porfirio Nava, Vianney Ortiz-Navarrete, Oscar Medina-Contreras, Paula Licona-Limón, Ricardo Valle-Rios

“…We conclude that ISM1 is a novel biomarker associated with progenitor-like cells. …”
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Availability, accessibility and activation of mental health services among university students in Africa: a protocol of a mixed-methods systematic review with meta-analysis and met... by Hesborn Wao, Melvin A Wao, Ian Muriithi, Paul Seraii, Jackline Syonguvi

“…OR, risk ratio or mean difference with 95% CI will be considered as the effect size. We will assess heterogeneity between studies by appropriate subgroup analyses. …”
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Uncovering Diversity within the Glomeromycota: Novel Clades, Family Distributions, and Land Use Sensitivity by Camille S. Delavaux, Alexis Aellen, Sidney L. Stürmer, Silmar Primieri, Ursel M. E. Schütte, Devin M. Drown, Robert J. Ramos, Thomas W. Crowther, James D. Bever

“…We further find that taxa in the Diversisporaceae, Glomeraceae, and Entrophosporaceae relatively high families are overrepresented and more diverse in temperate samples. …”
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A multimodal characterization of low-dimensional thalamocortical structural connectivity patterns by Alexandra John, Meike D. Hettwer, H. Lina Schaare, Amin Saberi, Şeyma Bayrak, Bin Wan, Jessica Royer, Boris C. Bernhardt, Sofie L. Valk

“…Using diffusion MRI, we compute a thalamocortical structural connectome and derive two main axes of thalamic organization. …”
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