R-loops acted on by RNase H1 influence DNA replication timing and genome stability in Leishmania by Jeziel D. Damasceno, Emma M. Briggs, Marija Krasilnikova, Catarina A. Marques, Craig Lapsley, Richard McCulloch

“…Furthermore, we demonstrate that such differential organisation of R-loops, RNase H1 and DNA replication timing across the parasite’s chromosomes correlates with size-dependent differences in chromatin accessibility, G quadruplex distribution and sequence content. …”
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High-Yield Generation of Glucose-Responsive Pseudoislets From Murine Insulinoma Cells for Studies and Longitudinal Monitoring of Graft Survival by Grisell C. Gonzalez, Chris M. Li, Ilaria Pasolini, Sophia I. Pete, Connor Verheyen, Sofia M. Vignolo, Teresa De Toni, Aaron A. Stock, Alice A. Tomei

“…After subcutaneous implantation, we show capability to monitor graft survival in immunodeficient mice, recurrence of autoimmunity in non-obese diabetic mice, and allorejection in C57BL/6 mice. …”
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Data quality in centenarian research: The proxy-centenarian relationship and item nonresponse in the SWISS100 study. by Daniele Zaccaria, Justine Falciola, Barbara Masotti, Armin von Gunten, François Herrmann, Daniela S Jopp, Stefano Cavalli

“…<h4>Data and methods</h4>We used data from the phone study conducted within SWISS100, a study on centenarians in Switzerland, focusing on a subsample of 94 centenarians and 75 proxy respondents. …”
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No Obesity Paradox—BMI Incapable of Adequately Capturing the Relation of Obesity with All-Cause Mortality: An Inception Diabetes Cohort Study by Mohammadreza Bozorgmanesh, Banafsheh Arshi, Farhad Sheikholeslami, Fereidoun Azizi, Farzad Hadaegh

“…Methods. We analyzed data of diabetic patients attending a community-based prospective, “Tehran lipid and glucose study.” …”
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Interspecific medicinal knowledge and Mahout-Elephant interactions in Thongmyxay district, Laos by Jean-Marc Dubost, Eric Deharo, Sysay Palamy, Chithdavone Her, Chiobouaphong Phaekovilay, Lamxay Vichith, Sébastien Duffillot, Sabrina Krief

“…The mahouts and the elephants of Thongmyxay district in Laos form an original hybrid community composed of humans and an animal species represented by both wild and domestic animals (elephants). We investigated in particular the interactions between mahouts' observation of elephants and their own medicinal practices (human and ethnoveterinary), which have been the subject of two previous publications. …”
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Alcohol Consumption Is a Risk Factor for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Chinese Patients with T2DM by Shanshan Yang, Shuang Wang, Bo Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Yuping Cai, Zhengguo Yang

“…We used propensity score matching to reduce the confounding bias between groups. …”
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Heterologous Expression of Laccase1 from Cryphonectria parasitica in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Kum-Kang So, Fatima Alejandra Hernandez Alvarado, Gui-Hwan Han, Jeong-Won Kim, Tae-Geum Kim, Dae-Hyuk Kim

“…We also tested the significance of the signal peptide of Laccase1 in the secretion of expressed Laccase1 and compared it with the widely used rice amylase signal peptide. …”
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WORDS ARE LIFE. WRITTEN MEMORIES IN THE HOSPICE EXPERIENCE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY by Pieralba Chiarlone, Silvio Giono-Calvetto, Flavia Lena, Gaetano Giuseppe Saita, Roberta Maci, Giovanni Moruzzi, Salvatore Bonanno

“…This work is only the beginning of a journey of interpretation of the texts, but, despite all the limitations, we believe that provides an unusual image of the hospice experience.…”
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HUMAN AS A CARRIER OF THE WORLDVIEW: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE DIMENSIONS by V. V. Havrylenko

“…And a role of the carrier of worldview plays either human or society. We can see that in researches of S. Krymskyi, I. …”
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Serial Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Optic Radiations after Acute Optic Neuritis by Scott C. Kolbe, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Alexander Klistorner, Gary F. Egan, Trevor J. Kilpatrick

“…In addition, we measured retinal nerve fibre layer thickness, visual evoked potential amplitude, optic radiation lesion load, and V1 thickness. …”
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Global Marine Ecosystem Response to a Strong AMOC Weakening Under Low and High Future Emission Scenarios by A. A. Boot, J. Steenbeek, M. Coll, A. S. von derHeydt, H. A. Dijkstra

“…In EcoOcean, we see negative impacts in Total System Biomass (TSB), which are larger for high trophic level organisms. …”
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Tumor microbiome: roles in tumor initiation, progression, and therapy by Shengxin Zhang, Jing Huang, Zedong Jiang, Huan Tong, Xuelei Ma, Yang Liu

“…We further propose the tumor microbiome may evade immunity and promote angiogenesis to support tumor progression, while uncovering specific microbial influences on each step of the metastatic cascade, such as invasion, circulation, and seeding in secondary sites. …”
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Comparing social stigma of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder: A quantitative experimental study by Carlye S. Aird, Bennett A. A. Reisinger, Stephanie N. Webb, David H. Gleaves

“…Abstract Background Currently, we know little regarding how stigma attributed to eating disorders compares to that of other psychological disorders and additionally within different types of eating disorders. …”
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Typhoon Maria Precipitation Retrieval and Evolution Based on the Infrared Brightness Temperature of the Feng-Yun 4A/Advanced Geosynchronous Radiation Imager by Gen Wang, Kefu Wang, Wei Han, Dongyong Wang, Xuexing Qiu

“…Based on the preliminary experimental “quantification” evaluation index, we concluded that the method adopted in this paper can be used to retrieve precipitation in infrared data and to retrieve the spiral cloud rain bands of a typhoon. …”
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Network analysis of headache diagnoses using international classification of headache disorders, 3rd edition by Pengfei Zhang, Thomas Berk, Thomas Berk

“…We identified the top 10 disorders in terms of their centrality, which assesses their popularity, their role as bridges in the network, and their proximity to other disorders. …”
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Expanding the BP1-BP2 15q11.2 Microdeletion Phenotype: Tracheoesophageal Fistula and Congenital Cataracts by D. Wong, S. M. Johnson, D. Young, L. Iwamoto, S. Sood, T. P. Slavin

“…Cataracts have been described in Prader-Willi syndrome but we could not find any description of cataracts in Angelman syndrome. …”
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Combination Trimodality Therapy Using Vismodegib for Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Face by Alec M. Block, Fiori Alite, Aidnag Z. Diaz, Richard W. Borrowdale, Joseph I. Clark, Mehee Choi

“…After multidisciplinary discussion, we recommended and he opted for combined modality of vismodegib, radiotherapy, and local excision. …”
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Uncertainties in the finite-time Lyapunov exponent in an ocean ensemble prediction model by M. Matuszak, J. Röhrs, P. E. Isachsen, P. E. Isachsen, M. Idžanović

“…In addition, velocity fields often evolve rapidly in time, and we therefore also evaluate the time variability of FTLE fields. …”
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AFN-Net: Adaptive Fusion Nucleus Segmentation Network Based on Multi-Level U-Net by Ming Zhao, Yimin Yang, Bingxue Zhou, Quan Wang, Fu Li

“…Therefore, a novel nucleus segmentation method based on the U-Net architecture is proposed to overcome this issue. Firstly, we introduce a Weighted Feature Enhancement Unit (WFEU) in the encoder decoder fusion stage of U-Net. …”
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The Malthusian parameter and $R_0$ for heterogeneous populations in periodic environments by Hisashi Inaba

“…&nbsp; &nbsp In this paper, we propose a new approach to establish the sign relation between $R_0$ and the Malthusian parameter $\lambda_0$ for linear structured population dynamics in a periodic environment. …”
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