Methodological Tutorial Series for Epidemiological Studies: Confounder Selection and Sensitivity Analyses to Unmeasured Confounding From Epidemiological and Statistical Perspective... by Kosuke Inoue, Kentaro Sakamaki, Sho Komukai, Yuri Ito, Atsushi Goto, Tomohiro Shinozaki

“…Lastly, as it is often difficult to comprehensively measure key confounders, we introduce two statistics, E-value and robustness value, for assessing sensitivity to unmeasured confounders. Illustrated examples are provided using the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. …”
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The Glocalization of Sport: A Research Field for Social Innovation by Zijing Li, Arnaud Waquet, Philippe Campillo

“…Global events such as the FIFA World Cup, the NBA’s international expansion, and the Tour de France illustrate how global frameworks adapt to local contexts. …”
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Optimization of a fermented pumpkin-based beverage to improve Lactobacillus mali survival and α-glucosidase inhibitory activity: A response surface methodology approach by W.Y. Koh, U. Uthumporn, A. Rosma, A.R. Irfan, Y.H. Park

“…The product achieved 88.56 ± 0.67% of L. mali survival after treatment with simulated gastric and intestinal juices; demonstrated 95.89 ± 0.30% α-glucosidase inhibitory activity, as well as scored 6.99 ± 0.40 on sensory overall acceptability after 4 weeks of storage. These findings illustrated that the model is effective in improving probiotic survival and α-glucosidase inhibitory activity with excellent sensory acceptability, thus may offer a dietary means for the management of hyperglycaemia. …”
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RSL3 induces ferroptosis by activating the NF-κB signalling pathway to enhance the chemosensitivity of triple-negative breast cancer cells to paclitaxel by Jialin Yuan, Cong Liu, Chengwei Jiang, Ning Liu, Zhaoying Yang, Hua Xing

“…The accumulation of intracellular Fe2+ and lipid reactive oxygen species, as well as the expression of malondialdehyde, illustrated that RSL3 enhanced the chemosensitivity of TNBC to PTX by inducing ferroptosis. …”
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Efficient and accurate methodologies for MCS-based probabilistic analysis of tunnel face stability by Bin Li, Yong-Kai Shen, Yuan-Sheng Lan

“…This strategy is much more efficient since a probabilistic analysis can be completed within a few seconds. Several illustrative examples are used to demonstrate the applications. …”
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TREATMENT OF PRESSURE ULCERS OF THE SCALP IN DECOMPENSATED HYDROCEPHALY: A CLINICAL CHALLENGE. by Letitia Bellavesta Kale, Elric Brahm Malelak, Robertus Arian Datusanantyo, Wajahat Ullah, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Ali, Dhyey Thumar, Kundan Kumar

“…We report a challenging case of multiple pressure injury over the scalp in hydrocephalus patients. Case Illustration: Three toddlers with Hydrocephalus was consulted due to multiple Pressure Injury over the scalp in the bilateral temporo-parietal and occipital region. …”
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Analyzing the potency of Viscosity Modifying Agents on the Characteristics and Static Segregation of Fresh and Hardened Fluid Concrete by Faiza M’hamdi, Othmane Boukendakdji, Karim Ezziane, Taha-Hocine Douara

“…Furthermore, a comprehensive illustration of the segregation phenomenon is provided by the column of static segregation tests.   …”
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Donor site scar preference in head and neck free flap reconstruction: The patient point of view by Andrea Iandelli, Francesco Mazzola, Fabrizio Di Mari, Gilda Gaglio, Giulia Bianchi, Filippo Marchi, Giovanni Zoccali, Flaminia Campo, Giampiero Parrinello, Gerardo Petruzzi, Giorgio Peretti, Raul Pellini

“…Conclusions: The study illustrated that a diverse group of patients exhibits similarly diverse preferences and expectations. …”
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Demographic clinical trial diversity assessment methods: Use of real-world data by Hua Chen, Nnadozie Emechebe, Sudeep Karve, Leon Raskin, Jailene Leal, Ning Cheng, Wendy Sebby, Kim Ribeiro, Samuel Crawford

“…We present two examples of application of this framework to illustrate the results in the case of two disease states, rheumatoid arthritis and stroke.…”
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Breast mass classification based on supervised contrastive learning and multi‐view consistency penalty on mammography by Lilei Sun, Jie Wen, Junqian Wang, Zheng Zhang, Yong Zhao, Guiying Zhang, Yong Xu

“…The experimental results of all the classification algorithms mentioned in this paper on Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM) illustrate that the proposed algorithm greatly improves the classification performance and diagnostic speed of mammographic breast mass, which is of great significance for breast cancer diagnosis.…”
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Survivorship and Severe Complications Are Worse for Octogenarians and Elderly Patients with Pelvis Fractures as Compared to Adults: Data from the National Trauma Data Bank by Amir Matityahu, Joshua Elson, Saam Morshed, Meir Marmor

“…Conclusions. This study illustrates that patients older than 80 years old with pelvis fractures have a higher mortality and complications rate than elderly or adult patients.…”
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Combining extracellular matrix proteome and phosphoproteome of chickpea and meta‐analysis reveal novel proteoforms and evolutionary significance of clade‐specific wall‐associated e... by Kanika Narula, Arunima Sinha, Pooja Choudhary, Sudip Ghosh, Eman Elagamey, Archana Sharma, Atreyee Sengupta, Niranjan Chakraborty, Subhra Chakraborty

“…This is the first report on comprehensive matrisome proteoform network illustrating presence of CWI signaling proteins in land plants.…”
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Ideas and perspectives: Microorganisms in the air through the lenses of atmospheric chemistry and microphysics by B. Ervens, P. Amato, P. Amato, K. Aregahegn, K. Aregahegn, M. Joly, A. Khaled, T. Labed-Veydert, F. Mathonat, L. Nuñez López, R. Péguilhan, R. Péguilhan, M. Zhang, M. Zhang

“…., oxidative, osmotic, UV-induced), affecting the functioning and survival of atmospheric bacteria. We illustrate that these factors could impact stress levels under polluted conditions, indicating that conclusions about the role of pollutants in directly causing changes to microbial abundance can be erroneous. …”
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The Possible Role of TLR2 in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients with Precore Mutation by Malihe Moradzadeh, Sirous Tayebi, Hossein Poustchi, Kourosh Sayehmiri, Parisa Shahnazari, Elnaz Naderi, Ghodratollah Montazeri, Ashraf Mohamadkhani

“…There was also a significant correlation between serum ALT and TLR-2 (r=0.46; P=0.01). Docking results illustrated residues within the N-terminus of truncated HBeAg and TLR2, which might facilitate the interaction of these proteins. …”
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Heat transfer analysis of fluid flow over a nonlinear porous radially moving sheet: Benchmark solutions by Sina Sadighi, Hossein Afshar, Payam Jalili, Bahram Jalili, Davood Domiri Ganji

“…As part of this work, a table is provided to illustrate the variation of some parameters on the heat transfer rate and compare it to the numerical results. …”
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Studies on banana for propagation, conservation and genome analysis by Susmita Shukla, Ritambhara Bhutani, Nibha Gupta, Shiv Kant Shukla, Taramla Raman, Mohamed A. El-Sheikh, Hosam O. Elansary, Ihab Mohamed Moussa

“…DNA barcoding using Internal Transcribed Spacer1 (ITS1) markers facilitated the molecular analysis and sequence alignment of these Musa species, which illustrated their genetic relationships. DNA sequences were submitted to the NCBI and received accession numbers. 15 days old suckers were initiated on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with various concentrations of phytohormones, adjuvants etc. …”
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Astronomaly Protege: Discovery through Human-machine Collaboration by Michelle Lochner, Lawrence Rudnick

“…We briefly highlight some of PROTEGE's top recommendations, which include X- and circular-shaped sources, filamentary structures, and one-sided structures. These results illustrate the power of an optimized human-machine collaboration, such as PROTEGE, to make unexpected discoveries in samples beyond human-accessible scales.…”
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Evaluating livelihood resilience in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau's pastoral communities: Insights from an entropy-TOPSIS and geospatial analysis approach by Tong Li, Lizhen Cui, Zhihong Xu, Xiaoyong Cui, Yanfen Wang

“…This nuanced application allows for a detailed mapping of resilience across the TRHR, highlighting variances and spatial trends. Our findings illustrate a spectrum of resilience levels, with the Yellow River headwater area displaying a relative resilience zenith, indicated by a score of 0.931 in Zeku County, and a contrasting low in Yushu County with a resilience score of 0.532. …”
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Trust Region Policy Learning for Adaptive Drug Infusion with Communication Networks in Hypertensive Patients by Mai The Vu, Seong Han Kim, Ha Le Nhu Ngoc Thanh, Majid Roohi, Tuan Hai Nguyen

“…Besides the various analyses such as normal condition (without CTD strategy), stability, and hybrid noise, a CTD analysis is implemented to illustrate the functionality of the system in a wireless manner and interruption in real-time feedback data.…”
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TSC complex decrease the expression of mTOR by regulated miR-199b-3p by Na Zhao, Qiuhong Xiong, Ping Li, Guangxin Chen, Han Xiao, Changxin Wu

“…In brief, our results may illustrate a novel mechanism of TSC caused by variations in either TSC1 or TSC2, and a new mTOR expression regulator, miR-199b-3p.…”
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