Treatment of e-cigarette use among hospitalised adolescents and young adults: a protocol for intervention development and evaluation of preliminary efficacy and implementation outc... by Delwyn Catley, Kimber P Richter, Karen Wilson, Shelbie Wooten, Melissa K Miller, Abbey Masonbrink

“…X2 (categorical variables) and Wilcoxon rank-sum (continuous variables) tests will be used to assess differences between groups.Ethics and dissemination Careful consideration will be given to ethical recruitment and implementation of all elements of the study. …”
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Developing Guidelines for Conducting Stigma Research With Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals: Protocol for Creation of a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research by Augustus Klein, Sarit A Golub, Danielle Berke, Elijah Castle

“…ConclusionsTo make meaningful strides in stigma research, it is imperative to examine experiences of stigma that may happen within the research context and identify strategies for improving data quality and reducing unintentional harm in study recruitment, methodology, implementation, and dissemination. …”
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Development of an sRNA-mediated conditional knockdown system for Chlamydia trachomatis by Janina Ehses, Kevin Wang, Asha Densi, Cuper Ramirez, Ming Tan, Christine Sütterlin

“…Similarly, IncG knockdown significantly reduced IncG levels and prevented recruitment of its interacting host protein 14-3-3β, without altering IncE protein levels. …”
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Cerebral Reorganization in Subacute Stroke Survivors after Virtual Reality-Based Training: A Preliminary Study by Xiang Xiao, Qiang Lin, Wai-Leung Lo, Yu-Rong Mao, Xin-chong Shi, Ryan S. Cates, Shu-Feng Zhou, Dong-Feng Huang, Le Li

“…Moreover, the cortical recruitment was associated with better walking function. …”
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Efficacy, Feasibility, and Acceptability of an Emotional Competence Tele-Intervention for Mandarin-Speaking Children Aged 5 to 7 Years With Developmental Language Disorder: Pilot S... by Hsin-Hui Lu, Shih-Yuan Liang, Yi-Chia Huang

“…However, changes were observed during the tele-intervention period, and these changes remained throughout the follow-up period. With a recruitment rate of 80% (20/25), all participants completed 4 intervention sessions, with retention and attendance rates exceeding 95% (19/20). …”
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Decrease in Circulating Dendritic Cell Precursors in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease by Daniel Kretzschmar, Ilonka Rohm, Sebastian Schäller, Stefan Betge, Rudin Pistulli, Yevgeniya Atiskova, Hans-R. Figulla, Atilla Yilmaz

“…Therefore, we hypothesize that, in patients with PAD, DCPs might be reduced in blood due to their recruitment into the vascular wall and induce a proinflammatory response. …”
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Comparison of glycosylated fibronectin versus soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase/placental growth factor ratio testing for the assessment of pre-eclampsia: protocol for a multicentre... by Marcus Green, Chao Wang, Sarah Fisher, Amarnath Bhide, Ramesh Ganapathy, Basky Thilaganathan, Nouran Elbarbary

“…Two follow-up visits are planned at 2 and 4 weeks after the initial recruitment where repeat testing with both tests will be performed. …”
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Cohort profile: Outcome Monitoring After Cardiac Surgery (OMACS) – a prospective UK cohort study of cardiac surgery patients at the Bristol Heart Institute by Chris A Rogers, Gianni Angelini, Lucy Culliford, Rachel Brierley, Barnaby Reeves, Katherine Joyce, Terrie Walker-Smith, Rachel Maishman, Emma Hopkins, Penny Lambert, Helena Smartt

“…The objectives were to use these data to inform the design of new clinical studies and to provide samples and data to answer research questions.Participants Recruitment began on 23 May 2016 and ended 31 May 2022. …”
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Sevoflurane Inhibits the Th2 Response and NLRP3 Expression in Murine Allergic Airway Inflammation by Lixia Wang, Binshan Zha, Qiying Shen, Hongyun Zou, Cheng Cheng, Huimei Wu, Rongyu Liu

“…In addition, we analysed the protein levels of NLRP3, the apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing the caspase activation and recruitment domain (ASC), pro-caspase-1, and caspase-1 in the lung tissue. …”
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Trajectories of Change, Illness Understanding, and Parental Worries in Children and Adolescents Undergoing Internet-Delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Functional Abdominal... by Eva Skovslund Nielsen, Karen Kallesøe, Tine Bennedsen Gehrt, Ellen Bjerre-Nielsen, Maria Lalouni, Lisbeth Frostholm, Marianne Bonnert, Charlotte Ulrikka Rask

“…Recruitment is expected to be completed by January 2025, with final data collection during April 2025. …”
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The effect of clinician-expressed empathy and nocebo-alleviating information on breast-cancer-patients' anxiety and side effects during active chemotherapy: A clinical feasibility... by Lara C. Gröschel, Fiona T. Brosig, Marcel Soesan, Katherina T. Vourtsis, Mirte van der Spek, Elise Sluiter, Liesbeth M. van Vliet

“…Due to the small sample size (n = 27), descriptive and recruitment data were utilized to evaluate effects and reflect on feasibility. …”
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Changes in motor unit firing pattern are associated with post‐exercise blood pressure response in older untreated but not treated hypertensive adults by Ryosuke Takeda, Tetsuya Hirono, Akito Yoshiko, Shun Kunugi, Masamichi Okudaira, Saeko Ueda, Taichi Nishikawa, Kohei Watanabe

“…During the ramp‐up exercise, high‐density surface electromyography signals were recorded and each MU firing rate (FR) and recruitment threshold was assessed. The slope of the linear regression between MUFRs and recruitment thresholds was calculated to assess the MU firing pattern. …”
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Enhanced Visual Attentional Modulation in Patients with Inherited Peripheral Retinal Degeneration in the Absence of Cortical Degeneration by Sónia Ferreira, Andreia Carvalho Pereira, Bruno Quendera, Aldina Reis, Eduardo Duarte Silva, Miguel Castelo-Branco

“…We conclude that RP patients have enhanced visual attention recruitment despite their retinal degeneration, while cortical structure and overall response levels remain intact. …”
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Equality and diversity in research: building an inclusive future by Michael El Boghdady

“…Strategies to address these include diverse recruitment, mentorship programmes, training to mitigate unconscious bias, and promoting data transparency. …”
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T-Cell Traffic Jam in Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Pathogenetic and Therapeutic Implications by Claudio Fozza, Maurizio Longinotti

“…In this paper we will first evaluate the main processes modulating T-cell recruitment towards the lymph node microenvironment in HL, especially focusing on the role played by cytokines. …”
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La « théorie des nouvelles professions », une ressource heuristique pour penser la professionnalisation by Emmanuel de Lescure

“…Mobilizing the results of a secondary analysis of data of the survey Employment of the National institute for statistics and economics studies (INSEE), it examines the social recruitment of adults trainers and the process of segmentation of the occupational group from the 1980s to 2000s to test the current events of what was a posteriori appointed the « theory of the new occupations ».…”
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Single-cell analysis identified key macrophage subpopulations associated with atherosclerosis by Zhao Zhenzhen, Qin Yuelong, Wu Rui, Li Wenwu, Dong Yujiang

“…These plaques contain lipid-rich macrophages that accumulate through monocyte recruitment, local macrophage differentiation, and proliferation.…”
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A ascensão dos pobres a posições de elite político-administrativa no contexto do Cabo Verde pós-independente by Crisanto Barros

“…The administration of the modern Cape Verdean State, which results from profound changes instituted during the second half of the nineteenth century, is made largely by natives of the archipelago, whose recruitment was done predominantly within the most favored families. …”
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Periodically forced discrete-time SIS epidemic model with diseaseinduced mortality by John E. Franke, Abdul-Aziz Yakubu

“…In addition, we use the Beverton-Holt recruitment function toshow that the infective population exhibits period-doubling bifurcationsroute to chaos where the disease-free susceptible population lives on a2-cycle (non-chaotic) attractor.…”
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Représentations socio-professionnelles et choix de la spécialisation : le cas de la filière vétérinaire rurale by Sylvain Dernat, Arnaud Siméone

“…These results challenge student recruitment criteria and underline the importance of instructional design in building up social representations and career pathways.…”
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