Social learning in bonobos: Learning of individual food preferences and copying despite better knowledge by Gladez Shorland, Emilie Genty, Klaus Zuberbühler

“…Having observed the demonstrator, the subjects were tested once again. Overall, in the ‘simple social learning’ task, subjects preferentially chose the colour most consumed by the demonstrators (pink). …”
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Relation Between Glycated Hemoglobin Level and Hearing Loss in Type 2 Diabetic Patients by Mayada ElSherif, Aya Fathey El Sayed Mahfouz, Noha Mohamed Gaber Amin, Hesham Saad Kozou

“…Methods: A case–control study was conducted in the Audio-Vestibular Medicine Unit, xxxx University on 82 subjects. The subjects were divided into 2 groups: the first group consisted of 42 diabetic patients and the second group consisted of 40 healthy subjects. …”
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Hypercapnic Ventilatory Response in the Weaning of Patients with Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation by Chung-Shu Lee, Ning-Hung Chen, Li-Pang Chuang, Chih-Hao Chang, Li-Fu Li, Shih-Wei Lin, Hsiung-Ying Huang

“…A hypercapnic challenge test was performed on 32 PMV subjects (average age: 74.3 years ± 14.9 years). The subjects were divided into two groups (i.e., weaning successes and weaning failures) and their hypercapnic ventilatory responses were compared. …”
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Evaluation of diastole by echocardiography for detecting early cardiac dysfunction: an outcome study by Tatiana Kuznetsova, Nicholas Cauwenberghs, František Sabovčik, Yukari Kobayashi, Francois Haddad

“…After full adjustment, we did not observe any significant differences in the risk of events between subjects with indeterminate or any grade of LVDDF and subjects with normal diastolic function when classified according to the 2016 recommendation (P ≥ 0.25). …”
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Elevated and Correlated Expressions of miR-24, miR-30d, miR-146a, and SFRP-4 in Human Abdominal Adipose Tissue Play a Role in Adiposity and Insulin Resistance by Yury O. Nunez Lopez, Gabriella Garufi, Magdalena Pasarica, Attila A. Seyhan

“…Abdominal adipose tissue (AbdAT) levels of thirteen microRNAs (miRNAs), SFRP4, and VEGF in lean nondiabetic subjects (n=7), subjects with obesity (n=5), and subjects with obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) (n=5) were measured by qPCR. …”
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Syncopes and clinical outcome in heart failure: results from prospective clinical study data in Germany by Djawid Hashemi, Moritz Blum, Meinhard Mende, Stefan Störk, Christiane E. Angermann, Sabine Pankuweit, Elvis Tahirovic, Rolf Wachter, Burkert Pieske, Frank Edelmann, Hans‐Dirk Düngen, the German Competence Network for Heart Failure

“…Methods and results We pooled the data of prospective, nationwide, multicentre studies conducted within the framework of the German Competence Network for Heart Failure including 11 335 subjects. Excluding studies with follow‐up periods <10 years, we assessed 5318 subjects. …”
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ETHICS OF SCIENCE: PRACTICAL AND APPLIED MODE by Elena N. Viktoruk

“…The article presents an experience of studying the subject “Ethics and Axiology of Science” by post-graduate students of SibSTU. …”
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Steady vortex flows obtained from a constrained variational problem by B. Emamizadeh, M. H. Mehrabi

“…Kinetic energy is maximized subject to the vorticity, being a rearrangement of a prescribed function and subject to a linear constraint.…”
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High Prevalence of Autoimmune Diabetes and Poor Glycaemic Control among Adults in Madagascar: A Brief Report from a Humanitarian Health Campaign in Ambanja by Ernesto Maddaloni, Giovanlorenzo Pastore, Marco Giuseppe Del Buono, Aldostefano Porcari, Mario Fittipaldi, Francesco Garilli, Claudio Tiberti, Silvia Angeletti, Paolo Pozzilli, Giovanni Mottini, Nicola Napoli

“…During a humanitarian health campaign conducted in Ambanja, a rural city in the northern part of Madagascar, we identified 42 adult subjects with diabetes and compared their features to 24 randomly enrolled healthy controls. 42.9% (n=18) of diabetic subjects showed HbA1c values ≥ 9.0%. …”
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Anti-Apolipoprotein A-1 IgG Levels Predict Coronary Artery Calcification in Obese but Otherwise Healthy Individuals by Alessandra Quercioli, Fabrizio Montecucco, Katia Galan, Osman Ratib, Pascale Roux-Lombard, Sabrina Pagano, François Mach, Thomas H. Schindler, Nicolas Vuilleumier

“…We aimed at determining whether anti-apolipoprotein (apo) A-1 IgG levels are independent predictors of coronary artery calcification (CAC) and coronary endothelial dysfunction in obese and nonobese subjects without cardiovascular disease. 48 nonobese and 43 obese subjects were included. …”
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Duodenal Perforation with an Unusual Presentation: A Case Report by Arif Hussain Sarmast, Fazl Q. Parray, Hakim Irfan Showkat, Yasir A. Lone, Naseer A. Bhat

“…The said patient after being subjected to baseline workup was subjected to laparotomy which proved to be a surgical surprise. …”
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Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“…By writing across the various word-limits, the authors have been able to give adequate information about their subjects of discussion. Each word-limit is moderate enough to convey the basic information on the subject or topic of every entry. …”
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Crisis Behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Self-Organized Criticality Approach by Lucio Tonello, Luca Giacobbi, Alberto Pettenon, Alessandro Scuotto, Massimo Cocchi, Fabio Gabrielli, Glenda Cappello

“…A group of ASD subjects (n=33) has been observed for 12 months reporting data on each crisis (n=1137 crises). …”
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Diagnostic Role of Plasma MicroRNA-21 in Stable and Unstable Angina Patients and Association with Aging by Md Sayed Ali Sheikh

“…Plasma microRNA-21 concentration levels were significantly elevated in stable and unstable angina patients as compared with control subjects P<0.001. The area under the ROC curves of circulating microRNA-21 was accurately distinguished in stable angina patients (AUC 0.921) and unstable angina patients (AUC 0.944) from healthy subjects. …”
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The effect of a one-time mindfulness intervention on body and mind in healthy adolescents using multimodal measurements by Angelika Ecker, Charlotte Fritsch, Daniel Schleicher, Ricarda Jacob, Stephanie Kandsperger, Romuald Brunner, Irina Jarvers

“…For all subjective parameters, we observed a main effect of trait mindfulness. …”
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Measuring the Impact on Human Emotion When Listening and Reciting the Quran using AI/Machine Learning Techniques by Nur Asyiqin Hamzah, Hadhrami Ab Ghanni, Azlan Abd Aziz, Nur Hasanah Ali, Noor Zielah Abd Rahman

“…The data will be acquired from several participants (subjects) by placing nineteen surface electrodes on the scalp according to the international 10-20 system. …”
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Educational service as an object of civil rights by Y. I. Chalyi

“…The object of the considered legal relations and the object of the subjective right of the customer of the educational service, according to the author of the article, coincide in their volume. …”
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Characterization of Visual Symptomatology Associated with Refractive, Accommodative, and Binocular Anomalies by Pilar Cacho-Martínez, Mario Cantó-Cerdán, Stela Carbonell-Bonete, Ángel García-Muñoz

“…Methods. 175 randomised university students were examined. Subjects were given a subjective visual examination with accommodative and binocular tests, evaluating their symptomatology. …”
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Positive Association of Metabolic Syndrome with a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism of Syndecan-3 (rs2282440) in the Taiwanese Population by Betty Chia-Chen Chang, Lee-Ching Hwang, Wei-Hsin Huang

“…Genotypes of SDC3 polymorphism (rs2282440) were analyzed in 545 Taiwanese adult subjects, of which 154 subjects had MetS. Results. …”
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The Clinical Investigation of Disparity of Utility Values Associated with Gallstone Disease: A Pilot Study by Chung-Te Hsu, Yi Liao, Jorn-Hon Liu, Tao-Hsin Tung

“…A total of 120 outpatient clinics participants (30 subjects with no gallstone disease, 30 subjects with single stone, 30 subjects with multiple stones, and 30 subjects with cholecystectomy) evaluated utility values from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006. …”
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