Long-Term Surgical Outcomes of Glaucoma Drainage Implants in Eyes with Preoperative Intraocular Pressure Less than 19 mmHg by Shahin Hallaj, Jae-Chiang Wong, Lauren E. Hock, Natasha Nayak Kolomeyer, Aakriti G. Shukla, Michael J. Pro, Marlene R. Moster, Jonathan S. Myers, Reza Razeghinejad, Daniel Lee

“…Most cases were male (52.2%), White (53.7%), and had primary open-angle glaucoma (62.7%). …”
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Modeling Possible Cooling-Water Intake System Impacts on Ohio River Fish Populations by Elgin Perry, Greg Seegert, Joe Vondruska, Timothy Lohner, Randy Lewis

“…A Leslie matrix model was constructed to allow an evaluation of bluegill, freshwater drum, emerald shiner, gizzard shad, sauger, and white bass populations within five river pools. Site-specific information on fish abundance and length-frequency distribution was obtained from long-term Ohio River Ecological Research Program and Ohio River Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) electrofishing monitoring programs. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of 48 weeks of BIC/F/TAF and DRV/c/F/TAF on platelet function in the context of rapid ART start by Akif A. Khawaja, Gary Whitlock, Sarah Fidler, Alfredo Soler-Carracedo, Merle Henderson, Graham P. Taylor, Marta Boffito, Michael Emerson

“…Results An analysis of 21 participants was performed at Week 48 (96% male and 48% white; mean (range) age was 37 (23–78) years). No difference between arms was observed in ADP-, collagen- or thrombin receptor activator for peptide (TRAP)-6-evoked platelet αIIbβ3 integrin activation, granule release or platelet aggregation in response to any of the agonists tested. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients with and without Diabetes in Wuhan Red Cross Hospital by Guozhen Li, Qin Deng, Jiali Feng, Fang Li, Nian Xiong, Qiong He

“…Compared with nondiabetics, patients with diabetes were older and had high levels of fasting plasma glucose (FPG), D-dimer, white blood cells, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and total bilirubin (TBIL) and lower levels of lymphocytes, albumin and oxygen saturation (SaO2), and higher mortality (P<0.05). …”
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Racial and ethnic disparities in longitudinal trajectories of cardiovascular risk factors in U.S. middle-aged and older adults. by Matthew E Dupre, Radha Dhingra, Hanzhang Xu, Scott M Lynch, Qing Yang, Cassie Ford, Michael D Green, Ying Xian, Ann Marie Navar, Eric D Peterson

“…Compared with non-Hispanic White adults, non-Hispanic Black adults were more likely to exhibit elevated systolic BP with high risks of DM (relative risk ratio [RRR] = 3.36; 95% CI, 2.69-4.21; P < .001) and with low risks of DM (RRR = 3.23; 95% CI, 2.38-4.38; P < .001). …”
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Changes in Running Kinematics and Kinetics Following a 10 km Run by Mark Reinking, Emily Hill, Kathryn Marr, Kasey Melness, Dominique Ortiz, Elsa Racasan, Nicholas Wedl, Joshua White, Brian Baum

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Effects of Light Spectra on Nutritional Composition in Juvenile Sinonovacula constricta (Lamarck 1818) and Transcriptomic Analysis by Mengqi Zhang, Fei Kong, Deshui Chen, Xiaojun Yan, Zhaoshou Ran, Jilin Xu

“…Herein, we investigated the proximate, fatty acid, and amino acid compositions of S. constricta cultured under various light spectra, including white, violet, blue, cyan, green, yellow, red, and darkness. …”
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Area postrema syndrome in patients with autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy by Qingchen Li, Junfang Teng

“…Compared with the APS in AQP4 + NMOSD, APS in A-GFAP-A had a lower proportion of females (33.3% vs. 80%, p = 0.003), more hiccups (81% vs. 50%, p = 0.037), more leptomeningeal enhancement (61.9% vs. 5%, p = 0.000), higher CSF white blood cell count (median 120 vs. 10 cells/mm3, p = 0.000) and protein (median 0.949 vs. 0.407 g/L, p = 0.000). …”
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Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Purchasing Frozen, Fresh, Canned, and Dried Produce in a Nationally Representative Sample of United States Households by Graham E Bastian, Joslyn K Russell, Annie J Roe, Raveen Rani

“…Households utilizing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) had higher odds of purchasing frozen vegetables after controlling for other variables (odds ratio: 1.24, 95% confidence interval: 0.99, 1.56, P = 0.07). Compared with White non-Hispanic-led households, Asian- and Hispanic-led households had higher odds of purchasing fresh FV and lower odds of purchasing frozen vegetables. …”
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Analysis of factors affecting the clinical management of infection in culture-negative patients following percutaneous endoscopic decompression: a retrospective study by Changpeng Qu, Haixin Wei, Hao Zhang, Zheng Lian, Hui Lu, Shuo Han

“…C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, white blood cells, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and the duration of antibiotic treatment were used as indicators of infection treatment. …”
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Accepting your Body after Cancer (ABC), a group-based online intervention for women treated for breast cancer: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial by Sarah Byford, Abigail Jones, Shelley Potter, Paul White, Diana Harcourt, Helena Lewis-Smith, Patricia Fairbrother

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Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming of Epipedobates currulao sp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests by Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar, Juan Camilo Ríos-Orjuela, Andrew J. Crawford, David C. Cannatella, Rebecca D. Tarvin

“…., blotches that are either more white than yellow or absent in E. boulengeri. In addition, the advertisement calls are distinct, with E. currulao sp. nov. having a single but long call in each call series while E. boulengeri has 2–6 calls in a series with each call being much shorter in length. …”
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INTENSITY OF OXIDATIVE STRESS DEVELOPMENT IN RAT MAJOR CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES UNDER COMBINED CONDITIONS OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE, CHANGES IN THE NORMAL LIGHT-DARK CYCLE, AN... by O.A. Volkova, V.O. Kostenko

“…The study was conducted on 44 white Wistar rats weighing 150-200 kg of various articles, divided into 3 groups: control (15), a combination of AD and SIR (14), and a combination of AD, SIR, and fluoxetine (15). …”
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Australian general practice registrars’ experiences of training, well-being and support during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study by Lucie Walters, Jill Benson, Isabella White, Taryn Elliott

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Bile microbiocenosis in cats suffering from acute cholangiohepatitis by A. A. Rudenko, D. S. Usenko, A. F. Rudenko

“…It was established that 76.25% of commensal microorganism isolates, recovered from the bile of cats, suffering from feline cholangiohepatitis, were pathogenic for white mice.…”
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The clinical features and outcomes of diabetes patients infected with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis comprising 192,693 patients by Kai Liu, Shu Liu, Ting-ting Xu, Hong Qiao

“…Common comorbidities in the diabetic group were hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. We discovered that white blood cell count, neutrophil count, inflammatory marker levels, D-dimer, urea, precursor of the brain natriuretic peptide (Pro-BNP) increased and lymphocyte count, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), albumin decreased significantly in the diabetic group in laboratory test results. …”
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COVID-19 encephalopathy with severe neurological symptoms: a clinical case presentation with literature review by G. Baranauskienė, N. Tutlienė, G. Kaubrys

“…The MRI describes a spectrum of neurovisual abnormalities, the most common of which are foci of leukoencephalopathy, changes in diffusion restriction imaging in the white, rarely in the gray matter, signs of microhaemorrhage and leptomeningitis. …”
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Green synthesis of high-performance gallium oxide supercapacitor: A path to outstanding energy density by Jamal Alnofiay, Ahmed Al-Shahrie, Elsayed Shalaan

“…Gallium oxide (Ga2O3) powder was prepared by mixing hydrogen peroxide (30% H2O2) with pure gallium metal (99.999%) inside a hydrothermal cell. The resulting white powder was subjected to different characterization techniques. …”
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The inaccurate citation of the “Universal Declaration of Animal Rights” (UDAR) in the scientific literature: a scoping review by Alexandre Azevedo, Martin Whiting, Manuel Magalhães-Sant’Ana

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Bioenergy potential of Chlorella vulgaris under the influence of different light conditions in a bubble column photobioreactor by S. Dhanasekar, R. Sathyanathan

“…Additionally, the research findings focus on assessing the degradation of organic pollutants and biomass generation under different light conditions.METHODS: In this study, synthetic agrochemical wastewater was treated in a bubble column photobioreactor with blue, red, sunlight, and white light conditions. The treatment was conducted in a batch process with a hydraulic retention time of 21 days, using light intensity of 1800–2800 luminescence and a temperature maintained at 25–28° degrees Celsius.FINDINGS: Under different lighting conditions, the blue light condition exhibited a higher biomass concentration of 3.99 gram per liter, with an estimated heat energy value of 1.278 kilojoule per liter. …”
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