Characterization and Study of Gene Expression Profiles of Human Periodontal Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Spheroid Cultures by Transcriptome Analysis by Takenori Suga, Michihiko Usui, Satoru Onizuka, Kotaro Sano, Tsuyoshi Sato, Kohji Nakazawa, Wataru Ariyoshi, Tatsuji Nishihara, Keisuke Nakashima

“…To confirm the results of the transcriptome analysis, we performed real-time polymerase chain reaction and western blotting analyses. …”
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Calibrating the Color–Magnitude Relation of M Giants by Using Open Clusters by X. Y. Tang, C. J. Hao, J. Li, Z. Z. Yan, Y. Xu, J. Zhong, Z. H. Lin, Y. J. Li, D. J. Liu, L. F. Ding, X. F. Long

“…In this work, we aimed to achieve more accurate distance determination for M giants by focusing on open clusters (OCs) with a large number of member stars and thus improve the CMR. For the first time, we compiled a census of OCs harboring M giants using Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope Data Release 9. …”
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Feasibility and usefulness of Gini coefficients of primary care visits as a measure of service inequality: preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study using region-wide elect... by Xin Yang, Jing Chai, Jing Cheng, DeBin Wang, XingRong Shen, Rong Liu, ManMan Lu, Jia Xu, Ningjing Yang, Guocheng Li

“…While the observed GPVs for all causes witnessed: great inter-region variations, with the highest GPV being 4.38 times the lowest; a general decreasing trend over the 9-quarter period, being reduced by 18.48% on average; and atypical J-shaped trajectories along age groups for both sexes. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…While there has been a transformation of political power, giving Black South Africans a strong voice in the government, economic power remains in the hands of White South Africans and racial discrimination in housing and education continues. Although at one time I was among scholars who had hoped Black Reparations could deliver a much-needed Third Reconstruction, I would be remiss as a passionate supporter of Black Reparations for many decades to ignore the cold facts—reparations have never successfully reconstructed a society. …”
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Restructuring of small-scale constructed wetland systems and treatability of individual household wastewater through natural process by S. Mokatip, K. Chunkao, W. Wararam, S. Bualert, O. Phewnil, T. Pattamapitoon, N. Semvimol, P. Maskulrath, P. Rollap, S. Thaipakdee

“…The recommended hydraulic retention time is between 29 and 60 hours under anaerobic conditions and 3 days under aerobic conditions. …”
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Gambaran Perilaku Remaja Terhadap Penggunaan Earphone Pada Siswa SMA Negeri Kota Padang by Tiara Rahma Zain, Nirza Warto, Machdawaty Masri

“…A survey conducted by </em><em>American Speech Languageand Hearing Association (2006)</em><em> found that many teenagers use their personal audio device with maximum volume within a long time. This research aims to describe the teenager behavior in using earphone by taking case in high school student in Padang city. …”
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Thrombus composition and its implication in ischemic stroke assessment and revascularization treatments by Juan Marta-Enguita, Florencio J.D. Machado, Josune Orbe, Roberto Muñoz

“…However, other factors such as clot formation time, associated inflammatory status, or activation of additional immune and coagulation pathways (neutrophil extracellular trap [NET] delivery, platelet aggregation, endothelial activation, and von Willebrand Factor release) have been described as determinants in thrombus characteristics. …”
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Treatment efficacy for infantile epileptic spasms syndrome in children with trisomy 21 by Henry Chen, Henry Chen, Adam L. Numis, Adam L. Numis, Renée A. Shellhaas, John R. Mytinger, Debopam Samanta, Rani K. Singh, Rani K. Singh, Shaun A. Hussain, Danielle Takacs, Kelly G. Knupp, Li-Rong Shao, Carl E. Stafstrom

“…EEG improvement at three months was better for children treated with ACTH (74%) or oral corticosteroids (83%) than vigabatrin (20%; p = 0.048). Adjustment for time from epileptic spasms onset to treatment did not alter results.ConclusionsIn our cohort, epileptic spasms were the first presenting seizure type in all children with trisomy 21. …”
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Stratification system with dual human endogenous retroviruses for predicting immunotherapy efficacy in metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma by Li Xu, Stephane Oudard, Catherine Sautes-Fridman, Xiaoping Su, Gabriel G. Malouf, Virginie Verkarre, Salma Kotti, Fangrong Yan, Yann-Alexandre Vano, Wolf Herve Fridman, Cheng-Ming Sun, Xiaofan Lu, Wenxuan Cheng

“…Our primary objective was to correlate ERV expression with progression-free survival, with overall survival and time-to-second-treatment survival as secondary endpoints. …”
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Gender differences in robotic surgery for rectal cancer: A retrospective study by Muhammad Ali, Wei Wang, Liuhua Wang, Bin Liu, Jun Ren, Daorong Wang

“…While males had longer operative times (177 ​min vs. 160 ​min for females), this was not statistically significant. …”
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Les techniques de construction du second forum de Bavay (Nord) : utilisation, origine et datation des matériaux en terre cuite by Xavier Deru, Christine Louvion

“…On account of the considerable quantity of terracotta required, multiple suppliers were called upon, spread over the Meuse Valley, which led to a relative heterogeneity of materials, but reduced waiting time in line with the needs of the site. In addition, the Meuse workshops could avail of good communication routes as the Sambre, the main tributary of the Meuse, links Namur to Pont, where an agglomeration must have acted as a port for the town located less than 10 km away.Once the terracotta arrived on the construction site of Bavay, it had to be used in the colossal building project. …”
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Penerapan Metode Weighted Product (WP) Dalam Sistem Pendukung Keputusan Penerimaan Karyawan Pada Dewata Store Fakfak by Nelson Rumui, Nur Sakinah, Cahya Nur Rolan Niah, Fathurrahman Rumalutur

“…However, recruitment of Dewata Store Fakfak employees is still done manually where applicants still bring files directly and the company often has difficulties because of the large number of prospective employees so the recruitment process still takes a long time. Therefore, a decision support system is needed using a multi-criteria solution approach and the Weighted Product (WP) method, where many criteria need to be considered in employee selection. …”
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Trial protocol of an open-label pilot study of oral naltrexone–bupropion combination pharmacotherapy for the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder (the NABU trial) by Jonathan Brett, Paul S Haber, Nicholas Lintzeris, Didier Jutras-Aswad, Nadine Ezard, Brendan Clifford, Krista J Siefried, Adrian John Dunlop, Liam Acheson, Carl Moller, Michael Christmass, Kirsten Morley, Steven Shoptaw, Madhukar H Trivedi

“…Primary outcomes are safety (measured by treatment-emergent adverse events (AEs)/adverse reactions) and feasibility (measured by the time taken to recruit, the proportion of ineligible participants, retention in the study and study medication adherence). …”
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Acceptance and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy in Canada by Suraya Bondy, Elisabeth McClymont, Gal Av-Gay, Arianne Albert, Janice Andrade, Sandra Blitz, Ianna Folkes, Lucia Forward, Erin Fraser, Sela Grays, Jon Barrett, Julie Bettinger, Tali Bogler, Isabelle Boucoiran, Eliana Castillo, Rohan D’Souza, Darine El-Chaâr, Shaza Fadel, Verena Kuret, Gina S. Ogilvie, Vanessa Poliquin, Manish Sadarangani, Heather Scott, John W. Snelgrove, Modupe Tunde-Byass, Deborah Money

“…Of 1093 respondents who were pregnant at the time of the survey, 87.7% received or intended to receive a COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. …”
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DepRescribing inapprOpriate Proton Pump InhibiTors (DROPIT): study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Swiss primary care by Stefan Neuner-Jehle, Katharina Tabea Jungo, Sven Streit, Sven Trelle, Nicolas Rodondi, Carole Elodie Aubert, Kristie Rebecca Weir, Enriqueta Vallejo-Yagüe, Samantha Chan, Marie Roumet, Pascal Juillerat, Sofia Carolina Zambrano Ramos, Jennifer Inauen, Angela Edith Schulthess-Lisibach, Renata Vidonscky Lüthold, Clémentine Tombez, Martina Zangger, Flurina Jenal, Yvonne Mattmann, Christof Bieri, Michaela Barbier

“…Data will be collected at baseline, 3-, 6-, 9- and 12-month follow-up time through online surveys or a phone call for both GPs and participants.Primary and secondary outcome measures The first co-primary endpoint is the effectiveness of the deprescribing intervention measured by the change of prescribed PPI dose. …”
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Characterization of the Collagen Extraction Manufacturing Process Using Markov Chains and Artificial Neural Networks by Rosa Trasvina-Osorio, Sergio Alonso-Romero, Juan de Anda-Suarez, Valentin Calzada-Ledesma, Javier Yanez-Mendiola, Luis Fernando Villanueva-Jimenez, Erick Rojas-Mancera

“…The product of this research is a four-dimensional predictive model that estimates the yield with decreasing material, energy resources, and the time required for the collagen extraction process from the skin waste of tilapia. …”
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LoCS-Net: Localizing convolutional spiking neural network for fast visual place recognition by Ugur Akcal, Ugur Akcal, Ugur Akcal, Ivan Georgiev Raikov, Ekaterina Dmitrievna Gribkova, Ekaterina Dmitrievna Gribkova, Anwesa Choudhuri, Anwesa Choudhuri, Seung Hyun Kim, Mattia Gazzola, Rhanor Gillette, Rhanor Gillette, Ivan Soltesz, Girish Chowdhary, Girish Chowdhary, Girish Chowdhary

“…Still, training SOTA SNNs for VPR is often intractable on large and diverse datasets, and they typically demonstrate poor real-time operation performance. To address these shortcomings, we developed an end-to-end convolutional SNN model for VPR that leverages backpropagation for tractable training. …”
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One Year Duration of Immune Response Following a 3rd Booster Dose of mRNA Vaccine Against COVID‐19 in 292 Patients With Hematological Malignancies in University Hospital Ostrava, C... by Ondrej Šušol, Barbora Šušolová, Ondřej Klempíř, Milan Navrátil, Jaromír Gumulec, Zdeněk Kořístek, Juraj Ďuraš, Michal Kaščák, Jana Mihályová, Lukáš Stejskal, Tomáš Jelínek, Petra Richterová, Lenka Szeligová, Hana Plonková, Jana Zuchnická, Barbora Dluhošová, Ivo Demel, David Buffa, Katarína Hradská, Tereza Popková, Ludmila Muroňová, Martin Lachnit, Klára Lančová, Roman Hájek

“…We have seen better results if the time interval between anti‐CD20 therapy and additional vaccine dose was longer than 6 months (5/8 patients achieved seroconversion on 4th booster dose after previous failure). …”
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Coronavirus Disease 2019-Related Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ji-Gan Wang, Zhi-Juan Zhong, Meng Li, Jun Fu, Yu-Heng Su, You-Min Ping, Zi-Ji Xu, Hao Li, Yan-Hao Chen, Yu-Li Huang

“…PICU hospitalization and shock rates of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19 were high, and its cumulative multiorgans and inflammatory indicators are increased, but if treated in time, the mortality rate was low.…”
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The Global RAdical Cystectomy Evaluation and Management (GRACEM) pathway: single‐centre prospective observational cohort study protocol by Bruno Bernardini, Federico Piccioni, Manuele Pastore, Paolo Casale, NicolòMaria Buffi, Giovanni Lughezzani, Massimo Lazzeri, Alberto Saita, Maria Vittoria Fantacci, Stefano Mancon, Filipo Dagnino, Roberto Contieri, Pietro Brin, Stefano Mancin, Andrea Gobbo, Maria Rosaria Martucci, Giovanna Cerina, Sara Ghirmai, Ezio Lanza, Giulia Goretti, Giorgio Ferruccio Guazzoni, Rodolfoi Hurle

“…The purpose of the study is to determine whether a multifaceted prevention programme that tailors interventions to the syndromic components of frailty can improve postoperative morbidity and recovery time for patients. New insights will be gained into how to optimize the physical and mental status and quality of life of patients before and after surgery, up to 1 year later. …”
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