Nutritional characterization of Larrea divaricata Cav during winter and its potential as cattle and goats feed by María Rosana Ramirez, Jorge A. Oyhenart, Leandro Mohamad, Ignacio Rintoul

“…Highlights: • Larrea divaricatacan be an effective complement for winter-feeding beef cattle and goats in arid and semi-arid regions…”
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Predicting Time to First Rejection Episode in Lung Transplant Patients Using a Comprehensive Multi-Indicator Model by Chen Y, Li E, Yang Q, Chang Z, Yu B, Lu J, Wu H, Zheng P, Cheng ZJ, Sun B

“…Six laboratory indicators—Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time, IL-10, estimated intrapulmonary shunt, 50% Hemolytic Complement, IgA, and Complement Component 3—were identified as significant predictors and integrated into the riskScore. …”
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Endogenous Intoxication in Pulmonary Complications in Patients with Severe Brain Injury by N. N. Yepifantseva, T. I. Borshchikova, Yu. A. Churlyaev, D. G. Dantsiger, N. V. Nikiforova, L. G. Kheringson

“…The good predictor of the course of pneumonia is an increase in complement C4 levels up to over 0.4 g/l after day 7 and a reduction in LII to less than 3 relative units. …”
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THE EFFICIENCY OF BIOLOGICAL THERAPY AND THE FEATURES OF HUMORAL IMMUNITY IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS by A. A. Mesnyankina, S. K. Solovyev, E. A. Aseeva, E. L. Nasonov

“…At the same time, there was a progressive decrease in the levels of anti-double-stranded DNA (ds-DNA) antibodies (Abs) and an increase in the concentration of the complement fractions C3 and C4 in the RTM and RTM+BLM groups (p < 0.05) at one-year follow-up. …”
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Trastuzumab in early curative breast cancer: A target trial emulation benchmarked against two randomized clinical trials. by Vanessa Voelskow, Xabier Garcia-Albeniz, Anita Berglund, Maria Feychting, Tobias Kurth, Anthony A Matthews

“…<h4>Background</h4>Benchmarking an observational analysis against a randomized trial can increase confidence in the use of observational data to complement inferences made in trials. Until now, few examples of benchmarking have been within oncology. …”
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Uso de resumos e palavras-chave em Ciências Sociais: uma avaliação <p> (English) The use of abstracts and keywords in Social Sciences: an evaluation by Aline Lima Gonçalves

“…The results showed that the Brazilian social scientistis perfer descriptive abstracts, and that, in spite of the lack of standards, the keywords they supply can be used as a complement to the abstracts, and as indicators of interdisciplinary relations. …”
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Vaccine Potential and Diversity of the Putative Cell Binding Factor (CBF, NMB0345/NEIS1825) Protein of Neisseria meningitidis. by María Victoria Humbert, Miao-Chiu Hung, Renee Phillips, Charlene Akoto, Alison Hill, Wei-Ming Tan, John Edward Heckels, Myron Christodoulides

“…Murine antisera to rCBF in Zw 3-14 micelles + MPLA induced significant serum bactericidal activity (SBA) against homologous Allele 1 and heterologous Allele 18 strains, using both baby rabbit serum complement and human serum complement (h)SBA assays, but did not kill strains expressing heterologous protein encoded by Alelle 2 or 3. …”
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Identification of unique biomarkers for proliferative diabetic retinopathy with tractional retinal detachment by proteomics profiling of vitreous humor by Yuyan Liu, Rongjie Wei, Yong Tang, Shuo Sun, Wei Zhang, Yu Zhou, Zhenhua Pan, Quanhong Han, Xiujuan Zhao, Yanhua Chu

“…Bioinformatics analysis showed that DEPs is mainly enriched in the complement, the coagulation cascade systems and regulation of actin cytoskeleton. …”
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Measuring plasma C4D to monitor immune complexes in lupus nephritis by Tineke Kraaij, Sara C. Nilsson, Cees van Kooten, Marcin Okrój, Anna M Blom, YK Onno Teng

“…Additionally, changes in C4d:C4 over time correlated strongly with changes in proteinuria (R=0.59, p&lt;0.001) as well as anti-dsDNA (R=0.46, p=0.003) and anti-C1q (R=0.47, p=0.002).Conclusion In patients with severe SLE, plasma C4d levels in relation to C4 levels is useful for longitudinal monitoring after RTX+BLM treatment to reflect amelioration of classical complement activation by ICx as well as proteinuria.…”
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Regions of existence and uniqueness for singular two-point boundary value problems by Shih-Hsiang Chang

“…These existence and uniqueness results are constructive and complement the existing results. Four examples including some engineering problems are given to illustrate the applicability of the proposed approach. …”
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SPECIFIC FEATURES OF MACAULAY DURATION DEPENDENCE ON PERIOD TO REDEMPTION by Natalia V. Popova

“…The results allow to clarify the dependence of Macaulay duration of the period to maturity and complement the theory of financial investments in fixed income.…”
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Sharp bounds for the second Zagreb index and co-index under trees of given conditions by Ziyang Zhao, Zunzheng Chen

“…They are defined as [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively, where [Formula: see text] is the complement of G and [Formula: see text] is the degree of a vertex u in G. …”
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Andrzej Wajda. Sketcher by Bogna Dziechciaruk-Maj

“…These constitute an important element of how he expressed himself, they are a way to record reality, and complement his work as a director superbly. These sketches were presented on many occasions in exhibitions in Poland and abroad. …”
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Existence and Uniqueness of Globally Attractive Positive Almost Periodic Solution in a Predator-Prey Dynamic System with Beddington-DeAngelis Functional Response by Wenquan Wu

“…The main results in this paper extend, complement, and improve the previously known result. …”
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On the Minimal Polynomials and the Inverses of Multilevel Scaled Factor Circulant Matrices by Zhaolin Jiang

“…Finally, an algorithm for computing the inverse of partitioned matrix with level-k scaled factor circulant matrix blocks over any field is given by using the Schur complement, which can be realized by CoCoA 4.0, an algebraic system, over the field of rational numbers or the field of residue classes of modulo prime number.…”
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Risky Choices by Claudia Rozas Gómez

“…To explore these ideas, I use interview data from ten secondary English teachers in the wider Auckland region. I complement Foucault’s (1982) explanation of governmentality with Ball, Maguire, and Braun’s (2012) notion of policy enactment to explore spaces of both compliance and resistance. …”
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Process mining in mHealth data analysis by Michael Winter, Berthold Langguth, Winfried Schlee, Rüdiger Pryss

“…Abstract This perspective article explores how process mining can extract clinical insights from mobile health data and complement data-driven techniques like machine learning. …”
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Category membership and category potential: The case of vague because by Martin Konvička

“…I show that three types of because can be distinguished based on syntactic criteria. Depending on the complement of the connector, because can be used as a conjunction, as a preposition, and as a member of a third category. …”
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Risky Choices – Autonomy and Surveillance in Secondary English Classrooms by Claudia Rozas Gómes

“…To explore these ideas, I use interview data from ten secondary English teachers in the wider Auckland region. I complement Foucault’s (1982) explanation of governmentality with Ball, Maguire, and Braun’s (2012) notion of policy enactment to explore spaces of both compliance and resistance. …”
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Statistics for Human Biologist - Introduction by Detlef Groth

“…The review series should be seen as a complement to the summer school lectures of the International Summer School of the University of Potsdam in Gülpe in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. …”
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