Comprehensive guide for epigenetics and transcriptomics data quality control by Arianna Comendul, Frederique Ruf-Zamojski, Colby T. Ford, Pankaj Agarwal, Elena Zaslavsky, German Nudelman, Manoj Hariharan, Aliza Rubenstein, Hanna Pincas, Venugopalan D. Nair, Adam M. Michaleas, Philip D. Fremont-Smith, Darrell O. Ricke, Stuart C. Sealfon, Christopher W. Woods, Kajal T. Claypool, Rafael Jaimes, III

“…The interrogation of the epigenome and transcriptome cascade requires analyzing disparate datasets from multiple assay types, often at single-cell resolution, derived from the same biospecimen. …”
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Estándar de prueba en controversias por omisión tributaria by Miguel Ángel Zumba Barbosa

“…El planteamiento de este artículo es que, para que una hipótesis de omisión sea confirmada, deberán cumplirse las dos condiciones que exige el estándar 3 sugerido por Ferrer, es decir: (i) la hipótesis debe ser capaz de explicar los datos disponibles y predecir nuevos, con las pruebas que soporten esas predicciones; y, (ii) se debe refutar la hipótesis alternativa, si es plausible y compatible con la ausencia de responsabilidad del contribuyente, siempre que esté respaldada por pruebas que aporten algún grado de confirmación. …”
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Building a diverse national research advisory board by Gayle Valensky, Jeff B. Pawelek, Lauren Serpico, David Rodriguez, Maribel Pieters, Yulissa Perez, Julia Moore Vogel

“…It is crucial to include individuals from diverse backgrounds on community advisory boards for healthcare and medical research to address ongoing health disparities and ensure studies are more culturally competent so that we can achieve more inclusive representation. …”
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Levelling up leadership: Harnessing gamification to cultivate soft skills in Italian and Portuguese master's students by Valeria Caggiano, Antonio Ragusa, Susana Moreiro Bastos

“…The results demonstrate significant enhancements in communication, strategic decision-making, and conflict-resolution skills following participation, with no discernible gender disparities. Additionally, the study delves into the differing emphasis on interpersonal skills within the educational frameworks of Italian and Portuguese institutions, highlighting opportunities for cross-border knowledge exchange and the sharing of best practices. …”
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Pathways for Social Equity: An Audit of Bureaucratic Representation, Diversity, and Cultural Competency in Florida Nursing Homes by Austin M. McCrea, Kenicia Wright, Xiaoyang Xu, Noah Pruitt

“…As a concept, social equity is comprised of several disparate concepts including representative bureaucracy, diversity management, and cultural competency, each focusing on a specific function necessary for achieving equitable processes, outputs, and outcomes. …”
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Successful Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment in a Case of Generalized Dystonia due to a Novel ANO3 Mutation by Lizl Lasky, Lindsay Bliss, Christos Sidiropoulos

“…Ongoing adjustment of stimulation settings and medications led to good and sustained dystonia control; however the patient did suffer short term relapses, manifested as dystonic crisis, which necessitated inpatient admission. …”
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New belief divergence measure based on cosine function in evidence theory and application to multisource information fusion by Xiaoyang Liu, Cheng Xie, Zhe Liu, Sijia Zhu

“…The proposed measure, which incorporates the cosine function and pignistic probability transformation, is adept at quantifying the disparity between the evidences while maintaining key properties, such as boundedness, non-degeneracy and symmetry. …”
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La explotación de la sal en el Alto Imperio romano: fiscalidad, propiedad y gestión by Antonio Rodríguez Fernández, Brais X. Currás Refojos

“…Para ello se realiza un análisis integrado de las fuentes epigráficas, arqueológicas, literarias y jurídicas disponibles con el fin de conocer a quién pertenecía la propiedad de las salinas, cómo se gestionó su explotación y cómo se fiscalizó esta actividad en las diferentes zonas y periodos de época romana. …”
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Intracranial Pressure Monitoring: Invasive versus Non-Invasive Methods—A Review by P. H. Raboel, J. Bartek, M. Andresen, B. M. Bellander, B. Romner

“…This paper aims to provide an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of the most common and well-known methods as well as assess whether noninvasive techniques (transcranial Doppler, tympanic membrane displacement, optic nerve sheath diameter, CT scan/MRI and fundoscopy) can be used as reliable alternatives to the invasive techniques (ventriculostomy and microtransducers). …”
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Impact of global warming in Latin America. There is much to do! by Ghiuliana Godo Vitate, Melissa Hernandez-Acapana, Brayan Flores Arandia, José Vela Ruíz, Ricardo Lama Morales

“…This review article aims to detail the effects of global warming on human health in Latin America, exploring how high temperatures, extreme weather events and air pollution affect physical and mental well-being; their influence in different countries is compared and the present disparities are highlighted. It was found that climate change has had a notable impact on the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of several diseases. …”
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Poverty alleviation through cross-sectoral approaches: solutions to accelerate coastal community economy by Almasdi Syahza, Dahlan Tampubolon, Brilliant Asmit, Mitri Irianti

“…Findings indicate that coastal communities face economic challenges due to limited infrastructure, low soil fertility, and rural development disparities. A cross-sectoral approach is advocated, encompassing rural economic development, social progress, cultural development, education, community empowerment, and essential service enhancement. …”
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El ábside mayor de la catedral románica de Girona: una reconstrucción virtual para la recuperación del patrimonio perdido by Antonio Ledesma, Marc Sureda I Jubany, Gerardo Boto Varela

“…La restitución tiene como objetivo la reflexión científica sobre las artes del altar y la configuración espacial y decorativa de los escenarios litúrgicos en el contexto del arte románico catalán (siglos XI-XIII), a través del estudio de este espacio concreto, de las diferentes posibilidades restitutivas a partir de los datos disponibles y del debate crítico a su entorno. Además, permite transitar sobre otras cuestiones tocantes al ámbito de las Humanidades Digitales.…”
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A Systematic Review of Wave Speed and Wave Intensity Measures in the Human Carotid Arteries by Sandra Neumann, Kim H. Parker, Alun D. Hughes, Giovanni Biglino

“…From this review, the different methods of measurement and the disparity of the reported values currently hinder efforts to construct reference ranges for a comparator or intervention to be assessed.…”
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The Non-Existent May Cycle: Methods, Colonial Texts and Epigraphy by Péter Bíró

“…Emphasising methodological issues of translations and interpretations of Colonial and pre-Hispanic texts and re-analysing several Chilam Balam passages, I suggest that Edmonson’s translation of the relevant sentences are incorrect. …”
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Technology usage and glycaemic outcomes in a single tertiary centre with an ethnically diverse and socioeconomically deprived cohort of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus by India Dickinson, Ankita Gupta, Gar Mun Lau, Pranav Viswanath Iyer, John Stuart Pemberton, Suma Uday, Suma Uday

“…BackgroundThe UK National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) data reports disparities in Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels among children and young people (CYP) with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), with higher levels in those of Black ethnic background and lower socioeconomic status who have less access to technology. …”
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Determinants of poor access to health care among women of reproductive age in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study by Augustus Osborne, Peter Bai James, Camilla Bangura

“…Despite improvements in national healthcare coverage, disparities persist, with women of reproductive age, especially those in rural areas and lower socio-economic brackets, experiencing significant barriers to accessing essential services. …”
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Des vides et des pleins by Marie Seguedy, Stéphane Péan, Marylène Patou-Mathis, Zsolt Mester

“…Nous faisons ici le point sur les données archéologiques disponibles pour le Paléolithique moyen et supérieur dans le bassin des Carpates entre 130 et 10 ka BP avec l’aide d’une base de données. …”
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Sociodemographic index–age differences in the global prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, 1990–2019: a population-based study by Xunliang Li, Channa Zhao, Mengqian Liu, Wenman Zhao, Haifeng Pan, Deguang Wang

“…Conclusions This study highlights significant disparities in CVD prevalence across sociodemographic and age groups. …”
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Thyroid cancer survival and prognostic factors in Yantai, China (2012–2022): a population-based study by Haiyun Liu, Shuxia Zhang, Xiaohui Liu, Qianqian Wang, Hongjie Zhang, Weihong Cui

“…Abstract Background Although thyroid cancer is associated with low mortality rates, significant racial disparities in thyroid cancer outcomes have not been adequately studied in Asia. …”
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Problem of pain in the USA: evaluating the generalisability of high-impact chronic pain models over time using National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data by Sean Mackey, Titilola Falasinnu, Md Belal Hossain, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Kenneth Arnold Weber

“…Subgroup-specific performance varied, with the lowest AUC among adults aged ≥65 years (0.81, 95% CI 0.78 to 0.82) and the highest among Hispanic respondents (0.91, 95% CI 0.88 to 0.94). Model calibration was generally robust, although underfitting was observed for Hispanic respondents (calibration slope: 1.31). …”
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