South to south collaboration: advancing quality of abortion care through health care professionals exchange program by Abraham Fessehaye Sium, Wondimu Gudu, Abrham Getachew, Diomede Ntasumbumuyange, Polyphile Nithinyurwa, Tamrat Endale Woldemichael, Delayehu Bekele

“…From the Ethiopian side, the overall score for knowledge and attitude, and intent to practice demonstration were 81.3, 83.4%. Essentially, they expressed that it allowed them to inspire Rwandese counterparts on the importance of women’s reproductive rights and implementation of global best practice (89%). …”
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Verification of Lactobacillus brevis tolerance to simulated gastric juice and the potential effects of postbiotic gamma-aminobutyric acid in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice by Amro Abdelazez, Heba Abdelmotaal, Smith Etareri Evivie, Maha Bikheet, Rokayya Sami, Hassan Mohamed, Xiangchen Meng

“…ContSTZ had the highest average glucose level (6.84 ± 6.46) mmol/L while INSSTZ expressed dramatically decreed in glucose level and displayed a significant decline in the average of weekly blood glucose (−5.74 ± 3.08) mmol/L. …”
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Acceptability of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in Papua New Guinea: a qualitative stu... by Elvin Lufele, Sophie Pascoe, Alice Mengi, Alma Auwun, Nalisa Neuendorf, John W. Bolnga, Moses Laman, Stephen J. Rogerson, Kamala Thriemer, Holger W. Unger

“…Transcripts were analysed using inductive and deductive thematic analysis applying a framework assessing: affective attitude, burden, ethicality, intervention coherence, opportunity costs, perceived effectiveness, and self-efficacy. Results Women expressed positive feelings and attitudes towards SP plus DP/DP-placebo; reported limited side effects; and found the size, number, colour, and taste of study medicines acceptable. …”
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A novel protein encoded by porcine circANKRD17 activates the PPAR pathway to regulate intramuscular fat metabolism by Xiao He, Fang Xie, Ying Nie, Xuefeng Wang, Junyi Luo, Ting Chen, Qianyun Xi, Yongliang Zhang, Jiajie Sun

“…Using single-cell sequencing, we identified 477 differentially expressed genes in IMF cells between Lantang and Landrace piglets, with enrichment in the PPAR signaling pathway. …”
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Plasma C1q/TNF-Related Protein-9 Levels Are Associated with Atherosclerosis in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes without Renal Dysfunction by Mariko Asada, Tomoaki Morioka, Yuko Yamazaki, Yoshinori Kakutani, Reina Kawarabayashi, Koka Motoyama, Katsuhito Mori, Shinya Fukumoto, Atsushi Shioi, Tetsuo Shoji, Masanori Emoto, Masaaki Inaba

“…C1q/tumor necrosis factor-related protein-9 (CTRP9), a paralog of adiponectin, is expressed in adipose tissue. CTRP9 exerts protective effects against obesity and atherosclerosis in rodents. …”
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Circulating miRNA-486 as a novel diagnostic biomarker for right ventricular remodeling by Huiling Cai, Huiling Cai, Cheng Yu, Xiuchuan Li, Xuenan Wang, Xuenan Wang, Yongjian Yang, Yongjian Yang, Yongjian Yang, Cong Lan, Cong Lan

“…High-throughput miRNA sequencing of serum samples was performed to profile differentially-expressed miRNAs (dif-miRNAs) and preliminarily screen candidate miRNAs. …”
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Conception of a mobile health application targeting early postoperative physiotherapeutic care after total knee replacement, a qualitative study by Hassan Tarek Hakam, Hassan Tarek Hakam, Hassan Tarek Hakam, Nikolai Ramadanov, Nikolai Ramadanov, Awda Garzuzi, Mikhail Salzmann, Mikhail Salzmann, Hannes Hofmann, Hannes Hofmann, Felix Muehlensiepen, Felix Muehlensiepen, Roland Becker, Roland Becker, Robert Prill, Robert Prill, Robert Prill

“…Elements of different PT programs were incorporated and quadriceps strengthening exercises were included. application was composed based on the findings of the reviewed literature and then subsequently modified to incorporate the expert's suggestions. Experts mainly expressed concerns regarding the safety of patients during unsupervised physical therapy as well as the safety of the recorded data. …”
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Predictive factors of fibrotic interstitial lung abnormality on high-resolution computed tomography scans: a prospective observational study by Kazuya Ichikado, Hidenori Ichiyasu, Kazuhiro Iyonaga, Kodai Kawamura, Yuko Yasuda, Keisuke Anan, Hiroko Okabayashi, Kimitaka Akaike, Noritaka Higashi, Takeshi Johkoh, Kiminori Fujimoto, Tetsuo Saito, Jun Morinaga, Minoru Yoshida, Katsuhiko Mitsuzaki, Takuro Sakagami

“…Clinical laboratory evaluations are expressed as medians and interquartile ranges for each evaluation time point, and boxplots were created for graphical representation. …”
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CD4 T cell depletion increases memory differentiation of endogenous and CAR T cells and enhances the efficacy of Super2 and IL-33-armored CAR T cells against solid tumors by Chrystal Paulos, Mary Jo Turk, Megen C Wittling, Yina H Huang, Asmaa O Mohamed, David Tyler Boone, Shannon L Ferry, Melanie C Peck, Alicia M Santos, Haille E Soderholm

“…Unarmored CAR T cells expressed a stem-like phenotype in the tumor-draining lymph node and differentiated into CAR TCIRC memory cells in lymphoid organs and CAR TRM cells in the skin. …”
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Automedicación en trabajadores de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Cienfuegos by Maira Quiros Enríquez, Diana Rosa Fernández Ruíz, Olga Lidia Cuevas Pérez, Pedro Miguel Milián Vázquez, Belkis Barrios Romero, Teresa Martínez Barroso

“…Las variables más importantes estudiadas fueron: edad, sexo, nivel educacional, antecedentes patológicos personales, automedicación, grupos farmacológicos utilizados y aprobación de la automedicación, las cuales fueron procesadas y sus resultados se expresan en números y porcientos.<br /> <strong>Resultados</strong>: la mayoría de los trabajadores se han automedicado al menos una vez en su vida, predominando las mujeres entre los 40 y 49 años de edad, universitarias. …”
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CODE-ACCORD: A Corpus of building regulatory data for rule generation towards automatic compliance checking by Hansi Hettiarachchi, Amna Dridi, Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Pouyan Parsafard, Nicoleta Bocaneala, Katja Breitenfelder, Gonçal Costa, Maria Hedblom, Mihaela Juganaru-Mathieu, Thamer Mecharnia, Sumee Park, He Tan, Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil, Edlira Vakaj

“…Only the self-contained sentences, which express complete rules without needing additional context, were considered as they are essential for ACC. …”
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Cadophora species from marine glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: an example of unsuspected hidden biodiversity by Bingqian Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, Guojie Li, Qi-Ming Wang, Manman Wang

“…Among the new species, only C. inflata produces holoblastic conidia and all the others express phialidic conidiogenesis. All isolates have optimum growth temperature at 20 °C or 25 °C. …”
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Identification of Potential Clusters of Signs and Symptoms to Prioritize Patients’ Eligibility for AADCd Screening by 3-OMD Testing: An Italian Delphi Consensus by Carlotta Spagnoli, Roberta Battini, Filippo Manti, Duccio Maria Cordelli, Andrea Pession, Melissa Bellini, Andrea Bordugo, Gaetano Cantalupo, Antonella Riva, Pasquale Striano, Marco Spada, Francesco Porta, Carlo Fusco

“…Fourteen steering committee members invited a panel of 29 Italian experts to express their opinions on a series of crucial but controversial topics related to using 3-OMD DBS as a screening method in AADCd. …”
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Online learning: Attitudes of Russian students by D. V. Rudenkin

“…Although many of them are really accustomed to actively using the Internet in their daily lives, most of them do not express real demand for using of it into the learning process.Scientific novelty. …”
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CHATGPT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT: EXPLORING EFL INSTRUCTORS’ EXPERIENCE by Inna Zaiarna, Olena Zhyhadlo, Olha Dunaievska

“…Despite acknowledging the tool's benefits, respondents express reservations about ChatGPT-generated tasks’ accuracy for assessment purposes. …”
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Pleiotropic effects of mutant huntingtin on retinopathy in two mouse models of Huntington's disease by Hui Xu, Anakha Ajayan, Ralf Langen, Jeannie Chen

“…Defects in retinal structure and function are also present in the R6/2 and R6/1 HD transgenic mouse models that contain a gene fragment to express mHTTex1. We investigated whether these defects extend to the zQ175KI mouse model which is thought to be more representative of the human condition because it was engineered to contain the extended CAG repeat within the endogenous HTT locus. …”
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Drug Screening of Flavonoids as Potential VEGF Inhibitors Through Computational Docking and Cell Models by Shengying Lin, Roy Wai-Lun Tang, Yutong Ye, Chenxi Xia, Jiahui Wu, Ran Duan, Ka-Wing Leung, Tina Ting-Xia Dong, Karl Wah-Keung Tsim

“…Three flavonoids, namely, farrerol, ononin and (−)-epicatechin, were shown to express binding affinities to VEGF protein and inhibit VEGF-mediated biological activities. …”
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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TOWARDS OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES by Liezel G. Mohillo, Angie R. Jalandoon, Dave E. Marcial

“…In terms of reuse, revise, remix, and redistribution, the respondents express a tendency to rarely engage in these practices at our school, with mean scores ranging from 5.31 to 5.75. …”
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The Managers' Perceptions of Telework Implementation Requirements in the Algerian Companies: A Post Covid-19 Assessment by Riad BENGHEBRID

“…Design/Method/Approach: We opted for an essentially qualitative approach field by conducting semi-structured interviews individually with 11 company managers from different sectors of activity in order for the interviewee to feel sufficiently free and to have as much transparency and credibility as possible, and to obtain in-depth information that is difficult to express quantitatively or statistically, with diversity of the sample in terms of (age, professional experience, sector of activity, legal form etc.). …”
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Mast Cell-Derived Exosomes Promote Th2 Cell Differentiation via OX40L-OX40 Ligation by Fei Li, Yuping Wang, Lihui Lin, Juan Wang, Hui Xiao, Jia Li, Xia Peng, Huirong Dai, Li Li

“…Further, bone marrow-derived mast cells (BMMCs) constitutively release exosomes, which express CD63 and OX40L. BMMC-exosomes partially promoted the proliferation of CD4+ T cells. …”
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