Selective Determinants of Low Bone Mineral Mass in Adult Women with Anorexia Nervosa by Andrea Trombetti, Laura Richert, François R. Herrmann, Thierry Chevalley, Jean-Daniel Graf, René Rizzoli

“…Weight and BMI, but not height, as well as bone mineral content and density, but not area and geometry parameters, were lower in patients with anorexia nervosa as compared with the control group. …”
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Energy saving proactive neighbor discovery algorithm in mobile low-duty-cycle wireless sensor network by Junbin LIANG, Xiang ZHOU, Taoshen LI

“…Mobile low-duty-cycle wireless sensor network is a new kind of wireless multi-hop network,which is self-organized by a large number of nodes that have mobile ability and are able to get into sleep for a long time.Such networks have wide application prospects in national defense,industry,agriculture and other fields that need long term monitoring in severe environments.However,the movement and the sleeping features of nodes lead to constantly change of network topology,which makes the nodes difficult to discover their neighbors quickly.Therefore,the nodes cannot achieve optimal distribution decisions.In order to solve this problem,a new proactive neighbor discovery algorithm was proposed.This algorithm made the nodes in the network take the initiative to find their neighbors when they woke up,and avoided the delay caused by long time waiting in the traditional passive neighbor discovery.In addition,by predicting the movement speed and distance of neighbors,the neighbor set at the next moment can be quickly determined,which can further reduce the delay and obtain more accurate neighbor discovery results.Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that compared with the existing algorithms,the algorithm can find all the neighbors in MLDC-WSN with less energy consumption and lower delay.…”
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A novel necroptosis-related gene signature predicts the prognosis and immunotherapeutic response in breast cancer through immune infiltration by Dezhi Lu, Sifang Qiu, Zhiqiang Zeng

“…High NecroptosisScore were correlated with lower tumor mutation burden (TMB), and higher PD-1/CTLA4 expression. …”
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Characterizing absolutely irreducible integer-valued polynomials over discrete valuation domains by Hiebler, Moritz, Nakato, Sarah, Roswitha,Rissner

“…Additionally, we provide other (larger) lower bounds for k, one of which only depends on the valuation of the denominator of F and the size of the residue class field of R.…”
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Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) for Sustainable Agriculture Nexus: A Tool for Transforming Food Systems by Turyasingura, Benson, Ayiga, Natal, Tumwesigye, Wycliffe, James, Philip Hegarty

“…It was found that CSA and SA are also related in a way that the latter leads to lowering greenhouse gas emissions hence mitigating climate change. …”
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Marketing Strategies and Organization Performance: A Case Study of Rukiga SACCO Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Ainebyoona, Jacob

“…The study recommends that community members be organized in cooperative unions or associations to easily acquire certain services or help from the SACCOs such as getting loans at lower interest.…”
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Instructional materials and pupils’ reading skills in primary schools in Serere town council, eastern Uganda. by Edoru, John Michael, Ijangu, Dinah.

“…I.M.S therefore, are of great importance for the teaching and learning of reading in primary schools especially at lower levels of education. The researchers therefore recommend that Primary school teachers should embrace the use of I.M.S, to develop the reading skills of pupils in primary schools.…”
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Injectable Tumoricidal Neural Stem Cell-Laden Hydrogel for Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme—An In Vivo Safety, Persistence, and Efficacy Study by Jasmine L. King, Alain Valdivia, Shawn D. Hingtgen, S. Rahima Benhabbour

“…GBM recurrence was significantly slower in mice treated with iNSC-laden CS hydrogels with a 50% increase in overall median survival in comparison to iNSCs (cell injection) only. …”
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SMYD3 drives cell cycle and epithelial-mesenchymal transition pathways through dual gene transcriptional repression and activation in HPV-negative head and neck cancer by Madhavi Murali, Abbas Saeed, Sohyoung Kim, Kyunghee Burkitt, Hui Cheng, Arfa Moshiri, Jawad Akhtar, Daniel Tsai, Marie Luff, Baktiar Karim, Vassiliki Saloura

“…Accordingly, xenografts of SMYD3 knockout tumors derived from a human HPV-negative HNSCC cell line grew significantly slower compared to control tumors in mice. Genome-wide mapping for SMYD3 and H3K4me3 in HPV-negative HNSCC cells using cleavage under targets and release using nuclease (CUT&RUN) assays identified direct downstream gene targets regulated by SMYD3, including cell cycle- and EMT-promoting genes. …”
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Sensitivity of Awaji Criteria and Revised El Escorial Criteria in the Diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) at First Visit in a Tunisian Cohort by Bademain Jean Fabrice Ido, Imen Kacem, Mahamadi Ouedraogo, Amina Nasri, Saloua Mrabet, Amina Gargouri, Mouna Ben Djebara, Bawindsongré Jean Kabore, Riadh Gouider

“…Our Tunisian cohort was characterized by a slower disease progression. The sensitivity of the AC (69.4%) was significantly higher than that of the rEEC (40.5%) (p < 0.001). …”
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Design and characterization of curcumin-loaded electrospun nanofibers based on poly(vinyl alcohol) and sodium alginate by Delia Mihaela Raţă, Anca Niculina Cadinoiu, Luiza Mădălina Grădinaru, Paul Codrin Fuioaga, Gabriela Vochita, Christelle Delaite, Leonard Ionuţ Atanase

“…In the first 6 h, there was a slower release of CRC from the nanofibers in both acidic and slightly alkaline environments. …”
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Study on Mechanism of Influence of Mining Speed on Roof Movement Based on Microseismic Monitoring by Ke Ma, Su-jian Wang, Fu-zhen Yuan, Yi-lin Peng, Shi-min Jia

“…During the analysis period of roof pressure, the concentrated release of microseismic energy in the faster stage is 183% of that in the slower stage. The increase of large moment magnitude event frequency leads to the decrease of b value. …”
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Comparative efficacy of chemical peels and laser treatments in melasma: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Ingyu Lee, SeoWon Kang, JinHan Lee, Hyungin Cho, Ki Won Lee, Dongkeun Lim

“…Chemical peels, though slower, are safer for patients prone to adverse effects. …”
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Smoke control and temperature distribution of tunnel fires under longitudinal ventilation combined with shaft exhaust by Xinyue Zhang, Weiling Ma, Liangliang Tao, Yanhua Zeng, Yumin Wen

“…The high-temperature flue gas collects and forms a vortex near the vent under the LVSE mode, which makes the temperature decay rate slower than that when only longitudinal ventilation is used. …”
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Impact Angle Control of Local Intense dB/dt Variations During Shock‐Induced Substorms by Denny M. Oliveira, James M. Weygand, Eftyhia Zesta, Chigomezyo M. Ngwira, Michael D. Hartinger, Zhonghua Xu, Barbara L. Giles, Daniel J. Gershman, Marcos V. D. Silveira, Vítor M. Souza

“…Strong field‐aligned currents computed with the spherical elementary current system (SECS) technique occur in both cases, but the current variations resulting from the inclined shock impact are weaker and slower compared to the nearly frontal case. SECS analyses also reveal that geographic areas with dB/dt surpassing the thresholds 1.5 and 5 nT/s, usually linked to high‐risk GICs, are larger and occur earlier due to the symmetric compression caused by the nearly head‐on impact. …”
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Pore Space Reconstruction of Shale Using Improved Variational Autoencoders by Yi Du, Hongyan Tu, Ting Zhang

“…Compared to some traditional methods, although this proposed method is slower in the first reconstruction, it is much faster in the subsequent reconstructions due to the reuse of the parameters. …”
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Aging of Cross-Linked Polyethylene Insulation Cable Lines by I. V. Oleksyuk

“…In fact, cables are operated at temperatures below the long-term permissible values, and, therefore, the aging of the insulation is slower, and the actual service life will be longer than the standard. …”
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Context modulates evidence accumulation in split-second handball penalty decisions by Henrietta Weinberg, Florian Müller, Rouwen Cañal-Bruland

“…Vice versa, incongruent context information resulted in slower evidence accumulation. By contrast, non-decision time was only affected by the mere presence of contextual information (i.e., longer with context information). …”
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The neurohormone tyramine stimulates the secretion of an insulin-like peptide from the Caenorhabditis elegans intestine to modulate the systemic stress response. by Tania Veuthey, Jeremy T Florman, Sebastián Giunti, Stefano Romussi, María José De Rosa, Mark J Alkema, Diego Rayes

“…Here, we show that the ILP, insulin-3 (INS-3), plays a crucial role in modulating the response to various environmental stressors in C. elegans. ins-3 mutants display increased resistance to heat, oxidative stress, and starvation; however, this advantage is countered by slower reproductive development under favorable conditions. …”
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Role of SOCS2 in the Regulation of Immune Response and Development of the Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis by Allysson Cramer, Bruno Cabral de Lima Oliveira, Paulo Gaio Leite, David Henrique Rodrigues, Fatima Brant, Lisia Esper, Pollyana Maria Oliveira Pimentel, Rafael Machado Rezende, Milene Alvarenga Rachid, Antonio Lucio Teixeira, Ana Maria Caetano Faria, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Fabiana Simão Machado

“…The development of the acute phase was slower in onset in SOCS2-/- mice and was associated with reduced number of Th1 (CD3+CD4+IFN-γ+) cells in the spinal cord and brain. …”
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