Comparison of IgA Endomysium Antibody and IgA Tissue Transglutaminase Antibody in Celiac Disease by Helen R Gillett, Hugh J Freeman

“…Titres in the treated group were, however, significantly lower than in the untreated group. A reference range was calculated to include 99.8% of the disease control group in whom small bowel biopsy showed no evidence of celiac disease. …”
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Fabrication of Cu: ZnO thin film sensor for ethanol vapor detection by Robin Simkhada, Dalton R. Gibbs, Soma Dhakal, Dipak Oli, Rishi Ram Ghimire, Deependra Das Mulmi, Leela Pradhan Joshi

“…This work showcases the design, analysis, and use of a Cu-doped ZnO (Cu: ZnO) film tailored for detecting traces of ethanol vapor at lower temperatures. Herein, various Cu: ZnO films have been fabricated on glass substrates using a spin coater followed by annealing at 600  for 1 hour in a muffle furnace. …”
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How do crime and neighborhood environment affect transit ridership? Evidence from five metropolitan cities in the Texas Triangle by Qian He, Jianling Li

“…Our findings also show that block groups with challenging socioeconomic status (measured by households of lower income, households with public assistance, and unemployment status), are associated with higher transit ridership. …”
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Prevalence of Upper Abdominal Complaints in Patients Who Have Undergone Partial Gastrectomy by RJLF Loffeld

“…The mean symptom score of patients who underwent Billroth I resection was significantly lower (4.5 [SD 3.6]) than that of patients who underwent Billroth II resection (7.1 [SD 4.4])(P=0.04). …”
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External validation of AI-based scoring systems in the ICU: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Patrick Rockenschaub, Ela Marie Akay, Benjamin Gregory Carlisle, Adam Hilbert, Joshua Wendland, Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Anatol-Fiete Näher, Dietmar Frey, Vince Istvan Madai

“…Performance was generally lower in external data, questioning the reliability of some recently proposed ML-based scores. …”
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Phase I clinical trial testing the dose escalation and expansion of Pressurized IntraThoracic Hyperthermic Aerosol Cisplatin administration (PITHAC) for the management of pleural c... by Louis-Emmanuel Chriqui, Etienne Abdelnour-Berchtold, Edoardo Zanfrini, Severine Devesa-Perez, Michel Gonzalez, Thorsten Krueger, Kim Ellefsen, Alice Destaillats, David Bonnet, Martin Hübner, Hasna Bouchaab, Michal Bassani-Sternberg, Solange Peters, Sabrina Cavin, Jean Y Perentes

“…Recently, pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapies (PIPAC) showed improved cytostatic penetration in abdominal carcinosis with a 10-fold-lower chemotherapy dose and minimal side-effects. …”
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An evaluation on coping with stress of selcuk university faculty of veterinary medicine students: covid-19 pandemic process by Esra Çelik, Emine Merve Danış, Gökhan Aslım, Mustafa Agah Tekindal, Aşkın Yaşar

“…helpless approaches? scores were lower than the other classes, and the third-grade students had higher ?…”
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Ocular Findings in Infants with Microcephaly Caused by Presumed Congenital Infection by Zika Virus in Sergipe by Marco Valadares, Anne Carolyne Lelis Oliveira Pedroso, Alessandro Santana, Angela Maria da Silva, Isabela Soares Costa, Maria Luiza Doria Almeida, Roque Pacheco de Almeida

“…Among the 42 children with any ocular alteration, 27 (64.3%) children presented with severe microcephaly (head circumference with standard deviation lower than −3). The majority of children with microcephaly, presumably secondary to maternal ZIKV infection, present ocular alterations, with a higher frequency of involvement in the fundus. …”
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Effect of Semolina Replacement with Amaranth Flour on Quality Characteristics of Functional Pasta by Sogand Alizadeh, Asiye Ahmadi-Dastgerdi, Sara Reisi, Fahimeh Ebrahimi Tirtashi, Maryam Zokaei, Shiva Tahriri

“…The amylose leach out in the cooking water of all amaranth pasta ranged from 2.03 g to 3.38 g/100 g which was lower than that of the control (4.95 g/100 g). The structure of control pasta is an interwoven network of gluten with many holes and swollen starch granules. …”
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Comparison of the Influence of Vegetarian and Mediterranean Diets on the Formation of Kidney Stones by Sebastian Samuła, Michał Mazur, Dorota Waz, Jakub Szarłowicz, Zofia Goliszek, Karolina Łucja Sobek, Wiktoria Tabin-Barczak, Aldona Sokołowska, Klaudia Fikas, Kamil Chwaliszewski

“…Reducing meat intake in this diet lowers the risk of hyperuricosuria and uric acid stone formation. …”
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Exploring the enigma of low prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in India by Ateev S. Chandna, Satish Suhas, Rahul Patley, Damodharan Dinakaran, Narayana Manjunatha, Girish N. Rao, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Mathew Varghese, Vivek Benegal, NMHS National Collaborators Group

“…Results: The study revealed a low prevalence of PTSD in India at 0.2%, significantly lower than global averages. Factors associated with PTSD included female gender, middle age (40-49 years), and urban residence. …”
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Evaluation of intranasal TLR2/6 agonist INNA-051: safety, tolerability and proof of pharmacology by Francesca A. Mercuri, Scott White, Hayley A. McQuilten, Charlotte Lemech, Stephan Mynhardt, Rana Hari, Ping Zhang, Nicole Kruger, Grant McLachlan, Bruce E. Miller, Nicholas P. West, Ruth Tal-Singer, Christophe Demaison

“…Mechanistic biomarkers assessed in both studies demonstrated the expected engagement of pharmacology, including innate immune pathways. There were lower than anticipated rates of infection. Post hoc analysis conducted in laboratory-confirmed infected participants with low or no antibody titre against the challenge virus showed INNA-051 treatment led to a significantly shorter duration of infection and increased expression of genes and pathways associated with host defence responses against influenza. …”
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The implication of leaf anatomical structure for the selective breeding of lilacs by L. M. Pshennikova

“…The differences between species, subspecies, and cultivars are quantitative: they differ in the number of spongy mesophyll layers, the cell height in the first layer of palisade mesophyll, the cell height in the upper and lower epidermises, and the thickness of both mesophylls. …”
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WALLABY Pilot Survey: Star Formation Enhancement and Suppression in Gas-rich Galaxy Pairs by Qifeng Huang, Jing Wang, Xuchen Lin, Se-Heon Oh, Xinkai Chen, B. Catinella, N. Deg, H. Dénes, B. -Q. For, B. S. Koribalski, K. Lee-Waddell, J. Rhee, A. X. Shen, Li Shao, K. Spekkens, L. Staveley-Smith, T. Westmeier, O. I. Wong, A. Bosma

“…For galaxies with a stellar mass lower than 10 ^9 M _⊙ , their SFRs show tentative suppression of 1.4 σ after the halo encounter, and then become enhanced when their H i disks overlap, regardless of mass ratios. …”
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Optimal Decisions of a Green Supply Chain under the Joint Action of Fairness Preference and Subsidy to the Manufacturer by Zi-yuan Zhang, Duan-xiang Fu, Qing Zhou

“…Secondly, these two parties’ fairness preference behaviors can cause serious damage to the other party’s profit and the overall profit of green supply chain, and increase the rate of their own profit in the overall profit of green supply chain, but the difference is that the retailer’s fairness preference behavior can cause a greater decline in product green degree and wholesale price, and when certain conditions are met, its own profit may rise compared to its fairness neutral, while the manufacturer’s fairness preference behavior can cause a greater damage to the overall profit of green supply chainand make its own profit always be lower than its fairness neutral. Thirdly, the government subsidy to the manufacturer and the fairness preference behaviors of both parties can cause a stack effect on the optimal solutions, which means that the subsidy government provides for the manufacturer can aggravate the negative influence caused by these two parties’ fairness preference behaviors.…”
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Influence of location on quality parameters of pepper seeds by Živković Ivana, Poštić Dobrivoj, Pavlović Nenad, Tabaković Marijenka, Đorđević Mladen, Cvikić Dejan, Perić Vesna

“…Germination energy was 75% and 85% for Strizanka and Zupska Rana, in Smederevska Palanka, respectively, while in Kula, germination energy was statistically significantly lower and ranged from 65% in Strizanka to 55% in Zupska Rana (p<0.05). …”
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A New Approach to Estimate Concentration Levels with Filtered Neural Nets for Online Learning by Woodo Lee, Junhyoung Oh, Jaekwoun Shim

“…However, the concentration level is lowered in the online learning class, and the student’s learning rate decreases. …”
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Unveiling the Influence of the Curve of Spee on Bite Force and Chewing Ability: A Comparative Study by Zainab Ali Alkhalaf, Mohammed Ghazi Sghaireen, Kiran Kumar Ganji, Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Rakhi Issrani, Raghad Mohammed Alsaleh, Sultana Zamil Almegren, Mahmoud Gamal Salloum

“…Participants completed a data collection sheet in which age, gender, Angle’s classification of malocclusion, overjet, overbite, TMJ problems, habits, restorations, and caries experience were recorded. Two examiners made a lower impression, chewing ability test and measured the bite force for each participant. …”
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Masquelet’s induced membrane technique in the upper limb: a systematic review of the current outcomes by Davide Pederiva, Lapo De Luca, Cesare Faldini, Luigi Branca Vergano

“…Historically applied to the lower limb, this technique is gaining increasing attention in the literature for its use in the upper limb. …”
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Unprotected Sex with Injecting Drug Users among Iranian Female Sex Workers: Unhide HIV Risk Study by Khodabakhsh Ahmadi, Majid Rezazade, Mohammad Nafarie, Babak Moazen, Mosaieb Yarmohmmadi Vasel, Shervin Assari

“…Higher educational level (OR=−0.653, 95%CI=-1.192 to −0.115), perceived HIV risk (OR=−1.047, 95%CI=-2.076 to −0.019), and perceived family intimacy during childhood (OR=−1.104, 95%CI=-1.957 to −0.251) were all independently associated with lower odds of having unprotected sex with IDU(s) in the month preceding the study. …”
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