Blastomycosis in Quebec (1981–90): Report of 23 Cases and Review of Published Cases from Quebec by G St-Germain, G Murray, R Duperval

“…Of the 21 culture-positive cases, 12 strains of Blastomyces dermatitidis were isolated from lungs, nine from skin, and one each from bone and brain. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Pattern of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Gansu Province and Its Environmental Factors Detection and Analysis by Haili Zhao, Jun Wang, Minghui Wu

“…Based on the county scale, this study determined the high-incidence areas through hot spot analysis and selected nine districts and counties covering meteorological stations and air monitoring stations. …”
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Perception des végétaux chez les Ribeirinhos d’Amazonie brésilienne by Claire Couly

“…Furthemore, in addition to a primary opposition between domesticated species and wild species, the Ribeirinhos distinguish nine categories of plants. The criteria used are mostly morphological but categories can overlap and fews species can change for other categories.In total, 439 morphotypes – also called ethnospecies that means minimum units of perception of biodiversity by local population - have been identified considering trees, palms, vines, grasses and herbs, and 257 basic terms were found. …”
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Enhancing insights in sexually transmitted infection mapping: Syphilis in Forsyth County, North Carolina, a case study. by Lani Fox, William C Miller, Dionne Gesink, Irene Doherty, Marc Serre

“…It removed kriging islands, reduced background incidence rate to 0, relocated nine outbreak hotspots to more realistic locations, and elucidated hotspot connectivity producing more realistic geographical patterns for targeted insights. …”
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Overexpression of the <i>GmPM35</i> Gene Significantly Enhances Drought Tolerance in Transgenic Arabidopsis and Soybean by Xinyu Wang, Yao Sun, Rui Wang, Xinyang Li, Yongyi Li, Tianyu Wang, Zhaohao Guo, Yan Li, Wenxi Qiu, Shuyan Guan, Qi Zhang, Piwu Wang, Mingze Li, Siyan Liu, Xuhong Fan

“…To further investigate the drought tolerance function of this gene in soybeans, nine overexpression lines of the T₃ generation soybean <i>GmPM35</i> gene and two editing lines of the T₃ generation soybean <i>GmPM35</i> gene were obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated method using a wild-type soybean strain (JN28) as a receptor. …”
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Congenital muscular dystrophies and myopathies: the leading cause of genetic muscular disorders in eleven Chinese families by Bin Mao, Xiaoling Cai, Na Lin, Yulin Jiang, Na Hao, Yifang Dai, Danhua Guo, Deqin He, Huili Xue, Lingji Chen, Qianqian He, Min Zhang, Meihuan Chen, Hailong Huang, Liangpu Xu

“…Results Fourteen variants in nine genes (ATL1, LMNA, KLHL40, FKRP, DMD, ACTA1, MSTO1, RYR1 and LAMA2) associated with congenital muscular conditions were identified in the ten families mentioned above. …”
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iDIA-QC: AI-empowered data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry-based quality control by Huanhuan Gao, Yi Zhu, Dongxue Wang, Zongxiang Nie, He Wang, Guibin Wang, Shuang Liang, Yuting Xie, Yingying Sun, Wenhao Jiang, Zhen Dong, Liqin Qian, Xufei Wang, Mengdi Liang, Min Chen, Houqi Fang, Qiufang Zeng, Jiao Tian, Zeyu Sun, Juan Xue, Shan Li, Chen Chen, Xiang Liu, Xiaolei Lyu, Zhenchang Guo, Yingzi Qi, Ruoyu Wu, Xiaoxian Du, Tingde Tong, Fengchun Kong, Liming Han, Minghui Wang, Yang Zhao, Xinhua Dai, Fuchu He, Tiannan Guo

“…Here, we collect 2754 files acquired by data independent acquisition (DIA) and paired 2638 DDA files from mouse liver digests using 21 mass spectrometers across nine laboratories over 31 months. Our data demonstrate that DIA-based LC-MS/MS-related consensus QC metrics exhibit higher sensitivity compared to DDA-based QC metrics in detecting changes in LC-MS status. …”
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Bariatric Surgery as a Molecular Modulator: The Role of FSHR Polymorphisms in Enhancing eNOS Expression and Reproductive Hormone Dynamics in Women with Severe Obesity by Charalampos Voros, Despoina Mavrogianni, Kyriakos Bananis, Alexios Karakasis, Anthi-Maria Papahliou, Vasileios Topalis, Antonia Varthaliti, Raphail Mantzioros, Panagiota Kondili, Menelaos Darlas, Regina Sotiropoulou, Diamantis Athanasiou, Dimitris Mathiopoulos, Panagiotis Antsaklis, Dimitrios Loutradis, Georgios Daskalakis

“…This study looks at how bariatric surgery affects endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) expression and reproductive hormone regulation across different follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR) polymorphism groups in women with extreme obesity. Methods: Twenty-nine women with extreme obesity had bariatric surgery. …”
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Neurotrophin-3 as a mediator in the link between PM2.5 exposure and psychiatric disorders: A Mendelian randomization study by Yuan Zhang, Wei Wang, Xuening Zhang, Ran Jing, Xin Wen, Peng Xiao, Xinjie Liu, Zengle Zhao, Tongmin Chang, Yufei Li, Wen Liu, Chenxi Sun, Xiaorong Yang, Lejin Yang, Ming Lu

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Proteomic Analysis of Saliva Identifies Potential Biomarkers for Orthodontic Tooth Movement by Mohd Faiz Ellias, Shahrul Hisham Zainal Ariffin, Saiful Anuar Karsani, Mariati Abdul Rahman, Shahidan Senafi, Rohaya Megat Abdul Wahab

“…This study aims to identify salivary proteins that change in expression during orthodontic tooth movement. …”
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Demographics, Practising Arrangements, and Standards: Survey among New Zealand Dentists by Robert James Lee, Jithendra Ratnayake, Arthi Veerasamy, Carolina Loch, Peter Cathro, Paul A. Brunton

“…The majority of the respondents (63.5%) were male and practice principals (56.8%). Fifty-nine percent of the practices were located in city or town centres with a wide geographic distribution. …”
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Determination of Polyphenols, Capsaicinoids, and Vitamin C in New Hybrids of Chili Peppers by Zsuzsa Nagy, Hussein Daood, Zsuzsanna Ambrózy, Lajos Helyes

“…Nine polyphenol compounds were detected including 8 flavonoids and a nonflavonoid compound in the pods of all hybrids. …”
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Chinese Herbal Medicine for Weight Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Randomised Controlled Trials by Ann Rann Wong, Angela Wei Hong Yang, Kangxiao Li, Harsharn Gill, Mingdi Li, George Binh Lenon

“…Body weight and body mass index (BMI) were analysed in RevMan v5.4.1 and expressed as mean differences with 95% confidence intervals (CI), while adverse events were expressed as risk ratio with 95% CI. Results. Thirty-nine RCTs were eligible for qualitative analysis, 34 of which were included in the meta-analyses. …”
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Differences in Pain Intensity of Tumors Spread to the Anterior versus Anterolateral/Lateral Portions of the Vertebral Body Based on CT Scans by Hui-Ching Hsu, Tzu-Yao Liao, Long-Sun Ro, Yu-Hsiang Juan, Chuang-Chi Liaw

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The Effect of Transobturator Tape Surgery on Female Sexual Functions: A Systematic Review by Engin Yildirim, Nuriye Buyukkayaci Duman, Umit Gorkem, Ozgur Kan

“… Objective: Stress urinary incontinence is one of the diseases that change the quality of life of women. Although there are various medical and surgical treatment modalities exist, transobturator tape surgery is one of the current options with the least complication rates. …”
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Validity of Multisensor Array for Measuring Energy Expenditure of an Activity Bout in Early Stroke Survivors by Sharon Flora Kramer, Liam Johnson, Julie Bernhardt, Toby Cumming

“…However, agreement levels changed with increasing EE levels (i.e., proportional bias). …”
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Exploring the Stability and Capacity Characteristics of Mixed Traffic Flow with Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicles considering Aggressive Driving by Yun Li, Shengrui Zhang, Yingjiu Pan, Bei Zhou, Yanan Peng

“…Finally, because the proportion of aggressive driving and aggressive driving parameters may change, nine combinations of three aggressive driving proportions and three driving parameter cases are used for the sensitivity analysis. …”
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On the Adversarial Robustness of Decision Trees and a Symmetry Defense by Blerta Lindqvist

“…Gradient-boosting decision tree classifiers (GBDTs) are susceptible to adversarial perturbation attacks that change inputs slightly to cause misclassification. …”
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Axial Behaviour of Slender RC Circular Columns Strengthened with Circular CFST Jackets by Yiyan Lu, Tao Zhu, Shan Li, Weijie Li, Na Li

“…The failure mode of slender RC columns was changed from brittle failure (concrete peel-off) into ductile failure (global bending) after strengthening. …”
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Clinical Value of 99Tcm-MDP SPECT Bone Scintigraphy in the Diagnosis of Unilateral Condylar Hyperplasia by Bing Wen, Ying Shen, Chang-Yin Wang

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