Combination Effects of Docetaxel and Doxorubicin in Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer Cells by Eleftheria Tsakalozou, Allison M. Eckman, Younsoo Bae

“…DOC showed a biphasic cytotoxicity pattern with the half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) at the picomolar range for PC3 (0.598 nM) and DU145 (0.469 nM), following 72 h drug exposure. …”
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A Compact Vivaldi Shaped Partially Dielectric Loaded TEM Horn Antenna for UWB Communication by Mustafa İlarslan, A. Serdar Türk, Salih Demirel, M. Emre Aydemir, A. Kenan Keskin

“…It is placed in a surrounding box made of PEC material to reduce the undesired side lobes and to obtain more directive radiation pattern. The simulations are performed by using the CST STUDIO SUITE electromagnetic (EM) simulation software and they are later verified by the actual measurements. …”
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Rethinking the four-wing problem in plesiosaur swimming using bio-inspired decentralized control by Akira Fukuhara, Mitsutoshi Sato, Hisayuki Ogawa, Tamaki Sato, William Sellers, Akio Ishiguro

“…Recent engineering-inspired paleontological studies have reconstructed feasible locomotor patterns in extinct animals. However, it is still challenging to describe how extinct animals successfully adjust their locomotor patterns to new situations (e.g., changes in locomotor speed and morphology). …”
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Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula by Nicole Li Ying Lee, Danwei Huang, Zheng Bin Randolph Quek, Jen Nie Lee, Benjamin J. Wainwright

“…We are able to assign taxonomy to the majority of sequences from leaves and fruits, but a much larger portion of the sequences recovered from pneumatophores and sediment samples could not be identified. This pattern underscores the limited mycological research performed in marine environments and demonstrates the need for a concerted research effort on multiple species to fully characterise the coastal microbiome and its role in the functioning of marine ecosystems.…”
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Low-Profile Array of Wire Patch Antennas by H. Zhang, R. Chantalat, F. Torres, M. Thevenot, T. Monediere, B. Jecko

“…Owing to its low height, low cost, high robustness, and monopolar radiation pattern, the WPA has been chosen as unit cell of the array that must be placed on the vehicle roof. …”
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Role of depression in development of functional dyspepsia symptoms by D. B. Kolesnikov, S. I. Rapoport, L. A. Voznesenskaya, M. I. Rasulov

“…The first group included 18 patients at whom presence of dyspeptic complaints conformed the endoscopic pattern (erosive esophagitis, erosive gastroduodenitis). …”
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Wideband Omnidirectional Slotted-Waveguide Antenna Array Based on Trapezoidal Slots by Hugo Rodrigues Dias Filgueiras, James R. Kelly, Pei Xiao, I. F. da Costa, Arismar Cerqueira Sodré

“…In addition, we propose a twisting technique, responsible to improve the omnidirectional pattern, by means of reducing the gain ripple in the azimuth plane. …”
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Corchorus olitorius (Jute) fiber enforced sustainable polymeric dressing material for antimicrobial activity by Gupta Swati Sanjaykumar, Rishabha Malviya, Dhanalekshmi Unnikrishnan Meenakshi, Sathvik Belagodu Sridhar

“…Drug loading was carried out, the highest drug loading percentage was found at 99.97 ​% and the formulation released medication according to the Baker-Lonsdale release kinetics pattern. The anti-microbial study showed effective inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus. …”
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Kinetics of potassium release and fixation in some soils of Ogun State, Southwestern, Nigeria as influenced by organic manure by A. A. Taiwo, M. T. Adetunji, J. O. Azeez, K. O. Elemo

“…Elovich and power functions had the best fit for K released in soils treated with goat manure. The K release pattern in poultry manure-amended soil is best described by the parabolic diffusion, Elovich, and power functions, while the first-order equation described K release in soils treated with cattle manure. …”
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A study on the codon usage bias of arenavirus common genes by Pablo Daniel Thomas, María Florencia Ferrer, Mauricio J. Lozano, Ricardo Martín Gómez

“…Our results suggest that codon usage pattern bias in arenaviruses is influenced by selection pressure and to a lesser extent by mutational selection.…”
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Palaeoenvironment and Its Control on the Formation of Miocene Marine Source Rocks in the Qiongdongnan Basin, Northern South China Sea by Wenhao Li, Zhihuan Zhang, Weiming Wang, Shuangfang Lu, Youchuan Li, Ning Fu

“…This realization, in return, has led to the recognition that the developmental environment and pattern of marine source rocks, especially for the source rocks in continental margin basins, are still controversial or poorly understood. …”
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Modeling Airflow Using Subject-Specific 4DCT-Based Deformable Volumetric Lung Models by Olusegun J. Ilegbusi, Zhiliang Li, Behnaz Seyfi, Yugang Min, Sanford Meeks, Patrick Kupelian, Anand P. Santhanam

“…The results include the 3D anisotropic lung deformation for known airflow pattern inside the lungs. The effects of anisotropy are also presented on both the spatiotemporal volumetric lung displacement and the regional lung hysteresis.…”
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Multivariate Analyses with Two-Step Dimension Reduction for an Association Study Between ¹¹C-Pittsburgh Compound B and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Alzheimer’s Disease... by Atsushi Kawaguchi, Fumio Yamashita

“…By applying this method to imaging data of 61 patients with AD (age: 55–85), the first component showed the strongest correlation with the composite score, owing to the supervised feature. The spatial pattern included the hippocampal and parahippocampal regions for MRI. …”
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Transcriptome Analysis of the Thymus in Short-Term Calorie-Restricted Mice Using RNA-seq by Zehra Omeroğlu Ulu, Salih Ulu, Soner Dogan, Bilge Guvenc Tuna, Nehir Ozdemir Ozgenturk

“…These DEGs were clustered into Gene Ontology (GO) categories. The expression pattern revealed by RNA-seq was validated by quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) analysis of four important genes, which are leptin, ghrelin, Igf1, and adinopectin. …”
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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection and biofilms: Dreaded duo in health settings by Ragani Chellaiyah Murugesan, Gowri Subbiah, Gracia Paul Lansingh, Poongodi Santhanakumarasamy

“…This cross-sectional study was done to find out the organisms causing CAUTI, their sensitivity pattern, the proportion of biofilm formation, and the sensitivity, specificity of different procedures in the demonstration of biofilm. …”
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Efficacy and Interindividual Variability in Motor-Cortex Plasticity following Anodal tDCS and Paired-Associative Stimulation by Wolfgang Strube, Tilmann Bunse, Berend Malchow, Alkomiet Hasan

“…Furthermore, the predictive pattern of baseline characteristics was explored. …”
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Producer Services Openness and the Development of Servitization: The Perspective of Two-Way Openness by Wei Chen, Yinzhong Chen, Yifei Hao, Sili Chen

“…The policy implications of these research conclusions are as follows: firstly, taking co-construction of the “Belt and Road” as a chance to promote the new open pattern; secondly, focusing on expanding the openness of high-end producer services; and thirdly, taking innovation driven development as the guide to increase R&D investment of producer services.…”
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Alpha-actinin-4-mediated FSGS: an inherited kidney disease caused by an aggregated and rapidly degraded cytoskeletal protein. by June Yao, Tu Cam Le, Claudine H Kos, Joel M Henderson, Phillip G Allen, Bradley M Denker, Martin R Pollak

“…Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a common pattern of renal injury, seen as both a primary disorder and as a consequence of underlying insults such as diabetes, HIV infection, and hypertension. …”
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Climate change–drylands–food security nexus in Africa: From the perspective of technical advances, challenges, and opportunities by Hirwa, Hubert, Li, Fadong, Qiao, Yunfeng, Measho, Simon, Muhirwa, Fabien, Tian, Chao, Leng, Peifang, Muhirwa, Fabien, Tian, Chao, Leng, Peifang, Ingabire, Romaine, Itangishaka, Auguste Cesar, Chen, Gang, Turyasingura, Benson

“…To bridge the gap from science to policy making in the CDF nexus, it is vital to enhance the impacts and feedbacks of ecohydrological processes on agrarian production, ecosystem service tradeoffs and their effects on livelihoods, and regional development and preservation by optimization of the ecological water security pattern. This state-of-the-art assessment uses acquired information and knowledge to conceptually evaluate the past, current, and future impacts and risks and facilitates decision making through the delivery of long-term sustainability and socio-ecological resilience.…”
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Temperature dependence of liverwort diversification reveals a cool origin and hot hotspots by Karola Maul, S. Robbert Gradstein, Dietmar Quandt, Michael Kessler

“…We found that diversification rates increase linearly with temperature, and hence decrease with elevation. This pattern is mainly driven by epiphytic genera. In contrast, overall genus age is highest at intermediate elevations where liverwort species richness peaks and decreases towards both ends of the elevational and thermal gradient. …”
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