Phosphorylation-dependent WRN-RPA interaction promotes recovery of stalled forks at secondary DNA structure by Alessandro Noto, Pasquale Valenzisi, Flavia Di Feo, Federica Fratini, Tomasz Kulikowicz, Joshua A. Sommers, Benedetta Perdichizzi, Maurizio Semproni, Valentina Palermo, Marco Crescenzi, Robert M. Brosh Jr, Annapaola Franchitto, Pietro Pichierri

“…The absence of WRN-RPA binding hampers fork recovery, causing single-strand DNA gaps, enlarged by MRE11, and triggering MUS81-dependent double-strand breaks, which require repair by RAD51 to prevent excessive DNA damage.…”
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Quantifying the survival uncertainty of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in a spatial model by Martin Strugarek, Nicolas Vauchelet, Jorge P. Zubelli

“…We note that it is hard to have an invasion in such case. 2) How many release points does one need to have sufficiently high probability of invasion? 3) What happens if one accounts for uncertainty in the release protocol (e.g. unequal spacing among release points)?…”
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Type 3 Thyroplasty for a Patient with Female-to-Male Gender Identity Disorder by Yu Saito, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Shigeto Itani, Kiyoaki Tsukahara

“…If hormone therapy proves ineffective, TP3 may be selected as an optional treatment and appears to show few surgical complications and was, in this case, a very effective treatment.…”
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Perceived inequality and variability in the expression of parochial altruism by Cody T. Ross, Anne C. Pisor

“…When present, parochial altruism appears to be driven by divergent perceptions of group-based economic need, not group identity per se. …”
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An Unusual Clinical Presentation of Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report by Deba P. Sarma, Dawn E. Heagley, Julianne Chalupa, Meredith Cox, James M. Shehan

“…When a new growth is encountered in the sun-exposed skin of elderly patients, a biopsy is warranted even if the lesion clinically appears benign.…”
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Four-Year Trends in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors according to Baseline Abdominal Obesity Status in West-African Adults: The Benin Study by Charles Sossa, Hélène Delisle, Victoire Agueh, Michel Makoutodé, Benjamin Fayomi

“…The study included 541 randomly selected and apparently healthy subjects (50% women) aged 25–60 years. …”
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The Phase-Formation Behavior of Composite Ceramic Powders Synthesized by Utilizing Rice Husk Ash from the Biomass Cogeneration Plant by Wenjie Yuan, Mingyu Fan, Chengji Deng, Jun Li, Hongxi Zhu

“…The results highlighted that series of reactions happening sensitively depended on C/SiO2 and the temperature and demonstrated that the carbothermal nitridation provided an alternative for converting RHA waste into composite ceramic powders.…”
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Specific Metabolic Fingerprint of a Dietary Exposure to a Very Low Dose of Endosulfan by Cécile Canlet, Marie Tremblay-Franco, Roselyne Gautier, Jérôme Molina, Benjamin Métais, Florence Blas-Y Estrada, Laurence Gamet-Payrastre

“…Moreover from our results it appears that the NMR-based metabonomic approach could be useful for the characterization in plasma of a dietary exposure to low dose of pesticide in human.…”
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Numerical Simulation of Aircraft Icing with an Unsteady Thermodynamic Model considering the Development of Water Film and Ice Layer by Xiaobin Shen, Zicheng Qi, Wenzhao Zhao, Guiping Lin, Yu Zeng, Zuodong Mu

“…Icing simulations were performed for a NACA0012 airfoil, and the results show acceptable agreement with the data in the literature. Water film first appears near the stagnation point, and then, the film thickness increases, and the runback water region expands with time, affecting the icing rate, the surface temperature, and the ice type. …”
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Stress response in women mistreated by mate. An approach to its study by Laura López Angulo, Juan José Apollinaire Pennini, Marlen Array, Addis Moya Ávila

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Violence is a situation considered as a negative happening that causes an impact in the victim’s life, and alter his behavior and daily life, generating an equilibrium disturbance situation.…”
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In Vivo Tracking of Systemically Administered Allogeneic Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Normal Rats through Bioluminescence Imaging by Juan Cao, Shike Hou, Hui Ding, Ziquan Liu, Meijuan Song, Xiaojing Qin, Xue Wang, Mengyang Yu, Zhiguang Sun, Jinyang Liu, Shuli Sun, Peixin Xiao, Qi Lv, Haojun Fan

“…Allogeneic BMSCs mainly appeared not at the parenchymatous organs but at the subepidermal connective tissue and adipose tissue in healthy rats. …”
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Serum CEACAM1 Elevation Correlates with Melanoma Progression and Failure to Respond to Adoptive Cell Transfer Immunotherapy by R. Ortenberg, S. Sapoznik, D. Zippel, R. Shapira-Frommer, O. Itzhaki, A. Kubi, D. Zikich, M. J. Besser, J. Schachter, G. Markel

“…However, the clinical management of melanoma is severely hampered by the absence of effective screening tools. …”
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The presence of the Orthodox Churches and the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches in the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops . by Mihály Laurinyecz

“…In the present study we discuss who were present on behalf of the Orthodox Churches and sui iuris Eastern Catholics at the synod, what happened in relation to these denominations, and what references were made regarding Orthodox and Eastern practices and theology. …”
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Leydig Cell Tumor in a Patient with 46,XX Disorder of Sex Development (DSD), Ovotesticular: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by Steffen Gretser, Maria-Noemi Welte, Frederik Roos, Jens Köllermann

“…It is classified in different subgroups based on the patient’s karyotype, gonadal dysgenesis, and the appearance of the internal and external genitalia. Within the subgroups, the risk for developing neoplasms varies a lot. …”
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Melatonin in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Analysis Using Modern Mathematical Modeling Methods by Justyna Paprocka, Marek Kijonka, Łukasz Boguszewicz, Maria Sokół

“…For the TSC group, though a small one, the variations in the MLT release amplitudes seem to be independent of the total number of seizures; however, the MLT release shift appears to depend on the number of seizures.…”
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Bilateral Choroidal Metastases as Presentation of Dissemination of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma by S. Fernandez-Perez, O. Ruiz-Moreno, V. Pueyo, G. de la Mata, L. Pablo

“…Choroidal metastases from cutaneous melanoma are uncommon but we should be aware because their appearance worsens prognosis.…”
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A Study on the Fluorescence Properties of New Laser Material-n-B18H22 in SDS Aqueous Solution by Lin-Na Zhang, Jie Chen, Xu-Guang Huang, Hong-Yun Meng, Chun-Hua Tan

“…It was observed that a break appeared in the curve of fluorescence intensity with surfactant concentration. …”
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Recurrence of chronic encapsulated hematoma following cyst formation after stereotactic radiosurgery for brain arteriovenous malformations: a case report by Iñigo L. Sistiaga, Gregorio Catalán-Uribarrena, Silvia Gamba, Alejandro Carrasco, Laura Zaldumbide, Lorena Mosteiro, Iñigo Pomposo

“…Case presentation A case of a 28-year-old male with an increasing cyst formation (CF) appearing 10 years after SRS for AVM is presented. …”
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Inhibitory Effect of Natural Phenolic Compounds on Aspergillus parasiticus Growth by Romina P. Pizzolitto, Carla L. Barberis, José S. Dambolena, Jimena M. Herrera, María P. Zunino, Carina E. Magnoli, Héctor R. Rubinstein, Julio A. Zygadlo, Ana M. Dalcero

“…Considering the impact of Aspergillus species on crops, it appears to be highly desirable to apply strategies to prevent their growth, as well as to eliminate or reduce their presence in food products. …”
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A definition and model for sustainability in major sports events by Shreyya Rajagopal, Léonie Brodmann, Martin Müller, David Gogishvili, Markus Lang, Lucie Schoch, Ioannis Konstantopoulos, Stefano Caneppele

“…This paper mobilises a three-wave Delphi study with 55 experts to construct a definition of a sustainable major sports event. …”
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