Genome-wide identification of the adaptor protein complexes and its expression patterns analysis in foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) by Dan Wang, Min Su, Jian-Hong Hao, Zi-Dong Li, Shuqi Dong, Xiangyang Yuan, Xiaorui Li, Lulu Gao, Xiaoqian Chu, Guanghui Yang, Jia-Gang Wang, Huiling Du

“…Among these genes, 11 segmental duplication pairs were found. Out of the 33 SiAP complex genes, 24 exhibited collinear relationships with Setaria viridis, while only one showed relationship with Arabidopsis thaliana. …”
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Analysis of factors affecting the clinical management of infection in culture-negative patients following percutaneous endoscopic decompression: a retrospective study by Changpeng Qu, Haixin Wei, Hao Zhang, Zheng Lian, Hui Lu, Shuo Han

“…The impact of these risk factors on infection was then analyzed.ResultsThe results showed that blood glucose control was strongly correlated with the severity of infection (Beta = 0.60, P = 0.00), strongly correlated with short-term treatment effectiveness (Beta = 0.65, P = 0.00), and moderately correlated with the duration of antibiotic treatment (Beta = 0.41, P = 0.01). …”
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Collagenase Chemonucleolysis for Treating Cervical Disc Herniation: An Exploratory, Single-Arm, Open-Label, Multicenter Clinical Trial by Zhijian Wang, Bifa Fan, Lili Gu, Xuexue Zhang, Tao Sun, Hui Liu, Rongchun Li, Likui Wang, Kaiqiang Wang, Shun Li, Yong Ma, Haibo You, Daying Zhang

“…The secondary efficacy endpoints were the percentage reduction in Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) and Neck Disability Index (NDI) scores from baseline, which were not lower than the reference values (≥ 40%, ≥ 30%), and improvement in the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) score compared to the preoperative value. …”
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Diagnosing skin neglected tropical diseases with the aid of digital health tools: A scoping review. by Ewelina Julia Barnowska, Anil Fastenau, Srilekha Penna, Ann-Kristin Bonkass, Sophie Stuetzle, Ricky Janssen

“…Most digital tools were found to be mobile-phone based, such as mobile Health (mHealth) apps, store-and-forward tele-dermatology, and Short Messaging Service (SMS) text-messaging. Other digital approaches were based on computer software, such as tele-dermatopathology, computer-based telemedicine, and real-time tele-dermatology. …”
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Effect of Reynolds Number and Property Variation on Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in the Entrance Region of a Turbine Blade Internal-Cooling Channel by Ben-Mansour R., Al-Hadhrami L.

“…These channels are fed through short channels placed at the root of the turbine blade, usually called entrance region channels. …”
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Tablet-based self assessment memory scale-revised (SAMS-R) evaluates memory functions for older adults by Hisatomo Kowa, Ryoko Kumagai, Yutaro Oki, Miki Imamura, Yuka Suzuki

“…The ROC curve analysis was conducted to evaluate the detectability to determine whether if the WMS-R LM II score is above or below 10, showing that the AUC was greater than 0.9.ConclusionSAMS-R, which can be performed on a tablet literally by himself/herself independently, shows a high correlation with the WMS-R Logical Memory II score, and has the advantage of being performed in a short time without the need for a clinical psychologist or other personnel.…”
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The evolving roles of geophysics in environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of landfill leachate contaminant plumes: An overview by Joseph Omeiza Alao

“…Electrical resistivity Imaging (ERI) and ground penetrating radar (GPR) show higher strength in assessing and monitoring LLP contaminant plumes, seismic refraction tomography (SRT) and ground magnetic survey (GMS) show moderate strength with very low-frequency EM (VLF-EM) technology falls short, especially in detecting and mapping disjoint subsurface contaminant plumes. …”
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Endosperm culture-based allotriploid hybrid production from an interspecific cross of Haemanthus spp.: new insights into polyploidization and hybridization by Arisa Nakano, Masahiro Mii, Yoichiro Hoshino

“…Embryos were grown on half-strength Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium, and endosperms from interspecific crossing were cultured to induce callus formation and shoot regeneration, which then developed into plantlets. …”
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A clinical study of the immunogenicity and protective potency of a live recombinant GamLPV vaccine for intranasal use for the prevention of whooping cough in adult volunteers by Alevtina A. Lidzhieva, Alisa Yu. Medkova, Sergey V. Kulikov, Ludmila N. Sinyashina, Rezida A. Sioundioukova, Andrey P. Markov, Aleksey B. Verveda, Natalia E. Abaeva, Irina N. Chernyshova, Marina V. Gavrilova, Kristina K. Bushkova, Ilya N. Dyakov, Gennady I. Karataev

“…The increase in incidence rate of pertussis worldwide, short-term insufficient immunity induced by acellular pertussis vaccines (TDaP) and their failure to provide antibacterial protection and to prevent transmission of infection in human population dictate the development of new pertussis vaccines. …”
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Working Capital Management Practices and Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Western Uganda. by Sunday, Arthur, Turyahebwa, Abanis, Byamukama, Eliab Mpora

“…Since cash is a component of working capital, then, SMEs owners need to separate business transactions from their personal transactions so as to have financial discipline which would ensure sustainable working capital thus meeting short term needs SMEs…”
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Role of Government Projects and Youth Employment in Kisoro District: A Case Study of Youth Livelihood Program. by Zaninka, Esther

“…Therefore, for the YPL to succeed, both short and long-term measures must be embraced. The study recommends that it is of significant importance that the Ministry of Gender, labor, and Social Development develops mechanisms that will enhance youth access to YLP by scrapping business registration costs, and business licensing costs, Equally, the age bracket for registration of businesses should be flexible from 17 years to 35 years old to ensure youth are encouraged early enough to venture into entrepreneurship, and also accessing YLP.…”
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Analyzing the Effect of Organic Manure in Comparison With NPK on Cabbage Growth and Yield. by Ainomugisha, Rabecca

“…In contrast, NPK fertilizers deliver high macronutrient concentrations for rapid absorption, resulting in faster growth rates and higher short-term yields. Nevertheless, excessive reliance on NPK may compromise long-term soil health and contribute to environmental degradation. …”
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Evaluating the efficacy of multi-incision and tube-dragging therapy combined with laser closure for high horseshoe-shaped anal fistula: Protocol of a prospective, randomized, contr... by Min Yang, Zubing Mei, Qingming Wang, Ye Han, De Zheng

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>This study represents the first randomized controlled trial evaluating the short-term outcomes of MITD-LaC, thereby aiming to contribute high-quality evidence to guide clinical practice. …”
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Real-World Treatment Patterns, Survival, and Costs for Ovarian Cancer in Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Provincial Administrative Data by Manjusha Hurry, Shazia Hassan, Soo Jin Seung, Ryan N. Walton, Ashlie Elnoursi, Jacob D. McGee

“…It is programmed to determine the costs of short-term and long-term episodes of health-care resources utilized. …”
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BeatProfiler: Multimodal In Vitro Analysis of Cardiac Function Enables Machine Learning Classification of Diseases and Drugs by Youngbin Kim, Kunlun Wang, Roberta I. Lock, Trevor R. Nash, Sharon Fleischer, Bryan Z. Wang, Barry M. Fine, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

“…To accurately classify between these biological signals, we apply feature-based ML and deep learning models (temporal convolutional-bidirectional long short-term memory model or TCN-BiLSTM). <italic>Results:</italic> Benchmarking against existing tools revealed that BeatProfiler detected and analyzed contraction and calcium signals better than existing tools through improved sensitivity in low signal data, reduction in false positives, and analysis speed increase by 7 to 50-fold. …”
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Interleukin-1 Gene Variability and Plasma Levels in Czech Patients with Chronic Periodontitis and Diabetes Mellitus by Petra Borilova Linhartova, Hana Poskerova, Marie Tomandlova, Jirina Bartova, Katerina Kankova, Antonin Fassmann, Lydie Izakovicova Holla

“…In T1DM patients, IL-1RN∗S “short” allele and IL-1RN 12 genotype were significantly less frequent than those in controls (P<0.01). …”
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Economic Burden of Contraception Management in Spain by Inmaculada Parra Ribes, Juan José Rascón Poza, Ezequiel Pérez Campos, Ignacio Bugella Yudice, Maria Jesús Rodríguez Domingo

“…There are differences in contraceptive use according to women’s age. Short-acting reversible contraceptives (SARC) such as COC, condom and vaginal ring, are most commonly used by younger women. …”
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Norepinephrine use in cardiogenic shock patients is associated with increased 30 day mortality by Xin Lu, Xue Wang, Yanxia Gao, Joseph Harold Walline, Shiyuan Yu, Zengzheng Ge, Mubing Qin, Huadong Zhu, Yi Li

“…Conclusions Cardiogenic shock patients treated with norepinephrine were associated with significantly increased short‐term mortality, while no significant difference was found on long‐term survival rates. …”
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Management of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell-related toxicity of a patient affected by cytokine release syndrome and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome, follo... by G. Menardi, A. Castellino, C. Castellino, M. E. Bersia, E. Grande, G. Fraternali, M. Massaia, C. Fruttero

“…Case presentation This article presents an analysis of the management of short-term chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy-associated toxicities, focusing on a specific case of a patient with refractory mantle cell lymphoma. …”
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Ginseng exhibits adaptogenic-like activity in mice exposed to hypoxic-anoxic stress through activation of antioxidant/BDNF protective mechanisms and inhibition of pro-inflammatory... by James Olukayode Oni, Divine Oluwaferanmi Oyenekan, Yetunde Olamide Olayemi, Osarugue Christabel Irabor, Precious Ogbuji, McCarthy Oritseweyinmi Tova, Paul Ademola Adeleke, Gbemisayo Adetomiwa Abbas, Solomon Umukoro

“…Ginseng is widely used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a tonic for healthy living due to its adaptogenic/rejuvenating properties and in mitigating chronic stress-related diseases including vertigo, depression, short-term memory loss, and lack of attention or vigilance. …”
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