Episodic Gregariousness Leads to Level‐Dependent Core Habitats: A Case Study in Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) by Tyler C. Christensen, Robert Kwait, Michael Van Clef, Brooke Maslo

“…., hibernacula and communal basking sites) are often a subset of the habitats required by individuals for survival. …”
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Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of “Malocclusion Impact Questionnaire” into Moroccan Arabic by Farid Bourzgui, Samir Diouny, Hadam Mkhantar, Zineb Serhier, Mohamed Bennani Othmani

“…Internal consistency reliability was determined from Cronbach’s alpha, and the intraclass coefficient of the item scores was obtained in 1 month in a subset of 30 subjects. Data were analyzed using the Statistical SPSS software, version 16.0, SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA. …”
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Multiobjective Optimization-Based Hyperspectral Unsupervised Band Selection for Anomaly Detection by Shihui Liu, Bing Xue, Meiping Song, Haimo Bao, Mengjie Zhang

“…Experiments conducted on real hyperspectral datasets demonstrate that the algorithm effectively identifies a subset of bands with high representational power for anomaly detection. …”
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Altered Protein Structures and Neoepitopes in Lupus Neutrophils From Dysregulated Splicing of Messenger RNA by Rayan Najjar, Xiaoxing Wang, Jose Mario Bello Pineda, Hugh Alessi, Alison Bays, Robert K. Bradley, James N. Jarvis, Tomas Mustelin

“…Results Neutrophils from patients with SLE contained 521 statistically significant altered mRNA splicing events compared with healthy donor neutrophils, many of them affecting important immunologic pathways, myeloid function, transcription factors, and proteins involved in mRNA splicing. A subset of splicing events were only present in SLE samples, and some of them occurred at unannotated splice acceptor or donor sites. …”
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Statin drugs enhance responses to immune checkpoint blockade in head and neck cancer models by Chrystal Paulos, Gregory B Lesinski, Zachary S Buchwald, Nabil F Saba, Vikash Kansal, Andre J Burnham, Brendan L C Kinney, Nicole C Schmitt

“…Emerging data suggest that manipulation of cholesterol may enhance some aspects of antitumor immunity.Methods We used syngeneic murine models (mouse oral cancer, MOC1 and TC-1) to investigate our hypothesis that a subset of statin drugs would enhance antitumor immunity and delay tumor growth.Results Using an ex vivo coculture assay of murine cancer cells and tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, we discovered that all seven statin drugs inhibited tumor cell proliferation. …”
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Thermal ablation for the treatment of malignant thyroid nodules: present and future by Yan Hu, Wei Zhou, Shangyan Xu, Wanru Jia, Guiping Zhang, Yuan Cao, Qianru Zhang, Lu Zhang, Weiwei Zhan

“…Presently, TA has been validated as an efficacious and safe intervention for both benign thyroid nodules and a subset of MTC. An expanding body of research has been dedicated to broadening the applicability of TA, initially from recurrent thyroid cancer and lymph nodes to now encompass isolated papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMC) alongside a comprehensive exploration into the expanded parameters such as size, number, and location of PTMC, and its applicability in other types of thyroid cancer. …”
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Protection Conferred by Gallid Alphaherpesvirus 2 Vaccines Against Immunosuppression Induced by Very Virulent Plus (vv+) Marek’s Disease Virus Strains in Commercial Meat Type Chick... by Nagwa Khaled, Carissa Gaghan, Abdelhamid M. Fares, Christa Goodell, William Stanley, Raveendra R. Kulkarni, Isabel M. Gimeno

“…Compared to the uninfected control, the frequency of B cells was reduced in the CVI-988/686 group but not in the rMd5-BAC∆Meq/686 and CVI-LTR/686 groups. T cell subset frequencies showed no difference between the negative controls and CVI-988/686; however, there was a reduction in activated CD4+ T cells in the rMd5-BAC∆Meq/686 group and in activated CD4+, activated CD8+, and γδ+ T cells in the CVI-LTR/686 group. …”
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DDX3 participates in miRNA biogenesis and RNA interference through translational control of PACT and interaction with AGO2 by Ming‐Chih Lai, Yen‐Ling Yu, Chiao‐Nung Chen, Jau‐Song Yu, Hsin‐Yuan Hung, Shih‐Peng Chan

“…Using a miRNA microarray, we found that DDX3 regulates the expression of a small subset of cancer‐related miRNAs. These oncogenic miRNAs were down‐regulated by knockdown of DDX3 or PACT and up‐regulated by overexpression of DDX3 or PACT in HEK293T cells. …”
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Maternal betel quid use during pregnancy and child growth: a cohort study from rural Bangladesh by Mohammad Redwanul Islam, Shaki Aktar, Jesmin Pervin, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Monjur Rahman, Anisur Rahman, Eva-Charlotte Ekström

“…Methods With a prospective cohort design, we assessed BQ use among mothers enrolled in the Preterm and Stillbirth Study, Matlab (n = 3140) with a structured questionnaire around early third trimester. Children born to a subset of 614 women (including 134 daily users) were invited to follow-up between October 2021 and January 2022. …”
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Doktora Eğitimi Bağlamında Ar-Ge ve Kalkınma İlişkisi by Esat İpek

“…Doktora eğitimi ve Ar-Ge kapsamında en önemli göstergeler olarak öne çıkan; araştırmacı sayısının istihdama oranı, doktora programlarında eğitim alan öğrenci sayısı, doktoralı profesyonel sayısı, yükseköğretim öğrencileri içerisindeki doktora öğrencisi oranı, Ar-Ge harcamalarının toplam gelire oranı, Ar-Ge harcamalarının yükseköğretim başta olmak üzere sektörel dağılımı, patent başvuru sayıları ve akademik yayın sayıları gibi göstergeler üzerinden söz konusu araştırma sorusunu ele almak üzere en güncel veriler bu çalışmada bir araya getirilmiş ve doktora eğitimi bağlamında Ar-Ge ve kalkınma ilişkisine dair kapsamlı bir tartışma yapılmıştır.…”
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An annotated high-content fluorescence microscopy dataset with EGFP-Galectin-3-stained cells and manually labelled outlineszenodo by Salma Kazemi Rashed, Malou Arvidsson, Rafsan Ahmed, Sonja Aits

“…Outlines were labelled by three annotators, who had high inter-annotator agreement between them and with a biomedical expert, who labelled some of the objects for comparison and reviewed a subset of the labels, making minor corrections as needed.The dataset comprises over 2200 annotated cell objects in total, making it sufficient in size to train high-performing neural networks for instance or semantic segmentation. …”
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Flow-diverter stents alone and in combination with coiling as treatment options for unruptured, symptomatic true PcomA aneurysms by S. Matanov, K. Ninov, K. Minkin, K. Sirakova, G. Vladev, S. Sirakov, A. Sirakov

“…They account for a small subset of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, yet approximately 20 % present with ophthalmoplegia, significantly impairing quality of life. …”
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Din Kültürü ve Ahlak Bilgisi Alan Dersleri Yeterliliklerinin Öğrenci Görüşlerine Göre Değerlendirilmesi Evaluation of the Efficiency of Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge Field... by İhsan Onay, Yakup Keskin

“…Aynı zamanda öğrencilerin çoğunluğu, alan derslerinin hem içeriğini dersin hedefleri ile hem de AKTS (iş yükü) değerini kazanımları ile uyumlu görmektedirler. Seçmeli Güncel Dini Konular ve Seçmeli Dini Danışmanlık ve Rehberlik derslerini öğrencilerin tamamına yakını hem mesleki gelişimleri hem de dersin içeriği açısından gerekli görmüşlerdir. …”
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Frequency Spectrum-Based Optimal Texture Window Size Selection for High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Image Analysis by Min Cao, Dongping Ming, Lu Xu, Ju Fang, Lin Liu, Xiao Ling, Weizhi Ma

“…Based on the Fourier frequency-spectral analysis, this paper proposes an optimal scale selection method for GLCM. Different subset textures are firstly upscaled by GLCM with different window sizes. …”
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Elevated Anthropometric and Metabolic Indicators among Young Adult Offspring of Mothers with Pregestational Diabetes: Early Results from the Transgenerational Effect on Adult Morbi... by Katherine Bowers, Shelley Ehrlich, Lawrence M. Dolan, Resmi Gupta, Mekibib Altaye, Nicholas J. Ollberding, Rhonda Szczesniak, Patrick Catalano, Emily Smith, Jane C. Khoury

“…Descriptive and regression analyses were employed to compare TEAM participants to NHANES participants. Among a subset of TEAM participants, we compared the metabolic outcomes across maternal glucose profiles using a longitudinal data clustering technique that characterizes level and variability, in maternal glucose across pregnancy. …”
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Bibliometric and visual analysis of suicide in aged people over the past 20 years by Shao-Kui Kan, Ying-Li Zhang, Xue-Xia Bai, Bo Peng

“…Key journals disseminating crucial research are the Journal of Affective Disorders, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and Lancet. Frequent keywords in this field encompass depression, suicidal ideation, suicide, older-adults, risk, risk factors, prevalence, older adults, ideation, behavior, health, mental health, life, age, people, prevention, symptoms, scale, population, and elderly. …”
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Clinical characteristics of anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody among aquaporin-4 negative neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders in Egyptian patients by Sara I. Taha, Salwa I. Bakr, Nermeen T. Fouad, Dina Zamzam, Yasmine A. Mohamed

“…Abstract Some patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD)-like symptoms test negative for anti-aquaporin-4 (anti-AQP4) antibodies. Among them, a subset has antibodies targeting myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), a condition now termed MOG antibody-associated disease (MOGAD). …”
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Machine Learning-Driven Optimization for Solution Space Reduction in the Quadratic Multiple Knapsack Problem by Diego Yanez-Oyarce, Carlos Contreras-Bolton, Fredy Troncoso-Espinosa, Carlos Rey

“…This problem involves selecting a subset of items that maximizes the linear and quadratic profit without exceeding a set of capacities for each knapsack. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing six monthly multi-month dispensing of antiretroviral therapy in two urban HIV clinics during the COVID-19 Era in Malawi. by Rachel Chamanga, Agatha Bula, Denview Magalasi, Stella Mahuva, Mulinda Nyirenda, Kwasi Torpey, Thulani Maphosa, Mitch Matoga

“…A survey was self-administered to healthcare workers (HCWs) and a subset were purposively selected for key informant interviews. …”
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The Relationship between Heart Rate Variability and Adiposity Differs for Central and Overall Adiposity by B. Gwen Windham, Stefano Fumagalli, Alessandro Ble, John J. Sollers, Julian F. Thayer, Samar S. Najjar, Michael E. Griswold, Luigi Ferrucci

“…To examine this hypothesis, we used data collected in a subset of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging to compare strength of association between HRV and WC to that of HRV and BMI. …”
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