Association between agronomic traits and metabolite profiles on yield response and water use efficiency in newly developed wheat populations under drought stressed conditions by Maltase Mutanda, Hussein Shimelis, Vincent Chaplot, Ntakadzeni E. Madala, Sandiswa Figlan

“…The study aimed to determine the degree and trend of association between agronomic traits and major metabolites to identify influential traits and metabolites optimised by wheat genotypes for improved GY, WUE and drought tolerance. One hundred wheat genotypes were evaluated under drought-stressed (DS) and non-stressed (NS) using a 5 × 20 alpha-lattice design with two replications. …”
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Modulation of Biomaterial‐Associated Fibrosis by Means of Combined Physicochemical Material Properties by Lisa E. Tromp, Torben A.B. van derBoon, Roderick H.J. deHilster, Ruud Bank, Patrick van Rijn

“…This study explores how combined physicochemical material properties impact early myofibroblast differentiation using the Biomaterial Advanced Cell Screening (BiomACS) technology, which assesses hundreds of combinations of surface topography, stiffness, and wettability in a single experiment. …”
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Measuring Hemoglobin Levels in the Optic Disc of Parkinson’s Disease Patients Using New Colorimetric Analysis Software by Maria Pilar Bambo, Elena Garcia-Martin, Maria Satue, Susana Perez-Olivan, Silvia Alayon, Marta Gonzalez-Hernandez, Vicente Polo, Jose Manuel Larrosa, Manuel Gonzalez-De la Rosa

“…We also compared differences in retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thicknesses obtained using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) device between PD group and healthy group. Methods. One hundred and fifty-five PD patients and 91 sex- and age-matched healthy subjects were included in this cross-sectional study. …”
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Colorectal Carcinoma with Extremely Low CA19-9 by Yutaka J. Kawamura, Aika Tokumitsu, Junichi Sasaki, Shingo Tsujinaka, Takafumi Maeda, Ken Mizogami, Fumio Konishi

“…Patients with CA19-9 level of less than 2 U/mL at the time of diagnosis were defined as Extremely Low CA19-9 (ELCA). Results. One hundred and seven patients (9.8%) were ELCA. Of these, 86 underwent surgery with curative intent. …”
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Associations between the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and Tests of Variables of Attention (TOVA) in rural school-aged children in Benin Africa by Roméo Zoumenou, Nathalie Costet, Michael J. Boivin, Jaqueline Wendland, Florence Bodeau-Livinec

“…The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) has been used as a mental health screening measure in the SSA, but its psychometric properties are not well understood. Five hundred and sixty-six mothers completed the SDQ for their 6-year-old children in rural Benin north of Cotonou. …”
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Discordance between humoral and cellular immune responses to cytomegalovirus infection in CMV seropositive patients awaiting lung transplantation by Meritxell Boada-Pérez, Meritxell Boada-Pérez, Meritxell Boada-Pérez, Cristina Berastegui, Cristina Berastegui, Cristina Berastegui, Marta Erro, Marta Erro, Piedad Ussetti, Elena Crespo, Elena Crespo, Laura Donadeu, Laura Donadeu, Oriol Bestard, Oriol Bestard, Oriol Bestard, Gabriel Anguera, Amparo Solé, Ricardo Ponz Mir, Brian Molloy, Eva Revilla-López, Eva Revilla-López, Víctor Monforte, Víctor Monforte, Víctor Monforte, Susana Gómez-Ollés, Susana Gómez-Ollés, Susana Gómez-Ollés

“…The significance of this observation in LT is still unknown.MethodsThis prospective, multicenter, observational study evaluated the agreement between CMV IgG serology and specific cell-mediated response (specific T cell Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSpot Assay, ELISPOT, against CMV pp65 and IE-1 antigens) in 121 patients on the waiting list for LT.ResultsOne hundred and four (86%) patients were seropositive for CMV. …”
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The validity of the renal Doppler resistivity index in renal allograft infections by Moataz Fatthy, Karim M. Soliman, Éva Csongrádi, Abd El Rahman Marzouk, Ahmed Fathy, Ahmed Fayed

“…We aimed to examine the correlation between RRI and renal allograft infection in these subjects.Methods One hundred nine renal allograft recipients were recruited, and RRI was evaluated for correlation with renal allograft infection. …”
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Is in situ simulation in emergency medicine safe? A scoping review by Guillaume Martel, Andrew Petrosoniak, Marcel Émond, Jennifer Truchot, Valérie Boucher, Éliane Raymond-Dufresne, Winny Li, Eva Jouhair

“…Objectives To provide an overview of the available evidence regarding the safety of in situ simulation (ISS) in the emergency department (ED).Design Scoping review.Methods Original articles published before March 2021 were included if they investigated the use of ISS in the field of emergency medicine.Information sources MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane and Web of Science.Results A total of 4077 records were identified by our search strategy and 2476 abstracts were screened. One hundred and thirty full articles were reviewed and 81 full articles were included. …”
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Design and Analysis of Helical Cone Coil Heat Exchanger for Low Grade Heat Recovery by Ajay Hundiwale, Lokpriya Gaikwad, Sandeep Joshi

“…This waste heat, varying from slightly above room temperature to several hundred degrees Celsius, can exist as liquids, gases, or a combination of both. …”
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Effects of yttria doping on the interfacial reaction between barium zirconate ceramics and TiAl alloy melt by Yun Shen, Du Hong, Tianfang Sun, Rui Hou, Gong Zheng, Yaran Niu, Guang Chen

“…The results after melting showed that the thickness of the reaction layer of the BaZr1-xYxO3-δ decreased from hundreds of microns to tens of microns with the increase of the Y2O3 content. …”
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Endoscopic endonasal approach for pituitary neuroendocrine tumor with septal mucosa incision tailored to tumor extension intending unilateral septal mucosa preservation by Hiroyoshi Kino, Hiroyoshi Akutsu, Shuho Tanaka, Takuma Hara, Yusuke Morinaga, Hidetaka Miyamoto, Rieko Ii, Koutarou Osawa, Eiichi Ishikawa

“…Especially, rescue flap incision is used on ipsilateral side of the tumor extension to facilitate lateral expansion of the anterior sphenoidotomy and tumor resection. One hundred eighty-nine patients underwent EES using PTSA with K-R incision in Tsukuba university hospital. …”
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A Systematic Review of the Epidemiology, Immunopathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pleural TB in HIV- Infected Patients by A. Aljohaney, K. Amjadi, G. G. Alvarez

“…A literature search from 1950 to June 2011 in MEDLINE was conducted. Results. Two-hundred and ninety-nine studies were identified, of which 30 met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Evaluating the Dynamic Elastic Modulus of Concrete Using Shear-Wave Velocity Measurements by Byung Jae Lee, Seong-Hoon Kee, Taekeun Oh, Yun-Yong Kim

“…The objectives of this study are to investigate the relationship between static and dynamic elastic moduli determined using shear-wave velocity measurements and to demonstrate the practical potential of the shear-wave velocity method for in situ dynamic modulus evaluation. Three hundred 150 by 300 mm concrete cylinders were prepared from three different mixtures with target compressive strengths of 30, 35, and 40 MPa. …”
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Clustering Cu-S based compounds using periodic table representation and compositional Wasserstein distance by Shuyan Hao, Ting Xia, Ruizhi Zhang, Meng Guo

“…Some selected groups are analyzed using crystal structure visualization of hundreds of compounds, which provides chemical insights of the similarity metrics and shows the effectiveness of clustering. …”
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Geohazard Features of the Ionian Calabrian Margin by S. Ceramicola, A. Cova, E. Forlin, N. Markezic, G. Mangano, D. Civile, M. Zecchin, F. Fanucci, E. Colizza, C. Corselli, D. Morelli, A. Savini, A. Caburlotto, O. Candoni, M. Coste, D. Cotterle, S. Critelli, A. Cuppari, M. Deponte, R. Dominici, L. Facchin, E. Gordini, M. Locatelli, F. Muto, D. Praeg, R. Romeo, C. Tessarolo

“…Large-scale gravity-driven movements and the incipient retrogressive canyon headwalls are of particular concern, as they are located just a few hundred meters from the coast, where critical infrastructures and densely populated urban centers are situated, and also where high-resolution geophysical data are often lacking. …”
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A Search for Radio Millisecond Pulsar Companions around Extremely Low-mass White Dwarfs with Ellipsoidal Variability by W. J. Huang, Pak-Hin Thomas Tam, L. L. Ren, J. M. Lin

“…We performed a search for radio pulsations from six of these targets by using Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope. …”
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Comparison of the Laryngeal View during Tracheal Intubation Using Airtraq and Macintosh Laryngoscopes by Unskillful Anesthesiology Residents: A Clinical Study by Carlos Ferrando, Gerardo Aguilar, F. Javier Belda

“…Each one of the patients were intubated using both devices by unskillful (less than two hundred intubations with the Macintosh laryngoscope and 10 intubations using the Airtraq) anesthesiology residents. …”
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A symbolic reading of Ibn Arabi's Shatranj al-Ārifin and Sheikh A’lā al-Dowleh Semnāni 's Shatranjiya Treatise by Elham Rezvani Moghadam, Ghodratollah Khayatian

“…The results of this research reveal that Ibn Arabi elaborated on the symbolism of chessboard and set the number of chessboard squares according to one hundred positions; he limited himself to the apparent meaning for some of the squares but used hermeneutic interpretations of symbols for those where the apparent meaning did not hold a solid ground. …”
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Description of the root anatomy of the primary molars using high resolution computed microtomography (Micro-CT). An analysis of three-dimensional root canal system by Benedetta Vidi, Benedetta Vidi, Ana María Gil-Valcarcel, Ana María Gil-Valcarcel, Cristina Obispo-Diaz, Isabel Sanchez-Jorge, Jesús Mena-Álvarez, Juan Manuel Aragoneses-Lamas, Cristina Rico-Romano

“…Background/purposeThis study aimed to describe the root canal morphology of primary molars using Micro-CT and analyse the three-dimensional images of the internal root canal system.Material and methodsOne hundred and twenty extracted primary molars with one or more completed roots were scanned with Micro-CT. …”
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Latent Abnormal Pathology Affects Long-Term Graft Function in Elder Living Renal Allograft Recipients by Linlin Ma, Lei Zhang, Yu Du, Zelin Xie, Yawang Tang, Jun Lin, Wen Sun, Hongbo Guo, Rumei Bi, Mengmeng Zhang, Xi Zhu, Ye Tian

“…This study evaluated the long-term effects and clinical significance of latent abnormal pathology on elder living donor kidney graft function after renal transplantation in China. Methods. One-hundred and thirty-eight living donor renal transplantations have been carried out at our hospital in recent years. …”
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