Comparison of intensity normalization methods in prostate, brain, and breast cancer multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging by Savannah R. Duenweg, Samuel A. Bobholz, Allison K. Lowman, Aleksandra Winiarz, Biprojit Nath, Michael J. Barrett, Fitzgerald Kyereme, Stephanie Vincent-Sheldon, Peter LaViolette

“…This study used MP-MRI collected from patients with confirmed prostate, brain, or breast cancer to examine common intensity normalization methods to identify which best harmonizes intensity values across cofounds.Materials and methodsMultiple normalization methods were deployed for intensity comparison between three unique sites, MR vendors, and magnetic field strength. …”
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Mesenchymal Stromal Cells from Osteoarthritic Synovium Are a Distinct Population Compared to Their Bone-Marrow Counterparts regarding Surface Marker Distribution and Immunomodulati... by Sebastien Hagmann, Claudia Rimmele, Florin Bucur, Thomas Dreher, Felix Zeifang, Babak Moradi, Tobias Gotterbarm

“…Synovial MSCs from OA joints are a unique fraction that can be distinguished from their bone-marrow derived counterparts. …”
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Distinct Murine Pancreatic Transcriptomic Signatures during Chronic Pancreatitis Recovery by Yinjie Zhang, Baibing Yang, Joy M. Davis, Madeline M. Drake, Mamoun Younes, Qiang Shen, Zhongming Zhao, Yanna Cao, Tien C. Ko

“…There are 132 DEGs overlapped between CP and CPR and 34 DEGs unique to CPR. A number of selected pancreatic fibrosis-relevant DEGs were validated by qPCR. …”
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Development of a core outcome set for school-based intervention studies on preventing childhood overweight and obesity: study protocol by Mai Chinapaw, Teatske M Altenburg, Tessa J Roseboom, Jo Salmon, Deirdre Harrington, Lotte W de Vries, Iris Grooten, Janneke Van 't Hooft, Arend van Deutekom

“…In the next phase, a group of international stakeholders will participate in a Delphi study in which they will rate all unique outcomes on a 9-point Likert scale over three rounds to reach consensus on a COS. …”
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Automatic detection of floating instream large wood in videos using deep learning by J. Aarnink, J. Aarnink, T. Beucler, T. Beucler, M. Vuaridel, V. Ruiz-Villanueva, V. Ruiz-Villanueva

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Introduction: Democracy Disorganized? by Jonathan Bach

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Some Personal Reflections on the “Mentorship Paradox” by Mike Savage

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Mentoring While Black: A Testimony by Alford A. Young, Jr.

“…Such politics involve managing the racial implications of faculty competition to attract graduate students and implementing mentoring strategies that have been uniquely informed by my own racial experiences within and outside of academia.…”
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Revealing the biological features of the axolotl pancreas as a new research model by Hui Ma, Hui Ma, Hui Ma, Guangcong Peng, Yan Hu, Binbin Lu, Binbin Lu, Yiying Zheng, Yingxian Wu, Weimin Feng, Yu Shi, Xiangyu Pan, Li Song, Ina Stützer, Yanmei Liu, Jifeng Fei, Jifeng Fei, Jifeng Fei

“…Our study highlights the unique features of the axolotl pancreas and broadens the scope of animal models available for pancreatic evolution and disease research.…”
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BRICS expansion in the news coverage of member countries: a political economy perspective by Fedaa Mohamed Abdelaziz Abdeldayem, Sarah Francis Wadie Kswat

“…When comparing the 11 newspapers' coverage of BRICS-related topics, it’s evident that each publication brings its unique perspective and priorities to the forefront. …”
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A machine learning and clustering-based approach for county-level COVID-19 analysis. by Charles Nicholson, Lex Beattie, Matthew Beattie, Talayeh Razzaghi, Sixia Chen

“…This is especially true for regionally specific predictive models due to either limited case histories or other unique factors characterizing the region. This paper employs both supervised and unsupervised methods to identify the critical county-level demographic, mobility, weather, medical capacity, and health related county-level factors for studying COVID-19 propagation prior to the widespread availability of a vaccine. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF AESTETICS IN POST-CLASSICAL EPOCH by Dariia M. Skalska

“…Both the measurements of aesthetic as a unique, peculiar, specific and aesthetic dimensions of philosophical anthropology /systems of philisophy/ have in sight  the necessity to solve the same problem - the identification of new methodological basis. …”
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Ouvrières agricoles et conventions collectives : de la discrimination à la reconnaissance ? (1950-2018) by Jean-Louis Escudier

“…The first part, focused on the genesis of this long process of institution of the agricultural collective labor agreements, is dedicated on examination of the modalities of integration of the agricultural jobs considered as “traditionally feminine” in the lists of jobs, in particular the substitution of a unique hierarchical scale to scales of jobs differentiated according to gender. …”
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Bilateral Simultaneous Avulsion Fractures of the Proximal Tibia in a 14-Year-Old Athlete with Vitamin-D Deficiency by Ziad Harb, Arfan Malhi

“…We report this case for its uniqueness and as an educational review of the importance of the developmental anatomy of the proximal tibia. …”
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La friche PCUK entre dépollution, renaturation et régénération paysagère by Elisa Baldin

“…Within this framework, the site known as Produits Chimiques Ugine Kuhlmann (PCUK), within the Lille metropolitan area, is studied as an unique testing ground for observing a succession of approaches adopted since 1984 in the rehabilitation of sites and polluted soils. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Oil Film Forces of Tilting-Pad Guide Bearing in Large Hydro-unit by Li-Feng Ma, Xin-Zhi Zhang

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Black Scale Saissetia oleae (Olivier, 1791) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) by Morgan A. Byron, Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman, Sandra A. Allan

“…Based on their small size and the unique life history of scale insects, these insects are difficult to detect and control. …”
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How the approach to the Epoch of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is changing in the Lithuanian Historiography today? by Vytautas Jarutis

“…After reestablishing independence in 1990, Lithuanian historians refused the heritage of Soviet historiography, started integrating the Western theoretical discourse and have created a unique model of the development of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the European civilization, proposed by Edvardas Gudavičius. …”
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A New Approach for the Approximations of Solutions to a Common Fixed Point Problem in Metric Fixed Point Theory by Ishak Altun, Nassir Al Arifi, Mohamed Jleli, Aref Lashin, Bessem Samet

“…We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique common fixed point for a pair of mappings T,S:X→X, where X is a nonempty set endowed with a certain metric. …”
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Conehead Termite Nasutitermes corniger (Motschulsky) (Insecta: Blattodea: Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae) by Reina Tong, Katherine Tenn, Rudolf H Scheffrahn

“…This widespread Neotropical species is unique among Florida termites due to the soldier’s nasus (an elongated frontal projection on the soldier’s head) and conspicuous nests (Scheffrahn et al. 2002). …”
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