Risk of Superficial Fungal Infections in WHIM Syndrome by Jennifer Strong, Rutha Adhanom, Caleb S. Kim, Yoshine Saito, Jasmine C. Meltzer, Patrick Hallaert, Sophia Martinez, Abigail Salancy, Heidi H. Kong, Edward W. Cowen, Leslie Castelo-Soccio, Philip M. Murphy, David H. McDermott, Isaac Brownell

“…Abstract Introduction WHIM syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant inborn error of immunity caused by gain-of-function mutations in the chemokine receptor CXCR4. …”
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Convergent construct validity and test-retest reliability of both German versions of the original and the revised Niigata PPPD Questionnaire: NPQ and NPQ-R by Sarah Chételat, Sarah Chételat, Eve-Yaël Gerber, Eve-Yaël Gerber, Sarah El Khadlaoui, Frank Behrendt, Frank Behrendt, Michaela Stark, Michaela Stark, Stefan Schädler, Stefan Schädler, Maximilian Maywald, Lena Fabritius, Johannes Gerb, Johannes Gerb, Denis Grabova, Wiebke Trost, Andreas Zwergal, Andreas Zwergal, Ralf Strobl, Ralf Strobl, Katrin Parmar, Katrin Parmar, Hans Ulrich Gerth, Hans Ulrich Gerth, Leo H. Bonati, Leo H. Bonati, Leo H. Bonati, Sandra Becker-Bense, Corina Schuster-Amft, Corina Schuster-Amft, Corina Schuster-Amft

“…The study's aim was to evaluate the concurrent construct validity and reliability [including test-retest reliability, internal consistency, standard error of measurement (SEM), and minimal detectable change (MDC)] of the German version of the NPQ (12 items) and its revised version, NPQ-R, which contains 19 items addressing additional symptoms and symptom behavior.MethodsThe Swiss Reha Rheinfelden and the German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders included 265 PPPD patients (mean age 50.2 ± 16.8 years, disease duration 46.3 ± 76.6 months). …”
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¿Cómo Hume se volvió escéptico? by Plínio Junqueira Smith

“…Es fundamental percatarse de que esa ciencia denuncia los principios del entendimiento como imperfectos, involucrando errores, confusiones, falacias y contradicciones. …”
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A Comprehensive Evaluation of a Coumarin Derivative and Its Corresponding Palladium Complex as Potential Therapeutic Agents in the Treatment of Gynecological Cancers: Synthesis, Ch... by Mirela Jevtić, Marijana Stanojević Pirković, Teodora Komazec, Marija Mojić, Sanja Mijatović, Danijela Maksimović-Ivanić, Dušan Dimić, Zoran Marković, Dušica Simijonović, Dejan Milenković, Edina Avdović

“…<b>Results:</b> A low mean absolute error between experimental and theoretical data proved that the optimized structure corresponded to the experimental one. …”
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Validation Study on Iatrogenic Nerve Damage Reduction Using Augmented Reality on Elbow Phantom by Giacomo Riberi, MD, Antonio Cangelosi, MSc, Paolo Titolo, MD, Elisa Dutto, MD, Massimo Salvi, PhD, Filippo Molinari, PhD, Luca Ulrich, PhD, Marco Agus, PhD, Corrado Calì, PhD

“…Compared with standard procedure, the use of AR resulted in −53.8 seconds in K-wire placement time, −47% of angular error from the K-wire target, −80% X-ray images taken to reach the estimate correct position, and decrease in distance variability of −81%, of the K-wire from anatomical structures of interest. …”
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Thalamic functional dysconnectivity in patients with left-hemisphere chronic capsular and pontine stroke by Jun Guo, Jun Guo, Hongchuan Zhang, Hongchuan Zhang, Jingchun Liu, Caihong Wang, Chen Cao, Jingliang Cheng, Chunshui Yu, Wen Qin

“…Even in the contralesional thalamus, we observed similar (with the ipsilesional) but less extensive functional dysconnectivity patterns in both the CS and PS patients (P &lt; 0.05, corrected using family-wise error [FWE] at the voxel level). Finally, we found significant group x subfields interactions on thalamic functional connectivity, where capsular vs. pontine stroke demonstrate varied functional dysconnectivity with specific thalamic subfields. …”
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Measuring implicit associations with behaviours to improve resident mood: development of implicit association tasks for nursing home care providers by Inge Knippenberg, Ruslan Leontjevas, Ine Declercq, Jacques van Lankveld, Debby Gerritsen

“…Results: Content validity indexes for target stimuli were satisfactory. Error rates were acceptable for attribute stimuli, but exceeded the 10 % limit for target stimuli. …”
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Merging Real-Time NIR and Process Parameter Measurements in a Fluidized Bed Granulation Process to Predict Particle Size by Ozren Jovic, Marcus O’Mahony, Samuel Solomon, David Egan, Chris O’Callaghan, Caroline McCormack, Ian Jones, Patrick Cronin, Gavin M. Walker, Rabah Mouras

“…<b>Results</b>: For all considered particle size fractions, Dv10, Dv25, Dv50, Dv75, and Dv90, an improved root-mean-squared error of prediction (RMSEP) is obtained for the merged-PLS model compared to the NIR-only PLS model and compared to the process parameters alone model. …”
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A score prediction model for predicting the heterogeneity symptom trajectories among lung cancer patients during perioperative period: a longitudinal observational study by Yong Yang, Xueqi Tian, Huiling Zhou, Yichao Wang, Yifeng Gu, Ao Qi, Decai Wang, Zhiying Wang, Yabin Gong, Lijing Jiao, Ling Xu

“…And the calibration curves demonstrated strong concordance between anticipated probability and actual data (mean absolute error: 0.033). Furthermore, the decision curve analysis (DCA) indicated higher net benefit than other four single factors. …”
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Development of the Italian version of the Motricity Index and evaluation of its reliability in adults with stroke by Diego Longo, Stefano Doronzio, Michele Piazzini, Angela Maria Politi, Tommaso Ciapetti, Filippo Gerli, Monica Barnabé, Francesca Ciullini, Chiara Castagnoli, Ilaria Pellegrini, Marta Cannobio, Donata Bardi, Marco Baccini, Francesca Cecchi

“…Moderate to almost perfect agreement was found for all individual item scores, except for 2 items on the less affected side. Conclusions: The MI-IT is sufficiently reliable to evaluate motor impairment of the more affected side after stroke, with acceptable measurement error for all scores. …”
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An artificial intelligence approach to palaeogeographic studies: a case study of the Late Ordovician brachiopods of Laurentia by Akbar Sohrabi

“…Based on the training algorithm and after 146 periods, the training error decreased, but the validation error increased (Fig. 7). …”
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Distinct risks of exacerbation and lung function decline between never-smokers and ever-smokers with COPD by Heemoon Park, Soo Min Jo, Kwang Nam Jin, Hyo Jin Lee, Hyun Woo Lee, Tae Yun Park, Eun Young Heo, Deog Kyeom Kim, Jung-Kyu Lee

“…Never-smokers with COPD had significantly lower risks of subsequent moderate to severe exacerbation (β ± standard error, − 0.4 ± 0.12; P = 0.001), any exacerbation (adjusted odds ratio, 0.46; 95% confidence interval, 0.26 − 0.8; P = 0.006), and frequent exacerbation (adjusted odds ratio, 0.28; 95% confidence interval, 0.09 − 0.89; P = 0.03) than ever-smokers with COPD. …”
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Framingham Risk Score Prediction at 12 Months in the STANDFIRM Randomized Control Trial by Thanh G. Phan, Velandai K. Srikanth, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Mark Nelson, Joosup Kim, Muideen T. Olaiya, Sharyn M. Fitzgerald, Christopher Bladin, Richard Gerraty, Henry Ma, Amanda G. Thrift

“…The optimal model for predicting FRS at 12 months was category boosting (R2=0.712; root mean square error, 7.32). The 5 variables with highest Shapley values for category boosting were baseline FRS (Shapley additive explanation [SHAP], 8.42 of total of 12.12), age (SHAP, 1.58), systolic blood pressure (SHAP, 0.23), male sex (SHAP, 1.05), and London Handicap (SHAP, 0.18). …”
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System for delivering microwave ablation to subcutaneous tumors in small-animals under high-field MRI thermometry guidance by Jan Sebek, Tej B. Shrestha, Matthew T. Basel, Faraz Chamani, Nooshin Zeinali, Ivina Mali, Macy Payne, Sarah A. Timmerman, Pegah Faridi, Marla Pyle, Martin O’Halloran, M. Conall Dennedy, Stefan H. Bossmann, Punit Prakash

“…One day post ablation, animals were euthanized, and excised tumors were processed for viability assessment.Results Average absolute error between temperatures from fiberoptic sensors and MRIT was 0.6 °C across all ex-vivo ablations. …”
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Artrosis de rodilla asociada a deformidad extraarticular tratada mediante prótesis total de rodilla y osteotomía correctora de forma simultánea by L. Arbeloa-Gutierrez, A. Arenas-Miquelez, J. de Pablos

“…There were no major complications, but there were two planning errors that did not impact upon the end result. Conclusions: In severe associated KOA and EAD, the combined surgical treatment proposed achieves in one stage an effective anatomical and mechanical correction which is crucial to optimise clinical results and implant durability. …”
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[Translated article] Knee osteoarthritis associated with extra-articular deformity treated by total knee arthroplasty plus simultaneous corrective osteotomy by L. Arbeloa-Gutierrez, A. Arenas-Miquelez, J. de Pablos

“…There were no major complications, but there were two planning errors that did not impact upon the end result. Conclusions: In severe associated KOA and EAD, the combined surgical treatment proposed achieves in one stage an effective anatomical and mechanical correction which is crucial to optimise clinical results and implant durability. …”
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Physical activity attenuates the genetic predisposition to obesity in 20,000 men and women from EPIC-Norfolk prospective population study. by Shengxu Li, Jing Hua Zhao, Jian'an Luan, Ulf Ekelund, Robert N Luben, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nicholas J Wareham, Ruth J F Loos

“…Each additional BMI-increasing allele was associated with 0.154 (standard error [SE] 0.012) kg/m(2) (p = 6.73 x 10(-37)) increase in BMI (equivalent to 445 g in body weight for a person 1.70 m tall). …”
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Characteristics and prediction methods of coal spontaneous combustion for deep coal mining in the Ximeng mining area by Li MA, Wenbo GAO, Longlong TUO, Pengyu ZHANG, Zhou ZHENG, Ruizhi GUO

“…As a result, the predicted temperatures based on the test set coincided well with the actual values, with a mean absolute error of 0.762℃, a root mean square deviation of 1.014, and a coefficient of determination of 0.999 4. …”
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Chronotherapeutic intervention targeting emotion regulation brain circuitry, symptoms, and suicide risk in adolescents and young adults with bipolar disorder: a pilot randomised tr... by Jihoon A Kim, Anjali Sankar, Rebecca Marks, Erin Carrubba, Bernadette Lecza, Susan Quatrano, Linda Spencer, R. Todd Constable, Brian Pittman, Eli R Lebowitz, Wendy K Silverman, Holly A Swartz, Hilary P Blumberg

“…Nineteen BE-SMART-DR and 16 BE-SMART-ER participants completed the intervention, with 11 and 13, respectively, having pre-intervention and post-intervention functional MRI data.Findings In addition to demonstrating feasibility, only BE-SMART-DR showed pre-treatment to post-treatment improvements in DR regularity (Cohen’s d=0.55; 95% CI [0.06, 1.03]), associated with reductions in left amygdala responses to emotional face stimuli (pFWE (family-wise error)-SVC (small volume correction)&lt;0.05), difficulties in emotion regulation (d=0.75; 95% CI [0.23, 1.25]) and suicide risk (d=0.65; 95% CI [0.15, 1.14]). …”
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Organization of production of Russia-made Mueller-Hinton broth by Kosilova I.S., Domotenko L.V., Khramov M.V.

“…Conclusions. Conventional a Russia-made MHB that meets the requirements of international standards has been developed. …”
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