Pomegranate Polyphenols Lower Lipid Peroxidation in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes but Have No Effects in Healthy Volunteers: A Pilot Study by Arpita Basu, Emily D. Newman, Alecia L. Bryant, Timothy J. Lyons, Nancy M. Betts

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Identification of presenilin mutations that have sufficient gamma-secretase proteolytic activity to mediate Notch signaling but disrupt organelle and neuronal health by Zahra Ashkavand, Kerry C. Ryan, Jocelyn T. Laboy, Ritika Patel, Brian Geller, Kenneth R. Norman

“…While the association of PSEN mutations with familial AD have been known for over 20 years, the mechanism underlying the impact these mutations have on disease is not fully understood. …”
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How does internal fixation compared with arthroplasty affect quality of life for patients who have suffered femoral neck fractures? by Zafar Ahmad, MD, Daniel Axelrod, MD, MSc, Marianne Comeau-Gauthier, MD, MSc, Sofia Bzovsky, MSc, Rudolf W. Poolman, MD, PhD, Frede Frihagen, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Mohit Bhandari, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Marc Swiontkowski, MD, Sheila Sprague, PhD, Emil Schemitsch, MD, FRCSC

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Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Have Lower Levels of Antibody to Heat-Stressed Fibroblast Derived Proteins, versus Normal Subjects by Azin Aghamajidi, Hesam Babaei Khameneh, Narges Amirjamshidi, Seyed Farzad Jalali, Haleh Akhavan-Niaki, Soraya Khafri, Seyedeh Narges Mousavi, Monireh Golpour, Maryam Mehri, AmrollahMostafazadeh

“…Fibroblasts constitute 60-70% of cardiac cells and have a crucial role in cardiovascular function. Hence, the aim of this study was to show a potential therapeutic application of proteins derived from heat-stressed fibroblast in CAD patients. …”
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An Algorithm for Restoring a Function from Different Functionals for Predicting Rare Events in the Economy by Yu. A. Korablev

“…This paper aims to restore some parameters of functionals using cubic splines to forecast rare events in finance and economics. …”
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Software Development and Maintenance Effort Estimation Using Function Points and Simpler Functional Measures by Luigi Lavazza, Angela Locoro, Roberto Meli

“…After the introduction of Function Points, a few “simplified” measures have been proposed, aiming to make measurement simpler and applicable when fully detailed software specifications are not yet available. …”
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Magnons from time-dependent density-functional perturbation theory and nonempirical Hubbard functionals by Luca Binci, Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov

“…Abstract Spin excitations play a fundamental role in understanding magnetic properties of materials, and have significant technological implications for magnonic devices. …”
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Epidemiology and clinical presentation of kidney amyloidosis have changed over the past three decades: a nationwide population-based study by Hilde J. Vasstrand, Melinda Raki, Rannveig Skrunes, Sabine Leh, Janne Thomsen, Helga Gudmundsdottir, Arnljot Tveit, Anders Hartmann, Anna V. Reisæter, Anders Åsberg, Tale N. Wien

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Acute Effects of Cannabis Inhalation on Arterial Stiffness, Vascular Endothelial Function, and Cardiac Function by Christian P. Cheung, Alexandra M. Coates, Ryleigh E. Baker, Jamie F. Burr

“…Although evidence links chronic use to an increased risk of disease and adverse cardiovascular events, few studies have investigated the acute effects of cannabis inhalation on subclinical dysfunction. …”
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Effector T cells under hypoxia have an altered transcriptome similar to tumor-stressed T cells found in non-responsive melanoma patients by Ahmad A Tarhini, Zhihua Chen, Dongliang Du, Joshua Davis, Justin C Boucher, Katarzyna A Rejniak, Jose A Guevara-Patino, Timothy I Shaw, Alyssa Obermayer, Mate Z Nagy, Lourdes B Plaza-Rojas, Elena Kostenko, Anna L Austin, Awino Maureiq E Ojwang'

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Improving Fourier Partial Sum Approximation for Discontinuous Functions Using a Weight Function by Beong In Yun

“…Using wm(r;x), we develop a weighted averaging method in order to improve Fourier partial sum approximation for a function having a jump-discontinuity. The method is based on the decomposition of the target function into the left-hand and the right-hand part extensions. …”
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Analysis of the effects of eating and emotions on reproductive axis function in patients with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea by Ye Lu, Yao Chen, Yuting Zhao, Yulu Wang, Hang Chen, Feifei Zhang, Xin Li

“…Objective: To investigate the effects of eating and emotions on reproductive axis function in patients with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea (FHA).Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted to summarize the clinical and endocrine characteristics of 58 patients with FHA at initial diagnosis and to follow up the recovery of ovulation and spontaneous menstruation in the patients to investigate these biochemical indicators and their effects on recovery outcomes.Results: Among patients with FHA, 13.8% (8/58) and 15.5% (9/58) had above moderately severe depressive and severe anxiety symptoms respectively, and 25.9% (15/58) were at high risk for eating disorders. 34.5% (20/58) were included assessed as having recovered. …”
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Complex immunogenicity assessment in caplacizumab-treated patients with immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura who have received plasma exchange by Brendy Van Butsel, Maria Laura Sargentini-Maier, Ana Paula Marques, Yana Vandenbossche, Gabriela Marcheva, Sriya Gunawardena, Samuel Pine

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Humans may not have a uniquely enhanced sequence memory: sequence discrimination is facilitated by causal–logical framing in humans and chimpanzees by Eva Reindl, Amanda M. Seed, Robert A. Barton, Topaz Francis-Costa, Rachel L. Kendal

“…Humans have been suggested to possess uniquely enhanced memory for sequences, based on sequence discrimination learning (SDL) tasks involving arbitrarily ordered sequences with no functional connection to outcomes. …”
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The prevalence of post-abortion syndrome in patients presenting at Kalafong hospital's family medicine clinic after having a termination of pregnancy by M. van Rooyen, S. Smith

“…To fulfill the criteria of PAS, the symptoms should have been present for more than a month and must have affected the subject's daily functioning. …”
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Hepatitis B virus genotypes A1 and A2 have distinct replication phenotypes due to polymorphisms in the HBx gene. by Min Zhang, Karim Mouzannar, Zhensheng Zhang, Yuji Teraoka, Jason Piotrowski, Yuji Ishida, Chise Tateno-Mukaidani, Takeshi Saito, Hiromi Abe-Chayama, Kazuaki Chayama, T Jake Liang

“…Individuals infected with these two subtypes appear to have different clinical manifestations and virologic features. …”
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Lopinavir and Ritonavir have High Affinity Toward the SARS-CoV-2 S-protein Receptor-binding Domain Sequenced in Brazil by Aline Diogo Marinho, Helyson Lucas Bezerra Braz, João Alison de Moraes Silveira, Danilo Galvão Rocha, Roberta Jeane Bezerra Jorge, Geanne Matos de Andrade

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Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients Who Have Survived an Episode of Sepsis in the United States: A Systematic Review by Sanjukta Basu, Ziyan J. Wei, Atara Laor, Liga Bennetts, Nina Ahmad, Antoine C. El Khoury, Jeroen Geurtsen, Maureen P. Neary

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Do olfactory and gustatory psychophysical scores have prognostic value in COVID-19 patients? A prospective study of 106 patients by Luigi Angelo Vaira, Claire Hopkins, Marzia Petrocelli, Jerome R. Lechien, Damiano Soma, Federica Giovanditto, Davide Rizzo, Giovanni Salzano, Pasquale Piombino, Sven Saussez, Giacomo De Riu

“…Methods Multicentre prospective study that recruited 106 COVID-19 subjects at diagnosis. Chemosensitive functions were assessed with psychophysical tests within 4 days of clinical onset, at 10 and 20 days. …”
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Harmonic functions of class of Bazilevi´c type Related to new derivative operator by Abdul Rahman S. Juma, Mushtaq S. Abdulhussain, Saba Nazar Al-khafaji

“…In this paper, we define and investigate subclass of Bazilevi´c type harmonic univalent functions related with a new linear operator. Also, we have obtained the harmonic structures in terms of its coefficient bounds, extreme points, distortion bound, convolution and we proved the function belongs to this class be closed under an integral operator.…”
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