Serological and Molecular Characterization of the Hepatitis B Virus in Blood Donors in Maputo City, Mozambique by Olga Maquessene, Osvaldo Laurindo, Lúcia Chambal, Nalia Ismael, Nédio Mabunda

“…The frequency of HBV infection was estimated at 4.4% and was higher among males (79.1%), individuals aged 25–39 years (55.2%), and replacement donors (89.6%). …”
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NNLO PDFs driven by top-quark data by S. Alekhin, M. V. Garzelli, S.-O. Moch, O. Zenaiev

“…European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields…”
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Pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials in prosthetic vision and simulated visual reduction by Sandra R Montezuma, Yingchen He, Jonathon Toft-Nielsen, Gordon Legge

“…In sighted controls, adding blur significantly delayed the P100 peak time by 8.7 ms, 95% CI (0.9, 16.6). …”
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Iron deficiency and symptoms in women aged 20–49 years and relation to upper gastrointestinal and colon cancers by Jean-Luc Szpakowski, Lue-Yen Tucker

“…Incidences per 1000 for gastric cancer with and without iron deficiency (ID) were 0.60 (95% CI 0.23 to 1.55) and 0.63 (95% CI 0.17 to 2.31), and for colon cancer, 2.72 (95% CI 1.72 to 4.29) and 2.53 (95% CI 1.29 to 4.99). …”
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Rollover Car Crashes with Ejection: A Deadly Combination—An Analysis of 719 Patients by Rifat Latifi, Ayman El-Menyar, Hany El-Hennawy, Hassan Al-Thani

“…Patients in Group I had a 5-fold increased risk for age-adjusted mortality (OR 5.43; 95% CI 3.11–9.49), P=0.001). …”
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Does Semi-Rigid Instrumentation Using Both Flexion and Extension Dampening Spacers Truly Provide an Intermediate Level of Stabilization? by Dilip Sengupta, Brandon Bucklen, Aditya Ingalhalikar, Aditya Muzumdar, Saif Khalil

“…The hypothesis was the new device would minimize the overloading of adjacent levels compared to rigid and conventional devices which can only bend but not stretch. The biomechanics were compared following injury in a human cadaveric lumbosacral spine under simulated physiological loading conditions. …”
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Passive Immunoprophylaxis for the Protection of the Mother and Her Baby: Insights from In Vivo Models of Antibody Transport by Yanqun Xu, Iftekhar Mahmood, Lilin Zhong, Pei Zhang, Evi B. Struble

“…Using pregnant guinea pigs, we demonstrated that biodistribution of administered IgG to the fetus increases with gestation and results in lower maternal and higher fetal antibody concentrations as pregnancy progresses. …”
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Conflict in Hillary Clinton’s Political Speeches: A Rhetorical Analysis by Michela Giordano

“…Les discours sont étudiés à la fois comme le canal par lequel une femme en position de pouvoir est en mesure de trouver sa dimension personnelle et un style linguistique politique original dans un environnement dominé par les hommes, et comme une arme rhétorique qu’elle utilise pour transmettre sa vision personnelle de conflit, tant des conflits sociaux que des conflits militaires, avec un intérêt particulier pour la guerre continuelle et douloureuse menée par les USA dans les pays du Proche-Orient.…”
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NMD Microarray Analysis for Rapid Genome-Wide Screen of Mutated Genes in Cancer by Maija Wolf, Henrik Edgren, Aslaug Muggerud, Sami Kilpinen, Pia Huusko, Therese Sørlie, Spyro Mousses, Olli Kallioniemi

“…Such a “mutatomics” screening of prostate cancer cell lines led to the identification of inactivating mutations in the EPHB2 gene. …”
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Inhibitory Effect on Cerebral Inflammatory Response following Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats: A Potential Neuroprotective Mechanism of N-Acetylcysteine by Gang Chen, Jixin Shi, Zhigang Hu, Chunhua Hang

“…However, it has not been investigated whether NAC modulates TBI-induced cerebral inflammatory response. In this work, we investigated the effect of NAC administration on cortical expressions of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) and inflammatory proteins such as interleukin-1β (IL-1β), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) after TBI. …”
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Resource Capacity of Academic Staff of Ural Federal District Universities: Qualitative Research by G. E. Zborovsky, P. A. Ambarova, V. S. Katashinskikh, E. V. Kemmet

“…Высшее образование в России…”
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Amelioration of Nephrotoxicity in Mice Induced by Antituberculosis Drugs Using Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman Corm Extract by Abebe Dukessa Dubiwak, Urge Gerema, Daba Abdisa, Ebsa Tofik, Wondu Reta

“…The present study was conducted on thirty Swiss albino mice randomly allocated into five groups. Group-I (only distilled water), Group-II (only isoniazid 75 mg/kg and rifampicin150 mg/kg), Group-III (isoniazid and rifampicin along with 200 mg/kg EVCE), Group-IV (isoniazid and rifampicin along with 400 mg/kg EVCE), and Group-V (isoniazid and rifampicin along with silymarin) were treated for thirty days. …”
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An Educational Intervention on Situational Awareness and Understanding of Menstrual Hygiene, Knowledge, Taboo, and Its Practices among School-going Adolescent Girls in Rural Areas of Belagavi, Karnataka by Nagma Khan, Arati Mahishale

Subjects: “…menstrual practice needs scale-36 scale…”
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DC bus voltage control strategy of PV systems based on fuzzy logic by El Oussoul Laarabi, Elhamdaouy Achour, Belattar Abdellatif, Ait Madi Abdessalam

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Study of effective removal of nickel and cobalt from aqueous solutions by FeO@mSiO2 nanocomposite by Wahran M. Saod, Nisreen Jassam Alaallah, Ekhlas A. Abdulkareem, Nahla Naji Hilal, Mohammad I. AlBiajawi

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The Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins MIP1α (CCL3) and MIP2α (CXCL2) in Implant-Associated Osteomyelitis: Linking Inflammation to Bone Degradation by Ulrike Dapunt, Susanne Maurer, Thomas Giese, Matthias Martin Gaida, Gertrud Maria Hänsch

“…To address the question of how the local inflammatory response is linked to bone degradation, tissue samples were taken during surgery and gene expression of the macrophage inflammatory proteins MIP1α (CCL3) and MIP2α (CXCL2) was assessed by quantitative RT-PCR. …”
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Correlation of rivaroxaban solubility in mixed solvents for optimization of solubility using machine learning analysis and validation by Muteb Alanazi, Jowaher Alanazi, Tareq Nafea Alharby, Bader Huwaimel

“…Optimal solubility conditions were identified at $$\:308.15\:K$$ with a mass fraction of 0.8190 in a dichloromethane-methanol mixture, yielding a predicted solubility of $$\:4.232736\times\:{10}^{-3}$$ . …”
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A Network-Based Approach to Modeling and Predicting Product Coconsideration Relations by Zhenghui Sha, Yun Huang, Jiawei Sophia Fu, Mingxian Wang, Yan Fu, Noshir Contractor, Wei Chen

“…While existing literature has shown that the exogenous effects (e.g., product and customer attributes) are deciding factors in customers’ consideration decisions, it is not clear how the endogenous effects (e.g., the intercompetition among products) would influence such decisions. …”
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La identidad geográfica del Parque Nacional de los Picos de Europa: la dificultad de su gestión by Fermín Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Rafael Menéndez Fernández, Cristina Pulgar Díaz

“…Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles…”
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Extraction and Physicochemical Characterization of Mucilage from Opuntia cochenillifera (L.) Miller by Mariel Monrroy, Erick García, Katherine Ríos, José Renán García

“…The mildly acidic pH (4.8–5) contributes to its emulsifying capacity. …”
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