Prior immunity to Ureaplasma urealyticum protects against respiratory infection in immunosuppressed mice by Maha Y. Al-Jabri, Robin Patel, Derek Fleming

“…Mice were immunized with three intramuscular injections of U. urealyticum, with control mice injected with adjuvant only. Following immunization, mice received tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, and methylprednisolone, and then were challenged with U. urealyticum or U. parvum intraperitoneally and intratracheally over 6 days. …”
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Geodesic Distance on Gaussian Manifolds to Reduce the Statistical Errors in the Investigation of Complex Systems by Michele Lungaroni, Andrea Murari, Emmanuele Peluso, Pasqualino Gaudio, Michela Gelfusa

“…The data can therefore not only be sampled from a nonnormal pdf but also be affected by significant levels of Gaussian additive noise of various amplitude. …”
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Endobronchial Cartilage Rupture: A Rare Cause of Lobar Collapse by Osama Dasa, Nauman Siddiqui, Mohammed Ruzieh, Toseef Javaid

“…Endobronchial cartilage rupture is a rare clinical condition, which can present in patients with severe emphysema with sudden onset shortness of breath. We present a case of a 62-year-old male who presented to our emergency department with sudden onset shortness of breath. …”
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Florida Crop/Pest Management Profile: Mamey Sapote and Sapodilla by Mark A. Mossler, Olaf Norman Nesheim

“… This document is CIR 1414, one of a series of the Pesticide Information Office, Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Rapid molecular assays versus blood culture for bloodstream infections: a systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context by Gabriella Anna Rapszky, Uyen Nguyen Do To, Veronika Eszter Kiss, Tamás Kói, Anna Walter, Dorottya Gergő, Fanni Adél Meznerics, Márton Rakovics, Szilárd Váncsa, Lajos Vince Kemény, Dezső Csupor, Péter Hegyi, Michael R. Filbin, Csaba Varga, Bánk G. Fenyves

“…Two RMAs were included in the qualitative synthesis only (InfectID-BSI, Pilot Gene Technology droplet digital polymerase chain reaction). …”
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Patient outcomes and health care resource utilization in acute pancreatitis-related central nervous system complications: insights from a national cohort study by Muhammad Shahzil, Ammad Javaid Chaudhary, Saad Javaid, Vishali Moond, Gokturk Tepe, Muhammad Saad Faisal, Muhammad Ali Khaqan, Anas Kutait

“…Patients were divided into the AP-CE group that developed CE and the AP-only group that did not. Outcome data were analyzed using Stata software. …”
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Effects of Self-Care Education on Self-Neglect Among Older Adults by Fereshteh Davoodi, Shahzad Pashaeypoor, Mehrnoosh Partovirad, Farshad Sharifi, Nasrin Nikpeyma

“…Participants in the control group received only routine care. Post-tests were administered six weeks later. …”
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Analysis of the influence of the anisotropy induced by cold rolling on duplex and super-austenitic stainless steels by Angelo Finelli, Martino Labanti

“…Considering the small size of the component, the method and the specimens used for the tests were not the standard one. The procedure carried out provided the strain measurement of the specimen during testing by means of resistive strain gages, bonded on the specimens.…”
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The Qur’ans of the Spanish Moriscos and the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Drawing Comparisons and Tracing Patterns by Katarzyna K. Starczewska

“…Both groups preserved their Muslim religiosity but, with some erudite exceptions, had only scarce knowledge of Arabic, the holy language of Qur’anic revelation. …”
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Survival trends of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for pediatric emergency patients in regional and metropolitan areas in Japan by Noriyuki Kaku, Wakato Matsuoka, Kentaro Ide, Takaaki Totoki, Katsuki Hirai, Soichi Mizuguchi, Kanako Higashi, Kenichi Tetsuhara, Hazumu Nagata, Satoshi Nakagawa, Yasuyuki Kakihana, Akira Shiose, Shouichi Ohga

“…The clinical outcomes of patients of ≤15 years of age who received ECMO during 2010–2019 were investigated, targeting the survival and performance at discharge from intensive care units (ICUs), using medical charts. Results: One hundred and fifty-five patients were analyzed (regional, n = 70; metropolitan, n = 85). …”
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Review of Lightweight Vibration Isolation Technologies for Marine Power Devices by Yuanran Qiu, Wei Xu, Zechao Hu, Junqiang Fu, Mengxuan He

“…Vibration induced by marine power devices (MPD) transmitting to the hull structure is one of the most important factors that cause ship vibration and underwater sound radiation. …”
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On a Gauss-Kuzmin-Type Problem For a Generalized Gauss-Kuzmin Operator by Chrysoula Ganatsiou

“…A generalized limit probability measure associated with a random system with complete connections for a generalized Gauss-Kuzmin operator, only for a special case, is defined, and its behaviour is investigated. …”
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Analysis the MCA method as a basis decision making value engineering in determining choice of clean water house connection to the house by Amin Mawardi, Dian Suwandari Yunita, binti Suratkon Azeanita

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Yaşamın Anlamı Konusuna Kuramsal ve Psikometrik Çalışmalar Açısından Bir Bakış by Sevgi SEZER

“…Bu araştırmanın amacı ülkemizde araştırmalara yeterince konu olmamış yaşamın anlamı konusuna felsefi ve psikolojik bir perspektiften bakarak, konuya ilişkin kuramsal bir zemin sunmak, yaşamını anlamlı bulmanın temel bir psikolojik gereksinim olduğuna dikkat çekmek, konu hakkındaki psikometrik çalışmalar ve araştırma sonuçlarını dikkate alarak eğitim ve psikolojik danışma ve rehberlik hizmetlerindeki önemine dikkat çekmektir. Araştırmada temel olarak 20 yy.’ın başlarından bu yana daha açık gözlenmekte olan modern insanın anlam arayışı sorunu psikolojik ve felsefi bir temelde tartışılmakta, konunun günümüz insanının birçok psikolojik probleminin altında yatan en önemli gereksinimlerden biri olduğuna dikkat çekilmekte, eğitimcilerin bu konuda bundan sonra neler yapabilecekleri konusu tartışmaya açılmaktadır.…”
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Expression Analysis of ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters ABCB11 and ABCB4 in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and Variety of Pediatric and Adult Cholestatic and Noncholestatic Liver... by Cornelia Thoeni, Ruediger Waldherr, Jutta Scheuerer, Stefanie Schmitteckert, Ralph Roeth, Beate Niesler, Ernest Cutz, Christa Flechtenmacher, Benjamin Goeppert, Peter Schirmacher, Felix Lasitschka

“…Loss of functional ABCB11 and ABCB4 proteins causes early-onset refractory cholestasis or cholangiopathy. In this study, we investigated the expression and localization pattern of ABCB11 and ABCB4 using immunohistochemistry and RNA profiling in liver samples from patients with different types and stages of chronic cholestatic liver disease, with emphasis on primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), compared to a variety of cholestatic and noncholestatic hepatopathies. …”
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Baryogenesis via flavoured leptogenesis in a minimal type-II seesaw model by Sreerupa Chongdar, Sasmita Mishra

“…We study baryogenesis via leptogenesis in an extension of the Standard Model by adding one right-handed neutrino and one triplet scalar. …”
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Designing a general employee management model with an emphasis on performance management by Maryam Nasiri, Ameneh Firozabadi, Sanjar Slajagheh, Mahdi Mohamad Bagheri

“…Performance management is one of the most important topics emphasized by shareholders, managers and creditors; considering the development of capital markets, investors always want to know the success rate of managers in using their capital. …”
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Differential impact of minimum unit pricing on alcohol consumption between Scottish men and women: controlled interrupted time series analysis by Peter Anderson, Eileen F S Kaner, Jakob Manthey, Jürgen Rehm, Amy O'Donnell, Eva Jané Llopis

“…Objective To assess the immediate impact of the introduction of minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland on alcohol consumption and whether the impact differed by sex, level of alcohol consumption, age, social grade and level of residential deprivation of respondents.Design Primary controlled interrupted time series analysis and secondary before-and-after analysis of the impact of introducing MUP in Scotland using alcohol consumption data for England as control.Setting Data from Kantar Worldpanel’s Alcovision survey, a continuous retrospective online timeline follow-back diary survey of the previous week’s alcohol consumption.Participants 53 347 women and 53 143 men.Interventions Introduction of a minimum price of 50 pence per UK unit (6.25 pence/g) for the sale of alcohol in Scotland on 1 May 2018.Main outcome measures Number of grams of alcohol consumed per week, in total, in off-trade (eg, at home) and in on-trade (eg, in pubs, restaurants).Results Primary interrupted time series analyses found that the introduction of MUP was associated with a drop in reported weekly total alcohol consumption of 5.94 g (95% CI 1.29 to 10.60), a drop in off-trade consumption of 3.27 g (95% CI −0.01 to 6.56) and a drop in on-trade consumption of 2.67 g (95% CI −1.48 to 6.82). …”
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Reviewing and Criticizing the Islamic Art Book by Abed Taghavi

“…Argument to Islamic Art is one of the controversial topics in Archaeology and art of Islamic world. …”
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Clinical and Morphological Features of Dysplasia and Early Gastric Cancer in the Patients with Autoimmune Gastritis by A. S. Tertychnyy, N. V. Pachuashvili, D. P. Nagornaya, T. L. Lapina, E. A. Losik, A. B. Ponomarev, P. V. Pavlov, A. P. Kiryukhin, A. A. Fedorenko, D. D. Protsenko, V. T. Ivashkin

“…In five out of six patients with AIG, the localization of lesions prevailed in the stomach body, while all detected tumours were early ones, and according to the immunophenotype — of a gastric type. …”
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