Maternal genes and facial clefts in offspring: a comprehensive search for genetic associations in two population-based cleft studies from Scandinavia. by Astanand Jugessur, Min Shi, Håkon Kristian Gjessing, Rolv Terje Lie, Allen James Wilcox, Clarice Ring Weinberg, Kaare Christensen, Abee Lowman Boyles, Sandra Daack-Hirsch, Truc Trung Nguyen, Lene Christiansen, Andrew Carl Lidral, Jeffrey Clark Murray

“…Two complementary statistical methods, TRIMM and HAPLIN, were used to detect multi-marker effects in population-based samples from Norway (562 case-parent and 592 control-parent triads) and Denmark (235 case-parent triads). …”
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DAGSLAM: causal Bayesian network structure learning of mixed type data and its application in identifying disease risk factors by Yuanyuan Zhao, Jinzhu Jia

“…Traditional statistical methods struggle to capture these complexities, necessitating more sophisticated analytical frameworks. …”
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Effect of Water-soluble Polysaccharides Plant Extraction of the <i>Saussurea</i> Genus on the Activity of Mice Peritoneal Macrophage NO-synthase by A. A. Ligacheva, E. I. Gulina, I. V. Shabanova, E. S. Trofimova, S. V. Krivoshchekov, N. V. Gurkin, M. N. Shurupova, E. Yu. Sherstoboev, M. G. Danilets, M. V. Belousov

“…These samples used in a detailed study of the immunomodulatory properties and further development on their basis of new treatment methods various diseases that require correction and regulation of the functional activity of immune cells, including macrophages.…”
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Identification and Validation of NK Marker Genes in Ovarian Cancer by scRNA-seq Combined with WGCNA Algorithm by Xin He, Weiwei Feng

“…As an innate immune system effector, natural killer cells (NK cells) play a significant role in tumor immunotherapy response and clinical outcomes. Methods. In our investigation, we collected ovarian cancer samples from TCGA and GEO cohorts, and a total of 1793 samples were included. …”
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Exosomal Protein Biomarkers in Arthritis: Deciphering the Inflammatory Profiles of RA and OA by Claudia M. Brenis Gómez, Chamaida Plasencia-Rodríguez, Marta Novella-Navarro, Ana Martínez-Feito, Alejandro Balsa, Enrique Calvo-Aranda, Borja Hernández-Breijo

“…<b>Results</b>: The extracellular vesicles from HC samples exhibited smaller sizes and were more concentrated than exosomes from RA and OA samples. …”
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Influence of oncolytic strains of a new unclassified group of human rotaviruses on peripheral blood lymphocytes by O. I. Kit, S. Yu. Filippova, S. V. Timofeeva, A. O. Sitkovskaya, E. Yu. Zlatnik, S. A. Kolpakov, E. P. Kolpakova, E. S. Bondarenko, I. A. Novikova

“…The study of lymphocytes subpopulation composition showed a relative increase in the number of early activation markers on T cells in samples with viruses, which was also more pronounced in samples with the addition of RVK228.Conclusion. …”
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Evaluation of the Performance of Widal Slide Agglutination Test Compared to Blood Culture and Evaluation of Interferon Gamma Response in the Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever by Mujahid, N.S., Mohammed, Y., Yusuf, I., Sani, N.M., Abdulkadir, B., Nasiru, M.S, Wada, M.

“…The study demonstrated that the use of Widal serology test in the diagnosis of typhoid fever may be erroneous as all the samples were found to be negative for S. Typhi using the gold standard culture methods while Interferon gamma concentration was statistically related to the isolation of non- S. …”
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Characterization of the upper respiratory tract microbiome of patients with acute respiratory infections by 16S rRNA sequencing by A. A. Ivanova, A. A. Perederiy, A. S. Popenko, E. V. Venev, A. V. Fadeev, D. A. Gusev, D. M. Danilenko, A. B. Komissarov, D. A. Lioznov

“…Rapid and accurate identification of pathogens, such as bacteria, in biological samples is an important task, for which 16S rRNA gene sequencing using new generation platforms is used.The objective was a comparative analysis of the qualitative characteristics of the oropharyngeal microbiome of healthy volunteers and patients with ARI of unknown etiology based on the 16S rRNA gene sequencing.Methods and materials. …”
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Effect of drying techniques on the stability of volatile compounds and antioxidative activities of dried Thai fermented black soybean (thua nao) by Pakavit Mathatheeranan, Thanakorn Wongprasert, Mingchih Fang, Ting-Jang Lu, Inthawoot Suppavorasatit

“…In this research, thua nao samples were produced from black soybeans. After fermentation, various drying methods, including sun drying (SUN), hot air drying (HOT), microwave vacuum drying (MIC), and vacuum drying (VAC) were employed to produce dried thua nao. …”
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Identification and Characterization of Differentially Expressed MicroRNAs in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia by Lingmin Song, Xue Wang, Gang Wang, Liwei Zheng, Zhansong Zhou

“…However, these results highlight the need for further investigation employing a more extensive sample size and comprehensive clinical data to elucidate their potential roles in the pathogenesis of BPH.…”
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Comparison Between Nested-PCR and ELISA for the Detection of Toxoplasmagondii in Blood and Milk and its Genotyping in Lactating Goats and Aborted Women in Iraq by Entesar H Madi, Firas R Al-Samarai, Yusuf M Maaen, Shishir K Gangwar

“…A total of 17 (21.2%) infected goats were found in blood samples  and 23 (28.7%)in milk samples when using n-PCR, while the numbers were 23 (28.7%) and  17 (21.2%) when using ELISA. …”
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Cord Malaria Infection, Complement Activation, Oxidative Stress, Gestational Age, and Birth Weight, Characterized by High Plasmodium falciparum Prevalence in Bamenda, Cameroon by Oumar Mahamat, Kidio Gisele Ndum, Sumo Laurentine, Ntonifor Ngum Helen

“…It is unknown whether the presence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites in umbilical cord blood denotes activation of complement and oxidative stress to affect the duration of pregnancy and birth weight. Methods. In a cross-sectional study conducted from January to April 2019 in Bamenda, Cameroon, cord blood samples were collected from 300 women at delivery. …”
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Sources for the breeding of soft spring wheat in the conditions of Novosibirsk region by V. V. Piskarev, E. V. Zuev, A. N. Brykova

“…Estimation was carried out by a 9-point system of expression of the trait during the study, which allows identifying samples with the greatest expression of the trait in the years of study with respect to the average experience. 5439 samples have been studied over 28 years, with 1106 of them, over two years or more. …”
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Just-in-Time Delivery of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy–Based Exercises: Single-Case Experimental Design With Random Multiple Baselines by Takeyuki Oba, Keisuke Takano, Daichi Sugawara, Kenta Kimura

“…ObjectiveWe implemented this scheme as a smartphone intervention for daily stress management, based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and evaluated its feasibility and efficacy using a single-case experimental design. MethodsA total of 8 Japanese adults (community sample: 4 women; mean 37.6, SD 13.1 y) were recruited. …”
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Socioeconomic characteristics, health and wellbeing of nonbinary adolescents in a Southern European City by Lucía Artazcoz, Juli Carrere, Katherine Pérez, Esther Sánchez-Ledesma, Gemma Serral, Maria José López

“…Methods This cross-sectional study used data from the 2021 FRESC Health Survey on Adolescence in Barcelona. …”
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DEHYDRATION OF CHEESE BY HOT AIR, MICROWAVE AND FREEZE-DRYING by ANA RITA C. PINHO, FERNANDA R. ASSIS, ANA PAULA PERES, MANUELA E. PINTADO, ALCINA M. M. B. MORAIS

“…The objective of this work was to study the dehydration of skim cheese through different methods, in particular by hot air, microwave and freeze-drying, in order to assess which of these methods would be more suitable for the development of a new product (cheese snack). …”
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Determination of Dynamic Stresses and Displacements under the Action of an Impact Load on a Two-Layer Structure during the Indentation Process by N. E. Babushkina, A. A. Lyapin

“…The advantages of dynamic indentation methods and the distribution of stress intensity on the surface and inside the sample are investigated. …”
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Assessing various Infrared (IR) microscopic imaging techniques for post-mortem interval evaluation of human skeletal remains. by Claudia Woess, Seraphin Hubert Unterberger, Clemens Roider, Monika Ritsch-Marte, Nadin Pemberger, Jan Cemper-Kiesslich, Petra Hatzer-Grubwieser, Walther Parson, Johannes Dominikus Pallua

“…PMI specific features were identified and visualized by overlaying IR imaging data with morphological tissue structures obtained using light microscopy to differentiate between forensic and archaeological bone samples. ATR and reflection spectra revealed that a more prominent peak at 1042 cm-1 (an indicator for bone mineralization) was observable in archeological bone material when compared with forensic samples. …”
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Deep generative AI models analyzing circulating orphan non-coding RNAs enable detection of early-stage lung cancer by Mehran Karimzadeh, Amir Momen-Roknabadi, Taylor B. Cavazos, Yuqi Fang, Nae-Chyun Chen, Michael Multhaup, Jennifer Yen, Jeremy Ku, Jieyang Wang, Xuan Zhao, Philip Murzynowski, Kathleen Wang, Rose Hanna, Alice Huang, Diana Corti, Dang Nguyen, Ti Lam, Seda Kilinc, Patrick Arensdorf, Kimberly H. Chau, Anna Hartwig, Lisa Fish, Helen Li, Babak Behsaz, Olivier Elemento, James Zou, Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Babak Alipanahi, Hani Goodarzi

“…Orion achieves an overall sensitivity of 94% (95% CI: 87%–98%) at 87% (95% CI: 81%–93%) specificity for cancer detection across all stages, outperforming the sensitivity of other methods on held-out validation datasets by more than  ~ 30%.…”
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Computer Vision in Monitoring Fruit Browning: Neural Networks vs. Stochastic Modelling by Maria Kondoyanni, Dimitrios Loukatos, Charalampos Templalexis, Diamanto Lentzou, Georgios Xanthopoulos, Konstantinos G. Arvanitis

“…Thus, this study investigated the application of computer vision techniques and various RGB cameras in the detection and classification of enzymatic browning in cut pears, comparing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with stochastic modelling. More specifically, light is shed on the potential of CNN-based approaches for high-throughput and easily adapted applications and the potential of stochastic methods for precise, quantitative analyses. …”
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