Evaluation of sociodemographic and nutrition-related factors for type 2 diabetes risk: a sample from Turkiye by K. Esen Karaca-Çelik, Dilek Toprak, Murat Baş, Leyla Tevfikoğlu, Meryem Kahrıman, Merve İnce-Palamutoglu, Nurhan Doğan, Dilşat Baş

“…Methods We conducted the study in Afyonkarahisar province of Turkiye with participants aged 18–65 years. …”
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Evaluating the Impact of Oral Contraceptives on Pancreatic Cancer Risk: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Analysis by Yuxin Tang, Yu Zhang, Shuaiyi Wang, Xinyi Shi, Xinjia Ruan, Yu Cheng, Fangrong Yan, Tiantian Liu

“…To clarify this relationship and better identify potential risk factors for PC prevention, more unbiased and robust approaches are needed. <b>Methods:</b> We investigated the potential causal relationship between OC use and PC risk using a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis, with blood protein quantitative trait loci (pQTLs) as instrumental variables. …”
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Preparation of noninfectious scRNAseq samples from SARS-CoV-2-infected epithelial cells. by Raven M Osborn, Justin Leach, Michelle Zanche, John M Ashton, ChinYi Chu, Juilee Thakar, Stephen Dewhurst, Sonia Rosenberger, Martin Pavelka, Gloria S Pryhuber, Thomas J Mariani, Christopher S Anderson

“…Federal Select Agent Program, as of 2020, and only a subset of these are outfitted with the equipment needed to perform high-throughput molecular assays. Here, we describe a method for preparing non-hazardous RNA samples from SARS-CoV-2 infected cells, that enables scRNAseq analyses to be conducted safely in a BSL2 facility-thereby making molecular assays of SARS-CoV-2 cells accessible to a much larger community of researchers. …”
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The Association of Smoking Status and Intensity of Smoking with Blood Lipid Spectrum in a Sample of Middle-Aged Men by A. A. Alexandrov, V. B. Rozanov, M. B. Kotova, V. A. Dadaeva, E. I. Ivanova

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Femoroacetabular Impingement Morphological Changes in Sample of Patients Living in Southern Mexico Using Tomographic Angle Measures by Ricardo Cardenas-Dajdaj, Arianne Flores-Rivera, Marcos Rivero-Peraza, Nina Mendez-Dominguez

“…The cam-type occurred more frequently among individuals with taller stature compared to their peers. …”
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Enhancing infectious intestinal disease diagnosis through metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing of 1000 human diarrhoeal samples by Edward Cunningham-Oakes, Blanca M. Perez-Sepulveda, Yan Li, Jay C. D. Hinton, Charlotte A. Nelson, K. Marie McIntyre, Maya Wardeh, Sam Haldenby, Richard Gregory, Miren Iturriza-Gómara, Christiane Hertz-Fowler, Sarah J. O’Brien, Nigel A. Cunliffe, Alistair C. Darby, on behalf of the INTEGRATE consortium

“…Furthermore, comparison of RNA/DNA ratios between pathogen-positive and pathogen-negative samples demonstrated that metatranscriptomics can distinguish pathogen-positive/negative samples and provide insights into pathogen biology. …”
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ESBL-producing Enterobacterales in food and clinical samples: antimicrobial resistance organisms and genes in Chiang Mai, Thailand by Sirikwan Dokuta, Xiao Zhang, Peerapong Jeeno, Sayamon Hongjaisee, Sumed Yadoung, Phadungkiat Khamnoi, Bajaree Chuttong, Zhou Kai, Surat Hongsibsong

“…Microbial culture-based, molecular and nucleotide sequencing methods were used in this study. Of 279 food samples, chicken meat was the most contaminated with ESBL-producing organisms (50%), followed by pork meat (48%), and tomato (2%). …”
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Characteristics of the Parameters of Somatic Construction and Fitness Level in Elderly People Based on Selected Fullerton Test Samples by Marek Zieliński, Jolanta Zielińska, Robert Ślusarz

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Establishing a European wastewater pathogen monitoring network employing aviation samples: a proof of concept by Robert Morfino, Bernd Manfred Gawlik, Simona Tavazzi, Angela Tessarolo, Ana Burgos Gutierrez, Nita K. Madhav, Jasmine Grimsley, Amy Schierhorn, Andrew Franklin, Marta Vargha, Andrew Engeli, Mitchell Wolfe

“…Samples were collected from eight airports over two weeks, employing various methods for different types of wastewater, including samples from terminals and aircraft. …”
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Intubation in Eosinophilic Lung Disease: Predictors, Outcomes, and Characteristics from a National Inpatient Sample Analysis by Michel Al Achkar, Nadim Zaidan, Chloe Lahoud, Zaineb Zubair, Jessica Schwartz, Erica Abidor, Chris Kaspar, Halim El Hage

“…<i>Materials and Methods</i>: Patients admitted with a diagnosis of pulmonary eosinophilia between the years 2016 and 2020 were extracted from the largest inpatient US database, the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). …”
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Two Spectroscopy Devices Can Approximate Fruit and Vegetable Intake in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample by Stephanie B Jilcott Pitts, Qiang Wu, Melissa N Laska, Nancy E Moran

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CATHODOLUMINESCENCE AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY AS A BASIS FOR THE SELECTION OF REFERENCE SAMPLES FOR LA-ICP-MS ANALYSIS OF ZIRCON by S. L. Votyakov, M. V. Chervyakovskaya, Yu. V. Shchapova, E. A. Pankrushina, G. B. Mikhalevsky, V. S. Chervyakovsky

“…In order to develop express methods for the quantitative assessment of properties and the selection of reference samples close to investigated sample, to ensure similar conditions for the evaporation of substances and parameters of fractionation of trace elements in LA-ICP-MS, a comparative analysis of the U-Pb isotopic composition, Raman and cathodoluminescent spectra of zircon GJ-1, Plesovice, 91500, Temora-2, Mud Tank reference samples has been performed. …”
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Assessing a prediction model for depression risk using an early adolescent sample with self‐reported depression by Eileen Y. Xu, Niamh MacSweeney, Gladi Thng, Miruna C. Barbu, Xueyi Shen, Alex S. F. Kwong, Liana Romaniuk, Andrew McIntosh, Stephen M. Lawrie, Heather C. Whalley

“…IDEA‐RS may be more suited to research settings with sufficient data for refitting. …”
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Total protein content in samples of dry red wine from various manufacturers for quality and authenticity control by Gasanova Dariya, Yang Jun-Lin, Chen Xiao-Yi, Smirnov Sergey, Levashov Pavel

“…Wine quality control is performed, which is based on spectrophotometric determination of total protein content with use of Coomassie G-250 dye, combined with analysis of optical absorbance spectra of wine samples. This approach is characterized by simplicity of procedure, rapidity and high availability of reagents and equipment, and all this makes it applicable for quality control of wine by practically any laboratory, and for visual qualitative analysis in field and home conditions. 10 samples of dry red grape wine are analyzed, and total protein content varies by no more than 35% from the average value among all samples, which is 248 μg/mL. …”
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Influence of Loading Time of a Load Plate and Sample Size on the Measurement of Physical Properties of Resilient Materials by Kyoung woo KIM, Jun oh YEON, Kwan seop YANG, Myung jun KIM

“…Since magnitude of dynamic stiffness changes with an increase in loading time, it is necessary to examine the setting of the loading time for a load plate under test conditions. Samples of size 300×300 mm, rather than 200×200 mm, yielded more reliable results for compressibility measurement. …”
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E-Bayesian Prediction for the Burr XII Model Based on Type-II Censored Data with Two Samples by Hassan M. Okasha, Chuanmei Wang, Jianhua Wang

“…Both illustrative examples with real data and the Monte Carlo simulation are carried out to show the new method is acceptable. The results show that Bayesian and E-Bayesian predictions with the two kinds of loss functions have little difference for the point prediction, and E-Bayesian confidence interval (CI) with the two kinds of loss functions are almost similar and they are more accurate for the interval prediction.…”
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Time‐domain spectra of ultrasonic wave transmitted through granite and gypsum samples containing artificial defects by Zhuoran Tian, Chunjiang Zou, Yun Wu

“…Mechanical waves, as a common nondestructive testing (NDT) method, can reflect the external and internal structures of rock or rock masses. …”
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Incidence of intestinal parasitic infections among random samples at Al- Aziziyah hospital in Wasit province/Iraq by Zeina Anwar Jaffar, ashwak jasim Kzar Shammari, Maysoon Abdul-zahra Merdaw

“…Intestinal parasitic infections were found in (95.4 %) of the study population (17.9 % 1-5 age).  E. histolytica was more common among the positive samples collected from intestinal parasitic species detected in this work. …”
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Clinical utility of various liquid biopsy samples for the early detection of ovarian cancer: a comprehensive review by Yueqi Feng, Wanjun Yang, Jingyu Zhu, Shirui Wang, Ningjuan Wu, Hanzhi Zhao, Xiaofeng Yang

“…Future directions and challenges are also highlighted, along with areas where more research is warranted.…”
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Intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery based on improved hybrid dilated convolution network for unbalanced samples by Qianqian Zhang, Caiyun Hao, Ying Wang, Kun Zhang, Haitao Yan, Zhongwei Lv, Qiuxia Fan, Chan Xu, Lei Xu, Zhuang Wen, Weihuang Liu

“…The scaled exponential linear unit (SELU) is utilized to mitigate the significant suppression of the activation function on a few class samples. Finally, the network model is simulated using the focal loss function to make it more suitable for the case where the fault samples are small and confusing. …”
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