Circulating inflammatory and neurotrophic markers as moderators and/or mediators of cognitive remediation outcome in people with bipolar disorders by Rebecca Strawbridge, Dimosthenis Tsapekos, Allan H. Young

“…For the BDNF, lower baseline levels predicted better functional outcomes across the sample but was more pronounced in TAU versus CRT participants and indicated larger CRT effects in those with a higher BDNF. …”
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Development of agricultural pests detection and identification system based on the technology of wireless transmission by Song Gelian, Han Ruizhen, Zhang Yonghua, He Yong

“…With more and more application and information collected, the system will expand the sample library dynamically by saving the image into the local disks.The feasibility of the system is discussed and statistically significantly tested in the context. …”
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Evaluation Of Life Quality In Colorectal Cancer Patients by Gülşah Kayserilioğlu, Dilek Aygin

“…In this study, life quality of colorectal cancer patients and the factors affecting their quality of life were examined. Materials and method. The sample of the study consisted of 110 patients who applied to the General Surgery Clinic/Service and Chemotherapy Unit in State Hospital and Training and Research Hospital between 01.05.2014 and 01.11.2015. …”
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Global minds, local impact: Exploring the effect of foreign directors on corporate R&D expenditure by Pu Tingqian, Zulkafli Abdul Hadi

“…Future research avenues could involve cross-national comparisons and a more nuanced categorization of foreign directors.…”
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Influence of agro‐ecological zones on soil phosphorus fractions in central Nepal by Dinesh Khadka, Keshab Raj Pande, Bhaba Prasad Tripathi, Roshan Man Bajracharya

“…The sequential fractionation method was employed to characterize the P pools in the soils. …”
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Efficient Removal of Phenol Red Dye from Polluted Water Using Sustainable Low-Cost Sewage Sludge Activated Carbon: Adsorption and Reusability Studies by Salha M. Aljubiri, Ayman A. O. Younes, Eid H. Alosaimi, Mahmoud M. Abdel-Daiem, Enas T. Abdel-Salam, Walaa H. El-Shwiniy

“…The use of sewage sludge activated carbon (thickened samples ACS1 and non-thickened samples ACS2) in a variety of applications and simple environmentally friendly production techniques are attracting more and more attention. …”
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Dynamic–statistic combined ensemble prediction and impact factors of China's summer precipitation by X. Wang, Z. Yang, S. Li, Q. Li, G. Feng, G. Feng

“…Therefore, the UWE is expected to further improve the accuracy of summer precipitation prediction in China by considering impact factors such as the grid- or station-based ensemble approach, the method of calculating the ACC, and the dispersal intensity of ensemble samples in the application and analysis process of the UWE.…”
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Gel card kit to detect recent homologous blood transfusion for anti-doping purpose. A proof of concept and assessment of limitations by Pedro Antônio Castelo Teixeira, Rachel Santos Levy, Tiago Ascenção Barros, Allan de Oliveira de Azevedo, Monica Costa Padilha, Henrique Marcelo Gualberto Pereira

“…Although effective, this method is costly and time-consuming. Gel card kits (ID-Card, BioRad), which are widely used in clinical practice, offer faster and more cost-effective alternative. …”
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Estimating biomass and carbon stock in orange trees (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) of the São Paulo and southwestern Minas Gerais citrus belt, Brazil by Lauro Rodrigues Nogueira Jr., Carlos Cesar Ronquim, José Carlos Barbosa, Vinicius Gustavo Trombin, Roseli Reina, Fernando Alvarinho Delgado, Fernando Antônio dePádua Paim

“…This sample represents the 162 million orange trees that are more than 3 years old in 337,091 ha, and has stocked more than 8.4 million Mg C in the living biomass. …”
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Abnormal event detection based on local topology and l_1/2norm regularize by Qing YU, Ken CHEN, Meng LI, Fei LI

“…A new dictionary learning method was proposed by introducing a local topology term to describe structural information of video events and using the l_1/2norm as the sparsity constraint to the representation coefficients based on the traditional analysis dictionary learning method.In feature extraction,a histogram of interaction force(HOIF) containing rich motion information and a histogram of oriented gradient(HOG) containing texture information were merged.Then,the improved dictionary was used to train the feature data.Finally,the reconstruction error of the testing sample under the dictionary was used to determine whether the testing sample was an abnormal sample.Experiments on UMN show the high performance of the algorithm.Compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms,the analysis dictionary classification algorithm based on local topology and l_1/2norm has made more effective detection on the abnormal events in the crowd.…”
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Within-laboratory SARS-CoV-2 real time PCR testing operations in Nepal: a simulation-based analysisResearch in context by Fannie L. Côté, Nadia Lahrichi, Erica Gralla, Hannah Bakker, Parvathy Krishnan Krishnakumari, Joaquim Gromicho, Arunkumar Govindakarnavar, Runa Jha, Lilee Shrestha, Nirajan Bhusal, Saugat Shrestha, Rashmi Mulmi, Priya Jha, Reuben Samuel, Dhamari Naidoo, Victor J. del Rio Vilas

“…We used a series of “what-if” scenarios under different levels of testing demand and staffing to investigate bottlenecks in the processing of COVID-19 samples in a simulated laboratory environment, assess the impact of potential reagent shortages and increased automation, and more generally, explore the key factors that drive the performance and resilience of the testing system. …”
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Comparison of Rumen Fluid pH by Continuous Telemetry System and Bench pH Meter in Sheep with Different Ranges of Ruminal pH by Leonardo F. Reis, Antonio H. H. Minervino, Carolina A. S. C. Araújo, Rejane S. Sousa, Francisco L. C. Oliveira, Frederico A. M. L. Rodrigues, Enoch B. S. Meira-Júnior, Raimundo A. Barrêto-Júnior, Clara S. Mori, Enrico L. Ortolani

“…The telemetry system was able to detect smaller changes in rumen fluid pH and was more accurate in diagnosing both subacute ruminal lactic acidosis and acute ruminal lactic acidosis in sheep.…”
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Plasma and Urine Metabolites Associated with Microperimetric Retinal Sensitivity in Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Krupa Sourirajan, Kevin Mendez, Ines Lains, Gregory Tsougranis, Haemin Kang, Georgiy Kozak, Augustine Bannerman, Roshni Bhat, Hanna Choi, Archana Nigalye, Ivana K. Kim, Demetrios G. Vavvas, David M. Wu, Liming Liang, John B. Miller, Joan W. Miller, Jessica Lasky-Su, Deeba Husain

“…This study sought to analyze the associations between plasma and urine metabolites and microperimetry in AMD. Methods: We included data on 363 eyes (95 controls, 268 AMD). …”
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Sex differences in the prevalence of high-risk oral and anal human papillomavirus infections among heterosexually active populations in Ibadan, Nigeria by Imran Morhason-Bello, Imran Morhason-Bello, Imran Morhason-Bello, Yusuf Bello, Yusuf Bello, Yusuf Bello, Deborah Oke, Deborah Oke, Deborah Oke, Adekunle Daniel, Adekunle Daniel, Akinyele Adisa, Akinyele Adisa, Adeola Fowotade, Adeola Fowotade, Yinan Zheng, Yinan Zheng, Joshua Akinyemi, Joshua Akinyemi, Isaac Adewole, Miquel A. Pavon, Robert Murphy, Lifang Hou, Lifang Hou, Suzanna C. Francis, Deborah Watson-Jones, Deborah Watson-Jones

“…After a face-to-face interview, samples were collected from the mouth, cervix, vulva, and anus by a sex-matched trained nurse. …”
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Health status and risk profiles for brain aging of rural‐dwelling older adults: Data from the interdisciplinary baseline assessments in MIND‐China by Yongxiang Wang, Xiaolei Han, Xianda Zhang, Zhonglin Zhang, Lin Cong, Shi Tang, Tingting Hou, Cuicui Liu, Xiaojuan Han, Qinghua Zhang, Jianli Feng, Ling Yin, Lin Song, Yi Dong, Rui Liu, Yuanjing Li, Tiia Ngandu, Miia Kivipelto, Heather Snyder, Maria Carrillo, Jonas Persson, Laura Fratiglioni, Lenore J Launer, Jianping Jia, Yifeng Du, Chengxuan Qiu

“…Participants examined for the specific modules were younger, more likely to be women, and more educated than those not examined. …”
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Machine learning and discriminant analysis model for predicting benign and malignant pulmonary nodules by Zhi Li, Wenjing Zhang, Jinyi Huang, Ling Lu, Dongming Xie, Jinrong Zhang, Jiamin Liang, Yuepeng Sui, Linyuan Liu, Jianjun Zou, Ao Lin, Lei Yang, Fuman Qiu, Zhaoting Hu, Mei Wu, Yibin Deng, Xin Zhang, Jiachun Lu

“…While a range of predictive models have been developed for the identification of MPNs, there are still some challenges in distinguishing between BPNs and MPNs. Methods We included a total of 5197 patients for the case-control study according to the preset exclusion criteria and sample size. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of lithium versus quetiapine augmentation for treatment-resistant depression in adults: LQD a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by Jess Kerr-Gaffney, Zohra Zenasni, Kimberley Goldsmith, Nahel Yaziji, Huajie Jin, Alessandro Colasanti, John Geddes, David Kessler, R Hamish McAllister-Williams, Allan H Young, Alvaro Barrera, Lindsey Marwood, Rachael W Taylor, Helena Tee, Anthony J Cleare

“…Conclusions As well as being more cost-effective, quetiapine may be a more clinically effective augmentation option for treatment-resistant depression. …”
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Adaptive Gaussian back-end based on LDOF criterion for language recognition by Zhong-fu YE, Ting QI, Sai-feng LI, Yan SONG

“…In order to alleviate the mismatch in model between training and testing samples caused by inter-language variations,adaptive Gaussian back-end based on LDOF criterion was proposed for language recognition.The local distance-based outlier factor (LDOF) criterion was defined to find the appropriate model parameters and dynamically select the training data subset similar to the testing samples from multiple class training sets.Then original back-end was adjusted to obtain a more matched recognition model.Experimental results on NIST LRE 2009 easily-confused language data set show that proposed method achieves an obvious performance improvement on both the equal error rate (ERR) and average decision cost function.…”
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Comprehensive protection of winter wheat from harmful organisms of agrocenosis in the zone of the Polissya of Ukraine by A. Bakalova, N. Gritsyuk, O. Derechа

“…The accounting for fusarium root rot was carried out in the phase of full ripeness before harvesting. Samples of plants for analysis were excavated from two adjacent rows of 0.5 m and recorded on a scale: 0 points — the plant did not affect; 1 point — defeat to 30% of the roots and up to 50% of the stem base; 2 points — defeat 30—60% of the roots and more than 50% of the stem base; 3 points — defeat more than 60% of the roots. …”
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The experiences of five southern Ontario high school principals in dealing with student mental health: A qualitative study. by Langhorne, A.

“…A qualitative research method was employed, with each principal sampled participating in a semi-structured interview. …”
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