Deciphering human endogenous retrovirus expression in colorectal cancers: exploratory analysis regarding prognostic value in liver metastasesResearch in context by Julien Viot, Romain Loyon, Nawfel Adib, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Aurélien de Reyniès, Fabrice André, Franck Monnien, Thierry André, Magali Svrcek, Anthony Turpin, Zohair Selmani, Laurent Arnould, Laura Guyard, Nicolas Gilbert, Anthony Boureux, Olivier Adotevi, Angélique Vienot, Syrine Abdeljaoued, Dewi Vernerey, Christophe Borg, Daniel Gautheret

“…Methods: We collected 400 RNA-seq samples from over 200 patients with primary and liver metastases, including public data and a novel set of 200 samples. …”
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The Influence of Healthy Lifestyle on Willingness to Consume Healthy Food Brands: A Perceived Value Perspective by Elizabeth Emperatriz García-Salirrosas, Jorge Alberto Esponda-Perez, Dany Yudet Millones-Liza, Karla Liliana Haro-Zea, Luiggi Agustin Moreno-Barrera, Ghenkis Amilcar Ezcurra-Zavaleta, Luis Alberto Rivera-Echegaray, Manuel Escobar-Farfan

“…A quantitative, non-experimental, and cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 515 participants. A self-administered questionnaire was used, and the data were analyzed using the PLS-SEM method. …”
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Drying Parameters of Half-Cut and Ground Figs (Ficus carica L.) var. Mission and the Effect on Their Functional Properties by Juan José Martínez-García, José Alberto Gallegos-Infante, Nuria Elizabeth Rocha-Guzmán, Patricia Ramírez-Baca, María Guadalupe Candelas-Cadillo, Rubén Francisco González-Laredo

“…Half-cut figs needed about twice more energy and time than ground figs to carry out the dehydration; values were 56.86 and 28.21 kJ mol−1, respectively. …”
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New Observational Recipes for Measuring Dynamical States of Galaxy Clusters by Hyowon Kim, Rory Smith, Jongwan Ko, Jong-Ho Shinn, Kyungwon Chun, Jihye Shin, Jaewon Yoo

“…These recipes are made by plotting merging clusters and a control sample of relaxed clusters in multiple-indicator parameter space, then applying a rotation matrix method to derive the best way to separate mergers from the control sample. …”
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Integrated Co-extraction Protocol for Transcriptomic and 1H NMR Metabolomic Analysis of Multi-species Biofilms by Anaïs Séguéla, Oriane Della-Negra, Roselyne Gautier, Jérôme Hamelin, Kim Milferstedt, Rémi Servien, Marie-Ange Teste, Cécile Canlet

“…This novel method enables the co-extraction of RNA and metabolites from the same sample, as opposed to the parallel extraction from two samples. …”
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Seroprevalence of HSV-2 in multiple subgroups of infertile men with abnormal sperm parameters and those seeking sex selection: a case-control study by Mohamad Javad Mahmodi, Somayeh Shatizadeh Malekshahi, Haleh Soltanghoraee

“…Therefore, we conducted a case-control study to examine the seroprevalence of HSV-2 in multiple subgroups of infertile men with abnormal sperm parameters (Case) and individuals seeking sex selection services and those with normal sperm parameters (Control). Method Blood samples were collected from infertile males seeking fertility treatment, and those seeking sex selection at the Avicenna Infertility Clinic in Tehran, Iran between July 2023 and February 2024. …”
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Study of the effect of onion husk ethanol extract on the chemical composition and microstructure of meat pates by N. V. Kupaeva, Yu. I. Bogdanova, A. A. Motovilina, D. A. Utyanov, A. S. Knyazeva, M. E. Spirina, V. A. Pchelkina, E. A. Kotenkova

“…The total antioxidant capacity by the DPPH radical method (TACDPPH), fatty acid composition and amino acid composition were determined; microelement content analysis, proteomic and microstructural studies of meat pate samples with and without the addition of extract were also carried out. …”
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Circulating tumour cells & circulating tumour DNA in patients with resectable colorectal liver metastases (MIRACLE): a prospective, observational biomarker studyResearch in con... by Lissa Wullaert, Maurice P.H.M. Jansen, Jaco Kraan, Yannick M. Meyer, Kelly Voigt, Stavros Makrodimitris, Vanja de Weerd, Corine M. Beaufort, Mai Van, Maarten Vermaas, Eric J.T. Belt, Paul D. Gobardhan, Stefan Sleijfer, Henk M.W. Verheul, John W.M. Martens, Dirk J. Grünhagen, Saskia M. Wilting, Cornelis Verhoef, Ninos Ayez, Jan H. Wijsman, Arjen M. Rijken, Pascal Doornebosch, Joost van der Hoeven, Boris Galjart, Diederik J. Höppener, Peter M.H. Nierop, Eric P. van der Stok, Jean Helmijr, Lindsay Angus, Pauline A.J. Mendelaar, Manouk K. Bos, Elisabeth M. Jongbloed, Khrystany T. Isebia, Noortje Verschoor, Ronald van Marion, Peggy Atmodimedjo, Hendrikus J. Dubbink

“…Summary: Background: Recurrence risk after curative surgery for colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) remains high, underlining the need to identify prognostic markers enabling more individualised treatment approaches. Methods: In the MIRACLE, a prospective, observational biomarker study, a total of 188 patients with isolated, resectable CRLM without (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy were included between October 2015 and December 2021. …”
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Optimizing mouse metatranscriptome profiling by selective removal of redundant nucleic acid sequences by Morgan Roos, Samuel Bunga, Asako Tan, Erica Maissy, Dylan Skola, Alexander Richter, Daniel S. Whittaker, Paula Desplats, Amir Zarrinpar, Rick Conrad, Scott Kuersten

“…The use of Ribo Zero Plus rRNA depletion probes designed for human gut microbiomes proved to be less effective and more inconsistent across mouse cecal donor samples, a common experimental system for microbiome studies. …”
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Measuring Lp(a) particles with a novel isoform-insensitive immunoassay illustrates efficacy of muvalaplin by Craig A. Swearingen, John H. Sloan, Grace M. Rhodes, Robert W. Siegel, Nico Bivi, Yuewei Qian, Robert J. Konrad, Michael Boffa, Marlys Koschinsky, John Krege, Giacomo Ruotolo, Stephen J. Nicholls, Laura F. Michael, Yi Wen

“…This intact Lp(a) assay demonstrated robust analytical performance, was insensitive to apo(a) isoform size, and correlated with a liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry method. Muvalaplin phase I multiple ascending dose study samples and lepodisiran, a small-interfering RNA that lowers Lp(a), phase I single ascending dose study samples were analyzed using the intact Lp(a) assay and commercial assays. …”
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Subclinical bovine mastitis associated with Staphylococcus spp. in eleven Uruguayan dairy farms by Rosario de los Santos, Álvaro González-Revello, Lucía Majul, Ana Umpiérrez, Ariel Aldrovandi, Andrés Gil, Darío Hirigoyen, Pablo Zunino

“…SA (n = 39) was more common than NAS (n = 9) in the 48 samples tested. …”
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Multi-energy calibration in plasma emission spectrometry: elemental analysis of animal feeds by Florencia Cora Jofre, Florencia Cora Jofre, Ariane I. Barros, Joaquim A. Nóbrega, Marianela Savio, Marianela Savio

“…This makes MEC a reliable method for complex feed matrices, supporting more accurate feed formulations to ensure optimal livestock nutrition.…”
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From ferromagnetic semiconductor to antiferromagnetic metal in epitaxial Cr x Te y monolayers by Naina Kushwaha, Olivia Armitage, Brendan Edwards, Liam Trzaska, Jennifer Rigden, Peter Bencok, Deepnarayan Biswas, Tien-Lin Lee, Charlotte Sanders, Gerrit van der Laan, Peter Wahl, Phil D. C. King, Akhil Rajan

“…This, in part, reflects its metastable nature, vs. a series of more stable self-intercalation compounds with higher relative Cr:Te stoichiometry. …”
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Study of evolution for 3D structured surface with nano-balls and walls-like features with thickness variation for WO3 thin films made by spray deposition by Mirela Petruta Suchea, Ioan Valentin Tudose, Cosmin Romanitan, Cristina Pachiu, Marian Popescu, Kyriakos Mouratis, Marina Manica, Stefan Antohe, Stelios Couris, Dragos Gabriel Zisopol, Octavian Narcis Ionescu, Emmanuel Koudoumas

“…These observations prove the reliability of fabrication of coatings with such surface morphology by spray pyrolysis method and open new perspectives for better sensors, electrochromic or photochromic devices, and more.…”
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Design of an Electronic Nose System with Automatic End-Tidal Breath Gas Collection for Enhanced Breath Detection Performance by Dongfu Xu, Pu Liu, Xiangming Meng, Yizhou Chen, Lei Du, Yan Zhang, Lixin Qiao, Wei Zhang, Jiale Kuang, Jingjing Liu

“…We employ classical machine learning algorithms to classify breath samples from different health conditions with a classification accuracy of more than 90%, which is better than the accuracy achieved in other studies of this type. …”
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Studying the Size-Dependence of Graphene Nanoplatelets (GNPs) in the Final Properties of Polyurethane Aerogels: Thermal Insulation and Mechanical Strength by Jaime Lledó, Judith Martín-de León, Tomás E. Gómez Álvarez-Arenas, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Pérez, Beatriz Merillas

“…The resulting opacified samples are highly insulating materials, with thermal conductivities less than 18 mW/m·K. …”
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Unveiling processing–property relationships in laser powder bed fusion: The synergy of machine learning and high-throughput experiments by Mahsa Amiri, Zahra Zanjani Foumani, Penghui Cao, Lorenzo Valdevit, Ramin Bostanabad

“…Here, we propose a methodology embracing the synergy between high-throughput (HT) experimentation and hierarchical machine learning (ML) to unveil the complex relationships between a large set of process parameters in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) and selected mechanical properties (tensile strength and ductility). The HT method envisions the fabrication of small samples for rapid automated hardness and porosity characterization, and a smaller set of tensile specimens for more labor-intensive direct measurement of yield strength and ductility. …”
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Investigation of heavy metal concentrations for biocoke by using ICP-OES by Erdiwansyah, Asri Gani, Hera Desvita, Mahidin, Bahagia, Rizalman Mamat, S.M. Rosdi

“…This study aims to analyze the concentration of heavy metals in EFB using the Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) method. The analysis showed that hazardous heavy metals such as arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), and lithium (Li) were not detected in EFB samples. …”
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Relationship between workers’ lifestyles and high blood pressure unawareness by Tamyres Araújo Andrade Donato, Renata da Silva Gomes, Márcio Galvão Oliveira, Danielle Souto de Medeiros, Daniela Arruda Soares, José Andrade Louzado, Kelle Oliveira Silva, Matheus Lopes Cortes, Sóstenes Mistro, Welma Wildes Amorim, Clavdia Nicolaevna Kochergin, Vanessa Moraes Bezerra

“…Objective: This study aimed to identify the lifestyle characteristics associated with a higher prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP) unawareness in a population of workers. Method: A sample of 339 hypertensive workers or having HBP was used. …”
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Does oil dependence cause energy risk? by Bekhzod Kuziboev, Elbek Khodjaniyazov, Ilhan Ozturk, Khamid Sabirov, Samariddin Makhmudov, Sarbinaz Utegenova

“…The estimations are conducted in the sample of the world and development stage, employing the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR), which allows us to estimate the impact of oil dependence on energy risk at various quantiles of energy risk. …”
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