SPP1 is a plasma biomarker associated with the dia gnosis and prediction of prognosis in sepsis by Yu Zhou Shen, Wei Xiong, Ying Chun Hu, Wu Zhong

“…In the affiliated hospital of southwest medical university, 22 sepsis patients were hospitalized from January 2019 to September 2020 and 10 normal healthy individuals were selected for DIA-based quantitative proteomics analysis. …”
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Strategies for Enriching Variant Coverage in Candidate Disease Loci on a Multiethnic Genotyping Array. by Stephanie A Bien, Genevieve L Wojcik, Niha Zubair, Christopher R Gignoux, Alicia R Martin, Jonathan M Kocarnik, Lisa W Martin, Steven Buyske, Jeffrey Haessler, Ryan W Walker, Iona Cheng, Mariaelisa Graff, Lucy Xia, Nora Franceschini, Tara Matise, Regina James, Lucia Hindorff, Loic Le Marchand, Kari E North, Christopher A Haiman, Ulrike Peters, Ruth J F Loos, Charles L Kooperberg, Carlos D Bustamante, Eimear E Kenny, Christopher S Carlson, PAGE Study

“…However, the current paucity of genetic research in people of African and Latin American ancestry, Hispanic and indigenous peoples in the United States is likely to exacerbate existing health disparities for many common diseases. …”
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Increasing anthropogenic stressors influenced the water quality and shifted trophic status of northern Lake Tana Gulf, Ethiopia by Flipos Engdaw, Tadesse Fetahi, Demeke Kifle

“…The shift in the trophic status of Lake Tana from oligo-mesotrophic to eutrophic is likely due to nutrient enrichment associated with anthropogenic stressors. …”
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Preferences, willingness, and demand among doctors in relation to internet hospital consultations: A discrete choice experiment by Mengqiu Wu, Yuhan Li, Chengyu Ma

“…Methods: A total of 119 physicians from two general hospitals and three specialized hospitals in Beijing were selected for a questionnaire survey using a discrete choice experiment design. …”
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Women Leaders in the Strategic Positions of Pharmaceutical Companies: Overcoming Barriers and Systemic Biases by Nsovo Nyeleti Mayimele

“…The data were collected on company characteristics, leadership composition, gender distribution and professional qualifications of leaders within each company. …”
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Molecular docking approach to identify Bcl-xL inhibitory effect of sesquiterpene coumarins of Ferula species by Fadıl Kaan Kuran, Ebru Didem Kuran, Mahmut Miski

“…Additionally, ADME (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion) studies were performed to predict the pharmacokinetic properties and drug-likeness of sesquiterpene coumarins, ensuring their potential as viable therapeutic agents.Results: As a result of this study, straight-chain sesquiterpene coumarin-derived compounds were more effectively positioned within the active site of the Bcl-xL enzyme and formed hydrogen bonds with amino acids. …”
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Identification and replication of three novel myopia common susceptibility gene loci on chromosome 3q26 using linkage and linkage disequilibrium mapping. by Toby Andrew, Nikolas Maniatis, Francis Carbonaro, S H Melissa Liew, Winston Lau, Tim D Spector, Christopher J Hammond

“…A total of 575 cases and controls selected from the tails of the trait distribution were genotyped for the discovery sample. …”
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Are YouTube™ and TikTok™ videos useful as educational tool for patients with cleft lip and palate? by José Dilson Alves de OLIVEIRA JÚNIOR, Anna Vitória Mendes Viana SILVA, Carina Cristina MONTALVANY-ANTONUCCI, Gabriele Andrade MAIA, Kamila Rodrigues Junqueira CARVALHO, Soraia MACARI

“…Results: Of the 480 videos selected, 303 videos were evaluated (177 excluded due to the exclusion criteria). …”
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Stochastic cell-intrinsic stem cell decisions control colony growth in planarians by Tamar Frankovits, Prakash Varkey Cherian, Yarden Yesharim, Simon Dobler, Omri Wurtzel

“…Our findings suggest that neoblasts select their progenitor lineage based on a cell-intrinsic fate distribution. …”
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On Channel Transforms to Enhance Reciprocity and Quantization in Physical-Layer Secret Key Generation by Ghalib Hussain, Syed Junaid Nawaz, Shurjeel Wyne, Mohammad N. Patwary

“…First, average contiguous duration (ACD), a second-order fading statistics metric, is considered to select and bias the channel samples that are more likely to fall in the same quantization interval. …”
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Current situation of family doctor contracting program: A survey of the perspective of general practitioners by Aihua HAO, Weilin ZENG, Guanhai LI, Yinghua XIA, Liang CHEN

“…Compared to their temporarily employed counterparts, formally employed GPs within family doctor teams are more likely to engage in contracting activities.…”
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Pneumococcal serotypes and their association with death risk in invasive pneumococcal disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Samuel Darkwah, Namwin S. Somda, Samiratu Mahazu, Eric S. Donkor

“…We also conducted heterogeneity testing and meta-regression sub-analysis.ResultsIn total, 45 eligible studies were included, and 16 were selected for meta-analysis. Study distribution showed a global disparity, with Europe as the major data source. …”
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Spatial and temporal evolution of carbon stocks in Yulin City under changing environments by Guikai Sun, Yadong Li, Rui Huang, Chongxun Mo

“…The trend of increasing carbon stock in Yulin City is likely to continue decreasing in the future, and may even show a reduction.…”
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Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages and strain clustering within urban and peri-urban settings in Ethiopia. by Hawult Taye, Kassahun Alemu, Adane Mihret, Sosina Ayalew, Elena Hailu, James L N Wood, Ziv Shkedy, Stefan Berg, Abraham Aseffa, ETHICOBOTS consortium

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) and Cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBLN) patients who visited selected health facilities were recruited in the years of 2016 and 2017. …”
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Proof of principle concept for the analysis and functional prediction of rare genetic variants in the CYP2C19 and CYP2D6 genes by Inger Johansson, Yuchen Lu, Yitian Zhou, Kristi Krebs, Martina Akcan, Lili Milani, Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg

“…Abstract Background Variations in pharmacogenes that regulate drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) contribute to approximately 20–30% of interindividual differences in drug response. …”
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Minimal repeats are ubiquitous sites of crossover and recombination across the human genome by Mina Ohadi, Nahid Tajeddin, Hadi Bayat, Dale J Annear, Ali M. A. Maddi, Hamid R. Khorram Khorshid, Kaveh Kavousi, Ahmad Delbari, Alireza Nikkhah, Masoud Arabfard

“…The randomly selected colonies that were studied in other species were specific to or of their largest size in human. …”
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Optimization of vehicle routing problems combining the demand urgency and road damage for multiple disasters by Ran Li, Xiaofei Ye, Shuyi Pei, Xingchen Yan, Tao Wang, Jun Chen, Pengjun Zheng

“…In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, a “double-hazard scenario” consisting of a natural disaster and a public health event simultaneously occurring is more likely to arise. However, compared with single-hazard, multiple disasters confront the challenges of complexity, diversity, and demand urgency. …”
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Net ownership, utilization and malaria burden in the context of Piperonyl butoxide-LLINs intervention in western Kenya. by Job Oyweri, Patrick O Onyango, Maxwell G Machani, Josephat Bungei, Sammy Cheruiyot, Yaw A Afrane, Ming-Chieh Lee, Daibin Zhong, Guofa Zhou, John Githure, Harrysone Atieli, Guiyun Yan

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional study was conducted in Muhoroni Sub-County, Kisumu County, one year after net distribution between November and December 2023. Twelve villages were randomly selected, comprising 380 households and divided into two intervention arms of six villages. …”
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Diversity in the medical research ecosystem: a descriptive scientometric analysis of over 49 000 studies and 150 000 authors published in high-impact medical journals between 2007... by Leo Anthony Celi, Jonathan Shaffer, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Liam G McCoy, Luis Filipe Nakayama, Jack Gallifant, Urvish Jain, Joao Matos, Pia Gabrielle I Alfonso, Marisa Cobanaj, Amelia Morel Fiske, Alexander J Gates, Frances Dominique V Ho, Mohammad Kashkooli, Naira Link

“…The Genderize.io Application Programming Interface was then used to infer each author’s likely gender based on their extracted first name. …”
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Oceanographic and trophodynamic underpinnings of anchovy success in the northern California Current by Kelsey Swieca, Kelsey Swieca, Su Sponaugle, Su Sponaugle, Moritz S. Schmid, Jami Ivory, Robert K. Cowen

“…Fast growth under high predation pressure may be indicative of the selective loss of slow growing larvae. Notably, larval anchovy abundances were high offshore but diminished immediately inshore of the upwelling front regardless of its cross-shelf position. …”
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