Effects of gender affirming hormone therapy with testosterone on renal function of assigned female at birth transgender people: a meta-analysis by Daniele Tienforti, Daniele Tienforti, Luca Spagnolo, Luca Piscitani, Camilla Tonni, Vittoria Donatelli, Vittoria Donatelli, Giuliana Cordeschi, Marco Giorgio Baroni, Arcangelo Barbonetti

“…The trend of eGFR values showed a transient decline during the first year of therapy, followed by stabilization at 18 and 24 months. …”
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A REMARKABLE FEATURE OF BIODIVERSITY OF THE COASTAL, MARINE AND ISLAND ECOSYSTEMS OF THE CASPIAN SEA. A NEW LOOK AT THE AGE OF ISLANDS AND LEVEL MODE by G. M. Abdurahmanov, A. A. Teymurov

“…A different situation with understanding and explanation of the pattern of endemism coastal and especially island taxa. …”
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Progressive gut microbiota shifts and functional alterations across aging stages and frailty in mice by Xinwei Jiao, Hongyu Li, Ting Wang, Hongchen Fu, Shiwu Wang, Hong Liu, Lei Wang, Xiuyun Li, Aijun Deng, Zhijie Li

“…To characterize microbial changes during aging, we profiled gut microbiota across four stages in male C57BL/6J mice: young-adult, middle-aged, senescent, and frailty. …”
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Multi-element Accurate Analysis of Sulfide Minerals by Low-temperature Ablation LA-ICP-MS by Huilai LI, Fan LI, Dingwen ZHANG, Wei GUO, Lanlan JIN, Shenghong HU

“…However, there is still a slight thermal effect during 193nm UV laser ablation. Fernández et al[22] found that there is still a melting layer during 193nm laser ablation, and it leads to the formation of large particle aerosols. …”
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Reliability Prediction of Thick Film Hybrid Integrated Circuits by Rumen Pranchov, Veneta Athanassova, Ruslan Georgiev, Stefan Pomakov

“…The results obtained from tests of Test Pattern Circuits may be used successfully for reliability estimating during the design period of new thick film Hybrid Integrated Circuits. …”
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Reverse periodization in ultratrail: The road to the 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships of an elite female ultrarunner by Diego Jaén-Carrillo, Arcadi Margarit-Boscà

“…Intensity distribution varied considering specificity and characteristics of the main races, progressing from more polarized to pyramidal pattern distribution. Moreover, running volume increased during the preparation period and more specific sessions and with mixed specific exercise modes was realized close to the main races, with the longest trail run of 4 hr 18 min of duration. …”
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World War Two Iconoclasm: The Destruction and Reconstruction of memorials to Queen Victoria and Edward VII on the French Riviera by Gilles TEULIÉ

“…When two statues of Queen Victoria and one of Edward VII were either defaced or completely destroyed during the Second World War, French agencies, to varying degrees, wanted to restore the statues to their rightful place. …”
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ON THE MEANING OF CITY WALLS IN LATE ROMAN SPAIN by Adriaan De Man

“…<p>During three or four decades of the late 3rd and early 4th century, a number of cities across the Empire were refortified in a pattern that cannot be explained in defensive terms alone. …”
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Moiré Effect: Index and the Digital Image by Stella Baraklianou

“…Especially in digital image capture, moiré patternings appear when a geometrically even pattern, like a fabric or close-up of fine texture, has an appearance of rippled water with blue or red hues of concentric circle formations. …”
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Modification and Control Technology of Contact Zone of the Straight Bevel Gear by Li Yufan, Nan Boru, Gao Bin

“…During developing a high lift straight bevel gear pair for a large passenger aircraft，the straight bevel gear pair designed according to ANSI/AGMA 2009-B01 standard，the figure of the tooth contact pattern is clearly marked in the drawing，the length，position，shape and other information，in the manufacturing process control of bevel gears also have certain requirements，a good contact state of the gearbox under any working load is finally realized，and the interchangeability of the gear pair is realized，and the concept of master gear and control gear is proposed. …”
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The effect of gamification on brand co-creation in app-based businesses: investigating the mediating role of consumer engagement and the moderating role of hedonic and innovativene... by Rayhane Rezagholizade, Zahra Sadeqi-Arani, Esmail Mazroui

“…Hedonic value is the overall evaluation of the empirical benefits (e.g. entertainment) that the consumer can have during the purchase process. Enjoyment can become a basic condition that motivates to perform shopping activities (Bical & Ispir, 2021). …”
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A Phenomenological Study of the Semantic Representation of Leisure Experience among Adolescent Girls of Different Social Classes by parvaneh alaie, Fahimeh Vajde

“…Association between sedentary behavior during leisure time and excessive weight in chinese children, adolescents, and adults.  …”
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Living on Hold in Palliative Cancer Care by Anna Sandgren, Hans Thulesius, Kerstin Petersson, Bengt Fridlund

“…Mode being may change during a trajectory depending on many different factors. …”
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Entre convergences et divergences : la communauté haïtienne de Montréal by Ariane Cyr

“…As regards the elements of discourse gathered during individual interviews conducted with the members of the first generation of Haitian immigrants, an identity pattern can be observed, matching two different and yet complementary systems of functioning: detachment and symbolic recognition…”
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A Preliminary Study on the Molecular Identification of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 in Iranian Population

“…Moreover, the restriction pattern of the Iranian isolates is different from the KOS strain for DpnI enzyme. …”
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Are e-Scooters Parked Near Bus Stops? Findings from Louisville, Kentucky by Mohamed Abouelela, Christelle Al Haddad, Constantinos Antoniou

“…The temporal analysis showed a different parking distance pattern during early morning hours (between 2 and 4 a.m.), whereas the spatial analysis showed no impact of spatial features on distances between scooter parking (and therefore trips starting points) and nearest bus stops.…”
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Social identity of young women from countryside: The example of the village Dudovica - case study by Ivanović Suzana

“…Findings of the survey carried out during 2003 are presented. Understanding the specific social and private life from an angle of young countryside women was the basic aim of this case study. …”
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Proteshtags. by Mark Dang-Anh

“…Using a data set of Twitter posts sent between November 2019 and October 2020, it is shown a) which events were marked by protest event hashtags during this period and b) how these events were tweeted about. …”
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Low viral persistence of an immunological model by Suqi Ma

“…Hepatitis B virus can persist at very low levels in the body in the face of host immunity, and reactive during immunosuppression and sustain the immunological memory to lead to the possible state of 'infection immunity'. …”
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« La nuit, les colleurs se tapent l’affiche » by Bryan Muller

“…Nowadays, political parties and trade unions communicate primarily during the day in order to make themselves heard by as many people as possible. …”
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