A stable combination of non-stable genes outperforms standard reference genes for RT-qPCR data normalization by Anis Djari, Guillaume Madignier, Christian Chervin, Benoît van der Rest, James J. Giovannoni, Mondher Bouzayen, Julien Pirrello, Elie Maza

“…A stable combination of genes consists of a fixed number of genes whose individual expression balance each other all along experimental conditions of interest. …”
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Recent cannabis use affects the association between baseline immune markers and long-term outcomes in psychosis by Isabel Kreis, Kristin Fjelnseth Wold, Gina Åsbø, Camilla Bärthel Flaaten, Magnus Johan Engen, Siv Hege Lyngstad, Line Hustad Widing, Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh, Maren Caroline Frogner Werner, Eivind Bakken, Thor Ueland, Nils Eiel Steen, Ingrid Melle

“…Abstract Aberrant levels of blood markers reflecting inflammation and immune system activation have been implicated in psychotic disorders and linked to psychotic symptom severity. …”
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis enhances growth, nutrient uptake, and oil quality in sunflower–pumpkin under intercropping systems by Aisha A. M. Alayafi, Basmah M. Alharbi, Basmah M. Alharbi, Awatif M. Abdulmajeed, Taghreed S. Alnusaire, Ayshah Aysh ALrashidi, Siham M. AL-Balawi, Hanan Khalaf Anazi, Suliman M. S. Alghanem, Omar Mahmoud Al zoubi, Mona H. Soliman, Mona H. Soliman

“…Seed weight increased notably under AM inoculation, reflecting improved reproductive development. Analysis of mineral nutrient content revealed substantial improvements in macro- and micronutrient uptake with AM symbiosis. …”
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Biochemical and functional properties of vesicles from planktonic and biofilm phenotypes of Limosilactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 by Beatrice Marinacci, Chiara D’Ambrosio, Irene Vitale, Antonella Di Sotto, Francesco Cairone, Mattia Spano, Simone Carradori, Andrea Scaloni, Marco Gullì, Valentina Puca, Santolo Francati, Monica Matuozzo, Ludwig Ermann Lundberg, Gianfranco Grompone, Stefan Roos, Rossella Grande

“…Proteomic analysis of pMVs and bMVs described equivalent protein cargos, emphasizing quantitative compositional differences that presumably reflect the physiological state of each parent bacterial phenotype. …”
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Multi-level Hierarchical Structure Analysis of Influencing Factors of Coal Mine Managers' Blame Avoidance Behavior by Li Wang, Wenyi Zeng, Ziyan Jing, Yonghui Xu, Jiang Li

“…The influence degree, affected degree, centrality degree, cause degree of each influencing factor were calculated and the hierarchical model of influencing factors of BAB of coal mine managers was established by the DEMATEL-ISM method which is a decision support tool used to evaluate and analyze the interdependencies between influencing factors. …”
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Species richness is not a good predictor for above-ground biomass in a warm temperate deciduous broadleaf forest by Chunmei He, Yushan Li, Xiaoxia Dai, Na Liu, Fangfang Wu, Jiangbo Yan, Meiping Gao, Yonghui Liang, Zuoqiang Yuan, Zhanqing Hao, Qiulong Yin

“…Conclusions This study reflects the response of AGB to different influencing factors. …”
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Metabolomics in drugs research on zebrafish-based cardiotoxicity models: endothelial and mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress by N. E. Moskaleva, P. M. Rezvanov, V. M. Samoylov, V. G. Varzieva, S. N. Baskhanova, V. V. Tarasov, E. A. Smolyarchuk, D. A. Kudlay, S. A. Appolonova

“…Conclusion. Each of the analyzed compounds produced a specific metabolic “imprint” in Zebrafish samples, reflecting the mechanisms of their cardiotoxicity. …”
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Survey of postoperative practices for lumbar spinal stenosis surgery among canadian spinal surgeons and rehabilitation professionals by Lu Hsi Chen, BHSc, MD(c), Nora Bakaa, DC, PhD, Raja Rampersaud, MD, FRCSC, Marcia Correale, PT, Lisa Carlesso, PT, PhD, Luciana Macedo, PT, PhD

“…The surveys involved 3 clinical vignettes of patients with LSS, each with a different type of surgical intervention. …”
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Presence and Potential Effect of Microplastics Associated with Anthropic Activity in Two Benthic Fishes <i>Serranus scriba</i> and <i>Lithognathus mormyrus</i> by Amanda Cohen-Sánchez, Juan Alejandro Sanz, Montserrat Compa, Maria Magdalena Quetglas-Llabrés, Maria del Mar Ribas-Taberner, Lorenzo Gil, Silvia Tejada, Samuel Pinya, Antoni Sureda

“…A total of eight fish samples per species and per area (total n = 32), as well as three water samples (500 mL each) and three sediment samples per area, were collected and analyzed. …”
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Disentangling Metallicity Effects in Hot Jupiter Occurrence across Galactic Birth Radius and Phase-space Density by Rayna Rampalli, Melissa K. Ness, Elisabeth R. Newton, Andrew Vanderburg, Tobias Buck, Jessica Mills

“…APOGEE and the NIHAO simulation have more high- α sequence stars than GALAH, resulting in average differences in metallicity (0.2–0.4 dex), α -process element enrichment (0.2 dex), and vertical velocities (7–14 km s ^−1 ) at each R _birth bin. Additionally, we replicate the result of A. …”
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Remote sensing of rice leaf folder damage using ground-based hyperspectral radiometry by Mathyam Prabhakar, Ch Padmavathi, Merugu Thirupathi, Srasvan Kumar Golla, Uppu Sai Sravan, G. Ramachandra Rao, Madduri Kalpana, Vallabuni Sailaja, Pebbeti Chandana, Yenumula G. Prasad, M. Srinivasa Rao, V.K. Singh, Rajbir Singh

“…The spectral data was interpolated using ASD ViewSpecPro software in the post-processing to produce values at each nanometer. Multinomial logistic regression analysis (MLR) was performed to identify the sensitive bands (396, 675, 764, 1123 and 1458 nm) specific to leaf folder damage. …”
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Threshold of kurtosis on occupational hearing loss associated with non-steady noise by Yang LI, Haiying LIU, Linjie WU, Jinzhe LI, Jiarui XIN, Hua ZOU, Xin SUN, Wei QIU, Changyan YU, Meibian ZHANG

“…BackgroundKurtosis reflecting noise's temporal structure is an effective metric for evaluating noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), and its threshold is still unclear. …”
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Remote Sensing of Particle Absorption Coefficient of Pigments Using a Two-Stage Framework Integrating Optical Classification and Machine Learning by Xietian Xia, Shaohua Lei, Hui Lu, Zenghui Xu, Xiang Li, Xing Chen, Niancheng Hong, Jie Xu, Kun Shi, Jiacong Huang

“…Focusing on inland waters—key areas for eutrophication monitoring—we first developed an intelligent clustering method combining Kernel Principal Angle-based Component (KPAC) dimensionality reduction and Chameleon Swarm Algorithm (CSA)-optimized k-medoids to classify water bodies into four optical types based on hyperspectral reflectance features. Subsequently, an XGBoost regression model with L1-norm feature selection was applied to inversely derive <i>a</i>_ph(440), <i>a</i>_ph(555), <i>a</i>_ph(675), and <i>a</i>_ph(709) for each class. …”
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An exploration of surface temperature asymmetries as potential markers of affective states in calves experiencing or observing disbudding by Marco Antonio Ramirez Montes de Oca, Michael Mendl, Helen R Whay, Suzanne DE Held, Sarah L Lambton, Helena Telkänranta

“…We made thermographic recordings of each calf on three days: Day before disbudding (D1); Disbudding day (D2); and Day after disbudding (D3), and at two different times: Disbudding time/1400(T1) and Afternoon/1700(T2). …”
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Histological Grade, Tumor Breadth, and Hypertension Predict Early Recurrence in Pediatric Sarcoma: A LASSO-Regularized Micro-Cohort Study by Alexander Fiedler, Mehran Dadras, Marius Drysch, Sonja Verena Schmidt, Flemming Puscz, Felix Reinkemeier, Marcus Lehnhardt, Christoph Wallner

“…The model achieved a balanced accuracy of 0.61 ± 0.08 and AUROC of 0.47 ± 0.12, reflecting limited discriminative power. PCA mapping revealed distinct outlier patterns correlating with high-risk profiles. …”
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Antecedent viral immunization and efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade: an extensive serum antibody profile to predict outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer by Francois-Xavier Danlos, Aurélien Marabelle, Tyler Hulett, Fabrice Barlesi, Benjamin Besse, David Planchard, Nathalie Chaput-Gras, Mihaela Aldea, Filippo G Dall’Olio, Paul-Henry Cournède, Quentin Blampey, Wael Salem Zrafi, Matthieu Roulleaux-Dugage, Gabriel Roman, Charles Naltet, Daniel Gautheret

“…The aim of our study is to unveil the potential implications of antibody response to previous viral infections in predicting response to ICBs in patients with NSCLC.Methods Sera from patients treated with ICBs alone, chemotherapy (CT) or a combination of CT-ICBs were analyzed with VirScan (CDI Labs, USA), a high-throughput method that comprehensively analyzes epitope-level antiviral IgG antibodies via programmable phage display and immunoprecipitation sequencing.Total number of unique positive peptides (tUP) was defined as the total number of non-overlapping positive “is a hit” peptides for each patient.Results Overall, 387 patients were included. …”
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Comparing 3 Evidence‐Based Strategies to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Burden: An Individual‐Based Cardiometabolic Policy Simulation by Sylvia Lutze, Steve Bachmeier, Alison Bowman, Nicole DeCleene, Hussain Jafari, Matthew Kappel, Caroline Kinuthia, Paulina Lindstedt, Megan Lindstrom, Rajan Mudambi, Christian Razo, Kjell Swedin, Abraham Flaxman, Gregory Roth

“…Input data reflected current cardiometabolic health and the effects of interventions and risk factors. …”
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Effect of Perftoran on Membrane Nanostructure of Discocyte and Stomatocyte after Acute Blood Loss by V. V. Moroz, I. S. Novoderzhkina, A. V. Afanasyev, Yu. V. Zarzhetsky, I. A. Ryzhkov, E. K. Kozlova, A. M. Chernysh

“…Periods (T) and heights (h) of RBC surface corrugation were calculated for each spectral window according to the isolated profiles of the membrane surface. …”
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Critical Assessment of Fellowship Director Gender and Ethnic Diversity across the Five Major Plastic Surgery Fellowships by Sam Boroumand, BS, Sasha Stogniy, BS, Beatrice Katsnelson, BS, Omar Allam, MD, Aliyar Zahedi Vafa, BS, Janessa Sullivan, MD, Bohdan Pomahac, MD, Siba Haykal, MD, PhD, Paris D. Butler, MD, MPH

“…Fellowship director demographics from each program were researched and identified. Results:. …”
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The contributions of brain structural and functional variance in predicting age, sex and treatment by Ning-Xuan Chen, Gui Fu, Xiao Chen, Le Li, Michael P. Milham, Su Lui, Chao-Gan Yan

“…Permutation tests were applied to compare the difference in contribution between each pair of structural and functional measurements. …”
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