SHINE study: Developing an intervention for safe hospital insulin use for older or frail adults with diabetes undergoing surgical hospital admission: Study protocol. by Christina Lange Ferreira, Sara Donetto, Hellena Habte-Asres, Jyothish Govindan, Angus Forbes, Kirsty Winkley

“…Its findings will contribute to a better understanding of the multiple interacting components implicated in hospital insulin use (patient, staff, context) and support further work around system-based strategies to enhance insulin safety resilience in hospital.…”
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Does financial distress impact the dividend payment of Indian firm? by Bhakti Agarwal, Rahul Singh Gautam, Shailesh Rastogi

“…Therefore, in the current study, we have attempted to reveal the impact of financial distress (FD) on the dividend decisions of firms working in India. Methodology In this study, we looked at secondary data from 78 non-finance firms working in different sectors of the Indian economy that had been collected over five years (2016–2020). …”
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Serum Elabela Level as a Reliable Biomarker for Predicting of Liver Fibrosis in Iraqi Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C by Eham Amer Ali, Ali Abdulateef Hasan Al-Bayati, Alea Farhan Salman

“…Background:Elabela is a newly discovered peptide hormone that has been implicated in liver disease. Objective:The main objective of the current work is to assess whether variations in blood Elabela levels among chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients from Iraq might be used as a biomarker for liver fibrosis. …”
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Depression is marked by differences in structural covariance between deep-brain nuclei and sensorimotor cortex by Siraj Lyons, Isak Beck, Brendan E. Depue

“…Exploratory correlations tested relationships between implicated cortical regions and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) scores. …”
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Energy-efficient and fast memristor-based serial multipliers applicable in image processing by Seyed Erfan Fatemieh, Bahareh Bagheralmoosavi, Mohammad Reza Reshadinezhad

“…Implementing IMPLY-based crossbar array-friendly multipliers and reducing their computational cycles and energy consumption are designers' goals in applying computational applications such as convolution in the basic CIM-A architecture. This work presents unsigned and signed array multipliers using serial IMPLY logic. …”
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Allosteric Regulation of Fibronectin/α5β1 Interaction by Fibronectin-Binding MSCRAMMs. by Xiaowen Liang, Xiaowen Liang, Brandon L Garcia, Livia Visai, Sabitha Prabhakaran, Nicola A G Meenan, Jennifer R Potts, Martin J Humphries, Magnus Höök

“…By correlating structural changes in Fn to a direct measurement of increased Fn/α5β1 affinity, this work significantly advances our understanding of the structural basis for the modulation of integrin function by Fn-binding MSCRAMMs.…”
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Artificial Intelligence Adoption Practices in Scholarly Publishing of Early-Stage Academic Researchers by Leo Mendel Rosario, Sean Patrick Gamit, Noel Navigar, Regina Mendoza-Armiendo, Shari Eunice San Pablo

“…Artificial intelligence has drastically changed work environments, resulting in skill shifts in the workforce.  …”
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Impaired toll like receptor-7 and 9 induced immune activation in chronic spinal cord injured patients contributes to immune dysfunction. by Gozde Gucluler, Emre Adiguzel, Bilgi Gungor, Tamer Kahraman, Mayda Gursel, Bilge Yilmaz, Ihsan Gursel

“…When taken together this work implicated that these defects could contribute to persistent complications due to increased susceptibility to infections of chronic SCI patients.…”
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The Insulin-Like Proteins dILPs-2/5 Determine Diapause Inducibility in Drosophila. by Luca Schiesari, Gabriele Andreatta, Charalambos P Kyriacou, Michael B O'Connor, Rodolfo Costa

“…Despite its Afro-tropical origin, Drosophila melanogaster migrated to temperate regions of Asia and Europe where females overwinter as adults by arresting gonadal development (reproductive diapause) at temperatures <13°C. Recent work in D. melanogaster has implicated the developmental hormones dILPs-2 and/or dILP3, and dILP5, homologues of vertebrate insulin/insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), in reproductive arrest. …”
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Rawls´ legacy: a limited possibility of a non-speciesist environmental justice by Sônia T. Felipe

“…Natural environmental goods seems to have been forgotten by Rawls, or at least considered as not implicated in his model of a fair institutional distribution of primary social goods. …”
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Genre characteristics of “Notebooks” by I. Ilf by Karasik, Vladimir Ilyich, Kitanina, Ella Anatoljevna

“…For a writer, the journalist&rsquo;s notebook acts as a pre-text for the creation of a work of fiction. Many notes from I. Ilf&rsquo;s journalistic notebook were late r included in the novels &ldquo;The Twelve Chairs&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Golden Calf&rdquo;, written in co-authorship with E. …”
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Clinical and in vitro models identify distinct adaptations enhancing Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis in human macrophages. by Dustin R Long, Elizabeth A Holmes, Hsin-Yu Lo, Kelsi Penewit, Jared Almazan, Taylor Hodgson, Nova F Berger, Zoe H Bishop, Janessa D Lewis, Adam Waalkes, Daniel J Wolter, Stephen J Salipante

“…Additional studies will be needed to illuminate the exact mechanisms by which implicated mutations affect their phenotypes.…”
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Co-creating a strategy for transforming person centred cultures by Karen Tuqiri, Karen Tuqiri, Karen Tuqiri, Suzanne Murray, Suzanne Murray, Dan Shaw, Kate Hackett, Tanya McCance, Tanya McCance, Tanya McCance

“…The key objectives are to demonstrate the processes that support co-creation to build consensus on what is strategically important to nurses and midwives; to gain an understanding of the value of external facilitation throughout the process and exploring the challenges encountered during the development of the strategy.MethodsPractice Development methodology was the approach used with skilled facilitation adopted to enable the working with values and beliefs, defining purpose and vision and establishing agreed working principles and behaviours. …”
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Zooming into paternalistic leadership: evidence from high power distance culture by Talat Islam, Saleha Sharif, Hafiz Fawad Ali, Saqib Jamil

“…Design/methodology/approach – The authors collected data from 374 nurses working in public and private hospitals of high power distance culture using a questionnaire-based survey on convenience basis. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of detailed anomaly ultrasound screening in the first trimester: a mixed-methods study by Jehan N Karim, Helen Campbell, Pranav Pandya, Edward C F Wilson, Zarko Alfirevic, Trish Chudleigh, Elizabeth Duff, Jane Fisher, Hilary Goodman, Lisa Hinton, Christos Ioannou, Edmund Juszczak, Louise Linsell, Heather L Longworth, Kypros H Nicolaides, Anne Rhodes, Gordon Smith, Basky Thilaganathan, Jim Thornton, Gillian Yaz, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Aris T Papageorghiou

“…Next, we asked 172 doctors, midwives and sonographers to work together to plan how early scanning could be introduced. …”
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A modified Delphi consensus statement on the role of biopsy in small renal masses by Darryl E. Bernstein, Hannah Warren, Joseph Santiapillai, Geraldine Fox, William H. Wildgoose, Grant D. Stewart, Jim Armitage, Pieter Le Roux, Frank X. Keeley Jr, Nicholas Campain, Ben Challacombe, Hazel Warburton, Carlotta Palumbo, Riccardo Campi, Stjin H. J. Muselaers, Miles Walkden, Steve Bandula, Dominic Yu, Michael Gonsalves, My‐Anh Tran‐Dang, Nazanin Etessami, Pedro Oliveira, Anna Calio, Soha El‐Sheikh, Tze Wah, Axel Bex, Ravi Barod, Kurinchi Gurusamy, Maxine G. B. Tran

“…Abstract Objective To understand the variable utilisation of diagnostic biopsy for small renal masses (SRM) across the urology community, we worked with expert clinicians and patients to produce a consensus statement on the role of biopsy and to identify research gaps. …”
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Epilepsy and the “dark” literature of the Greek novelist Demosthenes Voutyras: an outstanding epileptic personality by Panayiotis Patrikelis, Lambros Messinis, Vasiliki Folia, Grigorios Nasios, Athanasia Alexoudi, Anastasia Verentzioti, Stefanos Korfias, Vasileios Kimiskidis, Stylianos Gatzonis

“…Methods Through an analysis of the biography, language, and literary work of Greek novelist Demosthenes Voutyras, we hypothesize that his mystical and dark writing style could be attributed to medial temporal interictal dynamics. …”
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MicroRNA in Sjögren’s Syndrome: Their Potential Roles in Pathogenesis and Diagnosis by M. Reale, C. D’Angelo, E. Costantini, M. Laus, A. Moretti, A. Croce

“…The purpose of this work is to gather the data present in the literature to clarify this complex topic.…”
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Dietary Mycotoxins: An Overview on Toxicokinetics, Toxicodynamics, Toxicity, Epidemiology, Detection, and Their Mitigation with Special Emphasis on Aflatoxicosis in Humans and Anim... by James Kibugu, Leonard Munga, David Mburu, Fredrick Maloba, Joanna E. Auma, Delia Grace, Johanna F. Lindahl

“…This review provides an in-depth update of work carried out on mycotoxin poisoning, particularly aflatoxicosis in humans and animals, to identify gaps in knowledge. …”
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Overexpression of the ferroptosis-related gene, NFS1, corresponds to gastric cancer growth and tumor immune infiltration by Mao Zhiyun, Shi Zhongmei, Cui Ming, Ma Xiaohong, Wang Yan, Zhang Xiaojie, Jing Rongrong, Wang Jingchun

“…The current work has further elucidated the expression and functional implication of cysteine desulfurase (NFS1) in gastric cancer (GC), the prognostic value, and therapeutic target because of the interaction with tumor immune infiltration and ferroptosis. …”
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