Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the chloroplast genome of Diospyros aff. oleifera by Xingyu Zeng, Wenyan Zhao, Aihua Deng, Lixuan Xiang, Xuan Tang, Huan Li, Hanbin Yin, Rongjie Huang, Yulong Xiao, Yi Liu, Zui Yao, Yongle Liu, Zhitian Du, Kerui Huang

“…Phylogenetic analysis using 75 protein-coding genes grouped it with D. oleifera, indicating their close relationship. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Receiving a Primary Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty by Annalisa Na, Laurie Jansky, Zbigniew Gugala

“…Among the T2DM individuals, those receiving an arthroplasty surgery were older and obese and more likely to report peripheral neuropathy; however, those with T2DM with no OA were more likely to report atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. …”
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Finding Your Place: Assessing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in an Academic Library by Khaleedah Thomas, Meggan Houlihan

“…Qualitative results were coded using thematic analysis.  Results – An analysis of the quantitative data revealed that students who identified as non-binary/queer/gender non-conforming, identified as a person of color, or identified as a person with a disability were less likely to find the library as inclusive. …”
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Four essays on Conrad - an introduction by John Derrick

“…He was also a dapper, formal little fellow who carried a goldheaded cane and liked to radiate the air of a Polish count. What wonder then that this man who claimed to dream in Polish, think in French, and write in English, should present contradictory faces to his interpreters: Ts Conrad a dated victorian whose lush style, antiquated feudal codes and quixotically macho notion of women set him apart from our world, or is he our contemporary by his psychological depth, his open-ended symbolism, and his vision of a third world tormented by colonial powers?…”
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Mechanistic insights on the alteration of nuclear waste glass from passivation to reactive diffusion in the environment by Pierre Frugier

“…This document formalizes the comparison of these two alteration models, allowing anticipation of conditions likely to cause one or the other mechanism to drive glass alteration.…”
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THE LGBTQA INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETES’ EXPERIENCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES: BASIS FOR AN INSTITUTIONAL INCLUSIVE SPORTS PLAN by Jordan Pocaan

“…The results reveal that participants frequently encountered sexism and verbal harassment at various places and times, that the audience or fans are more likely the perpetrators, and that ignoring the abuse is the most common reaction to harassment. …”
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Systematic assessment of COVID-19 host genetics using whole genome sequencing data. by Axel Schmidt, Nicolas Casadei, Fabian Brand, German Demidov, Elaheh Vojgani, Ayda Abolhassani, Rana Aldisi, Guillaume Butler-Laporte, DeCOI host genetics group, T Madhusankha Alawathurage, Max Augustin, Robert Bals, Carla Bellinghausen, Marc Moritz Berger, Michael Bitzer, Christian Bode, Jannik Boos, Thorsten Brenner, Oliver A Cornely, Thomas Eggermann, Johanna Erber, Torsten Feldt, Christian Fuchsberger, Julien Gagneur, Siri Göpel, Tobias Haack, Helene Häberle, Frank Hanses, Julia Heggemann, Ute Hehr, Johannes C Hellmuth, Christian Herr, Anke Hinney, Per Hoffmann, Thomas Illig, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Verena Keitel, Sarah Kim-Hellmuth, Philipp Koehler, Ingo Kurth, Anna-Lisa Lanz, Eicke Latz, Clara Lehmann, Tom Luedde, Carlo Maj, Michael Mian, Abigail Miller, Maximilian Muenchhoff, Isabell Pink, Ulrike Protzer, Hana Rohn, Jan Rybniker, Federica Scaggiante, Anna Schaffeldt, Clemens Scherer, Maximilian Schieck, Susanne V Schmidt, Philipp Schommers, Christoph D Spinner, Maria J G T Vehreschild, Thirumalaisamy P Velavan, Sonja Volland, Sibylle Wilfling, Christof Winter, J Brent Richards, DeCOI, André Heimbach, Kerstin Becker, Stephan Ossowski, Joachim L Schultze, Peter Nürnberg, Markus M Nöthen, Susanne Motameny, Michael Nothnagel, Olaf Riess, Eva C Schulte, Kerstin U Ludwig

“…Burden testing in the largest population subgroup (i.e., Europeans) suggested nominal enrichments of rare variants in coding and non-coding regions of interferon immune response genes in the overall analysis and male subgroup. …”
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Full Genome Sequence and sfRNA Interferon Antagonist Activity of Zika Virus from Recife, Brazil. by Claire L Donald, Benjamin Brennan, Stephanie L Cumberworth, Veronica V Rezelj, Jordan J Clark, Marli T Cordeiro, Rafael Freitas de Oliveira França, Lindomar J Pena, Gavin S Wilkie, Ana Da Silva Filipe, Christopher Davis, Joseph Hughes, Margus Varjak, Martin Selinger, Luíza Zuvanov, Ania M Owsianka, Arvind H Patel, John McLauchlan, Brett D Lindenbach, Gamou Fall, Amadou A Sall, Roman Biek, Jan Rehwinkel, Esther Schnettler, Alain Kohl

“…Detection of sfRNA that counteracts interferon responses is likely to be important for further understanding of pathogenesis and virus-host interactions.…”
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Potential confounding mutations in Keio knockout strains: implications for research accuracy by Oishi Sen, Xianghui Liu, Staffan Kjelleberg, Scott A. Rice, Thomas Seviour

“…A small number of SNPs and INDELs were predicted in the coding and intergenic regions of the knock-out mutants in comparison to the parental strain through sequencing and bioinformatic analysis. …”
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Analysis of microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphism within transcriptomic database in Cymbidium ensi folium by Li Xiaobai, Xiang Lin, Luo Jie, Qin Dehui, Sun Chongbo

“…In contrast, di-SSR, tetra-SSR, and penta-SSR, were more likely to appear in UTR rather than coding regions. …”
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Evaluation of the Aspects of Digital Interventions That Successfully Support Weight Loss: Systematic Review With Component Network Meta-Analysis by Michael Nunns, Samantha Febrey, Rebecca Abbott, Jill Buckland, Rebecca Whear, Liz Shaw, Alison Bethel, Kate Boddy, Jo Thompson Coon, G.J. Melendez-Torres

“…We conducted intervention component analysis to identify key digital intervention features and a coding framework. All prioritized trial arms were coded using this framework and were included in component network meta-analysis. …”
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Resident assessment facilitation team: collaborative support for activated learning by Elissa Foster, Nicole Defenbaugh, Susan E. Hansen, Nyann Biery, Julie Dostal

“…Teams of at least two analysts per transcript engaged in two rounds of descriptive coding and three levels of axial coding to examine interaction during the RAFT meetings and identify how that interaction was related to residents’ activated learning. …”
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High-throughput SHAPE analysis reveals structures in HIV-1 genomic RNA strongly conserved across distinct biological states. by Kevin A Wilkinson, Robert J Gorelick, Suzy M Vasa, Nicolas Guex, Alan Rein, David H Mathews, Morgan C Giddings, Kevin M Weeks

“…The nucleocapsid protein destabilizes local HIV-1 RNA structure in ways likely to facilitate initial movement both of the retroviral reverse transcriptase from its tRNA primer and of the ribosome in coding regions. …”
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Pleiotropic Associations of Allelic Variants in a 2q22 Region with Risks of Major Human Diseases and Mortality. by Alexander M Kulminski, Liang He, Irina Culminskaya, Yury Loika, Yelena Kernogitski, Konstantin G Arbeev, Elena Loiko, Liubov Arbeeva, Olivia Bagley, Matt Duan, Arseniy Yashkin, Fang Fang, Mikhail Kovtun, Svetlana V Ukraintseva, Deqing Wu, Anatoliy I Yashin

“…This locus harbors an evolutionary conserved gene-desert region with non-coding intergenic sequences likely involved in regulation of protein-coding flanking genes ZEB2 and ACVR2A. …”
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Phylogeny and molecular evolution analysis of PIN-FORMED 1 in angiosperm. by Pengkai Wang, Tielong Cheng, Shuang Wu, Fangfang Zhao, Guangping Wang, Liming Yang, Mengzhu Lu, Jinhui Chen, Jisen Shi

“…Finally, functional difference of PIN1 is likely to be present in angiosperm because the positive selection is occurred in one branch of Poaceae.…”
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Unveiling health disparities: Diagnostic prevalences in a transgender cohort versus matched controls. by Laurel Hiatt, Blessing S Ofori-Atta, Amanda V Bakian, Nicole L Mihalopoulos, Brooks R Keeshin, Anna Docherty, Michael Staley, Alison Fraser, Emily Sullivan, Erin A Kaufman, Hilary Coon, Anne V Kirby

“…<h4>Participants</h4>6,664 TGD individuals were identified using ICD codes for gender incongruence between 1995 and 2021; 64,124 age-matched individuals comprised the control cohort.…”
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome of <i>Chlorogomphus papilio</i> (Odonata: Anisoptera: Chlorogomphidae) and Phylogenetic Analyses by Xiaoxiao Jin, Xiaojia Lin, Simeng Wang, Jie Fang

“…We observed that the mitochondrial genome of <i>C. papilio</i> is 15,251 bp in length and includes 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and a non-coding control region. …”
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Uncertainty and hope in people with metastatic uveal melanoma in the era of immunotherapy and targeted treatments: a theory-based qualitative study by Tim Luckett, Carrie-Anne Ng, Julia Lai-Kwon, Damien Kee, Brendan Mulhern, Anthony M. Joshua

“…Analysis involved inductive coding followed by deductive coding against Mishel’s (1988) theoretical framework of uncertainty in illness. …”
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Involving End Users in the Development and Usability Testing of a Smartphone App Designed for Individuals With Prediabetes: Mixed-Methods Focus Group Study by Natalie Grieve, Kyra Braaten, Megan MacPherson, Sam Liu, Mary E Jung

“… Abstract BackgroundTechnology is more likely to be used when it is designed to meet the needs of end users. …”
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Associations between vaccination clinic factors and DTaP dropout in China: A cross-sectional study by Jiakai Ye, Lei Cao, Yifan Song, Wenzhou Yu, Zhaonan Zhang, Li Li, Zundong Yin

“…Compared to clinics with travel-based service radii of ≤ 5 km, clinics with 6–10 km radii were more likely to have low dropout rates (OR = 1.06 [95% CI,1.00–1.12]), and clinics with service radii of ≥ 21 km (OR = 0.90 [95% CI, 0.83–0.98]) were less likely. …”
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