A preliminary study of the mechanism of compound hearing loss caused by ototoxic drugs combined with impulse noise by Xin Qiu, Qing‐qing Jiang, Wei‐wei Guo, Ning Yu, Shi‐ming Yang

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Assessing childhood maltreatment exposure using the child behavior checklist by Takuya Makino, Shota Nishitani, Shota Nishitani, Shota Nishitani, Shinichiro Takiguchi, Shinichiro Takiguchi, Shinichiro Takiguchi, Akiko Yao, Takashi X. Fujisawa, Takashi X. Fujisawa, Takashi X. Fujisawa, Akemi Tomoda, Akemi Tomoda, Akemi Tomoda, Akemi Tomoda

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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is different in children compared to in adults: a study of UK and Dutch clinical cohorts by Esther Crawley, Elise M van de Putte, Sanne L Nijhof, Simon M Collin, Roberto Nuevo

“…Adolescents were more likely to have headaches (81.1%, OR 1.56 (1.36% to 1.80%)) and less likely to have tender lymph nodes, palpitations, dizziness, general malaise and pain, compared to adults. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Hand and Finger Contractures in Postburn Patients: A Single-Center Retrospective Analysis at a Top Referral Hospital in West Java, Indonesia by Wafiq Wibawa, BMedSc, Arif Tri Prasetyo, MD, MClinMed, Betha Egih Riestiano, MD, Hardisiswo Soedjana, MD, PhD, Raja Iqbal Mulya Harahap, MD

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Characteristic analysis of N 6-methyladenine in different parts of yak epididymis by Ziqiang Ding, Xingdong Wang, Shaoke Guo, Yandong Kang, Mengli Cao, Liyan Hu, Ben Zhang, Lin Xiong, Jie Pei, Tao Yang, Xian Guo

“…Conclusions In summary, we generated the m6A profile of the yak epididymis, which will aid in further elucidating the maturation process of sperm and reveal more information related to male infertility.…”
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Preclinical platform for long-term evaluation of immuno-oncology drugs using hCD34+ humanized mouse model by Yong Wha Moon, Nahee Park, Kamal Pandey, Sei Kyung Chang, Ah-Young Kwon, Young Bin Cho, Jin Hur, Nar Bahadur Katwal, Seung Ki Kim, Seung Ah Lee, Gun Woo Son, Jong Min Jo, Hee Jung Ahn

“…We proved the development of functional T cells by demonstrating the anticancer effect of the programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) inhibitor in our humanized mice but not in non-humanized NSG mice. …”
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Treatment of bacterial biothreat agents with a novel purified bioactive lactoferrin affects both growth and biofilm formation by Christian Xander, Elsie E. Martinez, Ronald G. Toothman, Christina L. Gardner, Ju Qiu, Jonathan Snedeker, Matthew H. Bender, Christopher Hlubb, Crystal W. Burke, Joel A. Bozue, Kevin D. Mlynek

“…The growth of F. tularensis was also significantly inhibited when cultured in the presence of Lactea Lf and appeared more sensitive to treatment when compared to B. pseudomallei. …”
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Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…Background Lower urinary tract symptoms particularly affect older men and their quality of life. General practitioners currently have no easily available assessment tools to diagnose lower urinary tract symptom causes. …”
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Truncated Modular Exponentiation Operators: A Strategy for Quantum Factoring by Robert L. Singleton Jr

“…Here, the ME function with base $a$ is defined by $f(x) = a^x ~({\textrm mod}~N)$ and has a period of $r$. …”
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Oncolytic VSV-IL-2 has enhanced anticancer vaccination adjuvant abilities by Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault, Victor Mullins-Dansereau, Marie-Lou Myre, Angelina Bardoul, Karen Geoffroy, Marco J Rallo Pita, Delphine Béland, Kim Leclerc Desaulniers, Dominic Guy Roy

“…Treatment efficacy was also measured.Results Our data show that VSV-interleukin-2 is superior as a vaccine boosting adjuvant compared with the parental virus as it induces more antigen-specific CD8 T cells with enhanced effector functions that persist over time. …”
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Using a Co-Designed Implementation Enhancement Plan to Increase the Adoption of a Digital Fall Prevention Platform: A Non-Randomized Pre-Post Interventional Study by Delaforce A, Li J, Niven P, Maddock E, Grujovski M, Fahy MJ, Good NM, Jayasena R

“…The findings have broader implications for the implementation of other fall prevention interventions.Evidence is generated in support of digital falls prevention systems in the context of providing more efficient and responsive care, as well as improved patient-staff communication and satisfaction.Keywords: implementation science, health information technology, nursing, co-design…”
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Explainable multi-modal radiomics for early prediction of liver metastasis in rectal cancer: a multicentric study by Yaru Feng, Jing Gong, Yanyan Wang, Yanfen Cui, Tong Tong

“…The SHAP method elucidated the model’s functionality by highlighting key feature contributions. …”
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Myocardial remodeling and fibroblast growth factor in patients with resistant hypertension by M. S. Litvinova, L. A. Khaisheva, S. V. Shlyk

“…All patients underwent 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), echocardiography, general laboratory tests, and the serum FGF23 level was determined.Results. …”
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Identification and Characterization of the CPP Gene Family in the Genome of Aedes aegypti L. (Yellow Fever Mosquito) (Diptera: Culicidae) by Murat Turan

“…The findings emphasize the importance of CPP genes in controlling arboviral pathogens and understanding general stress responses in insects. The information derived from this research could contribute to the development of more effective intervention strategies for Ae. aegypti and other vector carriers to cope with stress. …”
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Rainbow Vectors for Broad-Range Bacterial Fluorescence Labeling. by Mariette Barbier, F Heath Damron

“…Since their discovery, fluorescent proteins have been widely used to study protein function, localization or interaction, promoter activity and regulation, drug discovery or for non-invasive imaging. …”
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Communication between the gut microbiota and peripheral nervous system in health and chronic disease by Tyler M. Cook, Virginie Mansuy-Aubert

“…In this review, we cover the general anatomy and function of the PNS, and then we discuss how the molecules secreted or stimulated by gut microbes signal through the PNS to alter host development and physiology. …”
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A Bayesian-Weighted Inverse Gaussian Regression Model with Application to Seismological Data by Ehsan Mesdaghi, Afshin Fallah, Rahman Farnoosh, Gholam Hossein Yari

“…In the proposed model, the complementary reciprocal of the location parameter of response variable is considered to be a linear function of the explanatory variables. We developed a fully Bayesian framework to infer about the model parameters based on a general noninformative prior structure and employed a Gibbs sampler to derive the posterior inferences by using the Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. …”
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Investigation of possible G-quadruplex formation by GU- and GA-rich repeats and their role in translation by Bas M. Morren, Jitske Marcelis, Iza Muradin, René C.L. Olsthoorn

“…These findings have implications for the structural landscape of rG4s and the potential side-effects of G4 targeting drugs in general.…”
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Effects of Duration of Breastfeeding During Infancy on Vascular Dysfunction in Adolescents by Sukman Tulus Putra, Muchtaruddin Mansyur, Sudigdo Satroasmoro

“…Key words: breastfeeding duration, vascular structure and function, cardiovascular risk. …”
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Parametric Meta-Technology Frameworks to Study Technical Efficiency and Macro-Economic Effects in the European Banking System by Bilel Jarraya

“…The estimated parameters are more significant in our model than in the general model, also called the common frontier model. …”
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