Individual variability and the H* ~ L + H* contrast in English by Riccardo Orrico, Stella Gryllia, Jiseung Kim, Amalia Arvaniti

“…However, they also differed substantially in which they considered primary (form or function). We replicated both the general findings and the patterns of individual variability with a second RPT study which also showed that the relative prioritization of form or function related to participant differences in empathy, musicality and autistic-like traits. …”
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A systematic screen for tube morphogenesis and branching genes in the Drosophila tracheal system. by Amin S Ghabrial, Boaz P Levi, Mark A Krasnow

“…To identify potentially pleiotropic morphogenesis genes, the screen included analysis of marked clones of homozygous mutant tracheal cells in heterozygous animals, plus a secondary screen to exclude mutations in general "house-keeping" genes. From a collection including more than 5,000 lethal mutations, we identified 133 mutations representing ∼70 or more genes that subdivide the tracheal terminal branching program into six genetically separable steps, a previously established cell specification step plus five major morphogenesis and maturation steps: branching, growth, tubulogenesis, gas-filling, and maintenance. …”
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Chronic unexplained nausea in adults: Prevalence, impact on quality of life, and underlying organic diseases in a cohort of 5096 subjects comprehensively investigated. by Hye-Kyung Jung, Chung Hyun Tae, Chang Mo Moon, Seong-Eun Kim, Ki-Nam Shim, Sung-Ae Jung

“…The prevalence of chronic unexplained nausea was 0.6% (95% CI 0.4-0.8%) and there were significant overlap with functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome. HRQoL is significantly lower in people with nausea occurring 'more than one day per week' in a general population. …”
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Influence of positive end-expiratory pressure upregulation on the right ventricle in critical patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: an observational cohort study by Hui Liu, Mengjie Song, Li Wang, Jianguo Xiao, Feihu Zhou

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Extracellular Vesicles and Their Convergence with Viral Pathways by Thomas Wurdinger, NaTosha N. Gatson, Leonora Balaj, Balveen Kaur, Xandra O. Breakefield, D. Michiel Pegtel

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AETHER: An Ultra-High Throughput and Low Energy Authenticated Encryption Scheme by Subhadeep Banik, Andrea Caforio, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Takanori Isobe, Mostafizar Rahman, Kosei Sakamoto

“…To further optimize hardware performance, we design the general construction of the roundupdate function to be more hardware-friendly, allowing parallel execution of the inner function on all 128-bit words, thereby enhancing both throughput and security against collision-based forgery attacks. …”
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Preclinical Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging of Acute Hyperoxia Therapy of Chronic Hypoxia during Pregnancy by Alexander Zheleznyak, Joel R. Garbow, Michal Neeman, Suzanne E. Lapi

“…Herein we report first-in-mouse PET imaging of fetuses employing both tracers [ 18 F]FDG (metabolism) and 64 Cu-ATSM (hypoxia). [ 18 F]FDG PET/CT imaging allowed clear visualization of placental-fetal structures and supported quantification of tracer uptake, making this a sensitive tool for monitoring placental function in preclinical rodent models. These measurements illustrate the potentially irreversible damage generated by chronic exposure to hypoxia, which cannot be corrected by acute exposure to hyperoxia.…”
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An association rule-based approach for frequent item mining of multi-stage access data by Silong Wu

“…Only one database scan is required, and frequent itemsets are directly generated without generating candidate itemsets, greatly improving the efficiency of the algorithm; Introducing weights into the improved Apriori algorithm and designing a weighted support function, by assigning different weights to different itemsets, more accurately reflects the importance and differences of itemsets in practical applications, thereby improving the accuracy of frequent item mining. …”
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Designing a Multistage Supply Chain in Cross-Stage Reverse Logistics Environments: Application of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms by Tzu-An Chiang, Z. H. Che, Zhihua Cui

“…Regarding system execution time, the GA consumed more time than the other three PSOs did. Regarding objective function value, the GA, PSOA_IWM, and PSOA_CFM could obtain a lower convergence value than PSOA_VMM could. …”
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Sharing and Specificity of Co-expression Networks across 35 Human Tissues. by Emma Pierson, GTEx Consortium, Daphne Koller, Alexis Battle, Sara Mostafavi, Kristin G Ardlie, Gad Getz, Fred A Wright, Manolis Kellis, Simona Volpi, Emmanouil T Dermitzakis

“…To understand the regulation of tissue-specific gene expression, the GTEx Consortium generated RNA-seq expression data for more than thirty distinct human tissues. …”
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HEE-SegGAN: A holistically-nested edge enhanced GAN for pulmonary nodule segmentation. by Yong Wang, Seri Mastura Mustaza, Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab-Rahman, Siti Salasiah Mokri

“…To mitigate mode collapse, we incorporated minibatch discrimination in the discriminator, encouraging diversity in the generated samples. We also improved the loss function to better capture edge-level details and enhance segmentation precision in edge regions. …”
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Transcriptional analysis of a unique set of genes involved in Schistosoma mansoni female reproductive biology. by Alexis A Cogswell, Valerie P Kommer, David L Williams

“…Schistosomiasis affects more than 200 million people globally. The pathology of schistosome infections is due to chronic tissue inflammation and damage from immune generated granulomas surrounding parasite eggs trapped in host tissues. …”
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Effect of Post-Acute Kidney Injury Use of Renin-Angiotensin Inhibitors on Long-term Mortality and Major Adverse Kidney Events: A 5-year Retrospective Observational Cohort Study by Byorn W.L. Tan, Bryce W.Q. Tan, K. Akalya, Wei-Zhen Hong, Yi Da, Sanmay Low, Wan-Ying Ng, Horng-Ruey Chua

“…Although angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEis) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) have been widely used in proteinuric kidney disease to slow kidney function decline, the effect of ACEi/ARB use post-AKI on long-term kidney function remains unclear. …”
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Progress on the mechanism of intestinal microbiota against colorectal cancer by Guoqiang Xing, Yu Cui, Zhiyue Guo, Bing Han, Guogang Zhao

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Efficacy of Curcuma longa in relieving pain symptoms of knee osteoarthritis patients: a systematic review and metaanalysis of clinical trials by Rudy Hidayat, Faisal Parlindungan, Jihan Izzatun Nisa, Arya Ivan Mahendra, Muhammad Izza Indika, Cristopher Efendi

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Notes on Whitehead space of an algebra by M. Arian-Nejad

“…Let R be a ring, and denote by [R,R] the group generated additively by the additive commutators of R. …”
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Stem Cells as a Tool to Improve Outcomes of Islet Transplantation by Emily Sims, Carmella Evans-Molina

“…Stem cells have been utilized not only as a functional replacement for β cells, but also as companion or supportive cells to address a variety of different obstacles that prevent ideal graft viability and function. …”
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Storage damage of cold-stored whole blood in CPDA maintenance fluid during the whole effective storage period by Yingyu He, Yiquan Zhang, Wanbing Liu, Lidong Zhang, Yingkai Xu, Zihan Yuan, Junying Li, Lei Liu, Fangxiong Cheng

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Optimization of an Intelligent Music-Playing System Based on Network Communication by Liaoyan Zhang

“…As song libraries and users of music websites and APPs continue to increase, user interaction data are generated at an increasingly fast rate, making the shortcomings of the original offline recommendation system and the advantages of the real-time streaming recommendation system more and more obvious. …”
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The relationship between protein-energy wasting and cognitive impairment in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis by Jun Liu, Jingfang Wan, Kehong Chen, Yani He, Weiwei Zhang, Jiyuan Luo, Dan Li

“…Those combined with PEW were more likely to develop CI, and to suffer from more severe CI. …”
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