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

“…To assess the efficacy of Lactea Lf against biothreat pathogens, we performed biofilm inhibition assays and generated dose-response curves against Burkholderia pseudomallei, Burkholderia mallei, and Francisella tularensis for proof-of-principle studies. …”
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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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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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Intravenous immunoglobulin for mortality and inflammatory status in patients with sepsis: a retrospective database study by Hayabusa Takano, Hayabusa Takano, Naoki Kanda, Naoki Kanda, Yuji Wakimoto, Hiroyuki Ohbe, Kensuke Nakamura, Kensuke Nakamura

“…In-hospital mortality in the matched cohort was also significantly more favorable in the IVIG group (137/758 [18.1%] vs 177/758 [23.4%]; risk difference [95%CI], -5.3% [-9.3% to -1.2%]; P = 0.013). …”
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Prevalencia de neuromitos en estudiantes de Pedagogía en Educación Física de Chile (Prevalence of neuromyths in students of Physical Education Pedagogy of Chile) by Fernando Maureira, Elizabeth Flores Ferro, Franklin Castillo Retamal, Manuel Cortés Cortés, Sebastián Peña Troncoso, Valentina Bahamonde Acevedo, Sonia Cárdenas Begazo, Natalia Escobar Ruiz, Benjamín Cortes Escaffi

“…Introduction: the lack of a common language between neuroscience and education has generated erroneous interpretations about the functioning of the nervous system, giving rise to neuromyths. …”
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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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UFO: A tool for unifying biomedical ontology-based semantic similarity calculation, enrichment analysis and visualization. by Duc-Hau Le

“…Also, more functions would facilitate their task with ontology.…”
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Film po adaptacji powieści: 
narracja Wojny polsko-ruskiej pod flagą biało-czerwoną by Wacław Osadnik

“…The theory assumes that literature is a formal dynamic functional system, and that the translation of a literary work of art rejects the requirement of adequacy for the sake of acceptability. …”
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A bibliometric analysis of the global status of platelet-rich plasma in regenerative medicine from 2004 to 2023 by Siwen Zhang, Xudong Zhang, Haochen Zhang, Shengqing Zhang, Zichen Liu, Shanshan Wu, Yimeng Lu, Chao Han, Jichun Tan

“…There were seven keywords of “Bone-related cluster”, “hyaluronic acid-related cluster”, “cartilage-related cluster”, “stomatology-related cluster”, “damage repair-related cluster”, “experiment-related cluster”, and “nerve-related cluster” generated in keyword co-occurrence analysis. Except for bone & joint diseases, novel clinical applications of PRP have been carried out, including dental and neurological practice, reproductive medicine, dermatology, gynecology, and plastic surgery, cosmetic treatments, and the improvement of non-musculoskeletal organ function. …”
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Retrieval of pseudo-BRDF-adjusted surface reflectance at 440 nm from the Geostationary Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) by S. Sim, S. Choi, D. Jung, J. Woo, N. Kim, S. Park, H. Kim, U. Jeong, H. Hong, K.-S. Han

“…To address this issue, many satellite algorithms generate Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity (LER) products as a priori surface reflectance data; however, this often results in an underestimation of these data. …”
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A Delphi Consensus Project to Capture Greek Experts’ Opinion on the Position of Triple Therapies in COPD: Why, When and to Whom by Papaioannou AI, Loukides S, Vassilakopoulos T, Tzanakis N, Kostikas K, Hillas G

“…Finally, there was a consensus that de-escalation from triple therapy to dual bronchodilation was inappropriate in patients who had experienced one moderate exacerbation in the previous year.Conclusion: Although consensus was generated in several statements, panelists failed to reach consensus in many aspects of the use of triple therapy, identifying areas for further research.Keywords: COPD, inhaled corticosteroids, exacerbations, dual bronchodilation, triple therapy…”
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Association of the blood urea nitrogen to serum albumin ratio and all-cause mortality in critical ill acute ischemic stroke patients: a retrospective cohort study of MIMIC-IV datab... by Yongwei Huang, Zongping Li, Jianjun Wang, Jianjun Wang, Decai Wang, Decai Wang, Xiaoshuang Yin

“…Kaplan–Meier (KM) survival curves were generated to illustrate variations in BAR and death over various time intervals. …”
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Optimal 2D Placement of Virtual Objects in Physical Space for Augmented Reality Applications by M. V. Alpatova, Yu. V. Rudyak

“…The 1D-placement algorithm for the generated row provided optimal positioning the objects along X-axis based on the calculated comfort coefficient К. …”
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Pixel-super-resolved lens-free quantitative phase microscopy with partially coherent illumination by Yang Chen, Xuejuan Wu, Linpeng Lu, Jiasong Sun, Runnan Zhang, Wenhui Lin, Yufan Chen, Maciej Trusiak, Peng Gao, Chao Zuo

“…Initially, coherent laser sources were used in LFOCM to generate interference fringes to reconstruct the intensity and phase information of an object. …”
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Heat up, silence on: IDO1 gene silencing in THP-1-derived dendritic cells triggered by magnetic hyperthermia by Daniela Ferreira, Laura Asín, Javier Idiago-López, Valeria Grazú, Jesús M. de la Fuente, Raluca M. Fratila, Pedro V. Baptista, Alexandra R. Fernandes

“…Upon the application of an alternating magnetic field, the MNPs generate heat and trigger the thermal disruption of the cell membrane. …”
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ContDataQC: An R package and Shiny app for quality control of continuous water quality sensor data by Michael J. Pennino, Jen Stamp, Erik W. Leppo, David A. Gibbs, Britta G. Bierwagen

“…ContDataQC helps users speed up and standardize the QC process, minimize undetected data errors, and make full use of their sensor data. It has three main functions: generate QC reports to detect anomalies and erroneous data values, merge QC'd data files from different time periods, and generate time series plots and basic summary statistics. …”
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Research on a Service Touchpoint Design Model Driven by Smart Technology Based on Kano–Failure Modes and Effects Analysis by Jian Chen, Zhihan Li, Weiwei Wang, Yi Wang, Zhaoxuan He

“…The Kano model is employed in the user requirement identification phase to provide more precise user requirement parameters, while FMEA is employed in the failure risk analysis phase to generate more accurate failure risk assessments. …”
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Systematic Review of the Differential Effects of TGF‐β1 in Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Preclinical Stroke Models by Benjamin J. Hewitt, Myah Ali, Jessica Hubbard, Lisa J. Hill, Hannah Botfield

“…Conclusions Our findings suggest a marked difference in TGF‐β1 function between these types of stroke, and it is hypothesized that blood cytotoxicity following hemorrhagic stroke may generate more sustained TGF‐β1 expression than that seen in ischemic stroke. …”
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POTA: A Pipelined Oblivious Transfer Acceleration Architecture for Secure Multi-Party Computation by Li Xiaolin, Yan Wei, Liu Hongwei, Zhang Yong, Hao Qinfen, Liu Yong, Sun Ninghui

“…Furthermore, we design a modular multiplication module over a finite field to generate the more complex correlations required by MPC protocols. …”
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Occurrence and potential mechanism of holin-mediated non-lytic protein translocation in bacteria by Thomas Brüser, Denise Mehner-Breitfeld

“…Holins are generally believed to generate large membrane lesions that permit the passage of endolysins across the cytoplasmic membrane of prokaryotes, ultimately resulting in cell wall degradation and cell lysis. …”
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