Donor and recipient risk assessment and its influence on clinical outcome in heart transplantation at a reference center in Brazil by Gabriel B. Aulicino, MD, Fabiana G. Marcondes-Braga, MD, PhD, Sandrigo Mangini, MD, PhD, Iascara W. Campos, MD, PhD, Monica S. Avila, MD, PhD, Luis F.B. Seguro, MD, PhD, Ronaldo H.B. Santos, MD, Fabio A. Gaiotto, MD, PhD, Fernando Bacal, MD, PhD

“…Results: Chagas disease was the most common cause of cardiomyopathy (36%). Most patients were male (65%) with a median age of 50 (39-58) years. …”
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Impact of Internal Capabilities on Firms’ Financial Performance: With Special Reference to Large Export Manufacturing Firms in Sri Lanka by J. A. W. M. Jayasekera, W. V. A. D. Karunarathne

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Identification of suitable reference genes in leaves and roots of rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) under different nutrient deficiencies by Pei-pei HAN, Lu QIN, Yin-shui LI, Xiang-sheng LIAO, Zi-xian XU, Xiao-jia HU, Li-hua XIE, Chang-bing YU, Yan-feng WU, Xing LIAO

“…Results showed that VHA-E1 was the highest-ranked gene in leaves of nutrient-deficient rapeseed, while VHA-G1 and UBC21 were most stable in nutrient-deficient roots. When rapeseed leaves and roots were combined, UBC21, HTB1, VHA-G1 and ACT7 were most stable among all samples. …”
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Delirium in geriatric population referred to a geriatric clinic in a rural medical college: A retrospective study by Kshirod Kumar Mishra, Gaurav B Pawar, Harshal S Sathe

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Reference Evapotranspiration Changes: Sensitivities to and Contributions of Meteorological Factors in the Heihe River Basin of Northwestern China (1961–2014) by Chaoyang Du, Jingjie Yu, Ping Wang, Yichi Zhang

“…This paper investigates reference evapotranspiration (ET0) changes, sensitivities to and contributions of meteorological factors in the Heihe River Basin (arid and inland region). …”
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The Effect of Exercise Program on Low Back Pain Preventive Behaviors in Pregnant Females Referred to Health Centers of Karaj by Maryam Khalednejad, Sedighe Tavafian, Shamsodin Niknami

“…Background and Objectives: Back pain is the most common pain in pregnancy. This research aimed at exploring the influence of exercise program training on behavior change that leads to back pain prevention in pregnant females. …”
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The Relationship between Fear of COVID-19 and Self-Medication and the Rate of Antibiotic Use in Patients Referred to COVID-19 by Fatemeh Faraji, Rostam Jalali, Nader Salari

“…There was a significant correlation between self-medication and gender (P value <0.05) and education level (P value <0.05); the most common reason for self-medication was easy access to medicines through pharmacy drug stores. …”
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Rubber plantation as a supplementary mechanism for degrading forest resources in Arunachal Pradesh-with reference to Siang Belt Region by Vicky Saroh

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Selection and validation of stable reference genes in potato infected by Pectobacterium atrosepticum using real-time quantitative PCR by Lijuan Hou, Haixia Zhu, Wenrong Xian, Yongqiang Ma

“…To validate the screening outcomes, the expression patterns of four disease resistance-related genes (RBOHC, WRKY24, MPK3, and CPK32) were analyzed in both resistant and susceptible potato cultivars using the EF1α as the most stable and Ubiquitin as the least stable. Validation experiments revealed that the expression levels of disease resistance-related genes were stable and consistent with the RNA-Seq data when EF1α was used as a reference gene. …”
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Synthesis of O-tyrosine Phosphorylated Adducts of Methylphosphonic and Phosphoric Acid Derivatives as Reference Compounds for the Analysis of Biomedical Samples by V. I. Krylov, I. I. Krylov, V. A. Yashkir, I. V. Rybalchenko

“…For the purposes of verification of compliance with the provisions of the CWC, special methods, which are considered the most informative at determining the retrospective effects of organophosphorus toxicants on the body, are necessary. …”
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Performance of a non-contact veterinary infrared thermometer and reference intervals of equine temperature at different body sites by Daniela Alberghina, Carlotta Tombolani, Fausto Quintavalla

“…Rectal thermometry is the most common method for determining the temperatures of adult horses and foals. …”
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The Method for Generating a Set of Reference Images for Assessing the Condition of Critical Infrastructure Facilities Using Mobile Robots by Tymochko O., Burdin M., Najafli E., Tsukan O., Olizarenko S., Biryukov I., Tiurina V., Zakirov S., Padalka I.

“…The most important result is the determination of acceptable discretization values in the range of angles and heights of a correlation-extreme navigation system. …”
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Identification and validation of reference genes with stable expression under elicitor treatments of the medicinal plant Arnica montana L. by Magdalena Sozoniuk, Maria Petrova, Kiril Mishev, Kamelia Miladinova-Georgieva, Maria Geneva

“…A comprehensive analysis of the obtained results showed that the most stably expressed pair of genes under elicitation conditions was ATP-synthase and ACT. …”
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High-Accuracy HLA Type Inference from Whole-Genome Sequencing Data Using Population Reference Graphs. by Alexander T Dilthey, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud, Alexander J Mentzer, Nezih Cereb, Zamin Iqbal, Gil McVean

“…We describe how to address these challenges in a Population Reference Graph (PRG) framework. First, we construct a PRG for 46 (mostly HLA) genes and pseudogenes, their genomic context and their characterized sequence variants, integrating a database of over 10,000 known allele sequences. …”
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Impact of a qualitative assessment approach for neonatal abstinence syndrome management: experience of a European reference center by Mariana Cortez Ferreira, Ana Moura Figueiredo, Joaquim Pitorra, Joana Mesquita da Silva

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Big data-based reference centiles for body composition in Korean children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study by Dohyun Chun, Seo Jung Kim, Junghwan Suh, Jihun Kim

“…Results The sex- and age-related disparities in body composition were most pronounced when weight was partitioned into BFM and FFM. …”
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Selection and Validation of Stable Reference Genes for RT-qPCR in <i>Scotogramma trifolii</i> (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) by Anpei Yang, Hang Zhang, Weiwei Bai, Ruifeng Ding, Weipeng Li, Guangkuo Li

“…Stability analysis identified <i>β-actin</i>, <i>RPL9</i>, and <i>GAPDH</i> as the most reliable reference genes for developmental stage normalization, while <i>RPL10</i>, <i>GAPDH</i>, and <i>TUB</i> were validated for adult tissues. …”
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Clinical and serological features of patients referred through a rheumatology triage system because of positive antinuclear antibodies. by Christie Fitch-Rogalsky, Whitney Steber, Michael Mahler, Terri Lupton, Liam Martin, Susan G Barr, Dianne P Mosher, James Wick, Marvin J Fritzler

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>This is the first study to evaluate the serological and clinical features of patients referred through a CT system because of a positive ANA. …”
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Reference Equations for the Six-Minute Walk Test in Healthy Adults in Southwestern Colombia: a Cross-Sectional Study by Esther Cecilia Wilches-Luna, Hamilton Elías Rosero-Carvajal, Álvaro Javier Arias Balanta, Diana Marcela Quintero Medina, Mauricio Hernández-Carrillo, Jhonatan Betancourt Peña

“…In Colombia, the distance of the 6MWT is compared with those predicted by reference equations from other countries. Besides, pedometric measurements have not been included in the test. …”
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MicroRNA Expression Profiling to Identify and Validate Reference Genes for the Relative Quantification of microRNA in Rectal Cancer. by Anne Haahr Mellergaard Eriksen, Rikke Fredslund Andersen, Niels Pallisgaard, Flemming Brandt Sørensen, Anders Jakobsen, Torben Frøstrup Hansen

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