Hybrid closed-loop systems for managing blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and economic modelling by Asra Asgharzadeh, Mubarak Patel, Martin Connock, Sara Damery, Iman Ghosh, Mary Jordan, Karoline Freeman, Anna Brown, Rachel Court, Sharin Baldwin, Fatai Ogunlayi, Chris Stinton, Ewen Cummins, Lena Al-Khudairy

“…Prioritisation for full-text assessment We applied a two-step approach to identifying and assessing the relevant evidence in terms of study design, study length and sample size. The most rigorous and relevant studies (mainly RCTs) were prioritised for data extraction and quality assessment. …”
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High-flow nasal cannula therapy versus continuous positive airway pressure for non-invasive respiratory support in paediatric critical care: the FIRST-ABC RCTs by Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Alvin Richards-Belle, Karen Thomas, Laura Drikite, Zia Sadique, Silvia Moler Zapata, Robert Darnell, Carly Au, Peter J Davis, Izabella Orzechowska, Julie Lester, Kevin Morris, Millie Parke, Mark Peters, Sam Peters, Michelle Saull, Lyvonne Tume, Richard G Feltbower, Richard Grieve, Paul R Mouncey, David Harrison, Kathryn Rowan

“…A total of 1200 children (600 acutely ill and 600 following extubation) were entered into the trials. Half were randomly assigned to high-flow nasal cannula and the other half to continuous positive airway pressure. …”
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Multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 56,241 individuals identifies known and novel cross-population and ancestry-specific associations as novel risk loci for Alzheimer’s dis... by Farid Rajabli, Penelope Benchek, Giuseppe Tosto, Nicholas Kushch, Jin Sha, Katrina Bazemore, Congcong Zhu, Wan-Ping Lee, Jacob Haut, Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson, Nicholas R. Wheeler, Yi Zhao, John J. Farrell, Michelle A. Grunin, Yuk Yee Leung, Pavel P. Kuksa, Donghe Li, Eder Lucio da Fonseca, Jesse B. Mez, Ellen L. Palmer, Jagan Pillai, Richard M. Sherva, Yeunjoo E. Song, Xiaoling Zhang, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Taha Iqbal, Omkar Pathak, Otto Valladares, Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer, Amanda B. Kuzma, Erin Abner, Larry D. Adams, Perrie M. Adams, Alyssa Aguirre, Marilyn S. Albert, Roger L. Albin, Mariet Allen, Lisa Alvarez, Liana G. Apostolova, Steven E. Arnold, Sanjay Asthana, Craig S. Atwood, Sanford Auerbach, Gayle Ayres, Clinton T. Baldwin, Robert C. Barber, Lisa L. Barnes, Sandra Barral, Thomas G. Beach, James T. Becker, Gary W. Beecham, Duane Beekly, Bruno A. Benitez, David Bennett, John Bertelson, Thomas D. Bird, Deborah Blacker, Bradley F. Boeve, James D. Bowen, Adam Boxer, James Brewer, James R. Burke, Jeffrey M. Burns, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Nigel J. Cairns, Laura B. Cantwell, Chuanhai Cao, Christopher S. Carlson, Cynthia M. Carlsson, Regina M. Carney, Minerva M. Carrasquillo, Scott Chasse, Marie-Francoise Chesselet, Nathaniel A. Chin, Helena C. Chui, Jaeyoon Chung, Suzanne Craft, Paul K. Crane, David H. Cribbs, Elizabeth A. Crocco, Carlos Cruchaga, Michael L. Cuccaro, Munro Cullum, Eveleen Darby, Barbara Davis, Philip L. De Jager, Charles DeCarli, John DeToledo, Malcolm Dick, Dennis W. Dickson, Beth A. Dombroski, Rachelle S. Doody, Ranjan Duara, NIlüfer Ertekin-Taner, Denis A. Evans, Kelley M. Faber, Thomas J. Fairchild, Kenneth B. Fallon, David W. Fardo, Martin R. Farlow, Victoria Fernandez-Hernandez, Steven Ferris, Robert P. Friedland, Tatiana M. Foroud, Matthew P. Frosch, Brian Fulton-Howard, Douglas R. Galasko, Adriana Gamboa, Marla Gearing, Daniel H. Geschwind, Bernardino Ghetti, John R. Gilbert, Rodney C.P. Go, Alison M. Goate, Thomas J. Grabowski, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Robert C. Green, John H. Growdon, Hakon Hakonarson, James Hall, Ronald L. Hamilton, Oscar Harari, John Hardy, Lindy E. Harrell, Elizabeth Head, Victor W. Henderson, Michelle Hernandez, Timothy Hohman, Lawrence S. Honig, Ryan M. Huebinger, Matthew J. Huentelman, Christine M. Hulette, Bradley T. Hyman, Linda S. Hynan, Laura Ibanez, Gail P. Jarvik, Suman Jayadev, Lee-Way Jin, Kim Johnson, Leigh Johnson, M. Ilyas Kamboh, Anna M. Karydas, Mindy J. Katz, John S. Kauwe, Jeffrey A. Kaye, C. Dirk Keene, Aisha Khaleeq, Masataka Kikuchi, Ronald Kim, Janice Knebl, Neil W. Kowall, Joel H. Kramer, Walter A. Kukull, Frank M. LaFerla, James J. Lah, Eric B. Larson, Alan Lerner, James B. Leverenz, Allan I. Levey, Andrew P. Lieberman, Richard B. Lipton, Mark Logue, Oscar L. Lopez, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Constantine G. Lyketsos, Douglas Mains, Flanagan E. Margaret, Daniel C. Marson, Eden RR. Martin, Frank Martiniuk, Deborah C. Mash, Eliezer Masliah, Paul Massman, Arjun Masurkar, Wayne C. McCormick, Susan M. McCurry, Andrew N. McDavid, Stefan McDonough, Ann C. McKee, Marsel Mesulam, Bruce L. Miller, Carol A. Miller, Joshua W. Miller, Thomas J. Montine, Edwin S. Monuki, John C. Morris, Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Amanda J. Myers, Trung Nguyen, Thomas Obisesan, Sid O’Bryant, John M. Olichney, Marcia Ory, Raymond Palmer, Joseph E. Parisi, Henry L. Paulson, Valory Pavlik, David Paydarfar, Victoria Perez, Elaine Peskind, Ronald C. Petersen, Helen Petrovitch, Aimee Pierce, Marsha Polk, Wayne W. Poon, Huntington Potter, Liming Qu, Mary Quiceno, Joseph F. Quinn, Ashok Raj, Murray Raskind, Eric M. Reiman, Barry Reisberg, Joan S. Reisch, John M. Ringman, Erik D. Roberson, Monica Rodriguear, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Howard J. Rosen, Roger N. Rosenberg, Donald R. Royall, Marwan Sabbagh, A. Dessa Sadovnick, Mark A. Sager, Mary Sano, Andrew J. Saykin, Julie A. Schneider, Lon S. Schneider, William W. Seeley, Susan H. Slifer, Scott Small, Amanda G. Smith, Janet P. Smith, Joshua A. Sonnen, Salvatore Spina, Peter St George-Hyslop, Takiyah D. Starks, Robert A. Stern, Alan B. Stevens, Stephen M. Strittmatter, David Sultzer, Russell H. Swerdlow, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Jeffrey L. Tilson, John Q. Trojanowski, Juan C. Troncoso, Magda Tsolaki, Debby W. Tsuang, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Linda J. van Eldik, Jeffery M. Vance, Badri N. Vardarajan, Robert Vassar, Harry V. Vinters, Jean-Paul Vonsattel, Sandra Weintraub, Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer, Patrice L. Whitehead, Ellen M. Wijsman, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen, Benjamin Williams, Jennifer Williamson, Henrik Wilms, Thomas S. Wingo, Thomas Wisniewski, Randall L. Woltjer, Martin Woon, Clinton B. Wright, Chuang-Kuo Wu, Steven G. Younkin, Chang-En Yu, Lei Yu, Xiongwei Zhu, Brian W. Kunkle, William S. Bush, Akinori Miyashita, Goldie S. Byrd, Li-San Wang, Lindsay A. Farrer, Jonathan L. Haines, Richard Mayeux, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Gyungah R. Jun, Christiane Reitz, Adam C. Naj, on behalf of Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC)

“…Reflecting the power of diverse ancestry in GWAS, we detect the SHARPIN locus with only 13.7% of the sample size of the NHW GWAS study (n = 409,589) in which this locus was first observed. …”
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Microscopically and Molecular Detection of Theileria Species in Sheep in Baghdad Province, Iraq by Azhar Faraj, Dhirar Assi

“…All samples were examined by microscopic examination, and 100 blood samples collected randomly from total 180 were molecular detection by using conventional PCR. …”
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Validation of eDNA methods for managing the terrestrial invasive snake Lampropeltis californiae on the Canary Islands by Mercedes López-González, Julien C. Piquet, Borja Maestresalas, Marta López-Darias

“…We detected L. californiae eDNA in 9.31% of swab samples, in 2.22% of soil samples under ACOs, and in 2.56% of boot samples, while no detections appeared in randomly collected soil or controls. …”
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Assessment of Human Health Risks from Aflatoxin M1 in Raw Milk: A Study from North Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia by Girma Selale Geleta, Argachew Nugussa, Gezahegn Faye, Girma Ragassa

“…This research aimed to assess the levels of AFM1 and evaluate the associated health risks from raw milk samples collected randomly from four selected towns. …”
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Aflatoxin M1 contaminations in mouldy cheese by Ezgi Özgören, A. Kemal Seçkin

“…In this study, a total of 100 mouldy cheese samples were collected from randomly selected markets from 5 different cities of Turkey during October and November. …”
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Investigation of contamination of aquatic animals supplied in Ahvaz to Vibrio species and evaluation of antibiotic resistance of isolates by Bahareh Sadat Abbasi, Ebrahim Rahimi

“…The present study aimed to investigate the contamination of aquatic animals supplied in Ahvaz with <em>Vibrio</em> species and to evaluate the antibiotic resistance of the isolates. In this study, 160 samples, including 40 shrimp samples and 120 samples of lionfish, halva, and salted fish, were randomly collected from supply centers in Ahvaz and transferred to the laboratory under sterile conditions. …”
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Effect of caries infiltration technique and fluoride therapy on the bond strength of the demineralized enamel by Raffaela Di Iorio Jeronymo, Lucelia Lemes Gonçalves, Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres, Ana Paula Martins Gomes, Maria Filomena Rocha Lima Huhtala, Alessandra Bühler Borges, Sérgio Eduardo de Paiva Gonçalves

“…Material and Methods: The tooth fragments were randomly divided into 4 groups: Group Sound samples (control); Group Demineralized samples (DS); Group Remineralized samples (NaF- 0.05% /8 weeks); Group ICON® samples. …”
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Fungal contamination of Azadi Teaching Hospital and Hevi Paediatric Hospital Environments, Duhok, Iraq by Shilan S. Saleem, Wasan M. Alnakshabandie, Asia A. M. Saadullah

“… This survey study was undertaken to find out the prevalence and distribution of fungi occupying the residential surfaces in Azadi Teaching Hospital and Hevi Paediatric Hospital in Duhok province, Iraq. Three hundred samples were collected from randomly selected areas in laboratories, wards, consultation rooms, operating theatres and hospital kitchen by swabs. …”
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Adulteration of beeswax: A first nationwide survey from Belgium. by Noëmie El Agrebi, Lidija Svečnjak, Jelena Horvatinec, Véronique Renault, Agnes Rortais, Jean-Pierre Cravedi, Claude Saegerman

“…The present study aims to assess the current situation in Belgium through a nationwide survey. Randomized beeswax samples originating from Belgian beekeepers (N = 98) and commercial suppliers (N = 9) were analysed with a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) coupled with Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) accessory (FTIR-ATR spectroscopy) for adulteration. …”
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Discrimination of tobacco varieties using vis/near infrared spectra by wavelet transform and back propagation neural network model by WANG Zun-yi, SHAO Yong-ni

“…This model regarded the compressed data as the input of ANN and accelerated the training speed of ANN. Eighty samples from four varieties were selected randomly to build training model, and the left 20 samples were used as predict set. …”
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How a routine checking of Escherichia coli in retailed food of animal origin can protect consumers against exposition to Campylobacter spp. and Listeria monocytogenes? by Trajković-Pavlović Ljiljana, Novaković Budimka, Martinov-Cvejin Mirjana, Gusman Vera, Bijelović Sanja, Dragnić Nataša, Balać Dragana

“…During a routine microbiological safety control of randomly selected 60 samples of fresh poultry meat, 30 samples of other fresh meat readymade for grilling, 30 samples of sausage products, 37 samples of heattreated meat, 39 samples of toppings for fast food of animal origin and 31 samples of dairy products a national food safety criteria (Escherichia coli, aerobic plate count, Salmonella spp., coagulasa positive Staphylococcus, Proteus spp., sulphitoreducting Clostridia) were applied and, as well as, testing to Campylobacter spp. and Listeria monocitogens. …”
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Detection of transmission clusters of HIV-1 subtype C over a 21-year period in Cape Town, South Africa. by Eduan Wilkinson, Susan Engelbrecht, Tulio de Oliveira

“…We identified two transmission clusters over a 21-year period amongst randomly sampled patients from Cape Town and the surrounding areas. …”
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Health risk assessment Pb, as and cr in corn (Zea mays) of Behbahan and Dezful from Khuzestan Province, Iran by Zeinab Gholami, Maryam Mohammadi Rouzbahani, Khoshnaz Payandeh, Sima Sabzalipour

“…In this research, five farms were randomly selected in each city, and from each field, five soil samples and five corn samples were prepared in the summer and autumn. …”
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Application of Melting Temperature in Melting Curve of qPCR to Determine Listeria monocytogenes Presence in Golden Needle Mushroom by Yeongeun Seo, Yewon Lee, Jimyeong Ha, Yohan Yoon

“…Of the samples that were positive with the Tm value of qPCR, but negative with the conventional detection method, 4 samples were selected randomly, and typical L. monocytogenes colonies were detected in CHROMagar. …”
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Trichocomaceae: biodiversity of Aspergillus spp and Penicillium spp residing in libraries by Diniz Pereira Leite Júnior, Ana Caroline Akeme Yamamoto, Janaína Vasconcellos Ribeiro de Souza Amadio, Evelin Rodrigues Martins, Fabio Alexandre Leal do Santos, Sara de Almeida Alves Simoes, Rosane Christine Hahn

“…Additional samples were collected with sterile swabs which were rubbed over the surface of randomly chosen books on the shelves; the swabs were subsequently incubated in the laboratory. …”
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Development of antigen-capture ELISA using monoclonal antibodies for the detection of brucellae in milk by sevil gürbilek, oktay keskin, osman tel

“…From randomly collected 105 cow and 110 sheep milk samples from herds of unknown Brucella-infection status, three (2.85%) and five (4.5%) samples were found positive using Ag-cELISA, respectively. …”
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The Ablation Properties of CO2 Laser Irradiating to Absorption Media: An In Vitro Study by Sajee Sattayut, Kittiwut Hortong, Chorpaka Kitichaiwan

“…The in vitro experiment was conducted in 70 tissue blocks. The samples were randomly allocated into 7 groups: 10 samples each group, namely, the groups irradiated with 1, 2, and 3W, defocused CO2 laser for 5 seconds, the groups irradiated with 1, 2, and 3W, defocused CO2 laser to the absorption media, and the media alone group as a control. …”
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On the Effectiveness of Automatic Code Generation for Synthetic Dataset Creation by Josh Mitchell, Varghese Mathew Vaidyan, Yong Wang

“…This study analyzes 1000 randomly generated programs from a compiler fuzzer against 1000 randomly selected samples from AnghaBench to evaluate suitability for security analysis tasks. …”
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