Gut microbiome and intestinal inflammation in preclinical stages of rheumatoid arthritis by Axel Finckh, Celine Lamacchia, Delphine Courvoisier, Jeroen Raes, Benoît Thomas P Gilbert, Olivia Studer, Raul Yhossef Tito Tadeo

“…Microbial community analyses were conducted using non-parametric tests, such as permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA), Wilcoxon and Kruskal-Wallis, or Aldex2.Results A total of 371 individuals were included and categorised according to their preclinical stage of the disease. …”
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Detailed Architectural Design of a Multi-Head Self-Attention Model for Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity Forecasting by Juyeon Park, Gyeong Ho Lee, Jangkyum Kim, Yoon-Sik Yoo, Il-Woo Lee

“…Positional encoding is applied to embed sequence order information at the input stage, while residual connections and layer normalization between MHSA layers optimize the learning process. …”
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Male Reproductive Traits Display Increased Phenotypic Variation in Response to Resource Quality and Parental Provisioning in a Tropical Rainforest Dung Beetle, Onthophagus c.f. bab... by Sean Yap, Kai Xin Toh, Nalini Puniamoorthy

“…Notably, genotype‐by‐environment interactions between parental lines (genotype) and dung type (environment) affected male body size and horn length only, suggesting sex‐specific variance in plasticity associated with sexually selected precopulatory traits. …”
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Effect of Cladribine Tablets on the Pharmacokinetics of a Combined Oral Contraceptive in Pre‐Menopausal Women With Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis by Robert Hermann, Kerstin Hellwig, Sumedh Gaikwad, Andrew Galazka, Afrim Bytyqi, Dominic Jack, Axel Krebs‐Brown, Claudia Vetter, Axel Nolting, Karthik Venkatakrishnan, Jennifer Q. Dong

“…It was a randomized, double‐blind, two‐period, two‐sequence crossover study to assess steady‐state plasma PK (area under the concentration–time curve and peak concentration) of COC (ethinylestradiol [EE] 30 μg and levonorgestrel [LNG] 150 μg) when co‐administered with CladT or placebo. …”
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Programa recursivo en pascal para determinación de zonas en una secuencia, por el método de análisis de varianza by A. Montes Luis

“…Distinct zones within ordered data sets can be identified by analysis of variance method. The computer program is a recursive procedure in which arrangements into two contiguous zones are considered at each stage. …”
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Influence of scanning plane on Human Spinal Cord functional Magnetic Resonance echo planar imaging. by Marta Moraschi, Silvia Tommasin, Laura Maugeri, Mauro DiNuzzo, Julien Cohen-Adad, Marco Masullo, Fabio Mangini, Lorenzo Giovannelli, Daniele Mascali, Tommaso Gili, Valerio Pisani, Ugo Nocentini, Federico Giove, Michela Fratini

“…T2*-weighted fMRI data were acquired using a GE-EPI sequence along sagittal and axial planes during an isometric motor task. …”
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Integrated Transcriptome and Microbiome Analyses Reveal Growth- and Stress-Response-Related Genes and Microbes in Mandarin Fish (<i>Siniperca chuatsi</i>) by Fan Zhou, Wei Liu, Ming Qi, Qianrong Liang, Gaohua Yao, Cheng Ma, Xueyan Ding, Zaihang Yu, Xinyu Li, Zhanqi Wang

“…The concurrent 16S rRNA sequencing of the intestinal microbiota identified 2680 amplicon sequence variants, with principal coordinate analysis showing distinct clustering (31.77% variance). …”
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Text-Guided Visual Representation Optimization for Sensor-Acquired Video Temporal Grounding by Yun Tian, Xiaobo Guo, Jinsong Wang, Xinyue Liang

“…In practice, a natural language query typically corresponds to spatiotemporal content in video signals collected through camera-based sensing systems, encompassing a particular sequence of frames and its associated salient subregions. …”
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Assessing the causal association of sleep abnormalities with preeclampsia and eclampsia: a Mendelian randomization analysis by Juan Li, Yuling Kong, Guosu Shi, Shuxiao Dong, Xueying Wang, Li Feng, Quanzhou Guo, Caihong Lu

“…The Mendelian randomization analysis was conducted with TwoSampleMR (v0.6.2), and the inverse variance weighted (IVW) approach was employed as the principal method.Results GSEA analysis revealed that the orexin receptor pathway showed heightened expression in the preeclampsia group versus controls. …”
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Health Professionals' knowledge and practice on basic life support and its predicting factors in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis. by Worku Necho Asferie, Demewoz Kefale, Amare Kassaw, Amare Simegn Ayele, Gedefaye Nibret, Yohannes Tesfahun, Habitamu Shimels Hailemeskel, Solomon Demis, Shegaw Zeleke, Tigabu Munye Aytenew

“…<h4>Background</h4>Basic Life Support (BLS) is a sequence of care provided to patients who are experiencing respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, or airway obstruction. …”
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A meta-analysis of gene expression signatures of blood pressure and hypertension. by Tianxiao Huan, Tõnu Esko, Marjolein J Peters, Luke C Pilling, Katharina Schramm, Claudia Schurmann, Brian H Chen, Chunyu Liu, Roby Joehanes, Andrew D Johnson, Chen Yao, Sai-Xia Ying, Paul Courchesne, Lili Milani, Nalini Raghavachari, Richard Wang, Poching Liu, Eva Reinmaa, Abbas Dehghan, Albert Hofman, André G Uitterlinden, Dena G Hernandez, Stefania Bandinelli, Andrew Singleton, David Melzer, Andres Metspalu, Maren Carstensen, Harald Grallert, Christian Herder, Thomas Meitinger, Annette Peters, Michael Roden, Melanie Waldenberger, Marcus Dörr, Stephan B Felix, Tanja Zeller, International Consortium for Blood Pressure GWAS (ICBP), Ramachandran Vasan, Christopher J O'Donnell, Peter J Munson, Xia Yang, Holger Prokisch, Uwe Völker, Joyce B J van Meurs, Luigi Ferrucci, Daniel Levy

“…Genetic variants may lead to BP changes by acting on intermediate molecular phenotypes such as coded protein sequence or gene expression, which in turn affect BP variability. …”
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A generalist vector-transmitted parasite exhibits population genetic structure among host genera by Vincenzo A. Ellis, Mélanie Duc, Arif Ciloglu, Olof Hellgren, Staffan Bensch

“…The 2 best-sampled host genera were Phylloscopus (2 species, n = 15 infections) and Sylvia (4 species, n = 15). We designed a sequence capture protocol to isolate 1.13 Mbp (ca. 5%) of the parasite genome and identified 1399 variable sites among the sequenced infections. …”
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Transcriptome characterisation and population genetics of Cunninghamia konishii Hayata – An endangered gymnosperm and implication for its conservation in Vietnam by Bich Hong Ha, Mai Phuong Pham, Quoc Khanh Nguyen, Thi Tuyet Xuan Bui, Giap Vu, Syed Noor Muhammad Shah, Dinh Duy Vu

“…This study aimed to identify simple sequence repeat markers within expressed sequence tags from C. konishii, develop markers from them and assess the potential of those markers for diversity and population structure analysis of the plant. …”
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Transcriptome Profiling Identifies Key Regulators of Tuber Skin Color in Potato by Boshu Li, Shuo Wang, Jun Hu, Liping Jin, Jianfei Xu

“…The color of tuber skin exhibits remarkable diversity in potato (<i>Solanum tuberosum</i> L.) and is intricately associated with variance in anthocyanin accumulation across different varieties. …”
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Towards Achilles Tendon Injury Prevention in Athletes with Structural MRI Biomarkers: A Machine Learning Approach by Norbert Kapinski, Karol Jaskulski, Justyna Witkowska, Adam Kozlowski, Pawel Adamczyk, Bartosz Wysoczanski, Agnieszka Zdrodowska, Adam Niemaszyk, Beata Ciszkowska-Lyson, Michal Starczewski

“…We examined 72 athletes to investigate the link between Achilles tendon structure, as visualised in magnetic resonance images using a precise T2*-weighted gradient echo sequence with very short echo times, and its functional attributes. …”
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Thermal behavior and cyclic fatigue resistance of three contemporary NiTi heat-treated single-file systems: metallurgical study by Loai Alsofi, Mazen Al-Marshadi, Tariq AbuHaimed, Mey Al-Habib, Rajab Saif, Sarah Bukhari, Mohammed Howait

“…Abstract Background This study aims to determine phase transformation temperatures of EndoSequence Reciprocating System (ESR), Wave One Gold (WOG), and Reciproc Blue (RB) via differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). …”
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Comparative analysis of NR and NiR gene families reveals nitrite formation mechanisms in two Toona species by Yi Wei, Jianhua Dai, Yanru Fan, Hengfu Yin, Jun Liu, Xiaojiao Han

“…By integrating bioinformatics and expression pattern assessments, we aimed to elucidate the underlying factors contributing to the variance in nitrate and nitrite levels between these two species. …”
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Genetic Diversity and Phenotypic Variation of Indigenous Wild Cherry Species in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan by Ulzhan Manapkanova, Nazgul Rymkhanova, Stefanie Reim, Eric Fritzsche, Monika Höfer, Natalya Beshko, Yeskendir Satekov, Svetlana V. Kushnarenko

“…Genetic diversity was assessed using 13 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. STRUCTURE analysis revealed that 87.7% of the accessions were assigned to pure species. …”
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Genetic diversity and population structure of Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua in China using SSR markers. by Heng Liu, He Cheng, Jun Xu, Jiayi Hu, Chenchen Zhao, Lihua Xing, Mengjin Wang, Zhendong Wu, Daiyin Peng, Nianjun Yu, Junling Liu

“…Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA) showed that 74% of the genetic variation was between individuals within populations in different regions. …”
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Study of the <i>MTHFR</i> 677C>T Polymorphism in Children and Adolescents with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: An Original Case–Control Study by Savvas Kolanis, Elisavet Georgiou, Eleni P. Kotanidou, Vasiliki Rengina Tsinopoulou, Evdoxia Sapountzi, Emmanouel Hatzipantelis, Liana Fidani, Assimina Galli-Tsinopoulou

“…The 677C>T polymorphism of the <i>MTHFR</i> gene was studied in all participants with Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) methodology for genetic variance analysis. <b>Results</b>: Children and adolescents with HT presented approximately 2.5 times more frequently the T allele sequences (CT and TT variants) and the T alleles in total for the 677C>T polymorphism of the <i>MTHFR</i> gene compared to the healthy population (OR: 2.56, CI: 1.53–4.21 and OR: 2.57, CI: 1.59–4.16, respectively). …”
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