Mapping and Validation of Quantitative Trait Loci on Yield-Related Traits Using Bi-Parental Recombinant Inbred Lines and Reciprocal Single-Segment Substitution Lines in Rice (<i>Or... by Ghulam Ali Manzoor, Changbin Yin, Luyan Zhang, Jiankang Wang

“…Yield-related traits have higher heritability and lower genotype-by-environment interaction, making them more suitable for genetic studies in comparison with the yield per se. Different populations have been developed and employed in QTL mapping; however, the use of reciprocal SSSLs is limited. …”
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Determination of the breeding value of collection chickpea (<i>Cicer arietinum</i> L.) accessions by cluster analysis by N. A. Vus, L. N. Kobyzeva, O. N. Bezuglaya

“…One hundred and fifty two sources of valuable traits were identified for 11 parameters: drought tolerance, resistance to Ascochyta leaf and pod spot, early ripening (vegetation period length), yield, performance, number of productive pods and seed number per plant, response to nitrogenization, protein content, seed size, and cooking quality. …”
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Part I—Real-World Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Associated Costs in Later Lines of Therapy in the United States by Ehab L. Atallah, Rodrigo Maegawa, Dominick Latremouille-Viau, Carmine Rossi, Annie Guérin, Eric Q. Wu, Pallavi Patwardhan

“…The annual incidence rate during 3L+ was 3.4 for inpatient days, 30.8 for days with outpatient services, and 1.2 for emergency department visits. Mean per-patient-per-month (PPPM) total healthcare costs (pharmacy + medical costs) were \$18&#8239;784 in 3L+, \$15&#8239;206 in 3L, and \$19 546 in 4L, with inpatient costs driving most of the difference between 3L and 4L (mean [3L] = \$2528 PPPM, mean [4L] = \$6847 PPPM). …”
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The Number of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Decreased and Door-to-Balloon Time Delayed in COVID-19 by Tianyi Ma, Yuli Huang, Wensheng Li, Jianghua Zhong, Hui Yang, Yilei Zhou, Meijun Li, Wenhao Zhong, Yue Cao, Shijuan Lu, Yunzhao Hu

“…The number of AMI patients that were admitted to hospitals per day decreased in 2020. The percentage of patients with AMI who refused hospitalization in 2020 was significantly higher than that in 2019 (5.0% vs 1.5%, p=0.028). …”
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Variation characteristics and influencing mechanisms of CO2 flux from grassland ecosystem in the Central Tianshan Mountains, China by Kun Zhang, Yu Wang, Ali Mamtimin, Yongqiang Liu

“…Under the SSP126, 245, and 585 scenarios, the grassland ecosystem carbon sink rates increase by 0.2 %, 0.7 %, and 0.9 % per degree Celsius for soil temperature and by 0.4 %, 1.17 %, and 1.28 % per degree Celsius for air temperature by the year 2100. …”
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Biphasic lipid extraction from microalgae after PEF-treatment reduces the energy demand of the downstream process by Ioannis Papachristou, Natalja Nazarova, Rüdiger Wüstner, Robin Lina, Wolfgang Frey, Aude Silve

“…These led to an adaption of a biphasic ethanol:hexane:water 1:6:0.4 vol/vol/vol solvent with 37 mL solvent per 1 g of dry biomass ratio which while ineffective on fresh biomass, achieved a 27% dry weight yield from incubated microalgae. …”
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Antibiotic consumption and utilization at a large tertiary care level hospital in Uganda: A point prevalence survey. by Mark Kizito, Darius Owachi, Falisy Lule, Laura Jung, Vivian Bazanye, Ibrahim Mugerwa, Susan Nabadda, Charles Kabugo

“…<h4>Methods</h4>In this cross-sectional study at Kiruddu National Referral Hospital, we analyzed medicine delivery records for the period July 2021 to June 2022, accessed on 12/08/2022, to extract AMC data expressed as defined daily doses (DDDs) per 1000 inhabitants per day (DID). We used the WHO point prevalence survey (PPS) to analyze AMU data with a systematic sampling of outpatient department (OPD) for a period between June and August 2022 and selected all inpatient department (IPD) patients admitted before 8:00 AM on 27/11/2022. …”
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Mobile Phone App to Promote Lifestyle Change in People at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Feasibility 3-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial by Gyri Skoglund, Gunvor Hilde, Pernille Lunde, Venessa Vera Cruz Naceno, Cecilie Fromholt Olsen, Birgitta Blakstad Nilsson

“…Throughout the intervention period, health care professionals spent on average 3.0 (SD 1.0) minutes per participant per week providing follow-up. Statistically significant reduction in body weight and waist circumference was shown in group 1 and 3. …”
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Habits Related to Strength Training of Brazilian Recreational Runners by Wagner K. A. Santos, Lucas D. M. Forte, Alexandre S. Silva, Hallisson V. de O. Rufino, Lucas de F. Vieira, João M. F. Lima Silva, Mabliny Thuany, Reginaldo Gonçalves, Ytalo M. Soares

“…Traditional strength training (TST) was the predominant type of ST included (78.5%), with most participants performing 2–4 sets and 8–12 repetitions per set at a frequency of 3–4 sessions per week. …”
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Quality improvement of rubber seed meal diet for Nile tilapia with amino acid supplemetation by Didi Humaedi Yusuf, Muhammad Agus Suprayudi, Dedi Jusadi

“…The results showed that the addition of lysine in the 75% RSMF diets could increased final weight, but did not significantly different to protein efficiency ratio (PER), decreased feed convertion ratio (FCR) and biochemical body composition. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy Plus Lenvatinib and Tislelizumab for Treating Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Type IV Portal Vein Tumor Thrombus by Li X, Cao K, Fu Z, Chen X, Zhong J, Liu L, Ding N, Zhang X, Qu Z, Zhu L, Zhai J

“…The ORR was 52.7% (3 complete response [CR], 26 partial response [PR]) as per RECIST v1.1 and 65.5% (12 CR, 24 PR) as per mRECIST. …”
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Proteinuria and the risk of Incident atrial fibrillation according to glycemic stages: a nationwide population-based cohort study by Muhan Yeo, So-Ryoung Lee, Eue-Keun Choi, JungMin Choi, Kyung-Yeon Lee, Soonil Kwon, Hyo-Jeong Ahn, Bong-Seong Kim, Kyung-Do Han, Seil Oh, Gregory Y. H. Lip

“…Incidence rates increased from 2.46 to 8.18 per 1000 person-years with increasing proteinuria (p < 0.001). …”
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Networks of care for optimizing Primary Health Care Service Delivery in Ethiopia: Enhancing relational linkages and care coordination. by Gizachew Tadele Tiruneh, Nebreed Fesseha, Temesgen Ayehu, Tamar Chitashvili, Mesele Damte Argaw, Biruhtesfa Bekele Shiferaw, Mikias Teferi, Agumasie Semahegn, Biruk Bogale, Yibeltal Kifle, Hillina Tadesse, Chala Tesfaye, Dessalew Emaway

“…Perinatal mortality decreased by 34%, from 31.3 to 20.1 per 1,000 births [t-test: 2.12; p-value: 0.040)].…”
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Identifikasi Bakteri Coliform pada Kontak Permukaan Galon Air Minum Isi Ulang Distribusi Akhir di Kecamatan Bungus by Herik Okta Jonanda, Aziz Djamal, Yulistini .

“…Metode penelitian  menggunakan cross sectional study yang dilakukan pada 18 sampel dari 9 depot air minum isi ulang yang dibagi menjadi masing-masing 2 galon per depot air minum isi ulang. Penelitian ini terdiri dari pengambilan sampel lalu uji bakteriologi dengan metode <em>Most Probably Number</em> (MPN) yang meliputi uji penduga dan uji konfirmasi. …”
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The effect of depth data and upper limb impairment on lightweight monocular RGB human pose estimation models by Gloria-Edith Boudreault-Morales, Cesar Marquez-Chin, Xilin Liu, José Zariffa

“…Evaluation metrics include Mean per Joint Position Error (MPJPE), Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) and frame rates (frames per second). …”
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Impact of caffeine and vitamin D3 on the body-weight of pregnant BALB/c mice by Maimoona Khan, Muhammad Saad Abdullah, Fareeha Mushtaq, Faiza Umbreen, Muhammad Rizwan Bashir Kiani, Ayesha Shahid

“…The animals in experimental group G2, in addition to the standard diet, were given 10mg of caffeine per 100g body-weight once a day on alternate days by oral gavage for 21 days.  …”
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Impact of cooking on nutritional contents of kenger in terms of antioxidants by Indrani Kalkan, Ozan Emre Eyupoglu, Sukru Karatas, Zakia El Miri Aissaoui, Rusen Anık

“…Antioxidant activity of boiled samples decreased significantly as per FRAP and increased for stir-fried kenger at higher sample concentrations as per FRAP and ABTS, possibly due to chemical changes during high thermal treatment in oil. …”
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Sistem Object Tracking pada Quadcopter Menggunakan Segmentasi Citra dengan Deteksi Warna HSV dan Metode Regresi Linier Berbasis Raspberry Pi by Fahmi Erza, Hurriyatul Fitriyah, Eko Setiawan

“…The computation time is 0.175829662 seconds per frame. …”
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Potential and costs required for methane removal to compete with BECCS as a mitigation option by Yann Gaucher, Katsumasa Tanaka, Daniel J A Johansson, Olivier Boucher, Philippe Ciais

“…MR is technologically very challenging and potentially very expensive, so the main question is at which cost per ton of methane removed is MR more cost effective than CDR. …”
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The Double-Edged Sword of Third-Party Resources: Examining Use and Financial Burden of Extracurricular Tools in Medical Students [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved wit... by Dimitrios Papanagnou, Saaniya Farhan, Andres Fernandez, Meryem Guler, Drake Kienzle, Faizaan Siddique

“…Background According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Year 2 questionnaire, the percentage of students using online medical education videos (Boards and Beyond®Sketchy Medical®, Youtube) at least once per week increased from 47.7% (2015) to 70.1% (2022). …”
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