Development and Validation of a Bordetella pertussis Whole-Genome Screening Strategy by Ricardo da Silva Antunes, Lorenzo G. Quiambao, Aaron Sutherland, Ferran Soldevila, Sandeep Kumar Dhanda, Sandra K. Armstrong, Timothy J. Brickman, Tod Merkel, Bjoern Peters, Alessandro Sette

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Sport commitment among children and adolescent through the lens of theory of organismic integration: A systematic literature review by Anna Pavlova

“…For a more detailed study, 22 publications were selected, which allowed us to validate the theoretical framework of this paper. …”
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Reconstitution of human DNA licensing and the structural and functional analysis of key intermediates by Jennifer N. Wells, Lucy V. Edwardes, Vera Leber, Shenaz Allyjaun, Matthew Peach, Joshua Tomkins, Antonia Kefala-Stavridi, Sarah V. Faull, Ricardo Aramayo, Carolina M. Pestana, Lepakshi Ranjha, Christian Speck

“…Finally, the structure allowed us to locate cancer-associated mutations at the hCDC6-hMCM3 interface, which showed specific helicase loading defects.…”
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The Effects of Different Roasting Degrees on Antioxidant of Coffee From West Sumatra by Muhammad Isa Dwijatmoko, R. A. Fadri, S. Syahrul, M. Harni, Y. Muchrida

“…<p><span lang="EN-US">Coffee has several benefits for human health because it contains bioactive components and one of which is polyphenol components. …”
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Aggravating Effects of Psychological Stress on Ligature-Induced Periodontitis via the Involvement of Local Oxidative Damage and NF-κB Activation by Qiang Li, Yajuan Zhao, Daokun Deng, Jiuhui Yang, Yongjin Chen, Jia Liu, Min Zhang

“…Fluoxetine administration alleviated the adverse effects of psychological stress on the progression of periodontitis in rats. These results hint us that psychological stress could aggravate inflammation in periodontitis tissues, which may be partly due to local worsening of oxidative damage and further activation of the nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) signalling pathway.…”
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Health Disparities in Rheumatology in the United States by Wright GC, Zueger PM, Copley-Merriman C, Khan S, Costello J, Krumbach A, Reddy P, Tanjinatus O, Wells AF

“…Grace C Wright,1 Patrick M Zueger,2 Catherine Copley-Merriman,3 Shahnaz Khan,4 Jessica Costello,5 Alisha Krumbach,3 Priya Reddy,1,6 Oishi Tanjinatus,7 Alvin F Wells8 1Association of Women in Rheumatology, New York, NY, USA; 2Health Economics and Outcomes Research, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, IL, USA; 3Value & Access, RTI Health Solutions, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 4Value & Access, RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; 5Value & Access, RTI Health Solutions, Didsbury, Manchester, UK; 6US Medical Affairs Rheumatology, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, IL, USA; 7Southwest Florida Rheumatology, Riverview, FL, USA; 8Advocate Health Medical Group, Franklin, WI, USACorrespondence: Grace C Wright, Association of Women in Rheumatology, 345 E 37th St, Suite 303C, New York, NY, 10016, USA, Tel +1 212-490-6960, Fax +1 212-490-6966, Email gcwright.md@gmail.comObjective: Underserved populations are often at risk of experiencing systematic healthcare disparities. …”
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Empire Seen from Within. Cinema Objects, Spaces and Edifices in the Limelight in Colonial India and Ceylon (1899-1950) by Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin

“…Further, it was the Victorians and the Edwardians who bequeathed us the first objects, edifices and spaces of cinema, adding to the iconic and material wealth characteristic of the age. …”
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The Potential of Digital Storytelling as an Ethnographic Research Technique in Social Sciences by Oğuz Hatice Şule

“…We wanted to discuss the problems of ethnographic research techniques that we encounter in the field and see if DST has a potential that allows us to ask new questions. First, I discuss the weaknesses of current ethnographic research techniques and, second, I focus on how digital storytelling workshops can help to reduce these weaknesses. …”
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Systematic Search for Long-term Trends in Fermi-LAT Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei by P. Peñil, A. Domínguez, S. Buson, M. Ajello, S. Adhikari, A. Rico

“…However, in certain cases, jetted AGN variability displays regular patterns, enabling us to conduct investigations aimed at understanding its origins. …”
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Wetland elevation change following beneficial use of dredged material nourishment by Brian D. Harris, Aleksandra Ostojic, Lenore P. Tedesco, Keith VanDerSys, Susan Bailey, Justin L. Shawler, Navid H. Jafari, Monica Chasten

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Acupuncture Treatment in Elderly People with Sarcopenia: Effects on the Strength and Inflammatory Mediators by Gisele Soares Mendes Damasceno, Thaís Helena Machado Marçal Teixeira, Vinicius Carolino de Souza, Tiago Sousa Neiva, Karina Prudente Pereira, Maria de Fátima Teles Landim, Gislane Ferreira de Melo, Juliana de Faria Fracon e Romão, Otávio Tolêdo Nóbrega, Gustavo de Azevedo Carvalho

“…Conclusion. The results allow us to infer that it is possible that the conducted intervention protocol has not produced any significant effects in the studied population. …”
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Human Detection and Action Recognition for Search and Rescue in Disasters Using YOLOv3 Algorithm by B. Valarmathi, Jain Kshitij, Rajpurohit Dimple, N. Srinivasa Gupta, Y. Harold Robinson, G. Arulkumaran, Tadesse Mulu

“…The proposed work shows that existing models are inadequate for critical applications like search and rescue, which convinces us to propose a model raised by a pyramidal component extracting SSD in human localization and action recognition. …”
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Two Portuguese Cochlear Implanted Dizygotic Twins: A Case Report by Joana Rita Chora, Helena Simões-Teixeira, Tiago Daniel Matos, Jorge Humberto Martins, Marisa Alves, Raquel Ferreira, Luís Silva, Carlos Ribeiro, Graça Fialho, Helena Caria

“…Subsequent follow-up of these children allowed us to conclude that those differences were most likely due to the different environment in which the twins have been living than to their different GJB2/GJB6 genotypes.…”
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Immunological Dynamics Associated with Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapies in Naive and Experimented HCV Chronic-Infected Patients by Grenda Leite Pereira, Andréa Monteiro Tarragô, Walter Luiz Lima Neves, Pedro Vieira da Silva Neto, Priscila Sarmento de Souza, Juliana dos Santos Affonso, Keyla Santos de Sousa, Jéssica Albuquerque da Silva, Allyson Guimarães Costa, Flamir da Silva Victoria, Marilu Barbieri Victoria, Adriana Malheiro

“…However, the immunological dynamics of patients infected with HCV is poorly understood. This fact led us to investigate the immune system of naive and experienced patients, who we followed before the therapy and three months after the end of treatment. …”
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COVID-safe behaviour before, during and after a youth mass gathering event: a longitudinal cohort study by Tegan Cruwys, Joanne A Rathbone, Mark Stevens, Laura J Ferris

“…These reductions in COVID-safe behaviour were significant and enduring, with all declines persisting at follow-up.Conclusion It is critical that public health messaging and interventions emphasise the risks of disease transmission arising from other attendees who are known to us during mass gathering events, and that such messaging is sustained during and following the event to combat reductions in COVID-safe behaviour.…”
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A Case of Pulmonary Sarcoma with Significant Extension into the Right Lung by Yoshiaki Inoue, Yotaro Izumi, Kenjiro Sakaki, Keiko Abe, Teruaki Oka, Jun-Ichi Tamaru, Ato Sugiyama, Kohei Aoki, Hiroki Fukuda, Masatoshi Gika, Kazuhito Imanaka, Mitsuo Nakayama

“…A female patient in her 30s was referred to us with a mass approximately 8 centimeters in diameter in right lung segment 6. …”
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Zoonosis: social and environmental connections in the Mexico-United States border region by Andrea Chaves, Hugo Mendoza, Angel Herrera, Mitsuri Pacheco-Zapata, Andrés M. López-Pérez, Adriana Fernández, Milena Arguello-Sáenz, Audrey Arnal, Gerardo Suzán

“…The Mexico-United States (US) border is a region with great biological biodiversity and both countries shared a similar history and intense socioeconomic, and cultural interrelationships. …”
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Recovering Pulsar Periodicity from Time-of-arrival Data by Finding the Shortest Vector in a Lattice by Dotan Gazith, Aaron B. Pearlman, Barak Zackay

“…Such a detection would be a major breakthrough, providing us with the FRB source’s age, magnetic field, and binary orbit. …”
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Evaluating maternal drug use disparities, risk factors and outcomes in Northeast Arkansas: a pre, during, and post-COVID-19 pandemic analysis by Enrique Gomez Pomar, Johnna Berryhill, Sudeepa Bhattacharyya

“…Abstract Introduction The use of addictive substances remains a major health problem in the U.S. An increase in drug overdose and mortality was observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in underserved populations. …”
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Development of a short version of the perceived social support scale: based on classical test theory and ant colony optimization by Yunchou Wu, Jingqi Tang, Zhuoran Du, Ke Chen, Fei Wang, Xiaonan Sun, Guoying Zhang, Yibo Wu

“…In this situation, some researchers based on the responses of military spouses in the U.S., has simplified the PSSS-12 to develop the PSSS-M6. …”
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