Identification of disease-specific gut microbial markers in vitiligo by Yimin Dou, Yi Niu, Hexiao Shen, Lan Wang, Yongling Lv, Suwen Liu, Xiafei Xie, Aiping Feng, Xinxin Liu

“…Individuals with vitiligo exhibit distinct features in their gut microbiome when contrasted with those in the healthy control group. …”
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El síndrome de alienación parental en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional colombiana by Sergio Luis Mondragón Duarte, María Elisa Montoya, Elkin Centeno Cardona

“…Este estudio se aborda desde un método cualitativo que destaca el análisis jurisprudencial como herramienta sistemática para decantar los resultados y las conclusiones respectivas, para tal efecto se empleó la técnica de la línea jurisprudencial propuesta por el autor López Medina (2006) que refiere la consulta de una sentencia arquimédica con ingeniería reversa en tres sentencias, puntos nodales y nichos citacionales, para arribar a los contrastes, al igual que a la reflexión final del análisis requerido. …”
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Air temperature and precipitation constraining the modelled wetland methane emissions in a boreal region in northern Europe by T. Aalto, A. Tsuruta, J. Mäkelä, J. Müller, J. Müller, M. Tenkanen, E. Burke, S. Chadburn, Y. Gao, V. Mannisenaho, T. Kleinen, H. Lee, H. Lee, A. Leppänen, T. Markkanen, S. Materia, P. A. Miller, D. Peano, O. Peltola, B. Poulter, M. Raivonen, M. Saunois, D. Wårlind, S. Zaehle

“…Six ecosystem models (JSBACH-HIMMELI, LPX-Bern, LPJ-GUESS, JULES, CLM4.5, and CLM5) are compared to multi-model means of ecosystem models and atmospheric inversions from the Global Carbon Project and upscaled eddy covariance flux results for their temperature and precipitation responses and seasonal cycles of the regional fluxes. Two models with contrasting response patterns, LPX-Bern and JSBACH-HIMMELI, are used as priors in atmospheric inversions with Carbon Tracker Europe–CH4 (CTE-CH4) in order to find out how the assimilation of atmospheric concentration data changes the flux estimates and how this alters the interpretation of the flux responses to temperature and precipitation. …”
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TPDTNet: Two-Phase Distillation Training for Visible-to-Infrared Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection by Siyu Wang, Xiaogang Yang, Ruitao Lu, Shuang Su, Bin Tang, Tao Zhang, Zhengjie Zhu

“…Specifically, in the first phase, we incorporate a contrastive learning framework to maximize the mutual information between the source and target domains. …”
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A cross-lagged analysis of the relationship between marital quality and depression among the older adults: gender effects of socioeconomic status by Bi-Ji Fang, Kai-Seng Leong, Hong-Xiu Tan

“…Regarding the moderating role of socioeconomic status, it was observed that among the older adult women, socioeconomic status exerted a moderating influence on the impact of depression on marital quality (β = 0.05, p < 0.05), whereas among the older adult men, their socioeconomic status failed to display a significant moderating effect (β = 0.02, p > 0.05). In a contrasting manner, for the older adult men, the socioeconomic status played a moderating role in the effect of marital quality on depression (β = −0.05, p < 0.01), while for the older adult women, it did not exhibit a moderating effect (β = −0.01, p > 0.05).ConclusionThere exists a reciprocal causal nexus between the marital quality and depression among the older adults. …”
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Soluble Markers of Antibody Secreting Cell Function as Predictors of Infection Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Maria J. Gutierrez, Stephen V. Desiderio, Nae-Yuh Wang, Erika Darrah, Laura Cappelli, Gustavo Nino, Michelle Jones, Clifton O. Bingham

“…Using the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Cohort and Biorepository, we contrasted serum protein levels of soluble factors involved in B-cell activation (CD40, CD40L) and B-cell/ASC homing (CXCL10, CXCL11, and CXCL13) or survival (BAFF, APRIL, TACI, and BCMA) in 10 healthy subjects and 23 adult RA patients (aged 24-65 years). …”
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Neurotuberculose na infância: um relato de caso by Paula Pozzolo Ogeda, Rafaela Santos Tedesco, Caroline Iwasaki Cavalli, Victoria Prochmann Piasecki, Thiago Prochmann Piasecki, Luiza Dal Berto, Victor Horácio de Souza Costa Júnior

“…RELATO DE CASO: Paciente masculino, 10 meses, com quadro de tosse crônica e febre, linfonodomegalia cervical, além de paresia de dimídio direito e crises convulsivas. Relatado contato domiciliar com portador de tuberculose pulmonar tratado inadequadamente. …”
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Saúde de mulheres de dois grupos de atividade física: estudo de acompanhamento durante a COVID-19 by Letícia Gonçalves, Renata Silva Rosa, Giovana Ferreira, Mathias Roberto Loch

“…A amostra foi composta por 17 mulheres, que participaram de quatro contatos telefônicos. As variáveis foram a autopercepção de saúde, da ansiedade, da qualidade do sono e da concentração, além de dificuldades econômicas (falta do básico em casa no período) e a prática de exercícios de respiração e alongamento no domicílio, bem como as dificuldades para a realização destas. …”
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Does bladder outflow obstruction obfuscate the traditional clinical factors that are used to assess the risk of prostate cancer at rapid‐access diagnostic clinics? by Thomas Philip Cahill, Samuel Joseph Withey, Steve Hazell, Declan Cahill, Netty Kinsella

“…Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed age, PSA density, an abnormal digital rectal examination and scoring PI‐RADS 4–5 on magnetic resonance imaging were all significantly associated with csPCa in the non‐obstructed cohort (p < 0.05). Contrastingly, only symptom severity and scoring PI‐RADS 5 were significantly associated with csPCa for the obstructed patients (p < 0.05). …”
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Dose-dependent role of AMH and AMHR2 signaling in male differentiation and regulation of sex determination in Spotted knifejaw (Oplegnathus punctatus) with X1X1X2X2/X1X2Y chromosom... by Haixia Zhao, Jun Li, Zhizhong Xiao, Yongshuang Xiao

“…Conversely, overexpression of amhr2 yielded contrasting results. Our research supports the role of amhr2 as a pivotal candidate sex-determining gene. …”
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Victim compensation: a child of penal welfarism or carceral policies by Mimi E. Kim, Carina Gallo

“…This paper examines and compares the development of victim compensation programs in two countries with contrasting social welfare and penal policies, the United States and Sweden. …”
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Use of intraoperative luminescent methods for detecting affected lymph nodes in patients with complicated forms of colon cancer by M. A. Kubrak, S. M. Zavhorodnii, M. B. Danyliuk, A. I. Rylov

“…The average age of the patients was 69.78 ± 16.37 years. Contrasting of regional lymph nodes was carried out using a 10 % sodium fluorescein solution. …”
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Effects of functional diversity on ecosystem services in cocoa agroforestry systems in Costa Rica by Cassio Pinheiro Edelstein, Marney E. Isaac, Marney E. Isaac, Luis Orozco-Aguilar, Felipe Peguero, Felipe Peguero, Diego Delgado-Rodríguez, Rolando H. Cerda

“…To achieve this, we characterized 30 AFS across a gradient of ecological complexity and established relationships between functional diversityw indices and ecosystem services using ANOVA and multiple regression models. As a result, two contrasting ecological dynamics were observed: low-complexity AFS, dominated by resource-conservative traits (higher leaf dry matter content, higher stem specific density, and low leaf nitrogen concentration), were associated with lower carbon stocks and soil fertility, while high-complexity AFS, characterized by resource-acquisitive traits (low leaf dry matter content, low stem specific density, and high leaf nitrogen concentration), delivered greater ecosystem services. …”
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Spatial-temporal evolution and multi-scenario prediction of carbon emissions from land use in the adjacent areas of nature reserves by Yuan Li, Yu-Ling Peng, Wei-Ying Cheng, Hao-Na Peng

“…Results indicated: (1) Between 2000 and 2020, the total carbon absorption capacity of the protection and development belt of Wuyi Mountain National Park showed a diminishing trend, contrasting with the rising trend in total carbon emissions; (2) In the vicinity of the natural reserve, there was discernible spatial variation in carbon emissions associated with land use. …”
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A Hybrid Dynamic Principal Component Analysis Feature Extraction Method to Identify Piston Pin Wear for Binary Classifier Modeling by Hao Yang, Yubin Zhai, Mengkun Zheng, Tan Wang, Dongliang Guo, Jianhui Liang, Xincheng Li, Xianliang Liu, Mingtao Jia, Rui Zhang

“…For each round, two binary classifier models are trained by features extracted by the proposed method and the empirical mode decomposition (EMD)–auto regressive (AR) spectrum method, fast Fourier transform (FFT) and continuous wavelet transform (CWT), respectively; the classification precision, recall ratio, accuracy and F1 ratio are obtained on the testing set by contrasting the overall performances of the five-round cross-validation, and the proposed method is proved to be more effective in noise reduction and significant feature extraction, which is able to improve the accuracy and efficiency of binary classification for piston pin wear identification.…”
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Dynamics and drivers of the carbonate system: response to terrestrial runoff and upwelling along the Northeastern Colombian Caribbean coast by Constanza Ricaurte-Villota, Magnolia Murcia-Riaño, José Martín Hernádez-Ayón

“…The observed trends in pH and pCO2 were driven by a decrease in DIC and TA, attributed to increased river runoff, contrasting with typical ocean acidification trends driven by rising atmospheric CO2 levels.DiscussionThis highlights the region's unique dynamics and underscores the importance of local studies. …”
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Cool topoclimates promote cold-adapted plant diversity in temperate mountain forests by Borderieux, Jeremy, De Lombaerde, Emiel, De Pauw, Karen, Sanczuk, Pieter, Vangansbeke, Pieter, Vanneste, Thomas, De Frenne, Pieter, Gégout, Jean-Claude, Serra-Diaz, Josep

“…Here we report on growing season understory temperatures using 48 loggers in contrasting topographic features and canopy of a mid-range mountain valley spanning from 475 m a.s.l. to 1203 m a.s.l. in the Vosges Mountains (NE France). …”
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Permanence et mutations de l’élevage pastoral dans les Alpes du Sud by Laurent Garde, Marc Dimanche, Jacques Lasseur

“…Les Alpes du Sud, où l’élevage ovin est très dominant, relèvent des montagnes méditerranéennes et à ce titre contrastent très fortement avec le nord du massif. La très grande ancienneté des pratiques pastorales façonnant les paysages et les sociétés humaines y est attestée depuis plusieurs millénaires, ce qui interroge l’émergence du concept de naturalité concernant cet espace. …”
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Effect of the host-specific toxin SnTOX3 from Stagonospora nodorum on ethylene signaling pathway regulation and redox-state in common wheat by S. V. Veselova, G. F. Burkhanova, T. V. Nuzhnaya, S. D. Rumyantsev, I. V. Maksimov

“…To characterize the SnTox3-Snn3 interaction, we used S. nodorum isolates differing in the expression of the NEs genes SnTox3 (SnB (Tox3+), Sn4VD (Tox3–)) and two soft spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars, contrasting in resistance to the SNB agent and differing in the allelic composition of the susceptibility locus Snn3-B1: Kazakhstanskaya 10 (susceptible) and Omskaya 35 (resistant). …”
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Serum interleukin-6, interleukin-8, and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist levels in South Indian fibromyalgia patients and its correlation with disease severity by Sandeep Surendran, C B Mithun, Vishnu S Chandran, Suma Balan, Arun Tiwari

“…When compared with western studies, these contrasting results suggest a heterogeneous cytokine profile of fibromyalgia patients in different ethnic groups.…”
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