The effect of mesenchymal stem cells-derived exosomes on the prostate, bladder, and renal cancer cell lines by AhmadReza Rezaeian, Fatemeh Khatami, Saeed Heidari Keshel, Mohammad Reza Akbari, Akram Mirzaei, Keykavos Gholami, Reza Mohammadi Farsani, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir

“…Micro Culture Tetrazolium Test assessed proliferative inhibitory effect; and prostate biomarker (KLK2), EMT (E-cadherin and Snail), angiogenesis genes (VEGF-A/VEGF-C), apoptosis genes (BAX/BCL2, P53) and Osteopontin variants (OPNa/b, and c) mRNA levels were studied by realtime PCR method. …”
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Repeatability characteristics of insulin response patterns and measures of insulin resistance by Catherine A.P. Crofts, Mark C. Wheldon, Caryn Zinn, Fabrice Merien, Grant Schofield

“…Six people completed four tests, while two completed at least two tests. Each test assessed insulin resistance and response patterns. …”
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Application of a robotics path planning algorithm to assess the risk of mobile bearing dislocation in lateral unicompartmental knee replacement by Yang, I, Gammell, JD, Murray, DW, Mellon, SJ

“…Using a robotics path planning algorithm, the mobile bearing was allowed to find a way out from between the femoral and tibial components i.e. to dislocate. Testing assessed a range of clinically relevant positions of the femoral component relative to the tibial component. …”

Leber congenital amaurosis associated with AIPL1: challenges in ascribing disease causation, clinical findings, and implications for gene therapy. by Tan, M, Mackay, D, Cowing, J, Tran, H, Smith, A, Wright, G, Dev-Borman, A, Henderson, R, Moradi, P, Russell-Eggitt, I, Maclaren, R, Robson, A, Cheetham, M, Thompson, D, Webster, A, Michaelides, M, Ali, R, Moore, A

“…The assessment of disease-causation of identified AIPL1 variants included segregation testing, assessing evolutionary conservation and in silico predictions of pathogenicity. …”

Obtaining valid laboratory data in clinical trials conducted in resource diverse settings: lessons learned from a microbicide phase III clinical trial. by Tania Crucitti, Katrien Fransen, Rashika Maharaj, Tom Tenywa, Marguerite Massinga Loembé, Kailapuri Gangatharan Murugavel, Kevin Mendonca, Said Abdellati, Greet Beelaert, Lut Van Damme

“…The ICRL provided advice on the tests, assessed local laboratories, organized trainings, conducted supervision visits, performed re-tests, and prepared control panels. …”
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Preliminary efficacy of aerobic training among university students with migraine symptoms: Study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. by Kiruthika Selvakumar, Tan Lee Fan, Foo Chai Nien, Mun Hou Kit

“…The primary outcome is resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) brain, and the secondary outcomes are sleep quality, quality of life, and migraine pain level. The post-test assessments will be performed at week 6.<h4>Result</h4>After the primary EEG analysis using MATLAB, the amplitude, frequency, frequency band ratio, and power spectrum density will be analysed. …”
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Analysis of Motor Abilities Development in Male and Female High Schoolers by Є. В. Срібний

“…The statistically significant difference between the 10th-grade boys and girls is observed in the following tests: assessment of time parameters of movement (error in 10 seconds), assessment of perception of strength parameters of movement (standing long jump at ½ of MAX), bending and unbending of arms in suspension, bent suspension. …”
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Pad Weight, Pad Number and Incontinence-Related Patient-Reported Outcome Measures After Radical Prostatectomy by Cecile T. Pham, Manish I. Patel, Sean F. Mungovan

“…Patients completed a 24-hour pad test, assessing pad weight and number, and 3 validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs); the ICIQ-MLUTS, ICIQ-SF and UCLA-PCI, preoperatively and at 3 and 6 weeks postoperatively. …”
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Clinical significance and related factors of rectal hyposensitivity in patients with functional defecation disorder by Ya Jiang, Yan Wang, Meifeng Wang, Lin Lin, Yurong Tang

“…Rectal sensory testing (assessing rectal response to balloon distension using anorectal manometry) was applied to obtain three sensory thresholds. …”
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Hydrogel Coating Optimization to Augment Engineered Soft Tissue Mechanics in Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels by Bryan T. Wonski, Bruce Fisher, Mai T. Lam

“…Overall, fibrin gel coating without genipin was deemed optimal for its balance in increasing mechanical strength while still supporting cell viability and was used in the final mechanical and hydrodynamic testing assessments. Engineered vessels coated in fibrin hydrogel with cells resulted in the highest tensile strength of all hydrogel-coated groups after 14 d in culture, demonstrating a tensile strength of 11.9 ± 2.91 kPa, compared to 5.67 ± 1.37 kPa for the next highest collagen hydrogel group. …”
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Clinical features of symptomatic acquired lacrimal outflow obstruction in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by P. A. Bezditko, N. M. Bezega

“…Specific eye examination methods included measurements of punctum size and tear meniscus height, tear production tests (Schirmer, Jones and tear film breakup tests), nasolacrimal test, tear absorbing test, reflux tests, assessment of lacrimal system balance, lacrimal irrigation, and lacrimal canaliculi probing. …”
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Calidad en la formación inicial docente: los déficits de las competencias pedagógicas y disciplinares en Chile / Quality in initial teacher training: the deficiencies in pedagogica... by Carlos Rodríguez Garcés, Víctor Castillo Riquelme

“…Through a battery of items this test assesses disciplinary and pedagogical knowledge of teachers recently graduated from the Chilean higher education system. …”
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57437 Effects of Prebiotics on the Gut Microbiome Profile, Beta-cell Function and Immune Markers in Newly-Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes by Heba M. Ismail, Carmella Evans-Molina, Linda A. DiMeglio

“…We will profile the gut microbiome using metagenomics, measure stool SCFA levels using mass spectrometry, assess glycemia using continuous glucose monitoring, assess insulin production using mixed meal tolerance testing, assess Beta-cell stress using proinsulin/C-peptide levels, and test immune responses by examining cytokine levels and frequency, phenotype and function of T cell markers in peripheral blood. …”
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The Effect of Syntactic Impairment on Errors in Reading Aloud: Text Reading and Comprehension of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children by Ronit Szterman, Naama Friedmann

“…We classified them into two groups of DHH children—with and without a syntactic deficit according to their performance in six syntactic tests assessing their comprehension and production of sentences with syntactic movement. …”
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The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy on Emotional Divorce and Self-efficacy of Working Couples by Elahe Afshari, Mohammad Ismail Ebrahimi, Arya Haddadi

“…SPSS version 23 analyzed data. Shapiro-Wilk test assessed variable distribution normality. The scores in the experimental and control groups are normal because emotional divorce and self-efficacy are significant (P < 0.05). …”
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Antimicrobial susceptibility of staphylococci from bovine milk samples in routine microbiological mastitis analysis in Finland by Suvi Taponen, Heikki-Tapio Tölli, Päivi J. Rajala-Schultz

“…Phenotypic susceptibility against cefoxitin, ceftiofur, enrofloxacin, gentamycin, oxacillin, penicillin, and tetracycline was evaluated by disk diffusion method and the presence of blaZ, mecA, and mecC genes investigated by PCR. Nitrocefin test assessed these isolates’ beta-lactamase production. …”
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Effects of an Online Community Peer-support Intervention on COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Among Essential Workers: Mixed-methods Analysis by Dominic Arjuna Ugarte, Sean Young

“…Posts and comments of only participants were coded manually by the research team. Chi-squared tests assessed differences in the frequency and content of posts between intervention and control arms. …”
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Data processing and analytics in L-I-V test of VCSEL by Xu, Zhengyang

“…L-I-V test is commonly used in semiconductor industry to exam the wafer products’ quality. This test assesses every individual VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser) on the wafer slice with some quantities showing its lasing characteristics when electrically supplied. …”
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Facial features point localization using modified SIFT scale space / Zulfikri Paidi by Paidi, Zulfikri

“…The results showed that modified SIFT yielded more consistent results than the original SIFT. The second test assesses the feasibility of repeatability based on the value of feature vectors.The existence of consistency towards results by modified SIFT indicates that the use of Savitzky Golay as a Gaussian coupling technique in scale space can have an impact by preserving the quality data. …”
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Assessment of Agronomic Effectiveness of Phosphate Rocks Applied to an Ultisol by Hashim, Zulkifli

“…The indirect solubility tests assessed by 2% fonnic acid (FA), 2% citric acid (CA) and neutral ammonium citrate (NAC) gave positive correlation with P uptake by oil palm seedling in the glasshouse. …”
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