The Impact of Wearing Different Face Masks on Vigorous Physical Exercise Performance and Perceived Exertion among COVID-19 Infected vs. Uninfected Female Students by Nourhen Mezghani, Achraf Ammar, Omar Boukhris, Liwa Masmoudi, Mohamed Ali Boujelbane, Rayda Ben Ayed, Turki Mohsen Alzahrani, Atyh Hadadi, Rihab Abid, Ibrahim Ouergui, Jordan M. Glenn, Khaled Trabelsi, Hamdi Chtourou

“…Furthermore, the impact of different types of face masks on physical performance seems to be minimal, particularly in uninfected populations; future research is warranted to further explore this impact in post-COVID conditions.…”
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Patterns of treatment failure for PD-(L)1 refractory extensive-stage small cell lung cancer in continued PD-(L)1 treatment by Li Liu, Tong Liu, Xingwen Wang, Jianbo Wang, Jun Wang, Meng Yuan, Yunxin Yang, Yingying Zhang, Hang Wang, Pingping Hu, Jiandong Zhang

“…Chi-square tests and Fishers' exact tests was used to explore failure patterns in different populations. Survival analyses of different progression patterns and subsequent treatment regimens were conducted by Kaplan–Meier curves and log-rank test. …”
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Expert consensus on the evaluation and management of high-risk indeterminate pulmonary nodules by Yang Dawei, Stephan Lam, Kai Wang, Zhou Jian, Zhang Xiaoju, Wang Qi, Zhou Chengzhi, Zhang Lichuan, Bai Li, Wang Yuehong, Li Ming, Sun Jiayuan, Li Yang, Fengming Kong, Haiquan Chen, Ming Fan, Xuan Jianwei, Fred R. Hirsch, Charles A. Powell, Bai Chunxue

“…Background: The most effective method for improving the prognosis of lung cancer is the application of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for pulmonary nodule screening in populations at high risk. Timely diagnosis and treatment of early-stage lung cancer can contribute to higher long-term survival rates. …”
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Multi-scale and cross-dimensional TMS mapping: A proof of principle in patients with Parkinson’s disease and deep brain stimulation by Brice Passera, Brice Passera, Brice Passera, Sylvain Harquel, Sylvain Harquel, Sylvain Harquel, Alan Chauvin, Pauline Gérard, Lisa Lai, Elena Moro, Sara Meoni, Valerie Fraix, Olivier David, Olivier David, Estelle Raffin, Estelle Raffin

“…Finally, inhibitory conditioning effects of STN single pulses on corticomotor activity were found at timings relevant for the activation of inhibitory GABAergic receptors (4 and 20 ms).ConclusionTaken together, these results suggest a predominant role of some markers in explaining beneficial DBS effects, such as a context-dependent modulation of corticospinal excitability and the recruitment of distinct inhibitory circuits, involving long-range projections from higher level motor centers and local GABAergic neuronal populations. These combined measures might help to identify discriminative features of DBS mechanisms towards deep clinical phenotyping of DBS effects in Parkinson’s Disease and in other pathological conditions.…”
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Sexual behaviour changes and HIV infection among men who have sex with men: evidence from an open cohort in China by Jun Ma, Yuanyuan Liu, Jie Yang, Changping Li, Zhuang Cui, Xiaomeng Wang, Zeyang Yu, Tian-Tian Zhang, Qinxue Chang, Huijie Huang, Honglu Zhang, Desheng Song, Maohe Yu

“…Background The HIV epidemic in key populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM) is a public health issue of worldwide concern. …”
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Lower pretreatment HBV DNA levels are associated with better off-treatment outcomes after nucleo(s)tide analogue withdrawal in patients with HBeAg-neegative chronic hepatitis B: A... by Milan J. Sonneveld, Shao-Ming Chiu, Jun Yong Park, Sylvia M. Brakenhoff, Apichat Kaewdech, Wai-Kay Seto, Yasuhito Tanaka, Ivana Carey, Margarita Papatheodoridi, Piero Colombatto, Florian van Bömmel, Thomas Berg, Fabien Zoulim, Sang Hoon Ahn, George N. Dalekos, Nicole S. Erler, Maurizia Brunetto, Heiner Wedemeyer, Markus Cornberg, Man-Fung Yuen, Kosh Agarwal, Andre Boonstra, Maria Buti, Teerha Piratvisuth, George Papatheodoridis, Chien-Hung Chen, Benjamin Maasoumy

“…Further studies are needed to confirm these findings in non-Asian populations. Impact and Implications: A subgroup of patients with chronic hepatitis B may not require retreatment after stopping antiviral therapy. …”
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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…Therefore, withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from populations with prolonged disorders of consciousness based on unjustified perceptions about what their quality of life might look like perpetuates ableist assumptions about what outcomes are acceptable to them. …”
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Radiomic phenotyping of the lung parenchyma in a lung cancer screening cohort by Babak Haghighi, Hannah Horng, Peter B. Noël, Eric A. Cohen, Lauren Pantalone, Anil Vachani, Katharine A. Rendle, Jocelyn Wainwright, Chelsea Saia, Russel T. Shinohara, Eduardo Mortani Barbosa, Despina Kontos

“…Further work should seek to evaluate the effect of additional CT acquisition parameters and validate these phenotypes in characterizing lung cancer screening populations, to potentially better stratify disease patterns and cancer risk.…”
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Association of a Common <i>NOS1AP</i> Variant with Attenuation of QTc Prolongation in Men with Heroin Dependence Undergoing Methadone Treatment by Kuan-Cheng Chang, Ke-Wei Chen, Chieh-Liang Huang, Wen-Ling Liao, Mei-Yao Wu, Yu-Kai Lin, Yi-Tzone Shiao, Wei-Hsin Chung, Yen-Nien Lin, Hsien-Yuan Lane

“…Genetic polymorphisms in the nitric oxide synthase 1 adaptor protein (<i>NOS1AP</i>) have been implicated in QTc prolongation in general populations. We investigated whether common <i>NOS1AP</i> variants interact with methadone in relation to QTc prolongation in patients with heroin dependence. …”
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COVID-19 machine learning model predicts outcomes in older patients from various European countries, between pandemic waves, and in a cohort of Asian, African, and American patient... by Behrooz Mamandipoor, Raphael Romano Bruno, Bernhard Wernly, Georg Wolff, Jesper Fjølner, Antonio Artigas, Bernardo Bollen Pinto, Joerg C. Schefold, Malte Kelm, Michael Beil, Sviri Sigal, Susannah Leaver, Dylan W. De Lange, Bertrand Guidet, Hans Flaatten, Wojciech Szczeklik, Christian Jung, Venet Osmani

“…However, current machine learning approaches have been limited by lack of generalisation to diverse patient populations, between patients admitted at different waves and small sample sizes. …”
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Adenovirus Infections in African Humans and Wild Non-Human Primates: Great Diversity and Cross-Species Transmission by Hacène Medkour, Inestin Amona, Jean Akiana, Bernard Davoust, Idir Bitam, Anthony Levasseur, Mamadou Lamine Tall, Georges Diatta, Cheikh Sokhna, Raquel Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Amanda Barciela, Slim Gorsane, Bernard La Scola, Didier Raoult, Florence Fenollar, Oleg Mediannikov

“…This study provides information on the AdVs that infect African NHPs and the human populations living nearby, with an evident zoonotic transmission. …”
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Estructura de la comunidad y asociación de las aves acuáticas con la heterogeneidad espacial del complejo lagunar Bahía Magdalena-Almejas, Baja California Sur, México by Bulmara Zárate-Ovando, Eduardo Palacios, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla

“…To gather information on habitat features and waterbird populations we conducted waterbird censuses in 329 habitat segments along the internal coastline of the study area, from February 2002 to February 2003. …”
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Gençlerde sigaradan korunma konusunda akran eğitimi programının etkinliği by Gökben Yaslı, Gönül Dinç Horasan, Hilal Batı

“…Bu konuda daha büyük gruplarda, uzun izlem dönemi olan, akran eğiticilerinin popüler gençler arasından seçildiği programların yürütülerek etkinliğin değerlendirilmesi önerilmektedir.…”
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Vaccination during pregnancy by race/ethnicity: a focus on American Indians/Alaska NativesAJOG Global Reports at a Glance by Christen L. Jarshaw, MD, Osariemen Omoregie, MBBS, MPH, Jennifer D. Peck, PhD, Stephanie Pierce, MD, MS, Emily J. Jones, PhD, RNC-OB, Pardis Hosseinzadeh, MD, LaTasha B. Craig, MD

“…Greater measures must be taken to support preventative care in marginalized populations, with particular emphasis on community-driven solutions rooted in justice.…”
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La viande du futur sera-t-elle produite in vitro ? by J.F. HOCQUETTE, P. MAINSANT, J.D. DAUDIN, I. CASSAR-MALEK, D. RÉMOND, M. DOREAU, P. SANS, D. BAUCHART, J. AGABRIEL, W. VERBEKE, B. PICARD

“…De nombreux experts estiment que les causes de la malnutrition actuelle de certaines populations sont multiples et ne sont pas directement liées à un manque de ressources alimentaires. …”
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Insights into Genetic Diversity, Runs of Homozygosity and Heterozygosity-Rich Regions in Maremmana Semi-Feral Cattle Using Pedigree and Genomic Data by Filippo Biscarini, Salvatore Mastrangelo, Gennaro Catillo, Gabriele Senczuk, Roberta Ciampolini

“…Semi-feral local livestock populations, like Maremmana cattle, are the object of renewed interest for the conservation of biological diversity and the preservation and exploitation of unique and potentially relevant genetic material. …”
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Age and gender as risk factors for the transmission of HIV in a sample of drug users of Porto Alegre, Brazil Idade e gênero como fatores de risco para a transmissão do HIV em uma a... by Raquel De Boni, Flavio Pechansky

“…There was no difference in seropositivity between genders, what differs from current data of other studies, if we take into consideration that rates of populational seropositivity among women have increased, mostly among drug users, who are, therefore, at 'double risk'. …”
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Preclinical Evaluation of the Novel Small-Molecule MSI-N1014 for Treating Drug-Resistant Colon Cancer via the LGR5/β-catenin/miR-142-3p Network and Reducing Cancer-Associated Fibro... by Vijesh Kumar Yadav, Yan-Jiun Huang, Thomashire Anita George, Po-Li Wei, Maryam rachmawati Sumitra, Ching-Liang Ho, Tzu-Hao Chang, Alexander T. H. Wu, Hsu-Shan Huang

“…First, we used a co-culture system to demonstrate that colon cancer cells co-cultured with CAFs resulted in heightened 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) resistance and tumor sphere-forming ability and increased side populations, accompanied by elevated expression of cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44), β-catenin, leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein-coupled receptor 5 (LGR5), and ATP-binding cassette super-family G member 2 (ABCG2). …”
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Nuts and seeds consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and their risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Erik Kristoffer Arnesen, Birna Thorisdottir, Linnea Bärebring, Fredrik Söderlund, Bright I. Nwaru, Ulrike Spielau, Jutta Dierkes, Alfons Ramel, Christel Lamberg-Allardt, Agneta Åkesson

“…In the cohorts, mainly populations with low consumption, high versus low total nuts/seeds consumption was inversely associated with total CVD (RR 0.81; 95% CI 0.75, 0.86; I2 = 67%), CVD mortality (0.77; 0.72, 0.82; I2 = 59.3%), CHD (0.82; 0.76, 0.89; I2 = 64%), CHD mortality (0.75; 0.65, 0.87; I2 = 66.9%) and non-fatal CHD (0.85; 0.75, 0.96; I2 = 62.2%). …”
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Polimorfismo isoenzimático en cuatro razas y un híbrido de Bactris gasipaes (Palmae) by Sonia Rojas-Vargas, Pilar Ramírez, Jorge Mora-Urpí

“…A genetic analysis was not made because of the small sample size, but methodological procedures were established for future research projects using larger populations to study peach palm isozyme electrophoretic diversity.…”
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