Crowdsourcing biocuration: The Community Assessment of Community Annotation with Ontologies (CACAO) by Jolene Ramsey, Brenley McIntosh, Daniel Renfro, Suzanne A. Aleksander, Sandra LaBonte, Curtis Ross, Adrienne E. Zweifel, Nathan Liles, Shabnam Farrar, Jason J. Gill, Ivan Erill, Sarah Ades, Tanya Z. Berardini, Jennifer A. Bennett, Siobhan Brady, Robert Britton, Seth Carbon, Steven M. Caruso, Dave Clements, Ritu Dalia, Meredith Defelice, Erin L. Doyle, Iddo Friedberg, Susan M. R. Gurney, Lee Hughes, Allison Johnson, Jason M. Kowalski, Donghui Li, Ruth C. Lovering, Tamara L. Mans, Fiona McCarthy, Sean D. Moore, Rebecca Murphy, Timothy D. Paustian, Sarah Perdue, Celeste N. Peterson, Birgit M. Prüß, Margaret S. Saha, Robert R. Sheehy, John T. Tansey, Louise Temple, Alexander William Thorman, Saul Trevino, Amy Cheng Vollmer, Virginia Walbot, Joanne Willey, Deborah A. Siegele, James C. Hu

“…Experimental data about gene functions curated from the primary literature have enormous value for research scientists in understanding biology. …”
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Exploring optimal sequencing of radiation and immunotherapy combinations by Andrew J. Gunderson, PhD, Kristina H. Young, MD, PhD

“…Results: A paucity of primary literature exists examining the best order of radiation and immunotherapy, most of which was performed in the pre-clinical setting. …”
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Creating Critical Consumers of Health and Science News: Teaching Science to the Non-Scientist Using Newsworthy Topics in the Life Sciences by Raymond W. Coderre, Kristen A. Uekermann, Youngeun Choi, William J. Anderson

“…The course is structured to blend relevant scientific background and evaluation of primary literature with the coverage of these advances by the media and popular press. …”
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Particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes: key questions and future directions by S. Laurie Sanderson

“…As the first synthesis of the primary literature on the particle separation mechanisms of marine, estuarine, and freshwater suspension-feeding fishes, the goals are to enable comparisons with invertebrate suspension-feeding processes, stimulate future theoretical and empirical studies, and further the development of biomimetic physical and computational fluid dynamics models. …”
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Future of bisphosphonates and denosumab for men with advanced prostate cancer by Iranikhah M, Stricker S, Freeman MK

“…This review discusses the role of antiresorptive agents bisphosphonates and RANK-L inhibitor in the current treatment of advanced prostate cancer by examining the primary literature and also focuses on the likely role of the bisphosphonates in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer in the future. …”
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Comorbidity of diabetes mellitus in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: a systematic literature review by Miles Hudson, Caden Nowak, Richard J. Garling, Carolyn Harris

“…A review of the primary literature shows that these occurrence rates are higher than age- and cohort-matched non-iNPH controls. …”
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Pendidikan Kebangsaan pada Masjid Kampus Di Perguruan Tinggi Yogyakarta by Triwahyu Budiutomo, Anggar Kaswati, Imroatun Imroatun, Moh. Nasruddin, Zainul Arifin

“…The campus mosque taklim has not developed national education specifically but randomly with more exploration in primary literature that is directly related to the material. …”
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Examining the evidence for chytridiomycosis in threatened amphibian species. by Matthew Heard, Katherine F Smith, Kelsey Ripp

“…However, a closer look at the data reveals that Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (the causal agent) has been identified and confirmed to cause clinical disease in only 14% of these species. Primary literature surveys confirm these findings; ruling out major discrepancies between Red List assessments and real-time science. …”
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Ocular and Orbital Injury in All-Terrain Vehicles: A Literature Review by Elliot S. Crane, Anton M. Kolomeyer, Andrew W. Eller

“…Purpose: To review primary literature on ocular and orbital injury secondary to all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). …”
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HerpSexDet: the herpetological database of sex determination and sex reversal by Edina Nemesházi, Veronika Bókony

“…We collected empirical data from earlier databases, reviews and primary literature to create the most up-to-date database on herpetological sex determination. …”
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KEMAKSUMAN NABI: KAJIAN TERHADAP AYAT-AYAT ‘ITÂB TERHADAP NABI MUHAMMAD SAW by Sriwahyuni Sriwahyuni

“…The data of this study was obtained through primary  literature, it is an interpretation literature (kitab tafsir) of classic interpreter (mufassir) and some modern interpreters. …”
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A historical perspective on malaria control in Brazil by Sean Michael Griffing, Pedro Luiz Tauil, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Luciana Silva-Flannery

“…Here, we provide an exhaustive summary of primary literature in English, Spanish and Portuguese regarding Brazilian malaria control. …”
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Cuban studies on myocardial perfusion imaging technique for detecting ischemic heart disease by Aozi Feng, Yamilé Peña, Wan Li

“…Method: A descriptive research was carried out, based on the documentary analysis of sources obtained by systematized search of primary literature of Cuban authors from the key words myocardial perfusion, ischemic heart disease, and Cuba. …”
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Is there a direct role for erythrocytes in the immune response? by Morera Davinia, MacKenzie Simon A

“…Many viral, prokaryotic and eukaryotic pathogens directly target this cell type and across the vertebrate group a significant number of related pathologies have been reported. Across the primary literature mechanisms of interaction, invasion and replication between viruses and erythrocytes have been well described however the functional response of the erythrocyte has been poorly studied. …”
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Acupuncture for Pain Management in Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Disease by Krystal S. Plonski

“…A literature review of scientific papers published within the last ten years was conducted on the topic. Five primary literature articles on acupuncture for pain management in pediatric patients with SCD were reviewed. …”
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Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants by Bell-Roberts, L

“…We started by gathering data from major reviews, comparative studies, and books, and then performed a topic search of the primary literature using Web of Science. In total, we collected data for 794 species from 160 different genera. …”

Determinants of Arbovirus Vertical Transmission in Mosquitoes. by Sebastian Lequime, Richard E Paul, Louis Lambrechts

“…Here, we review over a century of published primary literature on natural and experimental VT, which we previously assembled into large databases, to identify biological factors associated with the efficiency of arbovirus VT in mosquito vectors. …”
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The clinico-radiological paradox of cognitive function and MRI burden of white matter lesions in people with multiple sclerosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Daisy Mollison, Robin Sellar, Mark Bastin, Denis Mollison, Siddharthan Chandran, Joanna Wardlaw, Peter Connick

“…This may reflect the greater importance of other features, including subvisible pathology, or methodological limitations of the primary literature. OBJECTIVES:To summarise the cognitive clinico-radiological paradox and explore the potential methodological factors that could influence the assessment of this relationship. …”
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Automated assembly of molecular mechanisms at scale from text mining and curated databases by John A Bachman, Benjamin M Gyori, Peter K Sorger

“…Natural language processing systems that read the primary literature have the potential to substantially extend knowledge resources while reducing the burden on human curators. …”
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SquamataBase: a natural history database and R package for comparative biology of snake feeding habits by Michael Grundler

“…Publicly available natural history data on traits like diet, habitat and reproduction are scattered across an extensive primary literature and remain relatively inaccessible to researchers interested in using these data for broad-scale analyses in macroecology and macroevolution. …”
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