Examining diabetes management apps recommended from a Google search : content analysis by Jimenez, Geronimo, Lum, Elaine, Car, Josip

“…We found a wide variation in the type and the number of diabetes management features in the recommended apps. Five apps required payment to be used. Two-thirds of the apps had blood glucose management features, and less than half had medication management features. …”
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Pathogen diversity and antimicrobial resistance transmission of Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Malawi: a genomic epidemiological study... by Dyson, ZA, Ashton, PM, Khanam, F, Chunga Chirambo, A, Shakya, M, Meiring, JE, Tonks, S, Karkey, A, Msefula, C, Clemens, JD, Dunstan, SJ, Baker, S, Dougan, G, Pitzer, VE, Basnyat, B, Qadri, F, Heyderman, RS, Gordon, MA, Holt, KE, Pollard, AJ, STRATAA Study Group

“…Azithromycin-resistance mutations in acrB were rare, appearing only in Dhaka (five [1%] of 452). Phylogenetic analyses showed that most cases derived from pre-existing, locally established pathogen variants; 702 (98%) of 713 drug-resistant infections resulted from local circulation of AMR variants, not imported variants or recent de novo emergence; and pathogen variants circulated across age groups. 479 (66%) of 731 cases clustered with others that were indistinguishable by point mutations; individual clusters included multiple age groups and persisted for up to 2·3 years, and AMR determinants were invariant within clusters.…”

A preliminary study on the effects of substituting fishmeal with defatted black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larval meal on Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) juveniles: Growth pe... by Liu, Yun, Andin, Victor Charlie, Chor, Wei-Kang, Gunasekaran, Baskaran, Chong, Chou-Min, Lee, Po-Tsang, Loh, Jiun-Yan

“…After a 7-day challenge test with V. parahaemolyticus, the cumulative mortality rates of the BSFL5 and BSFL10 groups, respectively, dropped to 5.20%, 5.28% compared to the control group's 16.88%; however, the mortality rates of BSFL15 (34.67%) and BSFL20 (41.77%) groups were found to be significantly (p < 0.05) increased. …”

Cytotoxicity and mechanisms of action of Zerumbone-loaded nanostructured lipid carrier in triple negative breast cancer cells, MDA-MB-231 by Hosseinpour, Mahnaz

“…According to the Malaysian National Cancer Registry (2006), breast cancer is one of the five most common cancers amongst Malaysian women. …”
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RNA interference silencing of interleukin-6 in mesenchymal stromal cells and antitumour efficacy against multiple myeloma cells by Teoh, Hoon Koon

“…MSC transduced with IL-6 shRNA also inhibited U266 growth significantly to 53.1% and 74.4% by day five through cell-substrate and cell-cell interactions respectively (P<0.05, ANOVA). …”
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Rapid eye movement sleep deprivation induces vascular endothelial dysfunction in rats: roles of oxidative stress-mediated nitric oxide signalling and vitamin c supplementation by Nawi, Afifah

“…The beneficial effects of vitamin C were also evaluated. Thirty-five (35) adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were equally divided into 5 groups (n=7): free-moving control rats (FMC), REM sleep-deprived rats for 72-h (72-h REMsd), tank control rats (TC), sleep recovered for 72-h after 72-h of REMsd (SR), and 72-h REMsd pretreated with vitamin C (RVC). …”
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Using cluster analysis to reconstruct dengue exposure patterns from cross-sectional serological studies in Singapore by Sangkaew, Sorawat, Tan, Li Kiang, Ng, Lee Ching, Ferguson, Neil M., Dorigatti, Ilaria

“…Methods: We explored the use of five distinct clustering methods (i.e. agglomerative hierarchical, divisive hierarchi-cal, K-means, K-medoids and model-based clustering) with varying number (from 4 to 10) of clusters for each method. …”
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Sec71 functions as a GEF for the small GTPase Arf1 to govern dendrite pruning of Drosophila sensory neurons by Wang, Yan, Zhang, Heng, Shi, Meng, Liou, Yih-Cherng, Lu, Lei, Yu, Fengwei

“…We further identified Sec71 as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Arf1 that preferentially interacts with its GDP-bound form. Like Arf1, Sec71 is also important for dendrite pruning, but not for apoptosis, of sensory neurons. …”
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Upcycling waste plastic into 2D-carbon nanomaterials for high-performance supercapacitors by incorporating NiCo2O4: a sustainable approach to renewable energy by Bhatt, Diksha, Pathak, Mayank, Thakur, Nishtha, Tatrari, Gaurav, Rath, Tanmoy, Judeh, Zaher, Sahoo, Nanda Gopal

“…The outstanding specific capacitance values of the NiCo2O4@WPrGO material and its symmetric prototype cell from CV and GCD were around 1566 F g−1 and 400 F g−1 (at scan rate of 2 mV s−1) and 1105 F g−1 and 334 F g−1 (at current density of 0.5 A g−1), respectively, with 2 M KOH electrolyte. …”
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Divergent acute versus prolonged pharmacological GLP-1R responses in adult β cell-specific β-arrestin 2 knockout mice by Bitsi, Stavroula, El Eid, Liliane, Manchanda, Yusman, Oqua, Affiong I., Mohamed, Nimco, Hansen, Ben, Suba, Kinga, Rutter, Guy A., Salem, Victoria, Jones, Ben, Tomas, Alejandra

“…The glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) is a major type 2 diabetes therapeutic target. …”
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Chinese preschoolers in Singapore by Pwint, Mar Khin, Lee, Yung Seng, Wong, Teck Yee, Saw, Seang Mei

“…Results: The prevalence of overweight and obesity in 24 to 72 months old Chinese children were 8.1% and 7.1% (the CDC reference), 7.6% and 3.9% (the IOTF reference) and 7.5% and 5.3% (the local reference [NHGP]) respectively. …”
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Quantifying thermophysical properties, characterization, and thermal cycle testing of nano-enhanced organic eutectic phase change materials for thermal energy storage applications by Jacob, Jeeja, Kumar Pandey, Adarsh Kumar, Nasrudin, Abd Rahim, Selvaraj, Jeyraj, Paul Nadakkal, John, Samykano, Mahendran, Saidur, Rahman Md

“…It could be potentially deployed in the thermal management of medium-temperature systems like PVT and LCPVT systems.…”
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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based ThT free sensing of beta-amyloid fibrillation by carbon dot-Ag composites by Nair, Radhika Vadakkini, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham

“…Amyloid-beta proteins that form cytotoxic aggregates called amyloid-β derived diffusible ligands are responsible for various neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Novel methods for the early detection of such aggregates and inhibition of further fibrillation are highly important and need in the current situation. …”
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Improvement of uniformity of biocemented sand column using CH₃COOH-buffered one-phase-low-pH injection method by Yang, Yang, Chu, Jian, Liu, Hanlong, Cheng, Liang

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Quantum synchronization effects induced by strong nonlinearities by Shen, Yuan, Mok, Wai-Keong, Noh, Changsuk, Liu, Ai Qun, Kwek, Leong-Chuan, Fan, Weijun, Chia, Andy

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Clinical delineation and immunopathogenesis of autoimmune encephalitis by Varley, J

“…Finally, the underlying immunology in patients with AE secondary to leucinerich glioma inactivated protein-1 (LGI1) and contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2) antibodies remains unexplored and a likely source of novel, targeted immunotherapies.…”

Beam-pattern analysis of multi-beam high peak power IR-UWB transmitter tag for indoor positioning and tracking system by Md Arif Hussain Ansari, Law, Choi Look

“…The proposed beamforming transmitter arrays are observed to achieve the scanning range from-60° (-90°) to +60° (+90°) with a scanning resolution of 5° and 8° in the measurements.…”
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In-situ monitoring of oil emulsion fouling in ultrafiltration via electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS): influence of surfactant by Tian, Ju, Trinh, Thien An, Kalyan, Muppalla Naga, Ho, Jia Shin, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Therefore, this study provided clear evidence that the surfactant oppositely charged to the membrane (i.e., CTAB) adsorbed extensively initially to give negligible flux decline, which was not the case for the surfactants that were similarly negatively charged like the membrane. This only lasted for 0.5 h beyond which fouling became pronounced per dictated by DLVO interaction energy.…”
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Metal-organic framework-based nanovaccine for relieving immunosuppressive tumors via hindering efferocytosis of macrophages and promoting pyroptosis and cuproptosis of cancer cells by Liu, Yang, Niu, Rui, Zhang, Xiaodong, Zhang, Bin, Chen, Xiaokai, Guo, Jingjing, Song, Shuyan, Wang, Yinghui, Zhang, Hongjie, Zhao, Yanli

“…Once inside the early endosome, the alkaline phosphatase overexpressed in the tumor cells' membrane activates the in situ type I photodynamic effect of Cu-THBQ/AX for generating •O2-, and the Cu-THBQ/AX catalyzes O2 and H2O2 to •O2- and •OH via semiquinone radical catalysis and Fenton-like reactions. This surge of ROS in early endosomes triggers caspase-3-mediated proinflammatory pyroptosis via activating phospholipase C. …”
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3D carbon/cobalt-nickel mixed-oxide hybrid nanostructured arrays for asymmetric supercapacitors by Zhu, Jianhui, Jiang, Jian, Sun, Zhipeng, Luo, Jingshan, Fan, Zhanxi, Huang, Xintang, Zhang, Hua, Yu, Ting

“…Herein, a novel supercapacitor electrode comprising 3D hierarchical mixed-oxide nanostructured arrays (NAs) of C/CoNi3O4 is reported. The network-like C/CoNi3O4 NAs exhibit a relatively high specific surface area; it is fabricated from ultra-robust Co-Ni hydroxide carbonate precursors through glucose-coating and calcination processes. …”
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