Buying influence? The international diplomacy behind donor financing of the World Bank’s International Development Association by Xu, J

“…In-depth case studies are used to test these hypotheses. Overall the thesis reveals that the US maintained or cut its burden share as the Soviet threat waxed and waned; and that as the Soviet Union collapsed the US abandoned both its leadership for IDA expansion to counter the Soviet threat and its self-restraint in controlling the World Bank, provoking the fairness concern among secondary states – the most potent factor in explaining IDA burden-sharing dynamics in the post-Cold War era. …”

Reassessing the association: evaluation of a polyalanine deletion variant of RUNX2 in non-syndromic sagittal and metopic craniosynostosis by Walton, IS, McCann, E, Weber, A, Morton, JEV, Noons, P, Wilson, LC, Ching, RC, Cilliers, D, Johnson, D, Phipps, JM, Shears, DJ, Thomas, GPL, Wall, SA, Twigg, SRF, Wilkie, AOM

“…However, the gnomAD v.2.1.1 control population used by Cuellar et al. did not display Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, hampering interpretation. …”

Childlessness and its associated factors among Chinese women: a nationwide population-based study by Han, Q, Dang, J, Wu, Y, Ye, W

“…Conclusions: This study used the most recent nationwide survey data from China to identify factors associated with childlessness and reproductive anxiety, with an emphasis on socio-economic factors and domestic violence. …”

Managing risks to the media from emerging networked technologies by Shere, ARK

“…The countermeasures are linked to phases of the overarching editorial workflow, to ensure that their implementation is feasible and that they are clearly useful by and for specific role categories within the media.…”

Translation, adaptation and validation of an epilepsy screening instrument in two Ghanaian languages by Darkwa, EK, Asiamah, S, Awini, E, Sottie, C, Godi, A, Williams, JE, Akpalu, A, Cross, JH, Sander, JW, Sen, A, Newton, CR, Danso-Appiah, A, Adjei, P

“…Cases were people with confirmed epilepsy attending healthcare facilities where these languages are used. Controls were unaffected relatives of cases or people attending the same healthcare facilities for other medical conditions. …”

Inhibiting IP6K1 confers atheroprotection by elevating circulating apolipoprotein A-I by Liu, X, Zhang, Z, Aguirre, T, Shipton, ML, Fu, L, Du, J, Furkert, D, Qi, J, Chin, AC, Riley, AM, Liu, T, Zhang, X, Potter, BVL, Fiedler, D, Zhu, Y, Fu, C

“…Chemical biology tools were used to determine the binding of 5PP-InsP₅ to its target proteins and its roles in mediating protein-protein interactions. …”

Mendelian randomization identifies proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases by Belbasis, L, Morris, S, Van Duijn, C, Bennett, D, Walters, R

“…</p> <p>We performed a two-sample cis Mendelian randomization (MR) study by selecting instrumental variables for the abundance of over 2,700 proteins measured by either Olink or SomaScan platforms in plasma from the UK Biobank and the deCODE Health Study. We also used the latest publicly-available genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for the neurodegenerative diseases of interest. …”

The impact of the exercise on the social mentality of the Chinese people by Ji, Shuyu, Zhang, Kaiqi, Xu, Ludan, Wang, Xiaolin, Dong, Delong, Yang, Xiannan

“…This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.…”
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Intention to purchase family takaful: An extension of decomposed theory of planned behavior by Qazi, Mansoor Ahmad, Md Husin, Maizaitulaidawati

“…Furthermore, it is found that attitude with dimensions such as perceived usefulness, knowledge, and perceived religiosity has a positive link with the intention to purchase a family takaful. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…Vertical tensioned viscoelastic barriers are further used to stabilize the compliant platforms of floating solar farms in coastal environments. …”
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Surface engineering to manipulate solar energy for thermal management by Fei, Jipeng

“…The use of sustainable energy sources has risen significantly in recent years due to the tremendous pollution and waste associated with traditional fossil fuels, and the urgent needs of decarbonization. …”
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In-situ infrared spectroscopy studies of surface reactions over irradiated photocatalysts by Gong, Dangguo

“…Commercial material, Degussa P25 TiO2, was used mainly for system verification and fundamental studies on the state of material under bandgap excitation, especially ATR-FTIR, and as a benchmark (in pristine and metalized form) for novel visible-sensitized photocatalysts prepared in this thesis. …”
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Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2... by Brauer, M, Roth, GA, Aravkin, AY, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Browne, AJ, Graham, SM, Rodriguez, JAB, Runghien, T, Sartorius, B

“…<p><b>Methods</b></p> The GBD 2021 risk factor analysis used data from 54 561 total distinct sources to produce epidemiological estimates for 88 risk factors and their associated health outcomes for a total of 631 risk–outcome pairs. …”

Patient-Centered Clinical Trial Design for Heart Failure Devices via Bayesian Decision Analysis by Chaudhuri, Shomesh E., Adamson, Phillip, Bruhn-Ding, Dean, Ben Chaouch, Zied, Gebben, David, Rincon-Gonzalez, Liliana, Liden, Barry, Reed, Shelby D., Saha, Anindita, Schaber, Daniel, Stein, Kenneth, Tarver, Michelle E., Lo, Andrew W.

“…Methods We use the results from a discrete-choice experiment study focusing on heart failure patients’ preferences, questioning respondents about their willingness to accept therapeutic risks in exchange for quantifiable benefits with alternative hypothetical medical device performance characteristics. …”
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Non-linear Log-Sobolev Inequalities for the Potts Semigroup and Applications to Reconstruction Problems by Gu, Yuzhou, Polyanskiy, Yury

“…These improvements advocate information-theoretic methods as a useful complement to the conventional techniques originating from the statistical physics.…”
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“双城” 新加坡与香港 ： “一带一路”的策略及其反应 = “Twin Cities” Singapore and Hong Kong : belt road initiative strategies and responses by Tham, Kok Yung

“…Since China President Xi Jinping announced the establishment of the “Belt and Road Initiative” in 2013, it has attracted great attention from the international community and countries along the initiative. This paper will use it as a reference point on “Twin Cities”, namely Singapore and Hong Kong, to review their various considerations and strategies. …”
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Writing Hong Kong Sinophonicity : history, gender and ethnicity in Hong Kong fiction by Long, Chao

“…Such an analysis also forms a useful comparison with the previous two chapters, thus deepening our understanding of the intersectionality of class, gender and ethnicity on identity formation. …”
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Tolerability and efficacy of the anticluster of differentiation 47 antibody magrolimab combined with azacitidine in patients with previously untreated AML: phase ib results by Daver, NG, Vyas, P, Kambhampati, S, Al Malki, MM, Larson, RA, Asch, AS, Mannis, G, Chai-Ho, W, Tanaka, TN, Bradley, TJ, Jeyakumar, D, Wang, ES, Sweet, K, Kantarjian, HM, Garcia-Manero, G, Komrokji, R, Xing, G, Ramsingh, G, Renard, C, Zeidner, JF, Sallman, DA

“…<p><strong>Purpose</p></strong> Magrolimab is a first-in-class humanized monoclonal antibody against cluster of differentiation 47, an antiphagocytic signal used by cancer cells to evade phagocytosis. Azacitidine upregulates prophagocytic signals on AML cells, further increasing phagocytosis when combined with magrolimab. …”

Strategies to increase response rate and reduce non-response bias in population health research: a series of randomised controlled trials during a large COVID-19 study by Atchison, CJ, Gilby, N, Pantelidou, G, Clemens, S, Pickering, K, Chadeau-Hyam, M, Ashby, D, Barclay, WS, Cooke, G, Darzi, A, Riley, S, Donnelly, C, Ward, H, Elliott, P

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Conditional monetary incentives improved response rate to an online survey which required the return of a swab test, particularly for younger age groups. Used in a selective way, incentives may be an effective strategy for improving sample response and representativeness in population-based studies.…”

Indicators of global climate change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence by Forster, PM, Smith, CJ, Walsh, T, Lamb, WF, Lamboll, R, Hauser, M, Ribes, A, Rosen, D, Gillett, N, Palmer, MD, Rogelj, J, von Schuckmann, K, Seneviratne, SI, Trewin, B, Zhang, X, Allen, M, Andrew, R, Birt, A, Borger, A, Boyer, T, Broersma, JA, Cheng, L, Dentener, F, Friedlingstein, P, Gutiérrez, JM, Gütschow, J, Hall, B, Ishii, M, Jenkins, S, Lan, X, Lee, J-Y, Morice, C, Kadow, C, Kennedy, J, Killick, R, Minx, JC, Naik, V, Peters, GP, Pirani, A, Pongratz, J, Schleussner, C-F, Szopa, S, Thorne, P, Rohde, R, Rojas Corradi, M, Schumacher, D, Vose, R, Zickfeld, K, Masson-Delmotte, V, Zhai, P

“…</p> <p>We follow methods as close as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One (WGI) report. …”