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Matthew J Orringer, Nirav K Pandya · 2021 · International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
Background Particularly at the level of professional athletics, injury prevention is of critical importance. We hypothesized that elevated in-game statistics over a period of 3-10 games places increased cumulative stress on players’ joints…
View details →Chengcheng Huang, Tadashi Suzuki · 2020 · FEBS Letters
N‐ Glycosylated substrates that undergo ER‐associated degradation (ERAD) are often deglycosylated by the cytosolic peptide: N ‐glycanase (Ngly1) during their proteasomal degradation in the cytosol. Consequently, the presence of non‐ or…
View details →Kim K. Johnson, Carole Bennett, Haresh Rochani · 2020 · Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
Objective: Patients with somatic symptom disorders (SSD) are prevalent in primary care, urgent care, and emergency rooms and present with reduced quality of life, increased disability, and suicidality . Criteria for SSD include (1) somatic…
View details →Roberta De Bei, Lukas Papagiannis, Sigfredo Fuentes et al. · 2020 · OENO One
Aim: Shoot thinning is a common canopy management practice used to obtain a desired shoot density and to improve canopy microclimate. Since thinning is often carried out manually, the cost can be high. In this study the effect of severe…
View details →Xiaohui Sun, Jie Ping, Xingyi Guo et al. · 2024 · Molecular Carcinogenesis
Abstract The association between metformin use and risk of prostate cancer remains controversial, while data from randomized trials is lacking. We aim to evaluate the association of genetically proxied metformin effects with prostate…
View details →Pedro Perim, Nathan Gobbi, Breno Duarte et al. · 2021 · European Journal of Sport Science
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of beta‐alanine supplementation on short‐duration sprints and final 4‐km simulated uphill cycling time‐trial performance during a comprehensive and novel exercise protocol representative of the…
View details →David Jarrett, Stephen G. Willis · 2024 · Ibis
Passive acoustic devices are increasingly being used to monitor biodiversity. However, few studies have compared the accuracy of acoustic surveys and traditional surveys against ground‐truthed data. Here, we assess whether acoustic…
View details →Richard Lu, Vu Tran Hoang, Wing-Keung Wong · 2020 · Studies in Economics and Finance
Purpose The literature has demonstrated that lump-sum (LS) outperforms dollar-cost averaging (DCA) in uptrend markets while DCA outperforms LS only when the asset price is mean-reverted or downtrend. To bridge the gap in the literature,…
View details →Helen E Tilbrook, Taeko Becque, Hannah Buckley et al. · 2014 · Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Abstract Rationale Attrition is a threat to the validity of randomized trials. Few randomized studies have been conducted within randomized trials to test methods of reducing attrition. Aim To test whether using yellow post‐it notes on…
View details →N. Vargas Jurado, A. E. Tanner, S. R. Blevins et al. · 2014 · Grass and Forage Science
Abstract Feed intake and diet choice affect production efficiency in livestock. Plant waxes, in particular n ‐alkanes, have been used as markers to predict intake and diet preferences. Still, when n ‐alkane profiles of plants within mixed…
View details →Xiao-Li Dong, Si-Si Cao, Li-Ping Zhou et al. · 2016 · The American Journal of Chinese Medicine
Our previous studies found that different extracts or fractions of Fructus ligustri lucidi (FLL) played different roles in altering the regulation of bone and mineral metabolism in different animal models. The present study was designed to…
View details →Fan Liu, Jordon Hogg, Susie Kracht et al. · 2019 · Animal Production Science
Context Lactoferrin is a non-haem binding protein that possesses antimicrobial, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. A previous study showed lactoferrin supplementation from early gestation to weaning improved lactation…
View details →Vladimira Vroblova, Filip Vrbacky, Monika Hrudkova et al. · 2010 · European Journal of Haematology
Abstract Introduction: It is widely accepted that expression of ZAP‐70 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains stable in time. However, data supporting this notion are surprisingly scarce. Therefore, we assessed expression of ZAP‐70…
View details →Sara Redenšek Trampuž, David Vogrinc, Katja Goričar et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
Introduction Development and worsening of most common neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis, have been associated with COVID-19 However, the mechanisms associated with…
View details →Caio SM Motoyama, Mônica JS Pinto, Fabio S Lira et al. · 2010 · Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
Abstract Introduction The increased intake of dietary fructose can be associated with alterations on energy homeostasis and lipid/carbohydrate metabolism, such as insulin resistance and dislipidemia. On the other hand, the ingestion of…
View details →Tzuan A. Chen, Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ezemenari M. Obasi et al. · 2021 · Nutrients
Nutrition assistance programs such as school meals and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are designed to provide a safety net for the dietary intake of children from low-income families. However, compared with eligible…
View details →Yibin Xu, Yangyu Huang · 2019 · Security and Communication Networks
Blockchain mining should not be a game among power oligarchs. In this paper, we present the Multiple Winners Proof of Work Protocol (MWPoW), a mining-pool-like decentralised blockchain consensus protocol. MWPoW enables disadvantaged nodes…
View details →Susan M. Robertson, Shawn R. McGrath, Samuel Scarlett et al. · 2022 · Animal Production Science
Context Clinical deficiencies of calcium and magnesium may result in the metabolic disorders hypocalcaemia and hypomagnesaemia, resulting in ewe and lamb mortality. However, the contribution of subclinical deficiencies to perinatal lamb…
View details →Marlene M. Moretti, Sebastian P. Dys, Stephanie G. Craig et al. · 2024 · JCPP Advances
Abstract Background Given the prevalence and recent increases in youth mental health problems, there is a pressing need for interventions that target transdiagnostic protective factors that could be targeted as mechanisms of change in…
View details →Mehmet K. Aktas, Wojciech Zareba, Javed Butler et al. · 2022 · Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology
Abstract Background Patients with heart failure (HF) represent a large population of patients who are at high risk for complications related to undiagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF). However, currently there are limited modalities available…
View details →Juan Pimentel, Paola López, Anne Cockcroft et al. · 2022 · BMC Medical Education
Abstract Background Cultural safety training is not yet standard in Colombian medical education. If incorporated, it could address currently adversarial interactions between health professionals and the 40% of people who use traditional…
View details →Menghui Duan, Huanming Xiao, Meijie Shi et al. · 2024 · BMC Infectious Diseases
Abstract Background and aims Numerous HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with persistently normal ALT have significant liver histopathology. It is imperative to identify true “immune tolerant” patients. We aimed to evaluate…
View details →Peng-Yi Lee, Jung-Nien Lai, Lu-Ting Chiu et al. · 2021 · PLOS ONE
Purpose This study aimed to determine the risk and time trends of herpes zoster among patients with head and neck cancer, with or without radiotherapy. Methods A total of 2160 patients with head and neck cancer were enrolled. The…
View details →Debankur Sanyal, Avik Mukherjee, Amin Rahhal et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Soil Science
Introduction Cover crop (CC) is an essential tool to improve or maintain soil health, potentially improving cash crop productivity. Several recent reports of cash crop yield reduction following cover cropping necessitated this research to…
View details →Shuaiwen Wang, Haolei Weng, Arian Maleki · 2021 · Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA
Abstract A recently proposed SLOPE estimator [6] has been shown to adaptively achieve the minimax $\ell _2$ estimation rate under high-dimensional sparse linear regression models [25]. Such minimax optimality holds in the regime where the…
View details →John Devin Peipert, David Cella, Ron D. Hays · 2024 · Quality of Life Research
Abstract Interpretation of patient-reported outcome (PRO) scores has been supported by identifying score thresholds or ranges that indicate clinical importance. There has been a recent focus on the estimation of meaningful within patient…
View details →Zbigniew Putowski, Szymon Czajka, Łukasz J. Krzych · 2021 · Journal of Clinical Medicine
The recent consensus by the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) on intraoperative hypotension (IOH) stated that mean arterial pressure (MAP) below 60–70 mmHg is associated with myocardial infarction (MI), acute kidney injury (AKI),…
View details →Haili Yu, Tiejun Wang, Andrew Skidmore et al. · 2022 · Journal of Fungi
Fungi are a hyper-diverse kingdom that contributes significantly to the regulation of the global carbon and nutrient cycle. However, our understanding of the distribution of fungal diversity is often hindered by a lack of data, especially…
View details →Ernest Mas-Herrero, Daniel Adrover-Roig, María Ruz et al. · 2021 · Neurobiology of Language
Abstract The benefits of bilingualism in executive functions are highly debated. Even so, in switching tasks, these effects seem robust, although smaller than initially thought (Gunnerud et al., 2020; Ware et al., 2020). By handling two…
View details →Patrick Albers, Jacob Bennett, Moira Evans et al. · 2024 · Canadian Urological Association Journal
Introduction: Despite a negative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), some patients may still harbor clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa, Gleason grade group ≥2). High-resolution micro-ultrasound (microUS) is a novel imaging…
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