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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessChemistry

Significant Association between Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria and Uranium-Reducing Microbial Communities as Revealed by a Combined Massively Parallel Sequencing-Indicator Species Approach

Erick Cardenas, Wei‐Min Wu, Mary Beth Leigh et al. · 2010 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Massively parallel sequencing has provided a more affordable and high-throughput method to study microbial communities, although it has mostly been used in an exploratory fashion. We combined pyrosequencing with a strict indicator species…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Association of Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Incident Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Longitudinal Cohort of Women

Andrea L. Roberts, Susan Malspeis, Laura D. Kubzansky et al. · 2017 · Arthritis & Rheumatology

OBJECTIVE: To conduct the first longitudinal study examining whether trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are associated with increased risk of incident systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a civilian cohort. METHODS:…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Hypoxia-activated prodrugs and (lack of) clinical progress: The need for hypoxia-based biomarker patient selection in phase III clinical trials

Linda Spiegelberg, Ruud Houben, Raymon Niemans et al. · 2019 · Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology

Hypoxia-activated prodrugs (HAPs) are designed to specifically target the hypoxic cells of tumors, which are an important cause of treatment resistance to conventional therapies. Despite promising preclinical and clinical phase I and II…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Early surgical intervention and its impact on patients presenting with necrotizing soft tissue infections: A single academic center experience

Rifat Latifi, GeorgeJ Hadeed, Judith Smith et al. · 2016 · Journal of Emergencies Trauma and Shock

OBJECTIVES: Early diagnosis and emergent surgical debridement of necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs) remains the cornerstone of care. We aimed to study the effect of early surgery on patients' outcomes and, in particular, on…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

Preliminary examination of the efficacy and safety of a standardized chamomile extract for chronic primary insomnia: A randomized placebo-controlled pilot study

Suzanna M. Zick, Benjamin D. Wright, Ananda Sen et al. · 2011 · BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

BACKGROUND: Despite being the most commonly used herbal for sleep disorders, chamomile's (Matricaria recutita) efficacy and safety for treating chronic primary insomnia is unknown. We examined the preliminary efficacy and safety of chamomile for improving subjective sleep and daytime symptoms in patients with chronic insomnia. METHODS: We performed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial in 34 patients aged 18-65 years with DSM-IV primary insomnia for ≥ 6-months. Patients were randomized to 270 mg of chamomile twice daily or placebo for 28-days. The primary outcomes were sle

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Clinical, histologic and histomorphometric evaluation of socket preservation using a synthetic nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite in comparison with a bovine xenograft: a randomized clinical trial

Gholam Ali Gholami, Babak Najafi, Fatemeh Mashhadiabbas et al. · 2011 · Clinical Oral Implants Research

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to compare a nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite (NCHA), NanoBone(®) and a deproteinized bovine bone mineral (DBBM), Bio-Oss(®) with a collagen membrane on the horizontal ridge width alterations following…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBusiness, Management and Accounting

Determinants of the Dividend Policy: An Empirical Study on the Lebanese Listed Banks

Christopher Maldajian, Rim El Khoury · 2014 · International Journal of Economics and Finance

This research aims at investigating the factors determining the dividend payout policy in the Lebanese banks listed on the Beirut Stock Exchange. This study considers the impact of seven variables, namely, profitability, liquidity, leverage, firm size, growth, firm risk and previous year’s dividend payout on the dividend payout ratios by using an unbalanced panel dataset of listed banks between the years of 2005 and 2011. Two models were tested using the OLS and the dynamic panel regressions. Empirical results show that the dividend payout policies are positively affected by the firm size, ris

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNursing

Evaluating the pathways from small-scale irrigation to dietary diversity: evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania

Simone Passarelli, Dawit Mekonnen, Elizabeth Bryan et al. · 2018 · Food Security

Interventions that aim to increase water availability for agriculture hold great potential for improving nutrition through increasing food production, generating income, enhancing water access and sanitation and hygiene conditions, and through strengthening women’s empowerment. Yet there is scarce evidence on the linkages between small-scale irrigation and the pathways through which nutrition outcomes can be achieved. Using data from a cross-sectional household survey collected in Ethiopia and Tanzania, we explored the potential for small-scale irrigation to contribute to improved diets, and i

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBusiness, Management and Accounting

PENGETAHUAN INVESTASI, MOTIVASI INVESTASI, LITERASI KEUANGAN DAN LINGKUNGAN KELUARGA PENGARUHNYA TERHADAP MINAT INVESTASI DI PASAR MODAL

Akhmad Darmawan, Kesih Kurnia, Sri Rejeki · 2019 · Jurnal Ilmiah Akuntansi dan Keuangan

This study aims to analyze the effect of investment knowledge, investment motivation, financial literacy and family environment on the interest in investing in the capital market. This type of research is quantitative. The population of this study were students of the Management Study Program of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Muhammadiyah Purwokerto University in the year 2016 and 2017 with the sample criteria of active students of FEB UMP and those who were / had taken financial management and entrepreneurship courses. Data collection in this study using the questionnaire method. Inst

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Chemotherapy for adult low-grade gliomas: clinical outcomes by molecular subtype in a phase II study of adjuvant temozolomide

Michael Wahl, Joanna J. Phillips, Annette M. Molinaro et al. · 2016 · Neuro-Oncology

Background: Optimal adjuvant management of adult low-grade gliomas is controversial. Recently described tumor classification based on molecular subtype has the potential to individualize adjuvant therapy but has not yet been evaluated as…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBusiness, Management and Accounting

Persistence of Integration in the Face of Specialization: How Firms Navigated the Winds of Disintegration and Shaped the Architecture of the Semiconductor Industry

Rahul Kapoor · 2013 · Organization Science

Although the stylized model of industry evolution suggests that firms transform from vertical integration to specialization over time, many industries still exhibit a continued persistence of integrated firms. In exploring this puzzle, I…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

A randomized placebo‐controlled phase 3 study of mesenchymal stem cells induced to secrete high levels of neurotrophic factors in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Merit Cudkowicz, Stacy Lindborg, Namita Goyal et al. · 2021 · Muscle & Nerve

INTRODUCTION/AIMS: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative illness with great unmet patient need. We aimed to evaluate whether mesenchymal stem cells induced to secrete high levels of neurotrophic factors…

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Negative / Null Result ReportBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Comparison of 2 Blood Culture Media Shows Significant Differences in Bacterial Recovery for Patients on Antimicrobial Therapy

Rebecca Zadroga, David N. Williams, Richard L. Gottschall et al. · 2012 · Clinical Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial removal devices in blood culture media are designed to remove antibiotics from the blood culture solution, thereby facilitating bacterial growth. How well these devices function clinically has not been…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Clinical outcome of children and adults with localized Ewing sarcoma

Abha A. Gupta, Alberto S. Pappo, Natasha Saunders et al. · 2010 · Cancer

BACKGROUND: As Ewing sarcoma (EWS) can affect children and adults, these patients can be treated at either a pediatric or an adult institution. This study investigated whether differences in therapeutic strategy undertaken in pediatric and…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Matched Case-Control Study

Tracey A. Martin, David Wan, Kaveh Hajifathalian et al. · 2020 · The American Journal of Gastroenterology

INTRODUCTION: Although current literature has addressed gastrointestinal presentations including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abnormal liver chemistries, and hyperlipasemia as possible coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) manifestations, the…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Predictors of outcome in paediatric IgA nephropathy with regard to clinical and histopathological variables (Oxford classification)

Stella Edström Halling, Magnus Söderberg, U. Berg · 2011 · Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

BACKGROUND: There has been a lack of international consensus on the classification and the predictive value of the histopathology findings in IgA nephropathy (IgAN). Recently, the International IgA Nephropathy Network has developed the…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBusiness, Management and Accounting

The impact of contextual factors on the efficacy of ISO 9000 adoption

Chris K.Y. Lo, Frank Wiengarten, Paul Humphreys et al. · 2013 · Journal of Operations Management

Abstract This study investigates the importance of contextual factors on the efficacy of ISO 9000 adoption. We explore the role of various contextual factors at the firm‐level (i.e., technology intensity, labor productivity, and labor…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Efficacy of the Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) study among infants at high risk of developing food allergy

Michael R. Perkin, Kirsty Logan, Henry T. Bahnson et al. · 2019 · Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

BACKGROUND: The Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) study was a randomized trial of the early introduction of allergenic solids into the infant diet from 3 months of age. The intervention effect did not reach statistical significance in the intention-to-treat analysis of the primary outcome. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether infants at high risk of developing a food allergy benefited from early introduction. METHODS: A secondary intention-to-treat analysis was performed of 3 groups: nonwhite infants; infants with visible eczema at enrollment, with severity determined by SCORAD; and infants

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Therapeutic targeting of the RB1 pathway in retinoblastoma with the oncolytic adenovirus VCN-01

Guillem Pascual‐Pasto, Miriam Bazán‐Peregrino, Nagore G. Olaciregui et al. · 2019 · Science Translational Medicine

VCN-01 is an oncolytic adenovirus designed to replicate selectively in tumor cells with high abundance of free E2F-1, a consequence of a dysfunctional RB1 pathway. Thus, we reasoned that VCN-01 could provide targeted therapeutic activity…

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Negative / Null Result ReportBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Comparison of Diet versus Exercise on Metabolic Function and Gut Microbiota in Obese Rats

Rebecca J. Welly, Tzu‐Wen Liu, Terese M. Zidon et al. · 2016 · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

UNLABELLED: Cardiometabolic impairments that begin early in life are particularly critical, because they often predict metabolic dysfunction in adulthood. Obesity, high-fat diet (HFD), and inactivity are all associated with adipose tissue…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Intravenous administration of ulinastatin (human urinary trypsin inhibitor) in severe sepsis: a multicenter randomized controlled study

Dilip R. Karnad, Rakesh Bhadade, Pradeep Kumar Verma et al. · 2014 · Intensive Care Medicine

PURPOSE: Ulinastatin, a serine protease inhibitor, inhibits several pro-inflammatory proteases and decreases inflammatory cytokine levels and mortality in experimental sepsis. We studied the effect of ulinastatin on 28-day all-cause…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Acute Kidney Injury in COVID-19 Patients: An Inner City Hospital Experience and Policy Implications

Umar Zahid, Preethi Ramachandran, Samuel Spitalewitz et al. · 2020 · American Journal of Nephrology

BACKGROUND: Although diffuse alveolar damage and respiratory failure are the key features of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the involvement of other organs such as the kidney has also been reported. The reports of the incidence of…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Efficacy of systemic adjuvant therapies administered to dogs after excision of oral malignant melanomas: 151 cases (2001–2012)

Sarah E. Boston, Xiaomin Lu, William T. N. Culp et al. · 2014 · Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

OBJECTIVE: To determine prognostic factors for and compare outcome among dogs with oral malignant melanoma following excision with or without various systemic adjuvant therapies. DESIGN: Retrospective case series. ANIMALS: 151 dogs with…

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Negative / Null Result ReportEnvironmental Science

Diversity and stability of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs

L Thibaut, Sean R. Connolly, Hugh Sweatman · 2011 · Ecology

Biodiversity may provide insurance against ecosystem collapse by stabilizing assemblages that perform particular ecological functions (the "portfolio effect"). However, the extent to which this occurs in nature and the importance of…

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