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Negative / Null Result ReportBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Patients with Slowly Proliferative Early Breast Cancer Have Low Five-Year Recurrence Rates in a Phase III Adjuvant Trial of Capecitabine

Joyce O’Shaughnessy, Hartmut Koeppen, Yuanyuan Xiao et al. · 2015 · Clinical Cancer Research

PURPOSE: We conducted a randomized phase III study to determine whether patients with early breast cancer would benefit from the addition of capecitabine (X) to a standard regimen of doxorubicin (A) plus cyclophosphamide (C) followed by…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Replication of GWAS Associations for GAK and MAPT in Parkinson's Disease

Shannon Rhodes, Janet S. Sinsheimer, Yvette Bordelon et al. · 2010 · Annals of Human Genetics

In the investigation of disease aetiology, the genome-wide association study (GWAS) provides a hypothesis-free investigation of the broader human genome and, as with all scientific investigations, replication is essential to validate any…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Clinicopathological significance of PTEN and bcl2 expressions in oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Arshad Husain Rahmani, Mohammad A. Alzohairy, Ali Yousif Babiker et al. · 2012 · PubMed

A high frequency of mutations at the PTEN locus has been noticed in carcinoma of oral. However, the role of PTEN alternations and its association with outcome variables in the genesis of oral carcinoma is not understood fully. The purpose…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Complete loss of ATM function augments replication catastrophe induced by ATR inhibition and gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer models

Charles R. Dunlop, Yann Wallez, Timothy Isaac Johnson et al. · 2020 · British Journal of Cancer

BACKGROUND: Personalised medicine strategies may improve outcomes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), but validation of predictive biomarkers is required. Having developed a clinical trial to assess the ATR inhibitor, AZD6738, in combination with gemcitabine (ATRi/gem), we investigated ATM loss as a predictive biomarker of response to ATRi/gem in PDAC. METHODS: Through kinase inhibition, siRNA depletion and CRISPR knockout of ATM, we assessed how ATM targeting affected the sensitivity of PDAC cells to ATRi/gem. Using flow cytometry, immunofluorescence and immunoblotting, we investigate

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Nivolumab with or without ipilimumab in pediatric patients with high-grade CNS malignancies: Safety, efficacy, biomarker, and pharmacokinetics—CheckMate 908

Ira J. Dunkel, François Doz, Nicholas K. Foreman et al. · 2023 · Neuro-Oncology

BACKGROUND: Therapeutic options are limited in pediatric CNS malignancies. CheckMate 908 (NCT03130959) is an open-label, sequential-arm, phase 1b/2 study investigating nivolumab (NIVO) and NIVO + ipilimumab (IPI) in pediatric patients with…

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A culturally sensitive Transition Assistance Program for stroke caregivers: Examining caregiver mental health and stroke rehabilitation

Paul B. Perrin, Andrew J. Johnston, Bruce Vogel et al. · 2010 · The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

This study developed and implemented the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) for stroke caregivers. The program is composed of (1) skill development, (2) education, and (3) supportive problem solving. Sixty-one dyads (n = 122)…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Observing Run

Adrian Abac, I. Abouelfettouh, F. Acernese et al. · 2026 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Abstract Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a: 2023 May 24 15:00:00 to 2024 January 16 16:00:00 UTC) and a preceding engineering run. In these new data, we find 128 compact binary coalescence candidates that are identified by at least one of our search algorithms with a probability of astrophysical origin p astro ≥ 0.5 and that are not vetoed during event validation. We also provide detailed source property measurements for 86 of these t

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Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma: University of Cincinnati experience

Nagla Abdel Karim, James Schuster, Ihab Eldessouki et al. · 2017 · Oncotarget

// Nagla Abdel Karim 1 , James Schuster 2 , Ihab Eldessouki 1 , Ola Gaber 1 , Tariq Namad 3 , Jiang Wang 4 , Changchun Xie 5 and John C. Morris 1 1 Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA 2 University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA 3 Military Hospital of Mohammed V, Department of Medical Oncology, Quartier Irfane, Rabat 10080, Morocco 4 UC Health University Hospital, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA 5 Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental H

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Circulating Unmetabolized Folic Acid: Relationship to Folate Status and Effect of Supplementation

Carolyn Tam, Deborah L. O’Connor, Gideon Koren · 2012 · Obstetrics and Gynecology International

There are increasing concerns that exposure to unmetabolized folic acid, which results from folic acid intakes that overwhelm the liver's metabolic capacity, may be associated with adverse effects. In this paper, we examined the folic acid status of women of reproductive age in relation to dietary intake and the effect of folic acid supplementation (1.1 mg or 5 mg). Plasma unmetabolized folic acid was not significantly correlated with folate intake estimated by food frequency questionnaire or biomarkers. The proportion of women with detectable levels of unmetabolized folic acid increased from

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Anti-VEGF treatment of macular edema associated with retinal vein occlusion: patterns of use and effectiveness in clinical practice (ECHO study report 2)

J. Michael Jumper, Pravin U. Dugel, Sanford Chen et al. · 2018 · Clinical ophthalmology

PURPOSE: To evaluate the efficacy, safety, and injection frequency of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) antagonists in the treatment of macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlusion (RVO) in clinical practice. PATIENTS AND…

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Negative / Null Result ReportBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Contactin 4 as an autism susceptibility locus

Catherine E. Cottrell, Natalie Bir, Liz Varga et al. · 2011 · Autism Research

Structural and sequence variation have been described in several members of the contactin (CNTN) and contactin-associated protein (CNTNAP) gene families in association with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism. Using array…

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Three Attempts to Replicate the Moral Licensing Effect

Irene Blanken, Niels van de Ven, Marcel Zeelenberg et al. · 2014 · Social Psychology

The present work includes three attempts to replicate the moral licensing effect by Sachdeva, Iliev, and Medin (2009) . The original authors found that writing about positive traits led to lower donations to charity and decreased…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

External Validation of the Kidney Failure Risk Equation and Re-Calibration with Addition of Ultrasound Parameters

C. Lennartz, John W. Pickering, Sarah Seiler-Mußler et al. · 2016 · Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Progression of CKD toward ESRD is heterogeneous. The Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) was developed to identify CKD patients at high risk of ESRD. We aimed to externally validate KFRE and to test whether the…

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Microfluidic endothelial cell culture model to replicate disturbed flow conditions seen in atherosclerosis susceptible regions

Rosendo Estrada, Guruprasad A. Giridharan, Mai-Dung Nguyen et al. · 2011 · Biomicrofluidics

Atherosclerotic lesions occur non-randomly at vascular niches in bends and bifurcations where fluid flow can be characterized as “disturbed” (low shear stress with both forward and retrograde flow). Endothelial cells (ECs) at these…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

Flipped Classroom in Organic Chemistry Has Significant Effect on Students’ Grades

Caroline Cormier, Bruno Voisard · 2018 · Frontiers in ICT

The flipped classroom as a form of active pedagogy in post-secondary chemistry has been developed during the last 10 years and has been gaining popularity with instructors and students ever since. In the current paradigm in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, it is widely recognized that active learning has significant positive effects on students’ grades. Post-secondary organic chemistry is a difficult course for students and the traditional way of teaching does not foster students’ active involvement. Implementation of active pedagogy could increase students’ a

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

Is causality between globalization and energy consumption bidirectional or unidirectional in top and bottom globalized economies?

Muhammad Shahbaz, Mehmet Balcılar, Mantu Kumar Mahalik et al. · 2021 · International Journal of Finance & Economics

Abstract By using quarterly data over the period 1970Q1‐2017Q4, this paper examines the dynamic causal relationship between globalization and energy consumption by using rolling and recursive rolling Granger causality methods. This study…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Resounding failure to replicate links between developmental language disorder and cerebral lateralisation

Alexander C. Wilson, Dorothy Bishop · 2018 · PeerJ

BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that failure to establish cerebral lateralisation may be related to developmental language disorder (DLD). There has been weak support for any link with handedness, but more consistent reports of associations with functional brain lateralisation for language. The consistency of lateralisation across different functions may also be important. We aimed to replicate previous findings of an association between DLD and reduced laterality on a quantitative measure of hand preference (reaching across the midline) and on language laterality assessed using functional t

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

The political preferences of LLMs

David Rozado · 2024 · PLoS ONE

I report here a comprehensive analysis about the political preferences embedded in Large Language Models (LLMs). Namely, I administer 11 political orientation tests, designed to identify the political preferences of the test taker, to 24 state-of-the-art conversational LLMs, both closed and open source. When probed with questions/statements with political connotations, most conversational LLMs tend to generate responses that are diagnosed by most political test instruments as manifesting preferences for left-of-center viewpoints. This does not appear to be the case for five additional base (i.

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Effects of dopamine on reinforcement learning and consolidation in Parkinson’s disease

John P Grogan, Demitra Tsivos, Laura Smith et al. · 2017 · eLife

Emerging evidence suggests that dopamine may modulate learning and memory with important implications for understanding the neurobiology of memory and future therapeutic targeting. An influential hypothesis posits that dopamine biases reinforcement learning. More recent data also suggest an influence during both consolidation and retrieval. Eighteen Parkinson's disease patients learned through feedback ON or OFF medication, with memory tested 24 hr later ON or OFF medication (4 conditions, within-subjects design with matched healthy control group). Patients OFF medication during learning decre

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Negative / Null Result ReportSocial Sciences

Educational aspirations among ethnic minority youth in Brussels: Does the perception of ethnic discrimination in the labour market matter? A mixed-method approach

Céline Teney, Perrine Devleeshouwer, Laurie Hanquinet · 2013 · Ethnicities

Ethnic disparities in educational aspirations and choices are important to comprehend ethnic education inequality. Based on a mixed-method approach (3121 questionnaires and 40 interviews of pupils), this article investigates ethnic…

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Negative / Null Result ReportSocial Sciences

Trust It or Not

Haeseung Seo, Aiping Xiong, Dongwon Lee · 2019

Despite increased interests in the study of fake news, how to aid users' decision in handling suspicious or false information has not been well understood. To obtain a better understanding on the impact of warnings on individuals' fake…

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Negative / Null Result ReportPsychology

Comparing learning from observing and from human tutoring.

Kasia Müldner, Rachel Lam, T. H. Michelene · 2013 · Journal of Educational Psychology

A promising instructional approach corresponds to learning by observing others learn (i.e., by watching tutorial dialogue between a tutor and tutee). However, more work is needed to understand this approach’s pedagogical utility. Thus, in…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

Physical injury and workplace assault in UK mental health trusts: An analysis of formal reports

Laoise Renwick, Mary Lavelle, G. BRENNAN et al. · 2016 · International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

Workplace violence is a significant problem for health service personnel, with National Health Service (NHS) workers subject to 68 683 physical assaults between 2013 and 2014. Almost 70% of assaults occur in the mental health sector, and…

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