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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

Impact of Welfare Reform on Mortality: An Evaluation of the Connecticut Jobs First Program, A Randomized Controlled Trial

Elizabeth Ty Wilde, Zohn Rosen, Kenneth A. Couch et al. · 2013 · American Journal of Public Health

OBJECTIVES: We examined whether Jobs First, a multicenter randomized trial of a welfare reform program conducted in Connecticut, demonstrated increases in employment, income, and health insurance relative to traditional welfare (Aid to…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Factors associated with a higher rate of distant failure after primary treatment for glioblastoma

Sonia Tejada, Ricardo Díez-Valle, Guillermo Aldave et al. · 2013 · Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Our purpose was to analyze the pattern of failure in glioblastoma (GBM) patients at first recurrence after radiotherapy and temozolomide and its relationship with different factors. From 77 consecutive GBM patients treated at our institution with fluorescence guided surgery and standard radiochemotherapy, 58 first recurrences were identified and included in a retrospective review. Clinical data including age, Karnofsky performance score, preoperative tumor volume and location, extend of resection, MGMT promoter methylation status, time to progression (PFS), overall survival (OS) and adjuvant t

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Management of Primary Biliary Cholangitis: Current Treatment and Future Perspectives

Romelia Barba Bernal, Bryan W. Ferrigno, Esli Medina Morales et al. · 2023 · The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology

Primary biliary cholangitis is an autoimmune cholestatic liver disease characterized by progressive destruction of bile ducts, which can ultimately progress to chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. Ursodeoxycholic acid and obeticholic acid are the only 2 Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications for primary biliary cholangitis. Unfortunately, up to 40% of patients with primary biliary cholangitis have an incomplete response to ursodeoxycholic acid, warranting an essential need for additional therapeutics. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonists have shown promising dat

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Adjuvant doxorubicin vs metronomic cyclophosphamide and meloxicam vs surgery alone for cats with mammary carcinomas: A retrospective study of 137 cases

Gonçalo N. Petrucci, Joaquim Henriques, Luís Lobo et al. · 2020 · Veterinary and Comparative Oncology

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and side effects of low dose cyclophosphamide chemotherapy plus meloxicam as an adjuvant treatment, compared with high dose doxorubicin or surgery alone in cats with mammary carcinoma. Medical…

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Significant association of the dupA gene of Helicobacter pylori with duodenal ulcer development in a South-east Indian population

Jawed Alam, Sankar Maiti, Prachetash Ghosh et al. · 2012 · Journal of Medical Microbiology

A novel virulence factor, duodenal ulcer-promoting gene A (dupA), in Helicobacter pylori has been found to be associated with disease in certain populations but not in others. This study analysed a South-east Indian population as part of…

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How to Use SNP_TATA_Comparator to Find a Significant Change in Gene Expression Caused by the Regulatory SNP of This Gene’s Promoter via a Change in Affinity of the TATA-Binding Protein for This Promoter

Mikhail Ponomarenko, Dmitry Rasskazov, Olga Arkova et al. · 2015 · BioMed Research International

The use of biomedical SNP markers of diseases can improve effectiveness of treatment. Genotyping of patients with subsequent searching for SNPs more frequent than in norm is the only commonly accepted method for identification of SNP…

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Mobile‐bearing prosthesis did not improve mid‐term clinical results of total knee arthroplasty

Shuichi Matsuda, Hideki Mizu‐uchi, Shingo Fukagawa et al. · 2010 · Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Abstract A prospective study was performed to compare the clinical and radiological results of mobile‐ and fixed‐bearing total knee arthroplasty with specific attention to rotational alignment and range of motion. Sixty‐one knees were…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Pre-Diagnostic Circulating Metabolites and Colorectal Cancer Risk in the Cancer Prevention Study-II Nutrition Cohort

Marjorie L. McCullough, Rebecca A. Hodge, Peter T. Campbell et al. · 2021 · Metabolites

Untargeted metabolomic studies have identified potential biomarkers of colorectal cancer risk, but evidence is still limited and broadly inconsistent. Among 39,239 Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition cohort participants who provided a blood sample between 1998–2001, 517 newly diagnosed colorectal cancers were identified through 30 June 2015. In this nested case–control study, controls were matched 1:1 to cases on age, sex, race and date of blood draw. Mass spectroscopy-based metabolomic analyses of pre-diagnostic plasma identified 886 named metabolites, after quality control exclusions. Condi

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Multi-Electrode Alpha tACS During Varying Background Tasks Fails to Modulate Subsequent Alpha Power

Tomer Fekete, Andrey R. Nikolaev, Floris De Knijf et al. · 2018 · Frontiers in Neuroscience

Transcranial alternating-current stimulation (tACS) for entraining alpha activity holds potential for influencing mental function, both in laboratory and clinical settings. While initial results of alpha entrainment are promising, questions remain regarding its translational potential-namely if tACS alpha entrainment is sufficiently robust to context and to what extent it can be upscaled to multi-electrode arrangements needed to direct currents into precise brain loci. We set out to explore these questions by administering alternating current through a multi-electrode montage (mtACS), while va

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

African Green Monkeys Recapitulate the Clinical Experience with Replication of Live Attenuated Pandemic Influenza Virus Vaccine Candidates

Yumiko Matsuoka, Amorsolo L. Suguitan, Marlene S. Orandle et al. · 2014 · Journal of Virology

Live attenuated cold-adapted (ca) H5N1, H7N3, H6N1, and H9N2 influenza vaccine viruses replicated in the respiratory tract of mice and ferrets, and 2 doses of vaccines were immunogenic and protected these animals from challenge infection…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

Treatment of displaced transverse fractures of the patella: modified tension band wiring technique with or without augmented circumferential cerclage wire fixation

Tien‐Yu Yang, Tsan-Wen Huang, Po‐Yao Chuang et al. · 2018 · BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

BACKGROUND: Displaced transverse fractures of the body of the patella are usually associated with disruption of extensor mechanism and should be fixed surgically. The most common method is a tension band wiring (TBW) technique. Some surgeons concurrently employ an augmented circumferential cerclage wiring (ACCW) technique to help fracture stabilization and aid in fracture healing; however, its role and effect on the treatment outcomes is unclear. METHODS: We performed a STROBE-compliant retrospective observational cohort study on all cases of acute closed patella fracture that were treated at

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Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 5a Subgenomic Replicons for Evaluation of Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents

Constance Wose Kinge, Christine Espiritu, Nishi Prabdial‐Sing et al. · 2014 · Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) exists as six major genotypes that differ in geographical distribution, pathogenesis, and response to antiviral therapy. In vitro replication systems for all HCV genotypes except genotype 5 have been reported. In…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

A genome-wide study shows a limited contribution of rare copy number variants to Alzheimer's disease risk

Jade Chapman, Elliott Rees, Denise Harold et al. · 2012 · Human Molecular Genetics

We assessed the role of rare copy number variants (CNVs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) using intensity data from 3260 AD cases and 1290 age-matched controls from the genome-wide association study (GWAS) conducted by the Genetic and…

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Phase 2B randomized controlled trial of NP001 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Pre‐specified and post hoc analyses

Robert G. Miller, Rongzhen Zhang, Paige M. Bracci et al. · 2022 · Muscle & Nerve

INTRODUCTION/AIMS: ALS is a heterogeneous disease that may be complicated or in part driven by inflammation. NP001, a regulator of macrophage activation, was associated with slowing disease progression in those with higher levels of the…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessAgricultural and Biological Sciences

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Precision Agriculture Technologies by Nebraska Producers

Michael H Castle, Bradley Lubben, Joe D. Luck · 2026 · Lincoln (University of Nebraska)

An ever-increasing world population and increasingly-volatile commodity prices have charged producers with the task of becoming more efficient. To combat this, precision agriculture technologies aimed at increasing production efficiency…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Paper 14 - Government Structural Reference Infrastructure for AI and AGI Environments

The First Waters · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

This paper develops government structural reference infrastructure for AI and AGI environments. It addresses the need for public institutions to preserve reference continuity across public records, citizen submissions, administrative documents, authority-condition references, state histories, seal-reference contexts, role accountability records, economic references, and propagation-sensitive records without becoming dependent on a single AI provider, platform, model, or cloud environment. The framework does not perform public decision-making, grant authority, issue permits, approve benefits, c

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessAgricultural and Biological Sciences

Science losing its way: examples from the realm of microbial N2-fixation in cereals and other non-legumes

K.E. Giller, Euan K. James, Julie Ardley et al. · 2024 · Plant and Soil

Abstract Background Despite more than 50 years of research, no robust evidence suggests that inoculation of cereals and other non-legumes with free-living and/or endophytic bacteria leads to fixation of agronomically significant quantities of dinitrogen gas (N 2 ) from the atmosphere. A plethora of new products claims to increase the growth and yields of major cereals and other crops through stimulating N 2 -fixation by inoculating with bacteria. Scope We review the literature on N 2 -fixation by bacteria in the rhizosphere and as endophytes in non-legume plants. We find no unequivocal evidenc

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Is K-fold cross validation the best model selection method for machine learning?

J. M. Górriz, R. Martin-Clemente, F. Segovia et al. · 2026 · Information Fusion

As a technique that can compactly represent complex patterns, machine learning has significant potential for predictive inference in multi-source and heterogeneous information fusion scenarios. K-fold cross-validation (CV) is the most common approach for ascertaining the likelihood that a machine learning outcome is generated by chance and frequently outperforms conventional hypothesis testing. This improvement arises from measures directly obtained from machine learning classifications, such as accuracy, that do not have a parametric description. To approach a frequentist analysis within fusi

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Intricacies of human–AI interaction in dynamic decision-making for precision oncology

Dipesh Niraula, Kyle C. Cuneo, Ivo D. Dinov et al. · 2025 · Nature Communications

AI decision support systems can assist clinicians in planning adaptive treatment strategies that can dynamically react to individuals' cancer progression for effective personalized care. However, AI's imperfections can lead to suboptimal therapeutics if clinicians over or under rely on AI. To investigate such collaborative decision-making process, we conducted a Human-AI interaction study on response-adaptive radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma. We investigated two levels of collaborative behavior: model-agnostic and model-specific; and found that Human-AI

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMathematics

Integrated longitudinal multiomics study identifies immune programs associated with acute COVID-19 severity and mortality

Jeremy P. Gygi, Cole Maguire, Ravi K. Patel et al. · 2024 · Journal of Clinical Investigation

BACKGROUNDPatients hospitalized for COVID-19 exhibit diverse clinical outcomes, with outcomes for some individuals diverging over time even though their initial disease severity appears similar to that of other patients. A systematic evaluation of molecular and cellular profiles over the full disease course can link immune programs and their coordination with progression heterogeneity.METHODSWe performed deep immunophenotyping and conducted longitudinal multiomics modeling, integrating 10 assays for 1,152 Immunophenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort (IMPACC) study participants and identif

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Insight into the effects of Omega-3 fatty acids on gut microbiota: impact of a balanced tissue Omega-6/Omega-3 ratio

Bo Zou, Dan Zhao, Shuang Zhou et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in Nutrition

Emerging evidence suggests that Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are essential structural and functional nutrients that significantly influence the composition and function of the gut microbiota, a key mediator of host health. Although evidence suggests that increasing tissue Omega-3 levels through dietary intervention may optimize gut microbiota-host interaction through modulation of composition, metabolite production, and the intestinal mucus barrier, some studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding these protective effects. Studies indicate that a high Omega-6/Omega-3 r

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Mouse Testicular Cell Type-Specific Antiviral Response against Mumps Virus Replication

Han Wu, Xiang Zhao, Fei Wang et al. · 2017 · Frontiers in Immunology

Mumps virus (MuV) infection has high tropism to the testis and usually leads to orchitis, an etiological factor in male infertility. However, MuV replication in testicular cells and the cellular antiviral responses against MuV are not fully understood. The present study showed that MuV infected the majority of testicular cells, including Leydig cells (LC), testicular macrophages, Sertoli cells (SC), and male germ cells (GC). MuV was replicated at relatively high efficiencies in SC compared with LC and testicular macrophages. In contrast, MuV did not replicate in male GC. Notably, testicular ce

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