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Iuliano L, Veritti D, Lanzetta P · 2026 · Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie
Iridology is an alternative diagnostic practice that claims to identify systemic diseases and organ dysfunction through visual inspection of iris features, including pigmentation patterns, crypts, furrows, and discolorations. Despite its…
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Costa T · 2026 · Frontiers in psychology
Across psychology, bold empirical claims often outpace the evidential support on which they rest. The replication crisis has shown that statistical significance alone provides little guidance about what should rationally be believed. To…
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Werneburg F, Zeh A, Gutteck N et al. · 2026 · Journal of bone and joint infection
Topical intrawound vancomycin powder has been widely adopted in orthopaedic surgery as an adjunct for the prevention of surgical site infection (SSI) and periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Retrospective cohorts and derived meta-analyses…
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Yata S, Takatani Y, Sato Y et al. · 2025 · Cureus
Sodium zirconium cyclosilicate (SZC) is a novel potassium-binding agent used to treat hyperkalemia. Although SZC is generally considered safe, its efficacy and safety in critically ill patients remain unclear. We report a novel adverse…
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Qiu N, Allenmark F, Chen S et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Real-world distractors occur in environments whose states change at different rates. We asked whether such volatility alters early attentional gating or instead changes the criterion for committing to a response. Observers performed an…
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Jia W, Yang D, Yu S · 2026 · Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
Melasma is a common acquired pigmented dermatosis, which seriously affects the appearance and quality of life of patients. Calreticulin (CALR) is a pleiotropic protein existing in nucleated cells, which mediates cellular immunity, and…
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Calabrese EJ · 2026 · Chemico-biological interactions
This paper evaluates the final major research effort of Hermann J. Muller, Nobel Laureate, to assess whether radiation displays a dose-rate process for radiation-induced germ cell mutation. Muller tried to extend the dose-rate findings of…
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Ghosh AK, Bhattacharjee A, Jayashankar U et al. · 2026 · Organic & biomolecular chemistry
We have investigated diastereoselective Ugi-multicomponent reactions (Ugi-MCR) relevant to bis-amide scaffolds related to SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) inhibitors. The studies were mainly focussed on development of diastereoselective…
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khoiriyah z, Pandin MGR · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract Indonesia faces a persistent labor market paradox wherein rapid expansions in formal educational attainment have not yielded a proportional decline in educated unemployment. This mini literature review synthesizes five…
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AlTahan FA, AlHadlag A · 2026 · Ocular immunology and inflammation
Purpose To report the first documented case of postoperative endophthalmitis progressing to panophthalmitis in a silicone oil-filled eye (SO) following pars plana vitrectomy (PPV), and to review the relevant literature. Methods A single…
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Fan J, Zeng J, Li H · 2026 · Research in developmental disabilities
Background/aims Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience conversational difficulties that hinder social interactions and peer relationships. This study examined whether a conversational AI-enhanced peer-mediated…
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Dündar, Çelikal, Çiçek · 2026 · Aesthetic plastic surgery
This study investigates the impact of an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot (ChatGPT-3.5, OpenAI) on preoperative anxiety among patients planning rhinoplasty. In this single-blind, randomized controlled, prospective study, 134 patients…
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Li, Hou, Li et al. · 2026 · Chemistry & biodiversity
Two new pyrrole alkaloids, asiaticain A (1) and asiaticain B (2), two aromatic compounds 3-4, and one steroid 5 were isolated from Lanmaoa asiatica. The structural elucidation of the isolated compounds was determined by using NMR, MS, IR,…
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Shakil, Pollestad, Kyaw et al. · 2026 · Journal of environmental management
With European Union initiatives mandating gender quotas on corporate boards, a key question arises: Is greater board gender diversity (BGD) associated with better emissions performance (EP)? To answer this question, we examine the…
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Zhuang, Liu, Jia et al. · 2026 · Cardiovascular diabetology
Carotid plaques result from a blockage or narrowing of carotid arteries associated with severe atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. We aimed to assess the effect of marine n-3 fatty acid supplementation on carotid plaques among…
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Nishida, Akira, 西田, 晃 · 2013
The Michelson-Morley experiment failed to detect evidence for the wind of luminiferous aether. However, the fact that light propagates without affecting aether wind on the rotating earth means that the medium is also rotating with us. For…
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Mostafa Taqavi · 2019 · Journal of Philosophical Investigations
There are two main sections in this paper. First, we will show that some of the chief 20th-century theories of science either have failed to demonstrate that value judgments do not influence the context of consolidation and determination of science or have accepted the role of value judgments in the context of consolidation and determination of science and theorized accordingly. For this purpose, the ideas of logical positivists, Willard Quine, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, and Roy Bhaskar on science are briefly reviewed. Finally, the validity of the following statem
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John P. Veluchamy, John P. Veluchamy, Nina Kok et al. · 2017 · Frontiers in Immunology
Natural killer (NK) cells are critical immune effector cells in the fight against cancer. As NK cells in cancer patients are highly dysfunctional and reduced in number, adoptive transfer of large numbers of cytolytic NK cells and their potential to induce relevant antitumor responses are widely explored in cancer immunotherapy. Early studies from autologous NK cells have failed to demonstrate significant clinical benefit. In this review, the clinical benefits of adoptively transferred allogeneic NK cells in a transplant and non-transplant setting are compared and discussed in the context of re
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Dimiter Dobrev · 2022 · Serdica Journal of Computing
With Reinforcement Learning we assume that a model of the world does exist. We assume furthermore that the model in question is perfect (i.e. it describes the world completely and unambiguously). This article will demonstrate that it does…
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Nikhil N. Verma · 2016 · Arthroscopy
Abstract There is considerable current interest in the role of the anterolateral ligament in persistent instability after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. The normal ligament may be identified using magnetic resonance imaging or…
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Nikhil N. Verma · 2016 · Arthroscopy
Abstract Identification of symptomatic long head biceps pathology continues to be a clinical challenge. Magnetic resonance imaging may fail to identify symptomatic lesions when present. Clinicians must maintain a high index of suspicion,…
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Jo-Anne Cappeluti · 2012 · Philosophy and Literature
John Keats’s subject in Endymion is the imagination operating on the failed reader: the neutral or adolescent intellect that ultimately denies the transcendence it experiences; failing to mature, willfully remaining adolescent. Keats’s…
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Rachel Landy · 2025 · SSRN Electronic Journal
Music soundtracks our lives, supports over two million domestic jobs annually, and is being listened to more than ever before. The record industry is thriving, having made over $17 billion in 2024. Yet, many professional artists…
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Aigen Li, J. Mayo Greenberg, Gang Zhao · 2002 · arXiv
The {\it assumption of additive absorptivity} by different components in compound particles is a widely used method applied in the literature to the analysis of the chemical and structural properties of astronomical (circumstellar, interstellar, protostellar, and cometary) silicates as well as other materials. The errors intrinsic in this additivity assumption, which, in application to astronomical spectra, amounts in some case to {\it spectrum subtraction} have not always been adequately considered in previous works on silicate mineralogy. The failings in the ``{\it spectrum subtraction metho
