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Musculoskeletal pain and its relation to individual and work-related factors:...
Objective. Office workers are commonly exposed to work-related musculoskeletal pain. This study investigated the individual and work-related risk factors linked to... -
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Consensus thresholds play a significant role in consensus checking and reaching in group decision-making problems. The existing studies contribute very few guidelines and leave... -
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We explored the impact a new quantitative biology course for biology majors had on their ability and confidence to utilize hypothesis testing. Students currently in the... -
The creation of the SAVE consortium – Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction:...
There have been few faster, more dramatic and wide-scale species declines than those of South Asian vulture populations since the 1990s. This article describes the background to... -
Residential Socioeconomic Environments and Areca Nut Use in Taiwan: A Compari...
While the association between residential socioeconomic environments and the use of globally common substances such as alcohol and tobacco has been well documented in Western... -
Risk factors for poor asthma control and impaired quality of life in a Caribb...
Asthma, a major cause of disability and reduced quality of life, has a high global prevalence and burden of death. Despite the propitious guidelines, a substantial portion of... -
Multiple regression model averaging and the focused information criterion wit...
We consider multiple regression (MR) model averaging using the Focused Informati on Criterion (FIC). Our approach is motivated by the problem of implementing a mean-variance... -
Smallholder tree-farmers and forest certification in Southeast Asia: alternat...
The smallholder tree-farm resources of Southeast Asia are generating substantial benefits for growers and support many successful domestic wood processors. They could provide... -
SUMO conjugation regulates immune signalling
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are critical drivers and attenuators for proteins that regulate immune signalling cascades in host defence. In this review, we explore... -
Cost per responder analysis of guselkumab versus targeted therapies in the tr...
BACKGROUND The fully human monoclonal antibody guselkumab is an effective treatment option for patients with moderate to severe psoriasis. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study... -
Measuring subnational democracy: toward improved regime typologies and theori...
ABSTRACTSocial scientists have been limited in their work by the paucity of global time series data about subnational institutions and practices. Such data could help scholars... -
Testing for correlation between two time series using a parametric bootstrap
We study the problem of determining if two time series are correlated in the mean and variance. Several test statistics, originally designed for determining the correlation... -
Association of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate exposure with chronic kidney dis...
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)-based regimens have been associated with impaired kidney function and loss of bone mineral density among patients living with HIV (PLWH). We... -
Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) induced by phen...
Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome is an adverse and severe skin reaction due to patients’ susceptibility to medications, including... -
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Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation (MSCT) has been applied to treat a variety of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Psychosocial stress can aggravate disease progression... -
The comparison between pulmonary rehabilitation with music therapy and pulmon...
Much emphasis is being placed on the role of music therapy as an easy-to-use, noninvasive and relatively cheap method of asthma treatment. The objective of this interventional... -
Impact of differential and time-dependent autophagy activation on therapeutic...
Activation of macroautophagy/autophagy, a key mechanism involved in the degradation and removal of aggregated proteins, can successfully reverse Huntington disease phenotypes in... -
The diagnostic value of Red Flags in thoracolumbar pain: a systematic review
Red Flags (RFs) are signs and symptoms related to the screening of serious underlying pathologies mimicking a musculoskeletal pain. The current literature wonders about the... -
Reliability of DNA methylation measures using Illumina methylation BeadChip
Illumina BeadChips provide cost-effective measures of DNA methylation and are widely utilized in epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS). Several studies have reported that... -
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Latinos are heavily affected with childhood asthma. Little is known about epigenetic mechanisms of asthma in Latino youth. We conducted a meta-analysis of two epigenome-wide...