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    Eye, Hepatobiliary, and Renal Disorders of Erlotinib in Patients with Non-Sma...

    Abstract Background: Erlotinib is an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors used to treat EGFR mutation positive non-small-cell lung cancer...
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    Robo-investment aversion.

    In five experiments (N = 3,828), we investigate whether people prefer investment decisions to be made by human investment managers rather than by algorithms (“robos”). In all of...
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    High school science fair: Positive and negative outcomes

    AbstractThe goal of our ongoing research is to identify strengths and weaknesses of high school level science fair and improvements that can help science educators make science...
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    How repeated exposure to informal science education affects content knowledge...

    Over two million men, women, and youth are incarcerated in the United States. This large and ethnically diverse population has, in general, more limited exposure to education,...
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    Cost Analysis of Integrating the PrePex Medical Device into a Voluntary Medic...

    Background Fourteen African countries are scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention. Several devices that might offer alternatives to the three...
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    Career Coaches as a Source of Vicarious Learning for Racial and Ethnic Minori...

    Introduction Many recent mentoring initiatives have sought to help improve the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions across...
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    Association of the ACTN3 R577X (rs1815739) polymorphism with elite power spor...

    Objective The special status accorded to elite athletes stems from their uncommon genetic potential to excel in world-class power sports (PS). Genetic polymorphisms have been...
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    Challenges in Translational Research: The Views of Addiction Scientists

    Objectives To explore scientists' perspectives on the challenges and pressures of translating research findings into clinical practice and public health policy. Methods...
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    Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science

    Peer-reviewed publications focusing on climate change are growing exponentially with the consequence that the uptake and influence of individual papers varies greatly. Here, we...
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    Effect of PEPFAR funding policy change on HIV service delivery in a large HIV...

    The transition to PEPFAR 2.0 with its focus on country ownership was accompanied by substantial funding cuts. We describe the impact of this transition on HIV care in a large...
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    Administration of L-arginine plus L-citrulline or L-citrulline alone successf...

    L-citrulline and L-arginine supplementation has been shown to have several beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system. Nitric oxide (NO) protects against the progression of...
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    Gestational diabetes mellitus in Africa: a systematic review.

    Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is any degree of impaired glucose tolerance first recognised during pregnancy. Most women with GDM revert to normal glucose...
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    The Nordic Maintenance Care Program:Does psychological profile modify the tre...

    BACKGROUND: Chiropractic maintenance care is effective as secondary/tertiary prevention of non-specific low back pain (LBP), but the potential effect moderation by psychological...
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    Background Growing evidence suggests that second-generation cryoballoon ablation (2G-CB) is effective in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (PerAF). The cornerstone...
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    Citizen Science and the Urban Ecology of Birds and Butterflies - A Systematic...

    Citizen science has gained widespread currency as a tool for ecological research over the\ud past decade. However, in the discipline of urban ecology, the existing contributions...
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    The reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical ...

    The aim of this study was to explore the reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical wholesalers in Finland. The study...
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    Linguistic Traces of a Scientific Fraud: The Case of Diederik Stapel

    When scientists report false data, does their writing style reflect their deception? In this study, we investigated the linguistic patterns of fraudulent (N  =  24; 170,008...
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    Feature engineering with clinical expert knowledge: A case study assessment o...

    Incorporating expert knowledge at the time machine learning models are trained holds promise for producing models that are easier to interpret. The main objectives of this study...
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    Going smoke-free: University staff and students’ qualitative views about smok...

    Background Despite many Australian universities introducing smoke-free policies on campus, there is little information about staff and students understanding of smoking on...
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    Robust cell particle detection to dense regions and subjective training sampl...

    : In recent years, finding the cause of pathogenesis is expected by observing the cell images. In this paper, we propose a cell particle detection method in cell images....