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Reported patterns of vaping to support long-term abstinence from smoking: a c...
Abstract Background E-cigarettes are the most popular aid to smoking cessation attempts in England and the USA. This research examined associations between e-cigarette device... -
Mobile applications for pain management: an app analysis for clinical usage
Abstract Background Pain is the most common and distressing symptom for patients in all clinical settings. The dearth of health informatics tools to support acute and chronic... -
Including non-concurrent control patients in the analysis of platform trials:...
Abstract Background Platform trials allow adding new experimental treatments to an on-going trial. This feature is attractive to practitioners due to improved efficiency.... -
Cortical vein thrombosis in adult patients of cerebral venous sinus thrombosi...
Abstract Background Cortical vein thrombosis (CVT) receives little attention in adult patients with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). This study aimed to investigate the... -
Drivers of daily movement patterns affecting an endangered vulture flight act...
Abstract Background The development of satellite tracking technology enables the gathering of huge amounts of accurate data on animal movements over measured time intervals, to... -
Transforming manufacturing to be ‘good for planet and people’, through enabli...
Abstract Background The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals remind us of the urgent need for every business to operate in ways that are good for planet and people.... -
Comparative analyses of the in vivo induction and transmission of α-synuclein...
Abstract α-synuclein (αS) is the major component of several types of brain pathological inclusions that define neurodegenerative diseases termed synucleinopathies. Central... -
Shapes and scattering properties of large irregular bodies from photometric data
The macroscopic shapes, rotational states, and scattering parameters of atmosphereless bodies can be deduced from photometric measurements of total brightnesses in different... -
Toward real-time quantum imaging with a single pixel camera
We present a workbench for the study of real-time quantum imaging by measuring the frame-by-frame quantum noise reduction of multi-spatial-mode twin beams generated by four wave... -
Changes in the volatiles, chemical components and antioxidant activities of C...
Chinese jasmine tea, a type of flower-scented tea, is produced by repeatedly mixing the base tea with the aromatic flowers of Jasminum sambac. The aim of this study was to... -
Tonic ATP-mediated growth suppression in peripheral nerve glia requires arres...
Abstract Normal Schwann cells (SCs) are quiescent in adult nerves, when ATP is released from the nerve in an activity dependent manner. We find that suppressing nerve activity... -
SMARC-B1 deficient sinonasal carcinoma metastasis to the brain with next gene...
Abstract Background SMARCB1-deficient sinonasal carcinoma (SDSC) is an aggressive subtype of head and neck cancers that has a poor prognosis despite multimodal therapy. We... -
Contacting out-of-hours primary care or emergency medical services for time-c...
Abstract Background Out-of-hours (OOH) healthcare services in Western countries are often differentiated into out-of-hours primary healthcare services (OOH-PC) and emergency... -
Examining the role of unmeasured confounding in mediation analysis with genet...
Abstract Background In mediation analysis if unmeasured confounding is present, the estimates for the direct and mediated effects may be over or under estimated. Most methods... -
Analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic activities of ethanolic extract ...
Abstract Background Stem bark of Anogeissus latifolia Roxb (family: Combretaceae) is used traditionally and ethnomedicinally to alleviate pain, inflammation and fever... -
The neuroregenerative effects of topical decorin on the injured mouse cornea
Abstract Background The cornea is innervated with a rich supply of sensory nerves that play important roles in ocular surface health. Any injury or pathology of the corneal... -
Screening and quantification of 18 glucocorticoid adulterants from herbal pha...
A procedure for the screening and quantification of 18 glucocorticoids, i.e. hydrocortisone sodium succinate (HSS), prednisolone (PDL), prednisone (PDS), hydrocortisone (HCS),... -
Landscape of gene fusions in epithelial cancers: seq and ye shall find
Abstract Enabled by high-throughput sequencing approaches, epithelial cancers across a range of tissue types are seen to harbor gene fusions as integral to their landscape of... -
Outgoing and potential trends of composition, health benefits, juice producti...
Grapefruit (GF) Citrus Χ paradisi Macfad (F. Rutaceae) is one of the major citrus fruits that encompass a myriad of bioactive chemicals and most unique among citrus fruits.... -
A mathematical model provides mechanistic links to temporal patterns in Droso...
Abstract Background Circadian clocks are endogenous biochemical oscillators that control daily behavioral rhythms in all living organisms. In fruit fly, the circadian rhythms...
