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    Altering pyrroloquinoline quinone nutritional status modulates mitochondrial,...

    We have reported that pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) improves reproduction, neonatal development, and mitochondrial function in animals by mechanisms that involve mitochondrial...
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    Rising population cost for treating people living with HIV in the UK, 1997-2013.

    BACKGROUND\ud \ud The number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) is increasing in the UK. This study estimated the annual population cost of providing HIV services in the UK,...
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    Systematic evaluation of the teaching qualities of Obstetrics and Gynecology ...

    Background: The importance of effective clinical teaching for the quality of future patient care is globally understood. Due to recent changes in graduate medical education, new...
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    Building flux capacity: Citizen scientists increase resolution of soil greenh...

    Though citizen science programs have been broadly successful in diverse scientific fields, their adoption has lagged in some disciplines, including soil science and ecosystem...
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    Privacy Attitudes among Early Adopters of Emerging Health Technologies

    Introduction Advances in health technology such as genome sequencing and wearable sensors now allow for the collection of highly granular personal health data from individuals....
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    Scientists versus Regulators: Precaution, Novelty & Regulatory Oversight as P...

    © 2014 Beaudrie et al. Engineered nanoscale materials (ENMs) present a difficult challenge for risk assessors and regulators. Continuing uncertainty about the potential risks of...
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    "Expanded HIV Testing in Low-Prevalence, High-Income Countries: A Cost-Effect...

    Objective In many high-income countries with low HIV prevalence, significant numbers of persons living with HIV (PLHIV) remain undiagnosed. Identification of PLHIV via HIV...
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    "How much will I get charged for this?" Patient charges for top ten diagnoses...

    Objectives We examined the charges, their variability, and respective payer group for diagnosis and treatment of the ten most common outpatient conditions presenting to the...
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    The proximal experience of awe.

    Research on awe has grown exponentially in recent decades; however, few studies have considered whether awe-inspiring experiences also inspire other emotions. In two studies, we...
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    Financing of U.S. biomedical research and new drug approvals across therapeut...

    Author(s): Dorsey, E Ray; Thompson, Joel P; Carrasco, Melisa; de Roulet, Jason; Vitticore, Philip; Nicholson, Sean; Johnston, S Claiborne; Holloway, Robert G; Moses, Hamilton |...
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    Small changes, big gains: A curriculum-wide study of teaching practices and s...

    A growing body of evidence has shown that active learning has a considerable advantage over traditional lecture for student learning in undergraduate STEM classes, but there...
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    Informed Consent: How Much Awareness Is There?

    © 2014 Purcaru et al. Improving the informed consent process in clinical research is of constant concern to regulatory authorities in the field and presents a challenge for both...
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    Reporting science and conflicts of interest in the lay press.

    BACKGROUND:Forthright reporting of financial ties and conflicts of interest of researchers is associated with public trust in and esteem for the scientific enterprise....
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    Trade-offs in motivating volunteer effort: Experimental evidence on voluntary...

    Author(s): Lyons, Elizabeth; Zhang, Laurina | Abstract: Digitization has facilitated the proliferation of crowd science by lowering the cost of finding individuals with the...
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    An analysis and metric of reusable data licensing practices for biomedical re...

    Data are the foundation of science, and there is an increasing focus on how data can be reused and enhanced to drive scientific discoveries. However, most seemingly “open data”...
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    If we share data, will anyone use them? Data sharing and reuse in the long ta...

    Research on practices to share and reuse data will inform the design of infrastructure to support data collection, management, and discovery in the long tail of science and...
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    A constructive approach to the epistemological problem of emergence in comple...

    Emergent patterns in complex systems are related with many intriguing phenomena in modern science. One question that has sparked vigorous debates is if difficulties in the...
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    The Teacher, the Physician and the Person: Exploring Causal Connections betwe...

    BACKGROUND: In fledgling areas of research, evidence supporting causal assumptions is often scarce due to the small number of empirical studies conducted. In many studies it...
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    Soft interfacial materials: from fundamentals to formulation

    This article is part of the themed issue ‘Soft interfacial materials: from fundamentals to formulation’. The science of soft interfaces (lipid membranes, emulsions,...
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    Network analysis to evaluate the impact of research funding on research commu...

    AbstractIn 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation launched a new program focused on incubating a new field, “Microbiology of the Built Environment” (MoBE). By the end of 2017, the...