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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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    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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    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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    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...
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    Local Cattle and Badger Populations Affect the Risk of Confirmed Tuberculosis...

    Background The control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a priority on the public health agenda in Great Britain, after launching in 1998 the Randomised Badger Culling...
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    Comparison of the EPIC Physical Activity Questionnaire with combined heart ra...

    Objectives: To compare physical activity (PA) subcomponents from EPIC Physical Activity Questionnaire (EPAQ2) and combined heart rate and movement sensing in older adults....
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    openPDS: protecting the privacy of metadata through SafeAnswers.

    The rise of smartphones and web services made possible the large-scale collection of personal metadata. Information about individuals' location, phone call logs, or...
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    Delphi-consensus weights for ischemic and bleeding events to be included in a...

    Background and Objectives To weight ischemic and bleeding events according to their severity to be used in a composite outcome in RCTs in the field of thrombosis prevention....
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    Misleading Advertising for Antidepressants in Sweden: A Failure of Pharmaceut...

    BACKGROUND: The alleged efficacy of pharmaceutical industry self-regulation has been used to repudiate increased government oversight over promotional activity. European...
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    Why Even More Clinical Research Studies May Be False: Effect of Asymmetrical ...

    BACKGROUND: In medical practice, clinically unexpected measurements might be quite properly handled by the remeasurement, removal, or reclassification of patients. If these...
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    FRETBursts: An Open Source Toolkit for Analysis of Freely-Diffusing Single-Mo...

    AbstractSingle-molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET) allows probing intermolecular interactions and conformational changes in biomacromolecules, and represents an...
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    "Can it read my mind?" - What do the public and experts think of the current ...

    Emerging applications of neuroimaging outside medicine and science have received intense public exposure through the media. Media misrepresentations can create a gulf between...