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Ethnoveterinary plants of Pakistan: a review
Abstract Background Ethnoveterinary medicine is crucial in many rural areas of the world since people living in remote and marginal areas rely significantly on traditional... -
Periostin involved in the activated hepatic stellate cells-induced progressio...
Abstract Background Incomplete thermal ablation may induce invasiveness of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here, we investigated whether activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs)... -
A measure of the impact of CV incompleteness on prediction error estimation w...
Abstract Background In applications of supervised statistical learning in the biomedical field it is necessary to assess the prediction error of the respective prediction rules.... -
Age of asthma onset and vulnerability to ambient air pollution: an observatio...
Abstract Background Late-onset asthma (onset > 12 years) is pathologically distinct from early-onset asthma. The mechanism of air pollution is not a classic allergic... -
Towards a typology of university technology transfer organizations in China: ...
Abstract This paper argues that failure to deeply understand various existing organizations of university-industry technology transfer in China impedes the progress of both... -
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases and other oxidative enzymes are abundantl...
Abstract Background Starch is the second most abundant plant-derived biomass and a major feedstock in non-food industrial applications and first generation biofuel production.... -
A low-cost aeroponic phenotyping system for storage root development: unravel...
Abstract Background Root and tuber crops are becoming more important for their high source of carbohydrates, next to cereals. Despite their commercial impact, there are... -
Use of a special Brazilian red-light emitting railroad worm Luciferase in bio...
Abstract Background Luciferases, enzymes that catalyze bioluminescent reactions in different organisms, have been extensively used for bioanalytical purposes. The most well... -
Optimization of biogas supply networks considering multiple objectives and au...
Abstract This contribution presents an hourly-based optimization of a biogas supply network to generate electricity, heat and organic fertilizer while considering multiple... -
Quantitative evaluation of corneal epithelial edema after cataract surgery us...
Abstract Purpose The optical density of the cornea can be evaluated quantitatively by “densitometry” using a rotating Scheimpflug camera. Densitometry allows evaluation of... -
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... -
Before it disappeared: ethnobotanical study of fleagrass (Adenosma buchneroid...
Abstract Background Fleagrass, Adenosma buchneroides, is an aromatic perennial herb that occupies an important position in the life of the Akha people. They regard it as a... -
Rice transcription factor OsMADS57 regulates plant height by modulating gibbe...
Abstract Background The MADS-box transcription factors mainly function in floral organ organogenesis and identity specification. Few research on their roles in vegetative growth... -
Sparse generalized linear model with L 0 approximation f...
Abstract Background Feature selection and prediction are the most important tasks for big data mining. The common strategies for feature selection in big data mining are L 1,... -
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature
Abstract The spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel, when used with default settings, is known to convert gene names to dates and floating-point numbers. A programmatic scan of... -
Estimating the productive potential of five natural forest types in northeast...
Abstract Background There is a serious lack of experience regarding the productive potential of the natural forests in northeastern China, which severely limits the development... -
Estrogen receptor β inhibits breast cancer cells migration and invasion throu...
Abstract Background Estrogen receptor β (ERβ) has been reported to play an anti-cancer role in breast cancer, but the regulatory mechanism by which ERβ exerts this effect is not... -
Indigenous knowledge and use of lichens by the lichenophilic communities of t...
Abstract Background The aim of the study was to document the prevailing indigenous knowledge and various uses of lichens among the lichenophilic communities in the hills and... -
Measurement resources for dissemination and implementation research in health
Abstract Background A 2-day consensus working meeting, hosted by the United States National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration, focused on issues related to... -
Management of Inflammatory Arthritis in pregnancy: a National Cross-Sectional...
Abstract Background With improved therapies and management, more women with inflammatory arthritides (IA) are considering pregnancy. Our objective was to survey rheumatologists...
