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Does Socioeconomic Status Matter? Materialism and Self-Esteem: Longitudinal Evidence from China
While dialogue regarding the materialism–self-esteem relation continues, the longitudinal empirical evidence is limited. More importantly, the boundary conditions of this relation have received scant attention...
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Open AccessA unique role of p53 haploinsufficiency or loss in the development of acute myeloid leukemia with FLT3-ITD mutation
With an incidence of ~50%, the absence or reduced protein level of p53 is much more common than TP53 mutations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). AML with FLT3-ITD (internal tandem duplication) mutations has an unf...
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Comparisons of academic achievements of one-only children vs. children with siblings in China
In 2015, the “One Child Per Family” policy which had been in place for nearly 40 years was terminated in China. This policy has had a significant historical impact on the society. Comparing the populations of ...
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CRISPR/Cas12a Technology Combined with RT-ERA for Rapid and Portable SARS-CoV-2 Detection
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Differential Item Functioning Analysis Without A Priori Information on Anchor Items: QQ Plots and Graphical Test
Differential item functioning (DIF) analysis is an important step in establishing the validity of measurements. Most traditional methods for DIF analysis use an item-by-item strategy via anchor items that are ...
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Open AccessSingle-cell transcriptomic analysis of eutopic endometrium and ectopic lesions of adenomyosis
Adenomyosis (AM) is a common benign chronic gynaecological disorder; however, the precise pathogenesis of adenomyosis is still poorly understood. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) can uncover rare subpopu...
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Preparation and Evaluation of a Xanthan Gum–Containing Linezolid Ophthalmic Solution for Topical Treatment of Experimental Bacterial Keratitis
To formulate a xanthan gum–containing linezolid ophthalmic solution (LZD-XG) as a new antibiotic treatment against ocular bacterial infection.
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Open AccessHeart rhythm complexity as predictors for the prognosis of end-stage renal disease patients undergoing hemodialysis
Heart rhythm complexity, a measure of heart rate dynamics and a risk predictor in various clinical diseases, has not been systematically studied in patients with end-stage renal disease. The aim of this study ...
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Open AccessChanges in bowel sounds of inpatients undergoing general anesthesia
General anesthesia can affect intestinal function, but there is no objective, practical and effective indicator to evaluate the inhibition and recovery of intestinal function. The main objectives of this study...
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Open AccessChronic vagus nerve stimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy may influence fasting blood glucose concentration
Cervical vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has been widely accepted as adjunctive therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy and major depression. Its effects on glycemic control in humans were however poorly understood....
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Open AccessmPGES-1/PGE2 promotes the growth of T-ALL cells in vitro and in vivo by regulating the expression of MTDH via the EP3/cAMP/PKA/CREB pathway
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive haematological malignancy that is characterized by a high frequency of induction failure and by early relapse. Many studies have revealed that meta...
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Erratum to: Effects of Distance and Shape on the Estimation of the Piecewise Growth Mixture Model
The authors missed an important reference “Liu, Luo, & Liu, 2014” on the original version of this article.
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Effects of Distance and Shape on the Estimation of the Piecewise Growth Mixture Model
The piecewise growth mixture model is used in longitudinal studies to tackle non-continuous trajectories and unobserved heterogeneity in a compound way. This study investigated how factors such as latent dista...
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Proteasome Inhibitor PS-341 Effectively Blocks Infection by the Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging hemorrhagic fever disease caused by SFTSV, a newly discovered phlebovirus that is named after the disease. Currently, no effective vaccines or ...
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Open AccessThe effects of CRISPR-Cas9 knockout of the TGF-β1 gene on antler cartilage cells in vitro
Deer antler is the only mammalian organ that can be completely regenerated every year. Its periodic regeneration is regulated by multiple factors, including transforming growth factor β (TGF-β). This widely di...
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Deceleration and acceleration capacities of heart rate in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy
Epilepsy and seizures can have dramatic effects on cardiac function. The aim of the present study was to investigate deceleration capacity, acceleration capacity and their 24-h fluctuations of heart rate varia...
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Enhanced perceptual psychopathology correlation mechanism model based on rough set and neural network
Aimed at sensibility—psychopathology problem, undergraduates are selected to be research object and a correlative mechanism model for rough set and neural network of reinforced sensibility—psychopathology is p...
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Open AccessA refined method of quantifying deceleration capacity index for heart rate variability analysis
Phase-rectified signal averaging (PRSA) was often applied to assess the cardiac vagal modulation. Despite its broad use, this method suffers from the confounding effects of anomalous variants of sinus rhythm. ...
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Genome-wide Identification and Expression Analyses of RPP13-like Genes in Barley
Plants have evolved a series of mechanisms to resist pathogens infection. The nucleotide-binding site and leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) family contains the largest number of plant disease resistance genes in p...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the regulatory mechanisms of milk production using integrative transcriptomic and proteomic analyses: improving inefficient utilization of crop by-products as forage in dairy industry
Bovine milk is an important nutrient source for humans. Forage plays a vital role in dairy husbandry via affecting milk quality and quantity. However, the differences in mammary metabolism of dairy cows fed di...