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Value of Knowing: Health-Related Behavior Changes following Amyloid PET Results Disclosure in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Growing evidence supports the clinical utility of amyloid PET, however, whether patients at risk for dementia use knowledge of their brain amyloid status to alter their health behaviors remains unclear.
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Reply to: “Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites” and “Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?”
We described ten nymph specimens of an insect, Mesophthirus engeli (incertae sedis), from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber, preserved together with partially damaged dinosaur feathers. Based on the ecto...
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Study on adsorption-degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenol by modified biochar immobilized laccase
In this paper, biochar was modified by cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and KOH solution, and it was characterized by TGA, FT-IR, XRD, BET, SEM. Then, the modified biochar (MB) was used to immobilize free...
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Gas Phase Ion Chemistry to Determine Isoaspartate in a Peptide Backbone
Proof of concept evidence is presented for a new method for the determination of isoaspartate, an important post-translational modification. Chemical derivatization is performed using common reagents for the m...
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Clinical characteristics and surgical outcome of thoracic myelopathy caused by ossification of the ligamentum flavum: a retrospective analysis of 85 cases
A retrospective comparative study.
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Open AccessActivation-induced necroptosis contributes to B-cell lymphopenia in active systemic lupus erythematosus
B-cell abnormality including excessive activation and lymphopenia is a central feature of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although activation threshold, auto-reaction and death of B cells can be affected b...
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The earliest known species of the genus Pleocoma LeConte (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Pleocomidae) from the Mesozoic of China
Pleocoma dolichophylla sp. nov. is described from the Yixian Formation. The species is of special interest, since it represents an oligotypic recent genus currently living only in extreme western...
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Generalized event shape and energy flow studies in e+e− annihilation at \( \sqrt {s} = 91.2{ - }208.0 \) GeV
We present results from a study of hadronic event structure in high energy e+e− interactions using the L3 detector at LEP. A new class of event shape distributions are measured at and above the Z boson pole for l...
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Open AccessTest of the τ-model of Bose–Einstein correlations and reconstruction of the source function in hadronic Z-boson decay at LEP
Bose–Einstein correlations of pairs of identical charged pions produced in hadronic Z decays are analyzed in terms of various parametrizations. A good description is achieved using a Lévy stable distribution i...
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New species of variegated mud-loving beetles (Coleoptera: Heteroceridae) from mesozoic deposits of China
A new species of variegated mud-loving beetles, Heterocerites magnus, sp. nov., is described from the Late Tithonian-Berriasian of China (Huangbanjigou, Yixian Formation). This is a second known representative of...
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A new species of Plesioblattogryllus Huang, Nel et Petrulevičius (Grylloblattida: Plesioblattogryllidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China
A new species of grylloblattid insects, Plesioblattogryllus minor, sp. nov. (Gryllobattida: Plesioblattogryllidae), is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou locality (Inner Mongolia, China). The value of th...
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The oldest species of the genus Glaphyrus Latr. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae) from the Mesozoic of China
Glaphyrus ancestralis sp. nov. is described from the Yixian Formation (Upper Jurassic or Lower Cretaceous). The species is not only one of the earliest records of the family Glaphyridae b...
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New mesozoic diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from China
A new subfamily of predaceous diving beetles, Liadytiscinae subfam. nov., including two genera and four species, Liadytiscus gen. nov. (L. cretaceus sp. nov., L. longitibialis sp. nov., and L. latus sp. nov.) and...
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Laser mode selection in reflective multipass optical cavity
The performance of a simple resonator that couples a reflective multipass interferometer cavity and a Fabry-Pérot etalon to obtain high efficiency tunable single-longitudinal mode (SLM) oscillation in a TEA CO2 l...
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A revision of the Jurassic Stonefly Genera Dobbertiniopteryx Ansorge and Karanemoura Sinitshenkova (Insecta: Plecoptera), with the description of new species from the Daohugou locality, China
The stonefly genera Dobbertiniopteryx Ansorge and Karanemoura Sinitshenkova are revised. Based on new material from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, China, two new species, D. juracapnia sp. nov. and K. manca sp....
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Sensitivity of an ecological model to soil moisture simulations from two different hydrological models
Although advanced land surface schemes have been developed in the past decade, many biosphere models still use the simple bucket model, partly due to its efficiency when it is coupled with an CGCM model. In th...
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Synergistic antitumor efficacy of suicide/ePNP gene and 6-methylpurine 2′-deoxyriboside via Salmonella against murine tumors
Some anaerobes and facultative anaerobes have been used in tumor-specific gene therapy by reason of their selective growth in tumors. In this work, we aimed to evaluate the anticancer efficacy of attenuated Salmo...
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Study of inclusive strange-baryon production and search for pentaquarks in two-photon collisions at LEP
Measurements of inclusive production of the Λ, Ξ- and Ξ*(1530) baryons in two-photon collisions with the L3 detector at LEP are presented. The inclusive differential cross sections for Λ and Ξ- are measured as a ...
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Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP
The four LEP collaborations, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, have searched for the neutral Higgs bosons which are predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). The data of the four collaborations ...
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Role of inducible nitric oxide synthase expressed by alveolar macrophages in High Mobility Group Box 1- induced acute lung injury
The role of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expressed by alveolar macrophages in acute lung injury induced by high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) was explored.
