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Open AccessA Systematic review of the factors that affect soccer players’ short-passing ability—based on the Loughborough Soccer Passing Test
This study synthesizes evidence from the Loughborough Passing Test to evaluate the short-passing ability of soccer players and summarizes the reported variables that affect this ability to provide support for ...
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Open AccessDiverging asymmetry of intrinsic functional organization in autism
Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition involving atypical sensory-perceptual functions together with language and socio-cognitive deficits. Previous work has reported subtle alterations in the asymmetry of b...
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Open AccessGas therapy potentiates aggregation-induced emission luminogen-based photoimmunotherapy of poorly immunogenic tumors through cGAS-STING pathway activation
The immunologically “cold” microenvironment of triple negative breast cancer results in resistance to current immunotherapy. Here, we reveal the immunoadjuvant property of gas therapy with cyclic GMP-AMP synth...
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Open AccessCost-effectiveness of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy for women with subfertility in China: an economic evaluation using evidence from the CESE-PGS trial
There are a large number of infertile couples in China, but its treatment is notoriously expensive and not currently covered by insurance. The utility of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy as an ad...
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Open AccessEarly life climate and adulthood mental health: how birth seasonality influences depressive symptoms in adults
Early life in-utero can have long-term influence on the mental health status of individuals in adulthood, such as depression. Age, gender, socio-economic status, education, and geography are demographic factor...
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Open AccessCryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period
The colonization of land by fungi had a significant impact on the terrestrial ecosystem and biogeochemical cycles on Earth surface systems. Although fungi may have diverged ~1500–900 million years ago (Ma) or ...
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Open AccessForming and implementing community advisory boards in low- and middle-income countries: a sco** review
Community advisory boards (CABs) have expanded beyond high-income countries (HICs) and play an increasing role in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) research. Much research has examined CABs in HICs, but le...
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Open AccessSpiculogenesis and biomineralization in early sponge animals
Most sponges have biomineralized spicules. Molecular clocks indicate sponge classes diverged in the Cryogenian, but the oldest spicules are Cambrian in age. Therefore, sponges either evolved spiculogenesis lon...
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Open AccessLength effects on the dynamic process of cellular uptake and exocytosis of single-walled carbon nanotubes in murine macrophage cells
Cellular uptake and exocytosis of SWCNTs are fundamental processes determining their intracellular concentration and effects. Despite the great potential of acid-oxidized SWCNTs in biomedical field, understand...
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Open AccessEcological impact of a secondary bacterial symbiont on the clones of Sitobion avenae (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
Many insects harbor heritable endosymbionts, whether obligatory or facultative, and the role of facultative endosymbionts in sha** the phenotype of these species has become increasingly important. However, l...
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Open AccessDish layouts analysis method for concentrative solar power plant
Designs leading to maximize the use of sun radiation of a given reflective area without increasing the expense on investment are important to solar power plants construction. We here provide a method that allo...
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Open AccessArmored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian
Morphology-based phylogenetic analyses support the monophyly of the Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Priapulida) and Nematoida (Nematoda, Nematomorpha), together constituting the monophyletic Cycloneural...
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Open AccessThe Lantian biota: A new window onto the origin and early evolution of multicellular organisms
The Lantian biota at the Lantian Town of **uning County, Anhui Province, is preserved in black shales of the Ediacaran Lantian Formation. It yields some of the oldest known complex macroorganisms, including fa...
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Effects of CpG-ODN on gene expression in formation of foam cells
To investigate the effects of CpG-oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG-ODN) on the formation of macrophage foam cells and related gene expression.
