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Open AccessAn Improved Assessment Method to Estimate (Poly)phenol Intake in Adults with Chronic Pancreatitis
Insights into (poly)phenol exposure represent a modifiable factor that may modulate inflammation in chronic pancreatitis (CP), yet intake is poorly characterized and methods for assessment are underdeveloped.
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Experiences Porting Shared and Distributed Applications to Asynchronous Tasks: A Multidimensional FFT Case-Study
Parallel algorithms relying on synchronous parallelization libraries often experience adverse performance due to global synchronization barriers. Asynchronous many-task runtimes offer task futurization capabil...
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Open AccessDiscrete patterns of microbiome variability across timescales in a wild rodent population
Mammalian gastrointestinal microbiomes are highly variable, both within individuals and across populations, with changes linked to time and ageing being widely reported. Discerning patterns of change in wild m...
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Halide Code Generation Framework in Phylanx
Separating algorithms from their computation schedule has become a de facto solution to tackle the challenges of develo** high performance code on modern heterogeneous architectures. Common approaches includ...
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Open AccessPhotoacoustic imaging is a novel tool to measure finger artery structure and oxygenation in patients with SSc
Systemic sclerosis (SSc)-related digital ischaemia is a major cause of morbidity, resulting from a combination of microvascular and digital artery disease. Photoacoustic imaging offers a newly available, non-i...
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Open AccessAmitriptyline at low-dose and titrated for irritable bowel syndrome as second-line treatment (The ATLANTIS trial): protocol for a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial in primary care
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional bowel disorder that has a considerable impact on patient quality of life and substantial societal and health care resource costs. Current treatments are of...
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Open AccessSexually transmitted infection screening to prevent adverse birth and newborn outcomes: study protocol for a randomized-controlled hybrid-effectiveness trial
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during pregnancy are associated with adverse birth outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight, perinatal death, and congenital infections such as increased mothe...
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Economics at the FTC: Multi-level Marketing and a Coal Joint Venture
Economists in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics support the Commission’s dual missions of protecting consumers and maintaining competition by performing economic analyses. This article provide...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Clinical trial recruiters’ experiences working with trial eligibility criteria: results of an exploratory, cross-sectional, online survey in the UK
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Open AccessClinical trial recruiters’ experiences working with trial eligibility criteria: results of an exploratory, cross-sectional, online survey in the UK
Eligibility criteria are a fundamental element of clinical trial design, defining who can and who should not participate in a trial. Problems with the design or application of criteria are known to occur and p...
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The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines at Ten: A View from the FTC’s Bureau of Economics
Ten years after the adoption of the 2010 revisions to the joint DOJ/FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines, our experience in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission leads us to conclude that the rev...
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Open AccessA juvenile Tristan albatross (Diomedea dabbenena) on land at the Crozet Islands
Albatrosses and other seabirds are generally highly philopatric, returning to natal colonies when they achieve breeding age. This is not universal, however, and cases of extraordinary vagrancy are rare. The Tr...
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Open AccessPlasma lipidome abnormalities in people with HIV initiating antiretroviral therapy
Dyslipidemia often accompanies human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART). Lipid abnormalities likely contribute to increased cardiometabolic disease among people with HIV (P...
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Open AccessThree-dimensional optoacoustic imaging of nailfold capillaries in systemic sclerosis and its potential for disease differentiation using deep learning
The autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis (SSc) causes microvascular changes that can be easily observed cutaneously at the finger nailfold. Optoacoustic imaging (OAI), a combination of optical and ultrasound ...
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Open AccessDesign and Evaluation of a Multiplexed Assay to Assess Human Immunogenicity Against Humira®
The use of biologic-based therapeutics has revolutionized our ability to treat complex diseases such as cancer- and autoimmune-related disorders. Biologic-based therapeutics are known to generate anti-drug imm...
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Open AccessMap** DNA interaction landscapes in psoriasis susceptibility loci highlights KLF4 as a target gene in 9q31
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered many genetic risk loci for psoriasis, yet many remain uncharacterised in terms of the causal gene and their biological mechanism in disease. This is largel...
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Multimodality and Intersemiotic Translation
The chapter provides a series of examples designed to confirm how multimodality can be considered a “defining feature of audiovisual translation”. Ranging from a consideration of the traditional vehicles of au...
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Economics at the FTC: Quantitative Analyses of Two Chemical Manufacturing Mergers
Economists at the Federal Trade Commission support the agency’s competition and consumer protection missions in numerous ways. In this article, we discuss the economic analyses that were conducted in connectio...
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Assessing the use of antimicrobials to sterilize brown marmorated stink bug egg masses and prevent symbiont acquisition
The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), is dependent on a beneficial obligate symbiont for successful development, survival, and fecundity. The bacteria are deposited on the egg mass surface by ...
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Repurposing Used Electric Car Batteries: A Review of Options
In the United States, millions of electric and hybrid vehicles have cumulatively been sold. Although the batteries in these vehicles are expected to last at least 8 years, end-of-life options must still be con...
