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Exploring the Effect of Anti-immigration Rhetoric on Emergency Department Use by Undocumented Adults
An unwelcoming policy climate can create barriers to health care access and produce a ‘Chilling Effect’ among immigrant communities. For undocumented immigrants, barriers may be unique and have a greater impac...
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Open AccessFear of Deportation and Hispanic Early Adolescent Substance Use: a Moderated Mediation Model of Stress and Hope
Reports of deportation can create a state of chronic fear in children living in mixed-status immigrant families over their own or a loved one’s potential deportation. One indicator of health disparities among ...
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Multiscale Entropy Analysis of EEG Signals
Electroencephalogram (EEG) contains a lot of pathological information, which is the most effective clinical tool for detecting epileptic seizure. In this paper, multiscale entropy is used to analyze and compar...
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Economic Pressure and Parent Acculturative Stress: Effects on Rural Midwestern Low-Income Latinx Child Behaviors
Contrary to the visible Latinx population growth in rural America, rural Latinx households have experienced far greater economic disparities compared to Whites. Family economic stress predicts parents’ emotion...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bioinformatics-Based Acquisition of Alzheimer’s Disease Hub Genes
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the functions and pathways of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients and normal controls using bioinformatics methods, and to screen Hub genes to ...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: A synthetic nanobody targeting RBD protects hamsters from SARS-CoV-2 infection
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Open AccessMolecular insights into biogenesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor proteins
Eukaryotic cells are coated with an abundance of glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor proteins (GPI-APs) that play crucial roles in fertilization, neurogenesis, and immunity. The removal of a hydrophobic signal...
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Open AccessA synthetic nanobody targeting RBD protects hamsters from SARS-CoV-2 infection
SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-191, features a receptor-binding domain (RBD) for binding to the host cell ACE2 protein1–6. Neutralizing antibodies that block RBD-ACE2 interaction are candidates for the ...
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Open AccessPrognostic significance of pretreatment controlling nutritional status score in urological cancers: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score is a novel nutrition-based biomarker that has been reported for predicting survival in various cancers. However, the relationship between CONUT score and prognosis ...
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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of a predictive score for ICU delirium in critically ill patients
The incidence of delirium in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is high and associated with a poor prognosis. We validated the risk factors of delirium to identify relevant early and predictive clinical indica...
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Open AccessBK polyomavirus infection promotes growth and aggressiveness in bladder cancer
Recent studies have confirmed the integration of the BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) gene into the cellular genome of urothelial carcinomas in transplant recipients, further confirming the correlation between BKPyV an...
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The Impact of Family Rituals and Maternal Depressive Symptoms on Child Externalizing Behaviors: An Urban–Rural Comparison
The association between maternal depression and child negative behavior outcomes has been well established in the literature. However, understanding how maternal depression is associated with child behaviors w...
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Open AccessStructural insights into the committed step of bacterial phospholipid biosynthesis
The membrane-integral glycerol 3-phosphate (G3P) acyltransferase PlsY catalyses the committed and essential step in bacterial phospholipid biosynthesis by acylation of G3P, forming lysophosphatidic acid. It co...
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Isolation of a maize beta-glucosidase gene promoter and characterization of its activity in transgenic tobacco
The β-glucosidase gene of maize (ZmGLU1) was suggested to hydrolyze cytokinin-conjugate and release free cytokinin during plant growth and development. A clone containing the upstream region of ZmGLU1 was isolate...
