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Investigation of Sintering Behavior of Sol Gel Derived SiO2-Al2O3-B2O3 Glasses
Synthesizing of alumino-borosilicate glasses in the SiO2-B2O3-Al2O3 system using the sol–gel method was considered. Transparent and dense glasses were obtained by various heat treatment programs applied on the dr...
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Analysis of factors affecting the normativity of the behavioral patterns of citizens in the urban space
In an urban space, which is a place for social interactions of people, different behavioral patterns emerge considering other cultures and values in society. If urban management policies are not appropriate an...
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Concept of dwelling in informal settlements located in metropolitan areas of Iran case study: Morteza Gerd
The concept of dwelling is complicated and dynamic. Since the existing theories and perspectives on the concept of dwelling are often presented for the conditions and structures of formal settlements, they are...
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The effect of stress inoculation training on existential anxiety and resilience of cancer patients
Cancer is a chronic disease that is spreading day by day. Most people with cancer suffer from a lot of anxiety and stress. With regard to this issue, the present study investigated the effect of group training...
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Open AccessBackbone and side-chain resonance assignments of the NISTmAb-scFv and antigen-binding study
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) therapeutics are the largest and fastest growing class of biologic drugs, amongst which, the vast majority are immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1). Their antigen binding abilities are used fo...
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Grading of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: an Interobserver Reproducibility Study
Grade, based on proliferative activity and tumor necrosis, has recently been shown to be prognostic in medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in multivariate analysis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the inte...
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Evaluation of hydrogen bonds formation in the selected rare sugars based on 6-31G* and 6–311 + + G(d,p) basis sets
Rare sugars are monosaccharides with tremendous potential for applications in pharmaceutical, cosmetics, nutraceutical, and flavors industries. The four rare sugars, including gulose, allose, altrose, and talo...
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Adsorption behaviors of carbon monoxide (CO) over aromatic magnesium nanoclusters: a DFT study
Density functional theory calculations are used to study the interaction of uni- and di-molecular CO adsorption with the neutral aromatic magnesium nanoclusters with the centrality of beryllium, magnesium, and ca...
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Negative Results on Thyroid Molecular Testing Decrease Rates of Surgery for Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules
Molecular tests and mutational panels such as Afirma Gene Expression Classifier (GEC) and ThyroSeq, respectively, have been used to help risk stratify cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules with the aim t...
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Changes in Gut Microbiota and Hormones After Bariatric Surgery: a Bench-to-Bedside Review
Overweight and obesity are among the most prevalent non-communicable diseases which are generally treated successfully by bariatric or sleeve surgery. There are evidences affirming that sleeve surgery can mani...
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Synthesis and characterization of porous cytocompatible scaffolds from polyvinyl alcohol–chitosan
In this study, novel porous cytocompatible scaffolds with a 3D nanocomposite structure were synthesized by using nanoclay particles embedded into a biopolymer blend composed of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and chit...
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Modelling and molecular dynamics simulation studies on a hexagonal glycolipid assembly
The hexagonal columnar phase (HI) of an aqueous formulation of octyl β-glucoside with 67 % lipid content was modelled and 15-ns molecular dynamics simulation was performed. Initial investigations on the aggregati...
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Developmental dynamics of the preterm infant gut microbiota and antibiotic resistome
Development of the preterm infant gut microbiota is emerging as a critical research priority1. Since preterm infants almost universally receive early and often extended antibiotic therapy2, it is important to und...
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Open AccessErratum: Gut resistome development in healthy twin pairs in the first year of life
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Open AccessGut resistome development in healthy twin pairs in the first year of life
The early life of the human host marks a critically important time for establishment of the gut microbial community, yet the developmental trajectory of gut community-encoded resistance genes (resistome) is un...
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Open AccessSparse coding of the modulation spectrum for noise-robust automatic speech recognition
The full modulation spectrum is a high-dimensional representation of one-dimensional audio signals. Most previous research in automatic speech recognition converted this very rich representation into the equiv...
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Atomistic simulation studies of the α/β-glucoside and galactoside in anhydrous bilayers: effect of the anomeric and epimeric configurations
Fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulation studies of thermotropic bilayers were performed using a set of glycosides namely n-octyl-β-D-glucopyranoside (β-C8Glc), n-octyl-α-D-glucopyranoside (α-C8Glc), n-octyl...
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DFT study of glucose based glycolipid crown ethers and their complexes with alkali metal cations Na+ and K+
A theoretical study of a series of five glucose based glycolipid crown ethers and their complexes with Na+ and K+ was performed using the density functional theory with B3LYP/6-31 G* to obtain the optimized geome...
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Open AccessThe G protein-coupled estrogen receptor 1 (GPER/GPR30) does not predict survival in patients with ovarian cancer
Even though ovarian tumors are not generally considered estrogen-sensitive, estrogens may still have an impact on ovarian tumor progression. The recently identified trans-membrane estrogen receptor GPER is inv...
