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Education systems change: cultural beliefs and practices that support and inhibit deep learning in Vietnam
Global education agendas and scholarly literature are increasingly focused on systems change in education, in part stemming from a concern around student learning. But there is less attention in the literature...
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Subspecialized breast pathologists have suboptimal interobserver agreement in Ki-67 evaluation using 20% as the cutoff
Ki-67 expression levels in breast cancer have prognostic and predictive significance. Therefore, accurate Ki-67 evaluation is important for optimal patient care. Although an algorithm developed by the Internat...
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Open AccessBayesian Vancomycin Model Selection for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Neonates
Pharmacokinetic models can inform drug dosing of vancomycin in neonates to optimize therapy. However, the model selected needs to describe the intended population to provide appropriate dose recommendations. O...
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A Generalized Matrix Power Mean and a New Quantum Hellinger Divergence
In this paper, we study a matrix equation involving the matrix geometric mean $$A\natural_{t}B=A^{1/2}(A^{-1/2}BA^{-1/2})^{t}A^{1/2},$...
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Open AccessRecruiting and retaining community-based participants in a COVID-19 longitudinal cohort and social networks study: lessons from Victoria, Australia
Longitudinal studies are critical to informing evolving responses to COVID-19 but can be hampered by attrition bias, which undermines their reliability for guiding policy and practice. We describe recruitment ...
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Open AccessPLK1 and AURKB phosphorylate survivin differentially to affect proliferation in racially distinct triple-negative breast cancer
Protein diversity due to alternative mRNA splicing or post-translational modifications (PTMs) plays a vital role in various cellular functions. The mitotic kinases polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) and Aurora B (AURKB...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Long-term ice phenology records spanning up to 578 years for 78 lakes around the Northern Hemisphere
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Open AccessLong-term ice phenology records spanning up to 578 years for 78 lakes around the Northern Hemisphere
In recent decades, lakes have experienced unprecedented ice loss with widespread ramifications for winter ecological processes. The rapid loss of ice, resurgence of winter biology, and proliferation of remote ...
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Congenital Abnormalities of the Inner Ear
This chapter lays out a simplified overview of congenital inner ear abnormalities. A brief description of the inner ear embryology and different classifications is given to impart the reader with a better unde...
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Other Causes of Inner Ear Hearing Loss: Meniere’s Disease, Labyrinthitis and Semi-Circular Canal Dehiscence
This chapter provides an overview of a few miscellaneous inner ear conditions that could give rise to hearing loss. The pathophysiology, clinical and radiological features of Meniere’s disease are detailed wit...
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Inside the Mind of the Nonfiler: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach
Nonfilers are taxpayers who are required to file a tax return but fail to do so, complicating the mission of tax authorities by requiring additional outreach to ensure that tax responsibilities are accurately ...
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Impact of an invasive weed, Parthenium hysterophorus, on a pasture community in south east Queensland, Australia
Parthenium weed is a highly invasive alien species in more than 40 countries around the world. Along with severe negative effects on human and animal health and crop production, it also causes harm to ecosyste...
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Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) and climate change: the effect of CO2 concentration, temperature, and water deficit on growth and reproduction of two biotypes
Climate change will have a considerable impact upon the processes that moderate weed invasion, in particular to that of parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.). This study evaluated the performance of two A...
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HIV, Hepatitis C, and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Male Sex Workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
There is little data on the burden of HIV and other infections that affect male sex workers (MSW) in Vietnam. We conducted behavioral and biological sexual health surveys with 300 MSW in Ho Chi Minh City. Gene...
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Soil seed bank dynamics in response to an extreme flood event in a riparian habitat
A significantly increased water regime can lead to inundation of rivers, creeks and surrounding floodplains- and thus impact on the temporal dynamics of both the extant vegetation and the dormant, but viable s...
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Stigma related to sex work among men who engage in transactional sex with men in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Male sex workers (MSW) in Vietnam face high levels of stigma related to sex work, which may be associated with depression and increased vulnerability to HIV.
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Financial Time Series Prediction in Cooperating with Event Knowledge: A Fuzzy Approach
A number of researchers have used historical numeric time series data to forecast financial markets, i.e. stock prices, and they achieved some results with reasonable accuracies. However, there are various non...
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Cytotoxic HIV-1 p55gag-Specific CD4+ T Cells Produce HIV-Inhibitory Cytokines and Chemokines
CD4+ T-helper cells appear to be essential in sustaining immune responses in chronic viral infections, as the maintenance of CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses and the control of viremia were demonstrated to d...
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Evolution and transmission of stable CTL escape mutations in HIV infection
Increasing evidence indicates that potent anti-HIV-1 activity is mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs)1,2,3; however, the effects of this immune pressure on viral transmission and evolution have not been det...
