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Using an Individual-Centered Approach to Gain Insights From Wearable Data in the Quantified Flu Platform: Netnography Study.

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Karolina Alexiou, Lukaz Baldy, Basile Morane, Ilona Bussod, Melvin Fribourg, Katarzyna Wac, Gary Wolf, Mad Ball · 2021

Wearables have been used widely for monitoring health in general, and recent research results show that they can be used to predict infections based on physiological symptoms. To date, evidence has be…

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Laparoscopic and Robotic Urology Surgery during Global Pandemic COVID19.

Hamilton C Zampolli, Alejandro R Rodriguez · 2020

Known laparoscopic and robotic assisted approaches and techniques for the surgical management of urological malignant and benign diseases are commonly used around the World. During the global pandemic…

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Duplex Shiny app quantification of the sepsis biomarkers C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 in a fast quantum dot labeled lateral flow assay.

Christoph Ruppert, Lars Kaiser, Lisa Johanna Jacob, Stefan Laufer, Matthias Kohl, Hans-Peter Deigner · 2020

Fast point-of-care (POC) diagnostics represent an unmet medical need and include applications such as lateral flow assays (LFAs) for the diagnosis of sepsis and consequences of cytokine storms and for…

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Effects of dietary calcium to available phosphorus ratios on bone metabolism and osteoclast activity of the OPG /RANK/RANKL signalling pathway in piglets.

 · 1970

Hydroxyapatite, a mineral form of calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) that gives bones their rigidity, is the major and essential component of bones and teeth in the human and animal body. A suitable rati…

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Islet transplantation to the renal subcapsular space in streptozotocin-diabetic rats. Long-term effects on insulin and glucagon secretion.

 · 1970

In previous studies on streptozotocin-diabetic rats, transplantation of 1,000 (but not of 400) pancreatic islets to the renal subcapsular space was followed within 10 days by near-normalization of the…

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A preliminary study to assess the use of a "Snakes and Ladders" board game in improving the knowledge of elementary school children about taeniasis.

 · 1970

The Snakes and Ladders board game was modified so that it contained information on taeniasis. A quantitative approach was used to evaluate if elementary school children were able to answer correctly m…

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Immunoreactive somatostatin in human pancreatic secretion.

 · 1970

Somatostatin in human pancreatic juice collected during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography following secretin injection was determined by RIA. The mean immunoreactive somatostatin (IRS) l…

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Serum vitamin D concentration does not predict insulin action or secretion in European subjects with the metabolic syndrome.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relation between serum concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and insulin action and secretion.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: In a cross-sectional study of 446 Pan-…

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Fluid dipping technology of chimpanzees in Como? National Park, Ivory Coast.

 · 1970

Over a 6 month period during the dry season, from the end of October 2014 to the beginning of May 2015, we studied tool use behavior of previously unstudied and non-habituated savanna chimpanzees (Pan…

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Characterization and Correction of Geometric Distortions in 814 Diffusion Weighted Images.

 · 1970

INTRODUCTION: Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI), which is based on Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) protocols, is becoming increasingly important for neurosurgical applications. However, its use in this conte…

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The relation of cortisol levels with hippocampus volumes under baseline and challenge conditions.

 · 1970

Several studies using animal models have revealed an inverse relation between gluco-corticoid levels and hippocampus volumes. This inverse relation has been interpreted as reflecting the role of the h…

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SLC26A7 can function as a chloride-loading mechanism in parietal cells.

 · 1970

To date three potential candidates for parietal cell basolateral Cl(-) entry have been described: the highly 4,4'-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS)-sensitive Cl(-)/HCO(3)(-) exchang…

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External and internal factors influencing happiness in elite collegiate athletes.

 · 1970

When under conditions of high demand and allostatic load, are happiness and satisfaction in four domains (family, friends, academics, recreation) influenced more by external or internal factors? Do st…

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Effect of ethanol on carbohydrate metabolism. II. Influence on glucose tolerance in diabetic rats.

 · 1970

A single moderate dose (0.4 g per kg of body weight) of ethanol given orally with a glucose load resulted in exaggerated glucose intolerance and inhibition of glucose mediated-insulin response in mild…

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Synaptic vesicles retain their identity through the endocytic cycle.

 · 1970

After fusion of synaptic vesicles with presynaptic membrane and secretion of the contents of the vesicles into the synaptic cleft (a process known as exocytosis), the vesicular membrane is retrieved b…

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Alteration of anomeric preference of glucose-induced insulin secretion by glyceraldehyde.

 · 1970

Glucokinase activity in pancreatic islets was dose-dependently inactivated by D-glyceraldehyde, whereas islet hexokinase activity was not altered. In untreated islets, alpha-D-glucose stimulated insul…

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Born with low birth weight in rural Southern India: what are the metabolic consequences 20 years later?

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: Low birth weight (LBW) is common in the Indian population and may represent an important predisposing factor for type 2 diabetes (T2D) and the metabolic syndrome. Intensive metabolic examin…

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Binaural speech intelligibility in noise for hearing-impaired listeners.

 · 1970

The effect of head-induced interaural time delay (ITD) and interaural level differences (ILD) on binaural speech intelligibility in noise was studied for listeners with symmetrical and asymmetrical se…

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