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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjective We aimed to explore factors affecting family health management during home quarantine as well as the effects of variations in family health management (FHM) on individuals' health status. Methods Using...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The emergence of the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has led to huge disruptions in the medical field and society. The significance of training and education for experts has been increasingly...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHere, we present a new method to scan a large number of lithic artefacts using three-dimensional scanning technology. Despite the rising use of high-resolution 3D surface scanners in archaeological sciences, no virtual...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedImportance Screening and vaccination are essential in the fight against infectious diseases, but need to be integrated and customized based on community and disease characteristics. Objective To develop effective...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNatural ecosystems are comprised of diverse species and their interspecific interactions, in contrast to an ecological theory that predicts the instability of large ecological communities. This apparent gap has led...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjective The coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) increased the risk of shortage in intensive care devices, including fittings with intentional leaks. 3D-printing has been used worldwide to produce missing devices....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNeisseria gonorrhoeae has been classified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an urgent threat due to the rapid development of antibiotic resistance to currently available antibiotics. Therefore,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe uncontrolled spread of (mis)information, news and propaganda related to COVID 19 created an 'infodemic' leading to panic and unscientific practices among the mass. With the largest number of internet users in the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground For many drugs, mechanisms of action with regard to desired effects and/or unwanted side effects are only incompletely understood. To investigate possible pleiotropic effects and respective molecular...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground We aimed to investigate the performance of clinician prediction of survival (CPS) and the association between CPS and the prognostic confidence of clinicians in ambulatory medical oncology outpatients....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground Identifying differentially expressed genes between experimental conditions is still the gold-standard approach to interpret transcriptomic profiles. Alternative approaches based on diversity measures have...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHumans use a family of more than 400 olfactory receptors (ORs) to detect odorants. However, deorphanization of ORs is a critical issue because the functional properties of more than 80% of ORs remain unknown, thus,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground As a way of minimising the devastating effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, scientists hastily developed a vaccine. However, the scale-up of the vaccine is likely to be hindered by...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines the effect of pandemic vaccination on asset prices in a simple asset pricing model à la Lucas 1978. In this model, asset prices depend on susceptible individuals' saving motives to insure against a...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) or patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are used by clinicians in everyday clinical practice to assess patients' perceptions of their own health and the healthcare they...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe direct observation method is commonly used for data collection in family business case studies. Nevertheless, in research on family business succession that is mainly based on retrospective data, it is difficult to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAround the world, an increasing number of people, predominantly women, are choosing to undergo cosmetic surgery-despite the associated health risks. This study aimed to promote a better cross-cultural understanding of...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPolyphagotarsonemus latus Banks is considered a polyphagous pest of diverse agricultural and ornamental crops of global economic significance. Its distribution, host range, variety of symptoms, morphological differences,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground Liver metastases from breast cancer are associated with poor prognosis, and treatment options are usually restricted to palliative systemic therapy. The impact of liver resection on metastasis remains...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPurpose To devise a new body-habitus normalizer to be used in the calculation of an SUV that is specific to the PET tracer .sup.18 F-FDG. Methods A cohort of 481-patients was selected for analysis of .sup.18 F-FDG...