Corneal endothelial cell density and pterygium: a cross-sectional study by Hugo Coelho Carvalho Sousa (4630147)

“…Results: Sixty-one patients were included in the study. Twenty-nine (47.5%) patients were men and 32 (52.5%) were women (mean age, 50.84 ± 13.8). …”

Implementation of a rapid response team in a large nonprofit Brazilian hospital: improving the quality of emergency care through Plan-Do-Study-Act by Meire Cavalieri Almeida (6826961)

“…Results: Between 2013 and 2014, the rapid response team attended to 2,296 patients. This study showed a nonsignificant reduction in mortality from 8.3% in cycle 1 to 5.0% in cycle 4; however, death rates remained stable in cycles 3 and 4, with frequencies of 5.2% and 5.0%, respectively. …”

Implementation of a rapid response team in a large nonprofit Brazilian hospital: improving the quality of emergency care through Plan-Do-Study-Act by Meire Cavalieri Almeida (6826961)

“…Results: Between 2013 and 2014, the rapid response team attended to 2,296 patients. This study showed a nonsignificant reduction in mortality from 8.3% in cycle 1 to 5.0% in cycle 4; however, death rates remained stable in cycles 3 and 4, with frequencies of 5.2% and 5.0%, respectively. …”

IpgD enzymatic activity promotes the formation of infection foci by <i>S</i>. <i>flexneri</i> in HT-29 cells. by Volkan K. Köseoğlu (12055346)

Biomarkers in CSF and blood. by Marianne Ullestad Huun (5608088)

Mean (±SD) soil moisture (a) for unfrozen and frozen soils (all successional stages combined) and water-table depths; (b) for undisturbed old forests and disturbed sites (post-fire... by M Torre Jorgenson (557154)

Condition of culturing cells across a set of two microplates. by Kaori Kuribayashi-Shigetomi (114097)

“…<p>(A) The number of cells on a set of two microplates is reduced by decreasing the concentration of the seeded cells. …”

Result of asymmetric enhancements with (A) PE and (B) PC. by Michael E. Kurczy (505411)

“…<p>(A) Increasing the fraction of PE in the outer leaflet of the GUV significantly decreased the nanotube radius compared to the control tube pulled from an SBL vesicle with a radius of 57±3 nm (n = 9) and 36±2 nm (n = 9) for tubes pulled from PE incubated vesicles. …”

A Single Molecule Investigation of the Photostability of Quantum Dots by Eva Arnspang Christensen (138327)

“…We further show that β-mercaptoethanol has a dual stabilizing effect on the fluorescence emission of QDs: 1) by increasing the frequency of time that a QD is in its fluorescent state, and 2) by decreasing the photobleaching rate. …”

NINL and DZANK1 associate specifically with complementary subunits of the cytoplasmic dynein 1 motor complex. by Margo Dona (816015)

“…MO-injection of sub-effective concentrations of <i>ninl</i> (0.5 ng/nl) (e-e”) or <i>dync1h1</i> (1 ng/nl) (f-f”) generates larvae with a normal phenotype and normal OS length, compared to wildtype larvae (b-b”) and control MO-injected larvae (c-c”). …”

A Locally Linear Dynamic Strategy for Manifold Learning. by Weifan Wang (4669081)

“…For 10-30% noise, where the Hebbian network employs a local linear transform, learning selectively increases signal direction alignment (blue) while simultaneously decreasing noise direction alignment (orange). …”

Driving Force for Exciton Dissociation in Organic Solar Cells: The Influence of Donor and Acceptor Relative Orientation by Leandro Benatto (5720231)

Temperature: A major climatic determinant of cowpea production by Juliane Rafaele Alves Barros (10398785)

“…Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of water availability and temperature on the performance of cowpea cultivars. A greenhouse experiment was conducted using a 4 × 2 × 5 factorial arrangement, with four replications. …”

A regulatory gene network of foam-cell formation. by Josefin Skogsberg (88384)

“…CE accumulation (given as average percentage next to each node) was decreased (blue) by siRNA inhibition of 5 genes and increased (red) by inhibition of 2 genes; inhibition of 1 gene had no effect (black) (see also <a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000036#pgen-1000036-t003" target="_blank">Table 3</a>). …”

The Impacts of Canopy Cover on Species Abundance in a Woodlot Habitat by Setareh Rezvani (3113955)

“…<p><b>Methods</b></p> <p>This experiment was conducted by Setareh Rezvani, Khondoker Sadid, Arian Nouraee and Ellora Arockiadoss on a windy day with a climate of 7° C in the woodlot (43.768756, -79.5079) at York University on Monday October 24, 2016 at approximately 3:00 PM.…”

A Bioenergetic Basis for Membrane Divergence in Archaea and Bacteria by Víctor Sojo (613931)

“…Pumping protons across leaky membranes offers no advantage, even when permeability is decreased 1,000-fold. We hypothesize that a sodium-proton antiporter (SPAP) provided the first step towards modern membranes. …”

A trend in discussions about the endemic blues and daily responsibilities. by Seoyoung Kim (2603596)

Patterns in Species Persistence and Biomass Production in Soil Microcosms Recovering from a Disturbance Reject a Neutral Hypothesis for Bacterial Community Assembly by Fen-Guo Zhang (736948)

“…In microcosms recovering from the disturbance, however, species diversity decreased dramatically (by > 50%); and in most cases there was not a positive relationship between species initial abundance and their chance of persistence. …”

Effect of 1,25(OH)₂D3 on the production of KIM-1 and fibronectin 1 from HRPTEpiC induced by recombinant human IL-17 (rhIL-17), human TNF- α or TGF-beta. by Byung Ha Chung (314449)

“…<p><b>(A)</b> The expression of KIM-1 by HRPTEpiC was pretreated with 1,25(OH)₂D3 (10 nM) as indicated, and then cultured for 24 hours with TNF-α (50 ng/mL) and/or IL-17 (50ng/mL) (n = 3). …”

The impact of the single exit price policy on a basket of generic medicines in South Africa, using a time series analysis from 1999 to 2014 by Rajatheran Moodley (7109351)

“…</p><p>Results</p><p>Majority of the medicines analysed reflect a substantial decrease in medicine prices immediately after implementation of the pricing regulations as reflected in both the change in level and the change in slope using the interrupted time series analysis.…”