The APPLe Study: A Randomized, Community-Based, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Azithromycin for the Prevention of Preterm Birth, with Meta-Analysis by Nynke R. van den Broek (248401)

“…There were no significant differences in outcome between the azithromycin group (<em>n</em> = 1,096) and the placebo group (<em>n</em> = 1,087) in respect of preterm birth (16.8% versus 17.4%), odds ratio (OR) 0.96, 95% confidence interval (0.76–1.21); mean gestational age at delivery (38.5 versus 38.4 weeks), mean difference 0.16 (−0.08 to 0.40); mean birthweight (3.03 versus 2.99 kg), mean difference 0.04 (−0.005 to 0.08); perinatal deaths (4.3% versus 5.0%), OR 0.85 (0.53–1.38); or maternal malarial parasitaemia (11.5% versus 10.1%), OR 1.11 (0.84–1.49) and anaemia (44.1% versus 41.3%) at 28–32 weeks, OR 1.07 (0.88–1.30). …”

R154Q mutation lowers membrane association density. by Tingting Wu (228837)

“…Membrane bound density of R154Q dramatically decreases on biomimetic membrane. The error bars are the standard error of the mean of 10 measured GUVs. …”

Iron biofortification of <i>Pleurotus eous</i> via substrate supplementation by D. Leena Lavanya (21676675)

THERAPEUTIC BLOWING TOYS: DOES THE OVERLAP OF VENTILATORY STIMULI ALTER THE RESPIRATORY MECHANICS OF HEALTHY SCHOOLCHILDREN? by Camila Isabel Santos Schivinski (4643554)

“…Results showed a progressive decrease of impedance (Z5), total airway resistance (R5) and resonance frequency (Fres) when the moment before the use of the first toy was compared with the moment after the third toy (Z5/p=0.048; R5/p=0.049; Fres/p=0.004). …”

Cumulative diversity measures over time. by William C. Nelson (6822452)

“…The decreases in diversity observed for <i>amoA</i> and <i>nirKS</i> are driven by changes in relative abundance resulting in a decrease in evenness.…”

Rainfall, water flows and volume stored in the Cantareira system since 2004. by Renato M. Coutinho (424651)

“…From this point on, the volume of water decreased to very low levels, without any seasonal trend. …”

Over-activation of Mpk1 resulted in shortened G2 phase. by Natalia Carbó (246397)

“…(D) Size of cell compartments decreases after each mitosis. Volume of each cell compartment (assuming each cell compartment was a cylinder) was obtained after measurement of length and wide of 30 cell compartments in each cell type (2 independent experiments). …”

Minimum amoebicidal concentration of cryptdin-2. by Simran Preet (336999)

“…Values are expressed as mean ± SD of five independent experiments.*p<0.001 vs. number of trophozoites in control (after 24 hours).…”

Maps of domain structure universe. by Jian-Yu Shi (503903)

“…According to Class map, two joint points, and between three regions are found on the intersecting axis(denoted as a long arrow) of planar regions. is only shared by the sickle points of and sickle-shaped regions while is the meeting point of all regions. …”

Outside-out macropatch recordings of currents mediated by the indicated receptors. by Mohammed Atif (4484632)

“…Note the substantial decrease in deactivation time in the mutant. <b>D)</b> Mean activation rates reveal no significant difference between the four receptor isoforms (n = 6–12 patches). …”

Apaf-1 inhibitors provide protection in an <i>in</i><i>vivo</i> animal ischemic induced acute kidney injury model. by Mar Orzáez (108381)

“…A representative image of the immunofluorescence of active caspase-3 (left panel) and mean grey value quantification (right panel) (mean ± SD, n = 5). …”

Trade-offs between hypocotyl and root growth in response to water stress. by Nils Kalbfuß (14248277)

“…<b><a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010541#pgen.1010541.g001" target="_blank">Fig 1E</a></b>), and this decrease was observed in control experiments to be due to delayed germination induced by water stress. …”

Transient hearing deterioration caused by the short-duration violin practice. by Sho Otsuka (844383)

“…<b>C</b>: Correlation between CEOAE decrease at 4 kHz and TTS at 4 kHz. Each participant’s data point is represented with participant number.…”

Graphic summary of the experimental design. by Tainá Rocha de Almeida (8207727)

“…Fish sampling was performed at T0, T31, T87, T154 and T253 days after the beginning of the photophase initial decrease (induction of the reproductive cycle). For each sampling point, sexual steroids and Vitellogenin levels were measured in the plasma and a histological follow up of the oogenesis progression was performed. …”

Strain localisation and failure of dissimilar magnesium-based alloy friction stir welds by J. Hiscocks (4991885)

Volcano plot overview of RNA sequencing results. by Shivam H. Patel (13154937)

“…<p>Each point represents a single gene target. Red (n = 1046) indicates significant increase in gene expression. …”

OCM impairment is involved in ethanol impact on DNA repair in the PFC. by Anna-Kate Fowler (625791)

“…(B) DNA repair activity in the PFC of WT and <i>Mthfr+/−</i> mice exposed to acute and chronic ethanol. Values are means ± SEM; *p<0.01; **p<0.005; ***p<0.002. Note a decrease in DNA repair activity in the PFC following 3-week (3 w) and even more so following 5 week (5 w) exposure, compared with acute alcohol exposure and a significant exaggeration of this decrease by MTHFR deficiency.…”

Time-dependent photoconversion of PIN2-Dendra2 fusion protein. by Ján Jásik (404187)

“…The HFT UV/488/543/633 was used as a beam splitter. Each point on the graph with SE bar represents the mean of 30 transversal membranes.…”

Collapse regime, hysteresis, and recovery of plant–pollinator mutualistic networks. by Gaurav Baruah (7257587)

“…Each point represents mean pollinator density for a plant–pollinator network, and in total 115 points depicting 115 networks. …”

Table_1_The Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Blood Pressure, Arterial Function, and Heart Rate Variability in Men Living With HIV.DOCX by Juliana Pereira Barros (11136588)

“…NES; p < 0.05) reductions occurred in controls for SBP (∼10 mmHg, 2 h), DBP (∼6 mmHg, 20, 30, and 70 min), cSBP (∼9 mmHg, 30 min), cDBP (∼7 mmHg, 30 and 70 min), augmentation index (∼10%, 30 min), and pNN50 (∼20%; up to 2 h), while in MLHIV only cSBP (∼6 mmHg, 70 min) and cDBP (∼4 mmHg, 30 min) decreased. …”