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Optimization of Gentisides Extraction from Gentiana rigescens Franch. ex Hemsl. by Response Surface Methodology.

Gentisides are a class of chemical compounds which is considered as potential therapeutic substance ...

Response to comment of Taher Rajaee and Salar Khani on "Artificial neural network modelling of biological oxygen demand in rivers at the national level with input selection based on Monte Carlo simulations" [Šiljić et al., Environ Sci Pollut Res (2015) 22: 4230-4241].

Exopolysaccharides of Lactobacillus reuteri: Their influence on adherence of E. coli to epithelial cells and inflammatory response.

The aim of the study was to characterize exopolysaccharides (EPS) originated from Lactobacillus reut...

Differential testosterone response to GnRH-induced LH release before and after musth in adult Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) bulls.

Bull elephants exhibit marked increases in testosterone secretion during musth, and studies have sho...

Early Prognostic Factors Associated with the Efficacy of Infliximab Treatment for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis with Inadequate Response to Methotrexate.

INTRODUCTION: Early prognostic factors for the clinical response in patients with rheumatoid arthrit...

A Study on the Effects of Sympathetic Skin Response Parameters in Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia Using Artificial Neural Networks.

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), usually observed commonly in females over age 30, is a rheumatic diseas...

Effects of gender, body weight, and blood glucose dynamics on the growth hormone response to the glucagon stimulation test in patients with pituitary disease.

OBJECTIVE: Body weight blunts the growth hormone (GH) response to provocative stimuli. The appropria...

A Matter of Perspective: Comparison of the Characteristics of Persons with HIV Infection in the United States from the HIV Outpatient Study, Medical Monitoring Project, and National HIV Surveillance System.

Comparative analyses of the characteristics of persons living with HIV infection (PLWH) in the Unite...

A graph-based N-body approximation with application to stochastic neighbor embedding.

We propose a novel approximation technique, bubble approximation (BA), for repulsion forces in an N-...

Functional connectivity correlates of response inhibition impairment in anorexia nervosa.

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a disorder characterized by high levels of cognitive control and behavioral...

Computational classification of different wild-type zebrafish strains based on their variation in light-induced locomotor response.

Zebrafish larvae display a rapid and characteristic swimming behaviour after abrupt light onset or o...

Microrobotized blasting improves the bone-to-textured implant response. A preclinical in vivo biomechanical study.

This study evaluated the effect of microrobotized blasting of titanium endosteal implants relative t...

Comparative efficacy of different estrus synchronization protocols on estrus induction response, fertility and plasma progesterone and biochemical profile in crossbred anestrus cows.

AIM: To evaluate estrus induction response and fertility including plasma progesterone and biochemic...

Highly predictive support vector machine (SVM) models for anthrax toxin lethal factor (LF) inhibitors.

Anthrax is a highly lethal, acute infectious disease caused by the rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacteri...

Optimized combination therapies with adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) and lamivudine, telbivudine, or entecavir may be effective for chronic hepatitis B patients with a suboptimal response to ADV monotherapy.

OBJECTIVE: To identify high risk factors in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients for suboptimal respon...

Incidence of nonresponse and individual patterns of response following sprint interval training.

The current study sought to explore the incidence of nonresponders for maximal or submaximal perform...

Combining Search, Social Media, and Traditional Data Sources to Improve Influenza Surveillance.

We present a machine learning-based methodology capable of providing real-time ("nowcast") and forec...

Predicting Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy with PET Imaging Using Convolutional Neural Networks.

Imaging of cancer with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET) has become ...

Corticostriatal response selection in sentence production: Insights from neural network simulation with reservoir computing.

Language production requires selection of the appropriate sentence structure to accommodate the comm...

Soluble CD163 and monocyte populations in response to antiretroviral therapy and in relationship with neuropsychological testing among HIV-infected children.

BACKGROUND: Monocytes play a central role in HIV neuropathogenesis, but there are limited data on mo...

Response to: "No evidence for improved TORS post-treatment feeding tube dependency rate relative to standard therapy in early stage oropharyngeal cancer".