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Submissions from 2024

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Visual Analytics in Explaining Neural Networks with Neuron Clustering, Gulsum Alicioglu and Bo Sun

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Discovering Potential in Non-Cancer Medications: A Promising Breakthrough for Multiple Myeloma Patients., Omar S Al-Odat, Emily Nelson, Tulin Budak-Alpdogan, Subash C. Jonnalagadda, Dhimant Desai, and Manoj K Pandey

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Reliability-based analysis of horizontal curve design by evaluating the impact of vehicle automation on roadway departure crashes and safety performance, Omar Al-Sheikh, Seyed Hooman Ghasemi, and Mohammad Jalayer

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Assessment of Sexual Violence Risk Perception in Men Who Have Sex With Men: Proposal for the Development and Validation of "G-Date"., D. J. Angelone, Damon Mitchell, Brooke Wells, Megan Korovich, Alexandra Nicoletti, and Dustin Fife

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Computational study of binding of oseltamivir to neuraminidase mutants of influenza A virus, Muhammad Arba, Sri Wahyuli, Setyanto Tri Wahyudi, Amir Karton, and Chun Wu

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Harnessing the Synergy of Fe and Co with Carbon Nanofibers for Enhanced CO, Kevin Arizapana, John Schossig, Michael Wildy, Daniel Weber, Akash Gandotra, Sumedha Jayaraman, Wanying Wei, Kai Xu, Lei Yu, Amos M Mugweru, Islam Mantawy, Cheng Zhang, and Ping Lu

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Academic Instruction Librarians’ Conceptions of Teacher Agency and Affective Orientations toward the Concept, Andrea Baer

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Reframing Wikipedia as an information source: Concepts and strategies for critical inquiry and digital literacy., Andrea Baer

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Teaching librarians’ experiences of individual and shared agency: The lens of librarian relationships and workplace culture, Andrea Baer

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The wicked problem of climate change and the challenge of engagement: Exploring educational approaches and possibilities for information literacy, Andrea Baer

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Robust AI-Driven Segmentation of Glioblastoma T1c and FLAIR MRI Series and the Low Variability of the MRIMath© Smart Manual Contouring Platform, Yassine Barhoumi, Abdul Hamid Fattah, Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya, Fanny Moron, Jinsuh Kim, Hassan M. Fathallah-Shaykh, Rouba A. Chahine, and Houman Sotoudeh

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Bilio-Cecal Stent Migration Presenting as Massive Rectal Bleeding., Lefika Bathobakae, Shady Geris, Mohita Jariwala, Mansi Patel, Jessica Escobar, Ruhin Yuridullah, Kamal Amer, and Yana Cavanagh

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Gender differences in relations between social comparison, social support, and sleep disturbance among midlife and older adults., Iris Bercovitz, Gabrielle M Salvatore, Jacqueline A Mogle, and Danielle Arigo

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Pathways to therapy resistance: The sheltering effect of the bone marrow microenvironment to multiple myeloma cells, Kuntal Bhowmick, Max von Suskil, Omar Al-Odat, Weam Othman Elbezanti, Subash C. Jonnalagadda, Tulin Budak-Alpdogan, and Manoj K. Pandey

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Sulitest, Tejinder Kaur Billing, Andrea Farro, Dilip Mirchandani, and Melissa Tabada Montalbo-Lomboy

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Zooming in on Justice: The Case for Virtual Bioethics Conferencing., Bruce P Blackshaw, Daniel Rodger, and Daniel J Hurst

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Walking the Walk: Searches that Demonstrate Commitment to an Inclusive, Diverse, and Equitable Library Workplace, Marlowe Bogino and Ash Lierman

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New vertebrate microfossils expand the diversity of the chondrichthyan and actinopterygian fauna of the Maastrichtian–Danian Hornerstown Formation in New Jersey, Zachary Boles, Paul V. Ullmann, Ian Putnam, Mariele Ford, and Joseph T. Deckhut

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Engineering Education in the Age of AI: Analysis of the Impact of Chatbots on Learning in Engineering, Flor A. Bravo and Juan M. Cruz Bohorquez

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Graduate students' e-book awareness and usage at a public research university in the U.S.A., Denise Brush and Daniel G. Kipnis

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Poster: Do our graduate students know the library's books are online now?, Denise Brush and Daniel G. Kipnis

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Estimation of Vehicle Traffic Parameters Using an Optical Distance Sensor for Use in Smart City Road Infrastructure, Rafał Burdzik, Ireneusz Celiński, Minvydas Ragulskis, Vinayak Ranjan, and Jonas Matijošius

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ursaPGx: a new R package to annotate pharmacogenetic star alleles using phased whole-genome sequencing data., Gennaro Calendo, Dara Kusic, Josef Madzo, Neda Gharani, and Laua Scheinfeldt

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Italian Instrumental Music as Fascist Propaganda in the United States during the Interwar Period, Davide Ceriani

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Tail-Tape-Fused Virion and Non-Virion RNA Polymerases of a Thermophilic Virus with An Extremely Long Tail, Anastasiia Chaban, Leonid Minakhin, Ekaterina Goldobina, Brain Bae, Yue Hao, Sergei Borukhov, Leena Putzeys, Maarten Boon, Florian Kabinger, Rob Lavigne, Kira S Makarova, Eugene V Koonin, Satish K Nair, Shunsuke Tagami, Konstantin Severinov, and Maria L Sokolova

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Novel Inhibitors to MmpL3 Transporter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Structure-Based High-Throughput Virtual Screening and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Hetanshi Choksi, Justin Carbone, Nicholas J. Paradis, Lucas Bennett, Candice Bui-Linh, and Chun Wu

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The Academic System Influence on Instructional Change: A Conceptual Systems Dynamics Model of Faculty Motivation to Adopt Research-Based Instructional Strategies (RBIS), Juan M. Cruz Bohorquez, Stephanie G. Adams, and Flor Angela Bravo

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Diversity in Osteopathic Medical School Admissions and the COMPASS Program: An Update, Nadege Dady, Steven Toplan, Jeffrey Gardere, Robin Moore, Lorreen Agandi, Ulcha Fergie Ulysse, Aida Aminpour, McKensie Gelvin, Jemima Akinsanya, and Kenneth Steier

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Comparing Cognitive Tests and Smartphone-Based Assessment in 2 US Community-Based Cohorts., Ileana De Anda-Duran, Preeti Sunderaraman, Edward Searls, Shirine Moukaled, Xuanyi Jin, Zachary Popp, Cody Karjadi, Phillip H Hwang, Huitong Ding, Sherral Devine, Ludy C Shih, Spencer Low, Honghuang Lin, Vijaya B Kolachalama, Lydia Bazzano, David J Libon, and Rhoda Au

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Implementation of rapid genomic sequencing in safety-net neonatal intensive care units: protocol for the VIrtual GenOme CenteR (VIGOR) proof-of-concept study., Alissa M D'Gama, Sonia Hills, Jessica Douglas, Vanessa Young, Casie A Genetti, Monica H Wojcik, Henry A Feldman, Timothy W Yu, Margaret G Parker, Pankaj B Agrawal, T. Allcroft, Vineet Bhandari, L. Cantu, D. Honrubia, A. Kritzer, Q. Li, L. Rhein, R. Rothstein, O. Salinas, A. Santana, K. Schmitz-Abe, A. Serna, F. Shapiro, A. B. Shenoy, L. Simoncini, B. Sinha, A. S. Verran, A. Sousa, and M. T. Newsam

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Educational chatbot development informed by clinical simulations, Alicia Drelick, Casey L. Woodfield, and Justin E. Freedman

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Species delimitation, discovery and conservation in a tiger beetle species complex despite discordant genetic data., Daniel P. Duran, Robert A Laroche, Stephen J Roman, William Godwin, David P Herrmann, Ethan Bull, and Scott P Egan

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Cutaneous Ulcerations as the Presenting Sign of Acute Aortic Occlusion, Odera Ekeh, Zoe I. Smith, and Justin J. Green

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Barriers Experienced by First Nations Deaf People in the Justice System, Brent Elder, Karen Soldatic, Michael A. Schwartz, Jody Barney, Damien Howard, and Patrick McGee

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Underwater double vortex generation using 3D printed acoustic lens and field multiplexing, Chadi Ellouzi, Ali Zabihi, Farhood Aghdasi, Aidan Kayes, Milton Rivera, Jiaxin Zhong, Amir Miri, and Chen Shen

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Factors Associated with Recanalization and Reintervention Following Below Knee Polidocanol Endovenous Microfoam Ablation for Great Saphenous and Small Saphenous Veins, John Fang, Christian Fang, Andy Moyal, Enrico Ascher, Anil Hingorani, and Natalie Marks

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Unrefined and Milled Ilmenite as a Cost-Effective Photocatalyst for UV-Assisted Destruction and Mineralization of PFAS, Eustace Y. Fernando and Zhiming Zhang

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Beyond the Pitch: Exploring the Process of Entrepreneurial Sales Communication, Gracemarie Mike Fillenwarth and Emily Nolan

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Fibrin Glue Acutely Blocks Distal Muscle Contraction after Confirmed Polyethylene Glycol Nerve Fusion: An Animal Study., Alec H Fisher, Parker H Johnsen, Andrew Simon, Cameron J Burns, Vineeth Romiyo, Elliot B Bodofsky, Sebastian Vega, and David A Fuller

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Improved Network Integrity and Patient Follow-up After In-Office Needle Arthroscopy Compared to Outpatient Advanced Diagnostic Imaging for Intra-articular Pathology, Elizabeth Ford, Rachel Frank, Manuel C. Pontes, and Sean McMillan

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Deep retinal layer microvasculature alterations in schizophrenia, Samantha Fradkin, Deepthi Bannai, Paulo Lizano, Adriann Lai, Christen Crosta, Judy L. Thompson, and Steven M. Silverstein

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Controls on Soft Tissue and Cellular Preservation in Late Eocene and Oligocene Vertebrate Fossils from the White River and Arikaree Groups of Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, John E. Gallucci, Grace Woolslayer, Kelsey Barker, Brian Kibelstis, Allison R Tumarkin-Deratzian, Paul V. Ullmann, David E. Grandstaff, and Dennis O. Terry

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Changes to tropical cyclone trajectories in Southeast Asia under a warming climate, Andra J. Garner, Dhrubajyoti Samanta, Mackenzie M. Weaver, and Benjamin P. Horton

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A Comparison of the Safety and Efficacy of Tapinarof and Roflumilast Topical Therapies in the Management of Mild-to-Moderate Plaque Psoriasis, Hira Ghani, Alicia Podwojniak, Isabella J Tan, Aarushi K Parikh, Bianca Sanabria, and Babar Rao

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Star allele search: a pharmacogenetic annotation database and user-friendly search tool of publicly available 1000 Genomes Project biospecimens., N Gharani, G Calendo, D Kusic, Josef Madzo, and Laua Scheinfeldt

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Evolution of the substance use landscape: Implications for contingency management., Shelby Goodwin, Kimberly C Kirby, and Bethany Raiff

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Combined effects of exercise and immuno-chemotherapy treatments on tumor growth in MC38 colorectal cancer-bearing mice., Manon Gouez, Amélie Rébillard, Amandine Thomas, Sabine Beaumel, Eva-Laure Matera, Etienne Gouraud, Luz Orfila, Brice Martin, Olivia Pérol, Cédric Chaveroux, Erica N. Chirico, Charles Dumontet, Béatrice Fervers, and Vincent Pialoux

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Economic review of point-of-care EEG., Adam Green, M Elizabeth Wegman, and John P Ney

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Ksp1 Is an Autophagic Receptor Protein for the Snx4-Assisted Autophagy of Ssn2/Med13, Sara E Hanley, Stephen D Willis, Steven J Doyle, Randy Strich, and Katrina F Cooper

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Emerin Deficiency Drives MCF7 Cells to an Invasive Phenotype, Emily Hansen, Christal Rolling, Matthew Wang, and James M Holaska

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Mid-Term Outcome after Extracorporeal Life Support in Postcardiotomy Cardiogenic Shock: Recovery and Quality of Life, Maja Hanuna, German Herz, Andre L. Stanzl, Yupeng Li, Christoph S Mueller, Christine E. Kamla, Clemens Scherer, Dietmar Wassilowsky, Gerd Juchem, Martin Orban, Sven Peterss, Christian Hagl, and Dominik Joskowiak

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Mental health, chronic and infectious conditions among pregnant persons in US state prisons and local jails 2016-2017., Caitlin A Hendricks, Karissa M Rajagopal, Carolyn B Sufrin, Camille Kramer, and Monik C Jiménez

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Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Impairs Norepinephrine System Function and Psychostimulant Responsivity, Leah Horvat, Alexis Foschini, James P Grinias, Barry D Waterhouse, and David M Devilbiss

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Repetitive mild traumatic brain injury impairs norepinephrine system function and psychostimulant responsivity, Leah Horvat, Alexis Foschini, James P. Grinias, Barry D. Waterhouse, and David M. Devilbiss

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The “Henry Rifle” on the German Stage: Karl May’s Depiction of the American West as “Dark and Bloody Grounds”, Elisabeth Hostetter

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PAL Evaluation El Salvador - Process and Outcome Study, Kimberly Houser, Christine Saum, Evan Sorg, and Joel Capellan

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Integrating Physiological Measures within a Music Therapy Research Course: Program Description and Initial Evaluation, Andrea M. Hunt and Felicity Sims

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Mean Flow and Dispersion in the Western Mediterranean Sea from Drifter Observations, Helga Huntley; James Turbett; A.D. Kirwan, Jr.; and Pierre-Marie Poulain

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Close Contacts of Xenograft Recipients: Ethical Considerations Due to Risk of Xenozoonosis, Daniel J Hurst, Luz Padilla, Daniel Rodger, Tamar Schiff, and David K C Cooper

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Social experiences, life satisfaction, and social support of immigrant families with young children in a highly urban city, Zeynep Isik-Ercan, Huan-Tang Lu, Nicole Edwards, Madji Fall, and Latifa Sebti

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tRNA Anticodon Cleavage by Target-Activated CRISPR-Cas13a Effector, Ishita Jain, Matvey Kolesnik, Konstantin Kuznedelov, Leonid Minakhin, Natalia Morozova, Anna Shiriaeva, Alexandr Kirillov, Sofia Medvedeva, Alexei Livenskyi, Laura Kazieva, Kira S Makarova, Eugene V Koonin, Sergei Borukhov, Konstantin Severinov, and Ekaterina Semenova

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Synthesis and Photopatterning of Synthetic Thiol-Norbornene Hydrogels, Umu S. Jalloh, Arielle Gsell, Kirstene Gultian, James MacAulay, Abigail Madden, Jillian Smith, Luke Siri, and Sebastian Vega

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The Tensegrity Curriculum: A Comprehensive Curricular Structure Supporting Cultural Humility in Undergraduate Medical Education., Anne C Jones, Kristin N Bertsch, Deborah Williams, and Millicent King Channell

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Witness to a Homicide: Experiencing Vicarious Trauma at an Execution, Sandra Joy

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Brain-Inspired Continual Learning: Robust Feature Distillation and Re-Consolidation for Class Incremental Learning, Hikmat Khan, Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya, and Ghulam Rasool

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Perturbations in Risk/Reward Decision Making and Frontal Cortical Catecholamine Regulation Induced by Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Christopher P Knapp, Eleni Papadopoulos, Jessica A Loweth, Ramesh Raghupathi, Stan B Floresco, Barry D Waterhouse, and Rachel L Navarra

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TendrilBot: Modular soft robot with versatile radial grasping and locomotion capabilities, Joshua Knospler, Nicholas Pagliocca, Wei Xue, and Mitja Trkov

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Reconfigurable modular soft robots with modulating stiffness and versatile task capabilities, Joshua Knospler, Wei Xue, and Mitja Trkov

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Distinct Expression Patterns of Hedgehog Signaling Components in Mouse Gustatory System During Postnatal Tongue Development and Adult Homeostasis, Archana Kumari, Nicole E Franks, Libo Li, Gabrielle Audu, Sarah Liskowicz, John D Johnson, Charlotte M Mistretta, and Benjamin L Allen

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Exploring the Factors That Influence K-12 Teachers’ Use of Open Educational Resources, Yu-Chun Kuo, Yu-Tung Kuo, and Hungwei Tseng

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Psalms of Unknowing: Poems, Heather Lanier

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ESG performance and firm risk in the U.S. financial firms, Jooh Lee and Rachel Koh

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Complex interplay of R&D, advertising and exports in USA manufacturing firms: differential effects of capabilities, Jooh Lee, Hee Boon Kwon, and Ian Brennan

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Benchmarking executive compensations: exploring fresh perspectives on chief executive officer (CEO) compensation drivers in major US corporations, Jooh Lee and Niranjan Pati

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Strategies for treating acute pain in patients with opioid dependence: a scoping review protocol., Sarah Levine, Megha Andrews, Benjamin H. Saracco, and Matthew Salzman

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Dysexecutive Difficulty and Subtle Everyday Functional Disabilities: The Digital Trail Making Test, David J Libon, Rod Swenson, Sean Tobyne, Ali Jannati, Daniel Schulman, Catherine C Price, Melissa Lamar, and Alvaro Pascual-Leone

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Development of a novel humanized anti-TSLP monoclonal antibody HZ-1127 with anti-allergic diseases and cancer potential., Xiaolei Liu, Jianzhong Han, Qian Wang, Peng Wang, Li Li, Kehe Du, Fengchao Jiang, Pei Zhang, Hongjun Liu, and Jian Huang

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Voices of Wisdom: Geriatric Interviews on Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes in the United States-A Systematic Review and Metasynthesis, David F Lo, Ahmed Gawash, Kunal P Shah, Jasmine Emanuel, Brandon Goodwin, Don D Shamilov, Gaurav Kumar, Nathan Jean, and Christian P White

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Utilizing primary human airway mucociliary tissue cultures to model ramifications of chronic E-cigarette usage., Vincent J Manna, Shannon Dwyer, Vanessa Pizutelli, and Salvatore J Caradonna

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An In Vivo Study of LNS8801, a GPER Agonist, in a Spontaneous Melanoma-Prone Mouse Model, TGS., Christina Marinaro, John Sauer, Christopher A Natale, Todd Ridky, and Suzie Chen

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Virtual Production, Jonathan Mason

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An exploratory metabolomic comparison of participants with fast or absent functional progression from 2CARE, a randomized, double-blind clinical trial in Huntington's disease., Andrew McGarry, Krystal Hunter, John Gaughan, Peggy Auinger, Thomas N Ferraro, Basant Pradhan, Luigi Ferrucci, Josephine M Egan, and Ruin Moaddel

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Revealing the double-edged sword: Introducing the Technology and Consumer Well-being Paradox Model, Graeme McLean, Nina Krey, and Jennifer Brannon Barhorst

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Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Augmented With a Reinforced Bioinductive Implant Is Biomechanically Similar to the Native Medial Patellofemoral Ligament at Time Zero in a Cadaveric Model, Sean McMillan, Seth Sherman, Zachary Brown, Erik Brewer, and Elizabeth Ford

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Editorial: Introduction to Special Issue on modern day experiential exercises, Steven Meisel and Dilip Mirchandani

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Acceptability of heart rate-based remote monitoring of smoking status., Matthew Mitnick, Shelby Goodwin, Mikaela Bubna, Justin S White, and Bethany Raiff

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A Fresh Take: Seasonal Changes in Terrestrial Freshwater Inputs Impact Salt Marsh Hydrology and Vegetation Dynamics (Estuaries and Coasts, (2024), 10.1007/s12237-024-01392-1), Maya S. Montalvo, Emilio Grande, Anna E. Braswell, Ate Visser, Bhavna Arora, Erin C. Seybold, Corianne Tatariw, John C. Haskins, Charlie A. Endris, and Fuller Gerbl

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Association of Risk Factors and Comorbidities With Chronic Pain in the Elderly Population., Neil Mookerjee, Nicole Schmalbach, Gianna Antinori, Subhadra Thampi, Dylan Windle-Puente, Amy Gilligan, Ha Huy, Megha Andrews, Angela Sun, Roshni Gandhi, William Benedict, Austin Chang, Ben Sanders, Justin Nguyen, Maanika Reddy Keesara, Janet Aliev, Aneri Patel, Isaiah Hughes, Ian Millstein, Krystal Hunter, and Satyajeet Roy

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SGD-OD: investigating the potential oxygen demand of submarine groundwater discharge in coastal systems., Willard S Moore, Claudia Benitez-Nelson, Charles Schutte, Amy Moody, Alan Shiller, Ryan J Sibert, and Samantha Joye

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Evaluation of vascular aging on measures of cardiac function and mechanical efficiency: insights from, Lawrence J Mulligan, Julian Thrash, Ludmil Mitrev, Douglas Folk, Alyssa Exarchakis, Daniel Ewert, and Jeffrey C Hill

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Comparing researchers’ degree of dichotomous thinking using frequentist versus Bayesian null hypothesis testing, Jasmine Muradchanian, Rink Hoekstra, Henk Kiers, Dustin Fife, and Don van Ravenzwaaij

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A survey of barriers and facilitators to the adoption of buprenorphine prescribing after implementation of a New Jersey-wide incentivized DATA-2000 waiver training program., Amesika N Nyaku, Erin A Zerbo, Clement Chen, Nicole Milano, Barbara Johnston, Randall Chadwick, Stephanie Marcello, Kaitlan Baston, Rachel Haroz, and Stephen Crystal

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Modular reconfigurable rotary style soft pneumatic actuators, Nicholas Pagliocca, Aatish Gupta, Joshua Knospler, Nand K. Singh, and Mitja Trkov

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Improved Cardiac Auscultation Competency Interweaving Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Stimuli: A Preliminary Study, Harrison A Patrizio, Riley Phyu, Bum Kim, and Nils V Brolis

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Utilizing the 4Ms Framework to Create a Structure and Process to Support Voluntary Health Assessments in Affordable Housing, Elyse Perweiler, Jennifer DeGennaro, Sherry Pomerantz, Marilyn Mock, Margaret Avallone, Aaron Truchil, and Stephen Singer

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Expansion of Osteopathic Medicine Practitioner Education on Substance Use Disorders, Joanna Petrides, Stuti Jha, Alexander Kowalski, Suzanna Hosein, Philip B Collins, and Joshua Coren

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Acne and the Cutaneous Microbiome: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms and Implications for Treatments, Alicia Podwojniak, Isabella J Tan, John Sauer, Zachary Neubauer, Hanna Rothenberg, Hira Ghani, Aarushi K Parikh, and Bernard Cohen

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Phenotypic Features Determining Visual Acuity in Albinism and the Role of Amblyogenic Factors., Frank A Proudlock, Rebecca J McLean, Viral Sheth, Sarim Ather, and Irene Gottlob

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Comparison of four in vitro test methods to assess nucleus pulposus replacement device expulsion risk, Tahmanna Rahman, Matthew J. Kibble, Gianluca Harbert, Nigel Smith, Erik Brewer, Thomas P. Schaer, and Nicolas Newell

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Comparison of four in vitro test methods to assess nucleus pulposus replacement device expulsion risk, Tamanna Rahman, Matthew J. Kibble, Gianluca Harbert, Nigel Smith, Erik Brewer, and Nicholas Newell