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‘I need support to continue my Muay Thai career’: A qualitative study on social support amongst Muay Thai fighters in Thailand
(2023-06)Most Muay Thai fighters in Thailand are from marginalized backgrounds. To succeed in their profession, social support plays a crucial role. This paper discusses the role of social support among Muay Thai fighters, that ... -
‘I need support to continue my Muay Thai career’: A qualitative study on social support amongst Muay Thai fighters in Thailand
(2023-06-21)Most Muay Thai fighters in Thailand come from marginalized backgrounds, making social support a crucial factor for their success in the sport. This paper explores the role of social support among Muay Thai fighters, ... -
Iloprost Attenuates Oxidative Stress-Dependent Activation of Collagen Synthesis Induced by Sera from Scleroderma Patients in Human Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells
(2021-08-05)Endothelial cell injury is an early event in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), with oxidative stress being a key trigger of SSc-associated vasculopathy. This study demonstrates that circulating factors in the ... -
Iloprost attenuates oxidative stress-dependent activation of collagen synthesis induced by sera from scleroderma patients in human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells
(2021-08-02)Endothelial cell injury is an early event in systemic sclerosis (SSc) pathogenesis and several studies indicate oxidative stress as the trigger of SSc-associated vasculopathy. Here, we show that circulating factors present ... -
Image-based contextual pill recognition with medical knowledge graph assistance
(2022)In many healthcare applications, accurately identifying pills from images captured under varying conditions has become increasingly crucial. Despite numerous attempts to employ deep learning methods for pill recognition, ... -
Imatinib augments standard malaria combination therapy without added toxicity
(2021)To exit its erythrocyte host, the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum must destabilize the erythrocyte membrane by activating an erythrocyte tyrosine kinase. Given that imatinib inhibits erythrocyte tyrosine kinases and ... -
Imatinib augments standard malaria combination therapy without added toxicity
(2021-08-26)To egress from its erythrocyte host, the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, must destabilize the erythrocyte membrane by activating an erythrocyte tyrosine kinase. Because imatinib inhibits erythrocyte tyrosine kinases ... -
Impact of art and reflective practice on medical education in the emergency department
(2022-11-10)Objectives This study investigates the role of arts-based pedagogy in medical education, particularly in the context of the Emergency Department (ED). Art, as a multifaceted form of expression, is employed to convey meaning ... -
The impact of interest rate policy on credit union lending during a crisis period
(2022-05-19)We exploit the variation in the exposure to the Covid-19 pandemic of US states as a quasi-natural experiment to examine the impact of interest rate policy on credit union lending. We find that the interest rate cut can ... -
The impact of organizational culture on bank stability
(2023-04-24)This paper examines the impact of organizational culture on bank stability. We rely on the Competing Values Framework (CVF) to identify the four cultural dimensions of banks, namely Control, Collaborate, Compete, and Create ... -
Impact of prior knowledge and psychological distance on tourist imagination of a promoted tourism event
(2021-09-12)Experiential marketing has emerged as an effective strategy to promote hedonic tourism and hospitality experiences through stimulating tourist imagination and positive emotions. This study aims to broaden the existing ... -
Impact of short and intensive art-based intervention on symptomatology and social interactions among children with autism spectrum disorder
(2023)Background: Consensus on the effectiveness of art therapy in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) is lacking in the literature. Purpose: Here, we examined the effectiveness of a short and intensive art-based ... -
Improving multi-label text classification using weighted information gain and co-trained multinomial naïve bayes classifier
(2022)Over recent years, the emergence of electronic text processing systems has generated a vast amount of structured and unstructured data, thus creating a challenging situation for users to rummage through irrelevant information. ... -
Improving Pareto front learning via multi-sample hypernetworks
(2023-04-28)Pareto Front Learning (PFL) was recently introduced as an effective approach to obtain a mapping function from a given trade-off vector to a solution on the Pareto front, which solves the multi-objective optimization (MOO) ... -
Improving transformers with probabilistic attention keys
(2022)Multi-head attention is a driving force behind state-of-the-art transformers, which achieve remarkable performance across a variety of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision tasks. It has been observed that ... -
Induction of Antitumor Immunity by Exosomes Isolated from Cryopreserved Cord Blood Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells
(2020-03-06)(1) Background: Dendritic cell (DC) vaccination has shown outstanding achievements in cancer treatment, although it still has some adverse side effects. Vaccination with DC-derived exosomes has been thought to overcome the ... -
Induction of antitumor immunity by exosomes isolated from cryopreserved cord blood monocyte-derived dendritic cells
(2020-03-01)(1) Background: Dendritic cell (DC) vaccination has shown outstanding achievements in cancer treatment, although it still has some adverse side effects. Vaccination with DC-derived exosomes has been thought to overcome the ... -
Influences of Xeno-Free Media on Mesenchymal Stem Cell Expansion for Clinical Application
(2020-09-27)Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) are multipotent somatic stem/progenitor cells that can be isolated from various tissues and have attracted increasing attention from the scientific community. This is due to MSCs showing ... -
Inhibition of mitochondrial phosphate carrier prevents high phosphate-induced superoxide generation and vascular calcification
(2023)Multi-head attention is a driving force behind state-of-the-art transformers, which achieve remarkable performance across a variety of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision tasks. It has been observed that ... -
Inhibition of mitochondrial phosphate carrier prevents high phosphate-induced superoxide generation and vascular calcification
(2023-03-01)Vascular calcification is a serious complication of hyperphosphatemia that causes cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Previous studies have reported that plasmalemmal phosphate (Pi) transporters, such as PiT-1/2, mediate ...
