Fricke-Galindo, Ingrid Buendia-Roldan, Ivette Chavez-Galan, Leslie Pérez-Rubio, Gloria Hernández-Zenteno, Rafael de Jesús Ramos-Martinez, Espiridión Zazueta-Márquez, Armando Reyes-Melendres, Felipe Alarcón-Dionet, Aimé Guzmán-Vargas, Javier
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Biology
An impaired coagulation process has been described in patients with severe or critical coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Nevertheless, the implication of coagulation-related genes has not been explored. We aimed to evaluate the impact of F5 rs6025 and SERPINE1 rs6092 on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) requirement and the levels of coagulation p...
Schneider, Marius Broggini, Ana Clara Dann, Benjamin Tzanou, Athanasia Uran, Cem Sheshadri, Swathi Scherberger, Hansjörg Vinck, Martin
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Neuron
Inter-areal coherence between field potentials is a widespread phenomenon in cortex. Coherence has been hypothesized to reflect phase-synchronization between oscillators and flexibly gate communication according to behavioral and cognitive demands. We reveal an alternative mechanism where coherence is not the cause but the consequence of communicat...
Arestis, Philip Karagiannis, Nikolaos Lee, Sangkwon
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Review of Evolutionary Political Economy
The focus of this paper is to analyze sociocultural and politico-institutional factors that contributed greatly to China’s economic expansion. In doing so, the article reveals the importance of long-standing heterodox threads, namely, the role of history, political economy, institutional structures, local culture, social psychology, and internation...
Dong, Rujiao Chen, Guoliang Jin, Yanhui Wang, Mingshan Cheng, Xiaoli Chen, Yi
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Acta Haematologica
Hereditary factor V (FV) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive bleeding disorder caused by F5 gene mutations. The objective of this study was to investigate the p.Phe218Ser and p.Gly304Glu variants found in 2 families with hereditary FV deficiency. The FV activity (FV:C) and FV antigen (FV:Ag) were measured by clotting and ELISA, respectively. T...
Kiraz, Aslihan Guzeldag, Seda Eren, Esma Goksu, Musa Bayram, Arslan
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Future Virology
Aim: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between severe novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) and hypercoagulable conditions that predispose patients to thrombosis such as the prothrombin gene ( F2 ) rs1799963 (G20210A), factor V Leiden ( F5 ) rs6025 (G1691A) and PAI-1 (rs1799768). Patients: NCP-diagnosed 62 previously healthy patients wer...
Seiferling, Mike
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Financial Innovation
In both academic research and policymaking, public sector debt and debt-to-GDP ratios are relied on for a multitude of important economic, political and socioeconomic decisions, especially as public sector balance sheets expand to an unprecedented size in the midst of the 2019–2020 COVID pandemic. The reliance on available data from reputable sourc...
Liu, Kerry
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East Asia (Piscataway, N.j.)
Australia—China relations, and especially Chinese influence in Australia, have been the subject of heated debate in Australia since 2016. The central issue is, how to balance concerns over Chinese influence in Australia with the economic benefits of Chinese trade and investment? This study—arguably the first of its kind—answers this question using ...
Kolluru, Mythili Suresh, Vidya
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ECONOMICS
The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) developed by Xavier Salai-Martín, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, has been measuring the factors that drive the growth and prosperity since 2005. This paper focuses on grouping the European nations according to global competitiveness. It uses the hierarchical and K-means cluster with a particul...
Molendowski, Edward Polan, Wojciech
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International Journal of Management and Economics
It is a common knowledge that the eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) was an extremely important undertaking for both the New Member States (EU-10) and the “old Union” countries (EU-15). One of the most important effects was significant acceleration of the development of mutual trade links, including changes in their commodity structure....
Khidri, Feriha Fatima Waryah, Yar Muhammad Ali, Faiza Kamran Shaikh, Hina Ujjan, Ikram Din Waryah, Ali Muhammad
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BMC Medical Genetics
BackgroundTo study the role of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) of genes related to preeclampsia in Pakistani pregnant women.MethodsAfter ethical approval and getting informed consent; 250 pregnant women were enrolled and equally divided into two groups (125 preeclamptic cases and 125 normotensive pregnant women). Demographic details and medical h...
