173 results for "LI Lin"
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Coordinating a three-level contract farming supply chain with option contracts considering risk-averse farmer and retailer
We considered a three-level contract farming supply chain comprising a risk-averse farmer, a risk-neutral supplier, and a risk-averse retailer. The farmer plants and grows fresh agricultural products with yield uncertainty, the supplier is the leader of the supply chain and the designer of the…
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Sexual function and satisfaction among heterosexual and sexual minority U.S. adults: A cross-sectional survey
Background: Despite known health disparities for sexual minorities, few studies have described sexual function by sexual orientation using a robust approach to measurement of sexual function. We compared recent sexual function and satisfaction by sexual orientation among English-speaking US adults…
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Is Payoff Necessarily Weighted by Probability When Making a Risky Choice? Evidence from Functional Connectivity Analysis
How people make decisions under risk remains an as-yet-unresolved but fundamental question. Mainstream theories about risky decision making assume that the core processes involved in reaching a risky decision include weighting each payoff or reward magnitude by its probability and then summing the…
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The association between cholecystectomy and colorectal neoplasm in inflammatory bowel diseases: A population-based cohort study
Background & aims: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and cholecystectomy are associated with the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). Our aim was to determine the association between cholecystectomy and the CRC risk in IBD. Methods: We first obtained the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research…
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Dementia: A Nationwide Population-Based Study
Purpose: Abnormal interaction in the brain–gut axis has emerged as one of the relevant pathophysiological mechanisms for the development of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Moreover, the brain–gut axis has recently been demonstrated to be crucial for the maintenance of cognitive performance…
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A Population-Based Cohort Study on Peripheral Arterial Disease in Patients with Schizophrenia
Purpose: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is considered the leading cause of atherosclerotic cardiovascular morbidity. Several risk factors of PAD have been observed in patients with schizophrenia. Therefore, we hypothesize that the incidence of PAD is higher in the schizophrenia population than…
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Association between chronic pancreatitis and urolithiasis: A population-based cohort study
Purpose: Chronic pancreatitis (CP) can cause fat or bile acid malabsorption due to exocrine insufficiency. Fat or bile acid malabsorption has been reported to increase the risk of urolithiasis through increased intestinal oxalate absorption. However, no studies have reported an association between…
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Mouse RAGE Variant 4 Is a Dominant Membrane Receptor that Does Not Shed to Generate Soluble RAGE
The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is a multi-ligand, immunoglobulin-like receptor that has been implicated in aging-associated diseases. Recent studies have demonstrated that both human and murine Ager genes undergo extensive alternative splicing that generates multiple…
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Associations among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with asthma, pneumonia, and corticosteroid use in the general population
Purpose: To evaluate the association among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with asthma, steroid use, and pneumonia in the general population. Methods: Using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database to identify patients with incident pneumonia, we established a COPD with…
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Association between vesicoureteral reflux, urinary tract infection and antibiotics exposure in infancy and risk of childhood asthma
Background: The use of antibiotics for treating infection in childhood and their association with increased risk of asthma remain controversial. Infants diagnosed with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) belong to a unique population who are administered antibiotics for a long time and are susceptible to…
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Inhaled anesthesia associated with reduced mortality in patients with stage III breast cancer: A population-based study
Background: Patients diagnosed with stage III breast cancer often undergo surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy as part of their treatment. The choice of anesthesia technique during surgery has been a subject of interest due to its potential association with immune changes and prognosis. In…
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Is an Idea Different from Cake: Can You Have It and Eat It, Too? A Violation of Permanence in Information Consumption
One of the basic features of information is permanence. This feature states that the consumption of information by one consumer does not affect the availability of that information to other consumers. We present examples in two studies indicating that both laymen and experts of information exchange…
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Comparative proteomics provides insights into diapause program of Bactrocera minax (Diptera: Tephritidae)
The Chinese citrus fly, Bactrocera minax, is a notorious univoltine pest that causes damage to citrus. B. minax enters obligatory pupal diapause in each generation to resist harsh environmental conditions in winter. Despite the enormous efforts that have been made in the past decade, the…
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Association between different metabolic obesity phenotypes and colorectal adenoma
Background: Obesity and metabolic abnormalities are independently and interactively associated with colorectal adenoma (CRA). This study aimed to investigate the association between different metabolic obesity phenotypes and CRA, and to assess whether this relationship is influenced by…
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Long-term efficacy of transanal local excision versus total mesorectal excision after neoadjuvant treatment for rectal cancer: A meta-analysis
Aim: The purpose of this meta-analysis is to compare the long-term efficacy of transanal local excision (TLE) versus total mesorectal excision (TME) following neoadjuvant therapy for rectal cancer. Method: The Web of Science, Pubmed, Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were systematically…
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High risk of developing subsequent epilepsy in patients with sleep-disordered breathing
Purpose: Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is often associated with other medical disorders. Whether SDB interacts with other factors for developing subsequent epilepsy remains unclear. Methods: This population-based cohort study was conducted using the National Health Insurance Research Database of…
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Effects of lipocalin-2 on brain endothelial adhesion and permeability
Lipocalin-2 (LCN2) is a stress protein, and can be hyper-produced by many kinds of cells after exposure to injury or disease conditions. In this study, we asked whether LCN2 may play a protective role in cerebral endothelium. After focal cerebral ischemia in rats, plasma levels of LCN2 were…
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Identification of Amino Acid Propensities That Are Strong Determinants of Linear B-cell Epitope Using Neural Networks
Background: Identification of amino acid propensities that are strong determinants of linear B-cell epitope is very important to enrich our knowledge about epitopes. This can also help to obtain better epitope prediction. Typical linear B-cell epitope prediction methods combine various propensities…
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Conserved Transcriptional Regulatory Programs Underlying Rice and Barley Germination
Germination is a biological process important to plant development and agricultural production. Barley and rice diverged 50 million years ago, but share a similar germination process. To gain insight into the conservation of their underlying gene regulatory programs, we compared transcriptomes of…