COMET ASSAY - A SENSITIVE TOOL FOR GENOTOXICITY ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS IN MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS FROM THE BULGARIAN BLACK SEA COAST

Comet assay - a sensitive tool for genotoxicity assessment of environmental stress in Mytilus galloprovincialis from the Bulgarian Black Sea coast

Assessment of DNA damage is of primary concern when the pollution-related stress in living organisms has to be determined.The reason for this concern comes from the ARTHROMEND evidence that damages in DNA often lead to mutations which are potential threat for the sustainability of organisms and ecological systems.To monitor genotoxicity of the mari

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Strategy instruction and working memory on meta-comprehension, confidence, and test prediction accuracy for expository text in students

Strategy instruction during reading can aid metacomprehension producing higher judgement of learning (JOL) and prediction of performance (POP).In contrast, verbal working memory (WM) limitations cause metacognitive deficits and lengthy expository texts impose greater cognitive load.However, impact of cognitive factors and reading lengthy expository

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Pencil beam scanning proton therapy for mediastinal lymphomas in deep inspiration breath-hold: a retrospective assessment of plan robustness

Purpose/background: The aim of this study was to evaluate pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy (PT) in deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) for mediastinal lymphoma patients, by retrospectively evaluating plan robustness to the clinical target volume (CTV) and organs at risk (OARs) on repeated CT images acquired throughout treatment.Methods: Si

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Computerized adaptive testing with decision regression trees: an alternative to item response theory for quality of life measurement in multiple sclerosis

Pierre Michel,1,2 Karine Baumstarck,1 Anderson Loundou,1 Badih Ghattas,2 Pascal Auquier,1 Laurent Boyer1 1Aix-Marseille Univ, School of Medicine, CEReSS - Health Service Research and Quality of Life Center, Marseille, France; 2Mathematics Institute of Marseille, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France Background: The aim of this study was to pr

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