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Rawat, U. S., and Shishir Kumar. "ECFS." International Journal of Information Security and Privacy 6, no. 2 (April 2012): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jisp.2012040104.

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Proposed is a secure and efficient approach for designing and implementing an enterprise-class cryptographic file system for Linux (ECFS) in kernel-space. It uses stackable file system interface to introduce a layer for encrypting files using symmetric keys, and public-key cryptography for user authentication and file sharing, like other existing enterprise-class cryptographic file systems. It differs itself from existing systems by including all public-key cryptographic operations and public-key infrastructure (PKI) support in kernel-space that protects it from attacks that may take place with a user-space PKI support. It has a narrower domain of trust than existing systems. It uses XTS mode of AES algorithm for file encryption for providing better protection and performance. It also uses kernel-keyring service for improving performance. It stores the cryptographic metadata in file’s access control list (ACL) as extended attributes to ease the task of file sharing. A secure protocol has also been designed and implemented to guard against various possible attacks, when its files are accessed remotely over an untrusted network.

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de Dios, Rubén, Eduardo Santero, and Francisca Reyes-Ramírez. "Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors as Tools for Coordinating Stress Responses." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22, no. 8 (April 9, 2021): 3900. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22083900.

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The ability of bacterial core RNA polymerase (RNAP) to interact with different σ factors, thereby forming a variety of holoenzymes with different specificities, represents a powerful tool to coordinately reprogram gene expression. Extracytoplasmic function σ factors (ECFs), which are the largest and most diverse family of alternative σ factors, frequently participate in stress responses. The classification of ECFs in 157 different groups according to their phylogenetic relationships and genomic context has revealed their diversity. Here, we have clustered 55 ECF groups with experimentally studied representatives into two broad classes of stress responses. The remaining 102 groups still lack any mechanistic or functional insight, representing a myriad of systems yet to explore. In this work, we review the main features of ECFs and discuss the different mechanisms controlling their production and activity, and how they lead to a functional stress response. Finally, we focus in more detail on two well-characterized ECFs, for which the mechanisms to detect and respond to stress are complex and completely different: Escherichia coli RpoE, which is the best characterized ECF and whose structural and functional studies have provided key insights into the transcription initiation by ECF-RNAP holoenzymes, and the ECF15-type EcfG, the master regulator of the general stress response in Alphaproteobacteria.

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Ma, Jinhui, Haijing Huang, and Daibin Liu. "Influences of Spatial Accessibility and Service Capacity on the Utilization of Elderly-Care Facilities: A Case Study of the Main Urban Area of Chongqing." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 6 (March 8, 2023): 4730. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064730.

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With the unprecedented growth of the elderly population in China, elderly-care facilities (ECFs) are in a fast expansion process. However, limited attention has been paid to the imbalance at the actual utilization level of ECFs. This research aims to reveal the spatial inequity of ECFs and to quantitatively examine the effect of accessibility and institutional service capacity on utilization. Taking Chongqing, China, as the study area, we measured the spatial accessibility of different travel modes by the Gaussian Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (G2SFCA) method and investigated distribution differences in spatial accessibility, service capacity, and utilization of ECFs by the Dagum Gini Coefficient and its decomposition. Then, the impact of spatial accessibility and service capacity on the utilization of regional ECFs was quantified by multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR). The study findings can be summarized as follows. (1) Walking accessibility has the most significant impact on the utilization of ECFs and shows geographic heterogeneity. Developing a pedestrian-oriented network of pathways is essential to enhance the utilization of ECFs. (2) Accessibility by driving and bus-riding does not correlate with regional ECFs utilization, and relevant studies cannot rely on them alone for assessing the equity of ECFs. (3) In the utilization of ECFs, since the inter-regional difference is more significant than the intra-regional difference, efforts to reduce the overall imbalance should be oriented toward inter-regional variation. The study’s findings will assist national policymakers in developing EFCs to enhance health indicators and quality of life for older adults by prioritizing financing for shortage areas, coordinating ECFs services, and optimizing road systems.

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Ulubeyli, Serdar, and Dilek Yorulmaz. "Intellectual capital based reputation for market internationalization." Journal of Intellectual Capital 21, no. 1 (November 27, 2019): 40–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jic-01-2019-0010.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the possible impact of intellectual capital (IC) on firm reputation (FR) and investigates if there is a relationship between FR and market internationalization (MI). Design/methodology/approach The data were collected from engineering consultancy firms (ECFs) in Turkey. The study employed structural equation modeling to examine the hypothesized relationships between IC, FR, and MI of ECFs. Findings ECFs with strong human and structural capital can have a good FR. However, healthy relational capital may not lead to the same effect on FR. On the contrary, FR can create high-quality relational capital for ECFs. Lastly, a good FR, based on robust human and structural capital, can provide the success of ECFs’ MI process. Research limitations/implications This model may be analyzed for other knowledge-intensive business services. Also, subsequent researches may investigate potential variations in results about other sectors and geographical areas. Moreover, various constructs may be included in the model. However, a greater number of samples could lead to distinctive outcomes. Practical implications The research may be a general guide for related professionals and their companies to build long-term strategies, given IC, FR and MI. In this respect, they should take into account human and structural capital for MI. Social implications ECFs that can be active in the international arena may maintain their services by financial sustainability. Thus, the advantage may result in a prosperous society. Originality/value The study is first to suggest a model joining IC and FR for the MI process of ECFs. This is suitable for competition of ECFs that are willing to be sustainable firms.

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Stockwell, S. B., L. Reutimann, and M. L. Guerinot. "A Role for Bradyrhizobium japonicum ECF16 Sigma Factor EcfS in the Formation of a Functional Symbiosis with Soybean." Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® 25, no. 1 (January 2012): 119–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/mpmi-07-11-0188.

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Alternative sigma (σ) factors, proteins that recruit RNA polymerase core enzyme to target promoters, are one mechanism by which bacteria transcriptionally regulate groups of genes in response to environmental stimuli. A class of σ70 proteins, termed extracytoplasmic function (ECF) σ factors, are involved in cellular processes such as bacterial stress responses and virulence. Here, we describe an ECF16 σ factor, EcfS (Blr4928) from the gram-negative soil bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110, that plays a critical role in the establishment of a functional symbiosis with soybean. Nonpolar insertional mutants of ecfS form immature nodules that do not fix nitrogen, a defect that can be successfully complemented by expression of ecfS. Overexpression of the cocistronic gene, tmrS (blr4929), phenocopies the ecfS mutant in planta and, therefore, we propose that TmrS is a negative regulator of EcfS, a determination consistent with the prediction that it encodes an anti-σ factor. Microarray analysis of the ecfS mutant and tmrS overexpressor was used to identify 40 transcripts misregulated in both strains. These transcripts primarily encode proteins of unknown and transport-related functions and may provide insights into the symbiotic defect in these strains.

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Swarup, Supreeya, Sowmya Kantamneni, Sarah Kabir, Roman Zeltser, and Amgad N. Makaryus. "Echocardiographic Manifestation of Esophagitis Mimicking a Posterior Mediastinal Mass." Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology 8s4 (January 2014): CMC.S18767. http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/cmc.s18767.

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Incidental extracardiac findings (ECFs) are commonly noted on cardiac imaging. The majority of the ECFs are noticed on computed tomography (CT), cardiac magnetic resonance scanning, and myocardial perfusion imaging. Although transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is a widely used cardiac modality, there is scarcity of data describing ECF on TTE. ECFs have the potential to alter patient management. We present a rare case of a cystic mass seen in the posterior mediastinum on TTE, which led to further evaluation and diagnosis of esophagitis with ulceration.

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Ghetti, Riccardo. "Unification, Harmonisation and Competition in European Company Forms." European Business Law Review 29, Issue 5 (September 1, 2018): 813–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/eulr2018031.

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The main tools for the convergence of company law are full legal unification, mere harmonisation, and regulatory competition. The article uses this framework to study both the existing and the proposed European company forms (ECFs): the European Company, the European Cooperative Company, the European Private Company and the Single Member Company. All ECFs aim at legal unification, but none of them are endowed with comprehensively unified legal regimes; their regulation is patchy and stratified and suffers from heavy referencing to national law in crucial areas such as corporate governance and corporate groups. It is therefore no surprise that ECFs have failed to win the favour of European entrepreneurs, and the data on the diffusion of ECFs are not encouraging: a large proportion of the few registered ECFs are in fact only shell companies, and most of the operating ECFs are found only in selected parts of central Europe. This failure is the result of high setup, legal and reputational costs, not offset by sufficiently important benefits. The roots of the fiasco go deeper, however, as regulatory protectionism impedes the adoption of attractive supranational company forms. While acknowledging that forcing further cooperative convergence could be not only costly but also ineffective, it must be noted that to some extent non-cooperative convergence is already occurring, at least with reference to national company forms suitable for small companies. Here, in contrast with the cooperative/supranational level, the non-cooperative mechanism of regulatory competition needs not inevitably turn into regulatory protectionism but can instead be a positive source of emulation, causing the diffusion of effective national company forms and leading ultimately to spontaneous legal convergence without supranational intervention. EU company law makers should consider that in the field of ECFs no law might be better than bad law, thus avoiding the path of cooperative adaptation and trusting the uniforming force of regulatory competition instead.

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YOKOTA, Shinichi, and Kazuya EDAMURA. "Motors Using Electro-Conjugate Fluids (ECFs)." Reference Collection of Annual Meeting VIII.02.1 (2002): 364–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmemecjsm.viii.02.1.0_364.

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Shi, Lefeng, Guanhong Chen, and Song Wang. "Dynamic analysis of the investment decision of electric vehicle charging facilities and the promotion effect measurement for electric vehicles." European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research 23, no. 2 (May 1, 2023): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.18757/ejtir.2023.23.2.6666.

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This paper aims to analyze the deep reason why there exists hesitation when investors decide whether invest in EV charging facilities (ECFs). To this end, a series of theoretic models are built and derived, and some enlightening results are got. The main results confirm that charging facility investors are insufficiently motivated to follow a moderately aggressive investment strategy in the early stages of EV development. For stimulating ECFs’ investment, the marginal conditions in which the investors choose active or conservative investment strategies to lay out charging facilities are analyzed, and the effects under different ECFs investment strategies are quantized in terms of driving the market development of EVs. Based on the findings, relevant policy suggestions are proposed. Finally, to verify the gained results, a case study in the context of China is given.

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Jiang, Zhizhao, Jianan Ren, Huajian Ren, Zhiwu Hong, Gefei Wang, Guosheng Gu, and Xiuwen Wu. "Early Active Irrigation-Suction Drainage among Enterocutaneous Fistulas Patients with Chronic Critical Illness: A Retrospective Cohort Study." American Surgeon 86, no. 4 (April 2020): 346–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000313482008600431.

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Enterocutaneous fistulas (ECFs) requiring admission to ICU is a serious surgical complication. A growing number of patients survive ECFs but remain chronically critically ill. The aim of our study was to investigate the risk factors of hospital death in patients with chronic critical illness attributed to ECFs. A retrospective single-center study was conducted in 163 ECF patients between 2013 and 2017. Patient-specific baseline characteristics, outcomes, and process of care variables were collected. Risk factors for hospital mortality were determined using univariate and multi-variate analyses. Patients were divided into the following two groups according to the hospital discharge outcome: group survivors (n = 106) and group nonsurvivors (n = 57). Patients who received active irrigation-suction drainage (AISD) within 24 hours after the diagnosis of ECFs had a significantly lower hospital mortality rate than those who received AISD after more than 24 hours (17.9% vs 46.9%, P < 0.001). Multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrated that delayed AISD (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 10.24; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.03234.59; P < 0.001) and no rehabilitation therapy (AOR, 4.77; 95% CI, 1.43215.98; P = 0.011) were independently associated with a greater risk of hospital mortality. The hospital mortality rate in patients with more than or equal to four risk factors was 92.6 per cent (n = 57), compared with a mortality rate of 9.4 per cent (n = 106) in patients who did not have these risk factors ( P < 0.001). The risk of hospital death is exceptionally high among patients with chronic critical illness attributed to ECFs. Efforts aimed at early AISD and rehabilitation therapy are likely to be associated with improved clinical outcomes.

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Richter, Bertram, Zachary Mace, Megan Hays, Santosh Adhikari, Huy Pham, Robert Sclabassi, Benedict Kolber, et al. "Development and Characterization of Novel Conductive Sensing Fibers for In Vivo Nerve Stimulation." Sensors 21, no. 22 (November 15, 2021): 7581. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21227581.

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Advancements in electrode technologies to both stimulate and record the central nervous system’s electrical activities are enabling significant improvements in both the understanding and treatment of different neurological diseases. However, the current neural recording and stimulating electrodes are metallic, requiring invasive and damaging methods to interface with neural tissue. These electrodes may also degrade, resulting in additional invasive procedures. Furthermore, metal electrodes may cause nerve damage due to their inherent rigidity. This paper demonstrates that novel electrically conductive organic fibers (ECFs) can be used for direct nerve stimulation. The ECFs were prepared using a standard polyester material as the structural base, with a carbon nanotube ink applied to the surface as the electrical conductor. We report on three experiments: the first one to characterize the conductive properties of the ECFs; the second one to investigate the fiber cytotoxic properties in vitro; and the third one to demonstrate the utility of the ECF for direct nerve stimulation in an in vivo rodent model.

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Teira, Eva, Víctor Hernando-Morales, Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo, Laura Alonso-Sáez, Hugo Sarmento, Joaquín Valencia-Vila, Teresa Serrano Catalá, et al. "Sample Dilution and Bacterial Community Composition Influence Empirical Leucine-to-Carbon Conversion Factors in Surface Waters of the World's Oceans." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 81, no. 23 (September 25, 2015): 8224–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.02454-15.

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ABSTRACTThe transformation of leucine incorporation rates to prokaryotic carbon production rates requires the use of either theoretical or empirically determined conversion factors. Empirical leucine-to-carbon conversion factors (eCFs) vary widely across environments, and little is known about their potential controlling factors. We conducted 10 surface seawater manipulation experiments across the world's oceans, where the growth of the natural prokaryotic assemblages was promoted by filtration (i.e., removal of grazers [F treatment]) or filtration combined with dilution (i.e., also relieving resource competition [FD treatment]). The impact of sunlight exposure was also evaluated in the FD treatments, and we did not find a significant effect on the eCFs. The eCFs varied from 0.09 to 1.47 kg C mol Leu−1and were significantly lower in the FD than in the F samples. Also, changes in bacterial community composition during the incubations, as assessed by automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA), were more pronounced in the FD than in the F treatments, compared to unmanipulated controls. Thus, we discourage the common procedure of diluting samples (in addition to filtration) for eCF determination. The eCFs in the filtered treatment were negatively correlated with the initial chlorophyllaconcentration, picocyanobacterial abundance (mostlyProchlorococcus), and the percentage of heterotrophic prokaryotes with high nucleic acid content (%HNA). The latter two variables explained 80% of the eCF variability in the F treatment, supporting the view that bothProchlorococcusand HNA prokaryotes incorporate leucine in substantial amounts, although this results in relatively low carbon production rates in the oligotrophic ocean.

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YOKOTA, Shinichi, Atsushi SADAMOTO, Yutaka KONDOH, Yasufumi OTSUBO, and Kazuya EDAMURA. "A Micro Motor Using Electroconjugate Fluids (ECFs)." JSME International Journal Series C 44, no. 3 (2001): 756–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmec.44.756.

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Castellani, Carlo, Alistair J. A. Duff, Scott C. Bell, Harry G. M. Heijerman, Anne Munck, Felix Ratjen, Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus, et al. "ECFS best practice guidelines: the 2018 revision." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 17, no. 2 (March 2018): 153–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2018.02.006.

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Tomlinson, Owen W., Curtis A. Wadey, and Craig A. Williams. "Normal reference values for aerobic fitness in cystic fibrosis: a scoping review." BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 8, no. 4 (December 2022): e001490. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2022-001490.

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ObjectiveThe importance of aerobic fitness (VO2peak) in cystic fibrosis (CF) is well established, and regular exercise testing is recommended. To standardise VO2peak, a ‘percentage of predicted’ (%pred) derived from normative reference values (NRV), as promoted by the 2015 European Cystic Fibrosis Society Exercise Working Group (ECFS EWG), can be reported. However, the NRVs used in CF and their relative frequency is unknown.MethodA scoping review was performed via systematic database searches (PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, SciELO, EBSCO) and forward citation searches for studies that include people with CF and report VO2peakas %pred. Studies were screened using Covidence, and data related to patient demographics, testing modality and reference equations were extracted. Additional analyses were performed on studies published in 2016–2021, following the ECFS EWG statement in 2015.ResultsA total of 170 studies were identified, dating from 1984 to 2022, representing 6831 patients with CF, citing 34 NRV. Most studies (154/170) used cycle ergometry, 15/170 used treadmills, and the remainder used alternative, combination or undeclared modalities. In total, 61/170 failed to declare the NRV used. There were 61 studies published since the ECFS EWG statement, whereby 18/61 used the suggested NRV.ConclusionThere is a wide discrepancy in NRV used in the CF literature base to describe VO2peakas %pred, with few studies using NRV from the ECFS EWG statement. This high variance compromises the interpretation and comparison of studies while leaving them susceptible to misinterpretation and limiting replication. Standardisation and alignment of reporting of VO2peakvalues are urgently needed.

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Marple, Ronald T., and James D. Hurd, Jr. "Investigation of the Cape Fear arch and East Coast fault system in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina, USA, using LiDAR data." Atlantic Geology 57 (November 26, 2021): 311–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2021.015.

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LiDAR data collected in the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas revealed numerous, mostly NW-SE-oriented lineaments that cross the Cape Fear arch, the longest of which are the 50- to 115-km-long, NW-SE-oriented Faison, Jarmantown, Livingston Creek, and White Marsh lineaments and the ~50-km-long, ENE-WSW-oriented Tomahawk lineament in southeastern North Carolina. Their interpretation is based mainly on locally incised channels, abrupt stream bends, topographic scarps, and linear areas of uplifted Coastal Plain sediments. The Precambrian to Paleozoic Graingers basin or synform in the pre-Cretaceous basement terminates to the southwest along the ~28-km-long, 3- to 7-km-wide Jarmantown high. The ~115-km-long Jarmantown lineament may be the surface expression of the previously reported Neuse fault, the location of which has been controversial. The Jarmantown and other lineaments crossing the Cape Fear arch suggest that the arch is structurally complex. Further investigation of the East Coast fault system (ECFS) along the west side of the Cape Fear arch in North Carolina revealed that it is located farther to the northwest than previously reported, thereby making it continuous with the ECFS in northeastern South Carolina where it forms a ~15° restraining bend. We postulate that the interpreted faults crossing the Cape Fear arch in southeastern North Carolina formed to compensate for the increased compression and change in volume from dextral motion along the fault bend. Holocene paleoliquefaction deposits near the coast, a vertically offset Pleistocene(?) beach ridge along the interpreted Faison fault, and Tertiary surface faults along the ECFS northeast of Smithfield, North Carolina, suggest that large Quaternary earthquakes may have occurred along the ECFS, the Faison and Neuse faults, and other interpreted faults that cross the Cape Fear arch.

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Grainger, Emma. "Cystic fibrosis: a call for papers for ECFS 2022." Lancet Respiratory Medicine 10, no. 2 (February 2022): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600(22)00017-0.

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Grainger, Emma. "Cystic fibrosis: a call for papers for ECFS 2018." Lancet Respiratory Medicine 6, no. 1 (January 2018): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600(17)30470-8.

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Grainger, Emma. "Cystic fibrosis: a call for papers for ECFS 2019." Lancet Respiratory Medicine 7, no. 2 (February 2019): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600(19)30007-4.

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Grainger, Emma. "Cystic fibrosis: a call for papers for ECFS 2020." Lancet Respiratory Medicine 7, no. 12 (December 2019): 1006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600(19)30422-9.

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Iñigo-Mora, Isabel. "Commitment to the truth or defensive stance? Political strategies in the Brexit contest." Psychology of Language and Communication 25, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 120–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/plc-2021-0006.

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Abstract This paper analyses politicians’ selection of adverbs of certainty and extreme case formulations (ECFs) in both the 1975 Referendum and the Brexit (2016). This analysis helped discover if politicians in the 1975 Referendum and the Brexit: (a) framed a similar or different reality through their discourse choices and (b) used the same types of adverbs of certainty and ECFs and with the same frequency. For this purpose, we contrasted both the time (the 1975 Referendum vs. the Brexit) and the position (Anti-Europe vs. Pro-Europe). The corpus was made up of eight different recordings. Four of them were about the Brexit and four about the 1975 Referendum. In the case of the Brexit corpus, two recordings were Pro-Europe, two were Anti-Europe, and the same was in the case of the 1975 Referendum corpus.

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Ghorai, A., and Arjun Das. "Defect Studies in bcc and fcc Iron." ISRN Metallurgy 2012 (March 26, 2012): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/431742.

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Variation of vacancy formation energy (EF1v) with rc of Ashcroft's empty core model potential (AECMP) model for different exchange and correlation functions (ECFs) show almost independent nature but slight variation with ECF for both bcc α iron and fcc γ iron.

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Niwa, A., and T. Miyazato. "Enhancement of intestinal eosinophilia duringHymenolepis nanainfection in mice." Journal of Helminthology 70, no. 1 (March 1996): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x00015108.

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AbstractThe ability ofHymenolepis nanaoncosphere extract to induce eosinophil chemotactic response was examinedin vitroandin vivo. The extract showed a chemotactic activity specific for eosinophils but not for neutrophils. Partially purified eosinophil chemotactic factors (ECFs) from the oncosphere extract showed apparent molecular mass from 5.5 to 9.6kDa and 30 to 40kDa. These were resistant to heating and proteinase K digestion but sensitive to periodate oxidation. Peritoneal injection of the crude extract or partially purified ECFs to mice resulted in a preferential eosinophil infiltration. The chemotactic activity for eosinophils was not separable from the adhesion molecule expression or oxygen radical-inducing activity by means of chromatography or chemical treatments. Furthermore, histological examination demonstrated a marked tissue eosinophilia aroundH. nanalarvae in the intestinal lamina propria of both humoral and cell-mediated immunodeficiency mice. The present findings suggest thatH. nanaoncosphere-derived molecules facilitatein vivothe intestinal eosinophilia during the infection.

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Grainger, Emma. "Cystic fibrosis: a call for papers for the ECFS meeting." Lancet Respiratory Medicine 5, no. 2 (February 2017): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600(16)30468-4.

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Dunlevy, F., D. Downey, E. Lammertyn, P. Reix, and H. M. Janssens. "P083 Inequal access to CFTR modulators across ECFS-CTN countries." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 22 (June 2023): S88—S89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(23)00458-7.

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Marple, Ronald T., and James D. Hurd, Jr. "Further evidence for the East Coast fault system and faults associated with the Summerville restraining bend and their possible relationship to the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake, USA." Atlantic Geoscience 58 (May 31, 2022): 099–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.4138/atlgeo.2022.004.

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The integration of aeromagnetic, LiDAR, and previously acquired seismic-reflection data and surficial geologic maps supports the existence of the East Coast fault system ( and faults associated with its 12⁰ Summerville restraining bend beneath the South Carolina Coastal Plain. Aeromagnetic data revealed a 10- to 15-km-wide zone of subtle, 22- to 35-km-long linear magnetic anomalies trending ~N10°E across the southern meizoseismal area of the 1886 Charleston earthquake that we postulate are associated with Cenozoic low-displacement brittle faults in the crystalline basement west of Charleston. We hypothesize that lineaments ML4 and ML5 represent the principal displacement zone along the southern end of the ECFS because they coincide with steeply dipping, west-side-up buried faults interpreted from previously acquired seismic-reflection profiles and a ~320-m dextral offset in the Brownsville Pleistocene beach ridge deposit. The alignment of the NNE-SSW-oriented Edisto dome, uplift along releveling line 9, gently upwarped longitudinal profiles along the Caw Caw and Horse Savanna swamps, local incision along the Ashley River, and exposures of the early Oligocene Ashley Formation near the incised part of the Ashley River support Quaternary uplift along the southern ECFS. The 12⁰ change in trend formed by lineaments ML4 and ML5 supports the existence of the Summerville restraining bend in the ECFS, east of which are numerous ENE-WSW- to NW-SE-oriented LiDAR lineaments that we postulate are surface expressions of faults that formed to compensate for the increased compression produced by dextral motion along the bend. Sinistral displacement along one of these proposed faults associated with the ~40-km-long, east-west-oriented Deer Park lineament may have produced the main shock of the 1886 Charleston earthquake.

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Blay-Armah, Augustine, Ali Bahadori-Jahromi, Anastasia Mylona, Mark Barthorpe, and Marco Ferri. "An Evaluation of the Impact of Databases on End-of-Life Embodied Carbon Estimation." Sustainability 14, no. 4 (February 17, 2022): 2307. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14042307.

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The growing awareness of the need to minimise greenhouse gas (GHG) and mitigate climate change has resulted in a greater focus on the embodied carbon (EC) of construction material. One way to ensure the environmental impact of building activities is minimised to a reasonable level is the calculation of their EC. Whilst there are a few studies investigating the role of embodied carbon factor (ECF) databases on the accuracy of EC calculation from cradle to gate, very little is known about the impact of different databases on the end-of-life (EoL) EC calculation. Using ECFs derived from the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) default values and the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) suggested percentages for different elements of a building’s lifecycle stages, this study presents the impact of different data sources on the calculation of EoL EC. The study revealed that a lack of EoL ECFs databases could result in a significant difference of about 61% and 141% in the calculation of EC.

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De Boeck, K., C. Castellani, and J. S. Elborn. "Medical consensus, guidelines, and position papers: A policy for the ECFS." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 13, no. 5 (September 2014): 495–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2014.06.012.

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Huang, Xiaoluo, Daniela Pinto, Georg Fritz, and Thorsten Mascher. "Environmental Sensing in Actinobacteria: a Comprehensive Survey on the Signaling Capacity of This Phylum." Journal of Bacteriology 197, no. 15 (May 18, 2015): 2517–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.00176-15.

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ABSTRACTSignal transduction is an essential process that allows bacteria to sense their complex and ever-changing environment and adapt accordingly. Three distinct major types of signal-transducing proteins (STPs) can be distinguished: one-component systems (1CSs), two-component systems (2CSs), and extracytoplasmic-function σ factors (ECFs). SinceActinobacteriaare particularly rich in STPs, we comprehensively investigated the abundance and diversity of STPs encoded in 119 actinobacterial genomes, based on the data stored in the Microbial Signal Transduction (MiST) database. Overall, we observed an approximately linear correlation between the genome size and the total number of encoded STPs. About half of all membrane-anchored 1CSs are protein kinases. For both 1CSs and 2CSs, a detailed analysis of the domain architectures identified novel proteins that are found only in actinobacterial genomes. Many actinobacterial genomes are particularly enriched for ECFs. As a result of this study, almost 500 previously unclassified ECFs could be classified into 18 new ECF groups. This comprehensive survey demonstrates that actinobacterial genomes encode previously unknown STPs, which may represent new mechanisms of signal transduction and regulation. This information not only expands our knowledge of the diversity of bacterial signal transduction but also provides clear and testable hypotheses about their mechanisms, which can serve as starting points for experimental studies.IMPORTANCEIn the wake of the genomic era, with its enormous increase in the amount of available sequence information, the challenge has now shifted toward making sense and use of this treasure chest. Such analyses are a prerequisite to provide meaningful information that can help guide subsequent experimental efforts, such as mechanistic studies on novel signaling strategies. This work provides a comprehensive analysis of signal transduction proteins from 119 actinobacterial genomes. We identify, classify, and describe numerous novel and conserved signaling devices. Hence, our work serves as an important resource for any researcher interested in signal transduction of this important bacterial phylum, which contains organisms of ecological, biotechnological, and medical relevance.

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YOKOTA, Shinichi, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, So KUWAJIMA, and Kazuya EDAMURA. "A Micromotor Using Electro-Conjugate Fluids (ECFs) : Multi-layered Micro ECF Motors." Proceedings of the JSME annual meeting 2002.7 (2002): 235–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmemecjo.2002.7.0_235.

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Kisseleff, Jenai, Mirjam Stahl, Amy Farr, Peter Watson, and Joana Cruz. "What to expect of the first ERS/ECFS Adult Cystic Fibrosis Conference." Breathe 19, no. 3 (September 2023): 230152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/20734735.0152-2023.

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Makhmutova, V. R., T. E. Gembitskaya, A. G. Chermenskiy, and O. N. Titova. "Analysis of COVID-19 cases in adult cystic fibrosis patients in Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad region." PULMONOLOGIYA 31, no. 2 (April 11, 2021): 189–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.18093/0869-0189-2021-31-2-189-196.

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March 11, 2020 WHO has declared the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The European Society for Cystic Fibrosis (ECFS) has developed the ECFSCOVID- 19 surveillance program to collect information on the characteristics of COVID-19 in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). CF centers in the Russian Federation also joined the ECFS study. The ECFS collected information only through national Registers. In our country, the national register of CF patients has existed since 2011, its data is included in the European Register. Тo analyze the prevalence and course of COVID-19 in adult CF patients in Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad region.Methods. From 11.03.20 to 24.12.20, 10 cases of adult CF patients (4 women, 6 men) with COVID-19 were analyzed in Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad region. At the beginning of the study, 56 adult CF patients lived in Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad Region. All patients were monitored remotely by telephone, in case of ARVI symptoms, disease exacerbation, a PCR smear was performed on SARS-CoV-2, therapy was prescribed remotely, and inpatient treatment was prescribed if indicated.Results. COVID-19 was diagnosed in 10 adult CF patients aged 21 to 43 years. Two patients (32-year-old male and 31-year-old female with severe mixed cystic fibrosis form) were hospitalized with polysegmental pneumonia. 8 people were treated on an outpatient basis. Only 1 outpatient patient aged 43 years had pronounced clinical manifestations of COVID-19, the condition was regarded as moderate, the remaining outpatient patients suffered from a mild ARI disease. All patients were treated with positive dynamics. During the period of this follow – up, 3 CF patients (2 men, 1 woman) died, the death cause was the respiratory failure progression. Clinical and radiological, repeated laboratory data for COVID-19 were not obtained. At the point of December 24, 2020 53 adult CF patients are alive.Conclusion. According to our data, the incidence of COVID-19 among adult CF patients in Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad Region was 17.85%, which is a lower indicator than in the general population. The disease was rarely severe, and effective treatment was noted in outpatient settings. There were no deaths from COVID-19.

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Hernández-Pascual, Carlos, José Ángel Santos-Sánchez, Jorge Hernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Fernando Silva-Viamonte, Carmen Pablos-Hernández, Manuel Villanueva-Martínez, and José Antonio Mirón-Canelo. "New Prognostic Factors in Operated Extracapsular Hip Fractures: Infection and GammaTScore." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 18 (September 16, 2022): 11680. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811680.

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There is no universal postoperative classification of extracapsular hip fractures (ECFs). We wondered if infection (according to infection after fracture fixation criteria (IAFF)), immediate partial weight bearing (PWB) and/or the new GammaTScore tool could predict early cut-out. We also examined the correlation between GammaTScore and time to consolidation and studied long-term survival. This was a retrospective cohort study of low-energy complete ECFs operated with Gamma3T nailing in 2014 and fully monitoring, in patients aged over 65. Ten not distally locked cases, one late cut-out, one cut-through, one osteonecrosis and one pseudarthrosis were discarded. Patients were classified into early cut-out (7/204; 3.55%) and no early cut-out (197/204; 96.45%). There was a lower percentage of A2 fractures according to the AO Foundation/Orthopaedic Trauma Association classification (AO/OTA, 1997) in early cut-out. IAFF and only the GammaTScore reduction parameter were different for early cut-out, in opposition to immediate PWB, tip-to-apex distance (TAD) or the Baumgaertner–Fogagnolo classification. GammaTScore inversely correlated with consolidation (p < 0.01). Long-term survival time was not statistically significantly lower in the early cut-out group. Small sample of cases may limit our results. Apart from an important role of IAFF, GammaTScore would be useful for predicting consolidation, avoiding complications and reducing costs. Further studies are needed for reliability.

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Cho, Sung-Dong, Joo-Yeon Lee, Jin-Gul Hyun, and Kyung-Wook Paik. "Study on epoxy/BaTiO3 composite embedded capacitor films (ECFs) for organic substrate applications." Materials Science and Engineering: B 110, no. 3 (July 2004): 233–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2004.01.022.

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Duque, Estrella, José-Juan Rodríguez-Herva, Jesús de la Torre, Patricia Domínguez-Cuevas, Jesús Muñoz-Rojas, and Juan-Luis Ramos. "The RpoT Regulon of Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E and Its Role in Stress Endurance against Solvents." Journal of Bacteriology 189, no. 1 (October 27, 2006): 207–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.00950-06.

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ABSTRACT Pseudomonas putida encodes 20 extracytoplasmic sigma factors (ECFs). In this study, we show that one of these ECFs, known as ECF-Pp12 (PP3006), plays a role in tolerance of toluene and other organic solvents. Based on this finding, we have called the gene that encodes this new ECF rpoT. The rpoT gene forms an operon with the preceding gene and with the gene located downstream. The translated gene product of the open reading frame PP3005 is an inner membrane protein, whereas the PP3007 protein is periplasmic. A nonpolar ΔrpoT mutant was generated by homologous recombination, and survival of the mutant was tested under various stress conditions. The mutant strain was hypersensitive to toluene and other solvents but just as tolerant as the wild type of stress imposed by heat, antibiotics, NaCl, paraquat, sodium dodecyl sulfate, H2O2, and benzoate. In the ΔrpoT mutant background, expression of around 50 transcriptional units was affected: 31 cistrons were upregulated, and 23 cistrons were downregulated. This indicates that about 1% of all P. putida genes are under the direct or indirect influence of RpoT. The rpoT gene controls the expression of a number of membrane proteins, including components of the respiratory chains, porins, transporters, and multidrug efflux pumps. Hypersensitivity of the P. putida RpoT-deficient mutant to organic solvents can be attributed to the fact that in the ΔrpoT strain, expression of the toluene efflux pump ttgGHI genes is severalfold lower than in the parental strain.

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Rybczynski, Tomasz, Enrico Bonaccorsi, and Niko Neufeld. "ECFS: A decentralized, distributed and fault-tolerant FUSE filesystem for the LHCb online farm." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 513, no. 4 (June 11, 2014): 042038. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/513/4/042038.

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Kerem, E., L. Viviani, A. Zolin, S. MacNeill, E. Hatziagorou, H. Ellemunter, P. Drevinek, V. Gulmans, U. Krivec, and H. Olesen. "Factors associated with FEV1 decline in cystic fibrosis: analysis of the ECFS Patient Registry." European Respiratory Journal 43, no. 1 (April 18, 2013): 125–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00166412.

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YOKOTA, Shinichi, So KUWAJIMA, Kazuya EDAMURA, and Suguru WADA. "A Micromotor Using Electro-Conjugate Fluids (ECFs) : Realization of More Powerful Micro ECF Motors." Proceedings of Yamanashi District Conference 2002 (2002): 265–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmeyamanashi.2002.265.

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Hong, G., R. B. Moss, B. Marshall, B. Quon, P. Eschenhagen, and C. Schwarz. "P107 ECFS/CFF global survey on diagnosis and treatment of Aspergillus fumigatus-related conditions." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 19 (June 2020): S85—S86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(20)30442-2.

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Mall, Marcus A., Tzyh-Chang Hwang, and Ineke Braakman. "Cystic fibrosis research topics featured at the 14th ECFS Basic Science Conference: Chairman's summary." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 17, no. 2 (March 2018): S1—S4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2017.11.008.

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Taggart, Clifford C., Sinéad Weldon, and Marcus A. Mall. "At the forefront of cystic fibrosis Basic Science research: 16th ECFS Basic Science Conference." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 19, no. 2 (March 2020): 169–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2020.02.002.

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Munck, Anne, Kevin W. Southern, Jared Murphy, Karin M. de Winter-de Groot, Silvia Gartner, Bülent Karadag, Nataliya Kashirskaya, et al. "Cystic Fibrosis Cases Missed by Newborn Bloodspot Screening—Towards a Consistent Definition and Data Acquisition." International Journal of Neonatal Screening 9, no. 4 (November 21, 2023): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijns9040065.

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Repeated European surveys of newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) have shown varied strategies for collecting missed cases, and information on data collection differs among countries/regions, hampering data comparison. The ECFS Neonatal Screening Working Group defined missed cases by NBS as either false negatives, protocol-related, concerning analytical issues, or non-protocol-related, concerning pre- and post-analytical issues. A questionnaire has been designed and sent to all key workers identified in each NBS programme to assess the feasibility of collecting data on missed cases, the stage of the NBS programme when the system failed, and individual patient data on each missed case.

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Cirilli, N., R. Buzzetti, K. W. Southern, J. Barben, L. Nährlich, A. Munck, M. Wilschanski, K. De Boeck, and N. Derichs. "WS11.4 Real life practice of sweat testing in Europe: results from an ECFS-wide survey." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 15 (June 2016): S18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(16)30124-2.

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Turck, Dominique, Christian P. Braegger, Carla Colombo, Dimitri Declercq, Alison Morton, Ruzha Pancheva, Eddy Robberecht, et al. "ESPEN-ESPGHAN-ECFS guidelines on nutrition care for infants, children, and adults with cystic fibrosis." Clinical Nutrition 35, no. 3 (June 2016): 557–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2016.03.004.

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YOKOTA, Shinichi, Masakazu HIRATA, Yutaka KONDOH, and Kazuya EDAMURA. "120 A Micromotor Using Electro-Conjugate Fluids (ECFs) : Fabrication of Multi-layered Micro ECF Motors." Proceedings of the Machine Design and Tribology Division meeting in JSME 2001.1 (2001): 99–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmemdt.2001.1.99.

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Smith, C., H. K. Chadwick, C. Farinha, KW Southern, T. Havermans, E. Landau, S. Patel, et al. "P136 ECFS syllabuses for the multidisciplinary team and wider field: a guide for comprehensive education." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 22 (June 2023): S106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(23)00511-8.

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Leboeuf, G., and G. F. Losier. "L’échelle d’orientation contingente extrinsèque (ÉOCE) : traduction et validation francophone du Extrinsic Contingency Focus Scale (ECFS)." European Review of Applied Psychology 62, no. 3 (July 2012): 137–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erap.2012.03.002.

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Lee, Sangyong, Jin-Gul Hyun, Hyungsoo Kim, and Kyung-Wook Paik. "A Study on Dielectric Constants of ${\rm Epoxy/SrTiO}_{3}$ Composite for Embedded Capacitor Films (ECFs)." IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging 30, no. 3 (August 2007): 428–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tadvp.2007.898614.

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Hayes, K., E. Lammertyn, H. de Keyser, P. de Carli, and I. Sermet. "ePS5.01 Patient reported outcome measures used in clinical practice: an ECFS CTN and CF Europe survey." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 19 (June 2020): S49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(20)30320-9.

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Mei-Zahav, M., A. Orenti, A. Jung, J. van Rens, and E. Kerem. "WS03.01 Differences in disease severity among different residual function mutations: data from the ECFS Patient Registry." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 22 (June 2023): S5—S6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1569-1993(23)00199-6.

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