Abstract Background Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is an aggressive human malignancy.Because of late diagnosis and recurrence of OSCC, the treatment of patients with OSCC is often ineffective.Thus, finding novel biomarkers of OSCC are essential.Here we derived a methylation marker by utilizing methylation microarray data and testing its capaci
Sexually Explicit User-Generated Content: Understanding Motivations and Behaviors using Social Cognitive Theory
Technological advances by Web 2.0 media and mobile phones have recently FEVERFEW enabled users to become producers of their own media content.Users are able to create and share photos and videos with speed and ease.A much different trend has emerged with these new technological affordances, though.Individuals are utilizing this new media and are cr
Christian Planetary Humanism in the Age of Climate Crisis
Hubs This paper attempts to reconstruct the ethics of human response-ability as a theological reflection on the current climate catastrophe, seeing humans as moral actors or a moral actor network.In the meantime, I will argue the relationality and interdependence of matter and discourse, nature and society, and humans and non-humans through crossta
Hippocrates and the hippocratic oath
For a long-time men had a philosophic view of health and disease, and this lasted till almost 2500 years back.Hippocrates, the great Greek physician, is believed to have seperated the "art of healing" and philosophy.An astute observer, Hippocrates during his practice employed principles that laid the foundation of modern medicine.The medical frater
Application of targeted high-throughput sequencing as a diagnostic tool for neonatal genetic metabolic diseases following tandem mass spectrometry screening
BackgroundTandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a Portable Sinks crucial technique for detecting inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) in newborns.However, the high false positive rate poses challenges in diagnosing specific types of diseases.Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the role of targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) in the accurate dia