A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persian

Persian velar glide [w], unlike the palatal glide [j], does not serve a contrastive EXTRA-HOLD SHAPING SPRAY function in Persian phonology since it has incomplete distribution, occurring only in few words after the mid back vowel /o/.Thus, [w] is described as an allophone of the phoneme /v/.Furthermore, it has been assumed that [w] in [ow] may be d

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Efficacy and Safety of PD-1 Inhibitors Monotherapy for Elderly Patients with Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Background Immunotherapy represented by programmed death protein-1 (PD-1) inhibitors has gradually become the standard treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in recent years, changing the treatment landscape of advanced NSCLC.However, most PD-1-related studies excluded patients with NSCLC more than 70 or 75 years, resulting in rel

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Genome, secretome and glucose transport highlight unique features of the protein production host Pichia pastoris

Abstract Background Pichia pastoris is widely used CLIPPER OIL as a production platform for heterologous proteins and model organism for organelle proliferation.Without a published genome sequence available, strain and process development relied mainly on analogies to other, well studied yeasts like Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Results To investigate s

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