Development of a comprehensive sustainability index for extractive and mining companies: Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals by Marta Fernández-Hernández, Pedro Mora, Marcelo F. Ortega, Juan Pous Cabello

“…The practical application of this index is critical, providing a step-by-step guide for extractive and mining companies to adopt and utilize the sustainability index, aiding in compliance with future regulations.The results of this study show that the system of SDGs, targets, aspects, and metrics is naturally weighted towards social issues. …”
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Association of the triglyceride glucose index with obesity indicators and hypertension in American adults based on NHANES 2013 to 2018 by Pingping Huang, Hongwei Zhang, Gaocan Ren, Yifei Wang, Shuangqing Fu, Yicheng Liu, Zhibo Zhang, Lijun Guo, Xiaochang Ma

“…These findings suggested that TyG and related indices are associated with hypertension and may aid in understanding risk stratification in this context.…”
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<i>Tribulus terrestris</i> Fruit Extract: Bioactive Compounds, ADMET Analysis, and Molecular Docking with Penicillin-Binding Protein 2a Transpeptidase of Methicillin-Resistant <i>S... by Khalid J. Alzahrani

“…Further characterization of compounds extracted from <i>Tribulus terrestris</i> may aid in identifying novel PBP2a inhibitory agents for managing MRSE infections.…”
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Normative Parameters of Gastrocnemius Muscle Stiffness and Associations with Patient Characteristics and Function by Larisa R Hoffman, Shane L Koppenhaver, Cameron W MacDonald, Johnny M Herrera, Joshua Streuli, Zachary L Visco, Nicole Wildermuth, Stephanie R Albin

“…# Background Quantifying muscle stiffness may aid in the diagnosis and management of individuals with muscle pathology. …”
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Identifying threshold concepts in postgraduate general practice training: a focus group, qualitative study by Katherine Hall, Anna Chae

“…Actively incorporating and teaching these identified TCs in PGME in general practice may enable trainees to grasp these important learning thresholds earlier and more easily and aid in identity and role formation.…”
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The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios by Gabriela Silveira Neves, Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Roberta Maia de Castro Romanelli, Jannine dos Santos Nascimento, André Dias Sanglard, James Batchelor

“…While seven reports (30%) indicated that CXR is irreplaceable by other diagnostic tools for NRDS diagnosis, 10 studies (43%) found that alternative methods surpassed CXR in several respects, such as severity assessment, monitoring progress, predicting the need for surfactant therapy, foreseeing Continuous Positive Airway Pressure failure, anticipating intubation requirements, and aiding in differential diagnosis. Conclusion CXR remains an important diagnostic tool for NRDS. …”
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Performance of Large Language Models on the Korean Dental Licensing Examination: A Comparative Study by Woojun Kim, Bong Chul Kim, Han-Gyeol Yeom

“…Clinical Relevance: Our findings will aid in evaluating the feasibility of integrating LLMs into dentistry to improve the quality and availability of dental services by offering patient information that meets the basic competency standards of a dentist.…”
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Comparing Fluconazole and Nystatin as Antifungal Prophylactics in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Leila Asgarzadeh, Majid Mahallei, Manizheh Mostafa Gharehbaghi

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Forensic Dermatology Expert Analytical Report: A New Frontier of Forensic Medicine by Philip R. Cohen, Lerah Sutton

“…In conclusion, an excellent forensic dermatology expert report will aid both other investigators and the members of the legal system—such as the attorneys, judge, and jury—who are involved in the case. …”
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Family Support and Its Association with Glycemic Control in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Adwa M. AlHaidar, Norah A. AlShehri, Munira A. AlHussaini

“…However, the involvement of the family can aid in decreasing possible complications of the disease by intervening in critical situations.…”
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Attentive Self-supervised Contrastive Learning (ASCL) for plant disease classification by Getinet Yilma, Mesfin Dagne, Mohammed Kemal Ahmed, Ravindra Babu Bellam

“…The ASCL framework enhances interpretability by incorporating attention mechanisms, such as squeeze-excitation and convolutional block attention module, which highlight key regions in plant images, aiding in transparent decision-making. In the present work, a pre-trained squeeze-excitation ResNet50 Siamese backbone network on the unlabeled PlantVillage dataset was used to validate the generalizability of the learned representations. …”
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The Emerging Role of Implementing Machine Learning in Food Recommendation for Chronic Kidney Diseases Using Correlation Analysis by Sachin Gupta, Neeraj Garg, Divyanshu Sinha, Babita Yadav, Bhoomi Gupta, Shahajan Miah

“…Using an artificial intelligence system that can effectively aid in CKD detection in time and suggest the required food nutrition for its treatment and recovery would reap immense benefits for healthcare professionals as well as the patient. …”
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The Square Curve Paradigm for Research in Alternative, Complementary, and Holistic Medicine: A Cost-Effective, Easy, and Scientifically Valid Design for Evidence-Based Medicine and... by Soren Ventegodt, Niels JØrgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…Our aim is to find the simplest, cheapest, and most practical way to collect data of sufficient quality and validity to determine: (1) which kinds of treatment give a clinically relevant improvement to quality of life, health, and/or functionality; (2) which groups of patients can be aided by alternative, complementary, or holistic medicine; and (3) which therapists have the competence to achieve the clinically relevant improvements. …”
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Livelihood training, food production, and food security among vulnerable communities in Bangladesh by Andy Tran, Theresa Fang, Beryl Oranga, Ryan Kopper, Yunhee Kang

“…Those who received food aid had higher odds of low HDDS (AOR = 3.16; 95% CI 1.69–5.89). …”
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Perspectives for Reforming Criminal Procedural Legislation Regarding the Regulation of Investigative (Search) Actions Restricting the Inviolability of Housing or Other Personal Pos... by O. V. Salmanov

“…It is emphasized that perspective areas for the development of criminal procedural legislation to regulate investigative (search) actions that restrict the inviolability of housing or other personal possession is to solve the problem of attracting free legal aid for a person who has no procedural status, but investigators continue investigative (search) actions against that person; determination of the procedural status of witnesses who are involved into investigative (search) actions; determination of the mechanism of addressing of the property’s owner with the petition to return the seized property during carrying out investigative (search) actions restricting inviolability of housing or other personal possession. …”
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Research Progress on the Potential Pathogenesis of Persistent Postural–Perceptual Dizziness by Chen Qin, Ruyi Zhang, Zhihui Yan

“…Methods To better understand the pathogenesis of PPPD and to aid in the development of novel diagnostic strategies and therapies, we conducted a comprehensive narrative review of the relevant literature. …”
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What covariates drive medical students to the brink of suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt? A double-centric cross-sectional study in a resource-constrained rural setting in North... by Sunny Garg, Aakanksha Kharb, Kirti Bansal

“…The identified covariates poor sleep, family history of psychiatric illness, never seeking psychiatric aid, regret for choosing the field of medicine, bullying, depressive symptoms, high stress, emotion-focused coping, and avoidant coping, were significantly associated with a higher likelihood of lifetime suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt. …”
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Systems science and systems thinking for public health: a systematic review of the field by Gemma Carey, Brad Crammond, Eleanor Malbon, Nicole Carey, Andrew Joyce, Alan Carey

“…Our analysis of each of these categories of research highlighted areas of potential for systems science to strengthen public health efforts, while also revealing a number of limitations in the dynamic systems modelling being carried out in public health.Conclusions There is a great deal of interest in how the application of systems concepts and approach might aid public health. Our analysis suggests that soft systems modelling techniques are likely to be the most useful addition to public health, and align well with current debate around knowledge transfer and policy. …”
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Optimal Embryo Selection: The Irreplaceable Role of the Embryologist in an Age of Advancing Technology by Lauren Kendall Rauchfuss, Yulian Zhao, David Walker, Terri Galantis, Jolene Fredrickson, Kathrynne Barud, Chandra Shenoy

“…The use of time-lapse incubation has been shown to improve outcomes either by improving overall conditions or providing additional information to aid in embryo selection for transfer. Time-lapse incubators can also utilise morphokinetic models to rank embryos based on morphokinetic parameters. …”
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Evaluating Older Adults’ Engagement and Usability With AI-Driven Interventions: Randomized Pilot Study by Marcia Shade, Changmin Yan, Valerie K Jones, Julie Boron

“… Abstract BackgroundTechnologies that serve as assistants are growing more popular for entertainment and aiding in daily tasks. Artificial intelligence (AI) in these technologies could also be helpful to deliver interventions that assist older adults with symptoms or self-management. …”
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