Successful Pregnancy Outcome in Women with Recurrent IVF Failure and Anti-hCG Autoimmunity: A Report of Three Cases by Valeria Muller, Ksenia Ob’edkova, Inna Krikheli, Igor Kogan, Irina Fedorova, Elena Lesik, Evgenia Komarova, Alexandr Gzgzyan

“…No adverse side effects were observed; all cases resulted in pregnancy and subsequent life births. …”
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Physicochemical Qualities and Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Drinking Water From Selected Areas of the Gofa Zone, Ethiopia by Atose Duka Dube, Camerun Kastro Kanido

“…Standard analytical procedures were used to determine the physicochemical parameters and mineral contents. The average values of all physicochemical parameters of spring and well-drinking water of the selected areas were obtained as temperature (20.73°C and 20.30°C), pH (7.2 and 6.07), electrical conductivity (481.13 µS/cm and 584.24 µS/cm), dissolved oxygen (4.09 and 6.07 mg/L), turbidity (1.60 NTU and 6.55 NTU), total dissolved solids (330.83 and 338.3 mg/L), total suspended solids (84.76 and 89.24 mg/L), chloride concentrations (58.15 and 60.47 mg/L), SO42− ion (68.50 mg/L and 5.58 mg/L), NO3+ ion (3.25 and 2.75 mg/L), and fluoride ion concentration (0.49 mg/L and 0.37 mg/L). …”
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Novel Optimized Support Vector Regression Networks for Estimating Fresh and Hardened Characteristics of SCC by Babak Naeim, Ali Javadzade Khiavi, Parisa Dolatimehr, Behnam Sadaghat

“…The outcomes show tremendous promise for all assessed qualities in the assessment and development sections. …”
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A systematic literature review of aggregate production planning (APP): Social and economic perspectives by Wan Yee Leong, Kuan Yew Wong, Ali Anjomshoae

“…Findings: The outcome shows that most of the previous studies applied mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) methods in developing the APP models while stochastic and fuzzy methods are the most common approaches to deal with uncertainties. Among all the APP studies, only about one-fifth of them focused on both the economic and social aspects. …”
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Bioactivity of plants used traditionally in the treatment and management of men’s sexual health by Tsumbedzo Nemandalali, Monde A. Nyila, Thilivhali E. Tshikalange

“…Phytochemical analysis was performed by determination of total flavonoid and total phenolic content. Results: All the extracts investigated showed moderate to high content of flavonoids and total phenolic content. …”
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Assessing the role of blood glucose levels on intraocular pressure during pre- and postprandial phase in diabetic patients by Pavana Acharya, C. V. Kavitha, P. K. Nayana, K. Sandeep, Rathod Vishakha Narayan, K. S. Anusha

“…There is a statistically significant rise in IOP in postprandial phase of all subjects compared to their preprandial phase. …”
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KNOWLEDGE AND FACTORS INFLUENCING THE USAGE OF EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION AMONG STUDENTS OF TERTIARY INSTITUTION IN SOUTHERN SENATORIAL ZONE OF KADUNA STATE by AKPOKOS JAMES AMOS, JOY YAHAYA YODEL

“…Arising from these findings the study recommends that a comprehensive reproductive health services should be provided in all health facilities. Also, besides creating public awareness on the benefits of emergency contraception, this study also advocates for the inclusion of topics on the subject in the general studies curriculum of tertiary institutions. …”
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The possibility of reducing the risk of suicidal attempt in adolescents by practicing Confucian philosophy: a phenomenological study in Vietnam by Thien-Vu Giang, Phi-Bao Nguyen-Ngoc, Vinh-Loc Sam, Van-Son Huynh

“…The conservatism and remnants of traditional Confucianism have influenced how Vietnamese parents raise their children, leading to increased risks of suicide as adolescents.DiscussionThe discovered themes greatly contribute to the process of clinical intervention for adolescents who have attempted suicide in countries with similar cultures to Vietnam, or accepted Confucianism as a neutral approach. Above all, the self-nurture and neutral lifestyle were resources that helped the adolescents cope better with their personal problems after participating in this study.…”
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Long-Term Cultured Human Term Placenta-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells of Maternal Origin Displays Plasticity by Vikram Sabapathy, Saranya Ravi, Vivi Srivastava, Alok Srivastava, Sanjay Kumar

“…Further soft agar assays revealed that placental MSCs do not have the ability to form invasive colonies. Taking together all these characteristics into consideration, it indicates that placental MSCs could serve as good candidates for development and progress of stem-cell based therapeutics.…”
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Improving Accuracy of Malaria Diagnosis in Underserved Rural and Remote Endemic Areas of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Call to Develop Multiplexing Rapid Diagnostic Tests by Rasheed O. Makanjuola, Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson

“…As a means to combat this major global public health threat, rapid and effective diagnosis remains the frontline action to initiate a timely and appropriate medical intervention. From all the approaches to parasite detection, rapid diagnostic tests, so-called RDTs, are the easiest to use and most cost-effective. …”
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Finland’s Neutrality as Part of Its National Identity by N. Yu. Vezhlivtseva

“…It was born together with the Finnish statehood and has been staying with it despite all the changes in international environment.…”
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The Goldilocks Zone: Finding the right balance of user and institutional risk for suicide-related generative AI queries. by Anna R Van Meter, Michael G Wheaton, Victoria E Cosgrove, Katerina Andreadis, Ronald E Robertson

“…Harmful content was rare (5%); all such instances were delivered by Bing Copilot. …”
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Crystal structure of poly[μ3-acetato-diaqua-μ3-sulfato-cerium(III)]: serendipitous synthesis of a layered coordination polymer exhibiting interlayer O—H...O hydrogen bonding by Niklas Ruser, Christian Näther, Norbert Stock

“…Its asymmetric unit consists of one CeIII cation, one sulfate dianion, one acetate anion and two crystallographically independent water molecules, all of them located in general positions. The cerium cations are coordinated by three acetate anions (one O,O-chelating) and three sulfate dianions that are related by symmetry as well as two independent water molecules within an irregular CeO9 coordination geometry. …”
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Assessment of Yield Parameters in M3-Generation of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Treated with Different Concentrations of EMS by Uddin MD Waseem, G. Vijay Kumar, K. Srinivas Naik

“…From the ANOVA results, it is evident that the difference in the mean values is highly significant due to the treatment of all the characters which indicates that there is an ample genetic variability in the genotypes. …”
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Metacognitive Beliefs in Alexithymic Individuals by Zekiye Celikbas, Sedat Batmaz, Ufuk Bal, Esma Akpinar Aslan

“…Individuals with alexithymia scored higher in terms of all alexithymia subscales than those without alexithymia. …”
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Deal or no deal: U.S. homeowners’ willingness to pay for residential building retrofits by Zachary Berzolla, Ting Meng, Christoph Reinhart

“…Notably, increasing concern about emissions for all respondents from the median of ‘slightly concerned’ to ‘extremely concerned’ led to a 50% savings in retrofit subsidy cost. …”
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INHIBITION OF LIPID PEROXIDATION AND MICROBIOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT OF BROILER THIGH QUALITY AND CHARACTERISTICS BY ADDING CYPERUS ROTUNDUS POWDER AND VITAMIN E TO CHICKEN FEED by A. A. Al-Azzami, Th. T. Mohammed, S. M. Farhan

“…The findings also showed that all the different concentrations of the additives prevented fat from oxidizing in the chicken thigh meat. …”
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Species diversity in the new lamprey genus Occidentis, formerly classified as western North American 'Lampetra'. by Kellie J Carim, Grace Auringer, Margaret F Docker, Claude B Renaud, Benjamin J Clemens, Monica R Blanchard, Christina Parker, Michael K Young

“…To assess species diversity within Occidentis, we performed a species delimitation analysis using all publicly available cytochrome b sequences of the genus. …”
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Readiness to Use Mediation – Judges’ and Entrepreneurs’ Perspective by Włodzimierz Broński, Marek Dąbrowski, Piotr Sławicki, Michał Wiechetek

“…Entrepreneurs, compared to judges, are in favour of more radical changes in all of the above-mentioned areas.…”
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Case Report: Winkelmann hip rotationplasty as a last-resort solution by Robin Evrard, Othmane Miri, Valérie Lacroix, Pierre-Louis Docquier, Thomas Schubert

“…One patient developed a crack on the femur, which did not require surgical revision. They all achieved satisfactory joint amplitudes of at least 50° in passive hip flexion. …”
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