ClimaWATCH: A new interactive tool for community heat-health vulnerability assessments by Aparna Keshaviah, Dheeya Rizmie, Huihua Lu, Mike Rudacille, Eric Morris, Colleen Psomas, Farid Qamar, Xindi C. Hu

“…Introduction: Extreme heat is the deadliest of all weather-related hazards, yet also the most preventable. …”
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Key regions aberrantly connected within cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit and their genetic mechanism in schizophrenia: an fMRI meta-analysis and transcriptome study by Yarui Wei, Ziyu Wang, Kangkang Xue, Xiaoyu Niu, Longyao Ma, Shaoqiang Han, Baohong Wen, Yong Zhang, Huafu Chen, Jingliang Cheng

“…These genes were specially expressed in the brain tissue, in the neurons of the cerebellum, subcortex and cortex and during nearly all developmental stages, and constructed a protein-protein interaction network supported by 85 hub genes with functional significance. …”
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A Review of Potentially Toxic Elements in Sediment, Water, and Aquatic Species from the River Ecosystems by Md Muzammel Hossain, Iffat Jahan, Mudasir A. Dar, Maruti J. Dhanavade, Al Fattah Bin Mamtaz, Stephen J. Maxwell, Song Han, Daochen Zhu

“…The river’s water, sediment, and aquatic life are all severely affected by the release of chemical and urban waste. …”
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Prognostic and Risk Factors in Patients with Locally Advanced Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Trunk and Extremities by de Lima Vazquez Vinicius, Cristovam Scapulatempo, Natalia Martins Perpetuo, Faheez Mohamed, Teóclito Sachetto de Carvalho, Antônio Talvane Torres de Oliveira, José Getúlio Martins Segalla, André Lopes Carvalho

“…Metastases were positive for EGFR in 41.7%, for HER-3 in 83.3%, and HER-4 in 43.5%. HER-2 was negative in all samples. Membrane E-cadherin and cytoplasmic E-cadherin were positive in 47.3% and 30.2% of primary tumors and 45.5% and 27.3% of metastases, respectively. …”
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Hepatitis E virus infection among blood donors in Zhengzhou by ZHAO Hongna, WEI Yueguang, YAN Lumin, TU Tiantian, WANG Shumin, WEI Yihui, WANG Yifang, ZHAO Lei, CHEN Mingjun

“…[Results] Among 21 311 samples, 3(0.14‰) were reactive for HEV RNA, all of whom were male. Genetic sequencing results revealed that one strong positive sample was genotype 4, while sequencing failed for the other two due to low viral load. …”
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Multidetector CT Enterography versus Double-Balloon Enteroscopy: Comparison of the Diagnostic Value for Patients with Suspected Small Bowel Diseases by Jingjing Wang, Qiaozhen Guo, Jianping Zhao, Mei Liu, Guangquan Liao, Nianjun Chen, Dean Tian, Xiaoli Wu

“…The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of DBE were all higher than those of MDCTE. DBE had a higher diagnostic yield for OGIB (87.3% versus 20.9%, P<0.05). …”
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Genesis of the term "savilaida": from collections of avant-garde poetry till Lithuanian neologism by Egidijus Jaseliūnas

“…With the growth of samizdat and intensification of its influence in society, in the first half of the 70s, the Lithuanian term "savilaida", which, above all, described the particularity of production and spread of the underground press, was coined. …”
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Performance of artificial intelligence on cervical vertebral maturation assessment: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Termeh Sarrafan Sadeghi, Seyed AmirHossein Ourang, Fatemeh Sohrabniya, Soroush Sadr, Parnian Shobeiri, Saeed Reza Motamedian

“…Eight studies had a low risk of bias in all domains. Twelve studies were included in the meta-analysis and their pooled values for sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative likelihood ratios, and diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) were calculated for each cervical stage (CS). …”
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Obesity prevalence among healthcare professionals in England: a cross-sectional study using the Health Survey for England by Richard G Kyle, Jane Wills, Catherine Mahoney, Louise Hoyle, Muireann Kelly, Iain M Atherton

“…Objective To estimate obesity prevalence among healthcare professionals in England and compare prevalence with those working outside of the health services.Design Cross-sectional study based on data from 5 years (2008–2012) of the nationally representative Health Survey for England.Setting England.Participants 20 103 adults aged 17–65 years indicating they were economically active at the time of survey classified into four occupational groups: nurses (n=422), other healthcare professionals (n=412), unregistered care workers (n=736) and individuals employed in non-health-related occupations (n=18 533).Outcome measure Prevalence of obesity defined as body mass index ≥30.0 with 95% CIs and weighted to reflect the population.Results Obesity prevalence was high across all occupational groups including: among nurses (25.1%, 95% CI 20.9% to 29.4%); other healthcare professionals (14.4%, 95% CI 11.0% to 17.8%); non-health-related occupations (23.5%, 95% CI 22.9% to 24.1%); and unregistered care workers who had the highest prevalence of obesity (31.9%, 95% CI 28.4% to 35.3%). …”
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Health-Related Quality-of-Life Utility Values in Adults With Late-Onset Pompe Disease: Analyses of EQ-5D Data From the PROPEL Clinical Trial by Alison Griffiths, Simon Shohet, Neil Johnson, Alasdair MacCulloch

“…UK population tariffs were applied for all EQ-5D utility valuations. Utility values were predicted according to 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) and percent predicted sitting forced vital capacity. …”
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Gradient diffusion entropy corrected ALNS optimization for vegetation topology interaction networks by Shengwei Wang, Hongquan Chen, Yulin Guo, Wenjing Su, Yurong Xu, Shuohao Cui, Zhiqiang Zhou

“…The following findings were obtained by parsing the corresponding study area through the constructed interaction network structure. From 2000 to 2020. All types of ecological nodes showed an increasing trend. the number of ecological nodes in cropland, grassland and forest in 2020 was 27, 8 and 19 respectively. …”
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Correlation of Chimerism with Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease in Rats following Liver Transplantation by Fei Xue, Wei Chen, Xue-Li Bai, Guo-Dong Xu, Liang Liang, Ting-Bo Liang

“…Chimerism in PBMCs following sex-mismatched LT was identified by real-time PCR based on a rat Y-chromosome-specific primer. All recipients in semiallogeneic group grew in a normal pattern. …”
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The Association of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Gestational Hypertensive Disorders in a Diverse Community-Based Cohort by Diane Schneider, Joel R. Gonzalez, Miya Yamamoto, Jingrong Yang, Joan C. Lo

“…Of the remaining 1765 women, those with PCOS (compared to non-PCOS) were slightly older (mean age 31.2 versus 30.7), more likely to be obese (39.6% versus 15.1%), nulliparous (63.8% versus 43.4%), and conceive with fertility treatment (54.1% versus 1.9%); they also had a higher incidence of PIH (10.8% versus 6.6%), including gestational hypertension (5.8% versus 3.6%) and preeclampsia or HELLP (4.9% versus 3.0%; all p<0.05). PCOS was associated with increased odds of PIH (odds ratio, OR 1.7, 95% confidence interval, CI 1.2-2.4), remaining significant after adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, nulliparity, and fertility treatment; however, findings were attenuated and no longer significant after adjusting for weight status (OR 1.1, CI 0.7-1.7). …”
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Combined Aerobic and Resistance Exercises Evokes Longer Reductions on Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Resistant Hypertension: A Randomized Crossover Trial by Nayara Fraccari Pires, Helio José Coelho-Júnior, Bruno Bavaresco Gambassi, Ana Paula Cabral de Faria, Alessandra Mileni Versuti Ritter, Catarina de Andrade Barboza, Silvia Elaine Ferreira-Melo, Bruno Rodrigues, Heitor Moreno Júnior

“…In NON-RH, only RES acutely reduced systolic BP, while diastolic BP was reduced after all exercise sessions. However, the longest postexercise ambulatory hypotension was observed after AER (~11 h) in comparison to RES (~8 h) and COM (~4 h) exercises. …”
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Comparative magnetic resonance imaging-based study of pelvic floor morphology and function before pregnancy and after primigravida vaginal delivery by Xiaonan Lin, Jinming Chen, Haijing Pan, Yaye Xu, Qun Zhong, Xueying Lin, Chengbin Ye

“…During the straining maneuver, all parameters except U-PCL and urethral mobility showed statistically significant differences (P < 0.05). …”
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Modeling flux linkages of an induction motor in dynamic modes. Comparison of the effectiveness of various control algorithms by V. L. Kodkin, A. S. Anikin, A. A. Baldenkov, Huang Ji Chen

“…Modeling convincingly shows that in a system with positive feedback on the stator current with dynamic load surge, rotor flux linkages stabilize much more precisely, than with known methods of controlling asynchronous motors at all drive speeds. The article also provides modeling of similar modes for vector and scalar control. …”
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Multi-level encoding of reward, effort, and choice across the frontal cortex and basal ganglia during cost-benefit decision-making by Oliver Härmson, Isaac Grennan, Brook Perry, Robert Toth, Colin G. McNamara, Timothy Denison, Hayriye Cagnan, Sanjay G. Manohar, Mark E. Walton, Andrew Sharott

“…Single neurons encoding combinations of decision variables (reward, effort, and choice) were represented within all recorded regions. Coactive cell assemblies, ensembles of neurons that repeatedly coactivated within short time windows (<25 ms), represented the same decision variables despite the members often having diverse individual coding properties. …”
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Exploration of treatment burden through examination of workload and patient capacity during transition onto kidney replacement therapy: a systematic review of qualitative research by Catrin Jones, Ross Cairns, Heather Walker, Silje Welsh, Benjamin Edgar, Karen Stevenson, Bhautesh D. Jani, Patrick B. Mark, David Kingsmore, Katie I. Gallacher

“…Patient capacity influenced the experience of all types of workload and the treatment burden generated by the work. …”
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Assessment of Cellular Responses after Short- and Long-Term Exposure to Silver Nanoparticles in Human Neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) and Astrocytoma (D384) Cells by Teresa Coccini, Luigi Manzo, Vittorio Bellotti, Uliana De Simone

“…Long-term data: (i) low AgNP doses (≤1 μg/ml) compromised proliferative capacity of all cell types (cell sensibility: SHSY5Y > A549 > D384). …”
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Microscale total genomic DNA was used to explore the complete mitochondrial genomes of two biting midge species of the family Ceratopogonidae (Insecta: Diptera) by Xiaohong Jiang, Yao Xie, Qiongyou Liu

“…The nucleotide composition of these genomes was highly biased towards A + T nucleotides (78.15% and 78.25%), and the AT skews (-0.001894 and 0.011999), negative GC skews (-0.535714 and -0.217391), and codon usage were determined. All 22 tRNA genes presented typical cloverleaf secondary structures, except for trnS1-NCU, which lacked the dihydrouridine arm. …”
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