A Retrospective Study to Investigate the Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Hemodynamic Characteristics in Hypertensive Patients by Wenqi Xiao, Ping Han, Liping Song, Jingwen Yang, Lin Zhou, Xiangning Deng, Zheng J. Ma, Yukun Lang, Hai Zhao, Yuzhuo Zhao, Hui Chen, Wenjing Zhang, Huixian Huang, Ningling Sun

“…In this cohort, the average BMI across all hypertension patients was 26.859 ± 3.897 (kg/m2), with obese patients (BMI ≥ 28 kg/m2) averaging 31.01 ± 2.87 kg/m2 and non‐obese (BMI<28 kg/m2) averaging 24.70 ± 2.28 kg/m2. …”
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Antioxidant Activity of Pomegranate Husk Ellagitannins in Enhancing Oxidative Stability of Canola Oil During Frying by Mariela R. Michel, Maritza Pacheco-Lara, Romeo Rojas, Guillermo Cristian G. Martínez-Ávila, Juan Alberto Ascacio-Valdés, Mayra Aguilar-Zárate, Pedro Aguilar-Zárate

“…Results showed that ellagitannins significantly mitigated VCO oxidation across all temperatures, with 0.05% identified as the optimal concentration. …”
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Reproductive Performance in a Selected Sample of Dairy Farms in Una-Sana Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina by Adis Softic, Adam Dunstan Martin, Eystein Skjerve, Nihad Fejzic, Teufik Goletic, Aida Kustura, Erik Georg Granquist

“…The median pregnancy proportion at first insemination was 40% (5th–95th percentile range 17–62), while the cumulative pregnancy rate calculated at day-60, day-80, day-100, and day-120 showed that approximately 64% of all pregnancies happened before day-120. The calculated interservice intervals showed that approximately 69% of the repeat breeding animals came back to the oestrus in the period of 18 to 24 days. …”
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One Single Amino Acid for Estimation the Content of Total Free Amino Acids in Qingkailing Injection Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Diode Array Detection by Li Zhang, Xue Wang, Jiankun Su, Haiyu Liu, Zhixin Zhang, Lingling Qin, Cheng He, Long Peng, Mingxing Guo, Xiaoyan Gao

“…The results showed that the precision (RSD < 4.88%), the robustness (RSD < 4.04%), and the average recoveries (94.11%–107.94%) of this newly proposed method all met the requirements for content determination. …”
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Exploring the association between herbal medicine usage and drug-induced liver injury: insights from a nationwide population-based cohort study using SCCS in South Korea by Taehyun Yang, Juhee Ahn, Juhee Ahn, Sungho Won, Sungho Won, Sungho Won, Sanghun Lee

“…These risks gradually declined to baseline levels (1.0). All other groups exhibited similar patterns. In contrast, DILI risks associated with TKM hospital/clinic visits and herbal medicine prescriptions were minimal, with relative risks of 1.01 (95% CI: 1.00–1.01) and 0.99 (95% CI: 0.99–0.99), respectively. …”
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Prognostic Value of Novel CARWL Score in Stage IIIC Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients Undergoing Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy by Erkan Topkan, Ahmet Kucuk, Duriye Ozturk, Emine Elif Ozkan, Ali Ayberk Besen, Berrin Pehlivan, Ugur Selek

“…Then, the CARWL score was created by combining all feasible combinations of the CAR and significant WL groupings. …”
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Quality improvement of plant-based white chocolate enriched with encapsulated blueberry juice by Rossi Indiarto, Natallina Wiranto Putri, Fetriyuna Fetriyuna, Edy Subroto, Arif Nanda Irawan, Dimas Rahadian Aji Muhammad, Mohd Nizam Lani

“…VWC was accepted by the panelists, with VWC1-EBJ (AM 25 % and EBJ 10 %) showing the best results across all tested parameters. Therefore, this research presents a promising chocolate formula that is both appealing and healthy, particularly for consumers seeking lactose-free and vegan products.…”
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Mapping decision-making pathways: Determination of intervention entry points for diagnostic tests in suspected serious infection [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Raasti Naseem, Sara Pretorius, Nicola Howe, Clare Lendrem, Cameron Williams, Enitan D Carrol, Philip Pallmann

“…The “ideal” test should be rapid, point-of-care, cheap to procure, have capacity for high usability, and ability to be performed and interpreted by all staff. Facilitators to the adoption of infection diagnostic tests is their clinical need, and the main potential barrier is poor change management and behavioural change. …”
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Enhancing furcation involvement classification on panoramic radiographs with vision transformers by Xuan Zhang, Enting Guo, Xu Liu, Hong Zhao, Jie Yang, Wen Li, Wenlei Wu, Weibin Sun

“…Results Among the evaluated models, the ViT model outperformed all others, achieving the highest precision (0.98), recall (0.92), and F1 score (0.95), along with the lowest cross-entropy loss (0.27) and the highest accuracy (92%). …”
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Development of High-performance Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer by Chun-guang XIE, Ji-yang ZHANG, Tong YANG, Yu-liang HUANG, Shu-guang XIE, Hui ZHU, Jing-xuan SUN, Ping CHENG

“…To reduce ion loss during transmission, improve system performance and ensure the stability of vacuum at all levels, the system adopts a four-stages of differential vacuum design, with the first stage being the proton transfer reaction tube, the second stage being the radio frequency quadrupole ion transport region, the third stage being the direct current quadrupole ion transport region, and the fourth stage being the time-of-flight mass analyzer. …”
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msiFlow: automated workflows for reproducible and scalable multimodal mass spectrometry imaging and microscopy data analysis by Philippa Spangenberg, Sebastian Bessler, Lars Widera, Jenny Bottek, Mathis Richter, Stephanie Thiebes, Devon Siemes, Sascha D. Krauß, Lukasz G. Migas, Siva Swapna Kasarla, Prasad Phapale, Jens Kleesiek, Dagmar Führer, Lars C. Moeller, Heike Heuer, Raf Van de Plas, Matthias Gunzer, Oliver Soehnlein, Jens Soltwisch, Olga Shevchuk, Klaus Dreisewerd, Daniel R. Engel

“…Here, we present msiFlow, an accessible open-source, platform-independent and vendor-neutral software for end-to-end, high-throughput, transparent and reproducible analysis of multimodal imaging data. msiFlow integrates all necessary steps from raw data import to analytical visualisation along with state-of-the-art and self-developed algorithms into automated workflows. …”
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Biomarkers of gastric atrophy at stomach cancer by A. V. Belkovets, S. A. Kurilovich., Yu. I. Ragino, L. V. Scherbakova, O. B. Cheremisina, N. V. Cherdyntseva, N. A. Andryushina, M. I. Voyevoda

“…Original investigation was designed as «case series», that included 85 patients with SC (48 m and 37 f, mean age 61.2±13,6 years) who were consistently referred to two medical institutions. All patients underwent interviewing the questionnaire concerning smoking and alcohol consumption, presence of gastroenterological symptoms and family history. …”
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Ion Chromatography Based Urine Amino Acid Profiling Applied for Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer by Jing Fan, Jing Hong, Jun-Duo Hu, Jin-Lian Chen

“…Another diagnosis model for clinical staging with an AUC value of 0.902 tested by 3 advanced gastric cancer inpatients of group D showed that all could coincide with the model. Conclusions. …”
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Clinical and endoscopical and morphofunctional scores in evaluation of development of gastroesophageal reflux disease in various age groups by M. A. Osadchuk, A. M. Zolotovitskaya, N. V. Kireyeva, S. N. Nikolenko, I. M. Kvetnoy

“…Its development at patients of all age groups is observed on a background of gastritis with, probably, genetically determined hyperplasia of gastric epithelial cells producing NO-synthase and endothelin-1. …”
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Advertising in Lithuanian Periodicals in 1918-1940: Characteristics of its Quantitative and Qualitative Developement by Giedrė Polkaitė

“…Advertising of warehouses, shops, and goods contained therein rather than that of separate trademarks or brand products was much more common.   2) 1921-1926 - it did not take long for advertising to come to life again following economic and political disturbances. First of all, illustrated advertising increased in number considerably. …”
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A child with Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis and celiac disease: accidental association or two different aspects of the same condition? by Grazia Bossi, Maria Sole Prevedoni Gorone, Luca Lungarotti, Francesco Pelillo, Amelia Mascolo, Matteo Naso, Daniele Veraldi, Francesca Olivero, Costanza Chirico, Maria Vittoria Marino, Cristina Dutto, Gian Luigi Marseglia

“…With gluten-free diet the patient achieved rapid and complete symptom remission together with healing of all the bone lesions proven by WBMR. Three years after the onset of the disease the girl is healthy and totally asymptomatic, still on clinical and radiological follow-up. …”
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Emotion dysregulation and impulsivity as overlapping symptoms in adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder: severity profiles and associati... by Eszter Kenézlői, Lívia Balogh, Szilvia Somogyi, Evelyn E. Lévay, Zsuzsa Halmai, Zsófia Nemoda, Zsolt S. Unoka, János M. Réthelyi

“…The BPD group reported higher levels of emotion dysregulation in all domains, and demonstrated increased delay aversion among uncertain conditions in decision-making. …”
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Modelling district heating demand: A synthetic dataset for two residential neighbourhoodsZenodo by Katia Ritosa, Ina De Jaeger, Dirk Saelens, Staf Roels

“…Six heating system configurations were allocated, including condensing and non-condensing boilers, each combined with one of three domestic hot water (DHW) setups: no integrated DHW, direct DHW, and DHW with a storage tank. For all system designs, production efficiency varied with the load ratio. …”
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Undernutrition disrupts jejunal and ileal microbiota and epithelial tissue homeostasis in a pregnant sheep model by Weibin Wu, Muhammad Faheem Akhtar, Jiahong Geng, Huizhen Lu, Muhammad Ajwad Rahim, Jianbo Cheng, Xiaoling Ding, Shengyong Mao, Yanfeng Xue

“…Sixteen late-gestation Hu-sheep were randomly assigned to the control group (n = 8, 100% ad libitum feeding levels) or the undernutrition group (n = 8, which received 30% ad libitum feeding levels). After 15-d treatment, all ewes were slaughtered, and jejunal and ileal digesta and epithelium samples were collected for 16S rRNA gene sequencing and transcriptome sequencing, respectively. …”
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Dietary and environmental factors affecting the dynamics of the gut bacteria in Tibetan Awang sheep (Ovis aries) across divergent breeding models by Yuhao Wang, Xinping Wang, Yirong Wang, Yirong Wang, Songyu Liao, Zhaxi Pubu, Jiangcuo Silang, Lixu Chai, Siyue Zhao, Siyue Zhao

“…Furthermore, PCoA and ANOSIM analysis exhibited significant differences in bacterial composition across all breeding models (r &gt; 0.6, p &lt; 0.001). …”
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