Prevalence of myopia and refractive parameters among children and adolescents in Hi-tech District of Chengdu City by Xiaoqin Wang, Liuzhi Zeng, Yiping Xian, Mei Xin, Qingqing Shan, Weiye Li, Lixia Lv, Yifeng Liu, Rui Zhang, Kejian Song, Xixi Tian, Han Guo, Changjiang Yan, Chunyan Li, Xueni Luo, Honglin Luo, Ling Yang, Jun Luo, Zejun Chen

“…ObjectiveTo analyze the prevalence of myopia among children and adolescents in Chengdu from 2021 to 2023, providing insights for myopia prevention and control.MethodsThis study was a school-based cross-sectional study in children and adolescents aged 3–18 years in Hi-tech District of Chengdu City. All the students underwent comprehensive ocular measurement, including uncorrected binocular visual acuity (VA), spherical equivalent error (SER) with noncycloplegic autorefraction, corneal radius (CR), and axial length (AL).ResultsOver the three-year study period from 2021 to 2023, the overall prevalence of myopia was 38.15%, with annual rates of 38.74% in 2021, 38.67% in 2022, and 37.03% in 2023. …”
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Resilience Based on Community-Oriented Capacities in Crisis Conditions by Mohammad Jalali, Mahdi Mahmoodzadeh Vashan, Nour Mohammad Yaghoubi, Mohammad Mohammadi

“…Therefore, the current research seeks to identify the factors affecting resilience based on community-oriented capacities in crisis situations using the meta-synthesis method and finally presenting a model in this field.Case studyThe statistical population of this research includes all articles published in domestic and foreign scientific databases between 2000 and 2023, and finally 56 studies that were closely related to the subject under study were selected as a sample.Materials and Methods The research is of an applied type with an exploratory nature, in order to collect data, a meta-synthesis method was used. …”
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Durvalumab and tremelimumab in patients with advanced rare cancer: a multi-centre, non-blinded, open-label phase II basket trialResearch in context by Abha A. Gupta, Anna Tinker, Derek Jonker, Rahma Jamal, Hal Hirte, Eric W. Winquist, Quincy Chu, Christian Kollmannsberger, Ralph Wong, Thierry Alcindor, Torsten O. Nielsen, Ming Tsao, Tricia R. Cottrell, Diane Provencher, John Hilton, Monika K. Krzyżanowska, Christine Elser, Sebastien Hotte, Joana Sederias, Siwei Zhang, Wei Tu, Janet Dancey

“…Durable responses were noted in all cohorts except for osteosarcoma. The overall response rate for eligible patients was 16% (95% CI: 10–23%). …”
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A multicenter, randomized, double-blind trial comparing LY01011, a biosimilar, with denosumab (Xgeva®) in patients with bone metastasis from solid tumors by Mingchuan Zhao, Xichun Hu, Pengpeng Zhuang, Aiping Zeng, Yan Yu, Zhendong Chen, Hongmei Sun, Weihua Yang, Lili Sheng, Peijian Peng, Jingfen Wang, Tienan Yi, Minghong Bi, Huaqiu Shi, Mingli Ni, Xiumei Dai, Changlu Hu, Hongjie Xu, Dongqing Lv, Qingshan Li, Kaijian Lei, Xia Yuan, Ou Jiang, Xicheng Wang, Baihui Hu, Zhe Hou, Zhaoping Su, Song Zheng, Ming Zhou, Changlin Dou

“…Materials and methods: Eligible patients with BM from solid tumors were randomized at a 1:1 ratio to receive 120 mg of LY01011 or 120 mg of denosumab subcutaneously every four weeks during a 12-week double-blind treatment period, and then all enrolled patients continued to receive LY01011 until week 53. …”
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The Great Lakes Winter Grab: Limnological data from a multi‐institutional winter sampling campaign on the Laurentian Great Lakes by Ge Pu, Kirill Shchapov, Nolan J. T. Pearce, Kelly Bowen, Andrew Bramburger, Andrew Camilleri, Hunter Carrick, Justin D. Chaffin, William Cody, Maureen L. Coleman, Warren J. S. Currie, David C. Depew, Jonathan P. Doubek, Rachel Eveleth, Mark Fitzpatrick, Paul W. Glyshaw, Casey M. Godwin, R. Michael McKay, Mohiuddin Munawar, Heather Niblock, Maci Quintanilla, Michael Rennie, Matthew W. Sand, Kimberly J. Schraitle, Michael R. Twiss, Donald G. Uzarski, Henry A. Vanderploeg, Trista J. Vick‐Majors, Judy A. Westrick, Bridget A. Wheelock, Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, Arthur Zastepa, Ted Ozersky

“…Here, we describe a dataset generated by a multi‐institutional winter sampling campaign across all five Laurentian Great Lakes and some of their connecting waters (the Great Lakes Winter Grab). …”
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The Nature of Gradualness for Changes in Place of Articulation Features of Vowels in Serial Optimality Theory: Evidence from Three Iranian Languages by Mehdi Fattahi

“…The derivation of [bu] from [be] entails changes in features of tongue height and position, and lip rounding. In Parallel OT, all these changes could be seen in the winning candidate in one go as the Generator is restricted to the application of one process only. …”
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Clinical determinants and prognostic implications of renin and aldosterone in patients with symptomatic heart failure by Masatake Kobayashi, Susan Stienen, Jozine M. terMaaten, Kenneth Dickstein, Nilesh J. Samani, Chim C. Lang, Leong L. Ng, Stefan D. Anker, Macro Metra, Gregoire Preud'homme, Kevin Duarte, Zohra Lamiral, Nicolas Girerd, Patrick Rossignol, Dirk J. vanVeldhuisen, Adriaan A. Voors, Faiez Zannad, João Pedro Ferreira

“…The primary outcome was the composite of all‐cause mortality or HF hospitalization. We also investigated changes in renin and aldosterone levels after administration of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) in a subset of the EPHESUS trial and in an acute HF cohort (PORTO). …”
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In situ simulation for cardiopulmonary resuscitation training: A systematic review by Andrea Cortegiani, Mariachiara Ippolito, Cristian Abelairas-Gómez, Sabine Nabecker, Alexander Olaussen, Kasper G. Lauridsen, Yiqun Lin, Taylor Sawyer, Joyce Yeung, Andrew S. Lockey, Adam Cheng, Robert Greif, Aaron Donoghue, Barbara Farquharson, Chih-Wei Yang, Heike Geduld, Kathryn Eastwood, Kevin Nation, Sebastian Sch naubelt, Tasuku Matsuyama, Ying-Chih Ko, Katherine S. Allen, Tracy Kidd, Jan Breckwoldt, Ming-Ju Hsieh

“…The certainty of evidence was very low for all the evaluated outcomes mainly due to risk of bias, inconsistency and imprecision. …”
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Analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of vascular injury and regeneration following experimental Spinal Cord Injury by Christian J. Entenmann, Emily J. von Bronewski, Lilly Waldmann, Lea Meyer, Katharina Kersting, Laurens T. Roolfs, Lasse M. Schleker, Melina Nieminen-Kelhä, Irina Kremenetskaia, Frank L. Heppner, Michael G. Fehlings, Peter Vajkoczy, Vanessa Hubertus

“…Vascular proliferation (CD31+/Ki-67+) manifested across all regions at d3 (p < 0.01), and most notably in R2 (p < 0.01). …”
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Evaluating the impact of a tertiary multidisciplinary meeting in metastatic breast cancer: A prospective study by Belinda Sassé, Sammy Shaya, Jessica Nimmo, Katie Cao, Daphne Day, Katie Evans, Catherine Healy, Gwo-Yaw Ho, Gillian Kruss, Amelia McCartney, Linda Mojzisova, Ranjana Srivastava, Jennifer Tan, Mun Yee Tan, Kate Webber, Michelle White, Steven David, Marion Harris

“…Conclusion: MBC MDMs result in significant, actionable changes to patient management. 28.1 % of presentations resulted in treatment changes, almost all of which were implemented. Costs were offset by improved clinic efficiencies. …”
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Application of lacrimal gland ultrasonography in the evaluation of chronic ocular graft-versus-host-disease by Mingxia Zhong, Siyuan Liu, Jinghan Luo, Qin Zhang, Zhou Yang, Shanshan Zhang

“…Demographics and transplantation-related information were collected for all participants, including age, gender, donor-recipient HLA matching, donor-recipient ABO matching, donor-recipient gender combination and duration after allo-HSCT. …”
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Analisis Sentimen Kebijakan Penerapan Kurikulum Merdeka Sekolah Dasar dan Sekolah Menengah pada Media Sosial Twitter dengan Menggunakan Metode Word Embedding dan Long Short Term Me... by Alif Rizal Maulana, Satrio Hadi Wijoyo, Yusi Tyroni Mursityo

“…Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has created many obstacles to all aspects of human life, including education. …”
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Impacts of genomic alterations on the efficacy of HER2-targeted antibody–drug conjugates in patients with metastatic breast cancer by Riqing Huang, Anqi Hu, Qixiang Rong, Ditian Shu, Meiting Chen, Wei Yang, Yue Zhang, Qiufan Zheng, Xin An, Cong Xue, Haifeng Li, Yanxia Shi

“…Additionally, ERBB2/CDK12 co-amplification exhibited a superior median PFS in all patients (19.33 months vs. 5.43 months; HR = 0.13; 95% CI 0.04–0.45; p < 0.001) and in HER2-positive patients (19.33 months vs. 6.87 months; HR = 0.18; 95% CI 0.05–0.72; p = 0.007). …”
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Optimizing Muscle Performance in Young Soccer Players: Exploring the Impact of Resisted Sprint Training and Its Relationship with Distance Covered by Felipe Hermosilla-Palma, Juan Francisco Loro-Ferrer, Pablo Merino-Muñoz, Nicolás Gómez-Álvarez, Rodrigo Zacca, Hugo Cerda-Kohler, Ciro Brito, Jorge Pérez-Contreras, Moacyr Portes-Junior, Esteban Aedo-Muñoz

“…Time-dependent differences were observed in all groups for peak force (PF) (<i>p</i> < 0.001; η²p = 0.62), time to PF (TPF) (<i>p</i> < 0.001; η²p = 0.53), impulse at 50 (<i>p</i> < 0.001; η²p = 0.57), 100 (<i>p</i> < 0.001; η²p = 0.60), and 200 ms (<i>p</i> < 0.001; η²p = 0.67) in IMTP; jump height by impulse-momentum (<i>p</i> < 0.001; η²p = 0.64), rate of force development (<i>p</i> = 0.04; η²p = 0.14), yielding impulse (<i>p</i> < 0.001; η²p = 0.49), and concentric impulse (<i>p</i> = 0.01; η²p = 0.19) in CMJ; time (<i>p</i> < 0.001; η²p = 0.46) in 505 m; and average speed in linear sprint (<i>p</i> = 0.003; η²p = 0.36), with moderate to large effect sizes, regardless of the distance covered. …”
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Remarkable Phytochemical Characteristics of Chi-Nan Agarwood Induced from New-Found Chi-Nan Germplasm of Aquilaria sinensis Compared with Ordinary Agarwood by Meng Yu, Yangyang Liu, Jian Feng, Deli Chen, Yun Yang, Peiwei Liu, Zhangxin Yu, Jianhe Wei

“…In addition, there were significant differences in the contents of low-molecular-weight aromatic compounds such as 2-methyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one, 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, and 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde between Chi-Nan agarwood and ordinary agarwood. All the mentioned main chemical characteristics of this new Chi-Nan agarwood were coincident with those of the rare wild Chi-Nan agarwood from A. malaccensis, A. sinensis, and A. crassna. …”
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The role of smell in medical and psychological disorders: An interdisciplinary approach by Giuseppe Riva

“…In conclusion, the increasing evidence of the important role of the sense of smell in many medical and psychological disorders could negatively affect social and working life of people of all social and economic strata, and, therefore, be relevant to public health field. …”

Reducing dietary crude protein levels while meeting metabolizable protein requirements: Performance of dairy cows over a full lactation period by A. Lavery, A. Craig, A.W. Gordon, A. White, N. Barkley, C.P. Ferris

“…ABSTRACT: A total of 90 Holstein dairy cows (24 primiparous, 66 multiparous, mean parity = 3.0) were fed diets containing either 150, 160, or 170 g CP/kg DM from 8 to 180 DIM, with all diets designed to supply at least 100% MP requirements. …”
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Evaluation of Yield and Yield Components of Different Ecotypes of Black Cumin (Nigella sativa L.) to Planting Date in Gorgan by Mohammad Sadeq Ashrafi, Farshid Ghaderi-Far, Elias Soltani, Ebrahim Zeinali, Asieh Siahmarguee

“…With the delay in planting, all measured traits decreased. The highest grain yield was obtained from the first planting date (December 18) with 1245 kg per ha. …”
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Navigating the Ice: Establishing Pre-Concussion Baselines in Ice-Hockey Players for Gait Assessment Utilizing Inertial Measurement Units by Julia Müller, Noah Köppel, Patrick Eggenberger, Emanuel Brunner, Thomas Weber, Eling D. de Bruin

“…Concussions represent 2–14% of all hockey injuries (Izraelski, 2014). Sports-related concussions (SRC) sustained in professional ice hockey are a common in-competition injury leading to highly individual return to sport that can be associated with symptoms lasting days to months (Höllerer et al., 2023). …”
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