Wearable Loop Sensors for Knee Flexion Monitoring: Dynamic Measurements on Human Subjects by Ian Anderson, Christopher Cosma, Yingzhe Zhang, Vigyanshu Mishra, Asimina Kiourti

“…<italic>Methods:</italic> Three dynamic activities (walking, brisk walking, and full flexion&#x002F;extension, all performed in place) are used to validate the tethered sensor on ten (10) adults. …”
Get full text

Refraction changes in the anterior and posterior corneal surfaces during the early postoperative period following sinus trabeculectomy by V.V. Averich, A.V. Volzhanin, G.B. Egorova

“…Keratometric measurements of the anterior and posterior corneal surfaces strongly correlated at all follow-up evaluation points. There was a correlation between Scheimpflug imaging and measurements taken with auto kerato-refractometer. …”
Get full text

Development of a Flexible Produce Supply Chain Food Safety Risk Model: Comparing Tradeoffs Between Improved Process Controls and Additional Product Testing for Leafy Greens as a Te... by Gabriella Pinto, Gustavo A. Reyes, Cecil Barnett-Neefs, YeonJin Jung, Chenhao Qian, Martin Wiedmann, Matthew J. Stasiewicz

“…Under high variability contamination, both interventions removed all highest-risk lots (about 0.05% of total). Yet, additional product testing rejected more lower-risk lots (about 1% of total), suggesting meaningful food waste tradeoffs. …”
Get full text

Epidemiology and outcomes of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in patients with hematological malignancies from 2014 to 2022 by Meng Li, Liyan Ye, Zhenghao Yu, Hongwu Yao, Yunxi Liu, Guanglei Wang, Mingmei Du

“…The risk factors, epidemiological characteristics, data from all patients with CRKP, NGS gene sequencing molecular epidemiology analysis, and cross-transmission were described.ResultsA total of 217 patients with K. pneumoniae isolates, including 38 (17.5%) patients with CRKP isolates, were confirmed in the HM department. …”
Get full text

Sex differences in exercise‐induced arterial hypoxemia and pulmonary edema following high‐intensity exercise in highly trained endurance athletes by Alanna S. Hind, Reid A. Mitchell, Olivia N. Ferguson, Morgan Flynn, Satvir S. Dhillon, Karine Badra, Kathryn M. Milne, Danilo Iannetta, Michael S. Koehle, Jordan A. Guenette

“…F: 96 (1) %max, p = 0.02). All participants developed EIAH, with no sex differences in end‐exercise SpO2 (M: 89 (4) % vs. …”
Get full text

Primary Terminal Haemochromatosis in a 50 Year-Old Patient by M. I. Gonik, M. S. Zharkova, O. Yu. Kiseleva, E. V. Berezina, Sh. A. Ondos, Yu. V. Lerner, E. A. Kogan, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Echocardiographic evidence of dilated cardiomyopathy of all chambers, a reduced 24% ejection fraction at absent acute myocardial infarction. …”
Get full text

Neuropsychiatric manifestations following chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy for cancer: a systematic review of clinical outcomes and management strategies by Max Topp, Michael Hudecek, Hermann Einsele, Imad Maatouk, Leo Rasche, Johannes Duell, Anna Fleischer, Sophia Kurth, Patrick-Pascal Strunz, Julia Mersi, Carmen Sanges

“…This comprehensive review seeks to systematically identify, categorize and elucidate all previously described neurological and psychological side effects associated with CAR-T cell therapy, shedding light on the pertinent laboratory findings that underscore these phenomena.Methods PubMed, Springer Link, and ScienceDirect were systematically searched for empirical studies on adult patients with cancer receiving CAR-T cell therapy for hemato-oncological malignancies. …”
Get full text

Consequences of insecticide overuse in Hungary: assessment of pyrethroid resistance in Culex pipiens and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes by Rebeka Csiba, Zsaklin Varga, Dorina Pásztor, Bianka Süle, Vera Ihuoma Ogoke Mxinwa, Zoltán Soltész, Brigitta Zana, Krisztián Bányai, Gábor Kemenesi, Kornélia Kurucz

“…Results In Cx. pipiens, the kdr mutation was detected across all five collection sites, with resistance allele frequencies ranging from 18.1% to 36.3%. …”
Get full text

Effect of abdominal massage and comprehensive nursing on relieving constipation in elderly patients with diabetes (腹部推拿治疗糖尿病便秘效果观察及护理) by YAN Qiuyan (闫秋艳), LIU Fei (柳菲)

“…Methods Totally 80 elderly diabetic patients with constipation were randomly divided into the control group and observation group, with 40 cases in each group. All patients were given glucose-lowering Therapy and routine care, and Traditional Chinese Medicine abdominal massage was carried in the observation group. …”
Get full text

Surgical management of benign tumors of the parotid gland: the advantages of extracapsular dissection compared to traditional surgical techniques by Antonio Zanghì, Andrea Cavallaro, Martine Marchi, Marcello Marchi, Luigi La Via, Luigi La Via, Filippo Sanfilippo, Filippo Sanfilippo, Alessandro Cappellani, Simone Di Majo

“…IntroductionSalivary gland tumors represent only 3%–6% of all head and neck neoplasms, and approximately 70% of these tumors are located in the parotid gland. …”
Get full text

Femoral neck system (FNS) versus 4 cannulated compression screws (CCSs) in the treatment of young patients with Pauwels type III femoral neck fracture: a retrospective comparative... by Yang Gao, Tianle Ma, Xiaohu Chang, Peng Jia, Xiaoteng Li, Xin Tang

“…Follow-up duration ranged from 12 to 24 months for all patients. Results There were no significant differences between the FNS and CCSs groups in terms of demographic characteristics, fracture characteristics, time to fracture healing, duration of hospital stay, and Harris hip score at one year post-surgery (p > 0.05). …”
Get full text

Which variables are associated with recruitment failure? A nationwide review on obstetrical and gynaecological multicentre RCTs (2003–2023) by Ben W Mol, Madelon van Wely, L Ramos, J J Duvekot, J B Derks, Fulco van der Veen, Ruben Duijnhoven, H J van Beekhuizen, M J E Mourits, J A M van der Post, E Pajkrt, M A Oudijk, H C J Scheepers, Mariette Goddijn, J Huirne, Marijke C van der Weide, A Kwee, C Willekes, M Y Bongers, Judith Rikken, Romee Casteleijn, S Middeldorp, I M Custers, M P Lambregtse – van den Berg, V Mijatovic, F J M Broekmans, A Hoek, J P de Bruin, M H Mochtar, S Mastenbroek, J P W R Roovers, F Mol, A Vollebregt, C H van der Vaart, K B Kluivers, M E Vierhout, R C Painter, P M A J Geomini

“…Secondary outcomes were recruitment target not achieved within an extension period of at least 12 months and premature termination of the trial. In all RCTs, we collected information on variables with a potential effect on recruitment failure, recorded at five levels; patient, doctor, participating centre, study organisation and study design.Results In total, 46 of 83 RCTs (55%) did not achieve their targeted recruitment within the preplanned study period with a maximal extension period of 6 months. …”
Get full text

Charm fragmentation fractions and $$\mathbf {c\overline{c}}$$ c c ¯ cross section in p–Pb collisions at $$\mathbf {\sqrt{s _{NN}}=5.02 TeV}$$ s NN = 5.02 TeV by ALICE Collaboration

“…The results are obtained based on all the available measurements of prompt production of ground-state charm-hadron species: $$\textrm{D}^{0}$$ D 0 , $$\textrm{D}^{+}$$ D + , $$\textrm{D}_\textrm{s}^{+}$$ D s + , and $$\mathrm {J/\psi }$$ J / ψ mesons, and $$\Lambda _\textrm{c}^{+}$$ Λ c + and $$\Xi _\textrm{c}^{0}$$ Ξ c 0 baryons. …”
Get full text

Application of Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid for the Detection of Pathogens in Pulmonary Infections by Dai X, Xu K, Tong Y, Li J, Dai L, Shi J, Xie H, Chen X

“…Among them, Tropheryma Whipplei (6.15%), Bordetella pertussis (2.51%), Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (1.96%), Mycobacteria tuberculosis (1.40%), Chlamydia pneumoniae (1.96%), Chlamydia psittaci (0.56%), Legionella pneumophila (0.28%) were detected using tNGS alone, and the CTs results of these microorganisms were all negative. Among the various types of mixed infections observed, concurrent presence of bacteria and viruses was the most common, accounting for 37.15%. …”
Get full text

The impact of multiple exposures and movement on the fear response of poultry by Alexandra Jackson, Marcela Quino, Anusha Gautam, Melissa Gilpin, Katie Still, Denise Landers, Bethany Baker-Cook

“…For both the human approach and the novel object test, at all-time points, the number of birds interested in the human or object was higher on 37d than 23d (P<0.01). …”
Get full text

Net energy of grains for dairy goats differed with processing methods and grain types by Xiaodong Su, Lei Zhang, Yiyang Sun, Yanbo Wu, Jianrong Ren, Shengru Wu, Xinjian Lei, Jun Zhang, Dangdang Wang, Hao Ren, Junhu Yao

“…Throughout the basal phase, all goats were fed the same basal diet. In the substitution phase, 30% of the basal diet was replaced with DRC, DRW and SFC, respectively. …”
Get full text

Effect of Extracorporeal Diaphragmatic Pacing Combined with Four-Point Kneeling Position Training on Pulmonary Function in Patients with Ischemic Stroke by LU Wei, DONG Pengxia, XIE Tianpei, FAN Yingjie, QIU Hao, LIU Haoyu, SU Min

“…After 4 and 8 weeks of treatment, the MEIDT, QBDM, DBDM on both the unaffected and affected sides, as well as the patients' FEV₁, FVC, PEF, 6MWD were all higher than those before treatment, and Borg score were lower than those before treatment (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
Get full text

Prognostic Significance of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD-EPI Equation) and Anemia in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure Secondary to Chagas Cardiomyopathy by Marcelo Arruda Nakazone, Maurício Nassau Machado, Ana Paula Otaviano, Ana Maria Silveira Rodrigues, Augusto Cardinalli-Neto, Reinaldo Bulgarelli Bestetti

“…Independently, CKD and anemia were not associated with all-cause mortality. However, when they coexisted, an additional risk was attributed for these patients. …”
Get full text

Hubungan Pengetahuan dan Sikap Terhadap Rokok Dengan Kebiasaan Merokok Siswa SMP di Kota Padang by Afdol Rahmadi, Yuniar Lestari, Yenita Yenita

“…The population in this study is all junior high school students in Padang School Year 2011/2012. …”
Get full text

High prevalence of multidrug resistant and extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from urinary tract infections in the West reg... by Solomon Bayaba, Raspail Carrel Founou, Flaurant Thibau Tchouangueu, Brice Davy Dimani, Lethicia Danaëlle Mafo, Omer Aurelle Nkengkana, Luria Leslie Founou, Michel Noubom

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among two healthcare facilities during a four-month period from February to May, 2023. All mid-stream urine samples were collected from UTIs patients. …”
Get full text