A community-based approach to address lung cancer screening disparities in the black community using the Witness Project® framework: development and pilot trial by Lisa Carter-Bawa, Jamie S. Ostroff, Deborah O. Erwin, Elan N. Shoulders, Detric Johnson, Mikhalya Brown, Francis Valenzona, Lina Jandorf

“…Abstract Background Disparities in lung cancer outcomes persist among Black Americans, necessitating targeted interventions to address screening inequities. …”
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Hartmann’s Procedure Versus Intersphincteric Abdominoperineal Excision in Patients with Rectal Cancer: Report from the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Registry (SCRCR) by Viktor Åkerlund, MD, Maziar Nikberg, MD, PhD, Philippe Wagner, PhD, Abbas Chabok, MD, PhD

“…Patients in the HP group were older and had higher American Society of Anesthesiologists scores. The mean operating time was less for HP (290 vs 377 min). …”
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José Medina Echavarría y la sociología del desarrollo by Juan Jesús Morales Martín

“…Medina Echavarría’s contribution can be summarized in three essential points: the understanding of a concrete sociology of the culturalist and historicist type; the encounter and understanding among Latin American sociology and other academic disciplines, especially the science of economics; sociology and science as instruments at the service of human beings.…”
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Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of Shear Strength of Directly and Indirectly Loaded Flanged Recycled Self-Compacted Reinforced Concrete Deep Beams by Thamer Hussein Amer Alhussein, Jamal Abdul Samad Khudhair

“…Strut and tie model (STM) presented by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) 318-14 and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO LRFD 2012) was used to predict the ultimate shear capacity of the beams. …”
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Association Between Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in <i>Toll-like Receptor 3</i> (<i>tlr3</i>), <i>tlr7</i>, <i>tlr8</i> and <i>tirap</i> Genes with Severe Symptoms in Children P... by Adriana Souza Andrade, Aline Almeida Bentes, Lilian Martins Diniz, Silvia Hees Carvalho, Erna Geessien Kroon, Marco Antonio Campos

“…The frequencies of the SNPs obtained were not discrepant when compared to the frequencies described in the Global ALFA, Global 1000 Genomes, Global gnomAD, American 1000 Genomes, and American gnomAD databases, except for the SNP in TLR7. …”
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Global prevalence of platelet-type von Willebrand disease by Omid Seidizadeh, Andrea Cairo, Maha Othman, Flora Peyvandi

“…Since no pathogenic GP1BA variants that were previously reported to cause PT-VWD were found in Admixed American and Middle Eastern ethnicities, we were unable to estimate the PT-VWD prevalence in these 2 populations. …”
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Stigma and social support and their impact on quality of life and self-esteem among women with endometriosis in Latin-America and the Caribbean. by Yatzmeli Matías-González, Astrid Sánchez-Galarza, Ernesto Rosario-Hernández, Idhaliz Flores-Caldera, Eliut Rivera-Segarra

“…A total of 169 self-identified cisgender women with endometriosis from 14 Latin-American and Caribbean countries participated in the study. …”
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The pattern and burden of non-communicable diseases in armed conflict-exposed populations in Northeastern Nigeria by Roland I. Stephen, Jennifer A. Tyndall, Jamiu S. Olumoh, Malachy I. Okeke, Jacob A. Dunga, Tonde G. Elijah, Dillys M. Bello, Oyelola A. Adegboye, Jimmy A. Reyes

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Enhanced Corneal Repair with Hyaluronic Acid/Proanthocyanidins Nanoparticles by Yalu Liu, Xing Ge, Xiaochen Wu, Lina Guan

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Ultrashort Laser-Induced Nuclear Reactions: Initiating Decay of Helium Nuclei and Subsequent Fusion Reactions by Lubomir Kovachev, Ekaterina Iordanova, Georgi Yankov, Ivan Angelov

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Impedance Spectroscopic Analysis of Methane Sensing Characteristics in Electrospun Tungsten Oxide Nanofibers with Particle Size Heterogeneity by Papot Jaroenapibal, Watchara Sukbua, Napat Triroj

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Strategic Synthesis of Sulfinamides as Versatile S(IV) Intermediates by Subham Das, Amit Dhibar, Basudev Sahoo

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mSphere of Influence: an Inupiat Journey in Science by Kathryn C. A. Milligan-McClellan

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Correction for Kommedal et al., “Microbiological diagnosis of pleural infections: a comparative evaluation of a novel syndromic real-time PCR panel” by Øyvind Kommedal, Tomas Mikal Eagan, Øystein Fløtten, Truls Michael Leegaard, William Siljan, Hilde Fardal, Bjørnar Bø, Fredrik Grøvan, Kjersti Wik Larssen, Arne Kildahl-Andersen, Reidar Hjetland, Rune Tilseth, Sølvi Kristine Øyen Hareide, Marit Tellevik, Ruben Dyrhovden

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Identification of a Privileged Scaffold for Inhibition of Sterol Transport Proteins through the Synthesis and Ring Distortion of Diverse, Pseudo-Natural Products by Frederik Simonsen Bro, Laura Depta, Nienke J. Dekker, Hogan P. Bryce-Rogers, Maria Lillevang Madsen, Kaia Fiil Præstegaard, Tino Petersson, Thomas Whitmarsh-Everiss, Mariusz Kubus, Luca Laraia

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Editorial: Trust, participation and pandemic politics in Africa by A. Carl LeVan, Yahaya Baba, Abdu Mukhtar Musa

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Design of a Multi-Epitope Vaccine against the Glycoproteins of Newcastle Disease Virus by Using an Immunoinformatics Approach by Natolotriniavo T. Randriamamisolonirina, Mirantsoa S. Razafindrafara, Olivier F. Maminiaina

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Enhancing EMI Shielding Efficiency of Polyurethane Foam by Incorporating MWCNT-Decorated Hollow Glass Microspheres by Salma Sultana, Mostafizur Rahaman, Mohammed Rehaan Chandan

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The Safety and Efficacy of Weighted Baseballs by Michael M Reinold, Leonard C Macrina

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Brownian Dynamics Simulation of Microscale Thermophoresis in Liquid by Koki Ide, Tetsuro Tsuji, Takayuki Suzuki, Kenji Setoura

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