Lines resistant to downy mildew in the sunflower genetic collection at VIR by V. A. Gavrilova, T. G. Stupnikova, L. G. Makarova, N. V. Alpatieva, Yu. I. Karabitsina, E. B. Kuznetsova, I. A. Anisimova

“…Due to the pathogen’s attacks, annual seed harvest losses range between 30% and 70%. …”
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Patrimoine juif, pouvoir marocain by Chiara Lutteri

“…This article suggests that the patrimonialization of Judaism in Morocco carries political implications that go beyond the goal of promoting Jewish history, and that touch upon the King’s role in today’s political system.Since his enthronement in 1999, the King Mohammed VI has had to face religious and political challenges (terrorist attacks in Casablanca in 2003, the 20th February Movement in 2011). …”
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Increased PD-1 expression in livers associated with PD-1-antibody-induced hepatotoxicity by Miro Saarela, Essi Parviainen, Ana Lleo, Luca di Tommaso, Hanna Raunio, Krista Kankaanranta, Katri Vuopala, Aino Rönkä, Sini Nurmenniemi, Raija Kallio, Arja Jukkola, Katri S. Selander

“…Our findings suggest that VBDS is not due to direct cytotoxicity of checkpoint inhibitors and that the immunological attack against livers induced by these drugs is different from other cholestatic liver conditions. …”
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Non‐invasive telemedical care in heart failure patients and stroke: post hoc analysis of TIM‐HF and TIM‐HF2 trials by Serdar Tütüncü, Marcus Honold, Kerstin Koehler, Oliver Deckwart, Friedrich Koehler, Karl Georg Haeusler

“…We aimed to identify the incidence rate and factors associated with ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) in CHF patients as well as the impact of non‐invasive telemedical care (NITC) on acute stroke/TIA. …”
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Prevalence of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Comorbidity in the Canadian Community Health Survey 20022003 by Frank Mo, Lisa M. Pogany, Felix C.K. Li, Howard Morrison

“…Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor for heart disease (heart attack, angina, and heart failure), stroke, and hypertension, which shorten the average life expectancy. …”
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The Effectiveness of Rapamycin Combined with Eltrombopag in Murine Models of Immune-Mediated Bone Marrow Failure by Shaoxue Ding, Xiaowei Liang, Tian Zhang, Rong Fu

“…In this study, an immune attack-mediated AA mouse model was constructed by total body irradiation (TBI) and allo-lymphocyte infusion. …”
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Privacy-preserving approach for IoT networks using statistical learning with optimization algorithm on high-dimensional big data environment by Fatma S. Alrayes, Mohammed Maray, Asma Alshuhail, Khaled Mohamad Almustafa, Abdulbasit A. Darem, Ali M. Al-Sharafi, Shoayee Dlaim Alotaibi

“…The current solution is primarily server-assisted and fails to address collusion attacks among servers or data owners. Additionally, it needs to adequately account for the complex dynamics of the IoT environment. …”
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Optimization of a micro-scale air–liquid-interface model of human proximal airway epithelium for moderate throughput drug screening for SARS-CoV-2 by Chandani Sen, Tammy M. Rickabaugh, Arjit Vijey Jeyachandran, Constance Yuen, Maisam Ghannam, Abdo Durra, Adam Aziz, Kristen Castillo, Gustavo Garcia, Arunima Purkayastha, Brandon Han, Felix W. Boulton, Eugene Chekler, Robert Garces, Karen C. Wolff, Laura Riva, Melanie G. Kirkpatrick, Amal Gebara-Lamb, Case W. McNamara, Ulrich A. K. Betz, Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami, Robert Damoiseaux, Brigitte N. Gomperts

“…Abstract Background Many respiratory viruses attack the airway epithelium and cause a wide spectrum of diseases for which we have limited therapies. …”
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Cluster randomised controlled trial to examine medical mask use as source control for people with respiratory illness by Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Yi Zhang, Quanyi Wang, Bayzidur Rahman, Haiyan Zhang, Holly Seale, Daitao Zhang, Yanhui Chu

“…A post hoc comparison between the mask versus no-mask groups showed a protective effect against clinical respiratory illness, but not against ILI and laboratory-confirmed viral respiratory infections.Conclusions The study indicates a potential benefit of medical masks for source control, but is limited by small sample size and low secondary attack rates. Larger trials are needed to confirm efficacy of medical masks as source control.Trial registration number ACTRN12613000852752; Results.…”
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How far back do we need to look to capture diagnoses in electronic health records? A retrospective observational study of hospital electronic health record data by Tom Marshall, Elizabeth Sapey, Miles D Witham, Steve Harris, Rachel Cooper, Chris Plummer, Felicity Evison, James Wason, Heather J Cordell, Suzy Gallier, Fiona E Matthews, Ewan Pearson, Avan A Sayer, Mervyn Singer, Joanne Field, Mohammed Osman, Sian Robinson, Victoria Bartle, Thomas Scharf, Jadene Lewis, Rominique Doal, Peta le Roux, Ray Holding, Paolo Missier

“…For stroke, 4 of the top 10 reached 90% completeness by 5 years of lookback; angina pectoris was >90% coded at 7 years and previous transient ischaemic attack completeness continued to rise out to 10 years of lookback.Conclusion A 7-year lookback captures most, but not all, common diagnoses. …”
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Depression Paradox in Cardiovascular Outcomes of Adult Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Insights from 2 Million Nationwide Hospitalizations by Rupak Desai, Sashwath Srikanth, Shaylika Chauhan, Zainab Gandhi, Warda Shahnawaz, Aleen Rahman, Bisharah Rizvi, Akhil Jain

“…OSA+D+ cohort had a higher prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, congestive heart failure, anemia, smoking, substance abuse, prior myocardial infarction (MI), transient ischemic attack (TIA), TIA/stroke, and venous thromboembolism than the OSA+D- group (all P < 0.001). …”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells Carrying Viral Fusogenic Protein p14 to Treat Solid Tumors by Inducing Cell–Cell Fusion and Immune Activation by Yao Wang, Xunlei Pang, Ruirui Li, Jiuzhou Chen, Chen Wen, Huihuang Zhu, Tingyu Long, Jianjie Li, Lijun Zheng, Youcai Deng, Junnian Zheng, Bo Xu

“…Background: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-based immune cell therapies attack neighboring cancer cells after receptor recognition but are unable to directly affect distant tumor cells. …”
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Designing and explaining the political behavior model of managers in government organizations by Mehdi Izadi, Amir Hoshang Nazarpuri, Reza Sepahvand, Hojat Vahdati, Mohammad Hakak

“…The results showed that the political behavior of managers is, respectively, receiving control of access to information at the highest level, followed by showing calmness, resistance to change, pleasing others, playing with time, forming groups, blaming and attacking others, dealing with the opposite, strengthening a favorable impact, creating a communication network, support and empathy, and presenting oneself through other powerful people in the next priorities. …”
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Protocol for Home-Based Solution for Remote Atrial Fibrillation Screening to Prevent Recurrence Stroke (HUA-TUO AF Trial): a randomised controlled trial by Jing Tan, Yan Liang, Yong Liu, Wei Jiang, Duo Huang, Ning Tan, Chung-Wah Siu, Jo Jo Hai, Xiaoyu Huang, Jianfeng Ye, Ji-yan Chen, Chun Ka Wong, Mi Zhou, Li-Xue Yin, Ming-Liang Zuo, Kui Kai Lau, Zhen Lei, Yingqing Feng, Bryan P Yan, Wen-Sheng Yue, Wen-Jun Zhang, Yuk-Ming Lau, Hin-Wai LUI, Koon-Ho Chan, Toi Meng Mok, Weng-Chio Tam, Kun-Chong Tam, Xiuhua Feng, Xiaofei Jiang, Guanming Tan, Mario Alberto Evora

“…Secondary endpoints include recurrent stroke or transient ischaemic attack, initiation of long-term anticoagulation therapy, hospitalisation for heart failure, cardiovascular death and all-cause death.Ethics and dissemination The study protocol has been approved by the institutional review board of The University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong West Cluster, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR, China. …”
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Diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with ischaemic heart disease and acute coronary syndromes - a review of evidence and recommendations by Muhammad Usman Shah, Muhammad Usman Shah, Alun Roebuck, Bala Srinivasan, Joanna Kate Ward, Paul Edward Squires, Claire Elizabeth Hills, Kelvin Lee, Kelvin Lee

“…In the United Kingdom UK alone, around 120 amputations, 770 CVA, 590 heart attacks, and more than 2300 presentations with heart failure per week are attributed to diabetes DM. with One 1 in six 6 hospital beds and around 10% of the healthcare budget may be being spent on managing diabetes DM or its complications. …”
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Russian Science Foundation grant No. 20-14-00140 supported this study. The authors are thankful to the multi-access Center “Bioinformatics” for the use of computational resources a... by O. V. Vishnevsky, I. V. Chadaeva, E. B. Sharypova, B. M. Khandaev, K. A. Zolotareva, A. V. Kazachek, P. M. Ponomarenko, N. L. Podkolodny, D. A. Rasskazov, E. V. Zemlyanskaya, A. G. Bogomolov, O. A. Podkolodnaya, L. K. Savinkova, M. P. Ponomarenko

“…Accordingly, in this paper, albumin, globulin, and β­amylase of common wheat Triticum aestivum L. (1753) are analyzed, which have been identified earlier as targets for attacks by human class E immunoglobulins. At the genomic level, we wanted to find signs of past negative selection against the allergenicity of these three proteins (albumin, globulin, and β­amylase) during the domestication of ancestral forms of modern food plants. …”
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Atrial fibrillation in acute coronary syndrome: clinical and anamnestic features and effects on the course by V.І. Tseluyko, F.B. Salem, N.A. Lopina, I.V. Kuznetsov

“…At the same time, among patients of the 1st group, Killip II and III classes of acute heart failure were more often registered, and these patients belonged to the 1a-subgroup, that is, the heart attack during the AF had a more severe course. Among patients of the 1st group, anemia was significantly more frequently recorded (29.2 vs 10 %, p = 0.0109). …”
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Pairing regression and configurational analysis in health services research: modelling outcomes in an observational cohort using a split-sample design by Jason J Sico, Laura J Myers, Dawn M Bravata, Ying Zhang, Anthony J Perkins, Edward J Miech, Joanne Daggy

“…Background Configurational methods are increasingly being used in health services research.Objectives To use configurational analysis and logistic regression within a single data set to compare results from the two methods.Design Secondary analysis of an observational cohort; a split-sample design involved randomly dividing patients into training and validation samples.Participants and setting Patients who had a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) in US Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.Measures The patient outcome was the combined endpoint of all-cause mortality or recurrent ischaemic stroke within 1 year post-TIA. …”
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Migration, race, and gender: the policing of subversive solidarity actors in Morocco by Sébastien Bachelet, Maria Hagan

“…While men tend to face professional threats as insidious punishment for their activism, attacks on women more often target their family or intimate life. …”
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CCR7 and CD48 as Predicted Targets in Acute Rejection Related to M1 Macrophage after Pediatric Kidney Transplantation by Jie Zhang, Jun Pei, Chengjun Yu, Jin Luo, Yifan Hong, Yi Hua, Guanghui Wei

“…Although long and short-term survival rates for the graft have improved significantly with the development of immunosuppressants, acute rejection (AR) remains a major risk factor attacking the graft and patients. The innate immune response plays an important role in rejection. …”
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