Lipoprotein Levels in Early Adulthood and NAFLD in Midlife: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study by Sahil Khanna, John T. Wilkins, Hongyan Ning, Norrina B. Allen, Cora E. Lewis, J. Jeffrey Carr, Donald Lloyd-Jones, Lisa B. VanWagner

“…Participants from the CARDIA study were included (n = 2,655; baseline mean age: 25.0, 59.1% female, and 48.6% black). NAFLD was defined as liver attenuation ≤40 Hounsfield units after excluding other causes of liver fat. …”
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A Comparison Study of Chemical Compositions and Sources of PM1.0 and PM2.5 in Hanoi by Pham Duy Hien, Vuong Thu Bac, Nguyen Thi Hong Thinh, Ha Lan Anh, Duong Duc Thang, Nguyen The Nghia

“…Sulfate, ammonium, and black carbon (BC) composed the majority of the mass in both size fractions, and the PMF models clearly differentiated the contribution of long-range transport (LRT) aerosols, which accounted for more than two-thirds of the measured PM-bound sulfate and ammonium concentrations, from those of the six in situ sources, viz., resuspended road dust, primary vehicular emissions, coal fly ash, biomass burning emissions, construction dust, and sea salt. …”
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Cancer Patients in Iraq by Hisham S Ibrahim Al-shaikhli, Redhwan Al-Naggar, Mahmoud Alkhateeb

“…The most popular forms of CAM were Quran recitation/water read upon Quran (80.1%), herbal treatment (10%), spiritual therapy/prayers (4.2%), black seeds and honey (3.8%), olive oil/Green tea (1%), and Zamzam wa.7%). …”
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Forensic characteristics of the offender who committed a criminal offence under Article 206-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine by S. V. Stetsenko

“…Based on the study, the classification of raiders available in science is identified, namely: the white, grey, black raiders and greenmailers. Depending on the attitude to the criminal event, the persons are classified as organisers, aware and unaware of the criminal acts. …”
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Knee pain in adults from the northeast of São Paulo, Brazil: prevalence, risk factors, and impact on quality of life by Alberto de Vitta, Nicoly Machado Maciel, Sandra Fiorelli Almeida Penteado Simeão, Matias Noll

“…Results: The prevalence of knee pain was 25.6% (95% confidence interval: 22.3–29.3%), and it was associated with being >60 years old, black ethnicity, mean or low income, overweight, depression, gastrointestinal and renal diseases, and persons who performed occupations requiring repetitive movements, sitting while using a computer, and standing. …”
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A sustainable solvothermal process extracting critical elements from Li-ion batteries by Nachbaur, Virginie, Ayadi, Firas, Foulon, Béatrice, Jean, Malick, Pralong, Valérie, Jouen, Samuel

“…The process demonstrated its effectiveness when treating NMC-type black mass extracted from a mobile phone battery.…”
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Trichoscopic Features of Lichen Planopilaris versus Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia: A Systematic Review by Shreya K. Gowda, Enzo Errichetti, Biswanath Behera, Vishal Thakur

“…The target arrangement of blue-grey dots, milky-red areas, and irregularly arranged white fibrotic dots were seen in late LPP, and black dots, lonely hairs, and loss of vellus hairs were detected in the later stages of FFA. …”
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Urethral Prolapse Case Report: Surgical and Social Considerations in Senegal by Mohamed Jalloh, Jennifer Heibig, Oumar Gaye, William Ghaul, Gabrielle Yankelevich, Medina Ndoye, Mouhamadou Moustapha Mbodji, Ayun Cassell, Lamine Niang, Serigne Magueye Gueye

“…Urethral prolapse is a rare condition occurring mostly in young black females. It can be worrying to the parents as it often causes vulvar bleeding. …”
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Effective Interventions for Improving Functional Movement Screen Scores Among “High-Risk” Athletes: A Systematic Review by Sean C. Clark, Nicholas D. Rowe, Mohamed Adnan, Symone M. Brown, Mary K. Mulcahey

“…The studies were assessed for quality and risk of bias using the Modified Downs and Black checklist. Participant demographics, intervention routines, and FMS^TM^ scores were extracted from the included studies…”
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Progress in devulcanization of waste tire rubber: Upcycling towards a circular economy by Zaheer ul Haq, Teng Ren, Xinyan Yue, Krzysztof Formela, Denis Rodrigue, Xavier Colom Fajula, Tony McNally, Dong Dawei, Yong Zhang, Shifeng Wang

“…It explores the multifaceted challenges of devulcanizing rubber, with a specific focus on transitioning from ground tire rubber to the concept of multi-decrosslinking: sulfur bridge breakage, rubber chain depolymerization and micro-nano sized core-shell carbon black. Ideal devulcanization has restricted the release of reinforcing fillers, resulting in devulcanized rubber mainly containing dozens of micron particles, which hinder the wide usage of devulcanized rubber. …”
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Mape: defending against transferable adversarial attacks using multi-source adversarial perturbations elimination by Xinlei Liu, Jichao Xie, Tao Hu, Peng Yi, Yuxiang Hu, Shumin Huo, Zhen Zhang

“…MAPE effectively eliminates adversarial perturbations in various adversarial examples, providing a robust defense against attacks from different substitute models. In a black-box attack scenario utilizing ResNet-34 as the target model, our approach achieves average defense rates of over 95.1% on CIFAR-10 and over 71.5% on Mini-ImageNet, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance.…”
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Application of Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Paralytic Shellfish Poison in Bivalve Shellfish and Its Influencing Factors by DENG Yuxiang, WU Haiyan, XU Xizhen, ZHAO Huihui, TAN Zhijun, ZHENG Guanchao

“…Comparative analysis reveals that 1% acetic acid is the most commonly used extraction solvent in LC-MS/MS analysis of PSP. Graphitized carbon black (GCB) packing and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) are more suitable for the purification and separation of PSP extracts from bivalve shellfish, respectively. …”
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Living in fear: How experience shapes caribou responses to predation risk by Laurie Derguy, Mathieu Leblond, Martin‐Hugues St‐Laurent

“…We studied the role of experience on the avoidance of risky areas by boreal caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in a system where they are under high predation pressure from gray wolves (Canis lupus) and black bears (Ursus americanus). Using telemetry data collected on 28 caribou, 31 wolves, and 12 bears, we investigated whether caribou adjusted their level of predator avoidance with passing monitoring years, a proxy of increasing experience. …”
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Oscillating Mindfully: Using Machine Learning to Characterize Systems-Level Electrophysiological Activity During Focused Attention Meditation by Noga Aviad, Oz Moskovich, Ophir Orenstein, Etam Benger, Arnaud Delorme, Amit Bernstein

“…Background: There has been rapid growth of neuroelectrophysiological studies that aspire to uncover the “black box” of mindfulness and meditation. Reliance on traditional data analysis methods hinders understanding of the complex, nonlinear, multidimensional, and systemic nature of the functional neuroelectrophysiology of meditation states. …”
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Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels in Coronary Artery Disease Patients: Opportunities for Improvement by Gary J. Martin, Meron Teklu, Edwin Mandieka, Joe Feinglass

“…Higher LDL-C values were associated with female sex, younger patients, non-Hispanic Black patients, high poverty or out of state zip code, Medicaid, or angina as the qualifying diagnosis. …”
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Demographic disparities, service efficiency, safety, and user satisfaction in public bus transit system: A survey-based case study in the city of Charlotte, NC by Sanaz Sadat Hosseini, Babak Rahimi Ardabili, Mona Azarbayjani, Hamed Tabkhi

“…Key findings show that East Charlotte residents and females face limited routes and longer wait times; safety concerns are more prevalent among Black participants and those in East Charlotte; and privacy concerns are higher among infrequent and higher-income bus users. …”
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Patient satisfaction toward doctor communication in medical clinics: a study from northern Sri Lanka by Shanjeeban Ponnuthurai, Suganthan Navaneethakrishnan, Rajeshkannan Nadarajah

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Macronutrient balance determines the human gut microbiome eubiosis: insights from in vitro gastrointestinal digestion and fermentation of eight pulse species by Da Bin Lee, In Seon Hwang

“…The interactions between macronutrients, the human gut microbiome, and their metabolites (short-chain fatty acids) were comprehensively investigated via an in vitro digestion and fermentation model subjected to eight pulse species. 16S rRNA sequencing and taxonomic analysis of pulse digesta fermented for up to 24 h revealed an increase in the relative abundance of gut health-detrimental genera represented by Escherichia-Shigella in kidney bean, soybean, cowpea, chickpea, and black bean samples. In contrast, the relative abundance of health-positive genera, including Bacteroides, Eubacterium, and Akkermansia, was elevated in red bean, mung bean, and Heunguseul. …”
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Evaluating the Effect of Active Charcoal-Containing Toothpaste on Color Change, Microhardness, and Surface Roughness of Tooth Enamel and Resin Composite Restorative Materials by Ali Forouzanfar, Pouria Hasanpour, Yasaman Yazdandoust, Hosein Bagheri, Hamideh Sadat Mohammadipour

“…Thirty-six bovine incisors and resin composite samples were prepared, stained with black tea, and then randomly divided into two groups. …”
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Quantifying Stability in Inverter-Based Weak Grids in the Presence of Synchronous Condensers by Sajjad Hadavi, Nabil Mohammed, Ali Mehrizi-Sani, Behrooz Bahrani

“…This paper proposes a quantitative index for the stability analysis of a system incorporating black-boxed IBRs and SynCons. The proposed index is derived from impedance-based stability analysis. …”
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