Acute Glomerulonephritis in a Child with Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection: A Case Report by Giovanna Vitaliti, Raffaele Falsaperla, Leandra Giunta, Giuseppina Spataro, Venerando Rapisarda, Mario Velardita, Giuseppe Nunnari, Piero Pavone

“…On our knowledge, in the literature it is the youngest patient with renal involvement during course of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection ever reported. Conclusions. The present case supports the hypothesis of a rather close causal relationship between this infective agent and renal and glomerular symptoms occurred in this child, during an acute episode of respiratory disease.…”
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Controlling malaria with indoor residual spraying in spatially heterogenous environments by Mo'tassem Al-Arydah, Robert Smith?

“…Indoor residual spraying – spraying insecticide inside houses to kill mosquitoes – has been one of the most effective methods of disease control ever devised, being responsible for the near-eradication of malaria from the world in the third quarter of the twentieth century and saving tens of millions of lives. …”
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An experimental study on photocatalytic degradation to free river water from toxic dye pollutant using Zn doped TiO2 nanoparticles by Sarathi R, Sheeba N. L., Selva Esakki E, Renuga Devi L, Meenakshi Sundar S

“…Water pollution by organic pollutants is an ever increasing problem for the global concern. The present study is aimed at synthesizing Titanium di oxide nanoparticles under two different concentrations of Zinc as dopant material. …”
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Synthesis of antifungal imines as inhibitors of ergosterol biosynthesis by Joydeep Karan, Aditi Kundu, Robin Gogoi, Kanchikeri Math Manjaiah, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Koyel Mondal, Rajesh Kumar, Parshant Kaushik, Priya Saini, Virendra Singh Rana, Najam Akhtar Shakil

“…Ensuring a safe and secure supply of nutritious food for the ever growing global population necessitates the development of new eco-friendly fungicides to increase global food output by minimizing plant disease losses. …”
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Integrating water availability for electrolysis into energy system modeling by Julian Walter, Lina Fischer, Sandra Venghaus, Albert Moser

“…As a result, fresh water availability will diminish ever more and more due to droughts and extreme weather events. …”
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A Patient with Fatal Necrotizing Fasciitis following the Use of Intra-Articular Sodium Hyaluronate Injections: A Case Report by Shanti Virupannavar, Carla Guggenheim

“…Osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, is a key cause of disability around the world and an ever-growing public health concern. Intra-articular hyaluronic acid viscosupplementation is used as a conservative option for osteoarthritis knee pain relief (McArthur et al., 2012; Hootman and Helmick, 2006; Huang el al., 2011). …”
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The Notion of “Philosophy as a Way of Life”: Ambiguities and Open Questions by Eli Kramer, Marta Faustino, Hélder Telo

“…Particularly proliferous in the areas of metaphilosophy and the history of philosophy, PWL has also been applied to a wide variety of knowledge domains beyond the academic world. Ever more prominent in contemporary debates, PWL has become a banner under which a very diversified work is being developed by scholars with originally very different areas of research and expertise, who gather under PWL by their dissatisfaction with what has become of philosophy (an abstract and purely theoretical undertaking) and their hopes about what philosophy can be (a way of thinking about and transforming one’s life). …”
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Improving biometric recognition by means of score ratio, the likelihood ratio for non‐probabilistic classifiers. A benchmarking study by Carlos Vivaracho‐Pascual, Arancha Simon‐Hurtado, Esperanza Manso‐Martinez

“…Abstract One of the ever present goals in biometrics research is to improve system performance. …”
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Tracking the transition of sustainable entrepreneurship: from a bibliometric analysis to current research trends and future research directions by Mani Jindal, Mayank Kumar, Nirakar Nath Pandey, Vijayalaxmi Rajendran, Pankaj Dhaundiyal, Priyanshu Sharma, Ramji Nagariya, Chandraketu Singh

“…Abstract Sustainability in family businesses is an increasingly important and ever-evolving topic in business research, due to the demands of sustainable development agendas for all types of companies. …”
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Cognitive FDA-MIMO Radar Network’s Transmit Element Selection Algorithm for Target Tracking in a Complex Interference Scenario by Yingfei Yan, Haihong Tao, Jingjing Guo, Biao Yang

“…In the future, radar will encounter a more intricate and ever-changing electromagnetic interference environment. …”
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Architectural research facing the challenges of the 21st century: Criticality, creativity and diversity by Francisco González de Canales, Ramón Pico Valimaña, José Manuel Almodóvar Melendo

“…Therefore, the recovery of a critical approach is more necessary than ever. This should encompass not only the critical evaluation of the aforementioned technologies, but also counteract models of thought associated with them, such as the standardization of languages or the hegemony of solutionism. …”
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An Improved ConvNeXt With Multimodal Transformer for Physiological Signal Classification by Jiajian Zhu, Yue Feng, Qichao Liu, Hong Xu, Yuan Miao, Zhuosheng Lin, Jia Li, Huilin Liu, Ying Xu, Fufeng Li

“…With escalating mortality rates associated with cardiovascular disease, the early detection of arrhythmias assumes ever-increasing significance. This study introduces a novel multimodal network that concurrently classifies electrocardiogram (ECG) and wrist pulse signal (WPS). …”
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Design and Implementation of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory Astronomical Data Transmission Visualization System by Xinchen Ye, Hailong Zhang, Yan Zhu, Jie Wang, Tohtonur Ergesh, Huijuan Li

“…With the development of astronomical observation technology, astronomical devices produce more data than ever. Astronomical telescopes are usually far away from city, so the long-distance data transmission between telescope and data center faces great challenges. …”
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Assessment and Modeling of Household-Scale Solar Water Heater Application in Zambia: Technical, Environmental, and Energy Analysis by Mehdi Jahangiri, Esther T. Akinlabi, Sam M. Sichilalu

“…This paper gives the first-ever attempts to assess the optimal localization of SWHs across 22 major cities in Zambia, as well as determine the possibility of hot water generation and model the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission saving. …”
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Post corona virus Disease-19 (COVID-19): Hyper inflammatory syndrome-associated bilateral anterior uveitis and multifocal serous retinopathy secondary to steroids by Srinivasan Sanjay, Vijay K R. Rao, Deepashri Mutalik, Padmamalini Mahendradas, Ankush Kawali, Rohit Shetty

“…Bilateral anterior uveitis possibly represents an immune-mediated trigger of his clinically quiescent psoriasis causing first-ever uveitis episode, possibly due to COVID-19. Serous chorioretinopathy could be secondary to steroids following treatment of COVID-19-related sequelae.…”
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Overview of Community-Acquired Pneumonia and the Role of Inflammatory Mechanisms in the Immunopathogenesis of Severe Pneumococcal Disease by Helen C. Steel, Riana Cockeran, Ronald Anderson, Charles Feldman

“…Notwithstanding the HIV pandemic, major challenges confronting the control of CAP include the range of bacterial and viral pathogens causing this condition, the ever-increasing problem of antibiotic resistance worldwide, and increased vulnerability associated with steadily aging populations in developed countries. …”
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Enhancing HEVC Efficiency: A Novel Approach to Intra-Mode Estimation Through Hadamard Cost Analysis by Junaid Tariq, Imran Javed, Touseef Sadiq, Hameedur Rahman, Ashfaq Hussain Farooqi, Amir Ijaz

“…With the rapid evolution of codecs, real-time applications demand more than ever from the complexity of intra-mode selection. …”
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Helical Magnetic Field in a Massive Protostellar Jet by A. Rodríguez-Kamenetzky, A. Pasetto, C. Carrasco-González, L. F. Rodríguez, J. L. Gómez, G. Anglada, J. M. Torrelles, N. R. C. Gomes, S. Vig, J. Martí

“…In this study we present the first rotation measure analysis of the polarized synchrotron emission ever performed in a protostellar radio jet, which allows us to reveal its true 3D magnetic structure. …”
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Factors associated with HIV testing among young women in Tanzania: Insights from the 2022 Tanzanian Demographic and Health Survey using Anderson’s Behavioral Model by Mesfin Abebe, Yordanos Sisay Asgedom, Amanuel Yosef Gebrekidan, Yohannes Addisu Wondimagegne, Habtamu Endashaw Hareru, Tsion Mulat Tebeje

“…Given the hierarchical structure of the DHS data and the binary nature of the outcome variable ‘ever tested for HIV,’ we employed a multilevel mixed-effect logistic regression model. …”
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Call to Action: Lead Pharmacy into the Next Decade by Gregory Zumach, Kerry K Fierke, Gardner Lepp, Bridget McGugan, Marta Brooks, Anthony Olson, Andrew Bartlett, Nilushi Karunaratne, Betty Exintaris

“…There are more ways than ever to share information, and more need than ever to share best practices for leadership related to pharmacy. …”
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