Identification of Potential Serum Metabolic Biomarkers of Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Widely Targeted Metabolomics Study by Hang Zhang, Jing-jing Zuo, Si-si Dong, Yuan Lan, Chen-wei Wu, Guang-yun Mao, Chao Zheng

“…A total of 11 differential metabolites, including Hexadecanoic Acid (C16:0), Linolelaidic Acid (C18:2N6T), Linoleic Acid (C18:2N6C), Trans-4-Hydroxy-L-Proline, 6-Aminocaproic Acid, L-Dihydroorotic Acid, 6-Methylmercaptopurine, Piperidine, Azoxystrobin Acid, Lysopc 20:4, and Cuminaldehyde, were determined as the potential biomarkers for the DKD early identification, based on the multivariable generalized linear regression model and receiver operating characteristic analysis. …”
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Quality Evaluation of Ethiopian 100% Cotton Carded Ring Spun Yarn with Respect to USTER Standards by Biruk Fentahun Adamu, Desalegn Atalie, Erkihun Zelalem Liyew

“…Tensile properties of A2 (32.85Ne and 36.2Ne) had fallen under 5% USTER statistics percentile which indicates excellent yarn strength. Generally, from studied mills, it was seen that 61.5% of cotton yarn CVm and thin places falls at above 95% and 15% of yarn tenacity falls at ≤5% of Uster statistical percentile.…”
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A nomogram to predict sarcopenia in middle-aged and older women: a nationally representative survey in China by Jiayi Yang, Zihao Chen, Xinxin Dai, Liyao Jiang, Liyan Dai, Yu Zhao

“…Studies have shown that sarcopenia is generally higher in women than in men. Therefore, this study used the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) data to explore further the risk factors associated with sarcopenia in middle-aged and older Chinese women.MethodsIn this study, data from the 2015 CHARLS database were analyzed, comprising 7,805 eligible participants. …”
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Assessment and Modelling of Walk Trips in Akure, Nigeria by Yinka Benjamin Oluwadiya, Arafat Ayodeji Adeowu, Emmanuel Femi Adebayo, Adekunle Isaac Omole, Musa Odunayo Sabit, Olatunji Akhigbe Akinyeye

“…The key factors that greatly influenced decision of respondents to walk included socioeconomic factors, such as income, personal car ownership, educational qualifications, and employment status, with age and sex being the least significant socioeconomic determinants. Generally, the factors that motivated respondents to choose walking as a travel mode included its relative affordability, the lack of personal vehicles, awareness of health benefits, safety and security concerns, avoidance of motorized traffic congestion, and favorable weather conditions. …”
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Climate variability, population growth, and globalization impacting food security in Pakistan by Sohail Abbas, Ahtisham Haider, Shazia Kousar, Heli Lu, Siqi Lu, Fang Liu, Huan Li, Changhong Miao, Wanfu Feng, Muhammad Irfan Ahamad, Muhammad Sajid Mehmood, Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain

“…A two-layer principal component analysis was utilized to develop the food security index. Multivariate Generalized Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity was used to assess the impact of globalization, population growth, and climate variability on food security. …”
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Unveiling the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of the Berlengas Archipelago in Portugal as a Hotspot of Fish Species Using eDNA Metabarcoding and the Collaboration of Fishing Crews by Marco Simões, Cátia Costa, Maria da Luz Calado, Nuno Vasco-Rodrigues, Maria Jorge Campos, Sérgio Miguel Leandro, Agostinho Antunes

“…Fisher-collected samples were generally less diverse than those by the research team but detected species typical of deeper and open-ocean habitats, validating this sampling method. …”
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The bristle pattern development in Drosophila melanogaster: the prepattern and achaete-scute genes by D. P. Furman, T. V. Bukharina

“…This review systematizes the available data on the regular patterns of this interaction and shows that local expression of these genes is determined by hierarchical two-level control system comprising both direct and indirect regulators of their activities. A generalized scheme of the system containing the functional interactions of its components is proposed. …”
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Deep learning-based prediction of autoimmune diseases by Donghong Yang, Xin Peng, Senlin Zheng, Shenglan Peng

“…These results demonstrate the high accuracy, stability, and good generalization ability of the two models, which makes them promising tools in the field of autoimmune disease prediction and provides support for the use of the TCR bank for the noninvasive detection of autoimmune disease non-invasive detection is supported.…”
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Cyberstalking Practices Among Youth in Türkiye: Motivational Drivers, Digital Avenues, and Perceptual Paradigms by Zindan Çakıcı

“…Notably,LinkedIn elicits the greatest participant unease due to notification mechanisms, while WhatsApp is leastutilized owing to data limitations. While participants generally perceive cyberstalking as normative, manyresort to various stratagems, including the creation of fictitious accounts, to access restricted profiles.Despite intensive engagement in these practices, the majority eschew self-identification as ‘stalkers,’ citingperceived excessiveness and intimidation associated with the label.…”
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Study on Irrigation Water Quality in the Rift Valley Areas of Awash River Basin, Ethiopia by Zeyede Aregahegn, Mulate Zerihun

“…The obtained results showed that all quality parameters at Beseka Lake exceed the maximum permissible limit of suitability for irrigation. It is generally conceivable that the physicochemical characteristic of the Awash River varies in different water quality parameters at different sites. …”
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Contributions of Limb Joints to Energy Absorption during Landing in Cats by Xueqing Wu, Baoqing Pei, Yuyang Pei, Nan Wu, Kaiyuan Zhou, Yan Hao, Wei Wang

“…Furthermore, the joint angles and angular velocities exhibit similar variations, indicating that a generalized motor program can be adopted to activate limb joints for different landing heights. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation Characteristics of Water Pollution and the Cause of Pollution Formation in a Heavily Polluted River in the Upper Hai River by Chunfang Meng, Xiaoyu Song, Kening Tian, Bingxiao Ye, Tianxiu Si

“…In recent years, the water quality of seriously polluted river has generally improved, mainly due to reductions in pollutant discharge from point sources and nonpoint sources.…”
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Growth response of Douglas fir to the first early and delayed thinning by Dušek David, Novák Jiří

“…The data were analysed using Bayesian hierarchical modelling, and generalized hierarchical models were employed. DF promising trees responded to early thinning with significant acceleration of radial growth, leading to improvements in height-to-diameter ratio (HDR) and crown ratio (CR) parameters. …”
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Screening for anxiety in patients with cancer: Diagnostic accuracy of GAD-7 items considering lowered GAD-7 cut-offs. by Miriam Grapp, Till J Bugaj, Valentin Terhoeven, Hans-Christoph Friederich, Imad Maatouk

“…<h4>Background</h4>A standard questionnaire for generalized anxiety disorders is the GAD-7. Attempts to improve its screening capacity in oncological settings resulted in a discussion about lowering its cut-off. …”
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Precise Recognition and Feature Depth Analysis of Tennis Training Actions Based on Multimodal Data Integration and Key Action Classification by Weichao Yang

“…To address the issues of accuracy and generalization in action recognition within complex tennis training scenarios, this study proposes an Adaptive Semantic-Enhanced Convolutional Neural Network (ASE-CNN) model. …”
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Features of the female mentoring in the Russian management system by I. V. Groshev, T. M. Gololobova

“…The analysis of methods, mechanisms, tools and other aspects of updating the track of female mentoring and its features in the Russian management system is carried out. Based on the generalization of the obtained research results, the main directions of the development of female mentoring in business, state corporations, public organizations, authorities and other spheres of activity are formulated and a structural diagram of the distinctive features of female mentors is presented. …”
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Atrioventricular Conduction Delay in the Second Trimester Measured by Fetal Magnetocardiography by Annette Wacker-Gussmann, Henrike Paulsen, Krunoslav Stingl, Johanna Braendle, Rangmar Goelz, Joerg Henes

“…Fetal AV block in SSA/Ro pregnancies is generally not seen before 18-week gestation and onset is rare after 28-week gestation. …”
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Biochemical Behaviours of Salmeterol/Fluticasone Propionate in Treating Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) by Hilla Mills, Ronald Acquah, Nova Tang, Luke Cheung, Susanne Klenk, Ronald Glassen, Magali Pirson, Alain Albert, Duong Trinh Hoang, Thang Nguyen Van

“…Specific doses are prescribed accurately paying attention to factors like age, gender, race, and genetic makeup since these affect drug metabolisms. Generally, the ICS work by translocating glucocorticoid receptors to the nucleus from the cytosol. …”
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A Survey of Alien Dendroflora of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Neđad Bašić, Fatima Pustahija, Aldin Boškailo, Edina Muratović

“…The B&H allochthonous dendroflora generally originate from Asia (260 taxa) and North America (128), with a significant share of hybrids (81). …”
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FINANCIAL STABILITY OF RURAL MUNICIPALITIES IN POLAND’S LUBLIN VOIVODESHIP IN 2016-2020 by Agnieszka Gałecka, Marzena Ganc

“…In the opinion of the respondents (heads of rural municipalities), the vast majority of rural municipalities in the Lublin voivodeship were financially stable and the Covid-19 pandemic generally did not have a significant impact on their levels of stability.…”
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