Comparison of different severe obesity definitions in predicting future cardiometabolic risk in a longitudinal cohort of children by Gilles Paradis, Melanie Henderson, Lisa Kakinami, Angelo Tremblay, Anna Smyrnova

“…However, as most AUCs were generally uninformative, and obesity definitions were the same if not better than SO, the improvement may not be clinically meaningful.…”
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Cryptocurrencies as a subject of financial fraud by Małgorzata Kutera

“…FINDINGS: The detailed bibliometric and descriptive analysis showed that cryptocurrencies as a subject of financial fraud are generally a new area of scientific research, although it is developing quite intensively. …”
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Competing health risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and early response: A scoping review. by Stefan Baral, Amrita Rao, Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema, Carrie Lyons, Muge Cevik, Anna E Kågesten, Daouda Diouf, Annette H Sohn, Refilwe Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Gregorio Millett, Julia L Marcus, Sharmistha Mishra

“…Responses to COVID-19 have varied in intensity and breadth, but generally have included domestic and international travel limitations, closure of non-essential businesses, and repurposing of health services. …”
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Leadership in Organizations and the PR Department Work Quality by Edit Terek Stojanović, Mila Kavalić, Sanja Kovačić, Milan Nikolić, Marko Vlahović, Srđana Taboroši

“…Motivation: Previous research linking leadership and public relations can generally be divided into two groups. One group of such studies addresses the impact of leadership on public relations (Topic, 2021; Meng & Neill, 2021). …”
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Salinity stress-induced impacts on biomass production, bioactive compounds, antioxidant activities and oxidative stress in watermeal (Wolffia globosa) by Nitesh Kumar Yadav, Arun Bhai Patel, Himanshu Priyadarshi, Sampa Baidya

“…Chlorophyll-b (Chl-b) peaked at 17.11, 25.67, and 34.22 mM NaCl levels. Salinity stress generally elevated antioxidant activities, assessed via DPPH, ABTS, and FRAP assays reaching their highest values at 34.22 mM NaCl (40.52%), 17.11 mM NaCl (56.71%), and 25.67 mM NaCl (428.83 μmol Fe2⁺ g−1), respectively. …”
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Clinical and endoscopical and morphofunctional scores in evaluation of development of gastroesophageal reflux disease in various age groups by M. A. Osadchuk, A. M. Zolotovitskaya, N. V. Kireyeva, S. N. Nikolenko, I. M. Kvetnoy

“…Patients with chronic H. pyloriassociated gastritis were included to control groups (30 young age, 20 medium age group) and 15 generally healthy patients of young age.Results. Chronic gastritis and duodenitis were revealed in majority of GERD patients: in patients of young age superficial gastritis prevails; in medium age group gastroesophageal reflux was associated with gastritis accompanying with signs of atrophy. …”
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Community disaster exposure and first onset of depression: A panel analysis of nationally representative South African data, 2008-2017. by Andrew Tomita, Busisiwe P Ncama, Yoshan Moodley, Rashieda Davids, Jonathan K Burns, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Albert T Modi, Rob Slotow

“…Risk of first depression onset between individuals exposed and unexposed to community disaster was measured, accounting for multiple disaster exposure over time by fitting generalized estimating equation (GEE) regression models. …”
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The Use of Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Inertial Measurement Units in Medicine: Systematic Review by Ricardo Smits Serena, Florian Hinterwimmer, Rainer Burgkart, Rudiger von Eisenhart-Rothe, Daniel Rueckert

“…ResultsThe median dataset size is of 50 participants, which poses significant limitations for AI models given their dependency on large datasets for effective training and generalization. Furthermore, our analysis reveals the current dominance of machine learning models in 76% on the surveyed studies, suggesting a preference for traditional models like linear regression, support vector machine, and random forest, but also indicating significant growth potential for deep learning models in this area. …”
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L’agriculture itinérante sur brûlis, une menace sur la forêt tropicale humide ? by Serge Bahuchet, Jean-Marie Betsch

“…The attitude of the scientists and managers of development and forest preservation towards the shifting cultivation is very generally ideological. It results in an ambiguous talk based on a homogeneous and out of context image of the term “itinerant agriculture on slash-and-burn field” characterized by fallowing and firing, referred to in English by two not synonymic terms, “Slash-and-burn” that is “to fell and to burn” to cultivate permanently slash-and-burn fields , or “Shifting cultivation” or “Swidden cultivation” which correspond to the French agriculture itinérante or agriculture sur brûlis, that is an agricultural system in which fields are cleared by firing and cropped discontinuously. …”
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Cognitive impairment, depressive and anxiety disorders among post-COVID-19 survivors: a follow-up study by Ayman A. Aziz, Ahmed A. Latif, Sandra W. Elseesy

“…For the first year following the SARS disease, they generally suffer from suicide and psychosis. Aim To evaluate the presence of cognitive impairment, anxiety disorders, and depression in adult survivors of COVID-19, 1 month and 3 months post-recovery. …”
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Predictors of food security status among informal caregivers of older adults residing in slums in Ghana by Dina Adei, Williams Agyemang-Duah, Bright Osei Boateng, Anthony Acquah Mensah

“…Methods A sample of 458 informal caregivers of older adults residing in slum communities in the Greater Kumasi metropolis was used for the study. The Generalized Linear Regression Model was used to estimate factors that predict food security status among informal caregivers of older adults in slum communities. …”
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Social-structural barriers to primary care among sex workers: findings from a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2014–2021) by Miriam T. H. Harris, Kate Shannon, Andrea Krüsi, Haoxuan Zhou, Shira M. Goldenberg

“…We used multivariate logistic regression with generalized estimating equations (GEE) to identify social-structural factors associated with primary care access (seeing a family doctor in the last six months), after adjusting for confounders. …”
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Feasibility of generating sagittal radiographs from coronal views using GAN-based deep learning framework in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis by Tito Bassani, Andrea Cina, Fabio Galbusera, Andrea Cazzato, Maria Elena Pellegrino, Domenico Albano, Luca Maria Sconfienza

“…Synthetic images were visually consistent with real ones, but quality was generally insufficient for accurate clinical assessment. …”
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Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Alcohol Consumption Among the Youths in Kampala, Uganda. A Cross-Sectional Study by Namiiro AM, Audo R, Nannungi CD, Pitua I, Kiberu D, Talemwa P, Mujuni E, Lwesabula A, Ageimo P, Khaukha AZ, Kuol MJ, Egaru L, Koire M, Ssewante N

“…Males consumed twice as much alcohol as females. Generally, the level of alcohol consumption decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic as the percentage of participants consuming alcohol dropped from 47.5% to 42.8%. …”
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Positive energy density in topologically charged exponential wormholes and Regge–Wheeler potential by Faizuddin Ahmed, Jaydeep Goswami, Abdelmalek Bouzenada

“…Additionally, we analyze geodesic motions of test particle around a generalized wormhole, highlighting how the presence of the global monopole parameter affects trajectories of test particles within this topologically charged wormhole. …”
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Pulmonary and systemic immune alterations in rats exposed to airborne lunar dust by Brian E. Crucian, Heather Quiriarte, Chiu-wing Lam, Mayra Nelman, Audrie A. Colorado, Douglass M. Diak, John T. James

“…Cytokine analysis of the lavage fluid showed increased levels of IL-1β and TNFα. These alterations generally persisted through the 13-week sampling. Blood analysis showed few systemic immune alterations from the lunar dust inhalation. …”
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Thurstonian Scaling for Sensory Discrimination Methods by Jian Bi, Carla Kuesten

“…The application and significance of Thurstonian scaling for sensory discrimination methods are discussed generally. R codes for estimations and tests for <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>d</mi><mo>′</mo></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> values are provided in the paper.…”
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The effect of depth data and upper limb impairment on lightweight monocular RGB human pose estimation models by Gloria-Edith Boudreault-Morales, Cesar Marquez-Chin, Xilin Liu, José Zariffa

“…These results suggest that using depth data with RGB data is beneficial to HPE, and that models trained with data collected from uninjured individuals can generalize to persons with physical impairments.…”
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Experiencias internacionales en el desarrollo de habilidades informacionales en la formación doctoral by Liuris Rodríguez Castilla, Rolando Serra Toledo, Kely Rivero Domínguez

“…Para alcanzar este objetivo se partió de una revisión bibliográfica que permitió identificar diversas iniciativas prácticas, agrupándolas por países, formas organizativas y características generales. Se identificaron un total de 27 materiales documentales con iniciativas en la formación de aspirantes a doctores en 19 países. …”
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Assessment of the optimal frequency of insecticide sprays required to manage fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda J.E Smith) in maize (Zea mays L.) in northern Ghana by Jerry A. Nboyine, Ebenezer Asamani, Lakpo K. Agboyi, Iddrisu Yahaya, Francis Kusi, Gloria Adazebra, Benjamin K. Badii

“…Results The results showed that larval infestations were generally lower in Emastar 112 EC treated maize than in those sprayed with Eradicoat or NSO. …”
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