Repellents against Aedes aegypti bites: synthetic and natural origins by Melissa Noguera-Gahona, Cindy Peña-Moreno, Natalia Quiñones-Sobarzo, Natalia Quiñones-Sobarzo, Caroline Weinstein-Oppenheimer, Caroline Weinstein-Oppenheimer, María Guerra-Zúñiga, Ximena Collao-Ferrada, Ximena Collao-Ferrada

“…The present review explores the current state of the art on topical mosquito repellents, both synthetic and natural, used globally, especially in regions where dengue is endemic. …”
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Topology-Aware Bus Routing in Complex Networks of Very-Large-Scale Integration with Nonuniform Track Configurations and Obstacles by Ziran Zhu, Zhipeng Huang, Jianli Chen, Longkun Guo

“…Then, we formulate the topology-aware single bus routing as an unsplittable flow problem (UFP), which is integrated into a negotiation-based global routing to determine the desired routing regions for each bus. …”
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SHoes for Adolescent PatEllofemoral pain: study protocol for the SHAPE Australian community-based, randomised clinical trial by Kim L Bennell, Kade L Paterson, Rana S Hinman, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Adam Bryant, Karen Elaine Lamb, Peixuan Li, Sam Shearer, Anurika P De Silva

“…The secondary outcomes include changes in other parameters of knee pain, symptoms, function in daily activities, health-related and knee-related quality of life, global improvement and fear of movement. Other measures include cointervention use, adherence, adverse events, shoe comfort, descriptive characteristics, physical activity levels, footwear characteristics and objective foot measures.Ethics and dissemination This study has been approved by the University of Melbourne Greater than Low Risk Human Research Ethics Committee (reference: 2022-25470-35344-4). …”
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Increasing the meaningful involvement of women in HIV cure-related research: a qualitative interview study in the United States by Karine Dubé, Elizabeth Barr, Morgan Philbin, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Brian Minalga, Beth Peterson, Dawn Averitt, Bridgette Picou, Krista Martel, Cecilia Chung, María Mejía, Martha Cameron, Gail Graham, Lynda Dee, Dázon Dixon Diallo, Ebony Gordon, Anastasia Korolkova, Typhanye Dyer, Judith D. Auerbach, Eileen Scully, Krista L. Dong, Sara Gianella

“…Background Cisgender women represent over half of people living with HIV globally. However, current research efforts toward a cure for HIV focus predominantly on cisgender men. …”
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Perceived usefulness of trauma audit filters in urban India: a mixed-methods multicentre Delphi study comparing filters from the WHO and low and middle-income countries by Max Petzold, Lovenish Bains, Ulf Ekelund, Kapil Dev Soni, Nobhojit Roy, Martin Gerdin Wärnberg, Swati Gupta, Monty Khajanchi, Anurag Mishra, Jyoti Kamble, Helle Mølsted Alvesson, Johanna Berg, Shamita Chatterjee, Siddarth David, Rajdeep Singh, Prosanta Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pawanindra Lal, Vikas Malhotra, Ravi Meher, Lakshmeswar Nagaraj Mohan, Ritu Saxena, Prabhat Shrivastava, Sumit Sural

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Lyme disease associated neurological and musculoskeletal symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Ganesh Bushi, Ashok Kumar Balaraman, Shilpa Gaidhane, Suhas Ballal, Sanjay Kumar, Mahakshit Bhat, Shilpa Sharma, M Ravi Kumar, Aashna Sinha, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Nishant Rai, Sanjit Sah, Ambanna Yappalparvi, Shailesh Kumar Samal, Doddolla Lingamaiah, Muhammed Shabil

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A Review of the Intrinsic Heavy Quark Content of the Nucleon by S. J. Brodsky, A. Kusina, F. Lyonnet, I. Schienbein, H. Spiesberger, R. Vogt

“…We discuss theoretical calculations, constraints from global analyses, and collider observables sensitive to the intrinsic heavy quark distributions. …”
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the Elderly by Michael P. Philpot, Sube Banerjee

“…Neuropsychological assessment demonstrated impairments in verbal fluency and visuo-spatial tasks. No case exhibited global intellectual impairment. The two patients who complied with appropriate treatment became asymptomatic after 4–6 months.…”
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Mesh-based interpolation on 2-manifolds by Kevin Scully

“…This paper presents a global L1-estimate for the convergence of mesh-based interpolants on 2-manifolds defined over multiple coordinate systems and analyzes the convergence of an integral on a triangulated approximate manifold to the desired integral on the manifold being approximated. …”
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Moving Forward, Looking Back: On the Frontlines of Dietary Shift in Rural Ecuador by Joan Gross, Carla Guerrón Montero, Peter Berti, Michaela Hammer

“…Within the broader context of the global nutritional transition, in this article we examine local dietary practices in the northern highlands of Ecuador drawing on ethnographic research. …”
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Corporate investment in artificial intelligence: The role of GDP, ICT exports, and patents by Rahman Md. Shanur, Golder Uttam, Ghosh Prosenjeet

“…This study investigates the drivers influencing corporate investment in AI using global data from 2013 to 2022, focusing on the relationship between GDP growth, ICT goods exports, AI patent applications (AIPA), and regulatory quality with corporate AI investments.…”
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Asymptotic Behavior of a Stochastic Delayed Model for Chronic Hepatitis B Infection by Bo Wu, Jianwen Jia

“…At first, the existence and uniqueness of the global positive solution are obtained. Secondly, the sufficient conditions are derived that the solution of the stochastic system fluctuates around the disease-free equilibrium E0 and the endemic equilibrium E∗. …”
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A Note on the Generalized Camassa-Holm Equation by Yun Wu, Ping Zhao

“…We get a blow-up scenario and obtain the global existence of strong and weak solutions under suitable assumptions, respectively. …”
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Algebra Properties in Fourier-Besov Spaces and Their Applications by Xuhuan Zhou, Weiliang Xiao

“…As applications of these algebra properties, we establish the global well-posedness for small initial data and local well-posedness for large initial data of the generalized Navier-Stokes equations. …”
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Innerarity, D. (2018). Política para perplejos. Barcelona, España: Galaxia Gutenberg by Alejandro Robles Leal

“… En Política para perplejos, Daniel Innerarity nos presenta una lectura bastante clara de nuestra realidad global y donde apunta una cuestión con la cual todos podemos coincidir pero que no habíamos descrito con tanta vehemencia: asistimos a una época en la que la política nos llena de desconcierto e incertidumbre. …”
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On the Initial Value Problem of Stochastic Evolution Equations in Hilbert Spaces by Xuping Zhang, Yongxiang Li, Pengyu Chen

“…The existence of saturated mild solution and global mild solution is obtained under the situation that the nonlinear term satisfies some appropriate growth conditions. …”
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On a Fractional SPDE Driven by Fractional Noise and a Pure Jump Lévy Noise in ℝd by Xichao Sun, Zhi Wang, Jing Cui

“…Under some suitable assumptions, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the global mild solution via fixed point principle.…”
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An Impulse Dynamic Model for Computer Worms by Chunming Zhang, Yun Zhao, Yingjiang Wu

“…We prove that there exists a globally attractive virus-free periodic solution when the vaccination rate is larger than θ1. …”
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Tribute to Michael O’Rourke (1937–2024): A Collective Tribute to a Colleague, Friend and Mentor by Alberto Avolio, Barry Gow, Wilmer Nichols, Dean Winter, Christopher Hayward, David Gallagher, John Cockcroft, Audrey Adji, Junichiro Hashimoto, Charalambos Vlachopoulos

“…Abstract A collective tribute to a colleague, friend, and mentor from those that have known him through his journey of the meanderings of the arterial pulse in health and disease; a journey that extended beyond borders and confines, with far-reaching personal and global impact. The Editorial Board of the Artery Research Journal and the Executive Committee of the Artery Society extend their due respects to Prof. …”
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A Nonmonotone Weighting Self-Adaptive Trust Region Algorithm for Unconstrained Nonconvex Optimization by Yunlong Lu, Weiwei Yang, Wenyu Li, Xiaowei Jiang, Yueting Yang

“…Under reasonable assumptions, the global convergence of the method is established for unconstrained nonconvex optimization. …”
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