Evaluation on Economic Benefits of Adoption of High-quality Rice Cultivars - A Study Based on Survey Data from Rice Farmers in Guangdong Province by Shuting YANG, Zedong YAN, Fengbo CHEN

“…This result suggested that the planting cost of high-quality rice was greatly influenced by plot characteristics and it showed significant variation across different plots. …”
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Primary HIV Drug Resistance among Recently Infected Cases of HIV in North-West India by C. K. Chauhan, P. V. M. Lakshmi, V. Sagar, A. Sharma, S. K. Arora, R. Kumar

“…HIV primary drug resistance (PDR) is of great public health concern because it has the potential to compromise the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the population level. …”
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Regional Medical Campuses in Canada by Aaron Johnston, Amanda Bell, Kristy Penner, Trushar Patel, Grace Perez

“…RMCs were associated with 1 to 3 large hospitals, but the size of these associate hospitals also varied greatly. We found that the environments of proposed RMCs differed somewhat from existing RMCs and included examples of novel organizational constructs, settings with smaller urban population sizes, smaller hospitals, and settings with smaller and decreasing physician workforce. …”
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Impact of a potential Chlamydia vaccine in the USA: mathematical modelling analyses by Hiam Chemaitelly, Laith J Abu-Raddad, Houssein H Ayoub, Susanne F Awad, Monia Makhoul

“…Additional potential ‘breakthrough’ effects of the vaccine on infectiousness and duration of infection could greatly increase its impact. CT vaccine development and implementation should be a public health priority.…”
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Epidemiological Trends and Attributable Risk Burden of Cervical Cancer: An Observational Study from 1990 to 2019 by Hu Yao, Chen Yan, He Qiumin, Zhou Li, Ai Jiao, Li Xin, Li Hong

“…Cervical cancer, especially in underdeveloped areas, poses a great threat to human health. In view of this, we stratified the age and social demographic index (SDI) based on the epidemiological development trend and attributable risk of cervical cancer in countries and regions around the world. …”
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Mathematical Model for Assessing New, Non-Fossil Fuel Technological Products (Li-Ion Batteries and Electric Vehicle) by Igor E. Anufriev, Bulat Khusainov, Andrea Tick, Tessaleno Devezas, Askar Sarygulov, Sholpan Kaimoldina

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Chest CT Scan Features to Predict COVID-19 Patients’ Outcome and Survival by Mohammad-Mehdi Mehrabi Nejad, Aminreza Abkhoo, Faeze Salahshour, Mohammadreza Salehi, Masoumeh Gity, Hamidreza Komaki, Shahriar Kolahi

“…On-admission chest CT features, particularly PI score and PI density index, are potential great tools to predict the patient’s clinical outcome.…”
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Determination of dry residue of drinking water by quartz crystal microbalance method by A. G. Zavodovsky

“…The dry residue of water characterizes its quality with great completeness, since it contains all impurities, including nonvolatile organic substances. …”
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Community knowledge, perceptions and practices around COVID-19 in Sierra Leone: a nationwide, cross-sectional survey by Maike Winters, Helena Nordenstedt, Mohammad B Jalloh, Paul Sengeh, Nance Webber, Ibrahim Ngobeh, Thomas Samba, Harold Thomas

“…Associations between information sources, knowledge and two practices (washing hands with soap and avoiding crowds) were analysed using multilevel logistic regression models.Results We found that 75% of the respondents felt at moderate or great risk of contracting coronavirus. A majority (70%) of women did not know you can survive COVID-19, compared with 61% of men. 60% of men and 54% of women had already taken action to avoid infection with the coronavirus, mostly washing hands with soap and water (87%). …”
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A large elevation in 15N/14N of collagenous amino acids: an insight from starvation experiments of marine organisms by Hyuntae Choi, Yuko Takizawa, Nayeon Park, Yoshito Chikaraishi

“…Based on these results, we predict that the difference in the δ15NAA value between collagen and muscle fibers can be useful for evaluating the nutritional stress of fishes. However, great care will be required if studying food webs where collagen-rich organisms (i.e., gelatinous zooplankton) are abundant or if using collagen-rich materials in our studies.…”
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Studying Alzheimer’s disease through an integrative serum metabolomic and lipoproteomic approach by Alessia Vignoli, Giovanni Bellomo, Federico Paolini Paoletti, Claudio Luchinat, Leonardo Tenori, Lucilla Parnetti

“…Abstract Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most frequent neurodegenerative disorder worldwide. The great variability in disease evolution and the incomplete understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying AD make it difficult to predict when a patient will convert from prodromal stage to dementia. …”
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ESPGHAN and NASPGHAN 2024 protocol for paediatric functional constipation treatment guidelines (standard operating procedure) by Marc A Benninga, Morris Gordon, Nikhil Thapar, Osvaldo Borrelli, Vassiliki Sinopoulou, Merit Tabbers, Anil Darbari, Julie Khlevner, Anna de Geus, Marcin Banasiuk, Mary Boruta, Dawn Dore-Stites, Michelle Gould, Juliette Hawa, Kirsten Brooke Jones, Alexandra Kilgore, Hayat Mousa, Samuel Nurko

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Quarantine nematode species and pathotypes potentially dangerous for domestic potato production: populations diversity and the genetics of potato resistance by N. V. Mironenko, T. A. Gavrilenko, A. V. Khiutti, O. S. Afanasenko

“…Potatoes are affected by more than 30 types of parasitic nematodes, but the review focuses on the most harmful representatives of genera that cause great damage to potato production: Globodera, Ditylenchus, Nacob bus and Meloidogyne. …”
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Exploring the Effect of Asperity Order on Mechanical Character of Joint Specimen from the Perspective of Damage by Zhouhao Yuan, Yicheng Ye, Binyu Luo

“…Analysing the damage difference of each asperity order under different normal stresses is of great significance to the analysis of the influence of the morphology of the joint surface on the mechanical properties of the joint.…”
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Adaption oder Anpassung? Umweltbewusstsein in der Region um den Plattensee/Balaton (Adaptation or a Change in Attitude? Environmental Awareness in the Region of Lake Balaton) by Magdolna Leveleki

“…The first question is whether we agree with natural scientits, for whom it is undisputed that climate change is caused to a great extent by antropogene effects, and kowing the negative consequences, whether we consider human responsibility in general, and more specifically, our own personal one. …”
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The book policy in a democratic society: the case of Estonia by Mare Lott, Aile Möldre

“…The freedom to publish all kinds of publications has not been abused to a great extent by publishing dubious publications in Estonia since 1991. …”
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Evaluating ovarian follicles and their steroid hormone gene expression patterns in a high egg-producing research turkey line by George B. Hall, Diane Hildenberger, Julie A. Long, Kristen Diehl

“…Understanding the biological mechanics behind egg-production rates will greatly benefit the industry. Two lines with vastly different egg production rates are the Ohio State University E line, and its unselected counterpart, the random-bred control one (RBC1). …”
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Molecular Detection of Bartonella spp. in China and St. Kitts by Ke Huang, Patrick John Kelly, Jilei Zhang, Yi Yang, Weiguo Liu, Anwar Kalalah, Chengming Wang

“…The use of these PCRs should greatly facilitate large-scale surveillance studies and the diagnosis of infections in clinical samples.…”
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Disrupted HIV care during COVID-19 pandemic associated with increased disabilities among people living with HIV in Belize by Tracy M. Quetzal, Wei-Cheng Lo, Ya-Wen Chiu, Hung-Yi Chiou

“…After adjusting for covariates, (age, gender, employment, CD4 count, viral load, COVID-19-affected HIV care behaviours), our results showed that people living with HIV, whose HIV care behaviors were greatly affected by COVID-19, were more likely to have disabilities across various domains: physical (adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 1.61, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.08–2.41, p = 0.018), cognitive (AOR: 2.49, 95% CI: 1.58–3.94, p < 0.001), uncertainty (AOR: 2.94, 95% CI: 1.68–5.12, p < 0.001), difficulties carrying out day-to-day activities (AOR: 1.69, 95% CI: 1.06–2.69, p = 0.027), and social inclusion challenges (AOR: 1.89, 95% CI: 1.27–2.81, p = 0.002). …”
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Forty-two-year frequencies of river buffaloes calving in the Terecay ranch, Venezuela by Renny Jesús Becerra, Inés Valentina Reggeti-Gómez, Francisco Miguel Reggeti Gómez, Néstor Simón Montiel-Urdaneta

“… Although buffaloes are polyestrous, they exhibit a distinct seasonal variation in displaying estrus, conception rate, and calving, greatly influenced by physiological, sanitary, nutritional, management, and particularly bioenvironmental factors, such as temperature, humidity, precipitation, evaporation, and daylight duration. …”
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