Contamination of Legionella pneumophila in metro cooling tower water and its influencing factors in a city by Rong PENG, Bin SHI, Huaiji WANG, Junling LIU, Fang WANG

“…MethodsAfter categorizing the metro lines into three groups (>10 years, >5-10 years, and ≤5 years) according to the operating years of each metro line in a city, we randomly selected one line from each group and the selection resulted a total of 58 cooling towers. …”
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Predictive marker for response to trifluridine/tipiracil plus bevacizumab in metastatic colorectal cancer patients by Toshiaki Takahashi, Kunitoshi Shigeyasu, Yoshitaka Kondo, Sho Takeda, Hibiki Umeda, Kazuya Moriwake, Masashi Kayano, Yuya Sakurai, Shunsuke Nakamura, Masafumi Takahashi, Kaori Nitta, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Yuki Matsumi, Hiroyuki Michiue, Hideki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Kishimoto, Fuminori Teraishi, Ryohei Shoji, Nobuhiko Kanaya, Hajime Kashima, Yoshihiko Kakiuchi, Shinji Kuroda, Shunsuke Kagawa, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara

“…Among the participants, those with a high NLR had a shorter PFS (p = 0.0395). Moreover, high ADAR1 expression was associated with longer PFS (p = 0.0151). …”
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Developmental defects in ectodermal appendages caused by missense mutation in edaradd gene in the nfr mangrove killifish kryptolebias marmoratus by Hussein A. Saud, Paul A. O’Neill, Brian C. Ring, Tetsuhiro Kudoh

“…From an ENU-mutated mangrove killifish line R228, we have isolated a novel mutant line, no-fin-ray/nfr in which homozygous mutant of adult fish fin ray development is largely reduced. …”
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A study of maternal and perinatal outcomes in primigravida and multigravida by comparing their partogram in labor by Umadevi Vavaldas, K. S. Midhuna, Sarada Kandhichetty

“…Graphs were analyzed and placed in three categories: Group A – patients who delivered before partogram touched alert line, Group B – patients who delivered when partogram lies between alert and action lines, and Group C – patients who delivered after action line was crossed. …”
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Evaluation of Dynamic Visual Perception of Riverside Interface in Mountainous Cities from the Perspective of Boating by Dan LUO, Ruhong WEI

“…ObjectiveThe riverside interface of mountainous cities is an area featuring the integration of natural and artificial elements, where the visual information is highly concentrated and the perception levels are extremely rich. …”
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Exploring the potential of underrated yet versatile crop Lunaria annua L.: New insights into honesty plant by Jovana Petrović, Daiana Almeida, Ângela Fernandes, Dejan Stojković, Dragana Robajac, Tayse F.F. da Silveira, Lillian Barros

“…It grows rapidly, has low maintenance and high resistance to pathogens, which makes it a promising crop for sustainable cultivation. …”
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From Clinical Trial Evidence to Clinical Guidelines: Perspectives on REWIND from Clinicians in the Gulf and Levant Region by Talal Ashour, Sami Azar, Akram Echtay, Muhammad Farooqi, Tarek Fiad, Mohamed Hassanein, Ahmed Hassoun, Abdul Jabbar, Amin Jayyousi, Kari Ranta, Hani Sabbour, Fatih Tangi, Ibrahim Turfanda

“…Background: Current guidelines recommend that glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) with proven cardiovascular benefit should be considered for first-line therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who have/are at high risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). …”
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Status and influencing factors of health literacy among college students of traditional Chinese medicine: a cross-sectional study by Jie Zhu, Cuixia Lin, Yanhui Yang, Rui Yao, Ran Yang, Mingqian Jiang

“…BackgroundCollege students, as the future strength of national development, have a high level of health literacy in line with the goal of “Healthy China”, but the current research found that the health literacy level of college students is uneven and needs to be improved, and there is still a lack of research on the health literacy of students in colleges and universities of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). …”
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The Effect of Marketing Mix on Blockchain Technology with the Mediating Role of Perceived Usefulness by Roozbeh Roshanak, Alireza Rousta, Mahmoud Ahmadi Sharif, Majid Ahmadi

“…Leading companies in the field of information and communication technology use blockchain technology because of its high security (Akbari Ganjeh et al., 2022). In today's era, experts have called blockchain technology the second internet, which is capable of transforming a large number of current patterns. …”
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Design and validation of a-SiC/SiN hybrid photonic platform for integrated quantum photonics by Naresh Sharma, Zizheng Li, Bruno Lopez-Rodriguez, Joey Vrugt, Stijn van der Waal, Luozhen Li, Roald van der Kolk, Philip J Poole, Dan Dalacu, Iman Esmaeil Zadeh

“…On the other hand, silicon on insulator offers a high refractive index contrast for dense integration but has a high absorption coefficient at the emission wavelengths (800–970 nm) of state-of-the-art QDs. …”
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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pyrazinamide resistance—India, 2018–2020 by Sembulingam Tamilzhalagan, Evanslin Santus Justin, Ashok Selvaraj, Karthick Venkateswaran, Arun Kumar Sivakumar, Suganthi Chittibabu, Heather P. McLaughlin, Patrick K. Moonan, Jonathan P. Smith, Sakthi Suba, Mukesh Kumar Sathya Narayanan, Christine S. Ho, Nishant Kumar, Srikanth P. Tripathy, Srikanth P. Tripathy, Siva K. Shanmugam, Patricia J. Hall-Eidson, Uma Devi Ranganathan

“…Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a key first-line antituberculosis drug that plays an important role in eradicating persister Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) bacilli and shortening the duration of tuberculosis treatment. …”
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Massive permafrost rock slide under a warming polythermal glacier deciphered through mechanical modeling (Bliggspitze, Austria) by F. Pfluger, S. Weber, S. Weber, J. Steinhauser, C. Zangerl, C. Fey, J. Fürst, M. Krautblatter

“…However, we have neglected the fact that the dividing line between cold and warm basal states of polythermal glaciers has shifted some hundreds of meters upwards at the same time. …”
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Unraveling the Kinematic and Morphological Evolution of the Small Magellanic Cloud by S. R. Dhanush, A. Subramaniam, S. Subramanian

“…Our models estimate a line-of-sight extension of ∼30 kpc, in agreement with observations. …”
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A State-of-the-Art Review on Empirical Data Collection for External Governed Pedestrians Complex Movement by Xiaomeng Shi, Zhirui Ye, Nirajan Shiwakoti, Offer Grembek

“…Analysis of the literature showed that empirical data were highly rich in straight line and egress flow while medium rich in turning, merging, weaving, and opposing flows, but poor in ingress, diverging, and random flows. …”
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The use of classical and modern methods in rapeseed (Brassica napus) breeding at VNIIMK by L. A. Gorlova, E. B. Bochkaryova, E. A. Strelnikov, V. V. Serdyuk

“…Breeding achievements for winter and spring rapeseed, registered by VNIIMK in the State Register of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation over the past 15 years, are highly productive line cultivars with a seed yield of 4–5 t/ha for winter rapeseed, and 2–3 t/ha for spring rapeseed. …”
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Node and Edge Joint Embedding for Heterogeneous Information Network by Lei Chen, Yuan Li, Hualiang Liu, Haomiao Guo

“…Due to the heterogeneity of nodes and edges, heterogeneous network embedding is a very challenging task to embed highly coupled networks into a set of low-dimensional vectors. …”
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Risk Prediction of Liver Injury in Pediatric Tuberculosis Treatment: Development of an Automated Machine Learning Model by Zeng Y, Lu H, Li S, Shi QZ, Liu L, Gong YQ, Yan P

“…The TreeShap algorithm showed that Cmax of rifampicin and BMI were important features that affect the AutoML model’s performance.Conclusion: The GBM model established by AutoML technology shows high predictive accuracy and interpretability for ATB-DILI in children. …”
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Expression and Clinical Significance of DAP3 in Breast Cancer and Effect of Bruceine D on Expression of DAP3:Analysis Based on Data-mining from Bioinformatics by Wenlong WANG, Qingzhi KONG, Hongda LU, Qingdong XIANG, Dianlei LIU

“…In addition, CCLE database analysis indicated that DAP3 was also highly expressed in breast cancer cell lines and its mRNA expression ranked ahead in all kinds of cancer cell lines. …”
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Reproducibility and repeatability of 18F-(2S, 4R)-4-fluoroglutamine PET imaging in preclinical oncology models. by Gregory D Ayers, Allison S Cohen, Seong-Woo Bae, Xiaoxia Wen, Alyssa Pollard, Shilpa Sharma, Trey Claus, Adria Payne, Ling Geng, Ping Zhao, Mohammed Noor Tantawy, Seth T Gammon, H Charles Manning

“…This study illustrates high reproducibility and repeatability with 18F-Gln for in vivo research.…”
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Bacterial profile and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of adult lower respiratory tract infections in Colombo, Sri Lanka by Nadeesha Amarasinghe, Muthulingam Athavan, Deepal Jayamanne, Yamuna Rajapakshe, Aflah Sadikeen, Kirthi Gunasekara, Amitha Fernando, Lilani Karunanayake

“…The two most common bacteria isolated showed a high sensitivity for co-amoxyclav, quinolones, 3rd generation cephalosporins, carbapenems and aminoglycosides, while coliforms were highly resistant (98%) to ampicillin. …”
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