Fish Larval Assemblage Associated with an Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reef: Seasonal and Interannual Variability by Juan José Gallego-Zerrato, Diego Fernando Córdoba-Rojas, Alan Giraldo

“…Fish larvae were collected by daytime and nighttime surface trawls, using a bongo net 30 cm in diameter and 180 cm in length, equipped with mesh sizes of 300 and 500 μm. The species diversity and abundance of ichthyoplankton over this ETP coral reef changed by intra-annual variation of the hydrological conditions of the upper layer of the sea. …”
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Il y a 70 ans, c’était le Front populaire ! Le témoignage de  Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont (1914-2006) by Guylain Chevrier

“…Le témoignage se transforme alors en prospective. Il m’est apparu que cette interview était de première importance pour redonner toute sa portée à l’événement considérable qu’a été le Front populaire en France.…”
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Association between Serum Uric Acid to HDL-Cholesterol Ratio and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Lean Chinese Adults by Ya-Nan Zhang, Qin-Qiu Wang, Yi-Shu Chen, Chao Shen, Cheng-Fu Xu

“…A cross-sectional study was performed among 6285 lean Chinese adults (body mass index < 24 kg/m2) who took their annual health checkups. NAFLD was diagnosed based on hepatic ultrasound examination, with exclusion of other etiologies. …”
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Validation of Hydraulic Mechanism during Blowout Trauma of Human Orbit Depending on the Method of Load Application by Marcin A. Zmuda Trzebiatowski, Paweł Kłosowski, Andrzej Skorek, Krzysztof Żerdzicki, Paweł Lemski, Mateusz Koberda

“…According to the eyeball’s deformation as well as the areas of the greatest Huber-Mises-Hencky (H-M-H) stress within the orbit, a new term of strut mechanism was proposed instead of the hydraulic mechanism as more realistic regarding the investigated phenomenon. …”
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A Novel Approach to Design Chitosan-Polyester Materials for Biomedical Applications by Tatiana A. Akopova, Tatiana S. Demina, Alexander N. Shchegolikhin, Tikhon S. Kurkin, Christian Grandfils, Nikolay S. Perov, Alexander S. Kechekyan, Alexander N. Zelenetskii

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Isolation of <i>Bacillus paralichenifromis</i> BL-1 and Its Potential Application in Producing Bioflocculants Using Phenol Saline Wastewater by Tao Zhang, Rongkai Guo, Fanshu Liu, Lei Zhang, Linxiao Li, Rongfei Zhang, Chaogang Shao, Junbo Zhou, Fan Ding, Lan Yu

“…The productivity of poly-γ-glutamate reached 2.23 g/L, and the phenol removal rate reached 73.83% in the synthetic medium supplemented with 10% NaCl, 500 mg/L phenol, and 250 μM FeCl₃.…”
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Evaluation of Zirconia Surfaces after Strong-Acid Etching and Its Effects on the Shear Bond Strength of Dental Resin Cement by Yongsang Lee, Kyung Chul Oh, Na-Hong Kim, Hong-Seok Moon

“…These groups were then classified into two subgroups (a total of 8 groups with 11 specimens/group) according to the resin cement used for bonding, namely, Rely-X U200 (3M ESPE, St. Paul, MN, USA) or Panavia F 2.0 (Kuraray, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan). …”
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A Rare Presentation of Autonomously Functioning Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Malignancy in Marine-Lenhart Syndrome Nodule by Mehmet Uludag, Nurcihan Aygun, Alper Ozel, Feyza Yener Ozturk, Rabia Karasu, Banu Yilmaz Ozguven, Bulent Citgez, Mehmet Mihmanli, Adnan Isgor

“…A 43-year-old male presented with hyperthyroidism and Graves’ ophthalmopathy. On Tc99m pertechnetate scintigraphy, a hyperactive nodule in the left upper thyroid pole was detected and the remaining tissue showed a mildly increased uptake. …”
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Evaluating the Impact Performance of Environmentally Friendly Asphalt Concrete Slabs Containing Different Proportions of Recycled Concrete Aggregate and Corrugated Steel Fibers by Walid Mansour, Diaa Ashraf, Ali Basha

“…Moreover, 12 asphalt slabs were cast with different ratios of RCA in preparation for testing under the impact load resulting from the free fall of a 10-kg steel mass from a height of 2 m. The results revealed that the ratio between the back and front crater diameters for slabs containing 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50% RCA after incorporating steel fibers was 1.15, 1.17, 1.15, 1.28, and 1.36, respectively. …”
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Prevalence and Management Recommendations for Disease-Related Malnutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients with and without Diabetes by Li-Li Dai, Wei-Li Li, Ding-Feng Zheng, Wei-Hong Wang, Hao-Fen Xie, Jian-Wei Ma

“…Using the second step of the malnutrition (GLIM) diagnostic tool and 2 previously commonly used malnutrition assessment methods (body mass index <18.5 kg/m2 with poor general condition, 3 points for nutritional deficiency in nutritional risk screening), combined with clinical research on the main causes of malnutrition, the intervention measures were discussed. …”
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Uydu Verisi ve CBS ile Van Gölü Klorofil-a Dinamiklerinin İzlenmesi by Nazlı Olğun Kıyak, Ufuk Tarı

“…Saha çalışmaları ile 2014 yılı klorofil-a yersel ölçmelerden elde edilen klorofil-a değerleri (1.7-7.8 mg/m3) kullanılarak Landsat-8 OLI algılayıcısına ait mavi bantın (562-443 nm arası dalga boyu) yeşil banta (562-482 nm arası dalga boyu) yansıma oranı ile elde edilen klorofil-a konsantrasyonunun ölçme hatalarının içerisinde kaldığı (karesel ortalama hata) ve Landsat-8 OLI algılayıcısının Van Gölü’ndeki klorofil-a konsantrasyonlarını haritalamak için uygun olduğu belirlenmiştir. …”
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Analysis of the correlation between the group-based trajectory modeling of serum osmolality and prognosis in patients with sepsis-associated encephalopathy at 72 h after admission by Wentao Wu, Chen Wang, Yuhua Zhang, Yongpeng Xie, Xiaomin Li

“…Differences in survival across the trajectory groups were compared using Kaplan-Meier (K-M) survival curves. Results A total of 11,376 patients with SAE were included in the analysis, with a median age of 65.6 ± 16.5 years. …”
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TepiSense: A Social Computing-Based Real-Time Epidemic Surveillance System Using Artificial Intelligence by Bilal Tahir, Muhammad Amir Mehmood

“…To test the performance of our system, we build a dataset of Twitter Epidemic Surveillance Corpus (TESC) containing 23.9K English and 13K labelled Urdu tweets related to six diseases: COVID19, hepatitis, malaria, flu, dengue, and HIV/AIDS. Our results show that mBERT LLM achieves the highest F-measure values of 0.96 and 0.83 for topic and indication tweets classification, respectively. …”
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Effects of on-Board Unit on Driving Behavior in Connected Vehicle Traffic Flow by Xin Chang, Haijian Li, Jian Rong, Zhufei Huang, Xiaoxuan Chen, Yunlong Zhang

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Immunoassay–mass spectrometry to identify Brucella melitensis by Amirreza Sharif, Ramin Bagheri Nejad, Alireza Ghassempour

“…This method has been successfully used to achieve a limit of detection (LOD) of 50 CFU/mL in an aqueous medium and genuine sample—milk. …”
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Integrative analysis of Ewing’s sarcoma reveals that the MIF-CD74 axis is a target for immunotherapy by Fangzhou He, Jiuhui Xu, Fanwei Zeng, Boyang Wang, Yi Yang, Jie Xu, Xin Sun, Tingting Ren, Xiaodong Tang

“…An interaction analysis revealed a vast immunoregulatory network and identified MIF-CD74 as a crucial immunoregulatory target that can simultaneously promote M2 polarization of macrophages and inhibit CD8+ T-cell infiltration. …”
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Substrate diffusion electrodes allow for the electrochemical hydrogenation of concentrated alkynol substrate feeds by Jonas Wolf, Fatima Shahrour, Zafer Acar, Kevinjeorjios Pellumbi, Julian Tobias Kleinhaus, Leon Wickert, Ulf-Peter Apfel, Daniel Siegmund

“…For the semi-hydrogenation of 3-methyl-1-pentyn-3-ol in pure form, we achieved 65% faradaic efficiency at 80 mA cm−2. Additionally, semi-hydrogenation of neat 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol on palladium showed a faradaic efficiency for semi-hydrogenation of 36%, that was stable for 22 h. …”
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Multisite Infection with Mycobacterium abscessus after Replacement of Breast Implants and Gluteal Lipofilling by Eva Rüegg, Alexandre Cheretakis, Ali Modarressi, Stephan Harbarth, Brigitte Pittet-Cuénod

“…In periprosthetic fluid, Mycobacterium abscessus, Propionibacterium, and Staphylococcus epidermidis were identified. The same M. abscessus strain was found gluteally. The gluteal wound healed within six weeks. …”
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‘DeltaCAN - A new data set of Canadian Arctic and subarctic coastal deltas’ by Mette Bendixen, Beatrice Roberge, Jenny Park, David Didier, Antoine Boisson, Haley Yorston, Lindsay Trottier, Ashley Hoblyn, Jackie Lee, Sadie MacDonald, Shan Zhao, Lauren Traboulsee, Arthur Rebillard, Lars Lønsmann Iversen

“…Here, we present DeltaCAN, a novel data set on the locations of Canadian deltas larger than 500 m in width derived by visual interpretation of freely available satellite imagery. …”
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Laxative Effect of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus Glory LG12: from the Perspective of the Stem Cell Factor/C-kit Signaling Pathway by XIANG Fangqin, LI Yuxing, LI Bailiang

“…In addition, both treatments elevated the serum levels of motilin (MTL), gastrin (Gas), substance P (SP), and interleukin 10 (IL-10), reduced the levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1), somatostatin (SS), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), and IL-6, up-regulated the relative mRNA expression of SCF and C-kit in colonic tissue was (P < 0.01, P < 0.001), and restored damaged colonic barrier. …”
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