Differences in prevalence and associated factors of underweight and overweight/obesity according to rural–urban residence strata among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: evid... by Rajat Das Gupta, Mohammad Rashidul Hashan, Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Brendan Day

“…Around one-fifth of rural women (21%, n=2490) and almost one in eight urban women (12%, n=571) were reported as underweight. …”
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Prevalence of childhood mental disorders in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis to inform policymaking by Charlotte Waddell, Christine Schwartz, Jenny Lou Barican, Donna Yung, Yufei Zheng, Katholiki Georgiades

“…Among children with mental disorders, only 44.2% (95% CI 37.6% to 50.9%) received any services for these conditions.Conclusions An estimated one in eight children have mental disorders at any given time, causing symptoms and impairment, therefore requiring treatment. …”
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Risk factors for acute abdominal pain (colic) in the adult horse: A scoping review of risk factors, and a systematic review of the effect of management-related changes. by Laila Curtis, John H Burford, Gary C W England, Sarah L Freeman

“…These consisted of one cohort, eight case-control and five cross-sectional studies. …”
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Intermittent Fasting: Weighing the Benefits and Drawbacks for Health and Longevity – A Comprehensive Literature Review by Marta Wojtczak, Michał Pniak, Paweł Miklis, Maciej Mawlichanów, Aleksandra Ciesielska, Aleksandra Sieradzka, Krzysztof Szerej, Alicja Kot, Natalia Myśliwiec, Adrian Różycki

“… Introduction: Obesity rates have risen sharply in recent decades, with one in eight people worldwide living with obesity in 2022. …”
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Health profile of residents of retirement villages in Auckland, New Zealand: findings from a cross-sectional survey with health assessment by Kathy Peri, Michal Boyd, Martin J Connolly, Joanna B Broad, Dale Bramley, Zhenqiang Wu, Katherine Bloomfield, Joanna Hikaka, Annie Tatton, Cheryl Calvert, Ann-Marie Higgins

“…Objectives Retirement villages (RV) have expanded rapidly, now housing perhaps one in eight people aged 75+ years in New Zealand. Health service initiatives might better support residents and offer cost advantages, but little is known of resident demographics, health status or needs. …”
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Effectiveness of using implementation frameworks to facilitate the implementation of a stroke management guideline in the traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in China: protocol... by Zhuo Chen, Yefeng Cai, Wenjun He, Yiyuan Cai, Lingrui Liu, Qing Zhao, Sensen lv, Dong (Roman) Xu, Chun Hao, Lanping Zhang, Pengfei Guo, Yuning Shi

“…This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of three popular frameworks—Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) and Normalization Process Theory (NPT)—in improving implementation outcomes for the integrated TCM and Western medicine clinical practice guideline for stroke management.Methods and analysis This study employs a hybrid type III design with a factorial randomised controlled trial, where 45 TCM hospitals will be randomly assigned to one of eight experimental conditions based on the use or non-use of each framework (CFIR, TDF, NPT). …”
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Do doctors in dispensing practices with a financial conflict of interest prescribe more expensive drugs? A cross-sectional analysis of English primary care prescribing data by Ben Goldacre, Carl Reynolds, Anna Powell-Smith, Alex J Walker, Tom A Yates, Richard Croker, Liam Smeeth

“…Objectives Approximately one in eight practices in primary care in England are ‘dispensing practices’ with an in-house dispensary providing medication directly to patients. …”
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Virological Aspects of COVID-19 in Patients with Hematological Malignancies: Duration of Viral Shedding and Genetic Analysis by Asma Themlaoui, Massimo Ancora, Kais Ghedira, Yosra Mhalla, Manel Hamdoun, Maroua Bahri, Lamia Aissaoui, Raihane Ben Lakhal, Adriano Di Pasquale, Cesare Camma, Olfa Bahri

“…Sequence analysis revealed the inclusion of one to eight amino acid-changing events in seventeen cases; it was characterized by genetic stability from the third to the twentieth day of evolution in six cases. …”
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Crystal structure of p-xylene@silicalite-1 by In-Chul Hwang

“…The crystal structure of a highly loaded complex of silicalite-1 (SL-1) with eight molecules of p-xylene per unit cell has been solved by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. …”
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The Hsf1-sHsp cascade has pan-antiviral activity in mosquito cells by Jieqiong Qu, Michelle Schinkel, Lisa Chiggiato, Samara Rosendo Machado, Gijs J. Overheul, Pascal Miesen, Ronald P. van Rij

“…By integrating multi-omics data, we find that heat shock factor 1 (Hsf1) regulates eight small heat shock protein (sHsp) genes within one topologically associated domain in the genome of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. …”
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Learning developers as third space academics: a personal view by Peter C Samuels

“…This article draws on my personal professional journey from an academic researcher to a learning developer, to a faculty-based senior lecturer in a different discipline to my academic qualifications. I make eight claims relating to my experience, especially as an unofficial embedded learning developer. …”
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LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN FOR OVERHAUL TOOLING SUPPORT SEAT BASED ON TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION AND SIX SIGMA ROBUSTNESS by WANG ZiNing, WU JianJun, XIANG JianMing, WANG BaiSong, JIN YingQi

“…The results show that reliability of the design variables,strength and stiffness are all 1,reaching eight sigma level,the support seat’s weight is reduced by 67. 0% and the lightweight effect is remarkable; compared with the support seat’s traditional deterministic optimization design after topology optimization,this method enhances the strength and stiffness of the support seat,meanwhile,improves the reliability of the optimization design,the robustness of the strength,the robustness of the stiffness and the consistency of the weight. …”
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Bilateral Distal Radius Fractures in a 12-Year-Old Boy after Household Electrical Shock: Case Report and Literature Summary by Norman Stone, Mara Karamitopoulos, David Edelstein, Jenifer Hashem, James Tucci

“…Proximal humerus fractures were most frequent (8 cases), followed by scapula fractures (7 cases), forearm fractures (4 cases), femoral neck fractures (2 cases), and vertebral body fracture (1 case). Eight of the 22 cases were diagnosed days to weeks after the injury. …”
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Proximal Femoral Nail versus Dynamic Hip Screw Fixation for Trochanteric Fractures: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Xiao Huang, Frankie Leung, Zhou Xiang, Pei-Yong Tan, Jing Yang, Dai-Qing Wei, Xi Yu

“…Data was analyzed using RevMan 5.1 version. Eight trials involving 1348 fractures were retrieved. …”
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Feasibility and efficiency of microalgae cultivation for nutrient recycling and energy recovery from food waste filtrate. by Yanghang Chen, Wing-Wai Wan, Kai-Hui Cui, Bonnie Pui-Ying Lau, Fred Wang-Fat Lee, Steven Jing-Liang Xu

“…The results indicated that Cyanobacterium aponinum exhibited the highest growth rate (0.530 cells d-1) and maximum cell density (9.6 × 106 cells mL-1) among eight potential microalgal species in 10% food waste filtrate treatment under 10,000 lux and 32°C. …”
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Dual Role Conflict and Resilience of Working Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Siti Rohmaturrosyidah Ratnawati, Restu Yulia Hidayatul Umah

“…The results showed that: 1) all eight working mothers experienced dual role conflict in the form of time-based conflict and strain-based conflict, especially during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic; 2) efforts that have been made by working mothers to be resilient in undergoing both roles during the Covid-19 pandemic represent seven aspects of forming individual resilience, namely, emotion regulation, impulse control, causal analysis, self-efficacy, optimism, empathy, and reaching out. …”
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Dietary γ-Aminobutyric Acid Promotes Growth and Immune System Performance and Improves Erythropoiesis and Angiogenesis in Gibel Carp (<i>Carassius auratus gibelio</i>) by Xinlan Bai, Lu Zhang, Hualiang Liang, Dongyu Huang, Mingchun Ren, Haifeng Mi

“…This experiment aimed to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) on the growth performance, immune response, and oxygen-transport-related factors of Gibel carp (<i>Carassius auratus gibelio</i>). An eight-week culturing experiment was designed with five experimental diets, with the actual GABA content being 368 mg/kg (G1, control group), 449 mg/kg (G2), 527 mg/kg (G3), 602 mg/kg (G4), and 675 mg/kg (G5). …”
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Effect of Dietary Administration of Green Macroalgae (Ulva intestinalis) on Mucosal and Systemic Immune Parameters, Antioxidant Defence, and Related Gene Expression in Zebrafish (D... by Elaheh Rouhani, Roghieh Safari, Mohammad Reza Imanpour, Seyed Hossein Hoseinifar, Metin Yazici, Ehab El-Haroun

“…Zebrafish were fed with different levels of U. intestinalis powder 0, 0.25, 0.5, and 1% for eight weeks. Whole-body extract (WBE) immune parameters including total protein level, globulin level, and lysozyme activity were evaluated and revealed statistically significant increased in all U. intestinalis supplemented groups compared to the control (P<0.05). …”
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Application of Multidomain Cognitive Training in a Tele-Neurorehabilitation Setting for Treatment of Post-Stroke Cognitive Disorders by Marianna Contrada, Loris Pignolo, Martina Vatrano, Caterina Pucci, Isabel Mantia, Federica Scarfone, Maria Quintieri, Antonio Cerasa, Gennarina Arabia

“…Methods: Eighteen ischemic stroke patients were assessed in a within-subject longitudinal design (age 62.33 ± 11.1 years; eight men). Patients underwent the Tele-NeuroRehabilitation (TNR) multidomain cognitive training treatment using the Virtual Reality Rehabilitation System (VRRS) five times a week for 1 h sessions for four consecutive weeks. …”
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Treatment of unstable pelvic fractures with double INFIX by Xu-Song Li, Jun-Le Wu, Liben Huang, Lin Ye, Jie-Feng Huang

“…The cohort included five cases of Tile B1 type, eight cases of B2 type, six cases of B3 type, three cases of C1 type and one case of type C2. …”
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