The economic burden of atopic dermatitis in Romania: a broad perspective by Alin Codruț Nicolescu, Stefan Strilciuc, Stefan Strilciuc, Rozalina Lăpădatu, Diana-Alecsandra Grad, Cristian Vlădescu, Cristian Vlădescu, Rodica Olteanu

“…The overall average annual cost per patient ranged, depending on the scenarios, between €284.72 and €1,045 for adult AD patients and between €293.73 and €9,558.52 for pediatric AD patients.DiscussionOur results show the increased burden among pediatric AD patients emphasizing the need that future policy interventions should be tailored according the patients’ age.…”
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Assessment of the impact of the great cormorant (Phalaсrocorax carbo sinensis Shaw et Nodder, 1801) on fish resources of the Obytichna Spit the Sea of Azov by A. Sydorenko

“…The total fish consumption by the cormorant colony on the Obytichna Spit amounts to 9563.75 tons per season. The impact of cormorants on fish resources in the northwestern Azov region is significant, accounting for 26.39% of the annual fish catch in 2016, and almost half (43.37%) of the annual fishermen’s catch for gobies, which form the basis of the cormorants’ diet in this colony. …”
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Effectiveness of Retail Promotions in the Green Industry by Age Group: A Case Study by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…Surprisingly, men are the driving force in this age group (with a 125% increase) who spent approximately $441 per household (in 2012) with most of the expenditures being on food producing/edible plants (i.e. fruit trees, berries, vegetables and herbs).  …”
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Metallic Nanotube Array Enabling Far Infrared Thermal Emitter Performance Enhancement by Hansen Kurniawan Njoto, Alfreda Krisna Altama, Wei-Xing Lu, Ting-Hao Chang, Kuan-Chou Lin, San-Liang Lee, Jinn P. Chu, Chih-Ting Lin

“…The device incorporating stainless steel MeNTA exhibits 1.4 times improvement in luminous efficiency, reaching 7.45 × 10^−3, accompanied by a radiated power of 11.034 mW and 0.681 mW/mm² radiated power per area. These outcomes suggest the potential for expanding the fabrication process with alternative geometries and periods to tailor specific infrared emissions, which enables suitable thermal emitters for biomedical applications.…”
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Role of regular medical visits in mitigating increased suicide risk during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Kobe, Japan by Daisuke Miyamori, Yasushi Nagasaki, Shuhei Yoshida, Saori Kashima, Wataru Omori, Kei Itagaki, Masanori Ito

“…Interrupted time-series analyses identified level and trend changes in monthly suicide rates per 1 million population during the exposure period (2020–2022) versus the control period (2012–2019). …”
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In silico characterization of defense system hotspots in Acinetobacter spp. by Wenjing Yi, Ning Zhu, Zhihan Peng, Xiao Chu, Haotian Sun, Lei Song, Zhimin Guo, Arnab Pain, Zhaoqing Luo, Qingtian Guan

“…The number of hotspots increases in species phylogenetically closer to Acinetobacter baumannii, but the number of defense systems per hotspot varies due to particular selective pressures. …”
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Assessment of aflatoxin B1 contamination in rice and maize by Anh The Nguyen, Chuyen Van Nguyen, Ba Van Nguyen, Trang Thi-Thu Nguyen, Phuong Minh Nguyen, Kha Van Tran, Minh Duc Tong, Anh Tuan Le, Truong Thi Hoang, Manh Van Phan, Trung Hoang Nguyen

“…The Maximum Residue Limits of aflatoxin B1 in processed cereals and ingredients are 2 parts per billion (ppb) and 5 ppb, respectively. Objectives: To evaluate the status of aflatoxin B 1 contamination in rice, corn and staple food produced in Ha Giang province compared with the maximum permitted levels. …”
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Inhalative IL-10 Attenuates Pulmonary Inflammation following Hemorrhagic Shock without Major Alterations of the Systemic Inflammatory Response by Philipp Kobbe, Philipp Lichte, Helen Schreiber, Lucy Kathleen Reiss, Stefan Uhlig, Hans-Christoph Pape, Roman Pfeifer

“…Male C57/BL6 mice (8 animals per group) were subjected to pressure-controlled hemorrhagic shock for 1.5 hrs followed by resuscitation and inhalative administration of either 50 μL PBS (Shock group) or 50 μg/kg recombinant mouse IL-10 dissolved in 50 μL PBS (Shock + IL-10 group). …”
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The influence of macroscopic pedestrian structures on train boarding efficiency by Rabia I. Kodapanakkal, Caspar A.S. Pouw, Antal Haans, Jaap Ham, Gunter Bombaerts, Alessandro Corbetta, Andrej Dameski, Andreas Spahn, Federico Toschi

“…Analyzing a dataset with 3278 boarding events at Utrecht Centraal Station in the Netherlands from 2017 to 2020 (subset of a trajectory dataset capturing 100,000 trajectories per day), we found that higher numbers of boarders and a higher ratio of boarders to deboarders, reduced the width of the deboarding channel, and a lower width was associated with lower deboarding efficiency. …”
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Field Tests of Indoor Air Cleaners for Removal of PM2.5 and PM10 in Elementary School Classrooms in Seoul, Korea by Bangwoo Han, Keejung Hong, Dongho Shin, Hak-Joon Kim, Yong-Jin Kim, Sang Bok Kim, Sangwoo Kim, Cheong-Ha Hwang, Kwang-Chul Noh

“…The average CO2 concentration in classrooms was approximately 1500-2000 ppm during class hours and depended on the number of students per classroom; this level was approximately 1.5-2 times higher than the standard, regardless of the use of air cleaners.…”
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Monkeypox: epidemiological situation, diagnostics, prevention, new challenges and problems of our time by Belyakova E.N., Shipulin G.A.

“…Over the past 50 years in Africa, sporadic incidence has increased from isolated cases to several thousand per year. At the same time, the number of cases of monkeypox virus (MPXV) transmission to humans is increasing, and imported cases of monkeypox are increasingly occurring, with the virus spreading beyond natural foci in Africa [5]. …”
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Body height in adult women and men in a cross-sectional population-based survey in Geneva: temporal trends, association with general health status and height loss after age 50 by Silvia Stringhini, Idris Guessous, Kaspar Staub, Julia Schäppi, Katarina L Matthes

“…The follow-up data show that men lost −0.11 cm per follow-up year (95% CI −0.12 to −0.10), women −0.17 cm (95% CI −0.18 to 0.15).Conclusions The association of height and health status is currently understudied. …”
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A randomized double-blind clinical trial investigating the effects of ellagic acid on glycemic status, liver enzymes, and oxidative stress in patients with non-alcoholic fatty live... by Sara Mighani, Rasoul Samimi, Mohamadreza Rashidi Nooshabadi, Seyed Amir Farzam, Hossein Khadem Haghighian, Maryam Javadi

“…Methods In this clinical trial, 44 patients were selected based on including criteria and randomly received 180 mg of EA per day (n = 22) or placebo (n = 22) for 8 weeks. …”
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Feasibility and complications of videocapsule endoscopy in dogs weighing 7 kg or less by Camille St‐Jean, Allison Collier, Alex Zur Linden, Alexa Bersenas, Alice Defarges

“…Of the 24 capsules administered per os, 15 led to incomplete studies (battery died in the stomach (14), EC was vomited (1)). …”
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Validation of a Radio frequency identification system for tracking location of laying hens in a quasi-commercial aviary system by Gebhardt-Henrich, Sabine G., Kashev, Alexander, Petelle, Matthew B., Toscano, Michael J.

“…Individual tracking data has revealed substantial individual variation in movement patterns, however, in recent studies, only a subset of animals per flock was tracked. We applied an RFID tracking system to monitor all 1125 laying hens of a flock, which were divided into 5 pens of 225 birds each in a barn with an aviary system. …”
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Patients with symptoms of delayed gastric emptying have a high prevalence of oesophageal dysmotility, irrespective of scintigraphic evidence of gastroparesis by George Triadafilopoulos, John O Clarke, Linda Nguyen

“…Oesophageal motility disorders were found in 68% and 42% of patients with or without scintigraphic evidence of gastroparesis respectively, suggesting of overlapping gastric and oesophageal neuromuscular disorder. Forty-three per cent of patients with gastroparesis had abnormal oesophageal acid exposure with mean % pH <4.0 of 7.5 in contrast to 38% of those symptomatic controls with normal gastric emptying, with mean %pH <4.0 of 5.4 (NS). …”
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COVID-19 in patients with severe mental illness: An analysis of in-patients at a psychiatric hospital in Cape Town by Haseena B. Sablay, Qhama Z. Cossie, Deirdre I. Pieterse

“…Most patients (62%, n = 156) were symptomatic for COVID-19. Seven per cent (n = 17) required transfer to a medical ward. …”
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A case study in statistical software development for advanced evidence synthesis: the combined value of analysts and research software engineers by Naomi Bradbury, Tom Morris, Clareece Nevill, Janion Nevill, Ryan Field, Suzanne Freeman, Nicola Cooper, Alex Sutton

“…The CRSU apps have evolved from two short-term student projects into a suite of eight apps that are used for more than 3,000 h per month. Aim Here, we present our experience of developing production grade web-apps from the point-of-view of individuals trained primarily as statisticians rather than software developers in the hopes of encouraging and inspiring other groups to develop valuable open-source statistical software whilst also learning from our experiences. …”
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The Intracellular Growth of M. tuberculosis Is More Associated with High Glucose Levels Than with Impaired Responses of Monocytes from T2D Patients by Martha Torres, María Teresa Herrera, Guadalupe Fabián-San-Miguel, Yolanda Gonzalez

“…To evaluate whether M. tuberculosis infection susceptibility is associated with an intrinsic factor in monocytes from type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients or it is associated with hyperglycemia per se, we analyzed TLR-2 and TLR-4 expression by flow cytometry and the cytokines IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, and TNF-α by cytometric bead array assays, either stimulated with TLR-2 and TLR-4 ligands or infected with M. tuberculosis in the whole blood from T2D patients (n=43) and healthy subjects (n=26) or in CD14+ monocytes from healthy subjects cultured in high glucose (HG) (30 mM). …”
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Dose-response relationship between lipids and all-cause mortality in the dialysis population: a meta-analysis by Ye Yao, Jing Xiong, Mi-Yuan Wang

“…In the 50–450 mg/dL range, all-cause mortality in the dialysis population was positively associated with triglycerides (TG), with a 2.5% increase in all-cause mortality per 50 mg/dL increase in TG (HR = 1.025, 95% CI = 1.003–1.048, P = 0.01). …”
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