Epidemiology of neonatal disorders attributable to low birthweight-global burden of disease research, 1990–2021 by Qi Zhang, Lan Luo, Lai-lai Yan, Lai-lai Yan, Jing Guo, Hui-jun Wu, Zi-wei Zhang, Yu-hua Zhu, Rui Qiao, Rui Qiao

“…Some low-SDI countries have achieved minimal theoretical disease burdens, whereas certain high-SDI countries lag in reducing their neonatal disease burdens.ConclusionOver the past 32 years, the global burden of neonatal diseases attributable to LBW has significantly decreased, but inequality in disease burden has intensified. …”
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Nutritional and medicinal characteristics of Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) for applications in healthcare industry by artificial cultivation: A review by Dong He, Wenming Zhu, Wen Zeng, Jun Lin, Yang Ji, Yi Wang, Chong Zhang, Yuan Lu, Daoquan Zhao, Nan Su, Xin-Hui Xing

“…Wild CGS has been threatened with extinction in the past decades due to over capturing, deterioration of natural environment, the slow breeding and growth of the wild species in nature. …”
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Types of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) used by people of different age and smoking status groups: results from a US nationally representative survey by Lucy Popova, Robert T Fairman, David L Ashley, Zachary B Massey, Bai Cham, Ruiyan Luo, Mohammed Alqahtani, Scott Weaver

“…This study sought to identify differences in the use of ENDS device type based on age and cigarette use status to inform policy about regulating ENDS.Design This was a cross-sectional study.Setting Data was derived from a national survey conducted in 2021 in the USA.Participants Participants include 2369 US youth and adults (13 years or older) who reported past 30-day ENDS use.Outcome measures Past 30-day fairly regular use (i.e., several times a week or more) of ENDS device types, namely cigalikes, disposables, refillable tank/box mods, closed pods, refillable pods and drippers. …”
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Vers une transition énergétique des pays émergents : quelles politiques d’incitation aux énergies renouvelables dans le secteur électrique en Argentine et au Brésil ? by Germán Bersalli, Jean-Christophe Simon

“…Sustainability, as a dynamic concept, aims at finding a balance between goals that can complement or sometimes contradict each other. Over the past decade, several countries have actively promoted new renewable sources of electricity, through various incentive mechanisms : tradable quota system, feed-in tariff, bidding, etc. …”
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Predator-predator-prey interaction between spiders and insects: First fossil evidence from 23 million-year old Chiapas amber syninclusion by Miguel Ángel García-Villafuerte, Gerardo Carbot-Chanona

“…Syninclusions are palaeontological resources that provide palaeoautoecological evidence of fossil species and information on the biological interactions between different organisms that were part of a past ecosystem. Although palaeautoecological interactions in amber have been documented worldwide, interactions between predators and potential prey are rare. …”
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Aquaporins in oral health and disease: A narrative review by Shailja Chatterjee

“…Research papers or systematic reviews which were published in PubMed indexed or those with Medline citations and within the past 10 years were included in the study. Results: A total of forty articles were selected during the initial screening of search engines, of which 37 articles were included in the review, while three papers were excluded, of which 1 was nonpeer reviewed and two papers did not fulfill selected inclusion criteria. …”
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TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND ASEAN COUNTRIES by Q. Th. Nguyen, K. M. Banar, Ia. S. Potapova

“…The import and export of Russia with some of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries for today and over the past ten years have been analysed. The prospect of a comprehensive association between Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Eurasian Economic Union has been proposed. …”
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Is the Absolute Spirit God? Reviewing and Criticizing Hegels Concept of God by Mohammad Mehdi Ardebili

“…Place and role of God in Hegel’s philosophy have become one of the most controversial problems in philosophy and interpretation for the past two centuries. The main distinction between the two Hegelian movements (the left and the right wings) depends on how we answer this issue. …”
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Application of Soft Grippers in the Field of Agricultural Harvesting: A Review by Daode Zhang, Wei Zhang, Hualin Yang, Haibing Yang

“…This paper examines the research progress on variable stiffness methods for soft grippers over the past five years. We categorize various variable stiffness techniques and analyze their advantages and disadvantages in enhancing load capacity, stiffness, dexterity, degree of integration, responsiveness, and energy consumption of soft grippers. …”
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The Rhinolith—A Possible Differential Diagnosis of a Unilateral Nasal Obstruction by Detlef Brehmer, Randolf Riemann

“…On presentation, he complained of difficulty in breathing through the right nostril that had persisted for the last 10 years. For the past four years a strong fetid smell from the nose had been apparent to those in his vicinity. …”
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Proprietà collettive e sviluppo locale. Elementi di ricerca per il Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italia) by Maurizio Daici

“…A few decades ago, common land ownership was viewed as a legal institution of the past, irreconcilable with the modern capitalistic economy, that required private ownership. …”
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Acute Heart Failure as a First Manifestation of Primary Adrenal Insufficiency: Highly Lethal If Not Diagnosed! by Maryam Heidarpour, Mohammad Mehdi Zare, Shiva Armani, Hedie Torkashvan, Sadegh Mazaheri-Tehrani, Davood Shafie

“…Here, a 26-year-old man was hospitalized with vasopressor-resistant cardiogenic shock, which was finally attributed to an adrenal crisis. His past medical history was notable for Hashimoto’s disease, controlled with oral levothyroxine. …”
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Surgical treatment of anaemia – is it possible? Large hiatal hernia as a cause of severe iron-deficiency anaemia by Wiktoria B. Feret, Magdalena Nalewajska, Kazimierz Ciechanowski

“…She complained of progressive fatigue for the past 4 months. Clinical examination revealed pallor and tenderness to palpation in the upper abdomen; per rectum examination did not reveal any signs of active gastrointestinal bleeding. …”
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Symmetry-Aware 6D Object Pose Estimation via Multitask Learning by Hongjia Zhang, Junwen Huang, Xin Xu, Qiang Fang, Yifei Shi

“…Although 6D object pose estimation has been intensively explored in the past decades, the performance is still not fully satisfactory, especially when it comes to symmetric objects. …”
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Nonlinear modeling of unreinforced masonry structures under seismic actions: validation using a building hit by the 2016 Central Italy earthquake by Chiara Ferrero, Paulo Barbosa Lourenço, Chiara Calderini

“…The numerical model proved to accurately predict the seismic response exhibited by the structure during the past seismic events.…”
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Circulating Tumor Cells Measurements in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Franck Chiappini

“…Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in men and the seventh in women. During the past 20 years, the incidence of HCC has tripled while the 5-year survival rate has remained below 12%. …”
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Una comunidad de melancólicos: Cartografías afectivas en dos documentales de Raúl Ruiz y Patricio Guzmán by Irene Depetris Chauvin

“…In this sense, Ruiz and Guzman’s displacements offer affective maps » that awaken a sense of belonging in relation to the traumatic past and transform melancholia in a way to be interested in the world…”
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Methods for User-Controlled Synthesis of Blood Vessel Trees in Medical Applications: A Survey by Nikolaus Rauch, Matthias Harders

“…As a possible remedy, approaches for automated synthesis of vessel trees have been proposed in the past. These differ in controllabity by a user, the parameters affecting the visual results, and the computational performance. …”
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Research Progress in Methods to Estimate High-resolution Direction of Arrival by Wei ZHAO, Xuan LI, Chengpeng HAO

“…This paper first summarizes the traditional algorithms based on beamforming for narrowband target direction estimation relying on uniform linear arrays and emerging algorithms in the past decade. Then, it analyzes the reasons for the limited resolution of traditional beamforming-based methods and discusses higher-resolution methods such as adaptive beamforming direction spectrum, subspace methods, and compressed sensing. …”
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