Single-Lung Transplant Results in Position Dependent Changes in Regional Ventilation: An Observational Case Series Using Electrical Impedance Tomography by Kollengode Ramanathan, Hend Mohammed, Peter Hopkins, Amanda Corley, Lawrence Caruana, Kimble Dunster, Adrian G. Barnett, John F. Fraser

“…A mixed model with random intercept per subject was used for statistical analysis. Results. …”
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Infectious diseases prevention and control with reduced energy consumption in an airport by Tingrui Hu, Shujia Shang, Jingchao Xie, Ying Ji, Peng Xue, Nan Zhang

“…The dining area had the highest energy consumption per square meter, reaching 14.2 kWh/m2 at its highest. …”
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Socio-educational intervention program for the smoking prevention in dentistry students by Miguel Ángel Toledo Méndez, Midiala Veloz Fariñas, Tania Quesada Rabelo, Yanexis Valdés Gárciga, José Carlos Toledo Quirós

“…The following analyzed variables were: age, sex, academic year, origin, duration of smoking, number of cigarettes per day, level of dependence and attitude regarding consumption. …”
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Spatio-temporal modelling of extreme low birth rates in U.S. counties by Kai Wang, Yingqing Zhang, Long Bai, Ying Chen, Chengxiu Ling

“…Conversely, the increasing female proportion and GDP per capita can alleviate the declining birth rate pressure. …”
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Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load and Their Association with C-Reactive Protein and Incident Type 2 Diabetes by Geertruida J. van Woudenbergh, Anneleen Kuijsten, Eric J. G. Sijbrands, Albert Hofman, Jacqueline C. M. Witteman, Edith J. M. Feskens

“…GL, but not GI, was associated with lnCRP at baseline (bGL=0.11 per 50 units; P=.01). When comparing the highest to the lowest tertile of GI with respect to diabetes incidence, a Relative Risk (RR) of 0.95 [95%CI 0.75, 1.21] was found after adjustment for lifestyle and nutritional factors. …”
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Malignant Course of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Causing Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Mahesh Anantha Narayanan, Christopher DeZorzi, Abhilash Akinapelli, Toufik Mahfood Haddad, Aiman Smer, Janani Baskaran, William P. Biddle

“…High risk defects include those involved with the proximal coronary artery or coursing of the anomalous artery between the aorta and pulmonary trunk. Per guidelines, our patient received one vessel bypass graft to her anomalous vessel. …”
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Analysis and prediction of urban agglomeration ecological footprint based on improved three-dimensional ecological footprint and shared socioeconomic pathways by Ruirui Jiang, Liangjun Fei, Shouxuan Kang

“…Despite some progress in coordinated development, ecological security and sustainability levels remain low. Population growth and per capita GDP are identified as the primary drivers of the three-dimensional ecological footprint expansion. …”
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Effect of cooling and freezing on the kinematic parameters of ram spermatozoa sexed by modified protocol with TLR7/8 ligand R848 by Yotov Stanimir, Kistanova Elena, Atanasov Anatoli, Ivanova Boyana, Zaimova Darina

“…The present study investigated the effect of sex-sorting by TLR7/8 ligand R848, cooling and cryopreservation on the motility and kinematic characteristics of ram spermatozoa for the first time. Four ejaculates per ram (n=2) were collected, pooled and after that were split to 8 equal parts. …”
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A two‐phase epigenome‐wide four‐way gene–smoking interaction study of overall survival for early‐stage non‐small cell lung cancer by Leyi Chen, Xiang Wang, Ning Xie, Zhongwen Zhang, Xiaowen Xu, Maojie Xue, Yuqing Yang, Liya Liu, Li Su, Maria Bjaanæs, Anna Karlsson, Maria Planck, Johan Staaf, Åslaug Helland, Manel Esteller, David C. Christiani, Feng Chen, Ruyang Zhang

“…Our previous work has identified a three‐way interaction among pack‐year of smoking (the number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day multiplied by the number of years the person has smoked) and two DNA methylation probes (cg05293407TRIM27 and cg00060500KIAA0226). …”
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Limited benefits of organic management and fungicide reduction to ground beetles in vineyards by Julia T. Gieser, Sebastian Kolb, Jo Marie Reiff, Kai Riess, Maura Hunke, Martin H. Entling, Jens Schirmel

“…While there was no evidence that fungus‐resistant cultivars positively affect the diversity of ground beetles, organic management doubled the number of individuals of conservation‐relevant species per vineyard. Additionally, the proportion of semi‐natural habitats in the surrounding landscape, and the vegetation height significantly affected the species composition across vineyards. …”
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Inheritance of Early Maturity in Some Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) Genotypes under Rain Fed Conditions in Northern Ghana by Emmanuel Yaw Owusu, Richard Akromah, Nicholas Ninju Denwar, Joseph Adjebeng-Danquah, Francis Kusi, Mohammed Haruna

“…The results indicated highly significant (P<0.01) genetic variations for the maturity indices, namely, days to first flower initiation (DFFI), days to 50% flowering (DFF), days to first pod maturity (DFPM), days to 90% pod maturity (DNPM), and plant height (P_PLT), seed per pod (S_Pod), and hundred seed weight (H_SWT). …”
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Reaction kinetics and molecular characterization of the compounds formed by photosensitized degradation of the plastic additive bisphenol A in the atmospheric aqueous phase by Yiting Wang, Qingxin Deng, Yiqun Wang, Pan Li, Biao Jin, Jiangping Liu, Peng Cheng, Marcello Brigante, Dario D’Antuono, Luca Carena, Hui Chen, Davide Vione, Sasho Gligorovski

“…Here we show that triplet sensitization is an important degradation pathway for BPA in natural surface waters, which could prevail if the water dissolved organic carbon is above 2–3 mgC L−1. Bromide levels as per seawater conditions have the potential to slow down BPA photodegradation, a phenomenon that could not be offset by reaction of BPA with Br2 •− (second-order reaction rate constant of (2.54 ± 0.09) × 108 M−1 s−1). …”
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An analysis of the cultivation, consumption and composition of home-grown cannabis following decriminalisation in the Australian Capital Territory by Cilla Zhou, Isobel Lavender, Rebecca Gordon, Danielle McCartney, Richard C. Kevin, Miguel A. Bedoya-Pérez, Iain S. McGregor

“…Cannabis intake was a median of 1 gram on a typical day used and the number of plants grown per year was a median of 4. Various cultivation challenges were identified, most commonly mould, nutrient deficiency and spider mites. …”
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Management of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Spain: Challenges for Treat and Extend Implementation in Routine Clinical Practice by A. García-Layana, J. García-Arumí, M. S. Figueroa, L. Arias Barquet, J. M. Ruíz-Moreno, L. Monclús-Arbona, The Spanish AMD Multicenter Group

“…Retina specialists are the main responsible for wAMD diagnosis and monitoring, including visits and associated procedures, with a median time per visit of 15 minutes. Standard treatment strategies are based on anti-VEGF administration, including standard loading dose administration followed by maintenance with aflibercept or ranibizumab (81% of patients). …”
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A trend of osteocalcin in diabetes mellitus research: bibliometric and visualization analysis by Zixu Liu, Zixu Liu, Yuchen Mao, Kangping Yang, Shukai Wang, Fang Zou

“…ResultThese papers accumulated 42,714 citations,with an average of 25.43 citations per paper. Publication output increased sharply from 1991 onwards. …”
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Patterns of paternity: insights into mating competition and gene flow in a recovering population of humpback whales by Franca Eichenberger, Emma L. Carroll, Claire Garrigue, Debbie J. Steel, Claire D. Bonneville, Luke Rendell, Ellen C. Garland

“…Paternity analysis of 177 mother–offspring pairs and 936 males revealed low variation in male reproductive success (average 1.17 offspring per father) relative to other polygynous species. …”
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Life-history adaptation under climate warming magnifies the agricultural footprint of a cosmopolitan insect pest by Estelle Burc, Camille Girard-Tercieux, Moa Metz, Elise Cazaux, Julian Baur, Mareike Koppik, Alexandre Rêgo, Alex F Hart, David Berger

“…Our model predicts that warming temperatures will favour resource allocation towards maintenance coupled with increased resource acquisition through larval foraging, and the evolution of this life-history strategy results in both increased population growth rates and per capita host consumption, causing a double-blow on agricultural yields. …”
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Tailoring IPM plans to fight a cloaked pest: helping smallholder farmers combat the sweetpotato weevil in sub-Saharan Africa by Chad A. Keyser, Frederick S. Walters, Haley Turner, Elka Armstrong, Jeff Davis, Brooke Bissinger, Brant Johnson, Agnes Alajo, Paul Musana, Joseph Odongo, Benard Yada, Milton A. Otema

“…In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), sweetpotato serves as an important year-round source of calories and nutrition, a form of income for smallholder and pre-commercial farmers, and is increasingly used as silage for animal feed. However, yield per hectare is considerably lower in SSA than from other regions primarily due to sweetpotato weevils (SPW, Cylas spp., Coleoptera: Brentidae). …”
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Cardiac Output and Performance during a Marathon Race in Middle-Aged Recreational Runners by Véronique L. Billat, Hélène Petot, Morgan Landrain, Renaud Meilland, Jean Pierre Koralsztein, Laurence Mille-Hamard

“…We sought to establish whether marathon performance is associated with the ability to sustain high fractional use of maximal SV and CO (i.e, cardiac endurance) and/or CO, per meter (i.e., cardiac cost). Methods. We measured the SV, heart rate (HR), CO, and running speed of 14 recreational runners in an incremental, maximal laboratory test and then during a real marathon race (mean performance: 3 hr 30 min ± 45 min). …”
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Natural and anthropogenic factors controlling organic carbon storage in riverine wetlands along South Korea’s four rivers by Sang-Leen Yun, Terrence A. McCloskey, Marcelo C. L. Cohen, Kam-biu Liu, Hae-Seon Shin, Junghyung Ryu

“…Carbon stocks of 3.31 megagrams (Mg) per hectare, observed in the Dam-Yang Stream Wetland, suggest that the four major rivers collectively have the potential to store approximately 23.42 million metric tons of carbon annually, accounting for 3.9% of South Korea’s carbon budget. …”
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