Genesis of Dolomite in Middle Permian Maokou Formation in Eastern Sichuan: Constraints from In Situ Geochemistry, Sr-Mg Isotopes, and Fluid Inclusions by Yanxia Jiang, Xianfeng Tan, Chengjiang Zhang, Wei Jiang, Jia Wang, Long Luo, Dongping Tan, Wei Wang, Zhifu Xiong

“…Study of dolomitizing genesis of the Maokou Formation is essential for predicting the distribution of the dolostone reservoir. …”
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Prevalence of TB symptoms, diagnosis and treatment among people living with HIV (PLHIV) not on ART presenting at outpatient clinics in South Africa and Kenya: baseline results from... by Mhairi Maskew, Matthew Fox, Alana Brennan, Bruce A Larson, Isaac Tsikhutsu, Margaret Bii, Lungisile Vezi, Willem Daniel Francois Venter, Peter D Ehrenkranz, Sydney Rosen

“…When comparing the WHO four-symptom screening tool to the Xpert test (SLATE II), we found that increasing the number of symptoms required for a positive screen from one to three or four decreased sensitivity but increased the positive predictive value to >30%.Conclusions 80% of patients assessed for ART initiation presented with ≥1 TB symptoms. …”
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Efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors in elderly patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context by Jiacheng Yao, Sihan Li, Lu Bai, Jun Chen, Chengbo Ren, Tingting Liu, Jingping Qiu, Jun Dang

“…In real-world studies, the pooled median OS of ICIs were 11.8 months (95% CI: 11.2–12.4); Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (EOCG) score, histological type, PD-L1 status, with immune-related adverse events (irAEs), and treatment mode were predictive for OS; rates of irAEs and discontinuation were numerically higher for combination therapy vs. monotherapy. …”
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Diffusion MRI-based analysis of functional alterations of the glymphatic system in children with non-lesional epilepsy by Bixia Wu, Gengbiao Zhang, Yanting Wang, Hongyi Zheng, Hui Tan, Wenbin Zheng

“…DTI-ALPS and free-water mapping are useful noninvasive approaches for examining glymphatic function in children with NLE, with the FW-WM potentially serving as an imaging marker for disease progression and predicting clinical prognosis in children with NLE.…”
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Scaling of fractured rock flow. Proposition of indicators for selection of DFN based flow models by Davy, Philippe, Le Goc, Romain, Darcel, Caroline, Selroos, Jan-Olof

“…The analysis of the models showed that the percolation scale is controlled by the open-DFN structure and that the percolation scale can be predicted from a scale analysis of the percolation parameter (basically, the third moment of the fracture size distribution that provides a measure of the network connectivity). …”
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Use of large language models as artificial intelligence tools in academic research and publishing among global clinical researchers by Tanisha Mishra, Edward Sutanto, Rini Rossanti, Nayana Pant, Anum Ashraf, Akshay Raut, Germaine Uwabareze, Ajayi Oluwatomiwa, Bushra Zeeshan

“…Majority (57.5%) of these participants practiced in an academic setting with a median of 7 (2,18) PubMed Indexed published articles. 198 respondents (87.6%) were aware of LLMs and those who were aware had higher number of publications (p < 0.001). 18.7% of the respondents who were aware (n = 37) had previously used LLMs in publications especially for grammatical errors and formatting (64.9%); however, most (40.5%) did not acknowledge its use in their papers. 50.8% of aware respondents (n = 95) predicted an overall positive future impact of LLMs while 32.6% were unsure of its scope. 52% of aware respondents (n = 102) believed that LLMs would have a major impact in areas such as grammatical errors and formatting (66.3%), revision and editing (57.2%), writing (57.2%) and literature review (54.2%). 58.1% of aware respondents were opined that journals should allow for use of AI in research and 78.3% believed that regulations should be put in place to avoid its abuse. …”
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Structural equation modeling of the impact of disease activity on inflammatory bowel disease control: the mediating roles of self-efficacy and self-management behaviors by Yongli Zhu, Ke Liu, Jinfeng Jiang, Xin Cheng, Hao Wang, Feiyang Long, Kang Li, Changping Mu, Lijun Cui

“…Path analysis showed that IBD activity negatively predicted IBD control (β = -0.715, P = 0.01). Chronic disease management self-efficacy partially mediated this relationship (β = -0.071, P = 0.012). …”
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Bioinformatics-Based Exploration of the Ability of Ginkgetin to Alleviate the Senescence of Cardiomyocytes After Myocardial Infarction and Its Cardioprotective Effects by Li H, Wei D, Cao H, Han Y, Li L, Liu Y, Qi J, Wu X, Zhang Z

“…The aim of this study was to determine the protective effects and mechanisms of ginkgetin on postinfarction cardiomyocytes through bioinformatics and experimental validation.Methods: Bioinformatics analysis was performed to predict the underlying biological mechanisms of ginkgetin in the treatment of MI. …”
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UK medical students’ mental health and their intention to drop out: a longitudinal study by Asta Medisauskaite, Antonia Rich, Milou Silkens, Neha Lagisetty

“…Hazardous drinking and bipolar symptoms did not predict students’ intention to drop out (p&gt;0.05).Conclusions A substantial number of UK medical students experienced mental ill-health symptoms, about one in five medical students considers leaving medical school, and mental ill-health symptoms contributed to students’ intentions to leave their medical education. …”
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Unilateral Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome Resulting in Cataract and Urrets-Zavalia Syndrome after Sequential Uneventful Implantation of a Posterior Chamber Phakic Toric Intraocula... by Kepa Balparda, Claudia Marcela Vanegas-Ramirez, Johny Márquez-Tróchez, Tatiana Herrera-Chalarca

“…Phakic Intraocular Lens (P-IOL) implantation is a safe, easy, predictable intervention designed to manage moderate to high refractive errors. …”
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Development of an imputation model to recalibrate birth weights measured in the early neonatal period to time at delivery and assessment of its impact on size-for-gestational age a... by Joanne Katz, James M Tielsch, Luke C Mullany, Diwakar Mohan, Subarna K Khatry, Seema Subedi, Scott L Zeger, Elizabeth A Hazel

“…We aimed to develop an imputation model that predicts the ‘true’ birth weight at time of delivery.Design We developed and applied a model that recalibrates weights measured in the early neonatal period to time=0 at delivery and uses those recalibrated birth weights to impute missing birth weights.Setting This is a secondary analysis of pregnancy cohort data from two studies in Sarlahi district, Nepal.Participants The participants are 457 babies with daily weights measured in the first 10 days of life from a subsample of a larger clinical trial on chlorhexidine (CHX) neonatal skin cleansing and 31 116 babies followed through the neonatal period to test the impact of neonatal massage oil type (Nepal Oil Massage Study (NOMS)).Outcome measures We developed an empirical Bayes model of early neonatal weight change using CHX trial longitudinal data and applied it to the NOMS dataset to recalibrate and then impute birth weight at delivery. …”
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Radiomorphometric Parameters in Mandibular Panoramic Radiographs of Hypothyroid Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study by Nair A, Patil V, Bhardwaj I, Singhal DK, Smriti K, Chhaparwal Y, Chhaparwal S, Prabhu D

“…Applying newer technologies like machine learning can also help us determine whether mandibular morphometric parameters can predict changes in bone mineral density in hypothyroid cases.Keywords: hypothyroidism, bone mineral density, radiomorphometric indices, panoramic radiographs, osteoporosis…”
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A land-cover-assisted super-resolution model for retrospective reconstruction of MODIS-like NDVI data across the continental United States by blending Landcover300m and GIMMS NDVI3... by Zhicheng Zhang, Zhenhua Xiong, Xuewen Zhou, Kun Xiao, Wei Wu, Qinchuan Xin

“…The model exhibits reasonable predictive capabilities in reconstructing retrospective data when assessed using Landsat data prior to 2000. …”
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Relationship between serum ECP and TIgE levels and the risk of postoperative recurrence in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps by Qing Zhang, Hui Li, Di Xie, SiJian Fan

“…Serum ECP and TIgE levels were found to be predictive of postoperative recurrence risk in CRSwNP patients (AUC: 0.77, 0.74, 0.84; P &lt; 0.05) according to ROC curve analysis. …”
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Community structure and diversity of myxobacteria in soils from Inner Mongolia, China by Zhihua Wu, Zhihua Wu, Songyuan Li, Xuehan Wang, Xuehan Wang, Huirong Liu

“…The composition of myxobacteria in the soil was determined by 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing technology to analyze the differences in the community structure of myxobacteria among different groups, explore the relationship between the diversity of myxobacteria resources and the distribution and physical and chemical properties of the soil, and predict and analyze its community function. The results showed that there were abundant myxobacteria resources in the soils of Inner Mongolia, and the average relative abundance of myxobacteria in the soil samples from the central part of Inner Mongolia was higher than that in the eastern and western parts, but the richness and diversity of samples from the central to eastern regions were significantly higher than those from the western regions. …”
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Early weight gain after stopping smoking: a predictor of overall large weight gain? A single-site retrospective cohort study by Alexandra Pankova, Eva Kralikova, Kamila Zvolska, Lenka Stepankova, Milan Blaha, Petra Ovesna, Paul Aveyard

“…We examined whether early large postcessation weight gain predicts overall large weight gain.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Primary care setting—smoking cessation centre in Prague, Czech Republic.Participants Out of 3537 patients treated between 2005 and 2013, 1050 were continuous abstainers (verified by carbon monoxide measurement) at 1-year follow-up and formed the cohort of the current report. 48.7% were women (n=511) with the mean age of 46 (±14.4) years.Methods In this retrospective cohort study, all patients underwent usual tobacco dependence treatment using evidence-based methods. …”
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A rare intersection: squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil and the anti-TIF1 syndrome masquerade by Manush Sondhi, Megan Lear, Saleha Dar, Madiha Tariq

“…Anti-TIF1 antibodies are key biomarkers, with IgG2 isotype levels highly predictive of cancer risk. Common malignancies include ovarian, breast, and lung cancers, often detected within three years of dermatomyositis onset. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy Plus Lenvatinib and Tislelizumab for Treating Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Type IV Portal Vein Tumor Thrombus by Li X, Cao K, Fu Z, Chen X, Zhong J, Liu L, Ding N, Zhang X, Qu Z, Zhu L, Zhai J

“…Additionally, PFS was independently predicted only by the best tumor response. In patients with the best tumor response (PR or CR), the median PFS was 11.7 months (95% CI: 8.02-not reached) by mRECIST and 15.4 months (95% CI: 7.39-not reached) by RECIST v1.1. …”
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Serum Periostin as a Potential Biomarker in the Evaluation of Allergic Rhinitis: A Pilot Study by Zhu XJ, Lu MP, Chen RX, Mao ZF, Yang YF, Han J, Cheng L

“…The level of serum periostin in AR patients showed a sequential increase corresponding to shortness of breath scores from 0 to 3 (Z=10.137, p=0.017). The predicted probability of serum periostin demonstrated moderate diagnostic accuracy in detecting AR (AUC=0.773, p< 0.001).Conclusion: Serum periostin shows potential as a candidate biomarker for detecting AR and can serve as a surrogate biomarker for assessing airway inflammation in AR patients.Keywords: allergic rhinitis, biomarkers, fractional exhaled nitric oxide, inflammation, periostin…”
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Association Between GABRG2 and Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol in a French Young Adult Sample by Moe JS, Bramness JG, Bolstad I, Mørland JG, Gorwood P, Ramoz N

“…Low sensitivity to the effects of alcohol is influenced by genes and predicts risk for harmful alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD). …”
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