Data from Emergency Medical Service Activities: A Novel Approach to Monitoring COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases by Daniele del Re, Luigi Palla, Paolo Meridiani, Livia Soffi, Michele Tancredi Loiudice, Martina Antinozzi, Maria Sofia Cattaruzza

“…Results show that EMS data mirrored the time series of cases or deaths in Lombardy, with good agreement also being found with seasonal flu outbreaks. …”
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The trends of lung cancer burden in BRICS from 1990 to 2021 and its projection to 2035 by Yifan Wang, Jingwen Zhu, Shaoqiang Wang, Jihong Zhou

“…With the exception of Ethiopia, the top tier level 1 and level 2 risk factors in the rest of the BRICS were behavioral factors and smoking factors, respectively.ConclusionThe BRICS still have a heavy burden of lung cancer, and there are significant differences in the burden of lung cancer among the BRICS. At the same time, many BRICS lung cancer prevention and control measures are worth learning from other developing countries.…”
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Hypotony maculopathy after glaucoma surgery: pathogenic mechanisms, diagnostic tools, and treatment modalites by V.P. Erichev, S.Yu. Petrov, N.A. Orekhova, L.Kh. El’murzaeva

“…</i> </p> <p> <i>Major diagnostic tools for hypotony maculopathy to assess the abnormalities and their changes over time are ultrasound (to provide differential diagnosis in poor fundus visualization), fluorescent angiography (to identify choroidal folds and to differentiate between choroidal and retinal folds), and optical coherence tomography.…”
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Seasonal coastal residency and large-scale migration of two grey mullet species in temperate European waters by Jena E. Edwards, Anthonie D. Buijse, Hendrik V. Winter, Allert I. Bijleveld

“…This study aimed to identify key habitats and timing of grey mullet presence across the Dutch Wadden Sea, North Sea, and freshwater areas, and to explore potential behavioral differences between two grey mullet species: thicklip mullet (Chelon labrosus) and thinlip mullet (Chelon ramada). …”
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Handshake antimicrobial stewardship for adult surgical patients by Abby Kosharek, Elizabeth Neuner, Emily Welch, Spenser January, Alice Bewley, Kevin Hsueh, Sena Sayood

“…Total antimicrobial usage significantly decreased between the pre- and post-implementation period (608 vs 542 d of therapy/1,000 d present, P = 0.004). An interrupted time series found that there was an immediate (P < 0.001) and sustained (P < 0.001) decrease in antibiotic spectrum index during the post-implementation period. …”
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Evaluating the Effect on Total Daily Insulin Dose in Adult Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Managed with Metformin and/or GLP-1 or GLP-1/GIP Receptor Agonists by Mayeesha Ahmed, Emily Pierson, Molly Webster

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Optimized Liveness Detection for Fast and Accurate Fingerprint Anti-Spoofing With Optical Coherence Tomography by Yilong Zhang, Heyou Yu, Haohao Sun, Yongbo Yao, Haixia Wang, Jian Liu, Yuanjie Dang, Ronghua Liang, Peng Chen

“…However, previous methods suffer from long data acquisition and computation times as well as low recognition accuracy. To address these problems, this paper proposes a fast liveness anti-spoofing method. …”
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Comparison of Adhesion of Soft-Liner between Conventional PMMA and 3D Printed Resin Denture Bases by Dawood Jadaan, Juzailah Roffie, Husniyati Roslan, Nahas P

“…The third group consisted of 12 samples that were packed at the dough stage of acrylic and soft liner at the same time. After that, the samples from the first and second groups were split in two, with one half receiving no surface treatment and the other half undergoing sandblasting. …”
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An Overview of Dentist–Patient Communication in Quality Dental Care by Jasmine Cheuk Ying Ho, Hollis Haotian Chai, Bella Weijia Luo, Edward Chin Man Lo, Michelle Zeping Huang, Chun Hung Chu

“…Nonetheless, it has been widely acknowledged that dentists universally encounter the repercussions arising from suboptimal communication strategies. Time constraints, difficulties in establishing rapport, the oral-health illiteracy of the patients, the poor communication skills of the dentists, dentists’ perceptions, and language barriers often hinder dentist–patient communication. …”
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Sustainable pectin extraction from Riang husk using ultrasound-assisted extraction with deep eutectic solvents and its potential in antipollution products by Manee Saelee, Hla Myo, Nuntawat Khat-udomkiri

“…The condition that exhibited the highest yield were found to be a liquid-to-solid ratio of 40 mL/g, 35 % amplitude (ultrasonic power of 28.11 W), and 60 min of extraction time. The extracted pectin was primarily composed of monosaccharides, including galacturonic acid (53.74 %), arabinose (23.97 %), galactose (12.36 %), and rhamnose (6.81 %). …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of Apomorphine Sublingual Film as an “On-Demand” Treatment for “OFF” Episodes in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Andrew Thach, Noam Kirson, Miriam L. Zichlin, Ibrahima Dieye, Eric Pappert, G. Rhys Williams

“…Total and incremental patient costs (in 2020 US dollars), total time spent without “OFF” episode symptoms, and quality-adjusted life years (QALY) gained were summarized and compared. …”
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‘I haven’t met them, I don’t have any trust in them. It just feels like a big unknown’: a qualitative study exploring the determinants of consent to use Human Fertilisation and Emb... by Claire Carson, Lisa Hinton, Jenny Kurinczuk, Maria Quigley

“…Verbatim transcripts were analysed using the ‘one sheet of paper’ method to identify themes.Setting Women and men were recruited between September 2015 and December 2017, via fertility clinics across England and online advertising, then interviewed at a location convenient to them.Participants 20 patients and 9 staff were interviewed, 40 patients completed the online survey.Results Consent for disclosure (CD) forms are completed at a stressful time, when patients often feel overwhelmed; these forms were considered a low priority. …”
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Information and mathematical modelling in construction in the development of building products for fire detection in a neighboring building by A. A. Lazarev, S. V. Fedosov, V. G. Kotlov, D. E. Tsvetkov, A. Yu. Komlev

“…The main approaches to solving these problems are related to the theory of heat transfer. At the same time, there is practically no development of algorithms for the use of building products to detect a fire in a neighboring building.Materials and methods. …”
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An in-situ study in the Xijiang River basin revealed adverse effects of total dissolved gas supersaturation on fish by Xuefeng Chen, Zhiguang Zhang, Yunong Qin, Shikang Liu, Yuanming Wang, Jingjie Feng, Kefeng Li

“…The bubble trauma scores of the experimental fish in TDG supersaturated water significantly increased with exposure time and significantly decreased after recovery in freshwater. …”
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Role of the Btk-PLCγ2 Signaling Pathway in the Bone Destruction of Apical Periodontitis by Lina Wang, Hong Zhang, Ming Dong, Meina Zuo, Shuo Liu, Ying Lu, Weidong Niu

“…By silencing Btk, the expression of Btk, PLCγ2, and NFATc-1 was detected by real-time qPCR and Western blot, and osteoclastogenesis was detected by enzyme histochemical staining to further confirm the role of Btk in bone resorption. …”
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Comparison and Impact Factor Analysis of Ground PM2.5 Retrieved by Aqua and Himawari-8 Satellite Products in Guangdong, China by Tingyuan Li, Xuejiao Deng, Jingyang Chen, Jie Xu, Jin Shen

“…Previous studies on PM2.5 concentrations in Guangdong have used the aerosol optical depth (AOD) determined by MODIS sensors on the Terra and Aqua satellites, which both have a transit time of once per day. In this study, based on AOD data obtained from the Aqua and Himawari-8 (H8) satellites and ground-based measurements, ground PM2.5 concentrations were compared using radiation theory and a semi-empirical model. …”
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An Actor-Oriented and Architecture-Driven Approach for Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Modeling by Eric Fotsing, Severin Vianey Tuekam Kakeu, Eric Desire Kameni, Marcellin Julius Antonio Nkenlifack

“…The development and maintenance of resulting models become cumbersome and time-consuming. In this article, we propose an actor and architecture-driven approach that relies on relevant existing methods and satisfies the needs of spatially explicit agent-based modeling and implementation. …”
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Effectiveness of supracondylar dome osteotomy in reducing lateral condylar prominence and enhancing functional outcomes in pediatric cubitus varus: a retrospective study by Yam Prakash Gurung, Sabin Pokharel, Rajan Bhusal, Tarun Rajbhandari, Ashok Kumar Banskota, Bibek Banskota

“…Results The mean age at surgery was 11.77 years (± 3.76), with an average time since injury of 54.15 months (± 31.76). Post-operatively, the radiological carrying angle improved from 23.90° (± 8.84) varus to 5.14° (± 7.64) valgus. …”
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Correlation of artificial neural network and multi-attribute transformation: a test case to predict the effective porosity of Cretaceous sandstones of the Sembar Formation, southea... by Furqan Aftab, Furqan Aftab, Furqan Aftab, Furqan Aftab, Mohammad Zafar, Muhammad Iqbal Hajana, John H. Shaw

“…We suggest that it is theoretically possible for the ANN to make predictions about any attribute of the reservoir via bridging target logs and seismic data within a short computation time.…”
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Mean field limits of co-evolutionary signed heterogeneous networks by Marios Antonios Gkogkas, Christian Kuehn, Chuang Xu

“…In comparison to the recently emerging works on MFLs of IPS coupled on non-co-evolutionary networks (i.e., static networks or time-dependent networks independent of the dynamics of the IPS), our work seems the first to rigorously address the MFL of a co-evolutionary network model. …”
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