Evaluating the toxicity of sea-dumped conventional and chemical munition degradation products to fish and human cells using a combination of cell viability assays by João Barbosa, Colin R. Janssen, Marijke Neyts, Koen Parmentier, Frédéric Laduron, Kris Geukens, Philippe François, Jana Asselman

“…Notably, the EC10 and EC50 values for tetryl and 1,3-DNB in RTgill-W1 align with concentrations detected near North American dumpsites, reflecting environmentally relevant conditions. …”
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A voice-based algorithm can predict type 2 diabetes status in USA adults: Findings from the Colive Voice study. by Abir Elbéji, Mégane Pizzimenti, Gloria Aguayo, Aurélie Fischer, Hanin Ayadi, Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, Jean-Pierre Riveline, Vladimir Despotovic, Guy Fagherazzi

“…The best models were stratified by key factors such as age, BMI, and hypertension, and compared to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) score for T2D risk assessment using Bland-Altman analysis. …”
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Cultural foundations of global health: a critical examination of universal child feeding recommendations by Gabriel Scheidecker, Leberecht Funk, Nandita Chaudhary, Bambi L. Chapin, Wiebke J. Schmidt, Christine El Ouardani

“…This endeavor can only succeed, we argue, if we also recognize that much of established global health doctrine is rooted in Euro-American beliefs, values, and practice rather than being culturally neutral. …”
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Racial/ethnic differences in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents in the United States by Dazheng Zhang, Bingyu Zhang, Qiong Wu, Ting Zhou, Jiayi Tong, Yiwen Lu, Jiajie Chen, Huiyuan Wang, Deena J. Chisolm, Ravi Jhaveri, Rachel C. Kenney, Russell L. Rothman, Suchitra Rao, David A. Williams, Mady Hornig, Linbo Wang, Jeffrey S. Morris, Christopher B. Forrest, Yong Chen

“…Within the severe group, Asian American/Pacific Islanders (AAPI) had a higher prevalence of fever/chills and respiratory signs and symptoms, Hispanic patients showed greater hair loss prevalence in severe COVID-19 cases, while Non-Hispanic Black (NHB) patients had fewer skin symptoms in comparison to NHW patients. …”
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Artistic time in D. Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon by Antonina V. Samoylova, Olga V. Spachil

“…The problems presented in Flowers for Algernon (1966) the novel by American writer Daniel Keyes (1925-2014), fall within the realm of existential questions of the 20th century: the meaning and purpose of human life, family and interpersonal relationships, the place of a deviant personality in society, the ethics of experimental science and medicine, empathy and compassion, and the role of science and knowledge, among others. …”
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Counterweight cities in South America as an answer to unitarian centralism: Santa Cruz, Guayaquil and Concepcion by Esteban Valenzuela-Van Treek, Claudia Vaca

“…The cities studied here, enhanced the complexity of the human settlement system in their countries, mitigating the macro cephalic tendencies inherent in the Latin American centralist urban structure. In-depth interviews performed in the three countries allow for a better understanding of the context in which the struggle against centralism took place and was able to overcome the challenges it encountered, in the process of generating substantial counterweights against metropolitan macro cephalism.…”
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Investigation of Using the IL-FSSW Technique to Weld AA5052-H112 Alloy with Copper: Experimental Study by Kareem Abbas Falih, Isam Jabbar Ibrahim, Sabah Khammass Hussein, Salah Mezlini

“…The failure load value from the shear tensile test was 5008 N, obtained at a Rotating speed of 1400 rpm, feeding 20 mm/min, soaking time 20 sec, and preheating 20 sec, which was higher after comparing with the required strength value by the requirements of the American Welding Society. The microstructure images of the cross-section of the sample showed a change in the size of the crystalline grains between the welded zone and the base metal. …”
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Acute Febrile Illness Accompanied by 7th and 12th Cranial Nerve Palsy Due to Lyme Disease Following Travel to Rural Ecuador: A Case Report and Mini-Review by Teslin S. Sandstrom, Kumudhavalli Kavanoor Sridhar, Judith Joshi, Ali Aunas, Sheliza Halani, Andrea K. Boggild

“…Given the travel history to a South American country in which Lyme disease is exceedingly uncommon, consideration of infections acquired in Ecuador necessitated a broad differential diagnosis and more comprehensive microbiological testing than would have been required in the absence of tropical travel. …”
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Salas de cine en Bogotá (1897-1940): la arquitectura como símbolo de modernización del espacio urbano by Andrés Avila Gómez, Alfredo Montaño Bello

“…Movie theaters, known simply as theaters or cinemas in Bogotá, represent an exceptional case among those facilities made for leisure that were built in Latin American capitals during the first half of the twentieth century. …”
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Antibiotic exposure is associated with minimal gut microbiome perturbations in healthy term infants by Alain J. Benitez, Ceylan Tanes, Elliot S. Friedman, Joseph P. Zackular, Eileen Ford, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Patricia A. DeRusso, Andrea Kelly, Hongzhe Li, Michal A. Elovitz, Gary D. Wu, Babette Zemel, Kyle Bittinger

“…Here, we use a prospective longitudinal birth cohort of n = 323 healthy term African American children to determine the association between antibiotic exposure and the gut microbiome through shotgun metagenomics sequencing as well as bile acid profiles through liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. …”
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Potential risks to the National Health Service (NHS) of a Post-Brexit US Trade Deal by Louise Dalingwater

“…Moreover, in late November 2019, Jeremy Corbyn contended that Conservatives were negotiating a secret trade deal containing clauses which would open the NHS up to American pharmaceutical companies. The central focus of this paper is thus to examine the likely consequences of a post-Brexit trade deal between the US and the UK and to consider to what extent it could undermine the UK’s ability to provide a free, universal public health service. …”
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Morbimortality in Patients Undergone an Operation for Intestinal Occlusion in General Surgery Service by Alexander Marchena Rodríguez, Reinaldo Jiménez Prendes, Julio César Sarmiento Sánchez

“…The analyzed variables were: age, sex, personal and pathological background, classification according to the American Society of Anaesthesiology, pre and trans-operative diagnostic, the surgical procedure, the location of the ward in immediate postoperative, the complementary exams, the time between the time of admission and the time of the operation, direct cause of death, the complications and the patients´ general condition on discharge. …”
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Short-Acting Beta-Agonist Research: A Perspective by Malcolm R Sears

“…Assessment of these findings led to delay in the publishing of the American Asthma Guidelines, which were modified to suggest caution in using beta2-agonist treatments. …”
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Liquefaction potential analysis using the Tsuchida method and correlation of Relative Density (Dr) − D50 at Padang Beach by Andriani, Afifa Mifta, Yoriadi Didi, Shubhi Nurul Hadie Muhammad, Ahmad Fauziah

“…Soil classification according to the AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) system, the type of sand on the beach is A-3 (fine sand), and according to the USCS (Unified Soil Classification System) system, all samples are classified as SP (Poorly-graded sand). …”
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Creation of a novel zebrafish model with low DHA status to study the role of maternal nutrition during neurodevelopment by Katherine M. Ranard, Bruce Appel

“…Offspring rely on maternal DHA transfer to meet their neurodevelopmental needs, but DHA sources are lacking in the American diet. Low DHA status is linked to altered immune responses, white matter defects, impaired vision, and an increased risk of psychiatric disorders during development. …”
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Associations between neutrophil percentage to albumin ratio and rheumatoid arthritis versus osteoarthritis: a comprehensive analysis utilizing the NHANES database by Wenquan Ding, Rui La, Shenghao Wang, Zhiyuan He, Dinghua Jiang, Zhigang Zhang, Hao Ni, Wu Xu, Lixin Huang, Qian Wu, Qian Wu

“…This study aims to investigate the association between NPAR and the risk of OA and RA.MethodsThis cross-sectional study analyzed data from 92,062 American adults in the NHANES database between 1999 and 2016. …”
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Adjuvant Autologous Melanoma Vaccine for Macroscopic Stage III Disease: Survival, Biomarkers, and Improved Response to CTLA-4 Blockade by Michal Lotem, Sharon Merims, Stephen Frank, Tamar Hamburger, Aviram Nissan, Luna Kadouri, Jonathan Cohen, Ravid Straussman, Galit Eisenberg, Shoshana Frankenburg, Einat Carmon, Bilal Alaiyan, Shlomo Shneibaum, Zeynep Ozge Ayyildiz, Murat Isbilen, Kerem Mert Senses, Ilan Ron, Hanna Steinberg, Yoav Smith, Eitan Shiloni, Ali Osmay Gure, Tamar Peretz

“…There is not yet an agreed adjuvant treatment for melanoma patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer stages III B and C. …”
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Clinical Manifestations Associated with Overweight/Obesity in Puerto Ricans with Fibromyalgia Syndrome by Ruth M. Fred-Jiménez, Mariangelí Arroyo-Ávila, Ángel M. Mayor, Grissel Ríos, Luis M. Vilá

“…A cross-sectional study was performed in 144 patients with FMS (per American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria). …”
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The Effectiveness of Vitamin C for Postoperative Pain Relief in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Prospective Randomized Double-blind Trial by Renu Bala, Ram Murti Saini, Shashi Kiran, Priyanka Bansal, Kirti Kshetrapal, Pulkita Kataria

“…Sixty adult patients either sex, the American Society of Anesthesiologists I or II were randomized to group C who received 1 g Vitamin C intraoperatively, whereas Group N received normal saline (control group). …”
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Dataset of speech produced with delayed auditory feedbackOpen Science FrameworkOpen Science Framework by Matthias Heyne, Monique C. Tardif, Alexander Ocampo, Ashley P. Petitjean, Emily J. Hacker, Caroline N. Fox, Megan A. Liu, Madeline Fontana, Vincent Pennetti, Jason W. Bohland

“…Here we describe a large dataset of speech produced with DAF using modern experimental methods with systematic controls and varied speaking materials, including phonotactically legal, nonword syllable sequences and American English sentences. Auditory feedback latencies were tightly controlled and included a zero / minimal delay (∼12 ms), 150 ms, 200 ms, and 250 ms. …”
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