Barriers faced by undergraduate dental students when conducting research: a qualitative study by Mohammed Mahmoud Sarhan, Lama Nasser Aljohani, Raghad Ibrahim Alsaleh, Roze Abdulaziz Mubaraki, Malak Abdulaziz Almozaen, Rimas Sabih Alharbi

“…The themes of “inadequate knowledge,” “time constraints” and “lack of resources” confirm and align with the findings of previous studies, while the themes “misaligned schedules,” “delayed response” and “lack of orientation” represent new insights into the barriers to research faced by undergraduate dental students. …”
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More than just a number: the gut microbiota and brain function across the extremes of life by Nathan D. Nuzum, Clara Deady, Sarah Kittel-Schneider, John F. Cryan, Siobhain M. O'Mahony, Gerard Clarke

“…Neurodevelopmental research has also seen a boon in microbiome-related clinical research including in autism, Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and schizophrenia, which is confirming prior animal model work regarding the key time-windows in the gut microbiome important for infant cognition. …”
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Co-expression of glutamatergic and autism-related genes in the hippocampus of male mice with disturbances of social behavior by I. L. Kovalenko, A. G. Galyamina, D. A. Smagin, N. N. Kudryavtseva

“…Transcriptomic analysis revealed a down-regulation of autism-related (Shank3, Auts2, Ctnnd2, Nrxn2) and glutamatergic (Grm4) genes in aggressive mice. At the same time, the expression of GA-related genes (Shank2, Nlgn2, Ptcdh10, Reln, Arx) and GG genes (Grik3, Grm2, Grm4, Slc17a7, Slc1a4, Slc25a22) excluding Grin2a was increased in defeated mice. …”
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THE ECONOMIC INFLUENCE OF FRANCE IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA by Juraj Ondriaš, Mykola Palinchak, Kateryna Brenzovych

“…The paper then presents a case study of the Bolloré Group, another French multinational firm that has been active on the continent for an extended period of time across a range of sectors within the economies of the countries under study. …”
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Long-term effects of institutional quality on financial inclusion in Asia–Pacific countries by Duc Hong Vo

“…We are especially interested in these long-term effects because institutional reforms require time for implementation and their impacts on various socioeconomic issues are only gradually observed. …”
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Development of a novel, high-throughput imaged capillary isoelectric focusing-Western method to characterize charge heterogeneity of monoclonal antibody heavy and light chains by Gangadhar Dhulipala, Alanna Broszeit, Kun Lu, Nisha Palackal, Erica Pyles

“…In addition, the reduced, denatured iCIEF-Western method allows for the analysis of up to 96 samples overnight, offering good precision and high throughput with minimal analyst hands-on time. Further, the developed method can be applied in different aspects of drug development, such as comparability, release or stability testing given its ability to provide identity, as well as qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis.…”
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Enhancing counterfeit RFID tag classification through distance based cognitive risk control by Haifeng Wu, Siyuan Wang, Chongrong Pu, Jun Ma, Yu Zeng

“…Beyond the enactment of cognitive risk control, this paper extends its focus to encompass enriched time domain and frequency domain feature extraction, totaling 104 features, aimed at further enhancing classification efficacy. …”
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Recent evidence comparing combination of conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs with biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis by Abhishek Zanwar, Sakir Ahmed, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vikas Agarwal, Aman Sharma, Anupam Wakhlu, Vir Singh Negi

“…Most patients with RA are seropositive, have significant disease activity at presentation to the Rheumatologist and may have erosions at the time of diagnosis, all of which are poor prognostic factors. …”
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An Enhanced Semisteady-State Jaya Algorithm With a Control Coefficient and a Self-Adaptive Multipopulation Strategy by Joshua Churchill Ankrah, Francis Boafo Effah, Elvis Twumasi

“…Overall, it has a slower convergence and longer run time due to its multipopulation strategy and its search for the best solution after each solution update. …”
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Health system interventions and responses to anti-microbial resistance: A scoping review of evidence from 15 African countries. by Jacob Albin Korem Alhassan, Clement Kamil Abdallah

“…However, the literature on the real time impacts and the barriers that hinder the implementation of these interventions in the African context is limited. …”
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Pseudogenization of the Slc23a4 gene is necessary for the survival of Xdh-deficient mice by Kazuki Terada, Tamaki Watanabe, Nobuhiro Yasuno, Toshio Ohtsubo, Shigeru Shibata, Kimiyoshi Ichida, Makoto Hosoyamada

“…In conclusion, for the first time, we established that Xdh(− / −) mice survive to adulthood.…”
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Towards accurate anomaly detection for cloud system via graph-enhanced contrastive learning by Zhen Zhang, Zhe Zhu, Chen Xu, Jinyu Zhang, Shaohua Xu

“…Finally, GCAD utilizes a reconstruction technique to calculate anomaly scores, facilitating the evaluation of the state of the cloud system at each time point. Experimental results indicate that GCAD outperforms state-of-the-art compared methods on two real-world datasets that contain topology information.…”
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Research progress on geogenic-contaminated high ammonium groundwater by Yao DU, Yaojin XIONG, Yamin DENG, Yanxin WANG

“…Groundwater nitrogen contamination is one of the most prevalent water environment problems worldwide. For a long time, the high concentration of ammonium in groundwater has been attributed to inputs from various human activities. …”
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Explainable attention based breast tumor segmentation using a combination of UNet, ResNet, DenseNet, and EfficientNet models by Shokofeh Anari, Soroush Sadeghi, Ghazaal Sheikhi, Ramin Ranjbarzadeh, Malika Bendechache

“…Future research will explore the use of multi-modal imaging, real-time deployment for clinical applications, and more advanced attention mechanisms to further improve segmentation performance.…”
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Validating Ionospheric Models Against Technologically Relevant Metrics by A. T. Chartier, J. Steele, G. Sugar, D. R. Themens, S. K. Vines, J. D. Huba

“…The underlying data sources and software used here are publicly available, so that interested groups may apply these tests to other models and time intervals.…”
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Postoperative infection after cranioplasty in traumatic brain injury: a single center experience by Mahnjeong Ha, Jung Hwan Lee, Hyuk Jin Choi, Byung Chul Kim, Seunghan Yu

“…Results Postoperative infection occurred in 17 patients (5.9%). Onset time of infectious symptom ranged from 9 days to 174 days (median, 24 days) after cranioplasty. …”
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The Effect of Rebamipide on Ocular Surface Disorders Induced by Latanoprost and Timolol in Glaucoma Patients by Naoto Tokuda, Yasushi Kitaoka, Akiko Matsuzawa, Junsuke Miyamoto, Shinsuke Sakae, Yasunari Munemasa, Hitoshi Takagi

“…Changes in intraocular pressure, tear film break-up time (TBUT), and corneal epithelial barrier function were evaluated at baseline, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks after rebamipide administration. …”
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Digital Transformation of Subjective Civil Rights: Problems and Prospects by N. V. Razuvaev

“…Since the legal regime, as shown in the work, includes three main elements, namely, objects of rights, subjective civil rights and regulatory means, digital transformation affects all these elements, contributing to their modification.At the same time, the main attention in the work is paid precisely to subjective civil rights, which, in a situation of underdeveloped regulatory regulation, are the main regulator of digital property turnover. …”
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Weight Gain Prevention for College Freshmen: Comparing Two Social Cognitive Theory-Based Interventions with and without Explicit Self-Regulation Training by Elizabeth A. Dennis, Kerry L. Potter, Paul A. Estabrooks, Brenda M. Davy

“…Class attendance was 100% (SCTSR) and 98% (SCT); SCTSR students (>50%) remarked that the online tracking required “too much time.” Conclusions. The intervention was well received, although there were no improvements in weight outcomes.…”
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Vaccines for cancer interception in familial adenomatous polyposis by David E. Johnson, Mary L. Disis

“…A limited number of vaccines can be administered over a short period of time to generate a lasting immune response. Appropriately primed antigen specific T-cells can traffic to any site in the body where antigen is expressed, recognize, and eliminate the antigen expressing cell. …”
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