Observations of Score Changes Between USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 Among Students of Different Demographic Groups in a Longitudinal Clinical Curriculum by Kaitlyn Novotny, Daniel Levine, Dale Netski, Edward Simanton

“…BACKGROUND The transition of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 to a pass/fail scoring system is reshaping its role in medical students’ residency placements. …”
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Empowerment of volunteer nursing service providers during disasters: A qualitative study by Mostafa Roshanravan, Shandiz Moslehi, Hesam Seyedin

“…After each interview, the text was entered into MAXQDA software version 2020, and semantic units were identified and coded, with codes categorized based on their similarities. …”
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InsectChange: Comment by Gaume, Laurence, Desquilbet, Marion

“…We argue that the disparate and non-standardised units of measurement of insect density among studies may have detrimental consequences for users, as was the case for van Klink et al. (2020a, 2022) who log10(x+1)-transformed these heterogeneous data, compromising the comparison of temporal trends between datasets and the estimation of the overall trend. …”
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The Fake Diary of a Historical Figure: Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa’s Journal of Countess Françoise Krasińska (1825) by Magdalena Ożarska

“…They had only one daughter, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, who in due course became the grandmother of Victor Emanuel II, the first king of united Italy. Hoffmanowa’s novel, begun as a project aimed to educate young girls in modesty and other traditional feminine virtues, soon became a tour-de-force of fake diarising, the first ever psychologically complex presentation of the workings of a young girl’s mind in Polish literature. …”
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The changing burden of gout in adults aged 70 and above based on the global burden of disease 2019 by Yang Yang, Zhong Liu

“…At the national level, some developed countries such as New Zealand, the United States of America, and Australia had the highest prevalence rates, reaching 8,893.74, 8,508.06, and 8,427.94 per 100,000, respectively. …”
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Research on Battery Electric Vehicles’ DC Fast Charging Noise Emissions: Proposals to Reduce Environmental Noise Caused by Fast Charging Stations by David Clar-Garcia, Hector Campello-Vicente, Miguel Fabra-Rodriguez, Emilio Velasco-Sanchez

“…The goal is to provide tools that assist manufacturers, installers, and operators of rapid charging stations in mitigating the aforementioned sound emissions in order to align these infrastructures with Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 11 adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015.…”
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Optimized Path Planning and Scheduling in Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems Using Ant Colony Optimization and Streamlit Visualization by Isam Sadeq Rasham

“…In each of the RL models used the shortest paths were identified and the best route was determined to have a total distance of 102.91 units. Also, other values such as, value function loss and policy gradient loss showed learning and convergence in iterations. …”
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Contrast sensitivity before and after refractive error correction among refractive error patients in Hawassa, Sidama, Ethiopia 2023 by Balcha Negese Kebede, Seid Mohammed Seid, Eyerus Gesesse Samuel

“…The mean contrast sensitivity increased from 1.29 ± 0.35 (SD) to1.51 ± 0.28 (SD) LogCS units with refractive correction (p = 0.000). There is no significant difference in contrast sensitivity between the types of refractive errors. …”
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Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) From Coastal Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands: Species Descriptions and DNA Barcodes by Carl L. Thurman, John C. McNamara, Hsi‐Te Shih, Mariana V. Capparelli

“…COI sequences were obtained for 27 operational taxonomic units from Ecuador, with three morphologically indistinguishable cryptic or pseudocryptic taxa also revealed. …”
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Association between the dietary inflammatory index and depressive symptoms in adults with metabolic syndrome: a cross-sectional study from the NHANES database by Jinshun You, Jinshun You, Shujie Xia

“…The RCS model revealed a nonlinear positive association between DII scores and depressive symptoms in these participants.ConclusionOur study indicates that the DII is positively correlated with an increased likelihood of depressive symptoms among adults with MS in the United States. These findings align with existing research and necessitate further validation through prospective cohort studies.…”
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Evaluation of the Cost of Intelligent Upgrades of Transportation Infrastructure for Intelligent Connected Vehicles by Zongwei Liu, Haokun Song, Hong Tan, Han Hao, Fuquan Zhao

“…The results show that the intelligent transportation infrastructure for advanced ICVs mainly includes communication base stations, roadside units (RSUs), vision sensors, millimeter-wave radars, laser radars (LiDARs), meteorological sensors, intelligent signal machines, edge computing servers, and cloud computing centers. …”
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Real-world evaluation of physiotherapist-led exercise prehabilitation and rehabilitation during autologous stem cell transplantation in myeloma: a single-centre experience by Orla McCourt, Joanne Land, Neil Rabin, Kwee Yong, Abi Fisher, Jonathan Sive, Charalampia Kyriakou, Michael K Luong, Alasdair Longden

“…The aim of this report is to describe an overview of a newly implemented physiotherapist-led exercise prehabilitation and rehabilitation service delivered as part of the myeloma ASCT pathway, and present real-world findings related to changes in function and QoL.Methods A service evaluation was conducted at a single-centre tertiary referral hospital for haematopoetic stem cell transplantation in the United Kingdom. A hybrid service using face-to-face clinical assessments and weekly remotely supervised group exercise, via an online video conferencing platform, in the phase between stem cell harvest and admission (prehabilitation), and from discharge to 100 days post-ASCT (rehabilitation). …”
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The Optimization of Carbon Emission Prediction in Low Carbon Energy Economy Under Big Data by Ji Luo, Wuyang Zhuo, Siyan Liu, Bingfei Xu

“…In the research on low-carbon economic development, the research applies the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method and establishes Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes (CCR) and Banker-Charnes-Cooper (BCC) models to assess the technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency, and scale efficiency of decision-making units. This research also uses the BCC model to project the production frontier and calculate input redundancy and output gap rates, and evaluate low-carbon economic development. …”
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Workflow for Conflict and Reinforcement Identification Based on STPA and STRIDE by Andrei Carniel, Juliana de Melo Bezerra, Celso Massaki Hirata

“…CPSs involve processing and storage units, mechanical and electrical components, sensors, actuators, and communication networks, having software as the dominant part of this integration. …”
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Noncontact Knee Ligament Injury Prevention Screening in Netball: A Clinical Commentary with Clinical Practice Suggestions for Community-Level Players by Nicholas C Clark

“…Netball is becoming more popular in the United States following its countrywide introduction to schools and community centers. …”
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Sepiolite immobilizes soil Cd to optimize microbial community structure thereby promoting wheat growth and reducing Cd accumulation by Ziqi Li, Xiaoxun Xu, Xin Qi, Changlian Xu, Guiyin Wang, Shirong Zhang, Zhanbiao Yang, Zhang Cheng, Junzhuo Cai, Guochun Lv, Ting Li, Yulin Pu, Yongxia Jia

“…The findings confirm that applying sepiolite in the field enhanced the main yield traits of wheat, significantly elevated soil pH by 0.30–1.04 units, reduced Cd bioavailability by 55.46 % −93.27 % (P < 0.05), and decreased Cd accumulation in wheat by regulating Cd transport and enrichment in different plant organs. …”
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K(Ca)3.1 channel-blockade attenuates airway pathophysiology in a sheep model of chronic asthma. by Joanne Van Der Velden, Grace Sum, Donna Barker, Emmanuel Koumoundouros, Garry Barcham, Heike Wulff, Neil Castle, Peter Bradding, Kenneth Snibson

“…Senicapoc-treated sheep also demonstrated reduced airway hyperresponsiveness, requiring a significantly higher dose of carbachol to increase resistance by 100% compared to allergen-challenged vehicle-control sheep (20±5 vs. 52±18 breath-units of carbachol; n = 10, P = 0.0340). Senicapoc also significantly reduced eosinophil numbers in bronchoalveolar lavage taken 48 hours post-allergen challenge, and reduced vascular remodelling.…”
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Brain drain in Emergency Medicine in Lebanon, building locally and exporting globally by Eveline Hitti, Sarah S. Abdul-Nabi, Afif Mufarrij, Amin Kazzi

“…Initial employment destinations predominantly included Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (61.1, 33.3 and 5.6% respectively). …”
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Interaction between dipeptidyl-peptidase-4 inhibitors and drugs acting on renin angiotensin aldosterone system for the risk of angioedema: a pharmacovigilance assessment using disp... by Kannan Sridharan, Gowri Sivaramakrishnan

“…Methods We conducted a comprehensive pharmacovigilance analysis using the United States Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (USFDA AERS) database. …”
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Evaluation of Hafıza-i Saltanat theater play and activities in terms of history teaching by Muhammet Ahmet Tokdemir, Gülin Karabağ, Cemile Açıl

“…At the same time, it has been determined that the play and its activities meet and gain the achievements of units 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the 10th Grade History Course Teaching Program. …”
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