Healthy at home for COPD: an integrated digital monitoring, treatment, and pulmonary rehabilitation intervention by Laurel O’Connor, Stephanie Behar, Seanan Tarrant, Pamela Stamegna, Caitlin Pretz, Biqi Wang, Brandon Savage, Thomas Scornavacca, Jeanne Shirshac, Tracey Wilkie, Michael Hyder, Adrian Zai, Shaun Toomey, Marie Mullen, Kimberly Fisher, Emil Tigas, Steven Wong, David D. McManus, Eric Alper, Peter K. Lindenauer, Eric Dickson, John P. Broach, Vik Kheterpal, Apurv Soni

“…Abstract Background Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Frequent exacerbations result in higher use of emergency services and hospitalizations, leading to poor patient outcomes and high costs. …”
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Flood hazard monitoring and modeling systems for improving climate risk management using machine learning and geospatial models in the Hennops River catchment, Centurion, South Afr... by Paidamwoyo Mhangara, Eskinder Gidey, Matilda Mbazo

“…To achieve this, we obtained Sentinel-2A and Landsat images from the United States Geological Survey Archive and processed them using SVM and RF models, along with TWI and NDWI. …”
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Blood Transfusions in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: An Analysis of Outcomes by Thomas Danninger, Rehana Rasul, Jashvant Poeran, Ottokar Stundner, Madhu Mazumdar, Peter M. Fleischut, Lazaros Poultsides, Stavros G. Memtsoudis

“…Data from 400 hospitals in the United States were used to identify patients undergoing total hip or knee arthroplasty (THA and TKA) from 2006 to 2010. …”
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Sustained-Release Fillers for Dentin Disinfection: An Ex Vivo Study by Bernhard Funk, Sharonit Sahar-Helft, David Kirmayer, Michael Friedman, Doron Steinberg

“…The obtained dentine powder was collected in test tubes containing phosphate-buffered saline, sonicated, and plated on agar plates. Colony-forming units were counted after 48 h of incubation. Random specimens were also examined under confocal laser scanning microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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« Mourir dans un baiser » Un archétype du féminicide ? by Jacqueline Carroy, Marc Renneville

“…This act was largely confused, particularly in the 19th century, with the vast nebula of "crimes of passion", murders committed under the influence of a passion for love exacerbated by jealousy or the impossibility of uniting with the loved one. There is, however, another way in which love leads to death, and that is the double suicide of lovers. …”
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Psychological interventions for patients with delirium in intensive care: A scoping review protocol. by Madiha Shaikh, Dorothy M Wade, Lara King, Liam Mackay, Isabelle Symes, Anam Syeda, Anna Greenburgh

“…The objective of this scoping review is to investigate psychological interventions developed, evaluated, and considered for patients with delirium in intensive care units (ICU). Data will be extracted from sources of evidence that address interventions for delirium-related distress and/or cognitive impairments in the adult ICU population, suitable for delivery by or under the supervision of a psychological practitioner. …”
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Hypertension among Mississippi Workers by Sociodemographic Characteristics and Occupation, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System by Vincent L. Mendy, Rodolfo Vargas, Oluwabunmi Ogungbe, Lei Zhang

“…In 2017, Mississippi had the third highest age-adjusted prevalence of hypertension in the United States. We estimated the prevalence of hypertension by sociodemographic characteristics and occupation and examined the association between hypertension with occupation and sociodemographic characteristics among Mississippi workers. …”
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Consumer Savings and Digital Remittance in Open Banking: Insights From Bibliometric and Geospatial Econometric Analysis by Ibrahim Niankara, Hassan Ismail Hassan, Rachidatou I. Traoret, Abu Reza Mohammad Islam

“…Open banking (OB) refers to financial institutions opening their data and services to external parties via application programming interfaces (APIs), a practice that has been increasingly adopted globally since its 2018 regulatory inception in the United Kingdom. Despite its growth, there is still a lack of academic studies examining its impact on consumer financial behaviors on a global scale. …”
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Russian and Foreign Experience of AntiCrisis Planning of 2008-2010 and Efficiency Estimation of Conducted AntiCrisis Programs by A. R. Shakirov, O. Yu. Sinyaeva

“…The global financial crisis of 2008, which is under our consideration, originated in the United States as a result of the mortgage crisis. …”
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Combined Combustion of Various Industrial Waste Flows in Boiler Furnaces. Part 1 by Yu. Р. Yarmolchick, R. Schröger, H. Haberfelner, M. Pichler, D. Kostić, G. V. Moroz

“…Direct flaring of industrial waste flows specifically in the combustion chambers of heat generating plants makes it possible to significantly reduce the loss of thermal energy, as well as the capital costs of equipping thermal units without using of preliminary furnaces. However, given the increasingly strict environmental standards for the burning of various fuels, it seems important to determine the optimal combustion conditions depending on the composition of the waste products. …”
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The perspectives of metabolomics studies of potato plants by R. K. Puzanskiy, V. V. Yemelyanov, T. A. Gavrilenko, M. F. Shishova

“…According to FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation), potato is the fourth crop in terms of food production after rice, wheat and maize, and the first among the tubers and roots. …”
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Clinical course of patients relisted for orthotopic heart transplantation: A national study by David Rekhtman, BS, Amit Iyengar, MD, MSE, Nikhil Ganjoo, BA, Cindy Song, BA, Noah Weingarten, MD, Max Shin, MD, Michaela Asher, MPhil, John DePaolo, MD, PhD, Marisa Cevasco, MD, MPH, Pavan Atluri, MD

“…We sought to describe the baseline characteristics, outcomes, and hospital selection of relisted patients by comparing their clinical status at the time of initial and subsequent listing. Methods: The United Network for Organ Sharing database was queried for adults listed for first-time isolated heart transplantation between October 18, 2018 and September 30, 2023. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of teen pregnancy research in Asia-Africa: Explore the future scope by Esti Nugraheny, Bunga A Paramashanti, Eny R Ambarwati, Yanti Yanti, Ocktariyana Ocktariyana, Tri Sunarsih, Zulvi Wiyanti, Hadi Ashar

“…The countries that produced the most publications were South Africa and the United States. The most relevant affiliation was with the University of Cape Town, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the University of Kwazulu-Natal. …”
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The evolution and morphodynamic characteristics of shoals and troughs in Lingdingyang Bay of the Pearl River Estuary by Linxi Fu, Linxi Fu, Yuhang Zhong, Yuhang Zhong, Ping Zhang, Ping Zhang, Lixia Niu, Lixia Niu, Xiaohe Zhang, Xiaohe Zhang, Jianliang Lin, Jianliang Lin, Huayang Cai, Huayang Cai, Qingshu Yang, Qingshu Yang

“…Shoals and troughs are the fundamental geomorphological units of estuarine systems. However, their definition and morphodynamic characteristics, influenced by the complex dynamic environment, remain a critical challenge. …”
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Shigella sonnei Bacteremia Presenting with Profound Hepatic Dysfunction by Oluwaseun Shogbesan, Andrew Rettew, Bilal Shaikh, Abdullateef Abdulkareem, Anthony Donato

“…About half a million cases of Shigella infection are reported annually in the United States. Shigella bacteremia is uncommon and generally seen in children and immunocompromised adults. …”
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Censorship, Control and Resistance in Eugene O’Neill’s “black plays” The Emperor Jones and All God’s Chillun Got Wings by Gwenola Le Bastard

“…From its creation in 1922 to its dismantling in 1927, the Play Jury was in charge of theater regulation in the United States, at a time when segregation was still enforced on the stage. …”
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The Feasibility and Acceptability of a Community Science Approach to Explore Infant Formula Preparation Safety in the Home by Sara Jones, Jonie Cooper, Abbie Dolling, Tara McNamara, Susan Dvorak, Vicky Sibson, Amy Brown, Emma Yhnell, Phyll Buchanan, Sharon Breward, Rebecca Ellis, Aimee Grant

“…We aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using community science (CS) in a pilot study to explore infant formula preparation safety in the home in the United Kingdom. Parents were involved at each research stage, including (i) pre-funding consultation (n = 17), (ii) research design (n = 19), (iii) data generation (n = 151), (iv) research education (n = 8), (v) data analysis (n = 5), (vi) reflections on participation in CS (n = 151) and participation in the data analysis group (n = 5), and (vii) the development of research outputs (n = 5). …”
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Metagenomic analysis of fungal assemblages at a regional scale in high-altitude temperate forest soils: alternative methods to determine diversity, composition and environmental dr... by Stephanie Hereira-Pacheco, Itzel Arias-Del Razo, Alejandra Miranda-Carrazco, Luc Dendooven, Arturo Estrada-Torres, Yendi E. Navarro-Noya

“…Methods We used four different bioinformatic workflows to profile fungal assemblages, i.e., Geneious+UNITE, single- and paired-end microbial community profiling (MiCoP), and Kraken2. …”
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Exploring the Resources Governance Connectivity of Cultural Ecosystem Services: Evidence in Tanjung Lesung SEZ Tourism, Banten Province, Indonesia by Okky Rizal Kusuma, Luky Adrianto, Fery Kurniawan, Andi Zulfikar

“…The focus is on examining the connectivity network between resource governance (RG) components such as resource actors (RA), resource units (RU), and resource systems (RS). The data obtained were analyzed using the stages of social-ecological network analysis. …”
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The Role of Small-Scale Industries in Achieving the Sustainable Development: the Experience of India by N. V. Galistcheva

“…The article presents the definition of small scale industry in India both in terms of employment level and the investment limits as well as statistical data on number of units, its share in industrial production and exports and expansion of small scale sector in 2000-2010s. …”
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