The Effect of Vitamin D3 on Serum Creatine Phosphokinase Level in Patients with Multiple Trauma: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial by Mehran Kouchek, Niloufar Taherpour, Mahya Farasat, Mirmohammad Miri, Sara Salarian, Seyedpouzhia Shojaei, Rezvan Hassanpour, Hossein Amini, Mohammad Sistanizad

“…Patients in the intervention group received a single dose of vitamin D3 (300,000 units) on the recruitment day. The serum level of CPK was recorded every 3 days for 14 days. …”
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Quantitative fluorescent nanoparticle tracking analysis and nano‐flow cytometry enable advanced characterization of single extracellular vesicles by Danilo Mladenović, Joseph Brealey, Ben Peacock, Kairi Koort, Nataša Zarovni

“…This standardization technique allowed for fluorescent EV signal to be expressed in ERF units (indicative of bound fluorescent antibodies per EV), thus enabling measurement of target protein marker abundance on individual EVs, and in the whole EV population. …”
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The Economic Impact of COVID-19 Treatment at a Hospital-level: Investment and Financial Registers of Brazilian Hospitals by Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges, Ricardo Bertoglio Cardoso, Milena S Marcolino, Karen Brasil Ruschel, Ana Paula Coutinho, Elayne Crestani Pereira, Fernando Anschau, Fernando Aranha, Filipe Carrilho, Giovanna Vietta, Gisele Alsina Nader Bastos, Joanna d’Arc Lyra Batista, José Miguel Chatkin, Juliana da Silva Nogueira, Leila Beltrami Moreira, Luciana Haddad, Maiara Floriani, Marília Teixeira de Siqueira, Patrícia Ziegelmann, Petrônio José de Lima Martelli, Roberta Pozza, Umbelina Cravo Teixeira Lagioia, Carisi Anne Polanczyk, Luciane Kopittke

“…**Results:** The majority of hospitals registered a decrease in hospitalization rates and revenue from 2019 to 2020. For intensive care units (ICUs), the mean occupancy rate ranged from 88% to 83%, and for wards, it ranged from 85% to 73%. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of personality disorders in males with alcohol dependence syndrome undergoing inpatient treatment in a tertiary care hospital in South India by Aravindan Balachandran, Parthasarathy Ramamurthy, Pradeep Thilakan

“…Also, the amount of alcohol consumption per day was significantly higher in those with PD when compared to those without any PD (15.9 ± 6.81 vs. 13.17 ± 4.34 units per day). Conclusion: About half of males with alcohol dependence syndrome undergoing inpatient treatment had at least one PD. …”
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THE GEOPOLITICAL INFLUENCE OF 'SOFT POWER' ON CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES by К.С. Мухтарова, А.К. Паизова

“…As well as it highlights important geoeconomic and geopolitical features of "soft power" employed by leading global players, including the European Union, Iran, China, Russia, the United States, Turkey, and Japan, towards Central Asian countries. …”
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Linking The Cancer Imaging Archive and GenBank to the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative by Ahmad Baghal, Joel Saltz, Tahsin Kurc, Prateek Prasanna, Samantha Baghal, Janos Hajagos, Erich Bremer, Shaymaa Al‐Shukri, Joshua L. Kennedy, Michael Rutherford, Tracy Nolan, Kirk Smith, Christopher G. Chute, Fred Prior

“…The N3C curated a rich collection of aggregated and de‐identified electronic health records (EHR) data of over 18 million patients, including 7.5 million COVID‐positive patients, seen at hospitals across the United States. Medical imaging data and variant samples are important data modalities used in the study of COVID‐19. …”
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Strategies for Mainstreaming Edible Cities with Focus on the City of Lincoln: A Critical Cross-Case Study Analysis of Community Growing Groups in the UK by Hannah Williams, Amira Elnokaly

“…Focusing on the City of Lincoln, UK, this study aims to develop a contextualised EC framework that is culturally and geographically relevant and aligns with global goals for sustainable urban development as outlined in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11), promoting inclusive, environmentally safe and economically viable communities. …”
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Anxiety disorders and the gut microbiota: a bibliometric and visual analysis by Linli Guo, Linli Guo, Qin Ding, Qin Ding, Qing Li, Danping Zheng, Danping Zheng, Linglin Guo, Linglin Guo, Xiaotao Cao, Xiaotao Cao, Qianqian Mou, Qianqian Mou

“…Over the past two decades, both publications and citations have shown a steady increase. China, the United States, and Canada were the top three countries in terms of publication output. …”
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Commissioning health services for First Nations, regional, and remote populations: a scoping review by Henry Boer, Janya McCalman, Chris Doran, Amanda Rush, Bridgett Mitchell, Ruth Fagan, Elizabeth Whiting, Megan Kreis, Hannah Johnson, David Lyon

“…This review systematically scoped the literature for studies that described or evaluated the governance, funding, implementation and outcomes from health service commissioning targeting these groups in Canada, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the United States (CANZUS nations). Methods Seventeen databases were searched for relevant peer reviewed and grey literature studies published in English from 2010 to 2023. …”
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Ventilation Strategy for Proper IAQ in Existing Nurseries Buildings - Lesson Learned from the Research during COVID-19 Pandemic by Katarzyna Ratajczak

“…A strategy was proposed based on the use of decentralized units, dedicated to single rooms, thanks to which the appropriate amount of air is supplied (per person), the air is cleaned and heated in the heat recovery exchanger. …”
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Cretaceous Limestone Dolomitization and Argument of Its Mg2+ Sources: Exampling the Bekhme and Qamchuqa Formations in the Zagros Collision Belt by Kamal Haji Karim, Sherzad Tofiq Mohamad

“… This study unveils new considerations regarding the dolomitization of the Bekhme and Qamchuqa formations (BQFs), two reefal Cretaceous units in the Iraqi Zagros collisional belt. Previous studies proposed the dolomitization of these formations due to the ascent of Mg-rich hydrothermal solutions through deep faults but lacked substantial supporting evidence. …”
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Comparing Fluconazole and Nystatin as Antifungal Prophylactics in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Leila Asgarzadeh, Majid Mahallei, Manizheh Mostafa Gharehbaghi

“…Patients in group B were administered oral nystatin 1 mL (100 000 units) every eight hours. The primary endpoint was SFI and its associated mortality rate during hospital stay. …”
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Effective field theory approach to lepton number violating decays K±→ π∓l±l±: short-distance contribution by Yi Liao, Xiao-Dong Ma, Hao-Lin Wang

“…We make a complete analysis on the basis of all dim-9 operators that violate lepton number by two units, and compute their one-loop QCD renormalization effects. …”
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Production Performance and Nitrogen and Phosphorus Mass Balance in Biofloc-based African Catfish Intensive Culture at Different Densities by Sumitro, Tatag Budiardi, Hilmi Fauzi, Julie Ekasari

“…African catfish with an average body weight of 2.64 ± 0.06 g was randomly distributed into 12 units of round tank with a working volume of 2 m3 of water and maintained for 8 weeks. …”
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Effects of nonspecific resistance in barley genotypes obtained by cell selection by O. N. Shupletsova, S. Yu. Ogorodnikova, Ya. I. Nazarova

“…The productive traits of plants, the symptoms of oxidative stress, and the environment-forming activity of the root system were evaluated.In regenerated plants obtained in callus culture on selective in vitro media with aluminum or water deficiency, an increased ability of the root system to alkalize the medium in the rhizosphere zone (by 0.2–0.5 pH units) when grown on alumina soil was revealed. Against stressful soil backgrounds, regenerative lines induced on in vitro media with cadmium or aluminum were observed to have a low manifestation of oxidative stress symptoms, tested by the intensity of lipid peroxidation and the content of photosynthetic pigments in the leaves, which provided these genotypes with higher seed productivity (1.5–3.6 times in the number of grains, and 1.5– 3.0 times in the grain weight per plant) and adaptive advantages compared to the original genotype and regenerants induced on an in vitro medium with water deficiency. …”
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„L’ uomo nuovo” nei testi di Virginie Despentes e Sandro Veronesi by Magdalena Lange-Henszke

“…In the second half of the 19th century, the revolutionary concept of individual freedom is transformed into a collective vision, the vision of a dominant race composed of "ordinary" people united by a common experience. The issue of subjectivity regains fundamental importance for humanistic thought in the second half of the 20th century, among others, thanks to the reflections proposed by feminist theory. …”
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Dietary carotenoid intakes and biological aging among US adults, NHANES 1999–2018 by Xiang Qi, Xuanyang Wang, Licheng Cheng, Yue Li, Keke Dang, Shuo Yang, Yina Wang, Runyi Zhou, Can Zhang, Ying Li

“…Results Associations between dietary carotenoid intake levels and biological aging indices were significant among adults across the United States. Multiple linear regression showed that most carotenoids were significantly negatively correlated with AL (β = -0.017 - -0.011), HD (β = -0.045 - -0.032), KDM (β = -0.984 - -0.471), and PA (β = -0.975 - -0.539). …”
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Occupational health in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): A systematic review and call for comprehensive policy development. by Muhammad A Masood, Raghad Khaled, Ahmad Bin-Ismail, Lucy Semerjian, Khaled Abass

“…<h4>Results</h4>From 2202 articles screened, 202 were included, with publications distributed as follows: Saudi Arabia (121), United Arab Emirates (26), Kuwait (20), Oman (15), Qatar (13), and Bahrain (7). …”
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Implications of irrigation water quality in tropical farms by B. Guerra Tamara, A. Torregroza-Espinosa, D. Pinto Osorio, M. Moreno Pallares, A. Corrales Paternina, A. Echeverría González

“…The results obtained were compared with the international standards proposed by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization. …”
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Microbial Predominance and Antimicrobial Resistance in a Tertiary Hospital in Northwest China: A Six-Year Retrospective Study of Outpatients and Patients Visiting the Emergency Dep... by Caifeng Wang, Wen Li, Juanjuan Gao, Dancheng Zhang, Yali Li, Fang Li, Jine Lei

“…In a total of 19,028 specimens submitted for microbial tests during the period from 49 units of the hospital, only the samples from the Emergency Department and Kidney Transplantation Clinic showed an annually significant increase (P<0.001). …”
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