Sport innovation structure landscape in Switzerland and abroad by Christelle Ganné-Chedeville, Solange Emmenegger, Hippolyt Kempf, Cornel Gübeli

“…Results The institutes at the universities are able to benefit from units that support them to design research and innovation towards the market. …”
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The Financial Implications of Pancreatic Surgery: The Hospital Is the Big Winner, Not the Surgeon! by Nitzan Zohar, MD, Avinoam Nevler, MD, Sean P. Maher, Matthew C. Rosenthal, Florence Williams, Wilbur B. Bowne, MD, FACS, Charles J. Yeo, MD, FACS, Harish Lavu, MD, FACS

“…This imbalance necessitates a substantial financial partnership between hospitals and their pancreatic surgery units to ensure the long-term viability of these programs.…”
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Productive performance in Italian Mediterranean buffaloes after partially replacing dietary starch with simple sugars by Roberta Matera, Gabriele di Vuolo, Giuseppina Pedota, Luca de Luise, Mariateresa Marra, Luca Borzacchiello, Ludovica Capoluongo, Gianluca Neglia

“…Two diets with the same dry matter (DM) content (16.5 kg) and nutritional characteristics on a DM basis (crude protein: 14.9%; NDF: 38.5%; Ash: 6.3%; NSC: 34.5%; energy density: 0.93 Milk Forage Units) were prepared. In the T diet, 1.7 kg of molasses was inserted, replacing corn meal and maize silage; thus, starch content was 19.8% and 17.2% in Diet C and T, respectively. …”
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Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology based on ancestral RBD antigens does not correlate with the presence of neutralizing antibodies against Omicron variants by Léa Dépéry, Isabelle Bally, Axelle Amen, Benjamin Némoz, Marlyse Buisson, Laurence Grossi, Aurélie Truffot, Raphaële Germi, Delphine Guilligay, Mélanie Veloso, Antoine Vilotitch, Olivier Epaulard, Patrice Morand, Winfried Weissenhorn, Pascal Poignard, Julien Lupo

“…In 15% of patients with no neutralizing antibodies against XBB.1, the VIDAS assay still yielded binding antibody levels ranging from 74 to 7,652 binding antibody units/mL. Using an adjusted threshold based on receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, the specificity of neutralizing antibody detection increased from 0.15 (95% CI 0.02–0.45) and 0.17 (0.04–0.41) to 0.92 (0.64–1.00) and 0.83 (0.59–0.96) against BQ.1.1 and XBB.1, respectively. …”
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Determining the Factors and Evolutionary Trends of Customer Engagement in Businesses: A Bibliometric Analysis by Reza Abbasi Mobarakabadi, Amir khanlari, Nader Seyyedamiri

“…The majority of publications are attributed to the United States, Australia, and China. The most frequently occurring words related to customer engagement are customer satisfaction, behavior, impact, and scale development metrics. …”
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Intracranial pressure monitoring in patients with spontaneous onset of orthostatic headache by Linda D’Antona, Sanjay Cheema, Dwij Mehta, Fion Bremner, Laurence Dale Watkins, Ahmed Kassem Toma, Manjit Singh Matharu

“…Meeting presentations Portions of this work were presented in abstract and oral presentation form at the Twenty-eighth Anglo-Dutch Migraine Association meeting (08/06/2018), the Tenth Meeting of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders (20/10/2018; Bologna, Italy), the Society of British Neurological Surgeons 2018 Autumn Meeting (19/09/2018; London, United Kingdom), and the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies 2023 congress (27/09/2023; Barcelona, Spain). …”
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Cardiovascular disease attenuates the protective effect of folate on global cognitive function in an elderly population: a cross-sectional study by Jianqiang Zhang, Di Yue, Huifeng Zhang

“…A significant negative correlation exists between RBC folate levels and CoI in the elderly population of the United States, and this association is stronger than that of other folate measures. …”
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Association between four anthropometric indices with age-related Macular Degeneration from NHANES 2005–2008 by Chuyang Xu, Xiaorong Wu

“…This research is to evaluate the relationship between anthropometric measurements and AMD in the United States citizens in a cohort of patients. Methods Our study included a cohort of 3,127 participants, all of whom were selected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted between 2005 and 2008. …”
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Detecting Deception and Ensuring Data Integrity in a Nationwide mHealth Randomized Controlled Trial: Factorial Design Survey Study by Krista M Kezbers, Michael C Robertson, Emily T Hébert, Audrey Montgomery, Michael S Businelle

“…Participants were required to be at least 18 years old, live in the United States, and own an Android smartphone that was compatible with the Insight app that was used in the study. …”
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Collecting Real-World Data via an In-Home Smart Medication Dispenser: Longitudinal Observational Study of Survey Panel Persistency, Response Rates, and Psychometric Properties by Benjamin Ogorek, Thomas Rhoads, Erica Smith

“…ObjectivesOur goal was to evaluate panel persistency, survey response rates, reliability, and validity of surveys administered via spencer to 4138 polychronic patients residing in the United States and Canada. MethodsPatients in a Canadian health care provider’s program were included if they were dispensing via spencer in the June 2021 to February 2024 time frame and consented to have their data used for research. …”
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Estimation and Analysis of Caspian Region\'s Future Rainfalls by Using General Atmospheric Circulation Models. by alimohammad khorshiddoust, behrooz sarraf, bagher ghermez cheshmeh, fatemeh jafarzadeh

“…The availability of technical service, carbon dioxide point resources from oil and gas units are an advantages for microalgae related activities in the Bushehr and Khuzestan provinces. …”
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Intelligent fault diagnosis method for rolling bearings based on flexible residual neural network by Chuang CHEN, Xianfeng LI, Jiantao SHI, Dongdong YUE

“…Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed DSABO–PAM–FResNet model are validated using the rolling bearing fault dataset from Case Western Reserve University in the United States. The ablation experiments reveal that the DSABO model consistently achieves accuracies above 97% across different noise environments. …”
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Agronomic characteristics, mineral nutrient content, antioxidant capacity, biochemical composition, and fatty acid profile of Iranian pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) cultivars by Ali Khadivi, Mohammadali Nikoogoftar-Sedghi, Yazgan Tunç

“…The pistachio cultivars are tolerant to both drought and salinity, which is why they are extensively grown in the arid, saline, and hot regions of the Middle East, Mediterranean countries, and the United States. Results This study evaluated the agronomic and chemical characteristics of 10 pistachio cultivars (‘Abbasiali’, ‘AhmadAghaei’, ‘Akbari’, ‘Chrook’, ‘Fandoghi’, ‘KalehGhoochi’, ‘Momtaz’, ‘Rezaei’, ‘Sefied’, and ‘Shahpasand’). …”
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The Utility of Neutrophil CD64 and Presepsin as Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Monitoring Biomarkers in Neonatal Sepsis by Heba E. Hashem, Rania M. Abdel Halim, Sherin A. El Masry, Amira M. Mokhtar, Noureldin M. Abdelaal

“…To evaluate the diagnostic, prognostic, and monitoring performance of both neutrophil CD64 (nCD64) and presepsin as sepsis biomarkers compared to each other and to the conventional laboratory sepsis parameters aiming to decide which is the best fitting for routine daily use in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Methods. 235 neonates were enrolled from three Egyptian neonatal ICUs, during the period from November 2015 till March 2018; they were classified into two main groups: the control group (n = 102) and the sepsis group (n = 133). …”
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Folic acid alleviates the negative effects of dexamethasone induced stress on production performance in Hyline Brown laying hens by Xi Sun, Chaohui Wang, Sijing Li, Xiaoying Liu, Yun Li, Yumeng Wang, Yuxin Niu, Zhouzheng Ren, Xin Yang, Xiaojun Yang, Yanli Liu

“…Laying hens in the DXM group had lower laying rates and egg quality, including egg weight, eggshell thickness, eggshell strength, albumen height, and Haugh units (P < 0.05). Conversely, FA alleviated these negative impacts. …”
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Synthesizing field plot and airborne remote sensing data to enhance national forest inventory mapping in the boreal forest of Interior Alaska by Pratima Khatri-Chhetri, Hans-Erik Andersen, Bruce Cook, Sean M. Hendryx, Liz van Wagtendonk, Van R. Kane

“…The remote sensing data were collected under variable sky conditions (clear to overcast) throughout a 1-month growing-season period, and field data collected by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis program (FIA). …”
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Early bactericidal activity of sitafloxacin against pulmonary tuberculosis by Lihui Nie, Jing Tong, Guihui Wu, Juan Du, Yuanyuan Shang, Yufeng Wang, Zhangjun Wu, Yuanhong Xu, Yi Ren, Youyi Rao, Yu Pang, Mengqiu Gao

“…Sputum for quantitative culture was collected 2 days before the study of drug administration, followed by 16 hours of overnight sputum collected daily for 7 days of monotherapy. Colony-forming units (CFU) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were counted from the collected overnight sputum on agar plates to calculate the EBA, defined as log10 CFU/mL sputum/day. …”
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Обмеження в реалізації прав людини та основоположних свобод в умовах воєнного стану через призму практики Європейського суду з прав людини... by V. Yavorskyi, L. Letnianchyn

“…Проаналізовано «Case of Chahal v. The United Kingdom», а також національне законодавство на предмет наявності вищезазначеного критерію. …”
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Tr ansatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Consigned to Oblivion or Waiting for a Second Chance? by A. О. Mamedova

“…In April 2019 the Council of the European Union adopted two decisions authorising the opening of negotiations of an agreement with the United States of America on the elimination of tariff s for industrial goods and for an agreement on conformity assessment. …”
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Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of conventional and alternative steel production methods in countries dependent on energy import: A South Korean case study by Juha Lee, Gyuna Kwak, Yujin Jung, Wonjae Choi

“…The analysis employed the GREET program developed by the Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, modified and expanded to reflect the Korean context. …”
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