Global Longitudinal Strain May Be the One that Appropriately Identifies Candidates of ICD Implantation by Mohammad Hossein Nikoo, Mohammad Zarrabi, Alireza Moaref, Iman Razeghian-Jahromi

“…To substantiate, the odds of VT were raised by 43% with a single increase in GLS unit. GLS showed the highest accuracy for ICD indication among HCM patients and, therefore, could be a solid and early criterion to predict the incidence of life-threatening arrhythmias. …”
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Bibliometrics of NIHR HTA monographs and their related journal articles by Norman Waugh, Pamela Royle

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Study of the neuronal response to olfactory stimuli in control and LPS-stimulated mice by functional magnetic resonance imaging by A. E. Akulov, A. V. Romashchenko, O. B. Shevelev, D. V. Petrovski, A. A. Savelov, M. P. Moshkin

“…Odor stimulation was done with a lab-made metering unit for supplying standard doses of volatile organic compounds. …”
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Physicochemical, structural characterization, and antioxidant activities of chondroitin sulfate from Oreochromis niloticus bones by Jun Yang, Mingyue Shen, Ting Wu, Xianxiang Chen, Huiliang Wen, Jianhua Xie

“…CS-6 was the predominant disaccharide unit in four OCS, and the CS-4/CS-6 ratios were close to CS from shark cartilage. …”
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Cost Analysis of Noninvasive Helmet Ventilation Compared with Use of Noninvasive Face Mask in ARDS by Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, Louis-Philippe Gagnon, Raphaëlle Robidoux, Kednapa Thavorn, Dipayan Chaudhuri, Daniel Kobewka, John P. Kress

“…Intensive care unit (ICU) costs have doubled since 2000, totalling 108 billion dollars per year. …”
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Exploring Developmental Care in Neonatal Jaundice Management: A Case Report with Supporting Literature Synthesis by Esther Aduramo, Deborah T. Esan, Emmanuel Adesuyi, Opeoluwa Olabode, Elizabeth Awoniyi, Blessed Oyama, Oluwadamilare Akingbade

“…Case Presentation: This case report presents “Baby M,” a preterm female neonate born at 32+5 weeks gestation due to maternal complications, including anemia and pregnancy-induced hypertension, who was admitted to a neonatal unit with prematurity, ventriculomegaly and bilateral talipes. …”
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Chinese Mathematical Knowledge Entity Recognition Based on Linguistically Motivated Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers by Wei Song, He Zheng, Shuaiqi Ma, Mingze Zhang, Wei Guo, Keqing Ning

“…In order to improve the accuracy of mathematical knowledge entity recognition and provide effective support for subsequent functionalities, this paper adopts the latest pre-trained language model, LERT, combined with a Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU), Iterated Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks (IDCNNs), and Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), to construct the LERT-BiGRU-IDCNN-CRF model. …”
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Extensive Sclerosing Mesenteritis of the Rectosigmoid Colon Associated with Erosive Colitis by C. Nobili, L. Degrate, R. Caprotti, C. Franciosi, B. E. Leone, F. Romano, M. Dinelli, Fr. Uggeri

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First Report of the HEV Seroprevalence and the Risk Factor Assessment in the West Bank, Palestine, during the Period of 2015–2017 by Kamal Dumaidi, Alaa M. Abudamous, Rasmi Abu-Helu, Hanan Al-Jawabreh, Yazan Dumaidi, Amer Al-Jawabreh

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Current Practice and Barriers to an Early Antimicrobial Conversion from Intravenous to Oral among Hospitalized Patients at Jimma University Specialized Hospital: Prospective Observ... by Alemseged Beyene Berha, Gizat Molla Kassie

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The coordination complex formed by oxalic acid and chromate and the mechanism for enhanced photoreduction of Cr(Ⅵ) under visible-light irradiation by GUAN Yingying, WANG Hao, GE Xiaoming, DENG Likai, DENG Bin, MU Yi*, ZOU Jianping*

“…The in situ generated HC2CrO7 complex was a visible-light-active species, and visible light could induce electron transfer from the oxalate unit to the Cr(Ⅵ) within the HC2CrO7 complex via a HOMO-LUMO electronic transition, resulting in Cr(Ⅵ) reduction. …”
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Evaluation of CMIP5 Global Climate Models over the Volta Basin: Precipitation by Jacob Agyekum, Thompson Annor, Benjamin Lamptey, Emmannuel Quansah, Richard Yao Kuma Agyeman

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Clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients treated as invasive pulmonary aspergillosis outside of severe immunosuppression by Furui Liu, Wenling Chen, Honglei Qi, Yonghong Yang, Ying Yang, Zhaojun Wang, Jinyuan Zhu

“…Multivariate Cox regression analysis identified glucocorticoid use (odds ratio [OR] = 30.223, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.676–341.306), intensive care unit admission (OR = 0.133, 95% CI: 0.023–0.758), and the arterial oxygen partial pressure/fractional inspired oxygen ratio (OR = 0.994, 95% CI: 0.990–0.999) as significant predictors of 28-day mortality. …”
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Evaluation of Early Prognostic Factors of Mortality in Patients with Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Study by Wenzheng Zhang, Jiang Hu, Bihui Yao, Xvsheng Yang, Lei Song, Ting Yin, Lu Liang

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Energy Use and Demand Prediction Using Time-Series Deep Learning Forecasting Techniques: Application for a University Campus by Bivin Pradeep, Parag Kulkarni, Farman Ullah, Abderrahmane Lakas

“…., analysis of energy consumption and demand forecasting using deep learning-based time series techniques such as Long short-term memory (LSTM), Bi-directional Long short-term memory (BiLSTM), Gated recurrent unit (GRU), and Bidirectional Gated recurrent units (BiGRU). …”
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Comparing Outcomes between Major Trauma Patients Transferred from a Different Hospital and Patients Transported Directly to Trauma Centers: A Retrospective Analysis with Propensity... by Cheng-Hsi Yeh, Sheng-En Chou, Wei-Ti Su, Ching-Hua Tsai, Chun-Ying Huang, Shiun-Yuan Hsu, Ching-Hua Hsieh

“…However, the patients in the transfer group had a longer hospital stay (16.8 days vs. 14.3 days, respectively, p<0.001) and higher incidence of intensive care unit (ICU) admission (74.9% vs. 70.5%, respectively, p<0.001) than those patients in the direct group. …”
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Deforestation and predator species richness as potential environmental drivers for roadkill of wild water deer in South Korea by Obaidul Islam, Ryota Matsuyama, Kyung-Duk Min

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Optimizing a Rodent Model of Parkinson's Disease for Exploring the Effects and Mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation by Karl Nowak, Eilhard Mix, Jan Gimsa, Ulf Strauss, Kiran Kumar Sriperumbudur, Reiner Benecke, Ulrike Gimsa

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Cutaneous Mucormycosis Co-infection in a Patient with COVID-19 by Raham Rahgoshai, Peter Goldberg, Rayhaneh Rahgoshai, Shadi Zain

“…During their course in the intensive care unit (ICU), they developed a right thigh haematoma, thought to be related to the previous insertion of a femoral arterial pressure monitoring catheter. …”
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Online Structural Health Monitoring and Parameter Estimation for Vibrating Active Cantilever Beams Using Low-Priced Microcontrollers by Gergely Takács, Ján Vachálek, Boris Rohal’-Ilkiv

“…The algorithm is implemented using automatically generated and deployed machine code on an electronics prototyping platform, featuring an economically feasible 8-bit microcontroller unit (MCU). The validation experiments demonstrate the viability of the proposed system to detect sudden or gradual mechanical changes in real-time, while the functionality on low-cost miniaturized hardware suggests a strong potential for mass-production and structural integration. …”
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