GAIT VELOCITY AND STEP LENGTH MAY DISCRIMINATE ACTIVE FROM SEDENTARY ELDERLY WOMEN by Bruno de Souza Moreira, Renata Noce Kirkwood, Andréa de Jesus Lopes, Rosângela Corrêa Dias, Rosana Ferreira Sampaio

“…Gait is an important functional activity that elderly individuals used to stay active and be ableto perform their daily living tasks. The purpose of this study was to determine what gait parameterscould discriminate a group of community-dwelling elderly women regularly enrolledin a physical exercise program compared to a paired sedentary group. …”
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Comparative Analyses of Antiviral Potencies of Second-Generation Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors (INSTIs) and the Developmental Compound 4d Against a Panel of Integrase Quadru... by Steven J. Smith, Xue Zhi Zhao, Stephen H. Hughes, Terrence R. Burke

“…Second-generation integrase strand transfer inhibitors (INSTIs) are strongly recommended for people living with HIV-1 (PLWH). The emergence of resistance to second-generation INSTIs has been infrequent and has not yet been a major issue in high-income countries. …”
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The Outcomes of Total Hip Replacement in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Comparison of the Elective and Hip Fracture Groups by Pavel Šponer, Tomáš Kučera, Michal Grinac, Aleš Bezrouk, Daniel Waciakowski

“…Whereas more than 1/3 of hip fracture patients and all elective patients walked independently at 36 months after total hip arthroplasty, 43% of living patients from both groups were able to walk independently at the time of the latest follow-up. …”
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Burden and trends of dietary iron deficiency in the Middle East and North Africa region, 1990–2021 by Saeid Safiri, Saeid Safiri, Fatemeh Amiri, Nahid Karamzad, Nahid Karamzad, Mark J. M. Sullman, Mark J. M. Sullman, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Morteza Abdollahi

“…ObjectiveTo assess the burden of dietary iron deficiency in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focusing on prevalence and years lived with disability (YLD) in 2021 and their changes since 1990.MethodsData from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 study were utilised to report counts and age-standardised rates for prevalence and YLD related to dietary iron deficiency. …”
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SSR-based evaluation of genetic diversity in populations of Agriophyllum squarrosum L. and Agriophyllum minus Fisch. & Mey. collected in South-East Kazakhstan by Y. Genievskaya, D. Karelova, S. Abugalieva, P. Zhao, G. Chen, Y. Turuspekov

“…The development of informative polymorphic DNA markers for poorly studied genera is an important step in population analyses of living organisms, including those that play very important ecological roles in harsh environments, such as desert and semi-desert area. …”
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Expression of cell-wall related genes is highly variable and correlates with sepal morphology by Hartasánchez, Diego A., Kiss, Annamaria, Battu, Virginie, Soraru, Charline, Delgado-Vaquera, Abigail, Massinon, Florian, Brasó-Vives, Marina, Mollier, Corentin, Martin-Magniette, Marie-Laure, Boudaoud, Arezki, Monéger, Françoise

“…Control of organ morphology is a fundamental feature of living organisms. There is, however, observable variation in organ size and shape within a given genotype. …”
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Changes Related to Age in Natural and Acquired Systemic Self-IgG Responses in Malaria by Romuald Dassé, Didier Lefranc, Sylvain Dubucquoi, Patricia Dussart, Virginie Dutoit-Lefevre, Boualem Sendid, François Sombo Mambo, Patrick Vermersch, Lionel Prin

“…To investigate the involvement of regulatory process related to self-reactivity, we evaluated potent changes in auto-antibody reactivity profiles in children and older subjects living in malaria-endemic zones comparatively to none-exposed healthy controls. …”
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Detection of ultrafast electron energization by whistler-mode chorus waves in the magnetosphere of Earth by S. Kurita, Y. Miyoshi, S. Saito, S. Kasahara, Y. Katoh, S. Matsuda, S. Yokota, Y. Kasahara, A. Matsuoka, T. Hori, K. Keika, M. Teramoto, I. Shinohara

“…This technique exposes short-lived flux increases significantly larger than those observable with the standard time resolution. …”
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Environmental Estimation of Radiation Equivalent Dose Rates in Soils and Waters of Northern Calabria (Italy) by Ilaria Guagliardi, Tommaso Caloiero, Ernesto Infusino, Giovanni Callegari, Nicola Ricca

“…Finally, the estimation of the health risk was calculated: results did not evidence serious dangers for people living in the studied environment. The results from this survey for the HT evaluation provide an extensive assessment of the background exposure levels in the investigated area.…”
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The Acute and Residual Effect of a Single Exercise Session on Meal Glucose Tolerance in Sedentary Young Adults by Kevin R. Short, Lauren V. Pratt, April M. Teague

“…Thus, a single moderate intensity exercise session can acutely improve glycemic control but the effect is modest and short-lived.…”
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Biofertilizing Effect of Soil Cyanobacterium <i>Anabaena cylindrica</i>–Based Formulations on Wheat Growth, Physiology, and Soil Fertility by Zineb Hakkoum, Farah Minaoui, Amer Chabili, Mountasser Douma, Khadija Mouhri, Mohammed Loudiki

“…Among the different treatments, soil inoculation with crude culture (living cells) and growth medium filtrate at 50% were the most efficient. …”
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Non-operative treatment in advanced atraumatic osteonecrosis of the humeral head in patients under 50 years old: an observational study by Joon-Ryul Lim, Woo-Sung Do, Hsien-Hao Chang, Tae-Hwan Yoon, Yong-Min Chun

“…Treatment failure was defined as conversion to surgical treatment owing to difficulty performing activities of daily living with resting pain (Visual Analog Scale [VAS] ≥ 6) after 6 months of staged treatment. …”
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Comparison of Sn-5Sb and Sn-10Sb Alloys in Tensile and Fatigue Properties Using Miniature Size Specimens by Tatsuya Kobayashi, Kyosuke Kobayashi, Kohei Mitsui, Ikuo Shohji

“…The low cycle fatigue lives of Sn-5Sb and Sn-10Sb alloys obey the Manson–Coffin equation, and the fatigue ductility exponent, α, was 0.54 for Sn-5Sb and 0.46 for Sn-10Sb in the temperature range from 25°C to 150°C. …”
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An Intelligent Gesture Classification Model for Domestic Wheelchair Navigation with Gesture Variance Compensation by H. M. Ravindu T. Bandara, K. S. Priyanayana, A. G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara, D. P. Chandima, R. A. R. C. Gopura

“…It is important to uplift their living standards by improving the confidence towards daily activities. …”
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The Maritime Cultural Ecology of the Biak People: A Historical Study of the Sowek Region, Supiori Regency, Papua by Endang Susilowati, Haryono Rinardi, Albert Rumbekwan, Ismail Ali, Rabith Jihan Amaruli

“…The Biak people in Sowek Village, who identify as the Sowek people, have lived in the Aruri Archipelago of Supiori Island for centuries. …”
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Assessment of School Readiness in Chronic Cholestatic Liver Disease: A Pilot Study Examining Children with and without Liver Transplantation by Anna Gold, Alaine Rogers, Elizabeth Cruchley, Stephanie Rankin, Arpita Parmar, Binita M. Kamath, Yaron Avitzur, Vicky Lee Ng

“…LT recipients had significantly greater visual based difficulties, poorer caregiver rated daily living skills (p=0.04), and higher levels of executive function based difficulties (e.g., inattention, inhibition). …”
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Bird Utilisation of Vertical Space in Urban Environments by Annalise J. Re, Andrew M. Rogers, Hugh P. Possingham, Salit Kark

“…Urban areas, modified for higher density living, are characterised by buildings, airborne vehicles, and other uses of the airspace. …”
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GPS Trajectory-Based Spatio-Temporal Variations of Traffic Accessibility under Public Health Emergency Consideration by Luqi Dong, Ying Lv, Huijun Sun, Danyue Zhi, Tingting Chen

“…Medical services are essential to public concerns and living qualities. Facing new public health events, the spatio-temporal variation of healthcare accessibility can be different, which is ignored in the previous accessibility studies. …”
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Identity and feminine life in the novel "A Secret in the Alleys" by mitra farara, najmeh nazari, Esmaeel Balali, galavizh alizadeh

“…In this novel, along with narrating the three generations of women's lives, the author deals with female identity and its related topics, such as identity crisis, recovery and revision of female identity, and Iranian women's transition from traditional identity to modern identity. …”
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Synchronization-based graph spatio-temporal attention network for seizure prediction by Jie Xiang, Yanan Li, Xubin Wu, Yanqing Dong, Xin Wen, Yan Niu

“…So, designing accurate and reliable prediction methods can provide early warning for patients, which is crucial for improving their lives. In recent years, a large number of studies have been conducted using deep learning models on epileptic open electroencephalogram (EEG) datasets with good results, but due to individual differences there are still some subjects whose seizure features cannot be accurately captured and are more difficult to differentiate, with poor prediction results. …”
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