Molecular study of the status of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in rats in Haiti by Fedna Jimmy, Borne Romain, Rieffel Dominique, Bornette Gudrun, Henrys Jean-Hugues, Grenouillet Frédéric, Raoul Francis

“…The molecular approach on lung tissue targeting the ITS2 gene enabled us to detect a prevalence 4 times higher than the visual search for adult worms alone. …”
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Impact of the Timing of Enzyme Replacement Therapy Initiation and Cognitive Impairment Status on Outcomes for Patients with Mucopolysaccharidosis II (MPS II) in the United States:... by Karen S. Yee, David Alexanderian, Yidie Feng, Xiaowei Ren, Bernd Schweikert, Olulade Ayodele

“…**Methods:** A retrospective medical chart review of 140 male patients who received a diagnosis of MPS II between 1997 and 2017 was performed at 19 US sites; data on disease manifestations and HRU stratified by age at ERT initiation or CI status were analyzed for the full study population and a subgroup of patients who received a diagnosis of MPS II before the age of 6 years. …”
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The Russian Brassicaceae collection – from N.I. Vavilov and E.N. Sinskaya till nowadays by A. M. Artemyeva, A. G. Dubovskaya, N. G. Kon’kova

“…The objective laws of variability of valuable biochemical  traits are presented; a comparative analysis of nutritive and biologically active substances, primarily secondary metabolites, allowed us to determine specific biochemical  compounds: those common for the related  species Brassica oleracea and B. rapa but occurring in them at different frequencies and those unique for species, subspecies and separate cultivar types; this is the beginning of taxonomic studies. …”
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Association between the triglyceride glucose body mass index and asthma: evidence from NHANES 2011–2018 by Sijia Yu, Shiping Wu, Shouxin Wei

“…This study aimed to investigate the relationship between TyG-BMI and asthma in U.S. adults. Method This cross-sectional study utilized data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database for the 2011–2018 cycles. …”
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Whole exome sequencing enables the correct diagnosis of Frank–Ter Haar syndrome in a Saudi family by Y. N. Khan, M. Imad A.M. Mahmud, N. Othman, H. M. Radzuan, S. Basit

“…Revisiting the family members for detailed clinical analysis, we diagnosed the patients as having the typical phenotype of FTHS. This study enabled us to correctly diagnose the cases of FTHS in a family initially recruited for having bilateral clubfoot by using WES. …”
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Impact of hydroxyurea on clinical and biological parameters of sickle cell anemia in children in Abidjan by MIREILLE YAYO- AYE, Adia Eusèbe Adjambri, Boidy Kouakou, Rebecca N'guessan-Blao, Louis Missa Adjé, Taïratou Kamagaté, Vincent Yapo, Duni Sawadogo

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Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) From Coastal Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands: Species Descriptions and DNA Barcodes by Carl L. Thurman, John C. McNamara, Hsi‐Te Shih, Mariana V. Capparelli

“…Preserved collecting records for various species were examined at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. …”
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Effectiveness, Safety, and Costs of Thromboprophylaxis with Enoxaparin or Unfractionated Heparin Among Medical Inpatients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or Heart Failur... by Alpesh N. Amin, Alex Kartashov, Wilson Ngai, Kevin Steele, Ning Rosenthal

“…Hospital costs were adjusted to 2017 US dollars. Patients were followed 90 days postdischarge (readmission period). …”
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists’ Experience on Relevance of Sleep and Sleep Disorders in Training and Clinical Practice: A Survey Study from Italy by Chiara Baglioni, Andrea Galbiati, Debora Meneo, Greta Cavadini, Francesca Gelfo, Francesco Mancini, Carlo Buonanno

“…Background/Objectives: Based on previous data reporting the status of health professionals’ training about sleep clinical psychophysiology, insomnia, and its treatment in the US and Canada, this paper aims at providing a snapshot of the Italian situation, considering health professionals qualified to offer cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). …”
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Evaluation of various RNA-seq approaches for identification of gene outrons in the flatworm Opisthorchis felineus by N. I. Ershov, D. E. Maslov, N. P. Bondar

“…Two of them were developed by us for targeted sequencing of already processed branched outrons. …”
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Cool Mix Asphalt—Redefining Warm Mix Asphalt with Implementations in Korea, Italy and Vietnam by Hosin (David) Lee, Lan Ngoc Nguyen, Elena Sturlini, Young-ik Kim

“…Currently, as production of WMA reaches close to that of Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) in the US, the varied definition of WMA is questioned in this paper. …”
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Revisiting the anatomy of inferior extensor retinaculum of foot and ankle, a study based on fifty embalmed adult cadaveric lower extremities by M. Praveen Shenoy, Mangala M. Pai, B.V. Murlimanju, Rajanigandha Vadgaonkar, Latha V. Prabhu, M.D. Prameela

“…The anatomy of ankle and foot IER is not much investigated and this prompted us to conceptualize this study to investigate the morphology and morphological variants of IER. …”
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Assessment of the Vanillin Anti-Inflammatory and Regenerative Potentials in Inflamed Primary Human Gingival Fibroblast by Erica Costantini, Bruna Sinjari, Katia Falasca, Marcella Reale, Sergio Caputi, Srinivas Jagarlapodii, Giovanna Murmura

“…Moreover, Vanillin determines the increased gene expression of nAChRα7, leading us to hypothesize a role of Vanillin in the activation of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway. …”
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Association of nutrients intake during pregnancy with the risk of allergic disease in offspring: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies by Hua Feng, Yan Chen, Xiujuan Xiong, Qunying Xu, Zhongwei Zhang, Qinghua Xi, Yongning Wu, Yuanan Lu

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Eye Tracking in Neuropsychological Research of Visual Gnosis Features in Children with Hearing Impairment by Y.K. Smirnova, Ju.E. Grigorova, L.N. Gordeeva

“…Analysis of eye movement strategies recorded by the eye tracker during neuropsychological tests allowed us to identify a number of features of visual information processing in children with hearing impairment: chaotic search, changes in the recognition sequence, decreased noticeability (“recognizability”) of images or decreased interest (duration of fixations and viewing), weakness of the holistic strategy and synthesis, fragmentation of perception. …”
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Specific Antibody Production by Blood B Cells is Retained in Late Stage Drug-naïve HIV-infected Africans by Lydie Béniguel, Evelyne Bégaud, Fabrice Cognasse, Philippe Gabrié, Christophe D. Mbolidi, Mary A. Marovich, Céline Cazorla, Frédéric Lucht, Christian Genin, Olivier Garraud

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Role and Effective Therapeutic Target of Gut Microbiota in Heart Failure by Qiujin Jia, Hao Li, Huan Zhou, Xiaonan Zhang, Ao Zhang, Yingyu Xie, Yanyang Li, Shichao Lv, Junping Zhang

“…Therefore, understanding the role of gut microbiota in the occurrence and development of heart failure will help us further understand the pathogenesis of heart failure and provide new ideas for its treatment. …”
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Harnessing distributed GPU computing for generalizable graph convolutional networks in power grid reliability assessments by Somayajulu L.N. Dhulipala, Nicholas Casaprima, Audrey Olivier, Bjorn C. Vaagensmith, Timothy R. McJunkin, Ryan C. Hruska

“…For pre-training the GCN ARMA model across a variety of topologies, distributed graphics processing unit (GPU) computing afforded us significant training scalability. The predictive performance of this model on grid topologies that were part of the training data is substantially better than the direct current (DC) approximation. …”
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Prioritization of genes associated with the pathogenesis of leukosis in cattle by N. S. Yudin, N. L. Podkolodnyy, T. A. Agarkova, E. V. Ignatieva

“…Prioritization of 446 candidate genes allowed us to identify 5 genes of interest (TNF, LTB, BOLA-DQA1, BOLA-DRB3, ATF2), which can affect the sensitivity/resistance of cattle to leukemia.…”
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FGFR antagonists restore defective mandibular bone repair in a mouse model of osteochondrodysplasia by Anne Morice, Amélie de La Seiglière, Alexia Kany, Roman H. Khonsari, Morad Bensidhoum, Maria-Emilia Puig-Lombardi, Laurence Legeai Mallet

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