Cumulative Incidence of Revision for a Balanced Knee System at a Mean 8-Year Follow-Up: A Retrospective Review of 500 Consecutive Total Knee Arthroplasties by Michael H. Bourne, Tony L. Miller, E. Marc Mariani

“…In this IRB approved retrospective cohort study, data were extracted from a surgical registry at a high-volume orthopaedic practice for the first 500 total knee arthroplasty (TKA) cases performed using the Balanced Knee® System (BKS, Ortho Development®, Draper, Utah, USA). Procedures were performed between June 2000 and September 2003 by one of two orthopaedic surgeons. …”
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Race to the Moon or the Bottom? Applications, Performance, and Ethical Considerations of Artificial Intelligence in Prosthodontics and Implant Dentistry by Amal Alfaraj, Toshiki Nagai, Hawra AlQallaf, Wei-Shao Lin

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Mapping mad maps and recovery tools developed by mental health service users and survivors of psychiatry: a scoping review by Hernán María Sampietro, Viviana R Carmona, J Emilio Rojo, J Gómez-Benito

“…Two approaches were used to display the data: descriptive analysis and thematic analysis.Results Six tools and 35 studies were identified, most of them originating in the USA and UK. Thematic analysis identified six goals of the tools: improving wellness, navigating crisis, promoting recovery, promoting empowerment, facilitating mutual support and coping with oppression. …”
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Effects of benzotriazoles UV-328, UV-329, and UV-P on the self-renewal and adipo-osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells by Yue Zhang, Hui Zhao, Qianxi Feng, Rui Guo, Li Zhong, Shengxian Liang

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A Safe Framework for Quantitative In Vivo Human Evaluation of Image Guidance by Piper C. Cannon, James M. Ferguson, E. Bryn Pitt, Jason A. Shrand, Shaan A. Setia, Naren Nimmagadda, Eric J. Barth, Nicholas L. Kavoussi, Robert L. Galloway, S. Duke Herrell, Robert J. Webster

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Election Prediction on Twitter: A Systematic Mapping Study by Asif Khan, Huaping Zhang, Nada Boudjellal, Arshad Ahmad, Jianyun Shang, Lin Dai, Bashir Hayat

“…Elections of 28 countries were analyzed, mainly USA (28%) and Indian (25%) elections. Furthermore, the results revealed that 50% of the primary studies used English tweets. …”
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Lifetime risks of kidney donation: a medical decision analysis by Bryce A Kiberd, Karthik K Tennankore

“…Objective This study estimated the potential loss of life and the lifetime cumulative risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) from live kidney donation.Design Markov medical decision analysis.Setting USA.Participants 40-year-old live kidney donors of both sexes and black/white race.Intervention Live donor nephrectomy.Main outcome and measures Potential remaining life years lost, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) lost and added lifetime cumulative risk of ESRD from donation.Results Overall 0.532–0.884 remaining life years were lost from donating a kidney. …”
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Efficacy of Odontoid Screws in Acute Type II Odontoid Fractures by Mohamed AR AbdelFatah *, Abdelrahman El Gayar, Omar El Farouk Ahmed, Sameh Hefny

“…The statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS software version 21 (IBM Corp., Armonk, New York, USA). Results: Our study included 22 cases, 19 males (86.3%). …”
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Sexual Absorption of Vaginal Progesterone: A Randomized Control Trial by Kathryn S. Merriam, Kristina A. Leake, Mollie Elliot, Michelle L. Matthews, Rebecca S. Usadi, Bradley S. Hurst

“…Prospective, randomized, cross over, controlled study of 20 reproductive-aged women and their male sexual partners randomized to receive vaginal progesterone gel (Crinone 8% gel, Actavis Inc., USA) or placebo cream. Serum progesterone for both male and female partners were measured 10 hours after intercourse. …”
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Potential of Cover Crop Use and Termination with a Roller-Crimper in a Strip-Till Silage Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.) Production System in the Central Valley of California by Robert Willmott, Jennifer Valdez-Herrera, Jeffrey P. Mitchell, Anil Shrestha

“…A two-year (2020/21 and 2021/22) study was conducted in Fresno, CA, USA. Five cover crop treatments (rye (<i>Secale cereale</i> L.) alone, ultra-high diversity mix, multiplex cover crop mix, fava bean (<i>Vicia faba</i> L.) + phacelia (<i>Phacelia tanacetifolia</i> Benth.), and rye + field pea (<i>Pisum sativum</i> L.) + purple vetch (<i>Vicia americana</i> Muhl. …”
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Corrigendum to “p85α Inactivates MMP-2 and Suppresses Bladder Cancer Invasion by Inhibiting MMP-14 Transcription and TIMP-2 Degradation” [Neoplasia (2019) 21, 908–920] by Jingjing Wang, Ning Zhang, Minggang Peng, Xiaohui Hua, Chao Huang, Zhongxian Tian, Qipeng Xie, Junlan Zhu, Jingxia Li, Haishan Huang, Chuanshu Huang

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Temporally and Spatially Controlled Age-Related Prostate Cancer Model in Mice by Sen Liu, Keyi Shen, Zixuan Li, Seleste Rivero, Qiuyang Zhang

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Design of Silicide-Strengthened Nb–Si–Cr–(Mo) alloys for additive manufacturing by Alice Perrin, Patxi Fernandez-Zelaia, Chris Ledford, Yan-Ru Lin, Ellen Berry, Ryan Dehoff, Michael Kirka, Ying Yang

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Benefits of realist evaluation for rapidly changing health service delivery by Paula Kersten, Margaret Cupples, Rachel Thomas, Fiona Cramp, Nicola E Walsh, Justin Jagosh, Hannah Stott, Serena Halls, Cathy Liddiard, Dave Foster

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Molecular detection of Escherichia coli from ovine aborted fetuses in Mosul city, Iraq by Aamer Y. Al-Chalaby, Omer K. Alhankawe, Balsam Y. Rasheed

“…Genetic relatedness shows that the local isolates were closer to Escherichia coli strain W170 and Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain K1516 from China and USA, respectively. According to these results, a small percentage of pregnant ewes with Escherichia coli infection might have an abortion. …”
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The Impact of Cancel Culture on Politics and International Relations by L. V. Deriglazova, A. M. Pogorelskaya

“…Comparison of cancel culture cases in the USA, United Kingdom and Russia allows to conclude that the scale and effectiveness of collective actions depend on national context, different systems of norms and values and cultural practices to react on violation of values and norms.In politics and international relations cancel culture manifests as an addition to actions of formal political institutions, and it aims to undermine authority and reputation of a politician. …”
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Kinetic Gait Changes after Robotic Exoskeleton Training in Adolescents and Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury by Kiran K. Karunakaran, Naphtaly Ehrenberg, JenFu Cheng, Katherine Bentley, Karen J. Nolan

“…The bilateral loading (linearity of loading and rate of loading), speed, step length, swing time, stance time, and total time were collected using Zeno™ walkway (ProtoKinetics, Havertown, PA, USA) before and after RE training. Results. Results from the study showed improved step length, speed, and an overall progression towards healthy bilateral loading, with linearity of loading showing a significant therapeutic effect (p<0.05). …”
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Dying to be famous: retrospective cohort study of rock and pop star mortality and its association with adverse childhood experiences by Mark A Bellis, Karen Hughes, Olivia Sharples, Tom Hennell, Katherine A Hardcastle

“…Cox survival and logistic regression techniques examine risk and protective factors for survival and links between adverse childhood experiences and cause of death, respectively.Setting North America and Europe.Participants 1489 rock and pop stars reaching fame between 1956 and 2006.Outcomes Stars’ postfame mortality relative to age-, sex- and ethnicity-matched populations (USA and UK); variations in survival with performer type, and in cause of mortality with exposure to adverse childhood experiences.Results Rock/pop star mortality increases relative to the general population with time since fame. …”
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البیلوبیجیا الأنثروبودیرمیکیة أو تجلید الکتب باستخدام جلود البشر : دراسة تاریخیة

“…Despite theallegations surrounding binding of books with human skins generally, and someof them correctly proved, but others have not yet proved, just like a copy of the“Holy Quran” with the skin of an Arab sheikh named Bashir bin Salem al-Harthythat had been found in the Cleveland Public Library, U.S.A. However, there are alot of books all over the world that had been covered with human skin in differentsubjects and languages directions. …”
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Leveraging mRNA technology for antigen based immuno-oncology therapies by Wei Zheng, Michele Ceccarelli, Charalampos S Floudas, Siranush Sarkizova

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