Controls on coastal saline groundwater across North America by Daniel V Kretschmer, Holly A Michael, Nils Moosdorf, Gualbert H P Oude Essink, Marc F P Bierkens, Thorsten Wagener, Robert Reinecke

“…About 32 million people in the coastal USA rely on groundwater as their primary water source. …”
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Care coordination across healthcare systems: development of a research agenda, implications for practice, and recommendations for policy based on a modified Delphi panel by Aneesa Motala, Susanne Hempel, Michelle Wong, Maria Bolshakova, Ning Fu, David Ganz, Sonali Saluja, Timothy Kim, Carolyn Turvey, Kristina Cordasco, Aashna Basu, Tonya Page, Reshma Mahmood, Jenny Barnard, Isomi M Miake-Lye

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Global Observations of Geomagnetically Induced Currents Caused by an Extremely Intense Density Pulse During a Coronal Mass Ejection by Terry Z. Liu, Xueling Shi, Michael D. Hartinger, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Craig J. Rodger, Ari Viljanen, Yi Qi, Chen Shi, Hannah Parry, Ian Mann, Darcy Cordell, Hadi Madanian, Daniel H. Mac Manus, Michael Dalzell, Ryan Cui, Ryan MacMullin, Greg Young‐Morris, Christian Noel, Jeffrey Streifling

“…Additionally, the GIC measurements in the USA and other mid‐latitude locations exhibited wave‐like fluctuations with 1–2 min period. …”
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Peering into the Black Box: Forward Modeling of the Uncertainty Budget of High-resolution Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres by Arjun B. Savel, Megan Bedell, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Peter C. B. Smith, Jacob L. Bean, Lily L. Zhao, Kaze W. K. Wong, Jorge A. Sanchez, Michael R. Line

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Development of a horizontal transmission model to assess the effects of exposure to pathogenic E. cecorum during the hatching phase in broiler chickens by James Higuita, Marcela Arango, Aaron Forga, Mitch Rowland, Jundi Liu, Ross Wolfenden, Danielle Graham

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Evidence mapping and overview of systematic reviews of the effects of acupuncture therapies by Yuqing Zhang, Gordon Guyatt, Lin Wang, Hao Wen, Liming Lu, Gabriel Rada, Lai Wang, Shuqi Ge, Yu Dong, Camila Ávila, Xiaorong Tang, Neng-Gui Xu, Zhao Zeng, Camilo Vergara, Rouhao Chen, Xiaojing Wei, Wen Luo, Jing chun Zeng, Chun-Zhi Tang

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Rehabilitation using virtual gaming for Hospital and hOMe-Based training for the Upper limb post Stroke (RHOMBUS II): protocol of a feasibility randomised controlled trial by Cherry Kilbride, Tom Butcher, Meriel Norris, Nana Anokye, Alyson Warland, Karen Baker, Dimitrios A Athanasiou, Guillem Singla-Buxarrais, Jennifer Ryan, Francesca Gowing, Carole Pound, Victoria Stewart, Basaam Aweid, Arul Samiyappan

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Erratum to ‘Cost differences between autologous and nonautologous cranioplasty implants: A propensity score–matched value driven outcomes analysis’ [World Neurosurgery: X (22C) (20... by Matthew Findlay, Sawyer Z. Bauer, Diwas Gautam, Matthew Holdaway, Robert B. Kim, Walid K. Salah, Spencer Twitchell, Sarah T. Menacho, Gurpreet S. Gandhoke, Ramesh Grandhi

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Large-scale evidence generation and evaluation across a network of databases for type 2 diabetes mellitus (LEGEND-T2DM): a protocol for a series of multinational, real-world compar... by Rohan Khera, Yuan Lu, Harlan M Krumholz, Martijn J Schuemie, Ruijun Chen, George Hripcsak, Marc A Suchard, Patrick B Ryan, Anna Ostropolets

“…LEGEND-T2DM will leverage the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community that provides access to a global network of administrative claims and electronic health record data sources, representing 190 million patients in the USA and about 50 million internationally. LEGEND-T2DM will identify all adult, patients with T2DM who newly initiate a traditionally second-line T2DM agent. …”
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Quantification of regional net CO₂ flux errors in the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) v10 model intercomparison project (MIP) ensemble using airborne measurements by J. Yun, J. Liu, J. Liu, B. Byrne, B. Weir, B. Weir, L. E. Ott, K. McKain, B. C. Baier, L. V. Gatti, S. C. Biraud

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Dietary fiber source and stage of gestation impact water balance, fecal physicochemical properties, serum electrolytes, and markers of gut motility in sows by Thomas A. Crome, Kyle D. Vahlenkamp, Rachel M. Self, Mark A. Giesemann, Amy L. Petry

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Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of Linear and Cyclic Peptides Containing Arginine, Tryptophan, and Diphenylalanine by David Salehi, Eman H. M. Mohammed, Naiera M. Helmy, Keykavous Parang

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Quality of life among residents of informal urban settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic in Salvador, Brazil by Albert I Ko, Federico Costa, Hammed Mogaji, Nivison Nery, Hernan D Argibay, Jaqueline S Cruz, Ianei O Carneiro, Ricardo Lustosa, Mike Begon, Hussein Khalil

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Delirium Management Quality Improvement Project to Improve Awareness and Screening in a Medical ICU by Hirsh Makhija, Kyle Digrande, Omar Awan, Russell G. Buhr, Rajan Saggar, Victoria Ramirez, Rainbow Tarumoto, Janelle M. Fine, Atul Malhotra, Dale M. Needham, Jennifer L. Martin, Biren B. Kamdar

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Efficacy and Safety Outcomes of Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implant Therapy for the Treatment of Adult Coats’ Disease by Qingshan Chen, Saying Liang, Xizhen Wang, Chenli Hu, Jieting She, Zi Li

“…A consecutive case series of adult Coats’ disease managed with or without intravitreal dexamethasone implant (Ozurdex®, Allergan Inc., Irvine, California, USA) injection was retrospectively evaluated. The medical records of all included patients with a minimum follow-up of 6 months were reviewed. …”
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Whole-genome sequencing and metagenomics reveal diversity and prevalence of Listeria spp. from soil in the Nantahala National Forest by Jia Wang, Claire N. Schamp, Lauren K. Hudson, Harleen K. Chaggar, Daniel W. Bryan, Katie N. Garman, Mark Radosevich, Thomas G. Denes

“…This study evaluated soil samples from four locations across altitudes ranging from 1,500 to 4,500 ft in the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina, USA. Forty-two Listeria isolates were cultured and sequenced, and 12 metagenomes of soil bacterial communities were generated. …”
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A first study on sperm sexing in water buffalo through magnetic nanoparticles by Syed Murtaza Hassan Andrabi, Muhammad Hammad Fayyaz, Muhammad Shafiq Haider, Ghulam Muhammad Ali

“…The MNPs were negatively charged and (provided by Clemente Associates Inc, Prescott, Arizona, USA) had a diameter of 50 nanometers. The interaction between the negative charge of MNPs and the Z electrical potential of spermatozoa was different for those spermatozoa carrying an X chromosome (-20 mV) and those carrying a Y chromosome (-16 mV). …”
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Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection in the Czech Republic by Roman Chlibek, Jan Smetana, Kateřina Kybicová, Martina Malikova, Frederick J. Angulo, Alexandra Loew-Baselli, Ye Tan, Aleš Ondřejíček, Gordon Brestrich, Andreas Pilz, Jennifer C. Moïsi, James H. Stark

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A New Risk Prediction Model for the Assessment of Myocardial Injury in Elderly Patients Undergoing Non-Elective Surgery by Vedat Cicek, Mert Babaoglu, Faysal Saylik, Samet Yavuz, Ahmet Furkan Mazlum, Mahmut Salih Genc, Hatice Altinisik, Mustafa Oguz, Berke Cenktug Korucu, Mert Ilker Hayiroglu, Tufan Cinar, Ulas Bagci

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Fluid balance and clinical outcomes in patients with aortic dissection: a retrospective case-control study based on ICU databases by Tao Chen, Peng Qiu, Yixuan Li, Xinwu Lu, Zhaoyu Wu, Zhijue Xu, Hongji Pu, Jiahao Lei, Zhuojing Zhang, Xinrui Yang, Ruihua Wang

“…This paper explores the role of fluid management in the clinical care of AD patients, which has been unclear despite the substantial existing research that has been conducted on the treatment of AD.Design A retrospective case-control study using data for AD patients from public databases.Setting Two public intensive care unit (ICU) databases with hospital courses from the USA, Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-IV critical care dataset and the eICU Collaborative Research Database, with data from 2008 to 2019.Participants A total of 751 adult AD patients with detailed fluid management records from two databases were included.Interventions The mean 24-hour intake and output were calculated by dividing the total amount of intake and output by the number of days in the ICU, respectively. …”
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