Preoperative vs Postoperative Patient Outcome and Recovery Expectations of Total Joint Arthroplasty by Siddhartha Dandamudi, BBA, Kyleen Jan, MD, Madelyn Malvitz, BS, Anne DeBenedetti, MSc, Omar Behery, MD, MPH, Brett R. Levine, MD, MS

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Leveraging airborne imaging spectroscopy and multispectral satellite imagery to map glacial sediment plumes in Kachemak Bay, Alaska by L. Hartl, C. Schmitt, M. Stuefer, J. Jenckes, B. Page, C. Crawford, G. Schmidt, R. Yang, R. Hock

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Respiratory dysfunction in whiplash associated disorders (WAD) with cervical plexus syndrome – A case report by NA Nystrom, SR Daulat, A Zakaria, M Petersen, VM Moodley, LP. Champagne

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Does abortion increase women's risk for post-traumatic stress? Findings from a prospective longitudinal cohort study by M Antonia Biggs, Charles E McCulloch, Brenly Rowland, Diana G Foster

“…Objective To prospectively assess women's risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and of experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) over 4 years after seeking an abortion, and to assess whether symptoms are attributed to the pregnancy, abortion or birth, or other events in women's lives.Design Prospective longitudinal cohort study which followed women from approximately 1 week after receiving or being denied an abortion (baseline), then every 6 months for 4 years (9 interview waves).Setting 30 abortion facilities located throughout the USA.Participants Among 956 women presenting for abortion care, some of whom received an abortion and some of whom were denied due to advanced gestational age; 863 women are included in the longitudinal analyses.Main outcome measures PTSS and PTSD risk were measured using the Primary Care PTSD Screen (PC-PTSD). …”
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Unpacking complex interventions that manage care for high-need, high-cost patients: a realist review by Eva Chang, Rania Ali, Nancy D Berkman

“…Objective Payers, providers and policymakers in the USA are interested in developing interventions that reduce preventable or modifiable healthcare use among high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients. …”
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What is the NCD service capacity and disruptions due to COVID-19? Results from the WHO non-communicable disease country capacity survey in the Americas region by Anselm Hennis, Silvana Luciani, Roberta Caixeta, Carolina Chavez, Dolores Ondarsuhu

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Quantification of Escherichia coli Transfer from Plastic Mulch to Field-grown Tomatoes and Bell Peppers by Autumn R. Burnett, Faith Critzer, Timothy Coolong

“…The objective of this study was to obtain bacterial transfer rates from a nonpathogenic Escherichia coli GFP inoculated on plastic mulch (black and white) to fruit (tomatoes and peppers) that contact the ground by being dropped (at heights of 30, 60, or 120 cm) or by drooping (contact times of 1 h or 24 h) in the field during the summer season in Georgia, USA. Plastic mulch was surface inoculated with E. coli (106 CFU/64 cm2), and after drying, populations were reduced by >2–3 log CFU/64 cm2. …”
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Research Note: Additivity of P digestibility values previously determined using 4 dietary Ca levels for plant-based feedstuffs in broiler grower diets by B.W. Parsons, S.J. Rochell

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Capivasertib enhances chimeric antigen receptor T cell activity in preclinical models of B cell lymphoma by Hui-Ju Hsieh, Ryan Urak, Mary C. Clark, Larry W. Kwak, Stephen J. Forman, Xiuli Wang

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Gastric Precancerous Lesions: From Progenitor Cell and Microsatellite Instability to Clinical Interpretation of Gastric Cancer Risk by A. V. Kononov, V. A. Rubtsov, M. N. Parygina, A. G. Shimanskaya, S. I. Mozgovoi, E. G. Pomorgailo, M. V. Markelova, Yu. A. Fedotova

“…The obtained data were processed with the Statistica 10.0 (StatSoft, USA), presented using descriptive, analytical statistics. …”
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The Arizona Molecular ISM Survey with the SMT: Variations in the CO(2–1)/CO(1–0) Line Ratio across the Galaxy Population by Ryan P. Keenan, Daniel P. Marrone, Garrett K. Keating

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Association of Calcium and Phosphate Levels with Incident Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Hypoparathyroidism: A Retrospective Case-Control Study by Elvira O. Gosmanova, Olulade Ayodele, Kristina Chen, Erin E. Cook, Fan Mu, Joshua A. Young, Lars Rejnmark

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X-Ray/Radio Quasiperiodic Pulsations Associated with Plasmoids in Solar Flare Current Sheets by Pankaj Kumar, Judith T. Karpen, Joel T. Dahlin

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Studying germplasm collection accessions of naked oats by N. V. Krotova, G. A. Batalova

“…The following accessions were selected as the best according to a set of characters (yield, plant height, number of grains per panicle, panicle weight, protein and fat content in grain): early ‘Litovsij nagij’ (k-15234, Lithuania), ‘Gkzalon’ (k-15299, Mongolia) and ‘MF9224-164’ (k-15090, USA); medium k-15248 (local, Poland) and MF9521-281 (k-15095, USA); and mid-late ‘Bai Yan 2’ (k-15525, China), ‘Progress’ (k-15339, Russia), ‘Visit’ (k-15501, Ukraine) and ‘Mina’ (k-15192, Bulgaria).…”
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Impact of antiplatelet therapy on hemostatic plug formation in the setting of thrombocytopenia by Robert H. Lee, Abigail Ballard-Kordeliski, Summer R. Jones, Wolfgang Bergmeier

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Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption Events around Intermediate-mass Black Holes by Janet N. Y. Chang, Lixin Dai, Hugo Pfister, Rudrani Kar Chowdhury, Priyamvada Natarajan

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Low-budget equipment facilitating skid coefficient extraction for traffic accident analysis by Vinicius Lima, Umit Karabiyik, Felipe Kennedy, Igor Mello, Jorge Farias, Manoel Martins

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Extreme Heating of Minor Ions in Imbalanced Solar-wind Turbulence by Michael F. Zhang, Matthew W. Kunz, Jonathan Squire, Kristopher G. Klein

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Cacao floral traits are shaped by the interaction of flower position with genotype by Seunghyun Lim, Insuck Baek, Seok Min Hong, Yoonjung Lee, Silvas Kirubakaran, Moon S. Kim, Lyndel W. Meinhardt, Sunchung Park, Ezekiel Ahn

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TB prevention activities in the WHO European Region by A. Matteelli, Z. Mkrtchyan, T. Masini, A. Hovhannesyan, G. Kuchukhidze, S. Ahmedov, P. Kerndt, L. Rossi, A. Yedilbayev, D. Falzon, A. Dadu

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