Clinical Features of Human Parvovirus B19-Associated Encephalitis Identified in the Dakar Region, Senegal, and Viral Genome Characterization by Al Ousseynou Seye, Fatou Kiné Top, Maimouna Mbanne, Moussa Moise Diagne, Ousmane Faye, Amadou Alpha Sall, Ndongo Dia, Jean-Michel Heraud, Martin Faye

“…Acute encephalitis and encephalopathy are the most common, accounting for 38.8% of all neurological manifestations associated with human B19V. …”
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Combining Individual‐Based Radio‐Tracking With Whole‐Genome Sequencing Data Reveals Candidate for Genetic Basis of Partial Migration in a Songbird by Matthias H. Weissensteiner, Kira Delmore, Valentina Peona, Juan Sebastian Lugo Ramos, Gregoire Arnaud, Julio Blas, Bruno Faivre, Ivan Pokrovsky, Martin Wikelski, Jesko Partecke, Miriam Liedvogel

“…Here we investigated the genomic architecture of partial migration in the common blackbird, a songbird that comprises resident populations in the southern distribution range, partial migratory populations in central Europe, and exclusively migratory populations in northern and eastern Europe. …”
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Design and application of an endotracheal tube fixation belt (一种气管插管固定寸带的设计与应用) by WEI An (魏安), SUN Xiumei (孙秀梅), YUAN Guowei (袁国伟), JI Ya (纪亚)

“…Unplanned tracheal extubation is one of the common and serious complications in patients with mechanical ventilation, and improper catheter fixation is an independent risk factor leading to unplanned extubation. …”
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Validation of Parkinson’s Disease-Related Questionnaires in South Africa by Gill Nelson, Ntombizodwa Ndlovu, Nicola Christofides, Tintswalo M. Hlungwani, Irene Faust, Brad A. Racette

“…The objective of the study was to validate two commonly used PD questionnaires in an African population. …”
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Pattern of Bacterial Pathogens and Their Susceptibility Isolated from Surgical Site Infections at Selected Referral Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Walelign Dessie, Gebru Mulugeta, Surafael Fentaw, Amete Mihret, Mulu Hassen, Engida Abebe

“…E. coli (24 (23.1%)) was the most common organism isolated followed by multidrug resistant Acinetobacter species (23 (22.1%)). …”
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Reflecting on partnerships established and sustained over four cycles of a federally funded cancer prevention and control research program: lessons learned for community-academic n... by Swann Arp Adams, Swann Arp Adams, Lauren Workman, Lauren Workman, Mayank Sakhuja, Brooks Yelton, Karen E. Wickersham, Ciaran Fairman, Jan Eberth, Sue Heiney, James R. Hebert, James R. Hebert, Jaron H. King, Freda Allyson Hucek, Lauren Schaurer, Daniela B. Friedman

“…As community-based participatory research is a core value of our center, we examined the development and continued engagement of our community partners using a qualitative, inductive approach to identify emergent themes from focus group sessions with current and past investigators.ResultsSeveral key themes were identified from our analysis including long-term commitment to community partnerships and interconnectedness with other work, authentic approach, valuing our community as experts, and mutual benefits.DiscussionWith our results, we provide evidence of common community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles which have supported the sustained engagement with those racial minorities who are most vulnerable in our community. …”
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Perioperative infections as a prognostic risk factor in hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocellular carcinoma: a comparative analysis by Markus S. Jördens, Hannah C. Oswald, Lisa Heinrichs, Nathalie Gassmann, Linda Wittig, Tom Luedde, Sven H. Loosen, Christoph Roderburg, Wolfram T. Knoefel, Georg Fluegen

“…Abstract Background Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocellular adenocarcinoma (CCA) are the most common primary liver tumors representing a major global health burden. …”
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Thromboelastography in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Yonghua Shen, Liangliang Shi, Juanjuan Zhang, Hao Zhu, Yuling Yao, Zhenqing Liu, Xiaoping Zou, Xiaoqi Zhang

“…Thrombophilic defects are common in Chinese patients with IBD, and TEG can be considered a new direction to anticoagulant thromboprophylaxis in IBD.…”
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Ultrasound-Assisted versus Endoscopic Nasojejunal Tube Placement for Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Feasibility Study by Gang Li, Jiajia Lin, Yang Liu, Qi Yang, Zhihui Tong, Lu Ke, Weiqin Li

“…In this study, we aimed to evaluate the impact of two common techniques on EN implementation and clinical outcomes in a group of AP patients. …”
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LMF-Net: A Learnable Multimodal Fusion Network for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Data by Jihao Li, Wenkai Zhang, Weihang Zhang, Ruixue Zhou, Chongyang Li, Boyuan Tong, Xian Sun, Kun Fu

“…However, the majority of current approaches commonly focus more on feature mixing and construct relatively complex architectures. …”
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Advances and applications on non-Hermitian topological photonics by Yan Qiuchen, Zhao Boheng, Zhou Rong, Ma Rui, Lyu Qinghong, Chu Saisai, Hu Xiaoyong, Gong Qihuang

“…Active and dissipate materials are common in photonic systems; therefore, by using light pump and dissipation of photonic systems, it is expected to promote further development of topological photonics in device applications. …”
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Research progress on the intervention of mobile health Apps in the health management of cancer patients (移动健康APP在癌症患者健康管理干预中的研究进展) by WANG Tian (王田), LI Juan (李娟), MEI Yafan (梅亚凡)

“…Cancers are of different nature and types, involving different tissues and organs, and are the most common cause of death in humans, seriously affecting the quality of life of patients. …”
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Patient preferences for facility-based management of hypertension and diabetes in rural Uganda: a discrete choice experiment by Robert Kalyesubula, Isaac Ssinabulya, Rachel Nugent, Christine Ngaruiya, Nicola L Hawley, Dallas Wood, Baylah Tessier-Sherman, Deron Galusha, Mari Armstrong-Hough, Sarah EG Moor, Andrew K Tusubira, Ann R Akiteng, Evelyn Hsieh Donroe, Tracy L Rabin, Brenda D Nakirya, Christine Nalwadda, Jeremy I Schwartz

“…Objective To explore how respondents with common chronic conditions—hypertension (HTN) and diabetes mellitus (DM)—make healthcare-seeking decisions.Setting Three health facilities in Nakaseke District, Uganda.Design Discrete choice experiment (DCE).Participants 496 adults with HTN and/or DM.Main outcome measures Willingness to pay for changes in DCE attributes: getting to the facility, interactions with healthcare providers, availability of medicines for condition, patient peer-support groups; and education at the facility.Results Respondents were willing to pay more to attend facilities that offer peer-support groups, friendly healthcare providers with low staff turnover and greater availabilities of medicines. …”
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The Coexistence of Colorectal Polyps in the Right Colon Increases the Malignant Risk of Laterally Spreading Tumors by Xiaonan Shen, Yao Zhang, Yunjia Zhao, Xiaobo Li, Zhizheng Ge, Hua Xiong, Danfeng Sun, Qinyan Gao, Yun Cui, Xiaoyu Chen, Yingxuan Chen, Jingyuan Fang

“…The coexistence of colorectal polyps with laterally spreading tumors (LSTs) is commonly observed during colonoscopy. However, there are rare studies that assess the malignant risks for LSTs with colorectal polyps, which might largely contribute to further strategies of treatment and follow-up plans in LSTs. …”
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Intraocular Foreign Bodies: Clinical Characteristics and Prognostic Factors Influencing Visual Outcome and Globe Survival in 373 Eyes by Yang Liu, Shuang Wang, Ying Li, Qiaoyun Gong, Guanfang Su, Jinsong Zhao

“…The majority of patients (97.0%) were men, with a mean age of 38.1 years. The most common cause of ocular injury was hammering (52.6%); magnetic IOFBs occurred in 84.7% of these cases. …”
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Mosquito‐derived ingested DNA as a tool for monitoring terrestrial vertebrates within a peri‐urban environment by Christine Chivas, Adam Stow, Andrew Harford, Thomas J. Mooney, David Loewensteiner, Kate Montgomery, Anthony Chariton

“…However, these approaches are time‐consuming and skewed toward the detection of large and/or common species. Invertebrate ingested DNA (iDNA) is being increasingly used as a novel approach for indirectly monitoring terrestrial vertebrates via their DNA in invertebrates with hematophagous, coprophagous, or saprophagous feeding strategies. …”
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Dynamic Splitting Behavior and the Constitutive Relationship of Frozen Sandstone Containing a Single Fissure by Tao Zhao, Gengshe Yang, Lei Wang, Hailiang Jia, Yuzhe Qiao

“…Among the failure modes of frozen fractured rocks, tensile failure is very common. In this study, the dynamic tensile strength of fractured sandstone samples with four crack inclination angles (0°, 30°, 60°, and 90°) is tested by using a split Hopkinson pressure bar at four subzero temperatures (−5, −10, −15, and −20°C). …”
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Plasticity of thermal tolerance and associated gill transcriptome in ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) by Peter Almaiz Palma, Michaël Bekaert, Alejandro P. Gutierrez, Elfred John C. Abacan, Herve Migaud, Mónica B. Betancor

“…Thermal condition has profound influence on physiology and behaviour of ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta), a cleaner fish commonly deployed in salmon cages to control sea lice infection. …”
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Oral dydrogesterone versus oral micronized progesterone in threatened miscarriage: protocol paper for a randomized controlled trial by Alka Kriplani, Gouri Shankar Kamilya, T Ramani Devi, Ashima Taneja, Amol Pawar, Gayathri Karthik Nagesh, Tapan Pattanaik, Tanusree Gupta, Mahima Jain, Monjori Mitra

“…Threatened miscarriage is a common complication of early pregnancy characterized by symptoms of vaginal bleeding with/without abdominal cramps/pain in the first trimester. …”
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Defining polypharmacy in the elderly: a systematic review protocol by Seyede Salehe Mortazavi, Mohsen Shati, Seyed Kazem Malakouti, Abasali Keshtkar, Mohsen Bazargan, Shervin Assari

“…Today, polypharmacy, a common and important problem related to drug use, occurs subsequent to this multimorbidity in the elderly in all populations. …”
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