Investigation of Woody Species Structure and Regeneration Status in the Central Rift Valley, Sidama Regional State, Ethiopia by Assegid Assefa, Tamrat Bekele, Sebsebe Demissew, Tesfaye Abebe

“…Protected areas are the most commonly used tool for in situ conservation of biodiversity. …”
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Jovens e os Stories do Instagram: estudo netnográfico durante a pandemia da Covid-19 by Alan César Belo Angeluci, Brasilina Passarelli, Carolina Gois Falandes, Milena Possar Garcia

“…The use of nicknames was less common on the main profiles (24.1%) compared to the majority of Dix (83.3%). …”
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Human Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy Ameliorates Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Obese Type 2 Diabetic Mice by Bing Li, Yu Cheng, Songyan Yu, Li Zang, Yaqi Yin, Jiejie Liu, Lin Zhang, Yiming Mu

“…Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasingly common among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). …”
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Pair replacement on the spawning success of broodstock Seahorse (Hippocampus barbouri) by . Syafiuddin, M. Zairin Junior, Dedi Jusadi, Odang Carman, Ridwan Affandi

“… Seahorse, (Hippocampus barbouri) is one of marine living resources having high commercial values and has commonly been traded especially as live ornamental aquarium fish, raw material of traditional medicine and as souvenirs. …”
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Antibiotic Resistance and Molecular Epidemiological Characteristics of Streptococcus agalactiae Isolated from Pregnant Women in Guangzhou, South China by Zhaomin Cheng, Pinghua Qu, Peifeng Ke, Xiaohan Yang, Qiang Zhou, Kai Lan, Min He, Nannan Cao, Sheng Qin, Xianzhang Huang

“…Four serotypes were identified, and the most common serotype was serotype III (52.8%), followed by Ib (22.2%), Ia (18.0%), and II (4.2%). …”
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SVM directed machine learning classifier for human action recognition network by Dharmanna Lamani, Pramod Kumar, A Bhagyalakshmi, J. Maria Shanthi, Lakshmana Phaneendra Maguluri, Mohammad Arif, C Dhanamjayulu, Sathish Kumar. K, Baseem Khan

“…In order to evaluate the HARNet-SVM method that was developed, empirical tests were run on commonly used action recognition datasets such as UCF101, HMDB51, and the KTH dataset. …”
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Clinical and Immunological Characteristics of Elderly Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis by LI Zhengfang, WU Chanyuan, MA Mengsi, LI Tingting, WU Xue, MENG Xinyan, ZHANG Sha, WU Lijun

“…Compared with YORA group, EORA group had a higher proportion of male patients(39.3% vs. 22.4%, P=0.012), patients with interstitial lung disease (21.4% vs. 3.1%, P < 0.001), and patients with anemia (10.1% vs. 3.1%, P=0.049).The onset of large joint was more common in the EORA group(53.9% vs. 23.5%, P < 0.001). …”
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Evaluation of the impact of the state of emergency during the COVID-19 pandemic on childhood immunizations in Benguela Province, Angola by Tadatsugu Imamura, Keiji Mochida, Balogun Olukunmi, Lino Tchicondingosse, Pedro Sapalalo, Ketha Rubuz Francisco, Ai Aoki, Akira Ishiguro, Kenji Takehara

“…The immunization rates in the recommended month showed a similar trend, except for the stratified analysis for rural municipalities, where the rates were 2.3–4.1% lower in the post-SoE than in the pre-SoE groups. The most common reason for missing immunization was vaccine unavailability at health units (19.9%, 684/3,440). …”
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Development of normal reference intervals for renal function in pregnancy: a secondary analysis of clinical trial data by Zandile Legoabe, Motshedisi Sebitloane, Carl Lombard, Megeshinee Naidoo, Glenda Gray, Dhayendre Moodley

“…We aimed to establish reference values for commonly used markers of renal function in healthy pregnant women of African origin.Methods Pregnant women ≥18 years, not living with HIV, and at 14–28 weeks gestation were enrolled in a PrEP clinical trial in Durban, South Africa between September 2017 and December 2019. …”
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The Relationship between Homocysteine Levels, MTHFR C677T and A1298C Polymorphism, and Pregnancy Outcomes in Georgian Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Case-Control Study by Elene Asanidze, Zurab R. Tsetskhladze, Jenaro Kristesashvili, Marina Pirtskhalava, Manana Urjumelashvili, Shorena Tchiokadze, Malkhaz Vakhania, Nino Parunashvili, Aleksandre Asanidze

“…These groups were compared based on their serumHcy and the presence of two common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the MTHFR gene: C677T andA1298C.Results: The mean Hcy, frequency of hyperhomocysteinemia (Hhcy) and the prevalence of C677T and A1298Cpolymorphisms in MTHFR gene in PCOS patients were significantly higher than those without PCOS (P<0.05).Group I (PCOS with RPL) showed significantly elevated Hcy (13.7 ± 2.7) compared to group II (10.3 ± 2.6),group III (11.5 ± 2.3), and group IV (7.3 ± 2.2), P<0.001. …”
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Social and Humanitarian Factor in South Korea's External Relations and The Korean Question by O. S. Pugacheva

“…In the second case the social and humanitarian area was and remains a dimension providing promising opportunities for cooperation that is beneficial to the both parties as it is aimed at solving specific and practical problems of common interest. In that sense, the author argues that social and humanitarian factor in inter-Korean relations could serve as a safety cushion during intensification of the inter-Korean conflict and provide a launch pad for finding a way out of the impasses.…”
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Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench crude extract combined with citric acid inactivates Cronobacter sakazakii isolated from powdered infant formula by Peng Fei, Yaping Yu, Chen Liang, Ruxue Fang, Yujun Jiang, Ling Guo

“…The inactivation effect of EE in combination with CA against C. sakazakii on common contact surfaces was used to evaluate its efficacy as a natural disinfectant. …”
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The evolutionary history of Plasmodium falciparum from mitochondrial and apicoplast genomes of China-Myanmar border isolates by Yini Tian, Run Ye, Dongmei Zhang, Yilong Zhang

“…In addition, the highest estimate of the time to the Most Recent Common Ancestor (TMRCA) of 42,400 (95% CI 18,300–82100) years ago was presented by the CMB P. falciparum compared to the other regional populations. …”
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Protocol for the economic evaluation of metacognitive therapy for cardiac rehabilitation participants with symptoms of anxiety and/or depression by Patrick Doherty, David Reeves, Gemma E Shields, Adrian Wells, Lora Capobianco, Anthony Heagerty, Deborah Buck, Linda M Davies

“…Psychological care is a common component of CR as symptoms of depression and/or anxiety are more prevalent in this population, however evidence for the cost-effectiveness of current interventions is limited. …”
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Prevalence of β-lactam antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli isolated from a neonatal intensive care unit by Jian Zhou, Jingqian Zhou, Min Chen, Pan Lü, Chunming Jiang

“…Although β-lactam antibiotics are commonly used for neonatal infectious diseases, E. coli has exhibited resistance to them. …”
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Joint Distribution pada Weighted Majority Vote (WMV) untuk Peningkatan Kinerja Sentiment Analysis Tersupervisi pada Dataset Twitter by Bagus Setya Rintyarna

“…There are two approaches that are commonly used in sentiment analysis techniques, namely the machine learning (ML) based approach and the sentiment lexicon (SL) based approach. …”
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Systematic comparison of quantity and quality of RNA recovered with commercial FFPE tissue extraction kits by Sukoluhle Dube, Sharefa Al-Mannai, Li Liu, Sara Tomei, Satanay Hubrack, Shimaa Sherif, Ayesha Jabeen, Eiman I. Ahmed, Apryl Sanchez, William Mifsud, Davide Bedognetti, Wouter Hendrickx, Christophe M. Raynaud

“…Abstract Background FFPE tissue samples are commonly used in biomedical research and are a valuable source for next-generation sequencing in oncology, however, extracting RNA from these samples can be difficult the quantity and quality achieved can impact the downstream analysis. …”
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Assessing the Feasibility of Drone‐Mediated Vaccine Delivery: An Exploratory Study by Sumit Aggarwal, Prakamya Gupta, Sivaraman Balaji, Saurabh Sharma, Ajoy Kanti Ghosh, Simmy, Balram Bhargava, Samiran Panda

“…ABSTRACT Background and Aims In the past decade, unmanned aerial systems (UASs), commonly known as drones, have found applications not only in military and agriculture but also in the transportation of medical supplies. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Mechanistic and Correlative Models for Global and Bhutan-Specific Suitability of Parthenium Weed and Vulnerability of Agriculture in Bhutan by Sangay Dorji, Stephen Stewart, Asad Shabbir, Ali Bajwa, Ammar Aziz, Steve Adkins

“…Mechanistic and correlative species distribution models are commonly employed to determine the potential habitat suitability of parthenium weed. …”
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Exploring Health Educational Interventions for Children With Congenital Heart Disease: Scoping Review by Neda Barbazi, Ji Youn Shin, Gurumurthy Hiremath, Carlye Anne Lauff

“… BackgroundCongenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect, affecting 40,000 births annually in the United States. …”
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