An Independent Prognostic Model Based on Ten Autophagy-Related Long Noncoding RNAs in Pancreatic Cancer Patients by Jiahui Tian, Chunyan Fu, Xuan Zeng, Xiaoxiao Fan, Yi Wu

“…Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a common, highly lethal cancer with a low survival rate. …”
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The same but different. Multidimensional assessment of depression in students of natural science and music by Michaela Korte, Deniz Cerci, Roman Wehry, Renee Timmers, Victoria J. Williamson

“…Depression is one of the most common and debilitating health problems, however, its heterogeneity makes a diagnosis challenging. …”
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Arthropod bioindicators of environmental quality by Márcia Soares Spiller, Claiton Spiller, Juliana Garlet

“…The groups Acari, Collembola, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Araneae are indicated in several studies as potential bioindicators because they are commonly sampled in different environments. The factors identified as conditioning factors of the presence of these groups are environmental heterogeneity, type of vegetation cover and availability of litter, applied management system, seasonality, soil characteristics, and anthropic activities, among others. …”
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Experimental investigation of the performance and energy consumption efficiency of elliptical gear hydraulic pump and evaluation by Taguchi method by Mithat Yanikören

“…In addition, the elliptical gear pump exhibited a similar behavior tendency under high-loads as in the partia-loaded case.Elliptical gear pump can be said to be a new type of volumetric pump, which is better than the commonly used spur gear pump, especially in terms of output flow and energy consumption performance.…”
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NOBLE METAL MINERALIZATION IN GABBROIDS OF THE KUMBA INTRUSIVE, THE URALIAN PLATINUM BELT (NORTH URALS) by V.V. Mikhailov, S.Yu. Stepanov, S.V. Petrov, R.S. Palamarchuk

“…Noble metal minerals from all sulfide assemblages in heavy concentrates are often accompanied by antimonides (stibnite) and Bi mineralization represented mainly by native bismuth and bismuthinite and less common sulfotellurides (baksanite) and tellurides (tsumoite). …”
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Clostridium difficile in Clinical Practice: Increasing Rates, More Virulent Organisms and New Therapies on the Horizon by Thomas J Louie

“…Recurrence following successful resolution of diarrhea occurs in one in five patients treated with metronidazole or vancomycin; relapse is more common in patients needing retreatment. New therapies that may have equivalent or higher response rates and lower recurrence rates are being investigated. …”
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Effects of Bile Acids and Nisin on the Production of Enterotoxin by Clostridium perfringens in a Nutrient-Rich Medium by Miseon Park, Fatemeh Rafii

“…Clostridium perfringens is the second most common cause of bacterial foodborne illness in the United States, with nearly a million cases each year. …”
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A Very Rare Complication of Hepatitis A Infection: Acute Myocarditis—A Case Report with Literature Review by Olivia Allen, Ahmed Edhi, Adam Hafeez, Alexandra Halalau

“…Hepatitis A is a common viral infection with a benign course but in rare cases can progress to acute liver failure. …”
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New Practical Attacks on GEA-1 Based on a New-Found Weakness by Zheng Wu, Lin Ding, Zhengting Li, Xinhai Wang, Ziyu Guan

“…The experimental results show that GEA-1 can be broken within about 41.75 s on a common PC in the related key setting. These cryptanalytic results show that GEA-1 cannot provide enough security and should be immediately prohibited to be supported in the massive GPRS devices.…”
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Identification of Viral Taxon-Specific Genes (VTSG): Application to by Shinduck Kang, Young-Chang Kim

“…The analysis result is that Caliciviridae has sequences including RNA helicase in common. In case of Norovirus, Calicivirus coat protein C terminal and viral polyprotein N-terminal appears as a specific domain in Caliciviridae. …”
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A Study on Uniqueness of Lip Print Patterns: Sexual Dimorphism, Twins, and Across Three Generations by Qudusia Sultana, Vanessa Fernandes, Ashwini Shetty

“…Results: Among males and females, the most common pattern in the middle 10 mm of the lower lip is Type III (34.66%) and Type IV (32%), respectively. …”
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The Aging GABAergic System and Its Nutritional Support by Demetra J. Mills

“…The calcium theory of aging posits that cellular mechanisms, which maintain the homeostasis of cytosol Ca2+ concentration, play a key role in brain aging and that sustained changes in Ca2+ homeostasis provide the final common pathway for age-associated brain changes. There is a link between hormone loss and calcium dysregulation. …”
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Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum due to Anti-Melanoma Differentiation-Associated Protein 5 Requiring a Bilateral Lung Transplant by Amrit Singh Jhajj, James Hok Shun Yeung, Fergus To

“…Anti-melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (anti-MDA5) is a subset of dermatomyositis associated with respiratory complications, in which rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease (RPILD) is commonly cited, and spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) is a rare complication. …”
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Anti-amoebic effects of selected herbal extracts against Acanthamoeba species isolated from different borehole water samples from Budiriro District in Harare, Zimbabwe by Kudzai Fambisai, Petros Muchesa, Farisai Chidzwondo, Rumbidzai Mangoyi

“…The results show that Acanthamoeba castellannii is the most common Acanthamoeba species in borehole water in Budiriro District in Harare and all the tested plant samples had no anti-amoebic effects against this isolated Acanthamoeba castellannii. …”
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Advancing Insights into Large-Artery Stiffening in Humans Through the Application of Multi-omics by Marie-Joe Dib

“…Aging and various pathologic states impair this cushioning function, a phenomenon known as large-artery stiffening (LAS). LAS is a common risk factor for a plethora of chronic diseases, and an important contributor to the conundrum of vascular morbidity. …”
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Cooperation in the face of crisis: effect of demographic noise in collective-risk social dilemmas by José F. Fontanari

“…In deciding whether to contribute to a public good, people often face a social dilemma known as the tragedy of the commons: either bear the cost of promoting the collective welfare, or free-ride on the efforts of others. …”
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Implication of diabetes mellitus in telomere length and alteration in some age related cell senescence markers of aged men in Kurdistan region-Iraq by Kaniaw Rafat Khafar, Dr. Esmail S Kakey

“…The study design was the setting of a medium private laboratory with participants being common people, which was classified into three groups according to age and health complication, control young, healthy aged, and diabetic aged groups. …”
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Mortality due to traumatic brain injury, medical-legal aspects by Yunier Riverol González, Clarivel Rodríguez García, Yaima González Cabrera, Dayamí Llanes Pulido

“…The accidental medico-legal etiology related to traffic accidents is the most representative. The most common injury is the linear fracture. Moderate head trauma predominated. …”
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Multiple sclerosis diagnosis with brain MRI retrieval: A deep learning approach by R.M. Haggag, Eman M. Ali, M.E. Khalifa, Mohamed Taha

“…Early diagnosis is crucial due to its profound social and economic impacts. MRI is commonly used for monitoring abnormalities. This study proposes a novel Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval (CBMIR) framework using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Transfer Learning (TL) for MS diagnosis using MRI data. …”
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Evaluation of Malnutrition and Quality of Life in Patients Treated for Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer by Shruthi Pingili, Junaid Ahmed, Nanditha Sujir, Nandita Shenoy, Ravikiran Ongole

“…A paired t test was used to assess the differences in weight before and after treatment, and a p value of <0.005 was considered as significant. Results. The most commonly reported symptoms were xerostomia (93.81%), pain (81.44%), and dysphagia (76.3%). …”
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