Life history, reproductive, and demographic parameters for bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Sarasota Bay, Florida by Randall S. Wells, Aleta A. Hohn, Michael D. Scott, Jay C. Sweeney, Forrest I. Townsend, Jason B. Allen, Aaron A. Barleycorn, Katherine A. McHugh, Kim Bassos-Hull, Gretchen N. Lovewell, Deborah A. Duffield, Cynthia R. Smith, A. Blair Irvine

“…Studies of the resident community of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) of Sarasota Bay, Florida, have been conducted for more than 50 years. …”
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Evaluation of variation in special educational needs provision and its impact on health and education using administrative records for England: umbrella protocol for a mixed-method... by Stuart Logan, Ruth Gilbert, Tamsin Ford, Johnny Downs, Jugnoo Rahi, Ania Zylbersztejn, Katie Harron, Kate Boddy, Bianca De Stavola, Vincent Nguyen, Isaac Winterburn, Kate Lewis, Lucy Karwatowska, Lorraine Dearden, Sarah Barnes, Jacob Matthews, Matthew Lilliman, Jennifer Saxton, Antony Stone, Kristine Black-Hawkins

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Circulating Th1 and Th2 Subset Accumulation Kinetics in Septic Patients with Distinct Infection Sites: Pulmonary versus Nonpulmonary by Ming Xue, Yuying Tang, Xu Liu, Mingyuan Gu, Jianfeng Xie, Ling Liu, Yingzi Huang, Fengmei Guo, Yi Yang, Haibo Qiu

“…From a secondary analysis of a prospective observational study, seventy-four previously immunocompetent patients with community-acquired severe sepsis within 24 hours upon onset were enrolled. …”
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Prevalence of Myocardial Infarction With Obstructive and Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries in a Middle-Aged Population With Chronic Airflow Limitation: A Cross-Sectional Study by Sundh J, Ekström M, Blomberg A, Lindberg E, Malinovschi A, Olin AC, Sköld CM, Torén K, Wollmer P, Östgren CJ, Jernberg T

“…Josefin Sundh,1 Magnus Ekström,2 Anders Blomberg,3 Eva Lindberg,4 Andrei Malinovschi,5 Anna-Carin Olin,6 C Magnus Sköld,7,8 Kjell Torén,6 Per Wollmer,6 Carl Johan Östgren,9,10 Tomas Jernberg11,12 1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden; 2Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Palliative Medicine, Lund, Sweden; 3Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 4Department of Medical Sciences, Respiratory, Allergy and Sleep Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 5Department of Medical Sciences, Clinical Physiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 6Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; 7Respiratory Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine Solna and Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 8Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; 9Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; 10Centre of Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; 11Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; 12Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence: Josefin Sundh, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, 701 82, Sweden, Tel +46702349517, Email josefin.sundh@regionorebrolan.se; josefin.sundh@oru.sePurpose: Myocardial infarctions (MIs) can occur in underlying obstructive coronary artery disease (MI-CAD) or in non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA). …”
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Evaluation of the WRF-CMAQ Model Performances on Air Quality in China with the Impacts of the Observation Nudging on Meteorology by Jiali Li, Shaocai Yu, Xue Chen, Yibo Zhang, Mengying Li, Zhen Li, Zhe Song, Weiping Liu, Pengfei Li, Min Xie, Jia Xing

“…In this study, the simulations from the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model were conducted with meteorological fields generated by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) using the original and observation nudging approaches to investigate if the better model performances for PM2.5, O3, and their related precursors in China were produced from the latter. …”
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Novel Procedures for Evaluating Autism Online in a Culturally Diverse Population of Children: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Pathway Development Study by Venus Mirzaei, Jeanne Wolstencroft, Georgia Lockwood Estrin, Eleanor Buckley, Shermina Sayani, Panos Katakis, Reena Anand, Tessa Squire, Eleanor Short, Paige Frankson, David Skuse, Michelle Heys

“…The study will take place in a socio-economically deprived, ethnically diverse inner-London Borough within a community-based child health National health service responsible for the Autism assessment of children and young people up to the age of 13 years. …”
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Applying evidence-based cross-disciplinary concepts helps to explain the heterogeneity in pain, function, and biological measures in individuals with knee pain with/at risk of oste... by Angela M. Mickle, Jared J. Tanner, Udell Holmes, III, Ahmed Rashid, Olivier Barolette, Brittany Addison, Nicola Sambuco, Cynthia Garvan, Song Lai, Christoph Seubert, Siegfried Schmidt, Roland Staud, Jeffrey C. Edberg, David Redden, Burel R. Goodin, Catherine C. Price, Roger B. Fillingim, Kimberly T. Sibille

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Time to first antenatal care visit and its predictors among women in Kenya: Weibull gamma shared frailty model (based on the recent 2022 KDHS data) by Bizunesh Fantahun Kase, Beminate Lemma Seifu, Kusse Urmale Mare, Abdu Hailu Shibeshi, Hiwot Altaye Asebe, Kebede Gemeda, Zufan Alamrie Asmare, Yordanos Sisay Asgedom, Bezawit Melak Fente, Afework Alemu Lombebo, Tsion Mulat Tebeje

“…Therefore, this study aimed to assess and provide up-to-date information on time to first antenatal care visit and its predictors among women in Kenya, using data from the most recent 2022 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS). Methods This community-based cross-sectional study analyzed data from 19,530 birth histories in the 2022 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS). …”
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Clinical outcomes among HIV positive babies below 18 months of age, diagnosed under the Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) programme, India: a mixed-methods studyResearch in context by Suchit Kamble, Nilesh Gawde, Shilpa Bembalkar, Noopur Goel, Mohan Thorwat, Kalyani Nikhare, Sushmita Kamble, Radhika Brahme, Swapna Pawar, Harsh Kubavat, Bhawanisingh Kushwaha, Vinita Verma, Chinmoyee Das, Raman Gangakhedkar

“…Demand-side issues such as stigma and discrimination at family, community, and societal levels, desperation about the survival of the child, supply-side factors such as remote access to paediatric ART centres, and lack of paediatric ART medicine formulations were associated with ART treatment. …”
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Early Detection and Intervention of Preschool-Aged Children Using Android-Based Monitoring during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Central Java by Triwiji Lestari, Elisa

“…This study substantially benefits the community, specifically preschool-age children and their parents. …”
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Appearance of green tea compounds in plasma following acute green tea consumption is modulated by the gut microbiome in mice by John D. Sterrett, Kevin D. Quinn, Katrina A. Doenges, Nichole M. Nusbacher, Cassandra L. Levens, Mike L. Armstrong, Richard M. Reisdorph, Harry Smith, Laura M. Saba, Kristine A. Kuhn, Catherine A. Lozupone, Nichole A. Reisdorph

“…In mammals, many of these compounds are metabolized or co-metabolized by the community of microbes in the colon. These microbes may impact the thousands of biologically important compounds we consume; therefore, understanding microbial metabolism of food compounds will be important for understanding how foods impact health. …”
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Impacts of Chemical Initial Conditions in the WRF-CMAQ Model on the Ozone Forecasts in Eastern China by Tangyan Hou, Shaocai Yu, Yaping Jiang, Xue Chen, Yibo Zhang, Mengying Li, Zhen Li, Zhe Song, Pengfei Li, Jianmin Chen, Xiaoye Zhang

“…In this study, we applied the Weather Research and Forecasting/Community Multiscale Air Quality (WRF/CMAQ) model to predict the air quality, and evaluated the influences of different chemical initial conditions on the O3 forecasts with observations in Tai’an and other 13 cities in eastern China in June 2021. …”
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Versatile nitrate-respiring heterotrophs are previously concealed contributors to sulfur cycle by Bo Shao, Yuan-Guo Xie, Long Zhang, Yang Ruan, Bin Liang, Ruochen Zhang, Xijun Xu, Wei Wang, Zhengda Lin, Xuanyuan Pei, Xueting Wang, Lei Zhao, Xu Zhou, Xiaohui Wu, Defeng Xing, Aijie Wang, Duu-Jong Lee, Nanqi Ren, Donald E. Canfield, Brian P. Hedlund, Zheng-Shuang Hua, Chuan Chen

“…Our study provides insights into the ecological role of heterotrophic denitrifiers in microbial communities with implications for sulfur cycling and climate change.…”
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Case report: A severe myositis mimicking bulbar palsy after administration of immune checkpoint inhibitors by Philippe Rochigneux, Philippe Rochigneux, Alexandre Bertucci, Elika Loir, Alexia Mattei, Danielle Robert, Michael Dassa, Brice Chanez, Mikael Ebbo, Lea Gaigne, Anne Sophie Chretien, Giovanni Corazza, Giovanni Corazza, Nicolas Schleinitz

“…Our objective is to document rare complications of ICI to help the community of onco-immunologists.MethodsWe reported the case of a severe myositis mimicking bulbar palsy treated in our Medical Oncology Department together with Internal Medicine Department. …”
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Le temple polygonal de la rue Lecointre à Reims/Durocortorum by Sébastien Péchart, Frédéric Poupon

“…In terms of chronology, the elements uncovered precede all of the community-oriented remains discovered within the Reims urban area, with the exception of those belonging to the necropolis on rue de Sébastopol, which presents similar chronologies to those found on rue Lecointre. …”
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Real-world treatment patterns and clinical characteristics in patients with moderate-to-severe systemic lupus erythematosus: an analysis of the SLE Prospective Observational Cohort... by Raj Tummala, Richard A Furie, Laurent Arnaud, Eric F Morand, Martin Aringer, Stephanie Chen, Barnabas Desta, Alberta Hoi, Bo Ding, Christine Peschken, Jonatan Hedberg, Tina Grünfeld Eén, Alessandro Sorrentino, Danuta Kielar

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Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation in South Africa: a case study of USAID-supported programs by Jerome Wendoh Milimu, Lauren Parmley, Mahlodi Matjeng, Mathata Madibane, Mandisi Mabika, Jacques Livingston, Joseph Lawrence, Orapeleng Motlhaoleng, Hasina Subedar, Rethabile Tsekoa, Zandile Mthembu

“…When systems lacked agility, temporary solutions like the development of interim reporting tools were necessary. (iii) Integrating community-based and facility-based service delivery supported client-centered care. …”
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Investigating the relationship between inflammatory cytokines and adolescent depression: a comparative analysis by Mengqi Liu, Mengqi Liu, Jie Tang, Jie Tang, Gaoyang Xu, Gaoyang Xu, Xu Chen, Xu Chen, Kun Fang, Fan He, Fan He, Yi Zheng, Yi Zheng

“…Previous studies have indicated that adolescents with MDD exhibit immune activation.ObjectiveThis study aimed to compare cytokine levels in adolescents with MDD to healthy controls and assess their diagnostic value.MethodsThis cross-sectional study included 58 adolescent patients with depression from Beijing Anding Hospital (outpatients and inpatients) and 40 healthy adolescents recruited from the community. Multiplex cytokine analysis (Luminex xMAP) was used to measure serum levels of several cytokines. …”
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Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) drug efficacy study landscape: A systematic scoping review of clinical trials and observational studies to assess the feasibility of esta... by Sauman Singh-Phulgenda, Rishikesh Kumar, Prabin Dahal, Abdalla Munir, Sumayyah Rashan, Rutuja Chhajed, Caitlin Naylor, Brittany J Maguire, Niyamat Ali Siddiqui, Eli Harriss, Manju Rahi, Fabiana Alves, Shyam Sundar, Kasia Stepniewska, Ahmed Musa, Philippe J Guerin, Krishna Pandey

“…With the support of relevant stakeholders, the global PKDL community and sufficient financing, a PKDL IPD platform can be realised. …”
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A Comprehensive Analysis of <i>Echinococcus granulosus</i> Infections in Children and Adolescents: Results of a 7-Year Retrospective Study and Literature Review by Cristina Maria Mihai, Ancuta Lupu, Tatiana Chisnoiu, Adriana Luminita Balasa, Ginel Baciu, Vasile Valeriu Lupu, Violeta Popovici, Felicia Suciu, Florin-Daniel Enache, Simona Claudia Cambrea, Ramona Mihaela Stoicescu

“…Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a neglected tropical parasitic disease linked with significant social and economic burdens worldwide. The scientific community has minimal information on echinococcosis in Romanian people, and hospital medical records are the only sources that may be used to investigate its status. …”
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