Historical and projected forest cover changes in the Mount Kenya Ecosystem: Implications for sustainable forest management by Brian Rotich, Abdalrahman Ahmed, Benjamin Kinyili, Harison Kipkulei

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Amiodarone treatment in cats: evaluation of indications, adverse effects, and survival outcomes by Graham C. Rossi, Sonja S. Tjostheim, Heidi B. Kellihan, Rebecca L. Stepien, Michael Liou, Cecilia Marshall, Kathy N. Wright

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Development and validation of a real-time prediction model for acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients by Yuhui Zhang, Damin Xu, Jianwei Gao, Ruiguo Wang, Kun Yan, Hong Liang, Juan Xu, Youlu Zhao, Xizi Zheng, Lingyi Xu, Jinwei Wang, Fude Zhou, Guopeng Zhou, Qingqing Zhou, Zhao Yang, Xiaoli Chen, Yulan Shen, Tianrong Ji, Yunlin Feng, Ping Wang, Jundong Jiao, Li Wang, Jicheng Lv, Li Yang

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Magnitude of urban malaria and its associated risk factors in Damboya town, Kambata zone, Central Ethiopia by Biruk Mulachew, Temesgen Bezuayehu, Solomon Asnake

“…The strength of the association was determined by computing Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) at Malaria is one of the most vital leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries particularly in Sub Saharan Africa (Bugssa and Tedla, 2020). …”
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Mortality and Its Predictors among Adult Human Immune-Deficiency Virus-Infected Patients Attending Their Antiretroviral Treatment at Health Centers, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Multicen... by Selam Tesfayohannes, Sisay Shine, Abinet Mekuria, Sisay Moges

“…A total of 665 samples were collected using a computer-generated simple random sampling method in each of the three health centers that were chosen by a lottery system depending on the number of patients in the follow-up. …”
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Lithological and geochemical characterization of ‘adinole’ artefacts from cave deposits in southwest Wales: A material of choice during the late Middle to Upper Palaeolithic by Richard Bevins, Elizabeth A. Walker, Nick Pearce, Duncan Pirrie, Rob Ixer, Ian Saunders, Matthew Power

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Risperidone versus placebo for aggression following traumatic brain injury: a feasibility randomised controlled trial by Paul Bassett, Tim Weaver, Shoumitro Deb, Mike Crawford, David Sharp, Lina Aimola, Verity Leeson, Mayur Bodani, Lucia Li

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Large Language Model Approach for Zero-Shot Information Extraction and Clustering of Japanese Radiology Reports: Algorithm Development and Validation by Yosuke Yamagishi, Yuta Nakamura, Shouhei Hanaoka, Osamu Abe

“…MethodsThis study employed the MedTxt-RR dataset, comprising 135 Japanese radiology reports from 9 radiologists who interpreted the computed tomography images of 15 lung cancer patients obtained from Radiopaedia. …”
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Influence of diglyme and cumene additives upon emission and combustion behaviour of diverse biodiesel fuelled diesel engine by Swarup Kumar Nayak, Dinesh Babu Munuswamy, Ganesan Subbiah, Mallireddy Naresh, Yuvarajan Devarajan

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Prognostic risk factors of pneumonia associated with COVID-19 in patients with lymphoma by Dan Liu, Xia Yin, Hui Wang, Lijie Xing, Ping Li, Haichen Wei, Ji Ma, Qiang He, Linna Xie, Ke Lu, Zengjun Li

“…Pneumonia was confirmed using computed tomography scans.ResultsIn total, 257 patients were included in this study; 221 patients (86.0%) had COVID-19 infection and 61 (27.6%) of these had pneumonia. …”
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Language models for data extraction and risk of bias assessment in complementary medicine by Honghao Lai, Jiayi Liu, Chunyang Bai, Hui Liu, Bei Pan, Xufei Luo, Liangying Hou, Weilong Zhao, Danni Xia, Jinhui Tian, Yaolong Chen, Lu Zhang, Janne Estill, Jie Liu, Xing Liao, Nannan Shi, Xin Sun, Hongcai Shang, Zhaoxiang Bian, Kehu Yang, Luqi Huang, Long Ge, On behalf of ADVANCED Working Group

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Sunlight exposure practice and its associated factors among infants in Ethiopia, systematic review and meta-analysis. by Fanos Yeshanew Ayele, Natnael Kebede, Asnakew Molla Mekonen, Mengistu Mera Mihiretu, Yawkal Tsega, Elsabeth Addisu, Niguss Cherie, Tesfaye Birhane, Chala Daba, Ahmed Hussien Asfaw, Zinet Abegaz, Abel Endawekie, Anissa Mohammed, Dagnachew Melak, Fekade Demeke Bayou, Husniya Yasin, Aregash Abebayehu Zerga, Fikre Bayu Gebeyehu, Birhanu Wagaye

“…A random effect model was used to compute the pooled prevalence, while subgroup analysis was performed to identify the possible source of heterogeneity. …”
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Spectral Analysis of Light-Adapted Electroretinograms in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Classification with Machine Learning by Paul A. Constable, Javier O. Pinzon-Arenas, Luis Roberto Mercado Diaz, Irene O. Lee, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Lynne Loh, Aleksei Zhdanov, Mikhail Kulyabin, Marek Brabec, David H. Skuse, Dorothy A. Thompson, Hugo Posada-Quintero

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Thermal characteristics of hybrid Nanofluid (Cu-Al2O3) flow through Darcy porous medium with chemical effects via numerical successive over relaxation technique by Assmaa Abd-Elmonem, Qammar Rubbab, Hakim AL. Garalleh, Fazeelat Rehman, Muhammad Amjad, Fayza Abdel Aziz ElSeabee, Nesreen Sirelkhtam Elmki Abdalla, Wasim Jamshed, Syed M. Hussain, Hijaz Ahmad

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Association Between Four Non-Insulin-Based Insulin Resistance Indices and the Risk of Post-Stroke Depression by Wang P, Wang M, Xie Z, Zhi Z, Wang Y, Liu F, Liu Y, Zhao L

“…Clinical data were collected to compute indices such as the triglyceride glucose (TyG) index, triglyceride glucose-body mass index (TyG-BMI), insulin resistance metabolic score (METS-IR), and triglyceride/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (TG/HDL-C). …”
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The Factors Hindering the Performance of Tour Operations in the Development of Tourism in Rwanda: A Case Study of Primate Safaris in Kigali, Rwanda. by Alphonse, Ntabana

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Entrepreneurship skills application among ICT Graduates of Muni University, Uganda by Ritah, Nafuna, Nicholas, Nkamwesiga, Phelix, Businge Mbabazi

“…The results show that the graduates are competent in: computer literacy and information technology (ICT applications); creativity, innovation and opportunity identification; life skills (problem solving, time management, decision making, ability to learn and change management); literacy and numeracy among others. …”
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Progress in phase field research of dead lithium in lithium batteries by Jing LIU, Huiyi CHEN, Huiyu LIU, Shu LI

“…This study focuses on analyzing these mechanisms and influencing factors from the perspective of the phase field, which is a powerful computational method to simulate microstructure evolution, providing insights into the complex dynamics of lithium deposition and the conditions and influencing factors for the formation of lithium dendrites and dead Lithium. …”
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Association between the C-reactive protein-triglyceride–glucose index and endometriosis: a cross-sectional study using data from the national health and nutrition examination surve... by Yanan Ren, Ren Xu, Junqin Zhang, Ying Jin, Di Zhang, Yazhuo Wang, Luyang Su

“…Methods This cross-sectional study sourced data from females 20–50 years of age from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1996–2006, and included those with self-reported diagnoses of EM and sufficient information to calculate the CTI, computed as 0.412 × ln (C-reactive protein [CRP]) + ln (triglycerides [mg/dL] × fasting plasma glucose [mg/dL]/2). …”
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Preclinical model for evaluating human TCRs against chimeric syngeneic tumors by Olivier Michielin, Philippe Guillaume, Melita Irving, Patrick Reichenbach, Vincent Zoete, Elise Gray-Gaillard, Evangelos Stefanidis, Aikaterini Semilietof, Julien Pujol, Alessia D'Esposito

“…Here, we have developed a chimeric syngeneic tumor model in which A2Kb transgenic C57BL/6 mice are engrafted with B16 expressing A2Kb:NY as a single chain trimer (SCT) and treated by ACT with murine T cells expressing A2/NY TCRs comprising human variable fused to mouse constant regions.Methods We compared the function of a supraphysiological affinity A2/NY TCR (wtc51m), a computationally designed TCR in an optimal affinity range (DMβ), and a near non-binding TCR (V49I), engineered in both primary human and murine T cells by lentiviral and retroviral transduction, respectively. …”
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