Heart rate variability is more sensitive to stress than heart rate in specialist police undergoing selection. by Colin Tomes, Ben Schram, Elisa Canetti, Robin Orr

“…As illustrated by a time-series plot, HR values were generally unremarkable, but HRV values were potentially depressed, and tentatively indicated overstress when count data from consecutive short-term analyses were derived. …”
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VARIATION OF GROWTH AND YIELD OF CHILLI WITH DIFFERENT DOSES OF NITROGEN IN LAMJUNG DISTRICT, NEPAL by Sabin Bhattarai, Seema Adhikari, Shrisha Shrestha, Sagar Manandhar

“…Among varying nitrogen quantities, the most pronounced plant height (82.40 cm), branch count (8.38), fruit length (11.41 cm), fruits per plant (116.55), per-plant yield (475.5 gm), and overall yield (31.70 t/ha) were achieved with the application of 120 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare. …”
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DYNAMICS OF HAEMATOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS OF PEKIN DUCK BLOOD DURING ADMINISTRATION OF ORGANIC SELENIUM PREPARATION by Ye. O. Anisimova, V. V. Pronin, L. V. Kletikova, N. N. Yakimenko

“…To assess hematological parameters RBC and WBC count was performed, hemoglobin contents and hematocrit value were determined and color index of blood was calculated. …”
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Gengnianchun Recipe Protects Ovarian Reserve of Rats Treated by 4-Vinylcyclohexene Diepoxide via the AKT Pathway by Fangui Zhao, Wenjun Wang

“…Rat ovaries were harvested either to conduct HE staining for follicle count, immunohistochemistry, or western blot. We found that high dose of GNC significantly increased the ovarian index and sustained the number of primordial follicles and primary follicles in VCD treated rats. …”
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Why PD-L1 expression varies between studies of lung cancer: results from a Bayesian meta-analysis by Preston Ngo, Wendy A. Cooper, Stephen Wade, Kwun M. Fong, Karen Canfell, Deme Karikios, Marianne Weber

“…We developed a statistical model to reconcile conflicting estimates of PD-L1 prevalence by accounting for between-study variation in test sensitivity, specimen age, and laboratory count. In doing so, we obtained refined estimates for PD-L1 expression prevalence and identified differences by histological subtype, mutational status, and stage. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Traditional and Modern NLP Techniques on the CoLA Dataset: From POS Tagging to Large Language Models by Abdessamad Benlahbib, Achraf Boumhidi, Anass Fahfouh, Hamza Alami

“…In this article, we compare a range of techniques, from traditional methods such as Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging and feature extraction methods like CountVectorizer with Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) and N-grams, to modern embeddings such as FastText and Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo), as well as deep learning architectures like transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs). …”
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Aprepitant in a Multimodal Approach for Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in High-Risk Patients: Is There Such a Thing as “Too Many Modalities”? by John J. Hache, Manuel C. Vallejo, Jonathan H. Waters, Brian A. Williams

“…For patients included in the data analysis, using Apfel PONV risk factors, the median risk count was four out of four. PONV and PDNV incidences were 21% (95% CI: 14-31%) and 37% (95% CI: 27-48%), respectively. …”
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Detrimental effects of cadmium on male infertility: A review by Nebojša Zečević, Jovana Kocić, Milan Perović, Aleksandar Stojsavljević

“…Newer research points to the importance of Cd in lower levels from the environment on changes in seminogram findings, primarily count, motility of spermatozoa, and their morphology. …”
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Diagnosis of Oral Hairy Leukoplakia: The Importance of EBV In Situ Hybridization by Luana L. Martins, José Henrique F. Rosseto, Natália Silva Andrade, Juliana Bertoldi Franco, Paulo Henrique Braz-Silva, Karem L. Ortega

“…The patients with OHL had a mean age of 41.9 years and were HIV-infected for 11.2 years, on average, including CD4 count of 504.7 cells/mm3 and log10 viral load = 1.1. …”
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Performance assessment of ChatGPT 4, ChatGPT 3.5, Gemini Advanced Pro 1.5 and Bard 2.0 to problem solving in pathology in French language by Georges Tarris, Laurent Martin

“…Drawbacks to the use of NLP software in generating questions include the generation of hallucinations and erroneous medical knowledge which have to be taken into count when using NLP software in medical education.…”
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The Impact of 3S2E Nursing Management on the Psychological Status of Respiratory Function and Quality of Life of Patients with Severe Pneumonia in the ICU by Yaoyao Xu, Xia Li, Qin Yang, Xiuxian Ma

“…The two groups’ preintervention and postintervention times for mechanical ventilation, white blood cell count (WBC) recovery, duration of hospital stay, problems, respiratory function, psychological state, and living quality were compared. …”
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Predictors of Response to Oral Medications and Low-Histamine Diet in Patients with Chronic Urticaria by Hui-Ling Chiang, Chen-Hung Chen, Malcolm Koo, Tzung-Yi Tsai, Cheng-Han Wu

“…Serum erythrocyte sedimentation rate, hemoglobin, hematocrit, eosinophil count, IgE, antinuclear antibody (ANA), and serum diamine oxidase (DAO) levels of the patients were measured and were compared according to the patient’s response to second-generation antihistamines (sgAH), corticosteroids, leukotriene receptor antagonist (LTRA), H2 blockers, and low-histamine diet. …”
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Comparison of Asymptomatic Brain Lesions Between Thalassemia Major and Sickle Cell Anemia Patients by Derya Yavuz Demiray, Özge Eriş Davut, Gönül Oktay

“…Variables including age, years of education, presence and type of MRI-detected ischemia, smoking status, hemoglobin, hematocrit, platelet count, ferritin levels, vitamin B12 levels, fasting blood sugar, splenectomy status, chelation therapy, and hydroxyurea treatment were compared between the two groups. …”
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Elevated Liver Function Tests as Predictors of Severe Maternal Outcomes in Women with Preeclampsia by Sadia Chaudhary, Hafiza Ateeqa Mubarak, Anila Sabir, Hina Sadaf, Anas Khalil, Zahid Mahmood, Marium Shoukat, Farah Naz Tahir

“… Background: Preeclampsia is a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy that ultimately led to high mortality and morbidity due to its complication HELP (Hemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes, and Low Platelet count), syndrome, and its association with elevated liver function tests. …”
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Citric acid vapor-assisted crosslinking of zein/PEG composite nanofiber membrane embedded with nisin by electrospinning for the cooled goose meat preservation by Lanlan Wei, Shuaijie Zhu, Guoyuan Xiong, Jingjun Li, Wangang Zhang

“…During 10 days of the storage of the cooled fresh goose meat, compared with the control group, the pH of zein/PEG/nisin/C nanofiber membrane was 5.7, the concentration of the total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N) and the value of total viable count (TVC) and thiobarbituric acids (TBARS) are 11.28 mg/100g, 5.01 ± 0.69 log (CFU g−1), and 0.83 mg kg−1, respectively. …”
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The Effect of Maternal Body Mass Index on in Vitro Fertilization-Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Treatment: A Prospective Comparative Study by Zeynep Ozturk Inal, Hasan Ali Inal

“…Results: While there were no differences between the groups in terms of age, smoking status, etiology of infertility, thyroid-stimulating hormone, prolactin levels, antral follicle count, and stimulation protocol (p>0.05), there was a significant statistical difference in terms of body mass index, duration of infertility, baseline follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, estradiol (E2), duration of stimulation, total gonadotropin dose required, peak E2 levels, progesterone levels, endometrial thickness on hCG administration, and cycle cancellation rate (p<0.05). …”
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Comparative analysis of metabolic, reproductive, and sub-clinical mastitis in pure Holstein-Friesian and Sahiwal-crossbred cows by S. M. Khan, R. U. Khan, S. Naz, I. A. Alhidary, N. K. Momand, R. Tiwari

“…A total of 180 dairy cows were evaluated over 8 weeks postpartum, focusing on milk yield, serum metabolites (glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, calcium, cortisol, and progesterone), somatic cell count (SCC), and reproductive performance. F2 cows exhibited the highest milk yield, particularly by week 6, with an overall weekly yield of 183.9 L, while HF cows had the lowest yield at 140.3 L. …”
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Gut microbial alteration in chronic spontaneous urticaria unresponsive to second generation antihistamines and its correlation with disease characteristics‐ a cross‐sectional case‐... by Indrashis Podder, David Pesqué, Nerea Carrón, Pedro Iñaki González Torres, Ramon M. Pujol, Ana M. Giménez‐Arnau

“…Among CSU patients, higher Bacteroides and reduced Firmicutes count were associated with higher disease activity and poor control; however, there was no link with the type of therapy. …”
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Status and New Data of the Geochemical Determination of the pp-Neutrino Flux by LOREX by M. K. Pavićević, F. Bosch, G. Amthauer, I. Aničin, B. Boev, W. Brüchle, V. Cvetković, Z. Djurčić, W. F. Henning, R. Jelenković, V. Pejović, A. Weiss

“…This paper summarizes the status of items 1 (age) and 3 (neutrino capture probability) and presents in detail the progress achieved most recently concerning the items 2 (background/erosion) and 4 (“counting” of 205Pb atoms in lorandite).…”
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Microbial Quality of Sliced Pawpaw (Carica papaya) and Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Sold on Some Streets of Accra Metropolis, Ghana by Michael Olu-Taiwo, Baakwa Miah De-Graft, Akua Obeng Forson

“…One gram (1 g) of each watermelon and pawpaw was homogenized in 9 ml of sterile peptone water, and 0.1 ml from each serial dilutions of each fruit was spread on plate count agar, blood agar, and MacConkey agar plates for total aerobic counts and coliform counts. …”
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