Drug-induced urinary retention: a real-world pharmacovigilance study using FDA and Canada vigilance databases by Xianyu Dai, Kai Yu, Yu Chang, Yuchuan Hou

“…The validation of new signals for Abiraterone, Fluoxetine, and Empagliflozin underscores the critical need for continuous drug safety monitoring and targeted research to better understand the mechanisms behind drug-induced UR.…”
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Silencing FOXA1 suppresses inflammation caused by LPS and promotes osteogenic differentiation of periodontal ligament stem cells through the TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB pathway by Miao He, Yangdong Lin

“…Human periodontal ligament stem cells (hPDLSCs) play a critical role in the regeneration of periodontal tissue. …”
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Maternity Continuum Care Completion and Its Associated Factors in Northwest Ethiopia by Daniel Tsega, Melaku Admas, Asmare Talie, Tesfa Birlew Tsega, Molla Yigzaw Birhanu, Simegn Alemu, Belayneh Mengist

“…Continuum care is a basic package approach for women to receive essential services throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, and it is critical for women and their infants’ survival and well-being. …”
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Naso-intestinal versus gastric tube for enteral nutrition in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chuanjin Liu, Junxun Jiang, Zunjia Wen, Tao You

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Effectiveness of professional-identity-formation and clinical communication-skills programs on medical students’ empathy in the COVID-19 context: comparison between pre-pandemic in... by Hitomi Kataoka, Akiko Tokinobu, Chikako Fujii, Mayu Watanabe, Mikako Obika

“…Abstract Background Enhancing students’ empathy is critical in medical school education. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a shift from in-person to online classes. …”
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Activation of FGD5-AS1 Promotes Progression of Cervical Cancer through Regulating BST2 to Inhibit Macrophage M1 Polarization by Guokun Liu, Xuan Du, Li Xiao, Qing Zeng, QianLing Liu

“…Bone marrow stromal cell antigen 2 (BST2) can play critical roles in immune response, and the roles of BST2 in cervical cancer was explored currently. …”
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Recovery time and predictors of severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6-59 months via an outpatient therapeutic program in Borena zone: A prospective cohort study. by Girma Tenkolu Bune, Abuna Mohammed, Samrawit Hailu, Eden Ashenafi

“…The findings emphasize the critical role of specific symptoms in predicting recovery times for children with SAM. …”
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Tillage and residue management modulate the links between soil physical signatures and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biomarkers by Stamatios Thomopoulos, Lars Juhl Munkholm, Lars Elsgaard, Sabine Ravnskov

“…Minimal soil disturbance enhanced wet aggregate stability by 14 % on average but negatively affected pore characteristics. AMF played a critical role in soil aggregate stability, evidenced by a strong correlation (r = 0.68 and r = 0.86 in the two sites) between hyphal networks and WSA. …”
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Sustainable Distance E-Learning for Enhanced Students Retention and Support: Faculty of Law National Open University of Nigeria in Focus by Erimma Gloria Orie

“…In a developing country like Nigeria, these challenges can be critical compared to the developed countries where infrastructural development is well in place and taken for granted. …”
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Supply chain performance in the age of Industry 4.0 by Tahsina Khan, Md Mehedi Hasan Emon

“…These mediating factors demonstrate the critical role of Industry 4.0 technologies in achieving superior supply chain outcomes. …”
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Effectiveness of room-of-error interventions for healthcare providers: a systematic review by Su Jin Jung, Jiwon Kang, Youngjin Lee

“…Simulations were found to be widely integrated into room-of-error programs, emphasizing skill performance and critical thinking. Half of the studies provided preparation time, 37.5% included feedback, and 62.5% covered medication errors, with 87.5% using offline delivery, 62.5% offering individual education, and program durations ranging from 4 to 35 min, with 25% having no time limit for error inspection. …”
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Reforming the innovation system to deliver affordable medicines: a conceptual framework of pharmaceutical innovation as a complex adaptive system (forest) and theory of change by Suerie Moon, Adrian Alonso Ruiz, Marcela C. F. Vieira, Kaitlin E. Large, Iulia Slovenski

“…We constructed a database of 140 pharmaceutical innovation initiatives that sought to address global public interest objectives such as fair pricing or missing innovation. We found a critical mass of initiatives clustered around four areas: pandemic preparedness, neglected diseases, rare diseases and antibiotics, which we conceptualised as niches within the ecosystem. …”
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Effect of Process Pressure on the Properties of Cu₂O Thin Films Deposited by RF Magnetron Sputtering by Junghwan Park, Chang-Sik Son, Young-Guk Son, Donghyun Hwang

“…These findings highlight the critical role of process pressure in determining the properties of Cu₂O thin films and identify 5 mTorr as the optimal deposition condition for achieving high-quality films with superior structural and optical performance.…”
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Nurses' use of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic-A scoping review. by Stinne Glasdam, Helena Sandberg, Sigrid Stjernswärd, Frode F Jacobsen, Anette H Grønning, Lisbeth Hybholt

“…Further, social media functioned as profession-promoting channels partly sharing heroic self-representations and acknowledgment of frontline persons in the pandemic, partly by displaying critical working conditions. Finally, nurses used social media to educate people to perform the 'right 'COVID-19' behaviours in society.…”
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Parenting after a history of childhood maltreatment: A scoping review and map of evidence in the perinatal period. by Catherine Chamberlain, Graham Gee, Stephen Harfield, Sandra Campbell, Sue Brennan, Yvonne Clark, Fiona Mensah, Kerry Arabena, Helen Herrman, Stephanie Brown, ‘Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future’ group

“…The perinatal period (pregnancy to two years postpartum) is critical for parents with a history of childhood maltreatment. …”
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Morphological features of bovine placenta in case of viral, bacterial and protozoal infections by O. V. Sokolova, L. I. Drozdova, I. A. Shkuratova

“…The problem of the intrauterine  infection of fetus is one of the most critical ones in veterinary obstetrics and in perinatology due to the high level of infection in pregnant  cows, the risk of developmental disorder of fetus and the birth of sick calves. …”
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Knockout IL4I1 affects macrophages to improve poor efficacy of CD19 CAR-T combined with PD-1 inhibitor in relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by Rui Zhang, Yi Zhang, Hairong Xiao, Qingxi Liu, Mingfeng Zhao

“…Abstract Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy plays a critical role in the treatment of B-cell hematologic malignancies. …”
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Textbooks on the international relations theory: What they talk about, what they keep silent about, and what to do about it by N. V. Yudin

“…The latter imply reliance on extremely shaky philosophical assumptions, which, consciously or not, reproduce post-modernist views on the problems of ontology and epistemology of international relations and international studies. And it is in a critical revision of these basic philosophical principles where, according to the author, lies the key to addressing the problems in both teaching the IR theory and formulating the theory of international relations in the strict sense.…”
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The Risk Factors of Self-Management Behavior among Chinese Stroke Patients by Huang Shuqi, Li Siqin, Wu Xiaoyan, Yang Rong, Zhao Lihong

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Transcriptome profiling revealed multiple circadian rhythm-related genes associated with common gynecological cancers by Lan Peng, Meiping Jiang, Kangming Li, Shuhui Yu, Chunfang Zhao, Lan Zhang, Lan Li

“…BackgroundStudies have shown that more than half of the human genome expression is affected by circadian rhythms, which includes genes involved in cell cycle control, DNA repair and apoptosis that are critical in cancer biology. However, the roles of circadian rhythm-related genes (CRRGs) in cervical cancer (CC) and other common gynecologic cancers remain unclear.MethodsThe transcriptome data and clinical information related to CC and other common gynecologic cancers were extracted from the UCSC Xena and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases. …”
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