Pedestrian Safety in South Africa: A Comprehensive Analysis by Mmakwena Modipa

“…Numerous factors contribute to the elevated rate of pedestrian deaths in the country. One of the significant issues in South Africa is the lack of prioritization of pedestrian safety. …”
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A Holling Type II Discrete Switching Host-Parasitoid System with a Nonlinear Threshold Policy for Integrated Pest Management by Mengqi He, Sanyi Tang, Robert A. Cheke

“…., biological and chemical measures are implemented together, assuming that the chemical immediately precedes the biological inputs to avoid pesticide-induced deaths of the natural enemies. First, the existence and local stability of the equilibria of two subsystems were studied, and the existence and coexistence of several types of equilibria of a nonlinear switching system were analysed. …”
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Cutting the Difficult Papilla: Ancillary Techniques in the Performance of Endoscopic Sphincterotomy by Claude Liguory, Jean Francois Lefebvre, Didier Bonnel, Gary C Vitale

“…Early complications of standard endoscopic sphin-.lerotomy included bleeding, perforation, pancreatitis and cholangitis, comprising 4.3% of the 1040 sphincterocomies. There were five deaths (mortality rate 0.5%) and laparotomy was required in six patients (0.6%). …”
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Long-Term Followup after Electrocautery Transurethral Resection of the Prostate for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia by F. Kallenberg, T. A. Hossack, H. H. Woo

“…Early complication rates were low, with no blood transfusions, TUR syndrome, or deaths occurring. Urethral stricture rate was higher than anticipated at 14%. …”
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Estimating the Prevalence of Opioid use Disorder in the Cincinnati Region using Probabilistic Multiplier Methods and Model Averaging by Peter J. Mallow, Nila Sathe, Michael Topmiller, Jennifer Chubinski, Dillon Carr, Roni Christopher

“…The models used counts of overdose deaths, non-fatal overdoses, and treatment admissions as benchmark data. …”
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Tumor-initiating and metastasis-initiating cells of clear-cell renal cell carcinoma by Dinh-Xuan Pham, Tien Hsu

“…Abstract Clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of kidney malignancy. ccRCC is considered a major health concern worldwide because its numbers of incidences and deaths continue to rise and are predicted to continue rising in the foreseeable future. …”
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Health-Promoting Behaviors in Bulgaria: A Cross-Sectional Study on Non-Communicable Diseases and Lifestyle by Sophia Lazarova, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova

“…(1) Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a global health issue causing millions of deaths annually. Bulgaria has one of the highest rates of premature mortality due to NCDs in the European Union, mostly attributed to poor lifestyle habits. …”
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Analysis and Simulation of Thermodynamic Diagrams of Convective and Destructive Storms in Mountainous Regions (Case Study: Meshkinshahr City) by Dariush Yarahmadi, Jamid Mirhashemi, Habib Ariantabar

“…This caused a lot of financial losses, including the deaths of 33 people in the city. In this study, from the thermodynamic conditions of the atmosphere corresponding to this rainy day, the network data, temperature, geopotential height and relative humidity with a spatial resolution of 0.125 * 0.125 with steps of 25 and 50 hPa from 1000 to 200 hPa are used. …”
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Laboratory diagnostics of alcohol intoxication in patients with alcohol-induced liver disease by A. I. Pavlov, A. I. Khazanov

“…It account for 3,5 times more deaths (78,0%), than all viral LC. Results of these investigations demonstrated, that at testing only for asialotransferrin positive result was obtained only in 3 (5,4%) patients admitted to the hospital with severe manifestations of acute alcoholic hepatitis. …”
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A Potential Role of MicroRNA in the Renal Cancer and Its Tumor Microenvironment by Daniel Chikere Ali, Siva Bharath Merugu

“…Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for approximately 2.2% of all diagnosed cancers and 1.8% of cancer-related deaths. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most prevalent subtype of RCC, accounting for approximately 70–80% of all cases. …”
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Predictores de vasoespasmo cerebral sintomático en la hemorragia subaracnoidea espontánea by Ezequiel López Espinosa, Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés, Maira Sarmiento Matamoros

“…<strong>Background:</strong> subarachnoid hemorrhage accounts for only 2 to 5 % of all cerebrovascular diseases; however it causes approximately 25 % of all deaths related to them. <br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to identify the factors contributing to the prediction of symptomatic cerebral vasospasm in patients diagnosed with subarachnoid hemorrhage. …”
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Checkmate to Bioethics? by Fabio Alberto Garzón Díaz

“…Bioethics must take its most reflective streak, understand the phenomenon, and draw lessons from this heartbreaking experience so that we do not make the same mistakes again that are costing us so many bitter tears and deaths. I will present in this editorial some points that may help us to continue the debate and possibly reach agreements on how to advance in a post-COVID-19 world. …”
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The Cerebrovascular Disease and Nutritional State. by Leticia del Rosario Cruz, Mildred Díaz Masip, Manuel Guzmán Noa, José Miguel Rodríguez Perón, Fidel Pérez Pérez, Mayelin Blanco Suárez

“…<strong>Objective:</strong> To assess the nutritional state of patients affected by cerebrovascular diseases in its ischemic form and the incidence of complications and deaths. <strong>Methods:</strong> A randomized simple and open clinical trial which is also prospective and longitudinal, not controlled by placebos that included 80 patients with a tomographed-clinical diagnosis of cerebral infarction admitted at the Higher Institute of Military Medicine during 2005. …”
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Effects of IL-6 and TNF-α Cytokines on Cell Proliferation in Androgen Dependent/Independent Prostate Cancer Cell Lines by Serhad Onat, Feray Köçkar, Sümeyye Aydoğan Türkoğlu

“…Prostate cancer, caused by abnormal and uncontrolled growth of the cells that make up the prostate tissue, is second only to related deaths in men. Cytokines, which have a significant impact on the response of the immune system, play an active role in the development of prostate cancer. …”
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Antiviral Activity of the Marine Haptophyta <i>Diacronema lutheri</i> by Eleonora Montuori, Annalisa Ambrosino, Gerardo Della Sala, Costanza Ragozzino, Gianluigi Franci, Carla Zannella, Anna De Filippis, Donatella de Pascale, Massimiliano Galdiero, Chiara Lauritano

“…There are still several viral infections affecting a considerable number of the world’s population, causing thousands of deaths each year. There are no drugs available for most viral infections and for many not even a vaccine. …”
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Busting the Breast Cancer with AstraZeneca’s Gefitinib by S. Chemmalar, A. R. Intan Shameha, Che Azurahanim Che Abdullah, Nor Asma Ab Razak, Loqman Mohamad Yusof, Mokrish Ajat, Kim Wei Chan, Md Zuki Abu Bakar Zakaria

“…Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women, and in 2020, there were 684, 996 deaths due to this disease. Epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFRs) and their respective ligands have been blamed for the pathogenesis and resistance to treatment in specific breast cancer cases. …”
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Innate Immune Effectors Play Essential Roles in Acute Respiratory Infection Caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae by Dong Liu, Zhifu Chen, Yue Yuan, Haiming Jing, Jintao Zou, Xiaoli Zhang, Xi Zeng, Weijun Zhang, Quanming Zou, Jinyong Zhang

“…Further, we depleted neutrophils, macrophages, and complement pathways in vivo and challenged these mice with a sublethal dose of K. pneumonia, the result showed that 80%, 60%, and 40% of mice were died in these groups, respectively, while no deaths occurred in the control group. Besides, innate immune effector depleted mice showed higher bacterial burdens in lungs and blood, companied with more severe lung damage and increased levels of cytokine/chemokine expression. …”
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Brain CT image classification based on mask RCNN and attention mechanism by Shoulin Yin, Hang Li, Lin Teng, Asif Ali Laghari, Ahmad Almadhor, Michal Gregus, Gabriel Avelino Sampedro

“…Brain tumor is one of the major diseases threatening human life. The number of deaths caused by these diseases is increasing dramatically every year in the world. …”
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Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Metastatic Lung Cancer as Oligo-Recurrence: An Analysis of 42 Cases by Wataru Takahashi, Hideomi Yamashita, Yuzuru Niibe, Kenshiro Shiraishi, Kazushige Hayakawa, Keiichi Nakagawa

“…There were no treatment-related deaths during this study. Conclusions. In patients with ORCL, radical treatment with SBRT is safe and provides a chance for long-term survival by offering favorable local control.…”
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Global Patterns of Prostate Cancer Incidence, Aggressiveness, and Mortality in Men of African Descent by Timothy R. Rebbeck, Susan S. Devesa, Bao-Li Chang, Clareann H. Bunker, Iona Cheng, Kathleen Cooney, Rosalind Eeles, Pedro Fernandez, Veda N. Giri, Serigne M. Gueye, Christopher A. Haiman, Brian E. Henderson, Chris F. Heyns, Jennifer J. Hu, Sue Ann Ingles, William Isaacs, Mohamed Jalloh, Esther M. John, Adam S. Kibel, LaCreis R. Kidd, Penelope Layne, Robin J. Leach, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Michael N. Okobia, Elaine A. Ostrander, Jong Y. Park, Alan L. Patrick, Catherine M. Phelan, Camille Ragin, Robin A. Roberts, Benjamin A. Rybicki, Janet L. Stanford, Sara Strom, Ian M. Thompson, John Witte, Jianfeng Xu, Edward Yeboah, Ann W. Hsing, Charnita M. Zeigler-Johnson

“…The estimated number of CaP deaths in SSA during 2008 was more than five times that among African Americans and is expected to double in Africa by 2030. …”
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