Discovery of the microbiota-gut-brain axis mechanisms of acupuncture for amnestic mild cognitive impairment based on multi-omics analyses: A pilot study by Zi-Han Yin, Qiong-Nan Bao, Ya-Qin Li, Yi-Wei Liu, Zi-Qi Wang, Fang Ye, Xia He, Xin-Yue Zhang, Wan-Qi Zhong, Ke-Xin Wu, Jin Yao, Zi-Wen Chen, Ling Zhao, Fan-Rong Liang

“…In addition, multi-omics was performed to detect changes in brain function, gut microbiota, and serum metabolites. Generalized estimating equations were used to estimate the outcomes, and correlational analyses were performed to explore the relationships between the clinical and multi-omics data. …”
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The Impact of Training Intervention on Levels of Indicator Bacteria and Prevalence of Selected Pathogens in Raw Milk From Smallholder Women Dairy Farmers in Central Ethiopia by Achenef Melaku Beyene, Seleshe Nigatu, Juan C. Archila-Godinez, Kebede Amenu, Barbara Kowalcyk, Desalegne Degefaw, Binyam Mogess, Baye Gelaw, Mucheye Gizachew, Araya Mengistu, Ahmed G. Abdelhamid, James Barkley, Ahmed Yousef

“…Total and thermotolerant coliforms were determined by the Most Probable Number (MPN) method; categorized as high (≥1,001 MPN/ml), medium (101 103 MPN/ml), low (21–102 MPN/ml), and very low (≤20 MPN/ml); and analyzed using generalized linear mixed models. Prevalence of E. coli, STEC, S. enterica, and C. jejuni in raw milk samples were 67, 12, 3, and 4% pretraining and 45, 4, 3, and 2% posttraining, respectively. …”
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Scientometric Evaluation of Research Productivity on Diabetes from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the Last Two Decades (2000-2019) by Zohair Jamil Gazzaz, Nadeem Shafique Butt, Nadeem Alam Zubairi, Ahmad Azam Malik

“…Overall, similar identifications and trends of top authors were observed in terms of productivity, impact, international collaborations, and organizational affiliations. Generally, an increasing productivity trend was observed with the majority published in the last 5 to 10 years. …”
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Toward Robust Lung Cancer Diagnosis: Integrating Multiple CT Datasets, Curriculum Learning, and Explainable AI by Amira Bouamrane, Makhlouf Derdour, Akram Bennour, Taiseer Abdalla Elfadil Eisa, Abdel-Hamid M. Emara, Mohammed Al-Sarem, Neesrin Ali Kurdi

“…Moreover, the mixup augmentation technique was adopted to facilitate the reliance on salient characteristics by combining features and CT scan labels from datasets to reduce their biases and subjectivity, thus improving the model’s generalization ability and enhancing its robustness. Curriculum learning was used to train the model, starting with simple sets to learn complicated ones quickly. …”
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Gastrointestinal symptoms and bowel habits in 53 046 healthy Danish blood donors: a nationwide cross-sectional study by Christian Erikstrup, Ole Birger Pedersen, Henrik Hjalgrim, Erik Sørensen, Jens Frederik Dahlerup, Klaus Rostgaard, Mikkel Steen Petersen, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Susan Mikkelsen, Khoa Manh Dinh, Thorsten Brodersen, Janna Nissen, Anne Karmisholt Grosen, Jens Kjærgaard Boldsen, Simon Mark Dahl Baunwall, Mie Topholm Bruun, Bitten Aagaard, Christina Mikkelsen, Christian Lodberg Hvas

“…Half of the participants (50%) had a regular defaecation pattern (defined as generally the same stool consistency and stool frequency) consisting of Bristol Stool Form Scale 4 stools 1–3 times per day. …”
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Exploring avocado consumption and health: a scoping review and evidence map by Stephen A. Fleming, Tristen L. Paul, Rachel A. F. Fleming, Alison K. Ventura, Megan A. McCrory, Corrie M. Whisner, Paul A. Spagnuolo, Louise Dye, Jana Kraft, Jana Kraft, Nikki A. Ford

“…Studies were largely conducted in the United States or Latin America and generally included adults, with overweight/obesity, frequently with elevated lipid concentrations. …”
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Single-shot super-resolved fringe projection profilometry (SSSR-FPP): 100,000 frames-per-second 3D imaging with deep learning by Bowen Wang, Wenwu Chen, Jiaming Qian, Shijie Feng, Qian Chen, Chao Zuo

“…However, the imaging speed of current FPP methods is generally capped at several kHz, which is limited by the projector-camera hardware and the number of fringe patterns required for phase retrieval and unwrapping. …”
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Exploration of the Mountainous Urban Rail Transit Resilience Under Extreme Rainfalls: A Case Study in Chongqing, China by Chenhui Liu, Xue Su, Zhichun Wu, Yingjun Zhang, Cuizhu Zhou, Xiangguo Wu, Yong Huang

“…High-risk flood stations are located on non-transfer lines and mostly on metro lines with high traffic flow, with service efficiency index generally high, with some stations, like Bijin Station, exceeding 0.3. …”
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Predictive model of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients with acute pancreatitis: a machine learning approach using the MIMIC-IV database by Shengwei Lin, Wenbin Lu, Ting Wang, Ying Wang, Xueqian Leng, Lidan Chi, Peipei Jin, Jinjun Bian

“…Model construction involved an ensemble of ML, including random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), naive Bayes (NB), neural network (NNET), generalized linear model (GLM), and gradient boosting machine (GBM). …”
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Initiation and sustenance of small portion size consumption behavior in rural Appalachia, USA: Application of multi-theory model (MTM) by Ram Lakhan, Sierra Turner, Sangyal Dorjee, Manoj Sharma

“…Introduction: About 81% counties of the central Appalachia in USA are experiencing the nation’s highest obesity rates. It is generally accepted that the consumption of large food portion sizes is associated with obesity which in turn is related to the etiopathogenesis of several chronic diseases. …”
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Long-term spatiotemporal features of aerosol optical characteristics and relative humidity in China’s offshore areas by Jie He, Zhao Li, Linyu He, Jian Wang, Weiping Jiang

“…The optical properties of aerosols are generally lower in summer, while they fluctuate with rising RH in other seasons. …”
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Patient Surgical Outcomes When Surgery Residents Are the Primary Surgeon by Intensity of Surgical Attending Supervision in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers by T. Michael Kashner, PhD, JD, MPH, Paul B. Greenberg, MD, MPH, Andrea D. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, John M. Byrne, DO, Karen M. Sanders, MD, Mark A. Wilson, MD, PhD, Marjorie A. Bowman, MD, MPA

“…Independent associations between whether attendings had scrubbed or not scrubbed on patient 30-day all-cause mortality, complications, and 30-day readmission were estimated using generalized linear-mixed models. Estimates were tested for any residual confounding biases, robustness to different regression models, stability over time, and validated using moderator and secondary factors analyses. …”
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A Comprehensive Review on Current Knowledge and Future Potential of Topical Therapies in Breast Cancer Treatment by N. Bharathi Sai Thilagam, V.P. Karthik, R. Gnanasambandan, C. Sowmya

“…Initially confined to these areas (in situ), it generally remains asymptomatic and poses little risk of metastasis. …”
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Effectiveness of workplace health promotion programs for industrial workers: a systematic review by Sasha Javanmardi, Ludwig Rappelt, Sascha Zangenberg, Lars Heinke, Christian Baumgart, Daniel Niederer, Jürgen Freiwald

“…Results Of the 25,555 studies initially identified, 39 were included. Generally, the mean quality of the studies was moderate, with most studies judged with a high overall risk of bias. …”
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Diurnal and Daily Variations of PM2.5 and its Multiple-Wavelet Coherence with Meteorological Variables in Indonesia by Nani Cholianawati, Tiin Sinatra, Ginaldi Ari Nugroho, Didin Agustian Permadi, Asri Indrawati, Halimurrahman, Meta Kallista, Moch Syarif Romadhon, Ilma Fauziah Ma’ruf, Dipo Yudhatama, Tesalonika Angela Putri Madethen, Asif Awaludin

“…A bimodal pattern with two peaks appears in Padang, Manado, Palu, and Pangkalpinang, while in Jakarta, Surabaya, and Pontianak, the diurnals have a unimodal pattern with one peak at night until morning. All cities generally present higher diurnal PM2.5 concentrations in the dry season than in the wet season. …”
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Gross and Histopathology of Goats Feeding on Opuntia stricta in Laikipia County, Kenya by Jackson M. Ncebere, Paul G. Mbuthia, Robert M. Waruiru, Peter K. Gathumbi

“…Other gross lesions were generalized viscera atrophy, edema, subcutaneous emphysema, lymphadenopathy, abscesses, ascites, hydrothorax, and hydropericardium. …”
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Resting fMRI-guided TMS evokes subgenual anterior cingulate response in depression by Romain J. Duprat, Kristin A. Linn, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Yvette I. Sheline, Ximo Liang, Gabriela Bagdon, Matthew W. Flounders, Heather Robinson, Michael Platt, Joseph Kable, Hannah Long, Morgan Scully, Joseph A. Deluisi, Michael Thase, Mario Cristancho, Julie Grier, Camille Blaine, Almaris Figueroa-González, Desmond J. Oathes

“…Single pulses of TMS interleaved with fMRI readouts were administered to these targets to evoke downstream fMRI blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) responses in the sgACC. Generalized estimating equations were used to investigate the association between TMS-evoked BOLD responses in the sgACC and rsFC between the stimulation site and the sgACC. …”
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Mind at rest, mind at risk: A prospective population-based study of sleep and subsequent mental disorders by Mari Hysing, Allison G. Harvey, Ann Kristin Skrindo Knudsen, Jens C. Skogen, Anne Reneflot, Børge Sivertsen

“…Results: Insomnia in young adults was associated with a significantly increased risk of MDE (adjusted RR = 3.50, 95 % CI = 3.18–3.84) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) (adjusted RR = 2.82, 95 % CI = 2.55–3.12) one year later. …”
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Pathogen community composition and co-infection patterns in a wild community of rodents by Abbate, Jessica L., Galan, Maxime, Razzauti, Maria, Sironen, Tarja, Voutilainen, Liina, Henttonen, Heikki, Gasqui, Patrick, Cosson, Jean-François, Charbonnel, Nathalie

“…Moreover, we detected positive associations between several pathogens, including Bartonella, Mycoplasma species, Cowpox virus (CPXV) and hantaviruses, and these patterns were generally specific to particular host species. Altogether, our results suggest that host and pathogen specificity is the most important driver of pathogen community structure, and that interspecific pathogen-pathogen associations also depend on host species. …”
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Interventions to improve media coverage of medical research: a codesigned feasibility and acceptability study with Australian journalists by Brooke Nickel, Ray Moynihan, Alexandra Barratt, Kirsten J McCaffery, Loai Albarqouni, Tessa Copp, Thomas Dakin, Liam Mannix

“…Objectives Although the media can influence public perceptions and utilisation of healthcare, journalists generally receive no routine training in interpreting and reporting on medical research. …”
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