Practice patterns on the management of secondary hyperparathyroidism in the United States: Results from a modified Delphi panel. by David E Henner, Beatrice Drambarean, Teresa M Gerbeling, Jessica B Kendrick, William T Kendrick, Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, Thomas L Nickolas, Anjay Rastogi, Anis A Rauf, Brenda Dyson, Michael C Singer, Pooja Desai, Kathleen M Fox, Sunfa Cheng, William Goodman

“…Many recommendations in the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) CKD-mineral and bone disorder guidelines are supported by modest evidence and predate the approval of newer agents. …”
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Dengue severity by serotype and immune status in 19 years of pediatric clinical studies in Nicaragua. by Federico Narvaez, Carlos Montenegro, Jose G Juarez, José Victor Zambrana, Karla Gonzalez, Elsa Videa, Sonia Arguello, Fanny Barrios, Sergio Ojeda, Miguel Plazaola, Nery Sanchez, Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer, Guillermina Kuan, Gabriela Paz Bailey, Eva Harris, Angel Balmaseda

“…<h4>Background</h4>Dengue virus, a major global health threat, consists of four serotypes (DENV1-4) that cause a range of clinical manifestations from mild to severe and potentially fatal disease.…”
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Comparison of ZETA Fast (PTS) (Optopol Technology) and Humphrey SITA Fast (SFA) (Carl Zeiss Meditec) Perimetric Strategies by Basil Mathews, Jeff Laux, Cassandra Barnhart, David Fleischman

“…Both strategies enable effective identification of glaucomatous defects within 6 minutes; they also offer high sensitivity with a high correlation in global indices between the two strategies. The Optopol strategy is an alternative to the Zeiss counterpart with the limitation of a marginally longer testing protocol but a higher sensitivity of detecting glaucomatous defects.…”
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Development and validation of machine-learning models for predicting the risk of hypertriglyceridemia in critically ill patients receiving propofol sedation using retrospective dat... by Jiawen Deng, Hemang Yadav, Kiyan Heybati

“…Bayesian optimisation will be used for hyperparameter selection. Global model explainability will be assessed using permutation importance, and local model explainability will be assessed using SHapley Additive exPlanations.Ethics and dissemination The proposed ML model aims to provide a reliable and interpretable tool for clinicians to predict the risk of propofol-associated hypertriglyceridemia in ICU patients. …”
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Etnografía, biopolítica y colonialidad. Genealogías de la precariedad urbana en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires by Silvia Grinberg

“…Una historia de nuestra presente urbanidad en Buenos Aires, una metrópolis que, como otras del sur global, desde fines del siglo XX, se enfrenta a una expansión de la mancha urbana creciente y constante que ocurre al calor de procesos por los que mientras algunas zonas se expanden con los rasgos de la vida cosmopolita globalizada, otras también se expanden y sedimentan en las formas de la urbanización precarizada. …”
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The presence of risk factors in the home environment that influences the fall of people of the third age by Ratko Zlatičanin, Amila Jaganjac, Arzija Pašalić, Amra Mačak Hadžiomerović

“…According to the World Health Organization, falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death in the world and represent a major global public health problem. Falls are most commonly caused by intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors. …”
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Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Integrated into Pants for the Relief of Postoperative Pain in Hip Surgery Patients: A Randomized Trial by Yohann Opolka, Courage Sundberg, Robin Juthberg, Amelie Olesen, Li Guo, Nils-Krister Persson, Paul W. Ackermann

“…The treatment outcome was assessed by self-reported pain Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) and Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC) scores at four time points. …”
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HydroEcoLSTM: A Python package with graphical user interface for hydro-ecological modeling with long short-term memory neural network by Tam V. Nguyen, Vinh Ngoc Tran, Hoang Tran, Doan Van Binh, Toan D. Duong, Thanh Duc Dang, Pia Ebeling

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La Carta Laudato si' del Papa Francisco: De objeto de ataque a documento ignorado by Jorge Arturo Chaves O.

“…Requiere cambiar la mentalidad, el modelo de desarrollo global y cuestionar la lógica subyacente en la cultura actual, de manera que se avance hacia una valiente revolución cultural. …”
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Small Airway Dysfunction in Chronic Bronchitis with Preserved Pulmonary Function by Qi Ding, Bai-Bing Mi, Xia Wei, Jie Li, Jiu-Yun Mi, Jing-Ting Ren, Rui-Li Li

“…Because small airway function was the main focus, in the COPD group, only patients in accordance with the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) grades 1 and 2 were included. …”
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Physicochemical Properties, Antioxidant Capacity, and Consumer Acceptability of Ice Cream Incorporated with Avocado ( Persea Americana Mill.) Pulp by Jutamas Moolwong, Worasaung Klinthong, Thanida Chuacharoen

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Diet of smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata (Geoffroy, 1826) in the Moyar River, Western Ghats, South India by Kannadasan Narasimmarajan, Manu Thomas Mathai, Matt W. Hayward, Sonaimuthu Palanivel

“…It highlights the potential need for distinct conservation management aims for the fragile Moyar River habitats of the Western Ghats—a global biodiversity hotspot.…”
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Pooled prevalence and subgroup variations of Tetralogy of Fallot among children and adolescents with congenital heart defect in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-ana... by Biniam Endale Geleta, Abay Mulu

“…<h4>Conclusions and future implications</h4>The prevalence of Tetralogy of Fallot observed was found considerably higher compared to global estimate and reports of developed countries. …”
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Changing trends in lung cancer disease burden between China and Australia from 1990 to 2019 and its predictions by Dan Zhao, Haijun Mu, Ping Yu, Chao Deng

“…Materials and Methods The data from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease Study were used to analyze disease temporal trends using Joinpoint regression model. …”
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Modeling and Mapping of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock Using Sentinel-2 Imagery in Chure Region, Nepal by Ananta Poudel, Him Lal Shrestha, Niraj Mahat, Garima Sharma, Sahara Aryal, Rupesh Kalakheti, Basanta Lamsal

“…The concerns about climate change in recent decades have heightened the need for effective methods for assessing and reporting forest biomass and Carbon Stocks (CS) at local, national, continental, and global scales. Accurate assessment of Aboveground Biomass (AGB) is critical for the sustainable management of forests, especially in the Chure region, a fragile and young mountainous in the lesser Himalaya of Nepal. …”
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Peculiarities of the examination of citrus fruits (mandarins) during the forensic examination by M. V. Harbuz, L. Yu. Ulybina

“…In today’s environment, the issue of ensuring the identification and safety of imported products is of particular relevance, which is aimed at the successful functioning of the state in the global economy and the reduction of technical barriers to trade. …”
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Indicators of  sustainable development of  the economic ecosystem of  the territory by E. V. Popov, I. P. Chelak, S. A. Kavetskiy

“…Their external environment is characterised by global socio-economic instability. In the current conditions, the assessment of the sustainable development of the territories becomes necessary in order to comprehensively study possible risks, identify problems and form an effective policy of the authorities.…”
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Higher School Teacher’s Competences and “Electronic” Pedagogical Culture in the Post-Pandemic World by T. E. Isaeva

“…The conducted empirical research, as well as the analysis of domestic and foreign publications show that, despite a short-term nature of remote learning, the transformations in pedagogical culture have the character of a qualitative leap and are global in nature, as they have affected the teachers in all countries. …”
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Extraction of Cellulosic Compound from Jackfruit Peel Waste and Characterization of PVA Cellulose Composite as Biodegradable Film by Aquib Rahman, Shah Md Ashiquzzaman Nipu, Md Shamsul Alam, S. Sharar Alam, Md. Tanvir Ahmed, Anika Afroz Shantona, Mahjabin Moon

“…Plastics utilized in packaging have a significant impact on the environment, leading to considerable concerns regarding human and environmental well-being. Researchers globally are working to counteract these incidents by integrating biopolymers like starch, cellulose, chitosan, etc., into the packaging sector because of their nontoxic nature, biodegradability, and eco-friendly properties. …”
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Dynamic Task Planning for Multi-Arm Harvesting Robots Under Multiple Constraints Using Deep Reinforcement Learning by Feng Xie, Zhengwei Guo, Tao Li, Qingchun Feng, Chunjiang Zhao

“…Global fruit production costs are increasing amid intensified labor shortages, driving heightened interest in robotic harvesting technologies. …”
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