Research on the Development Path of Urban Rail Transit Traction Power Supply System Based on Foreign Experience by HU Ji, LING Chen, SU Jingqi, LIU Shuo

“…［Objective］ In the context of the current urban rail transit towards intelligent，green and low-carbon development, upgrading the traction power supply system, the "heart" of urban rail transit, is of crucial importance for realizing the green and smart development of urban rail transit. …”
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Cytokines in Pericardial Effusion of Patients with Inflammatory Pericardial Disease by Konstantinos Karatolios, Rainer Moosdorf, Bernhard Maisch, Sabine Pankuweit

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Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli by Gillian PIGGOTT

“…Was Dickens himself, who lived and worked at the heart of the British Empire, inextricably caught up, physically and imaginatively, with the Orient?…”
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Primary Signet-Ring Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Urinary Bladder Treated with Partial Cystectomy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Umesh Jayarajah, D. M. Hilary Fernando, Kasun Bandara Herath, M. V. Chandu de Silva, S. A. S. Goonewardena

“…A 71-year-old female with a history of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and ischaemic heart disease presented with painless haematuria for 2 months’ duration. …”
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Late Treatment and Recurrence of Kawasaki Disease in a Moroccan Infant by R. Elqadiry, O. Louachama, N. Rada, G. Draiss, M. Bouskraoui

“…The diagnosis of recurrent KD was made according the five criteria of the American Heart Association. The echocardiography was normal again. …”
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Comparison of the effect of quick response code-based training and traditional methods on the knowledge, skill, and satisfaction of the nursing students in using medical device by Masoumeh Bagheri-Nesami, Mahsa Kamali, Amirabbas Mollaei

“…For the intervention group, the training approach based on QR codes was explained on the first day of their presence at the heart center. The knowledge, skill and satisfaction evaluations were conducted at the end of the clinical course on day 10. …”
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The development of preterm infants from low socio-economic status families: The combined effects of melatonin, autonomic nervous system maturation and psychosocial factors (ProMote... by Theano Kokkinaki, Nicole Anagnostatou, Maria Markodimitraki, Theano Roumeliotaki, Manolis Tzatzarakis, Elena Vakonaki, Giorgos Giannakakis, Aristidis Tsatsakis, Eleftheria Hatzidaki

“…The overall objective of the proposed longitudinal, multi-disciplinary and multi-method study is to compare the association of psychosocial (maternal mental health, intersubjectivity, attachment, family functioning, dyadic coping and perceived social support), and biological factors (melatonin and heart rate variability) with preterm infants' development at 9 months (corrected age), between low and high SES families. …”
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Comparison of natural and artificial vasopressin deficiency: why the latter is lethal? by D. Zelena

“…As in Brattleboro and targetted knockout mice the local synthesis of AVP in the heart can be maintained and AVP can be released into the general circulation. …”
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Supervised Convolutional Encoder-Decoder With Gated Linear Units for Detecting Fetal R-Peaks by Yao Chen, Jian Wang, Jing Zhang, Junkun Zhang, Zhentao Qin, Xinran Liu

“…A crucial aspect of noninvasive fetal ECG is detecting the R-peak series from the abdominal electrode signal, which is a fundamental baseline for determining fetal heart rate. This paper explores the direct detection of R-peaks by assigning categorical labels to each member of the observed values in the ECG sequence and proposes a convolutional encoder-decoder network and training strategy for processing the sequence annotation task. …”
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Atrial Cardiomyopathy: From Diagnosis to Treatment by Zheyu Liu, Tao Liu, Gang Wu

“…Finally, we discuss management strategies for ACM, encompassing “upstream therapy” targeting risk factors, identifying and providing appropriate anticoagulation for patients at high risk of stroke/systemic embolism events, and controlling heart rhythm along with potential atrial substrate improvements.…”
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Expression and Characterization of the Novel Gene fr47 during Freezing in the Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica by Katrina J. Sullivan, Kyle K. Biggar, Kenneth B. Storey

“…In response to freezing, the transcript expression of fr47 increased significantly in six tissues: heart, lung, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney, and testes. …”
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Wernicke’s Encephalopathy, Wet Beriberi, and Polyneuropathy in a Patient with Folate and Thiamine Deficiency Related to Gastric Phytobezoar by Nuria Huertas-González, Virgilio Hernando-Requejo, Zaida Luciano-García, Juan Luis Cervera-Rodilla

“…A 70-year-old man with gastric phytobezoar presented with gait instability, dyspnoea, chest pain associated with right heart failure and pericarditis, and folate deficiency. …”
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Connecting Cerebral White Matter Lesions and Hypertensive Target Organ Damage by Cristina Sierra, Alfons López-Soto, Antonio Coca

“…Preclinical hypertensive lesions in most target organs are clearly identified: left ventricular hypertrophy for the heart, microalbuminuria for the kidney, fundus abnormalities for the eye, and intima-media thickness and pulse wave velocity for the vessels. …”
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Social interaction and successful aging in elderly with chronic diseases by Gusti Sumarsih, Windy Freska, Tasya Desriza, Bingar Hernowo

“…Social interaction plays a crucial role in supporting successful aging, particularly among elderly individuals with chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and heart disease. This study aims to analyze the impact of social interaction on successful aging among elderly people visiting the Andalas Health Center in Padang City. …”
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Theoretical Sufism and Sharia regulations by Halilović Seid

“…If we approach the analysis of Sharia regulations in their esoteric layers with a grounded mystical methodology, we will understand that the original mystical teachings of Islam are hidden in the Sharia itself and at the heart of the Sharia rituals in which the Muslim affirms his ontological need to repentantly obey and serve the absolute being of God.…”
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Intelligent health monitoring system based on smart clothing by Chung-Chih Lin, Chih-Yu Yang, Zhuhuang Zhou, Shuicai Wu

“…The smart clothing is a wearable device for electrocardiography signal collection and heart rate monitoring. The system integrated our proposed fast empirical mode decomposition algorithm for electrocardiography denoising and hidden Markov model–based algorithm for fall detection. …”
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Physical activity at home during the COVID-19 lockdown in India: Need of the hour for optimum physical health and psychological resilience by Suraj CHAWLA, Manisha KOCHER

“…It can reduce high blood pressure, help manage overweight, improve immune regulation, reduce the risk of getting heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and various cancers- all conditions which increase vulnerability to COVID-19. …”
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The Effect of Thyroid Dysfunction on the Cardiovascular Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Ghana by Osei Sarfo-Kantanka, Fred Stephen Sarfo, Eunice Oparebea Ansah, Ishmael Kyei

“…Thyroid dysfunction is known to exaggerate the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among whites. …”
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A Study on Knowledge, Awareness, and Medication Adherence in Patients with Hypertension from a Tertiary Care Centre from Northern Sri Lanka by S. Pirasath, T. Kumanan, M. Guruparan

“…Results. 73 of 303 patients were males. 69.9% of patients had adequate knowledge about hypertension. 40.5% of patients were unaware of their disease status. 75.8% of patients could not recall their blood pressure values at the time of diagnosis. 72.3% of patients were unaware of their values of blood pressure during their last outpatient clinic visit. 48.2% of patients had awareness of target organ damage due to hypertension (kidney, 72, 23.7%; heart, 128, 42.2%; brain, 140, 46.7%; eye, 42, 13.8%). …”
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Evidence for Transfer of Membranes from Mesenchymal Stem Cells to HL-1 Cardiac Cells by Robert A. Boomsma, David L. Geenen

“…These results demonstrate that MSC and HL-1 cells exchange membrane components which may account for some of the beneficial effect of MSC in the heart after myocardial infarction.…”
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