Analysis of the Impacts of Health Cost and Risk Preference on Farmers’ Protective Behavior of Pesticide Application Based on the Autoregressive Threshold Model: A Case Study of Wuh... by Shukai Cai, Yaxing Gu, Runze Li, Zhonghong Teng

“…Based on the field survey data from 523 farmers in the main grain-producing areas, the cost of illness (COI) method was employed to quantitatively measure the health cost (HC) of pesticide application, the Likert scale was used to measure the risk preference (RP) of pesticide applicators, and the autoregressive threshold model was used to test the impact of health cost and risk preference on farmers’ protection behavior in the process of pesticide application. …”
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Sudden Onset of Coma and Fulminant Progression to Brain Death in a 48-Year-Old Male With Cerebral Malaria by Marina Costa, Cristiana Barbosa, Mauro Pereira, Luís Ribeiro, Pedro Silveira

“…We present a case of a 48-year-old man with a recent travel to Angola who presented comatose on the second day of a febrile illness with clinical signs of cerebral herniation and diffuse cerebral edema and cerebellar tonsil ectopia on cranioencephalic computed tomography. …”
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Is It the pH That Matters? Challenging the Pathophysiology of Acidemia in a Case of Severe Hypercapnia Secondary to Intraoperative CO2 Insufflation by Evan Merle, Saad Zaatari, Rory Spiegel

“…Most patients who present acidotic are critically ill and have confounding underlying metabolic or respiratory pathophysiology driving their illness. …”
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Predicting Intensive Care Unit Admissions in COVID-19 Patients: An AI-Powered Machine Learning Model by A. M. Mutawa

“…Our algorithm examines several clinical and demographic characteristics to identify high-risk individuals early in illness diagnosis. We used 4399 patients to identify ICU admission with predictors such as shortness of breath, high D-dimer values, and abnormal chest X-rays. …”
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Isolation, Identification, and Resistance Test of Escherichia coli to Antibiotics in Ujung Berung Broiler Poultry by Fatia Nasyna Afifa Kantamaryana, Roostita L Balia, Wendry Setiyadi Putranto

“…However, mostly pathogenic and cause colibacillosis illness. Inappropriate use of antibiotics in broiler chickens has been widely reported. …”
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A clinical dilemma, the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy by Carlos Moya Toneut, Javier Cruz Rodríguez, Miguel Román Sarduy Nápoles

“…Development: in every nosological illness a good interrogation and a physical examination favor the diagnosis, however difficult it may be. …”
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Efficacy of Intra Sheath Corticosteroid Injection in Treatment of De Quervain Disease by Qasim Mahmood, Sheraz Mustafa, Sarmad Nasir, Noman Khalid

“…Conclusion: In summary, local steroid injections directly into the tendon sheath are a very efficient way to reduce the inflammation linked to De Quervain's illness; this method works far better than other therapies such as topical lotions, braces, and oral NSAIDs. …”
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Mast Cell Activation Syndrome in COVID-19 and Female Reproductive Function: Theoretical Background vs. Accumulating Clinical Evidence by Dariusz Szukiewicz, Piotr Wojdasiewicz, Mateusz Watroba, Grzegorz Szewczyk

“…Surprisingly, although COVID-19 hyperinflammation and post-COVID-19 illness may be rooted in MCAS, the available clinical data do not provide grounds for treating this mechanism as significantly increasing the risk of abnormal female reproductive function, including pregnancy. …”
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Ethnomedicinal understandings and pharmacognosy of Dischidia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae): A potential epiphytic genus by Gitartha Saikia, Nilakshee Devi

“…Methods: Different ethnomedicinal practices of the genus, plant parts used, modes of their administrations, types of diseases cured, reported chemical constituents and their therapeutic activities against a particular type of illness were analyzed based on the previously documented literatures and thus scrutinized the medicinal prospects of the genus for the forthcoming generation. …”
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Are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors a Secondary Cause of Low Bone Density? by Kim Chau, Stephanie A. Atkinson, Valerie H. Taylor

“…Current findings suggest a link between mental illness and osteoporosis that is of clinical relevance. …”
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Identification of GastrointestinalEndoparasites in Native Chickens (Gallus domesticus)in PattongkoVillage, Sinjai Tengah District, Sinjai Regency by Andi Evi Erviani, Zohra Hasyim, Saeful Musawwir

“…Although this type of chicken has a high adaptability ability, native chickens can also experience illness and population reduction on farms that can be caused by worm-type endoparasites. …”
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Targeting Anabolic Impairment in Response to Resistance Exercise in Older Adults with Mobility Impairments: Potential Mechanisms and Rehabilitation Approaches by Micah J. Drummond, Robin L. Marcus, Paul C. LaStayo

“…., sarcopenia) and may be compounded by comorbidities, injury, surgery, illness, and physical inactivity. While a bout of resistance exercise increases protein synthesis rates in healthy young skeletal muscle, the effectiveness of resistance exercise to mount a protein synthetic response is less pronounced in older adults. …”
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Primary Diaphragmatic Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma in a Young Female Patient after Delivery by Shinya Sakata, Chieko Yoshida, Sho Saeki, Susumu Hirosako, Hidenori Ichiyasu, Hirotsugu Kohrogi

“…After that, we performed vascular embolization along with chemotherapy, but tumor size did not reduce. On the 160th day of illness, the patient died. This is the first report of a primary diaphragmatic dedifferentiated liposarcoma diagnosed after delivery. …”
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Active Aging for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: Definitions, Literature Review, and Models by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Johan Lökk

“…Yet, most of the efforts are on normal aging and less attention has been paid for the elderly suffering from a chronic illness such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). The aim of this review was to investigate how the concept of “active aging” fit for the elderly with PD and to propose a new model for them using the recent improvements in caring models and management approaches. …”
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Analysis of consular assistance provided to Irish citizens abroad, 2014–2023 by Alan Alby, Aoife Power, Gerard T. Flaherty

“…The greatest proportion of missions related to COVID-19 repatriations (26.9 %, n = 7097), deaths overseas (10 %, n = 2650), and medical illness/mental health emergency abroad (11.6 %, n = 3047). …”
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AIDS and discrimination: Points of view of a group of adolescents and persons that live with the human immune-deficiency virus. by Ana María Molina Gómez, Yuniet Rojas Mesa, Jorge García Cuesta, María Elinor Dulzaides Iglesias, Oristela Mora Rodríguez

“…<strong>Methods:</strong> A descriptive study made in Cienfuegos, in which 120 adolescents and 29 PVHIV were inquired and also conferences about this illness were given. <strong>Results and Conclusions:</strong> The 120 inquired affirmed they knew about the disease and was receiving information regarding it. …”
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Daring to Be Different: The First-Person HIV-Positive Narrator in Two South African Novels by Lizzy Attree

“…Reading these two novels together helps us to understand literary patterns, associations and dissociations, which reveal a cultural symbology of HIV/AIDS, part of a wider cultural symbology of illness in South African literature. …”
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Suicide risks associated with pregnancy outcomes: a national cross-sectional survey of American females 41–45 years of age by David C. Reardon

“…One hypothesis is that this association is entirely incidental and most likely fully explained by preexisting mental illness. This hypothesis can be tested by examining women’s own self-assessments of the degree, if any, that abortion and other pregnancy outcomes contributed to suicidal thoughts and behaviors.Methods A topic blind survey was distributed to 2829 American females 41–45 years of age. …”
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L’excès dans la fiction de Wilkie Collins by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…In these works, some of the reserved and unobtrusive female characters that embody excess « err » on the side of introversion, retreat into silence and illness and become almost « invisible ». This policy of self-censorship, and excessive somatization, gives a symptomatic function to excess as a revelator of social pathologies (unfair patriarchal laws) and family disorders — repressive and unhealthy marital situations and all forms of abuse inflicted on wives. …”
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Evaluation of a Rapid Kit for Detection of IgM against Leptospira in Human by Mohan Rao, Fairuz Amran, Nadia Aqilla

“…Leptospirosis is an acute febrile illness, known for its protean clinical manifestations and the challenge in differentiating from other infectious diseases. …”
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