A Comparative Systematic Review of the Optimal CD4 Cell Count Threshold for HIV Treatment Initiation by Babatunde Olubajo, Kathryn Mitchell-Fearon, Oluseye Ogunmoroti

“…An 11% increase in risk was detected from initiation therapy at the 350–500 cells/μL range (0.37 [0.26, 0.53]), when compared with starting treatment before 500 cells/μL (0.33 [0.22, 0.48]). Most individual study comparisons showed a benefit for starting treatment at 500 cells/μL in comparison with starting at the 350–500 cells/μL range with risks ranging from 19% to 300%, though a number of comparisons were not statistically significant. …”
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Towards the implementation of automated scoring in international large-scale assessments: Scalability and quality control by Ji Yoon Jung, Lillian Tyack, Matthias von Davier

“…This remarkable performance can be attributed to MMT_ANNs providing more suitable translations at both individual response and language levels. Furthermore, MMT_ANNs consistently generated accurate scores for identical or borderline responses within and across countries. …”
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A user-friendly software to accurately count and measure cysts from the parasitic nematode Heterodera glycines by Joffrey Mejias, Djampa K. L. Kozlowski, Jackson Goshon, Thomas R. Maier, Thomas J. Baum

“…Manual counting hundreds of cysts on a given root system is not only laborious but also subject to variability due to individual assessor differences. Additionally, while measuring cyst size could provide valuable insights due to its correlation with cyst development, this aspect is frequently overlooked because it demands even more hands-on work. …”
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Evolutionary Explanations of the “Actuarial Senescence in the Wild” and of the “State of Senility” by Giacinto Libertini

“…Only the theory attributing an adaptive value to IMICAW allows an evolutionary explanation for it and for the aforesaid inverse correlation, while the other three theories (“mutation accumulation”, “antagonistic pleiotropy”, and “disposable soma” th.) even predict a positive correlation.Afterwards, the same theories are tested as possible explanations for the “state of senility”[3], namely the deteriorated state of individuals in artificially protected conditions (captivity, civilization, etc.) at ages rarely or never observable in the wild. …”
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Alleviating the public health burden of hypertension: debating precision prevention as a possible solution by Madeleine J. Samakosky, Shane A. Norris

“…Precision prevention, a tailored health intervention approach utilising individual and population-specific factors – genetic, environmental, and social determinants – offers a potential alternative. …”
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Support for a Common Metric for Pediatric Pain Intensity Scales by Carl L von Baeyer, Carrie L Hicks

“…To explore both support and reservations concerning the adoption of a common metric, a survey questionnaire was sent in 1999 to an estimated 600 subscribers to the Pediatric Pain Internet Mailing List. Individuals working in pediatric institutions where children's pain is routinely measured, or where adoption of such measures is planned, were requested to respond by e-mail or mail. …”
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A Global Lakes/Reservoirs Surface Extent Dataset (GLRSED): An Integration of Multi‐Source Data by Bingxin Bai, Lixia Mu, Yumin Tan

“…., name, area, source, depth and type) of 2.17 million individual features, was developed based on HydroLAKES and OpenStreetMap (OSM). …”
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Integration of medical knowledge into psycho-pedagogical practice by V. Dufynets, T. Shcherban, V. Hoblyk

“…In accordance with this, the consequences are the creation of a basis for the development of creative individuals, their training with the assimilation of medical knowledge to professional activity in the future and the understanding of the need for quality education throughout life. …”
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Personality, opinion strength, and social media use – not such a straightforward relationship by Melissa Cox, Bernadine Cocks, Susan E. Watt, Elizabeth C. Temple

“…Time spent on social media significantly predicted direction of opinions on several issues, as well as strength of opinion on the issue of gender equality, however it did not moderate any relationship between personality and opinion direction or strength.Conclusions Although opinions, personality, and social media use are sometimes related, individuals high or low in particular personality traits are at no greater risk of polarising due to social media use than anyone else.…”
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Dietary Patterns among Eight Grade Adolescents and their Impact on Dietary Adequacy by Zeida Bárbara Alejo, Amarelis Rodríguez Fuente, Daysi López Sosa, Pilar Almaguer Sabina

“…<strong>Background:</strong> the study of dietary patterns in adolescence becomes of great importance because at this stage individuals acquired eating habits that they will keep throughout their lives. …”
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A Combination of Classification Robust Adaptive Kalman Filter with PPP-RTK to Improve Fault Detection for Integrity Monitoring of Autonomous Vehicles by Hassan Elsayed, Ahmed El-Mowafy, Amir Allahvirdi-Zadeh, Kan Wang, Xiaolong Mi

“…PPP-RTK enhances IM availability by allowing undifferenced and uncombined observations, enabling individual observation exclusion during fault detection and exclusion (FDE). …”
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Partner Choices in Long Established Migrant Communities in Belgium by Emilien Dupont, Amelie Van Pottelberge, Bart Van de Putte, John Lievens, Frank Caestecker

“…We apply a multinomial logistic multilevel design to simultaneously incorporate individual and contextual effects at the district level. …”
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Decoding the Methylation Patterns of ABC Transporters in Colorectal Cancer by Nurul Nabilah Norhisan, Rashidah Baharudin, Nurul Qistina Rus Bakarurraini, Nur Alyaa Afifah Md Shahri, Francis Yew Fu Tieng, Imilia Ismail, Muhammad-Redha Abdullah-Zawawi, Learn-Han Lee, Nurul Syakima Ab Mutalib

“…Survival analysis demonstrated the correlation between DNA methylation of individual CpG sites and patient survival probability in colon and rectal adenocarcinoma datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas. …”
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Pleiotropic effects of a recessive Col1a2 mutation occurring in a mouse model of severe osteogenesis imperfecta. by Michelangelo Corcelli, Rachel Sagar, Ellen Petzendorfer, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Fleur S van Dijk, Anna L David, Pascale V Guillot

“…In Europe, approximately 85-90% of individuals with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) have dominant pathogenic variants in the Col1a1 or Col1a2 genes whilst for Asian, especially Indian and Chinese cohorts, this ratio is much lower. …”
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Understanding Types of Stigma Experienced in Black Women Living With HIV in Baltimore, Maryland: A Mixed Methods Study by Tanya Mikhael, Kyra Jennifer Waligora Mendez, Chun‐An Sun, Joy Chepkorir, Hae‐Ra Han

“…Methods Quantitative data were collected in the baseline survey, and qualitative data were gathered during 6‐month follow‐up focus group and individual interviews. First, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis with principal axis factoring to identify the underlying factor structure of the HIV Stigma Scale. …”
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Advances in Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Biosensor Technologies for Cancer Cell Detection by Bhishma Karki, Arun Uniyal, Amrindra Pal, Vivek Srivastava

“…This biosensor executes better over a wide range of refractive index variations, including biological cell distribution in individual blood. It may become a fast method of detecting cancerous cells and the several variants of corona and other viruses that become pandemic. …”
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Determining factors affecting flood risk perception among local communities in Iran by Moslem Savari, Ahmad Jafari, Abbas Sheheytavi

“…To increase the resilience and adaptability of rural households in the face of floods, it is essential to first address individuals’ risk perception as a critical issue. This study was conducted with two primary. …”
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Practical epistemology: the role of peer review in organizing scientific research by A. V. Shestopal, V. I. Konnov

“…The authors also consider the main procedural elements - preparation of individual reviews, consideration by panels, anonymity of reviewers. …”
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Antigenotoxic Effect of Curcumin and Carvacrol against Parathion Induced DNA Damage in Cultured Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes and Its Relation to GSTM1 and GSTT1 Polymorphism by Neeraj Kumar, Anita Yadav, Sachin Gulati, Kanupriya, Neeraj Aggarwal, Ranjan Gupta

“…Heparinised fresh blood from healthy individuals was treated with 2.5 μg/mL concentration of parathion in presence of curcumin and carvacrol in order to observe the antigenotoxic potential of both curcumin and carvacrol. …”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his ideas in the spectrum of the pressing challenges of our time: to the postulates of modern psychological and pedagogical interaction by Irina Manokha

“…If we consider the idea of following the natural pupil so as to create conditions for detection, disclosure, and facilitating the full deployment of the individual capacities of the pupil, this idea is at least highly relevant. …”
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