Unveiling novel biomarkers for platinum chemoresistance in ovarian cancer by Wang Caixia, Peng Changsheng, Xie Chuan

“…Primary chemoresistance to platinum-based treatment is observed in approximately 33% of individuals diagnosed with ovarian cancer; however, conventional clinical markers exhibit limited predictive value for chemoresistance. …”
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Sleep Behaviour in Sickle Cell Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Melanie Koelbel, Fenella J. Kirkham

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> There is a high prevalence of sleep behaviour disorders, as well as sleep disordered breathing (SDB), in individuals living with sickle cell disease (SCD). SDB has been systematically reviewed; therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis focused on sleep behaviour. …”
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Genetic Association Analysis of Fasting and 1- and 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance Test Data Using a Generalized Index of Dissimilarity Measure for the Korean Population by Jaeyong Yee, Yongkang Kim, Taesung Park, Mira Park

“…All of the 18 possible combinations made out of the 3 sets of classification for the individual phenotypes were taken into our analysis. …”
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Small pieces make the big picture: the etiology of the relationship between executive functions and personality traits by Željka Nikolašević, Snežana Smederevac, Dušanka Mitrović, Petar Čolović, Bojana Dinić, Jasmina Kodžopeljić, Mechthild Prinz, Zoran Budimlija, Vojislava Bugarski Ignjatović

“…Most phenotypic associations between the two domains of individual differences were almost entirely explained by shared genetic influences. …”
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Hierarchical Task-Parameterized Learning from Demonstration for Collaborative Object Movement by Siyao Hu, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

“…Third, because the hierarchical structure encodes each demonstrated situation individually, a wider range of task situations can be modeled in the same framework without deteriorating performance. …”
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Job satisfaction and animal welfare at slaughter: A survey of Official Veterinarians in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland by Imogen O’Connor, Kelly Gouveia

“…There is also the likelihood of professionals’ individual ethical values being challenged since OVs are virtually certain to witness religious slaughter yet disagree with this practice to the extent that they consider it should be banned. …”
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The Basas Spanish Squat: Superimposition of Electrical Stimulation to Optimize Patellar Tendon Strain: A Case Series by Carlos Basas, Naoaki Ito, Karin Grävare Silbernagel, Fernando Reyes-Gil, Ángel Basas

“…The results support the theory that the Basas Spanish Squat with E-stim increases patellar tendon strain and could explain the reported clinical benefits in individuals with patellar tendinopathy. # Level of Evidence 4, Case series…”
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Current and future perspectives on clinical management of classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency by Analia Yogi, Kenichi Kashimada

“…Optimizing the glucocorticoid dosage has been a major concern in classic 21OHD (21-hydroxylase deficiency) treatment, as it is essential to adjust it meticulously to the needs of the individual patient. Insufficient glucocorticoid treatment will cause adrenal insufficiency, including life-threatening adrenal crisis, while excess of androgen could cause precocious pubertal growth in children, virilization in female patients, and infertility in male and female adult patients. …”
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Comparison of whole genome sequencing performance from fish swabs and fin clips by Annabell Macphee, Temitope Opeyemi Oriowo, Nils Sternberg, Madlen Stange

“…The collection of fin clips requires anaesthesia or even euthanisation of the individual. Swabbing may be a less invasive, non-lethal alternative to fin-clipping. …”
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Evaluation of vegetable wastes recycled for vermicomposting and its response on yield and quality of carrot (Daucus carota L.) by Ranjit Chatterjee, S. Bandyopadhyay, J. C. Jana

“…The study demonstrated that vermicompost produced from the substrate, combining mixture of non-legume and legume vegetable waste at 2:1 will provide the major nutrients in more balanced proportion compared to sole individual family waste vermicompost (vermicompost obtained from the waste of one single plant family). …”
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Philosophical and Legal Interpretations of the Deformations of Legal Awareness in the XX - Early XXI Century by M. V. Melnyk

“…Lukasheva in her work “Socialist Legal Awareness and Legality”, where she characterized that the legal awareness of a particular individual can be defective, limited, and backward from the general level of public consciousness, can contain harmful installations and defective assessments of legal phenomena.…”
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Machine learning prediction of combat basic training injury from 3D body shape images. by Steven Morse, Kevin Talty, Patrick Kuiper, Michael Scioletti, Steven B Heymsfield, Richard L Atkinson, Diana M Thomas

“…A method to predict which individuals might be more susceptible to injury would be valuable, especially in the military where basic recruits may be discharged from service due to injury. …”
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A multiscale model for glioma spread including cell-tissue interactions and proliferation by Christian Engwer, Markus Knappitsch, Christina Surulescu

“…Starting from a multiscale model involving subcellular (microscopic) and individual (mesoscale)cell dynamics, we perform a parabolic scaling to obtain an approximating reaction-diffusion-transport equation on themacroscale of the tumor cell population. …”
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Air Quality and Public Health Risk Assessment: A Case of an Industrial Area in Haridwar City, Uttarakhand (India) by Alka Pant, Ramesh Chandra Joshi, Sanjay Sharma, Kamal Pant

“…Background: Air pollution is a significant issue for a developing country like India and the air quality index (AQI) forecasting helps to predict air quality levels in advance and allows individuals to take precautionary measures to protect their health. …”
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Effects of nitrogen topdressing fertilization on yield and quality in soybeans by Yeon Ju Lee, Jong Hyuk Kim, Ju Hyeon Ha, Ha Yeon Nam, Il Rae Rho

“…The protein and total amino acid content were highest in the N20 treatment but tended to decrease with a greater quantity of topdressing. contents of most individual amino acids peaked in the N20 or N30 treatments and decreased as topdressing quantity increased, although proline and arginine contents increased with quantity of topdressing. …”
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Comparative Analyses of Diversity and Similarity Indices of West Bank Forest and Block A Forest of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan, Oyo State, Nig... by Ariyo Oluyinka Christopher

“…A total number of 219 plant species from 70 families and 5804 individual plants were recorded in the two forests. …”
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Prevalence of Hypertension in Area I Cienfuegos Municipality. Second Measurement of CARMEN Initiative by Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Karelis Lastre Navarro, María Lina Valdés Gómez, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Alain Francisco Morejón Giraldoni, Juan Rafael Zerquera Rodríguez

“…The sampling units were: districts, areas and sections that contained the houses, were the individuals were selected; the sample consisted on 373 people, their blood pressure was taken and an opinion poll was applied, the variables were: age, sex, personal record of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, tobacco addiction, type of physical activity, weight, size, abdominal circumference. …”
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Snoezelen or Controlled Multisensory Stimulation. Treatment Aspects from Israel by Joav Merrick, Carmit Cahana, Meir Lotan, Isack Kandel, Eli Carmeli

“…A certification course has been established on a national basis for individuals from different professions (occupational therapists, physiotherapists, teachers, music therapists, nurses, speech therapists, or caregivers). …”
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Green banana flour does not alter lipid and inflammatory profile of women overweight by Sandra Tavares da Silva, Carolina Araújo dos Santos, Júlia Cristina Cardoso Carraro, José Luiz Marques Rocha, Josefina Bressan

“…Isolated consumption of FBV did not cause significant bodily and metabolic changes. The adoption of individual measures offer limited effects and should be discouraged as the only way of improving health.…”
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Investigation of residential tower design indicators for sustainable social development Case study: Tehran metropolitan towers... by Valiollah ghasemi gilvaei, afshin ghorbani param

“…The sample size was determined to be 384 individuals based on the Morgan table. The results of the Friedman test indicate that designing open spaces for art, culture, games, and entertainment in towers promotes interactions and a sense of belonging, while mitigating the negative effects of industrial life on residents. …”
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