A Higher Serum Anion Gap Is Associated with the Risk of Progressing to Impaired Fasting Glucose and Diabetes by Yingchao Zhang, Fengran Xiong, Ruxuan Zhao, Tingting Shi, Jing Lu, Jinkui Yang

“…Here, we performed a prospective, population-based study among 1191 Chinese individuals aged 22–87 years who took health examinations annually between 2006 and 2012 including clinical features and plasma metabolites. …”
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Production of probiotic kefir from different plant-based milks by Berra Ceylan, Nilgün Öncül

“…This study has provided alternative plant-based fermented beverages for individuals who do not consume or cannot consume animal-derived products.…”
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Prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorder among Medical Students in New Delhi: A Cross-Sectional Study by Aninda Debnath, Anita Verma, Priyansha Gupta, Sneha Jindal

“…Background: Amid the global concern over alcohol consumption’s ramifications for public health, the escalating prevalence of alcohol misuse among young individuals, especially students, is alarming. This study examines the prevalence of alcohol use disorder (AUD) among medical students, exploring its link to depression, anxiety, and socioeconomic factors. …”
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The mediating role of thyroid-related hormones between thyroid dysfunction diseases and osteoporosis: a mediation mendelian randomization study by Ruikang Liu, Weiming Fan, Jiaming Hu, Ke Xu, Zhijian Huang, Yang Liu, Chiyun Sun

“…Our findings underscore the significance of improving integrative care for individuals with TDFDs to mitigate the risk of OP. It is essential to maintain stable levels of thyroid hormones and closely monitor bone health to effectively mitigate and prevent OP.…”
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Burden of coeliac disease in Germany: real-world insights from a large retrospective health insurance claims database analysis by Bernd Bokemeyer, Leonarda Serdani-Neuhaus, Juliane Sünwoldt, Christina Dünweber, Svitlana Schnaidt, Detlef Schuppan

“…Background: Coeliac disease (CeD) is a chronic immune-mediated disease triggered by exposure to dietary gluten in genetically predisposed individuals. The burden of CeD on patients and the healthcare system remains poorly evaluated in Germany. …”
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A Hierarchical Behavioral Dynamic Approach for Naturally Adaptive Human-Agent Pick-and-Place Interactions by Maurice Lamb, Patrick Nalepka, Rachel W. Kallen, Tamara Lorenz, Steven J. Harrison, Ali A. Minai, Michael J. Richardson

“…Interactive or collaborative pick-and-place tasks occur during all kinds of daily activities, for example, when two or more individuals pass plates, glasses, and utensils back and forth between each other when setting a dinner table or loading a dishwasher together. …”
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Effects of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Cytokine, Toll-Like Receptor, and Progesterone Receptor Genes on Risk of Miscarriage by Anastasiia Razdaibiedina, Mykhaylo Khobzey, Victoria Tkachenko, Iryna Vorobiova

“…However, genetic variation from one individual to another results in variation in levels of Th1/Th2 cytokines, strength of identification of infectious agents by Toll-like receptors, and quality of progesterone recognition. …”
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Les bibliothèques : des identités-palimpsestes by Géraldine Sfez

“…Mais si l’on peut ressaisir l’identité d’un individu à travers les livres qu’il a lus, la bibliothèque se construit également à partir des ouvrages qu’il possède mais qu’il n’a pas encore lus. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT «CLINICAL BASES OF INTERNSHIP» WHILE PREPARING STUDENTS WITH A SPECIALTY IN «PSYCHOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY OF PRIMARY EDUCATION» by Elena G. Gutsu, Nadezda N. Demeneva

“…Importance of students’ project group and individual activity (the subject has to correspond to interests of employers and real needs of school) are emphasized.Scientific novelty. …”
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Epidemiology of spinal cord injuries in three selected counties in Kenya by George M. Muli, Veronica Ntsiea, Natalie Benjamin-Damons, Nassib Tawa

“…Results: The findings reveal a predominant prevalence in male patients, accounting for 84.04% of occurrences, with the highest incidence observed among individuals aged 26–35 years (36.15%). Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause, accounting for 45.07% of cases, followed by falls from height accounting for 42.25% of cases and violence, specifically gunshot injuries, which account for 7.04% of incidents. …”
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Women middle and senior managers by Bassirou Gueye

“…Compared with their representation among non-managers, immigrants and racialized individuals are also underrepresented in management roles, with women in these groups facing additional barriers. …”
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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 Ceastecker

“…We apply a multinomial logistic multilevel design to simultaneously incorporate individual and contextual effects at the district level. …”
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Chronological Analysis of Climate Change and an Overview of Nuclear Energy by Nergin Günay, Sevilay Hacıyakupoğlu

“…This encompasses not only the work of the scientific community, but also effective climate change action from the local to the global level, including individual behaviour, the life way of societies using energy and natural resources, and the policies of governments. …”
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The Influence of Investor Emotion on the Stock Market: Evidence from an Infectious Disease Model by Yutao Chen, Shuzhen Zhu, Haoyuan He

“…We use an extension of the SIR (susceptible, infectious, and recovered) model, called the dynamic SIRS model (where individuals return to a susceptible state), to simulate the impact of investor sentiment on the stock market. …”
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Chaotic evolutionary multi-objective optimization for multivariate pair trading in tehran stock exchange: the distance approach by Hossein Nikoo, Jamal Barzgari khanagha, Hamid Reza Mirzaei

“…Also, the initial population of individuals was created in a multi-objective genetic algorithm based on chaos theory.…”
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Construção da identidade paterna e licença paternidade: uma perspectiva de pais by Julia do Couto Bueno, Conceição Aparecida Serralha

“…Os participantes preencheram um formulário sociodemográfico e realizaram uma entrevista semiestruturada individual por meio de vídeo chamada, que foi gravada e transcrita. …”
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Mindfulness and consumer behavior: a bibliometric analysis of themes and trends over 20 years by Maria-Angeles Iniesta-Bonillo, Alinne Pompeu-Queiros, Maria Mercedes Capobianco Uriarte, Helena Alves

“…Abstract Mindlessness, or lack of awareness, is deeply rooted in society and reinforced by the constant stimuli from marketing practices, leading to unhealthy and unsustainable consequences for individuals, society, and the environment. In consumer behavior, this manifests as impulsive or excessive purchasing, which undermines well-being and happiness rather than enhancing them. …”
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تطبیقات الهواتف الذکیة والخصوصیة المعلوماتیة : دراسة تحلیلیة مقارنة by د. حسام الدین محمد رفعت

“…In recent years there has been alegislative response at different levels for the sake of this protection, and thejudiciary has followed it with a remarkable response in favour of the jurisprudenceof the private life of individuals that is of paramount importance to both theindividual and the community.This coincided with the increasing vulnerability of the right to privacy tothe digital environment through e-mail and chat sites Networks or communicationsites, which have become a hoot of the modern era and a wide electronic space,in which we put all the references about us and our lives, as well as our privacy.The purpose of this study is to diagnose the reality of the work of Google Playapplications that work on the smart phone environment, especially with regard togathering information or allowing access to personal data and users’ information,by identifying the nature of data and information collected or allowed access to,monitoring the nature of the risks of using these applications.To do so, the researcher studied and analyzed licensing agreements forthe use of 80 applications of smart phones in areas commonly used in the digitalenvironment, such as social networking applications, Online banks Applications,antivirus applications, web search applications, news and press applications,educational applications, web applications, travel and tourism applications. …”
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Experiences and perceptions of clinical research participation at an academic medical center by Joshua T. CLARK, Angela BURRELL, Amber ARNOLD, Travis W. SCHMITZ, Lei ZHANG, Daniel W. JONES, Richard L. SUMMERS, Whitney BONDURANT, Vinayak K. NAHAR

“…In Phase I, a quantitative questionnaire was distributed to 482 individuals across 18 of the academic medical center’s 23 School of Medicine departments. …”
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3D-Printing of Artificial Aortic Heart Valve Using UV-Cured Silicone: Design and Performance Analysis by Atila Ertas, Erik Farley-Talamantes, Olkan Cuvalci, Ozhan Gecgel

“…The advancement of medical 3D printing technology includes several enhancements, such as decreasing the length of surgical procedures and minimizing anesthesia exposure, improving preoperative planning, creating personalized replicas of tissues and bones specific to individual patients, bioprinting, and providing alternatives to human organ transplants. …”
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