Disparities in Tobacco use and cravings among sexual and gender minority adolescents in the United States by Sunday Azagba, Todd Ebling, Galappaththige S.R. de Silva

“…Among gender minority users, 40.45 % of nonbinary, genderfluid, or genderqueer individuals and 20.34 % of other gender identities reported cravings. …”
Get full text

Strengthening liability for unauthorised abandonment of a military unit or place of service in the light of current criminal law issues by Р. І. Tkachenko

“…The expediency of applying the strengthening of legal responsibility of military personnel, in particular criminal, taking into account individual recommendations, has been emphasized.…”
Get full text

Cognitive-Enhancing, Ex Vivo Antilipid Peroxidation and Qualitative Phytochemical Evaluation of the Aqueous and Methanolic Stem Bark Extracts of Lonchocarpus eriocalyx (Harms.) by Gervason Moriasi, Anthony Ireri, Mathew Ngugi

“…Over 50 million persons are living with cognitive deficits worldwide, with over 80% of these individuals living in the developing world. The number of affected persons is projected to go over 152 million by the year 2050. …”
Get full text

Optimizing Laser Capture Microdissection Protocol for Isolating Zone-Specific Cell Populations from Mandibular Condylar Cartilage by Aisha M. Basudan, Yanqi Yang

“…Additional specimens were microdissected to prepare LCM samples from FCC and each MCC zone individually. Then, to evaluate LCM-RNA integrity, 3′/m ratios of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and beta-actin (β-Actin) using quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) were calculated. …”
Get full text

Selflessness: An International Comparative Analysis of a Much-Needed Public Value by Christina W. Andrews, Michiel de Vries

“…Considering the factors predicting it, we find that the likelihood of an individual exhibiting selflessness largely depends on the region they live in. …”
Get full text

The art of being healthy: a qualitative study to develop a thematic framework for understanding the relationship between health and the arts by Matthew Knuiman, Peter Wright, Michael Rosenberg, Christina R Davies

“…Within each theme, positive, negative and unintended outcomes (subthemes) were identified and categorised as relating to the individual and/or to the community. A list of confounding and/or effect modifying factors, related to both the arts and health, was identified.Conclusions Given the increasing pressure on health resources, the arts have the potential to assist in the promotion of health and healing. …”
Get full text

VARIATION OF GROWTH AND YIELD OF CHILLI WITH DIFFERENT DOSES OF NITROGEN IN LAMJUNG DISTRICT, NEPAL by Sabin Bhattarai, Seema Adhikari, Shrisha Shrestha, Sagar Manandhar

“…Growth characteristics such as plant height and the quantity of branches, along with yield-related attributes like fruit length, number of fruits per plant, individual plant weight, and yield (tons per hectare), displayed noteworthy variations until the point of harvest. …”
Get full text

A comprehensive analysis and comparative study of the trends in thyroid cancer burden in China and globally from 1990 to 2021, with projections for the next 15 Years by Yulai Yin, Xiaoyu Zhang

“…Age-specific analysis revealed that thyroid cancer is most prevalent among individuals aged 50–64. Gender-specific analysis indicated that the incidence rate is higher in females than in males. …”
Get full text

Psicanálise e pesquisa social de hermenêutica profunda by Thomas Leithauser

“…Adorno, entretanto, acrescenta com razão que, em contraposição à opinião pedagógica dominante da psicanálise, não se trata apenas de um fenômeno individual, e sim, ao mesmo tempo, um fenômeno social geral. …”
Get full text

New cultivars of vegetable cowpea (<i>Vigna unguiculata</i> (L.) Walp.) developed at VIR by M. V. Gurkina, M. O. Burlyaeva

“…This crop is known to tolerate high temperatures and droughts, so new cowpea cultivars adapted to the local arid conditions of the Lower Volga are of considerable interest.Materials and methods. Mass and individual selection techniques were applied to develop new cultivars from cowpea landraces held in the VIR collection. …”
Get full text

The Line of Beijing in Settlement of Problems in the Basin of the South China Sea by V. Y. Vorobyev, A. V. Ivanov

“…Meanwhile, China continues to maintain a clear negotiating tactic with its opponents in the dispute over the islands on a strictly bilateral basis, trying to bring its position to all ASEAN members involved in the dispute through each individual partner. Beijing's apparent unwillingness to take real steps to speed up the adoption of the Code of Conduct can probably be explained by the fear that the Code will be used by ASEAN countries to provide collective pressure on China and limit its activities in the region. …”
Get full text

A Comparison of the Celiacomesenteric Trunk in the Caribbean with Global Prevalence Calculated by a Systematic Review by Shamir O. Cawich, Maurice Fortune, Rahul Deshpande, Michael Gardner, Neil Pearce, Peter Johnson, Vijay Naraynsingh

“…We then conducted a systematic literature search and retrieved raw data to calculate the global prevalence (number of individuals with a CMT divided by the sum total of study samples). …”
Get full text

Integrated transcriptome and metabolome analysis of liver reveals unsynchronized growth mechanisms in blunt-snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) by Qi Liu, Xue Zou, Ming Zhao, Qianqian Guan, Zhaoyang Xuan, Lusha Liu, Zexia Gao

“…Results To investigate the differential metabolites and genes governing growth, and understand the mechanism underlying their unsynchronized growth, we conducted comprehensive transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of liver from fast-growing (FG) and slow-growing (SG) M. amblycephala individuals. A total of 2,097 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified between FG and SG, with 830 genes exhibiting significantly higher expression level in FG. …”
Get full text

“If somebody wants an abortion, nobody should override their decision”: Modern Canadian perspectives on abortion in relation to artificial womb technology by Srishti Hukku, Lisa L. Wynn, Angel M. Foster

“…Anthropologists have leveraged concepts of stratified reproduction and reproductive governance to shed light on how different individuals are encouraged/discouraged to reproduce and how key actors such as the state mobilize the capacity for reproduction. …”
Get full text

Diagnostic Value of CD25, CD69, and CD134 on Tuberculosis-Specific Antigen-Stimulated CD4+ T Cells for Tuberculous Pleurisy by Hanlu Shi, Liping Yang, Fujie Zhang, Yu Zhou, Yonglie Zhou

“…The expression of each activation marker was significantly increased in TB-infected populations (patients with ATB and latent TB infection vs. healthy individuals; patients with TP vs. non-TP) and was significantly higher in the PF than in the PB of patients with TP. …”
Get full text

Effects of folkloric dance on depression levels of education among children at 7-11 age group by Ahmet Aydın, Mehibe Akandere

“…A meaningful decrease at depression levels of individuals who have mothers working at public or private sector was observed (P lt;0.05). …”
Get full text

KING'S ENGLISH AND THE ARISTOCRATIC CODE OF COMMUNICATION IN MODERN BRITAIN by T. A. Ivushkina

“…Heffer's book allows to clearly see the demarcation line between the English of the media and the English of the upper classes of Great Britain based on play upon words and various implications to express individuality and sense of humour, intellect and social exclusiveness.…”
Get full text

Variations in Semen Quality and Potential for Frozen Semen Production in Aceh Cattle by E. Sophian, S. Said, M. A. Setiadi, R. I. Arifiantini

“… The quality of fresh and frozen semen as well as the potential to produce frozen semen, vary considerably between individual animals and cattle breeds. This study aimed to analyze the quality of fresh and frozen semen in Aceh cattle and calculate the potential production of frozen semen in Aceh bulls over 1 year. …”
Get full text

Intelligent deep federated learning model for enhancing security in internet of things enabled edge computing environment by Nasser Nammas Albogami

“…Besides, the IDFLM-ES technique learns the individual and distributed feature representation over distributed databases to enhance model convergence for quick learning. …”
Get full text

Psilocybin-assisted massed cognitive processing therapy for chronic posttraumatic stress disorder: Protocol for an open-label pilot feasibility trial. by Shakila Meshkat, Richard J Zeifman, Kathleen Stewart, Reinhard Janssen-Aguilar, Wendy Lou, Rakesh Jetly, Candice M Monson, Venkat Bhat

“…This study represents a promising and innovative approach to PTSD treatment, potentially offering an alternative therapeutic option for individuals unresponsive to conventional therapies.<h4>Trial registration</h4>ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06386003.…”
Get full text