Monitoring of environmental gases and calf health in Italian Mediterranean buffalo herd by Simona Leonetti, Monica Ambrosio, Mirko Scamardella, Chiara Caso, Angelo Coletta

“…The m 2 available per calf varies on each farm, and all the calves are housed individually. On average, the available space is approximately 100 cm x 1.40 cm. …”
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Modeling Factors Influencing Project Financing Risk by Gholamreza Sharafi, Kiamars Fathi Hafashjani, Faegh Ahmadi

“…From this pool, a sample of 220 individuals was randomly selected to ensure robustness and representativeness in the analysis. …”
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Awareness of Sexual Partner’s HIV Status Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in China: Cross-Sec. tional Survey Study by Qian Ma, Tingting Jiang, Wanjun Chen, Shaoqiang Jiang, Jinlei Zheng, Hui Wang, Lin He

“… Abstract BackgroundMen who have sex with men (MSM) constitute a significant proportion of individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus. …”
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Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico: a neglected challenge in the search for universal health coverage by Edson Serván-Mori, Sergio Meneses-Navarro, Rocío García-Díaz, Diego Cerecero-García, David Contreras-Loya, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Arachu Castro

“…Decomposition analyses revealed that during the analyzed period, 30.8% of the gap in ECMH was due to individual characteristics, 51.7% to ethnic-racial discrimination, and 17.5% to their interaction. …”
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Occurrence of Alternaria Toxins, Ochratoxin A and Aflatoxins B1 in Green Arabic Coffee (Coffea arabica) in Saudi Arabia: Risk Assessment on HepG-2 Cell Line and Male Albino Rats by Ahmed Hashim Almusallam, Ahmed Mahmoud Ismail

“…The studied organs (liver, kidney and spleen) exhibited significant damage, with the most severe alterations observed in the Mix1 and Mix2-treated group in comparison with the groups receiving individual treatment. This indicates that the mixture of AFB1, ALT-Ts and OTA had an enhanced toxic consequence against treated HepG-2 cell line and rats. …”
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Advanced Fractional Mathematics, Fractional Calculus, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence with Applications in Complex Chaotic Systems by Dumitru Baleanu, Yeliz Karaca

“…These entailments demonstrate that chaos and complexity theory provide a synthesis of emerging wholes of individual components rather than the orientation of analyzing systems in isolation. …”
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Dietary and lifestyle patterns identified through reduced rank regression and their association with insulin-related disorders: a prospective analysis from the Tehran Lipid and Glu... by Ebrahim Mokhtari, Hossein Farhadnejad, Farshad Teymoori, Mitra Kazemi Jahromi, Mehrnaz Nikkhah, Parvin Mirmiran, Fereidoun Azizi

“…Methods The current study was conducted on 1063 individuals aged ≥ 25 years old of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study who have complete data on fasting blood sugar, plasma insulin, anthropometric variables, and nutritional intakes. …”
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Clinical novel exploration of intractable fever in stroke rehabilitation: a single-center cross-sectional retrospective study by Huang Jingjie, Wu Bangqi, Qin Peng, Zhang Ziyi, Cheng Yupei, Wang Chaoran, Chen Yuyan, Bai Jing

“…Logistic regression analysis was performed to identify risk factors associated with intractable fever, while receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to assess the predictive performance of individual and combined risk factors. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. 15.7% of patients experienced intractable fever, which was significantly associated with brainstem lesions (P < 0.05). …”
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Outcome Mapping as a Monitoring and Evaluation Tool for Livestock Value Chain Interventions: The Case of imGoats by Hailemichael Taye Beyene, Kees Swaans, Birgit Boogaard, Ramkumar Bendapudi, Saskia Hendrickx

“…IS approaches rely on innovation platforms (IPs), which are spaces facilitated by local innovation brokers where individuals and organizations can come together to address priority issues related to development of value chains. …”
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Safety and efficacy of catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by Songbing Long, Yuanjun Sun, ShiYu Dai, Xianjie Xiao, Zhongzhen Wang, Wei Sun, Lianjun Gao, Yunlong Xia, Xiaomeng Yin

“…Importantly, CA in HFPEF patients showed comparable maintenance of sinus rhythm (SR) and safety outcomes when compared to CA in individuals with normal heart function.…”
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The production performance of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus and mineral balance in aquaponic, biofloc, and aquabioponic culture systems by Radi Ihlas Albani, Tatag Budiardi, Yani Hadiroseyani, Julie Ekasari

“…Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus with a length of 5.56 ± 0.13 cm and a weight of 5.92 ± 0.47 g totaling 200 individuals were monitored for 60 days in a fiber tank containing 500 L of water in each treatment. …”
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The relationship between social support and depression among older adults with hypertension in urban communities: mediating effects of coping styles by Dan Li, Jin-Hua Jie, Hong Li, Xue-Mei Xia, Yilin Zhang, Yilin Zhang, Yan Yang, Yan Yang, Jianjun Xiang, Jianjun Xiang, Jianjun Xiang, Hai-Lin Zhuang

“…Social support and coping style significantly influence this risk, with social cognitive theory suggesting that social support can affect an individual’s coping style, and coping style can affect the effective use of social support. …”
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Perspectives and experiences regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a community sample of Veterans with unhealthy alcohol use: overall and across sexual orientation and gende... by Olivia V. Fletcher, Kristine Beaver, Elizabeth J. Austin, Jenna van Draanen, E. Jennifer Edelman, Emily C. Williams

“…Across groups, > 25% of individuals were willing to take PrEP. Interventions targeting both alcohol use and HIV prevention should capitalize on this.…”
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Association and Interaction Analysis of Lipid Accumulation Product with Impaired Fasting Glucose Risk: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Jian Song, Xue Chen, Yuhong Jiang, Jing Mi, Yuyuan Zhang, Yingying Zhao, Xuesen Wu, Huaiquan Gao

“…In logistic regression analysis, individuals with LAP levels in the fourth quartile had a significant higher risk of getting IFG in comparison with that of the lowest quartile (crude OR: 4.58, 95% CI: 3.01-6.98; adjusted OR: 3.81, 95% CI: 2.33-6.23). …”
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Effects of exercise interventions on fatigue of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients: A Meta-analysis (运动干预对造血干细胞移植患者疲乏影响的Meta分析)... by ZHOU Min (周敏), ZHANG Qing (张清), HU Shaoyan (胡绍燕), ZHOU Xuemei (周雪梅)

“…Conclusion Exercise interventions can effectively improve the fatigue of HSCT patients, and more attention should be paid to exercise intensity, duration and the individualized manner. Studies with high-quality, large-sample, multi-population are needed to further verify its effect. …”
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Serum ALT activity and its isoenzymes as potential biomarkers for diagnosis of Sarcopenia in older adults: a retrospective, cross-sectional study by Jiangping Zeng, Nannan Li, Jiaying Ge, Huihui Ma, Siqi Sun, Yujie Jing, Chunhua Qian, Ran Cui, Shen Qu, Hui Sheng

“…This study aims to investigate the correlation between serum levels of ALT-related indicators (ALT activity, ALT1, ALT2, and ALT1/ALT2 ratio) and sarcopenia measures, as well as to develop a diagnostic model for sarcopenia in older individuals. Methods This retrospective study assessed 653 older adults (aged ≥ 55 years), 109 of whom were studied for the association of ALT1, ALT2, and ALT1/ALT2 ratio with sarcopenia measures. …”
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How to estimate the probability of a live birth after one or more complete IVF cycles? the development of a novel model in a single-center by Xiangyi Kong, Zhiqiang Liu, Chunyu Huang, Xiuyu Hu, Meilan Mo, Hongzhan Zhang, Yong Zeng

“…By calculating the scores of the model, the clinicians could more effectively predict the probability for an individual patient to obtain at least one live birth. …”
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Growth performance of neonatal Holstein heifers fed acidified waste milk containing essential oil blend and encapsulated butyrate alone or in combination by Ting Liu, Zhihao Luo, Peng Li, Shuru Cheng, Jianping Zhu, David.P. Casper

“…The possibility exists that these technologies may be additive based on their individual mechanisms of action. The study objective was to evaluate EO and C4 alone or in combination when fed to Holstein heifers raised on a commercial Chinese dairy operation. …”
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Association of dietary quality and mortality in the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and advanced fibrosis populations: NHANES 2005–2018 by Xingyong Huang, Xiaoyue Zhang, Xuanyu Hao, Tingting Wang, Peng Wu, Lufan Shen, Yuanyuan Yang, Wenyu Wan, Wenyu Wan, Wenyu Wan, Kai Zhang

“…Despite the abundance of dietary guidelines for managing NAFLD, the precise impact of diet quality on mortality among individuals with advanced fibrosis remains elusive. …”
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Psychological Conflicts in Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Out-of-HospitalCardiac-Arrest

“…Although all bystanders intended to save the individual’s life when they encountered an OHCA, all of them had experienced psychological conflict between whether they should perform CPR or not. …”
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