Socio-demographic differences in the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and the association with risk factors in the population of Serbia by Šašić Bojana M., Čanković Dušan K., Mijatović-Jovanović Vesna P., Ukropina Snežana N., Ostojić Zorana Z., Milijašević Dragana S., Stamenković Kristina D., Čanković Sonja I.

“…Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality in the world. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in relation to socio-demographic characteristics, behavioral and metabolic risk factors, and to analyse the association between presence of cardiovascular diseases and self-perceived health and attitudes towards factors affecting health in the population of Serbia over the age of fifteen. …”
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An approach for accurate identification and monitoring of species in mangrove forests based on multi-source spectral data and deep learning by Monterrubio-Martínez Erandi, Trujillo-Acatitla Rubicel, Tuxpan-Vargas José, Moreno-Casasola Patricia

“…Also, this minimizes the economic and human efforts and reduces risk of error, thus leading to more efficient and effective ecosystem conservation.…”
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Deep cascaded registration and weakly-supervised segmentation of fetal brain MRI by Valentin Comte, Mireia Alenya, Andrea Urru, Judith Recober, Ayako Nakaki, Francesca Crovetto, Oscar Camara, Eduard Gratacós, Elisenda Eixarch, Fatima Crispi, Gemma Piella, Mario Ceresa, Miguel A. González Ballester

“…While deep learning has become the leading approach for medical image registration, traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often fall short in capturing fine image details due to their bias toward low spatial frequencies. …”
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Prolonged Cardiopulmonary Bypass Time-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction via Glypican-1 Shedding, Inflammation, and Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery by Shiyi Li, Katherine V. Nordick, Iván Murrieta-Álvarez, Randall P. Kirby, Rishav Bhattacharya, Ismael Garcia, Camila Hochman-Mendez, Todd K. Rosengart, Kenneth K. Liao, Nandan K. Mondal

“…Conclusions: A prolonged CPB triggers a systemic inflammatory response and activates MMP9, leading to glypican-1 shedding and endothelial dysfunction.…”
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Graph Convolutional Networks for multi-modal robotic martial arts leg pose recognition by Shun Yao, Yihan Ping, Xiaoyu Yue, Xiaoyu Yue, He Chen, He Chen

“…These methods lack the ability to effectively model the nuanced dynamics of joint interactions and temporal progression, leading to limited generalization in recognizing complex actions.MethodsTo address these challenges, we propose PoseGCN, a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN)-based model that integrates spatial, temporal, and contextual features through a novel framework. …”
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Characteristics of patients with somatoform pain disorder by Lena Barth, Linda Baumbach, André Hajek, Lutz Götzmann, Katrin Feiks, Michael Rufer, Kyrill Schwegler, Bianca Schwennen, Kirstin Bernhardt, Uwe Wutzler, Paul Kaiser, Lutz Wittmann, Adrian Siegel

“…Health professionals encounter difficulties identifying this specific type of chronic pain, leading to suboptimal treatment strategies. Therefore, we aimed to describe the characteristics of patients with somatoform pain, to support the identification of affected patients. …”
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Effect of Radiation, Organic Solvents and Vibration Occupational Exposure on the Thyroid Disease: Results from Project ELEFANT by Bibo Yuan, Citlalli Osorio-Yáñez, Junkai Fang, Lei Zhao, Ander Wilson, Marco Sanchez-Guerra, Hongbin Liu, Peng-Hui Li, Liqiong Guo

“…Abstract Although occupational exposure to radiation and organic solvents has been proven to increase the chance of developing thyroid disease, one of the leading endocrine disorders, much less is known about the potential risk factor of vibration exposure. …”
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β-Nicotinamide Mononucleotide Reduces Oxidative Stress and Improves Steroidogenesis in Granulosa Cells Associated with Sheep Prolificacy via Activating AMPK Pathway by Yu Cai, Hua Yang, Hui Xu, Shanglai Li, Bingru Zhao, Zhibo Wang, Xiaolei Yao, Feng Wang, Yanli Zhang

“…Oxidative stress is a significant factor in the death of granulosa cells (GCs), leading to follicular atresia and consequently limiting the number of dominant follicles that can mature and ovulate within each follicular wave. …”
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Effects of Cu(II) on the Adsorption Behaviors of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) onto Kaolin by Juanjuan Liu, Xiaolong Wu, Yandi Hu, Chong Dai, Qin Peng, Dongli Liang

“…Comparing the adsorption behaviors and mechanisms, we found that kaolin prefers to adsorb hydrolyzed products of Cr(III) instead of Cr3+ ion, while adsorption sites of kaolin surface were occupied primarily by Cu(II) through surface complexation, leading to Cu(II) inhibited Cr(VI) adsorption. Moreover, Cr(III) and Cr(VI) removal efficiency had a positive correlation with distribution coefficient Kd. …”
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Simulated wind erosion and local dust deposition affect soil micro-food web by changing resource availability by Cancan Zhao, Yujie Li, Zeli Zhou, Rongrong Wu, Mengfei Su, Hongquan Song

“…Wind erosion significantly increased fungivore abundance and nematode channel index, leading to a fungal-dominated energy channel, i.e., a slow energy channel. …”
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RSL3 induces ferroptosis by activating the NF-κB signalling pathway to enhance the chemosensitivity of triple-negative breast cancer cells to paclitaxel by Jialin Yuan, Cong Liu, Chengwei Jiang, Ning Liu, Zhaoying Yang, Hua Xing

“…Abstract Chemotherapy resistance in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) leads to poor therapeutic effects and a poor prognosis. …”
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Global bibliometric analysis of traditional Chinese medicine regulating gut microbiota in the treatment of diabetes from 2004 to 2024 by Jieling Liang, Xiaojuan Lin, Xin Liao, Xi Chen, Ying Zhou, Lin Zhang, Yunyun Qin, Haoru Meng, Zhongwen Feng

“…China emerged as the leading country in terms of article publications (n = 430). …”
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BA-ATEMNet: Bayesian Learning and Multi-Head Self-Attention for Theoretical Denoising of Airborne Transient Electromagnetic Signals by Weijie Wang, Xuben Wang, Xiaodong Yu, Debiao Luo, Xinyue Liu, Kai Yang, Wen Yang, Xiaolan Yang, Ke Hu, Wenyi Hu

“…Traditional denoising methods often fall short in addressing these complex noise backgrounds, leading to less-than-optimal signal extraction. To tackle this issue, a deep learning-based denoising network, called BA-ATEMNet, is introduced, using Bayesian learning alongside a multi-head self-attention mechanism to effectively denoise ATEM signals. …”
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Unmasking the Imitators: Challenges in Identifying Intracranial Atherosclerosis‐Related Large Vessel Occlusion Mimics During Mechanical Thrombectomy by Aaron Rodriguez‐Calienes, Fazeel M. Siddiqui, Juan Vivanco‐Suarez, Sophie Shogren, Milagros Galecio‐Castillo, Mahmoud Dibas, Aditya S. Pandey, Marc Ribo, Santiago Ortega‐Gutierrez

“…Despite digital subtraction angiography being the gold standard, diagnosing ICAS‐LVO is complicated by similarities with other occlusive conditions, leading to misdiagnosis and inappropriate interventions. …”
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Antilipotoxicity Activity of Osmanthus fragrans and Chrysanthemum morifolium Flower Extracts in Hepatocytes and Renal Glomerular Mesangial Cells by Po-Jung Tsai, Mei-Ling Chang, Ching-Mei Hsin, Chung-Chieh Chuang, Lu-Te Chuang, Wen-Huey Wu

“…The excess influx of free fatty acids (FFAs) into nonadipose tissues, such as those of liver and kidney, induces lipotoxicity leading to hepatic steatosis and renal dysfunction. …”
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Mechanism and Prevention and Control of Mine Earthquake in Thick and Hard Rock Strata considering the Horizontal Stress Evolution of Stope by Ming Zhang, Xuelong Hu, Hongtao Huang, Guangyao Chen, Shan Gao, Chao Liu, Lihua Tian

“…Then, theoretical analysis and numerical simulation methods were adopted in conjunction with field monitoring to explore how horizontal stress evolves in the thick and hard hanging roofs of such mines, potentially leading to mining earthquakes. Then, based on the obtained results, a mining design method was proposed to reduce the horizontal stress levels of earthquake mitigation. …”
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Synergy Effects of the Indian Summer Monsoon and the Tibetan Plateau Heating on Summer Rainfall over North China by Siwen Zhao, Jie Zhang, Zhihong Lv

“…Furthermore, the strong convection over the IS excites the Kelvin waves over the equatorial region, which moves eastward and generates anticyclones over Philippines, consequently leading to the Pacific-Japan (PJ) pattern. The PJ pattern cooperates with the wave train at midlatitudes, resulting in abundant water vapor being transported to NC. …”
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Metabolic consequences of erastin-induced ferroptosis in human ovarian cancer cells: an untargeted metabolomics study by Kaylie I. Kirkwood-Donelson, Alan K. Jarmusch, Carl D. Bortner, Bruce Alex Merrick, Birandra K. Sinha

“…Additionally, we found that ER treatment decreased cellular levels of NAD+/NADP+, carnitines and glutamine/glutamate in both cells, suggesting significant oxidative stress, decrease in energy production, and cellular and mitochondrial disfunctions, leading to cell death.ConclusionOur studies identified several potential biomarkers of ER-induced ferroptosis including OPH, taurine, NAD+, NADP+ and glutamate in ovarian cancer cells. …”
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Cytokine/Chemokine/Growth Factor Profiles Contribute to Understanding the Pathogenesis of the Salivary Gland Dysfunction in Euthyroid Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Patients by K. Morawska, M. Maciejczyk, S. Zięba, Ł. Popławski, A. Kita-Popławska, J. Krętowski, A. Zalewska

“…In conclusion, secretory dysfunction of the salivary glands is closely related to autoimmunity-related inflammation in the course of HT, which leads to objective and subjective symptoms of dry mouth.…”
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Comparison of Atrial Fibrillation in the Young versus That in the Elderly: A Review by Rajiv Sankaranarayanan, Graeme Kirkwood, Katharine Dibb, Clifford J. Garratt

“…Traditional thinking suggests that the causal factors and pathogenesis of the condition in the young with structurally normal atria but electrophysiological “triggers” in the form of pulmonary vein ectopics leading to lone AF are in stark contrast to that in the elderly who have AF primarily due to an abnormal substrate consisting of fibrosed and dilated atria acting in concert with the pulmonary vein triggers. …”
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