Comparative analysis of allele frequencies for DNA polymorphisms associated with disease and economically important traits in the genomes of Russian and foreign cattle breeds by A. V. Igoshin, G. A. Romashov, E. N. Chernyaeva, N. P. Elatkin, N. S. Yudin, D. M. Larkin

“…As a result, we identified frequencies of these DNA polymorphisms in the populations of Russian cattle breeds, compared them with those of foreign populations of the same breed, as well as other foreign breeds. …”
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Mortality and Length of Stay Implications of Deterioration-Associated Transfer to the Intensive Care Unit over Different Time Frames by Kathy W Belk, Joseph Beals, Samantha J McInnis

“…A propensity matched cohort analysis compared mortality and overall hospital LOS for patients admitted to routine and intermediate care units who did and did not have an unplanned ICU transfer within 12, 12-48, or ⩾48 hours from admission. Methods: Population cohorts were matched on age, sex, admitting unit type, admission type, and admission acuity. …”
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Absolute Lymphocyte Count Is Not a Suitable Alternative to CD4 Count for Determining Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in Fiji by Dashika A. Balak, Karen Bissell, Christine Roseveare, Sharan Ram, Rachel R. Devi, Stephen M. Graham

“…No absolute lymphocyte count could be determined in this population as a suitable surrogate for a CD4 count of either 350 cells/mm3 or 500 cells/mm3. …”
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Psychometric Assessment of a Physician-Patient Communication Behaviors Scale: The Perspective of Adult HIV Patients in Kenya by Juddy Wachira, Susan Middlestadt, Michael Reece, Chao-Ying Joanne Peng, Paula Braitstein

“…There have been no scales specifically developed to assess physician-patient communication behaviors (PPCB) in the sub-Saharan population. Aim. We revised an existing PPCB scale and tested its psychometric properties for HIV patients in Kenya. …”
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Bortezomib, Ifosfamide, Carboplatin, and Etoposide in a Patient with HIV-Negative Relapsed Plasmablastic Lymphoma by Mehmet Akce, Elaine Chang, Mohammad Haeri, Mike Perez, Christie J. Finch, Mark M. Udden, Martha P. Mims

“…Flow cytometry revealed a different population of lymphoma cells, this time positive for CD5, CD19, CD20, and CD22, with dim expression of CD45 and CD38. …”
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On the time spent preparing grant proposals: an observational study of Australian researchers by Nicholas Graves, Adrian G Barnett, Philip Clarke, Danielle L Herbert

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How May Coexisting Frailty Influence Adherence to Treatment in Elderly Hypertensive Patients? by Bartosz Uchmanowicz, Anna Chudiak, Izabella Uchmanowicz, Grzegorz Mazur

“…Hypertension is considered to be the most common condition in the general population. It is the most important risk factor for premature deaths in the world. …”
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Analysis of Foveal and Parafoveal Microvascular Density and Retinal Vessel Caliber Alteration in Inactive Graves’ Ophthalmopathy by Cetin Akpolat, Muhammed M. Kurt, Merve Yılmaz, Fikriye Ordulu, Ferhat Evliyaoglu

“…We aimed to evaluate foveal and parafoveal density using optical coherence tomography angiography and the alteration on the retinal vessel diameter in patients with inactive Graves’ ophthalmopathy compared to age-matched normal population. Materials and Methods. Patients with inactive Graves’ ophthalmopathy (study group) and healthy individuals (control group) were enrolled in the cross sectionally designed study. …”
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Cognitive prehabilitation for geriatric patients undergoing elective surgery: a PRISMA-P-compliant protocol for a systematic review by Yu He, Nianyi Sun, Wenchen Zou, Anren Zhang, Xiaochai Han, Caitao Chen

“…Introduction The ageing of the population, as well as advances and improvements in surgery, and anaesthesia have greatly increased the demand for surgical services in geriatric patients. …”
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Spatial–Temporal Analysis of Coupling Coordination Between New Urbanization and Ecological Environment in Ya’an, China by Wei Wei, Lei Xiao, Xiao Zhang, Luyao Jin, Di Wang, Xin Long, Qiaoqiao Yang, Jinxiang Li, Ying Zhou

“…Firstly, this study constructs evaluation index systems for new urbanization and the ecological environment using the Population–Economic–Spatial–Social (PESS) and Pressure–State–Response (PSR) models, respectively. …”
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Hormonal and Temperature Manipulation to Produce Male Homogametic (XX) in Developing Female Monosex Culture of Thai Catfish Pangasionodon hypopthalmus by H. Arfah, O. Carman

“…Experiment was performed to get male homogametic (XX) that will be used as functional male to produce female monosex (XX) population Result of hormonal and temperature manipulation on larvae shown that the highest percentage of male (67.7%) was obtained by 5 mg/liter 17-α-metiltestosteron treatment with temperature 33oC. …”
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Bidirectional causal associations between frailty measures and sleep disturbances: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Che L, Zang H, Bi Y, Wen B, Xu L

“…We aimed to investigate the bidirectional causal relationships between frailty measures and sleep disturbances employing a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.Methods: Two-sample MR analyses were performed based on large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the European population for frailty index (FI) (N = 175,226), Fried Frailty Score (FFS) (N = 386,565), insomnia (N = 283,595), sleep duration (N = 445,966) and sleep apnea (N = 523,366). …”
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Gastronomy vs gastro-anomie? Japan’s foodscape by А. V. Malov, S. V. Chugrov

“…Nowadays, washoku is the institutional foundation for a specialized legislative act regulating the procedure of Re-McDonaldization of the population. Along with this, washoku is also an effective tool of soft gastronomic power and gastrodiplomacy, creating a charming image of Japan in the eye of the beholder (the international political community). …”
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Occupational Therapy for People with Early Parkinson’s Disease: A Retrospective Program Evaluation by Alan Sadural, Jillian MacDonald, Joelle Johnson, Kavita Gohil, Miriam Rafferty

“…Motor activity deficits noted in individuals with early PD support future scaling and sustainability efforts of OT within this population. Quality improvement suggestions are discussed for future implementation and clinical trials.…”
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Modelling HIV/AIDS epidemiological complexity: A scoping review of Agent-Based Models and their application. by Rodrigo Volmir Anderle, Robson Bruniera de Oliveira, Felipe Alves Rubio, James Macinko, Ines Dourado, Davide Rasella

“…<h4>Objective</h4>To end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, despite the increasing poverty and inequalities, policies should be designed to deal with population heterogeneity and environmental changes. …”
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Interspecific differences in the response of autotrophic microorganisms to atrazine and S-metolachlor exposure by Laura Malbezin, Nicolas Mazzella, Sébastien Boutry, Isabelle Lavoie, Soizic Morin

“…The results suggest mechanisms of shade adaptation, algal population increase and lipid remodeling in response to compound exposure. …”
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Simulating a travel-related origin of Candida auris in New York–New Jersey by Rita R. Verma, Edward Kiegle, Alexander C. Keyel, Sudha Chaturvedi, Vishnu Chaturvedi

“…We tested the hypothesis by simulating introductions to NY-NJ with a Monte Carlo simulation based on travel from South Asia, proportion of US population in NY-NJ, proportion of hospitals in NY-NJ, and finally, proportion of all travelers entering the United States through NY-NJ. …”
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Hemorrhagic Shock Induces a Rapid Transcriptomic Shift of the Immune Balance in Leukocytes after Experimental Multiple Injury by Lisa Debler, Annette Palmer, Sonja Braumüller, Bettina Klohs, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Karlheinz Holzmann, Markus Huber-Lang, Rebecca Halbgebauer

“…Therefore, we investigated the influence of an additional hemorrhagic shock (HS) on the early posttraumatic immune dysbalance in the whole population of blood leukocytes. A well-established murine polytrauma (PT) model with or without an additional pressure-controlled HS (mean arterial pressure of 30 mmHg (±5 mmHg) for 60 mins, afterwards fluid resuscitation with balanced electrolyte solution four times the volume of blood drawn) was used. …”
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Physical activity, Vitamin D, and all-cause/cardiovascular mortality: a prospective study in older Chinese adults by Mingrui Chen, Ling Cheng, Sisi Yang, Yan Zhang

“…Results The median age of this population was 87 years, and 70.27% were the oldest-old (age ≥ 80 years). …”
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A study of the genetic diversity in the world soybean collection using microsatellite markers associated with fungal disease resistance by A. K. Zatybekov, Y. T. Turuspekov, B. N. Doszhanova, S. I. Abugalieva

“…As the collection showed a robust resistance to three studied fungal diseases in Almaty Region during 2018–2019, the distribution of the studied SSR markers in the population was not significantly associated with resistance to the analyzed diseases under field conditions.Conclusion. …”
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