Dissecting the osmotic and oxidative stress responses in salt-tolerant and salt-sensitive wheat genotypes under saline conditions by Ulkar Ibrahimova, Javanshir Talai, Md. Mahadi Hasan, Irada Huseynova, Vaseem Raja, Anshu Rastogi, Hamideh Ghaffari, Marek Zivcak, Xinghong Yang, Marian Brestic

“…Plants commonly undergo osmotic adaptation when subjected to prolonged periods of saline stress. The current experiments were conducted on five wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes with contrasting salt tolerance capacities - Mirbashir 128, Gobustan, Gyzyl bughda, Fatima, and Zirva 80 under salinity stress caused by 150 mmol NaCl. …”
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Sex Differences in the Effect of Type 2 Diabetes on Major Cardiovascular Diseases: Results from a Population-Based Study in Italy by Paola Ballotari, Francesco Venturelli, Marina Greci, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Valeria Manicardi

“…The age- and sex-specific event rates were graphed. Subjects with type 2 diabetes had an excess risk compared to their counterparts without diabetes for all the three major cardiovascular events. …”
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Development of Postural Control in Healthy Children: A Functional Approach by Christine Assaiante, Sophie Mallau, Sébastien Viel, Marianne Jover, Christina Schmitz

“…To address this problem, we have studied our young subjects in situations requiring various types of adaptation. …”
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Environmental factors affecting the BMI of older adults in the Philippines spatially assessed using machine learning by D.K. Mendoza, A.B. Araza, L.D. Groot, M. Mensink, R.C. Tan

“…We used ensemble machine learning of different presence-only and presence-absence models, all subjected to hyperparameter tuning and variable decorrelation. …”
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Anthropometric Indices of Obesity and the Prediction of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in an Iranian Population by Mohsen Azimi–Nezhad, Majid Ghayour–Mobarhan, Mohammad Safarian, Habibollah Esmailee, Seyed Mohammad Reza Parizadeh, Maryam Rajabi-Moghadam, Arezoo Gholami, Mohammad Reza Oladi, Gordon A. Ferns

“…The present study was conducted in an attempt to define optimal cutoff values for several anthropometric variables in an Iranian population, as these may vary with ethnicity. Iranian subjects (2483 men and 2445 women), aged 15–65 years, were recruited using a cluster-stratified sampling method from rural and urban areas within the Khorasan province. …”
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Study of Corrosion Behavior of Mg–Gd-Based Soluble Magnesium Alloys by Qinghua Wang, Zhiquan Huang, Yanchun Zhu, Ling Qin, Jingfeng Zou, Lifeng Ma

“…The second-phase compound Mg₅Gd, formed in alloys prepared via melting, was subjected to both immersion weight loss and electrochemical testing. …”
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Suicide risk model based on the interpersonal theory of suicide: evidence in three regions of Mexico by Modesto Solis-Espinoza, Juan Manuel Mancilla Díaz, Rosalía Vázquez Arévalo

“…In order to develop a more adequate suicide prevention strategy, it is necessary to understand its predictive factors, so the purpose of this research was to propose a model of suicidal risk in young people, taking into account one of the most current theories on the subject, Joiner's interpersonal theory. Method: A non-probabilistic sample of young people with suicidal ideation from three regions of Mexico was obtained by online survey (N=411), with mean age of 17.89 years (SD. 1.2), 336 women (81.8%), and 75 men (18.2%). …”
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Wearable Activity Tracking Device Use in an Adolescent Weight Management Clinic: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial by Kanika Bowen-Jallow, Omar Nunez-Lopez, Alex Wright, Erika Fuchs, Mollie Ahn, Elizabeth Lyons, Daniel Jupiter, Lindsey Berry, Oscar Suman, Ravi S. Radhakrishnan, Andrea M. Glaser, Deborah I. Thompson

“…Forty-eight participants were enrolled in the study. Eighteen subjects were randomly assigned to the ATI group and 30 to control. …”
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Chrysanthemum classification method integrating deep visual features from both the front and back sides by Yifan Chen, Xichen Yang, Hui Yan, Hui Yan, Jia Liu, Jian Jiang, Zhongyuan Mao, Tianshu Wang, Tianshu Wang

“…The existing Chrysanthemum classification methods mostly rely on visual subjective identification, are time-consuming, and always need high equipment costs.MethodsA novel method is proposed to accurately identify the Chrysanthemum classification in a swift, non-invasive, and non-contact way. …”
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UAV With the Ability to Control with Sign Language and Hand by Image Processing by Hediyeh Hojaji, Alireza Delisnav, Mohammad Hossein Ghafouri Moghaddam, Fariba Ghorbani, Shadi Shafaghi, Masoud Shafaghi

“…We developed an experimental setup where the drone, integrated with state-of-the-art radio control systems and machine vision techniques, navigated through simulated disaster environments to interact with human subjects using sign language. Data collection involved capturing various hand gestures under various environmental conditions to train and validate our recognition algorithms, including implementing YOLO V5 alongside Python libraries with OpenCV. …”
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Capability of Ophthalmology Residents to Detect Glaucoma Using High-Dynamic-Range Concept versus Color Optic Disc Photography by Mantapond Ittarat, Rath Itthipanichpong, Anita Manassakorn, Visanee Tantisevi, Sunee Chansangpetch, Prin Rojanapongpun

“…Cross-sectional study. Methods. Twenty subjects were classified by 3 glaucoma specialists as either glaucoma, glaucoma suspect, or control. …”
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Any Long-term Effect of the Beirut Port Explosion on the Airborne Particulate Matter? by Yi-Bo Zhao, Nathalie Hayeck, Najat A. Saliba, Claudia Schreiner, Markus Zennegg, Fuze Jiang, Renato Figi, Davide Bleiner, Jing Wang

“…That is, PM and gases directly induced by the explosion might be subject to rapid atmospheric transport and deposition. …”
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Automated Quantification of Neuropad Improves Its Diagnostic Ability in Patients with Diabetic Neuropathy by Georgios Ponirakis, Hassan Fadavi, Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Shazli Azmi, Maryam Ferdousi, Mohammad A. Dabbah, Ahmad Kheyami, Uazman Alam, Omar Asghar, Andrew Marshall, Mitra Tavakoli, Ahmed Al-Ahmar, Saad Javed, Maria Jeziorska, Rayaz A. Malik

“…The diagnostic performance of Neuropad was compared between the categorical and continuous (image-analysis (Sudometrics)) outputs to diagnose diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). 110 subjects with type 1 and 2 diabetes underwent assessment with Neuropad, Neuropathy Disability Score (NDS), peroneal motor nerve conduction velocity (PMNCV), sural nerve action potential (SNAP), Deep Breathing-Heart Rate Variability (DB-HRV), intraepidermal nerve fibre density (IENFD), and corneal confocal microscopy (CCM). 46/110 patients had DPN according to the Toronto consensus. …”
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Volatile organic compounds of hoary stock are responsible for suppressing downy mildew of grape in an intercropping system by Weiping Deng, Fei Du, Rongliang Yang, Hanyang Yao, Min Yang, Xinyue Mei, Chen Ye, Su Li, Yixiang Liu, Huichuan Huang, Shusheng Zhu

“…The collected VOCs were subjected to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS) analysis and in vitro bioassays. …”
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Prehabilitation during neoadjuvant therapy in patients with cancer of the upper gastrointestinal tract and rectum—the study protocol by Irina Chmelova, Irina Chmelova, Dalibor Pastucha, Dalibor Pastucha, Tomas Hudecek, Zdenek Guran, Zdenek Guran, Sona Ciecotkova, Lubomír Martínek, Jana Zubikova, Alena Matlova, Jakub Dolezel, Dana Salounova, Jakub Chmelo

“…Secondary outcomes include physical fitness parameters obtained from cardiopulmonary exercise testing, grip strength measured by a dynamometer, changes in body composition, EORTC QLQ-C30 quality of life questionnaire, and a questionnaire on the subjective perception of the exercise programme. Both primary and secondary outcomes will be compared between study arms (two diagnostic groups). …”
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Age- and Gender-Related Differences in LDL-Cholesterol Management in Outpatients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Giuseppina Russo, Basilio Pintaudi, Carlo Giorda, Giuseppe Lucisano, Antonio Nicolucci, Maria Rosaria Cristofaro, Concetta Suraci, Maria Franca Mulas, Angela Napoli, Maria Chiara Rossi, Valeria Manicardi

“…Lipid profile was monitored in ~75% of subjects, women being monitored less frequently than men, irrespective of age. …”
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Effect of Aromatherapy using Lavender Oil on Audio and Visual Reaction Time: A Quasi-experimental Study by Saroj Chaudhary, Manjinder Kaur, Suman Sharma, Naren Kurmi, Khushboo Shrimali, Soniya Pipliwal, Muskan Singh

“…The audiovisual time was recorded twice for each subject, before and after the intervention i.e., 30 minutes of inhalation of lavender oil using aroma lamp. …”
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Association between Glucose Levels and Intraocular Pressure: Pre- and Postprandial Analysis in Diabetic and Nondiabetic Patients by Luis Guilherme Milesi Pimentel, Carolina P. B. Gracitelli, Leticia Sant’Ana Cardoso da Silva, Aline Katia Siqueira Souza, Tiago Santos Prata

“…Seventeen nondiabetic and 20 diabetic subjects underwent a complete ophthalmic examination, capillary glucose testing, and applanation tonometry in two distinct situations: first, fasting for at least 8 hours and, second, postprandial measurements. …”
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Cooperative game scheduling and revenue sharing strategy for virtual power plants considering scenery uncertainty by SONG Duoyang, XUE Tianliang, LI Yipu, TU Jintong, BI Yuhao, WANG Mankang

“…Finally, the example results show that the proposed method effectively improves the prediction accuracy of wind power, realizes the cooperative and complementary operation among alliances within the virtual power plant, and ensures the fairness and reasonableness of the revenue distribution among multiple subjects.…”
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Multiphysics analysis of the dual role of magnetoelectric nanoparticles in a microvascular environment: from magnetic targeting to electrical activation by Martina Lenzuni, Paolo Giannoni, Emma Chiaramello, Serena Fiocchi, Giulia Suarato, Paolo Ravazzani, Alessandra Marrella

“…Furthermore, the extravasation and electrical activation of MENPs within the dermal tissue are analyzed, revealing the generation of high-induced electric fields in the surrounding area when MENPs are subjected to external magnetic fields. Overall, these findings predict that MENPs can be targeted in a tissue site when intravenously administrated, dragged through the microvessels of the venous system, and activated by generating high electric fields for the stimulation of the peripheral nervous system.…”
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