Lipid profile alterations in non-infectious uveitis: correlation with quantitative optical coherence tomography angiography parameters by Lei Feng, Guangming Qin, Junhui Shen

“…The impact of uveitis on lipid metabolism remains unclear.Methods This is a cross-sectional study included 416 patients with non-infectious uveitis (NIU) and 416 healthy subjects. Standard techniques were used to measure total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDLc), low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDLc) levels. …”
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Financial and legal bases for the formation of territorial communities capable budgets by D. V. Korobtsova, L. V. Mishchenko

“…The formation of UTC budgets requires not only the improvement of the structure of tax revenues, as well as the analysis of revenues, but currently the use of intergovernmental transfers as important additional revenues of UTC budgets in modern research is the subject of discussion. The budgetary and legal relations which are formed at the level of formation of budgets of the united territorial communities are investigated, and the financial and legal bases of formation of capable budgets are defined. …”
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How do lifestyle and environmental factors influence the sperm epigenome? Effects on sperm fertilising ability, embryo development, and offspring health by Ayazhan Akhatova, Celine Jones, Kevin Coward, Marc Yeste

“…Metabolic changes, such as high blood glucose levels and increased body weight, are commonly observed in the offspring of fathers subjected to chronic stress, in addition to an enhanced risk of depressive-like behaviour and increased sensitivity to stress in both the F0 and F1 generations. …”
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Arriver à bon port : les canaux en contexte portuaire à l’époque romaine by Pauline Peter

“…Currently, there is a growing interest in channels, and more particularly harbour channels, some of which –mainly concentrated around the Mediterranean Sea– are the subject of extensive research programmes. Excavations, coring or geophysical surveys provide information about the structure of the channels, the type of construction, and also about their environment. …”
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ABIOTIC STRESSORS AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE ACCUMULATION OF ASSIMILATES BY PLANTS AND THE YIELD OF VEGETABLE PEA by O. V. Putina, A. G. Besedin

“…Vegetable pea plants are subject to the negative effect of abiotic stressors. …”
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Improvement Options and Directions for Crisis Management Exercises Organised by Local Governmental Administration on the Example of Podkarpackie Voivodship — Theoretical Assumption... by Bernard Wiśniewski, Andrzej Czupryński, Jan Ziobro, Karol Kujawa

“…The works conducted involved such specific problems as: definition of the essentials of the organisation of crisis management pratice activities by local governmental administration, identification of organisation improvement needs related to crisis management by local governmental administration and definition of the conditions and perspectives for the improvement of the organisation of the subject exercises. The adopted assumptions indicated that the options of improvement of the organisation of exercises by the local governmental administration of Podkarpackie Voivodship should be sought in the emerging new organisational solutions and access to the preparation and completion analytics and efficiency assessment tools. …”
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Impact of headache in women with polycystic ovary syndrome by Lina Zabulienë, V. Hendrixson, M. Urbonas, I. Ilias, D. Jatužis

“…Women with PCOS experienced headache more frequently than control subjects (68.4% vs. 50.0%, p=0.010). Having PCOS increased the odds ratio of headache by 2.17 (CI: 1.20-3.91, p=0.010). …”
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Latent profile analysis of sense of coherence and relationship with meaning of life and professional identity among nursing undergraduate by Yating Liu, Dudu Zhang, Song Ge, Shanshan Wang, Xin Li, Zhenxiang Zhang, Beilei Lin, Suyan Chen, Yongxia Mei

“…Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that factors influencing nursing undergraduates’ sense of coherence included family financial situation, high school subject choice, religious beliefs, belief in having good interpersonal relationships, meaning in life, and professional identity. …”
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The concept and structural elements of the system of personal empowerment rights of employees by I. M. Kravchenko

“…Due to the fact that the personal rights of a person are a separate type of subjective rights (they belong to the category of intangible goods), their features are the absence of direct property content and an inseparable connection with the personality of their bearer. …”
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Detection of Phage’s Lytic Activity Against Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates Using a High-Throughput Microbroth Growth Inhibition Assay by Paschalis Paranos, Spyros Pournaras, Joseph Meletiadis

“…However, this method is both cumbersome and subjective. Therefore, a microbroth assay was developed to assess host range and lytic activity patterns of phages in the agar overlay method against a collection of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) isolates. …”
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Exploring Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 Levels in Iraqi Patients with Stable Angina: Insights from Coronary Angiography Diagnosis by Aseel Ghassan Daoud, Wassan Abdul Kareem Abbas, Ahmed Yousif Hasan, Maha N. Abu Hajleh

“…Patients and methods: The study design was a case-control study. 90 males and females (age 40-76 years) who were presented with chest pain were enrolled in the study, all were subjected to echocardiography, ECG and coronary angiography by the cardiologist. …”
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An explainable deep learning model for diabetic foot ulcer classification using swin transformer and efficient multi-scale attention-driven network by R. Karthik, Armaano Ajay, Anshika Jhalani, Kruthik Ballari, Suganthi K

“…The obtained feature maps from both the networks are concatenated and subjected to shuffle attention for feature refinement at a reduced computational cost. …”
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Discrepancies between Self- and Clinical Staff Members’ Perception of Cognitive Functioning among Patients with Schizophrenia Undergoing Long-Term Hospitalization by Fumiko Kaneko, Hitoshi Okamura

“…Accordingly, overestimators displayed significantly severe cognitive dysfunction on the SCoRS-J objective ratings (p=.001) and significantly less difficulty on the SCoRS-J subjective ratings (p=.002) as compared to underestimators. …”
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Cystatin C Levels in Middle-Aged Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome by Kostas Archontogeorgis, Evangelia Nena, Christina Tsigalou, Athanasios Voulgaris, Maria Xanthoudaki, Marios Froudarakis, Paschalis Steiropoulos

“…According to apnea hypopnea index (AHI) subjects were divided in two groups: OSAS group (AHI > 5/hour, n=64) and controls (AHI < 5/hour, n=20), which were age- and BMI-matched. …”
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Experimental Study of Volumetric Fracturing Properties for Shale under Different Stress States by Hongjian Wang, Jin Li, Fei Zhao, Jinyu Dong, Yanzong Cui, Wanlin Gong

“…When the shale rock was subjected to lateral disturbance loads, the critical failure strength was approximately 10 MPa less than that in the state of constant loading, indicating that the specimen with disturbance loads is more likely to be fractured. …”
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Characterization and ameliorative effects of Chenopodium murale hydroethanolic extract against diethylnitrosamine-induced hepato-renal damage and malfunction by Howida S. Abou- Seif, Osama M. Ahmed, Samah A. El-Newary, Marwa E. Shabana, Mahitab I. EL-Kassaby, Ghada M. Elqattan, Hussein G. Sawie

“…Animals in group 3 were injected with DEN like in group 2 and subjected orally to C. murale hydroethanolic extract (500 mg/kg body weight) daily for 14 weeks. …”
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Formation of military-professional competencies with the use of problem-situational tasks by Elena G. Porshneva

“…Problem situational tasks contribute to deeper study of technical military subjects, development of abilities to solve problems, creative thinking, independent work and reflexive skills of students.In work an experiment was set up to verify hypothesis based on assumption that level of preparation of students at Military Department can be improved through development and implementation of technical military discipline based on integrated use of modern methods and means of education. …”
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Reconstruction of weathering history and paleoclimatic conditions of the campano-maastrichtian sandstones in The Northern Bida Basin, Nigeria by S. A. Adepoju, O. J. Ojo, S. O. Akande, B. Sreenivas, E. V. S. S. K. Babu, T. Vijaya Kumar

“…Higher chemical index of alteration (CIA), chemical index of weathering (CIW), plagioclase index of alteration (PIA), and chemical proxy for alteration (CPA) values, with the plots clustering towards and around “A” axis in the ternary (A–CN–K and A–CNK–FM) diagrams suggest that the sediments have been subjected to an intense weathering and reworking at the source. …”
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Josquin’s Motet “In amara crucis ara” in the Green Codex of Viadrina by Wojciech Odoj

“…Some characteristics suggest that these compositions – the two groups of settings plus Josquin’s motet – may have been placed here together because they were considered mutually complementary, all having Good Friday as their subject. In addition, this source fragment is preceded by two blank leaves indicating deliberate separation from the rest of the manuscript, and all the compositions – including Josquin’s motet – are linked by a distinctive ornament attached to the initial letters of the part’s name. …”
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Abnormal Glucose Tolerance Is Associated with a Reduced Myocardial Metabolic Flexibility in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy by Domenico Tricò, Simona Baldi, Silvia Frascerra, Elena Venturi, Paolo Marraccini, Danilo Neglia, Andrea Natali

“…In 10 patients with DCM, 5 with normal glucose tolerance (DCM-NGT) and 5 with AGT (DCM-AGT), and 5 non-DCM subjects with AGT (N-AGT), we measured coronary blood flow and arteriovenous differences of oxygen and metabolites during Rest, Pacing (at 130 b/min), and Recovery. …”
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