The Association of Obesity with Walking Independent of Knee Pain: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study by Daniel K. White, Tuhina Neogi, Yuqing Zhang, David Felson, Michael LaValley, Jingbo Niu, Michael Nevitt, Cora E. Lewis, James Torner, K. Douglas Gross

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Utilization of an Intraoperative Grading Scale in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Nepalese Perspective by Suman Baral, Raj Kumar Chhetri, Neeraj Thapa

“…PGS was applied for all the patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy and laboratory and outcome factors like preoperative white blood cells (WBC), open conversion, subtotal cholecystectomy, length of surgery, and bile leaks postoperatively were assessed. …”
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Eating disorders in minority ethnic populations in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK: a scoping review by A. Williams-Ridgway, R. McGowan, S. McNeil, H. Tuomainen

“…Abstract Background Historically, eating disorder (ED) research has largely focused on White girls and women, with minority ethnic populations underrepresented. …”
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Folk Medicine, Folk Healing by Mustafa SEVER

“…Before Islam, the Turks used to believe that there were white and black possessors, ancestors’ spirits (arvaks) and their healthy and peaceful life depended on getting on with these spirits. …”
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Visual Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction of Two Continuous Range of Vision Intraocular Lenses by Micheletti JM, Hall B, Smiley HG, Langston WJ

“…J Morgan Micheletti,1 Brad Hall,2 Hayden G Smiley,3 William J Langston4 1Berkeley Eye Center, Houston, TX, USA; 2Sengi, Penniac, NB, Canada; 3Baylor Scott and White Medical Center, Temple, TX, USA; 4Long School of Medicine, San Antonio, TX, USACorrespondence: J Morgan Micheletti, Berkeley Eye Center, Houston, TX, USA, Tel +1-713-526-1600, Email morgan.micheletti@gmail.comPurpose: To determine if visual outcomes with PanOptix are non-inferior to visual outcomes with Synergy.Methods: This was an ambispective, single center, comparative, bilateral, observational study. …”
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Meat consumption and racial/ethnic disparities in population-based study in the city Campinas, Brazil by Samara Agda dos Santos, Josiane Steluti, Natália Simonian Rodrigues Valente Ghedini, Semíramis Martins Álvares Domene

“…Lower total consumption of meat, red meat, beef and fish was found among individuals with self-declared black skin color compared to those with self-declared white skin color. Red meat consumption varied from 109.4g to 157.9g in 2008/2009 and from 102.1g to 125.1g in 2014/2015 between the groups, remaining above the recommendation in both periods. …”
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The Impact of 3S2E Nursing Management on the Psychological Status of Respiratory Function and Quality of Life of Patients with Severe Pneumonia in the ICU by Yaoyao Xu, Xia Li, Qin Yang, Xiuxian Ma

“…The two groups’ preintervention and postintervention times for mechanical ventilation, white blood cell count (WBC) recovery, duration of hospital stay, problems, respiratory function, psychological state, and living quality were compared. …”
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Health-Promoting Constituents and Selected Quality Parameters of Different Types of Kimchi: Fermented Plant Products by Anna Korus, Emilia Bernaś, Jarosław Korus

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality and health-promoting constituents of several variants of kimchi obtained from Chinese cabbage, kohlrabi, white radish, and cucumbers. The level of dry matter, total soluble solids, ash, total acidity, pH, dietary fiber, and vitamins C, B1, and B2, as well as total polyphenols (TP) and antioxidant activity AA (ABTS, DPPH) in kimchi, were determined. …”
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Anti-Malarial Effects of Five Traditional Nigerian Medicinal Plant Extracts on Plasmodium Berghei-Infected Rats by Ugochukwu Vincent, Igbokwe, Ejike, Daniel Eze, Moses Dele, Adams, Karimah Mohammed, Rabiu, Iliya, Ezekiel, Prisca Ojochogu, Ajeka, Peace Ogechukwu, Okpara

“…Plasmodium berghei induction notably (p<0.05) lowered white blood cell (WBC) and monocyte (Mono) levels at all groups. …”
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Performance Management Innovations and Local Government Employees Performance in Kabale District: A case Study of Kabale District Local Government Administration. by Alex, Museveni

“…The study found out that performance management innovations employed to improve employee’s performance include Various Acts and statutory guidelines ,Local governments need for constant feedback from service-users , The White Paper on Local Government, conforming to Integrated Development Plan (IDP) framework , broader framework in place to improve financial management in local government and development of a guide, that performance management innovations have improved employee’s performance in the following ways: Review of the performance of staff, regular review meetings have increased, targets have been maintained, submission of reports, that the Challenges met during the implementation of performance management innovations are, Difficulty in measuring performance, The lack of clear roles and responsibilities, Political factors, non-performance culture and Organizational factors. …”
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The impact of a humanized bile acid composition on atherosclerosis development in hypercholesterolaemic Cyp2c70 knockout mice by Tess Yntema, Tim R. Eijgenraam, Niels J. Kloosterhuis, Rick Havinga, Mirjam H. Koster, Milaine V. Hovingh, Jan Freark de Boer, Debby P. Y. Koonen, Folkert Kuipers

“…Cyp2c70 −/− mice showed reduced hepatic total cholesterol and triglycerides (p < 0.05) combined with lower plasma total cholesterol (p < 0.05) and triglycerides (p = 0.05) due to lower VLDL levels. Circulating white blood cells remained largely unaffected in Cyp2c70 −/− mice. …”
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Copy Number Variations in Short Tandem Repeats Modulate Growth Traits in Penaeid Shrimp Through Neighboring Gene Regulation by Hao Zhou, Guangfeng Qiang, Yan Xia, Jian Tan, Qiang Fu, Kun Luo, Xianhong Meng, Baolong Chen, Meijia Chen, Juan Sui, Ping Dai, Xupeng Li, Mianyu Liu, Qun Xing, Jie Kong, Sheng Luan

“…Further analysis utilizing a cohort of 326 Pacific white shrimp revealed a total of 672,507 high-quality STRs evenly distributed across the genome, with a notably lower frequency of SNPs within these STR regions. …”
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Characterization of two iron bullets from the royal ammunition factory of Eugi (Spain) by Zalakain I., Berlanga C., Alvarez L., Asa L., Labé P., Rivero P., Valencia J., Rodríguez R.

“…The analyses of the microstructures carried out by LM and SEM showed that one bullet was composed of white cast iron with a pearlitic matrix, steadite and graphite; while the other was composed of grey cast iron with a pearlitic matrix, graphite and a low amount of steadite. …”
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Risk Factors for Rebleeding after Emergency Endoscopic Treatment of Dieulafoy Lesion by Yongkang Lai, Jianfang Rong, Zhenhua Zhu, Wangdi Liao, Bimin Li, Yin Zhu, Youxiang Chen, Xu Shu

“…In the multivariable analysis, pure injection endoscopic treatment, white blood cells (>10 × 109/L), and prothrombin time >12 seconds were the independent risk factors for rebleeding. …”
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An Analysis of Biopsies for Suspected Skin Cancer at a Tertiary Care Dermatology Clinic in the Western Cape Province of South Africa by Johann de Wet, Minette Steyn, Henry F. Jordaan, Rhodine Smith, Saskya Claasens, Willem I. Visser

“…BCC (89.3%) and KS (67.7%) was the most common skin cancer in the white and black population respectively. The ratio of BCC to SCC was 2.03. …”
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Risk factors for the mortality of hemodialysis patients with COVID-19 in northern Hunan province, China by Zhangxiu He, Zhong Peng, Ning Gao, Shuzhu Zhong, Fengyi Yu, Zixu Tang, Zihao Liao, Song Zhao, Gloria Umwiza, Ming Chen, Wei Long

“…Independent predictors of mortality in our cohort were: age (hazard ratio [HR] 1.09; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.05–1.14; P < 0.001), elevated procalcitonin (PCT) levels (HR 1.02; 95%CI, 1.01–1.03; P < 0.001), and higher white blood cell-neutrophil ratio (NWR) (HR 1.04; 95%CI, 1.04–1.07; P = 0.004). …”
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Allium cepa L. as a natural antioxidant: Its efficacy in combating heat stress-induced physiological alterations by Ayobami O. Sobanke, Afusat Aiyeola, Frances I. Okwuonu, Wuraola S. Nnaemeka, Jeremiah C. Ndubuisi, Franklin I. Udeoji, Jane N. Adiele

“…However, there was a significant rise in the levels of inflammatory markers, platelet counts, LDL-c triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), and white blood cell (WBC). Many of these alterations were reversed by AC supplementation, by increasing RBC counts, HB levels, and antioxidant enzyme activities while decreasing LDL-c, TG and TC, MDA, and TNF-α (tumor necrosis factor-α). …”
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A Multiwavelength Light-curve Analysis of the Classical Nova KT Eri: Optical Contribution from a Large Irradiated Accretion Disk by Izumi Hachisu, Mariko Kato, Frederick M. Walter

“…This result is consistent with the temporal variation of wide-band V brightness that varies almost with the intermediate-band Strömgren y brightness, because the V flux is dominated by continuum radiation, the origin of which is a photospheric emission from the very bright disk. We determined the white dwarf mass to be M _WD = 1.3 ± 0.02 M _⊙ , the hydrogen-burning turnoff epoch to be ∼240 days after the outburst, the distance modulus in the V band to be ( m − M ) _V = 13.4 ± 0.2, and the distance to KT Eri to be d = 4.2 ± 0.4 kpc for the reddening of E ( B − V ) = 0.08. …”
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Preclinical development of a standardized extract of Ilex paraguariensis A.St.-Hil for the treatment of obesity and metabolic syndrome by Sara E.L. Tolouei, Rodrigo Marcon, Fabiana Cardoso Vilela, Cristina Setim Freitas, Melina Heller, Edineia Lemos de Andrade, Sergio José Macedo Júnior, Adara Áurea dos Santos, Ruth Fernandes Rocha, Guilherme Pasetto Fadanni, Naiani Ferreira Marques, Jarbas Mota Siqueira Júnior, João B. Calixto

“…The mechanisms through which TI-076 acts seem to involve the modulation of several genes associated with inflammation (Il1b, Nlrp3, Pparα and Pparγ), white adipose and liver metabolism (Cartpt, Mgll, Ramp3, Faah, Cck, Clps, Pparα and Pparγ), liver damage and fibrosis (Creb1, Col1a1 and Col3a1). …”
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Comprehensive dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents in a juvenile correctional treatment center: a pilot evaluation by Johanna B. Folk, Phillip Yang, Anne Thomas, Jayme Lyon, Jaisal Patel, Clara Yoon, Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy

“…Through a community-academic partnership, the current pilot study evaluated a comprehensive dialectical behavior therapy program implemented in a juvenile correctional treatment center.MethodsYouth participants (N = 113) were on average 15.37 years old (SD = 1.10, range = 13–17), 68.1% boys, and identified as 69.0% Latinx, 22.1% Black, 8.0% White, and 0.9% Native American. Youth received comprehensive dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents (DBT-A), including individual therapy, skills training groups, family therapy, multi-family skills training groups, and skills coaching in the milieu by direct care staff who participated in extensive training and ongoing consultation team meetings. …”
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