Race as a prognostic factor of breast mucinous carcinoma by Dingyuan Wang, Yang Wang, Songlin Gao, Rongshou Zheng, Guijian Wu, Jianping Wang, Can Lu, Kena Bu, Chun Zhang, Wanqing Chen, Bailin Zhang

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A green forage diet enhances microbial diversity in buffalo rumen by Angela Salzano, Giovanna Bifulco, Alfio Calanni Macchio, Valentina Longobardi, Francesca Aragona, Giovan Maria Pacelli, Giuseppe Campanile

“…Aim of the work was to analyze the effects of an experimental feed based on the inclusion of ryegrass green forage (16.1 kg dry matter (DM) and, in kg on DM, 14.4 kg crude protein, 5.0 kg fat, 38.5 kg NDF, 23.4 kg ADF, 33.1 NSC, 15.5 kg and 0.91 Milk forage units; Green group) on the microbial composition of the rumen of buffaloes compared to a traditional total mixed ratio (TMR) diet (16.0 kg DM and, in kg on DM, 14.5 kg crude protein, 4.8 kg fat, 38.0 kg NDF, 24.0 kg ADF, 34.0 NSC, 21.0 kg and 0.93 Milk forage units; Dry group). …”
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Exploration of Degradation Mechanism of Chlorogenic Acids in Stevia Based on UPLC-QTOF MS/MS by Juan-juan WU, Zi-xuan WANG, Yun-he LIAN, Li-juan HOU, Zhi-ping NIU, Wen-chang WANG, Di WU

“…Chlorogenic acids (caffeoylquinic acids, CQAs), as key bioactive components in numerous traditional herbal medicines, are highly acclaimed for their various biological activities and therapeutic benefits. …”
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A Multifunctional MIL-101-NH2(Fe) Nanoplatform for Synergistic Melanoma Therapy by Shang J, Chen Y, Wang F, Yang J, Li Y, Yang L, Liu X, Zhong Z, Yue C, Zhou M

“…Jinlu Shang,1,2,* Yongjun Chen,2,* Fangliang Wang,3,* Jing Yang,2 Yi Li,4 Liuxuan Yang,2 Xiuqiong Liu,1 Zhirong Zhong,5 Chaochi Yue,6 Meiling Zhou2 1Department of Pharmacy, West China Hospital Sichuan University Jintang Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610400, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Pharmacy, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, 646000, People’s Republic of China; 3Chongqing Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Metabolism Research, Chongqing Pharmacodynamic Evaluation Engineering Technology Research Center, College of Pharmacy Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, 646000, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, 646000, People’s Republic of China; 6Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, 646000, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Meiling Zhou; Chaochi Yue, Email meilzhou@163.com; yuechaochi18@swmu.edu.cnBackground: Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer, and single-modality treatments often fail to prevent tumor recurrence and metastasis. …”
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Risk barriers and sustainability in payment for ecosystem service implementation in smallholder forestry by A. Ibrahim, S. Withaningsih, R. Kinseng, Parikesit ., D. Muhamad

“…Socio-cultural factors, including gender dynamics, traditional beliefs, and generational disparities, shape farmers' attitudes toward payment for ecosystem services adoption, necessitating targeted interventions to foster trust and community acceptance. …”
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Unified Mobile App for Streamlining Verbal Autopsy and Cause of Death Assignment in India: Design and Development Study by Harleen Kaur, Stuti Tripathi, Manjeet Singh Chalga, Sudhir K Benara, Amit Dhiman, Shefali Gupta, Saritha Nair, Geetha Menon, B K Gulati, Sandeep Sharma, Saurabh Sharma

“…This questionnaire encompasses the primary signs and symptoms associated with prevalent diseases across all age groups. Traditional methods have primarily involved paper-based questionnaires and physician-coded approaches for COD assignment, which is time-consuming and resource-intensive. …”
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Effects of virtual reality technology on early mobility in critically ill adult patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yansha He, Yansha He, Qin Yang, Xiaoxia Dai, Tian Chen, Huan Wu, Kunjie Li, Shiqiong Zhu, Yanlin Liu, Hua Lei

“…The meta-analysis showed that, compared to the control group, virtual reality technology significantly improved the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) score (MD = 3.95, 95% CI: 3.19, 4.70, p < 0.05), the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) score (MD = 0.21, 95% CI: −1.35, 1.76, p > 0.05), the Functional Ambulation Category (FAC) score (MD = 0.72, 95% CI: 0.49, 0.94, p < 0.05), the upper limb motor function (Fugl-Meyer Assessment, FMA) score (MD = 5.08, 95% CI: 3.46, 6.69, p < 0.05), and the lower limb motor function (Fugl-Meyer Assessment FMA) score (MD = 2.83, 95% CI: 1.99, 3.67, p < 0.05) of the adult critically ill patients.ConclusionCompared to traditional rehabilitation techniques, virtual reality technology has a better overall effect in improving motor rehabilitation in critically ill patients and enhancing balance, functional walking, and upper and lower limb motor functions. …”
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Attention to Monkeypox: An Interpretable Monkeypox Detection Technique Using Attention Mechanism by Avi Deb Raha, Mrityunjoy Gain, Rameswar Debnath, Apurba Adhikary, Yu Qiao, Md. Mehedi Hassan, Anupam Kumar Bairagi, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam

“…Finally, to comprehensively assess the performance of our model, we employed a range of evaluation metrics, including Cohen’s Kappa, Matthews Correlation Coefficient, and Youden’s J Index, alongside traditional measures like accuracy, F1-score, precision, recall, sensitivity, and specificity. …”
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Use of Augmented Reality for Training Assistance in Laparoscopic Surgery: Scoping Literature Review by Francisco Javier Celdrán, Javier Jiménez-Ruescas, Carlos Lobato, Lucía Salazar, Juan Alberto Sánchez-Margallo, Francisco M Sánchez-Margallo, Pascual González

“…Surgical training has evolved from traditional approaches to the use of immersive digital technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. …”
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An Explainable Artificial Intelligence Text Classifier for Suicidality Prediction in Youth Crisis Text Line Users: Development and Validation Study by Julia Thomas, Antonia Lucht, Jacob Segler, Richard Wundrack, Marcel Miché, Roselind Lieb, Lars Kuchinke, Gunther Meinlschmidt

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to (1) develop and implement ML methods for predicting SIBs in a real-world crisis helpline dataset, using transformer-based pretrained models as a foundation; (2) evaluate, cross-validate, and benchmark the model against traditional text classification approaches; and (3) train an explainable model to highlight relevant risk-associated features. …”
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Effectiveness of Video Teletherapy in Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents With Exposure and Response Prevention: Retrospective Longitudinal Observati... by Jamie D Feusner, Nicholas R Farrell, Mia Nunez, Nicholas Lume, Catherine W MacDonald, Patrick B McGrath, Larry Trusky, Stephen Smith, Andreas Rhode

“…Demonstrating the usefulness of a delivery format that overcomes several traditional barriers to treatment, these findings have implications for widespread dissemination of accessible, evidence-based care for children and adolescents with OCD.…”
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Utilization of Blood Flow Restriction Therapy with a Former Triathlete After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Case Report by Christopher Keating, Stephanie Muth, Cameron Hui, Lisa T Hoglund

“…Blood flow restriction (BFR) may be a viable option for patients following TKA, as it can improve strength with a minimal amount of joint loading compared to traditional strength training. The purpose of this case report is to describe the impact of BFR use in an individual after TKA, employing pain measurements, quantitative sensory testing, patient-reported outcome measures, physical performance tests, and muscle strength and power testing to explore potential treatment effects and identify potential predictors of response for future studies…”
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The Clinical Value of the Combined Detection of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII), Systemic Inflammation Response Index (SIRI), and Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) in Ear... by Zheng J, Zheng L, Wang X, Mao X, Wang Q, Yang Y, Mo D

“…Junyu Zheng,1,* Lijun Zheng,2,* Xiao Wang,3 Xuelian Mao,1 Qin Wang,1 Yining Yang,1 Dongping Mo1 1Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital & Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital & Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Clinical Laboratory, Nanjing Lishui District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of CT, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital & Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital & Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Dongping Mo, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital & Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital & Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research, Baizi Ting No. 42, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210009, People’s Republic of China, Email moxiaoyubang@163.comObjective: Gastric cancer (GC) is a common malignant tumor of the digestive tract. …”
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Global, regional, national prevalence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life-years of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma and trend analysis from 1990 to 2021 and prediction to 204... by Chengling Liu, Xingchen Liu, Pengjuan Cao, Xin Li, Haiming Xin, Sailin Zhu

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PRACTICAL TRAINING OF OFFICERS OF THE STATE FIRE SERVICE THROUGH GAME-BASED LEARNING by V. V. Bulgakov, A. A. Lazarev, E. P. Konovalenko, T. A. Mochalova

“…However, in a technologically developed society, there is a contradiction between the increased requirements to young officers’ competencies and the impossibility to achieve a proper complex of graduates’ characteristics by providing education through only standard traditional techniques, which continue to be prevalent in higher education and ensure optimisation of professional activity in general.The aim of the present publication was to present the developed methodology of game-based learning for training of cadets of educational organisations of higher education of the EMERCOM of Russia. …”
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Genotype by environment interactions and phenotypic traits stability of the EUCLEG faba bean collection by Dejan Sokolović, Snežana Babić, Mirjana Petrović, Ignacio Solís, Mathias Cougnon, Natalia Gutierrez, Pertti Pärssinen, Dirk Reheul, Jasmina Radović, Ana M. Torres

“…Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is an important pulse crop traditionally used for human nutrition and animal feeding. …”
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Biofloc technology significantly reshapes water microbiome and improves survival rates in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) by Jiho Yang, Hyunjun Choi, Jun Seong Park, Yehyeon Cha, Ju-Ae Hwang, Seung-Yoon Oh

“…Our research provides the first comprehensive analysis of how BFT influences both the growth and microbiome composition of Japanese eels compared with traditional flow-through systems. By identifying specific microbial residents potentially linked to improved feed consumption and growth, this study opens new avenues for optimizing BFT in eel farming. …”
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Multifunctional health-promoting effects of oolong tea and its products by Shuzhen Wang, Ting Zeng, Shuang Zhao, Yu Zhu, Changchun Feng, Jianfeng Zhan, Shiming Li, Chi-Tang Ho, Alexander Gosslau

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Prediction of major adverse cardiovascular events following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction using cardiac obesity marker—epicardial adipose tissue mass index: a prospect... by Zeyan Liu, Jinbo Wang, Yanfang Yang, Jinglin Cheng, Min Yang, Ye Zhang

“…EAMI showed better discriminative ability, prediction effect, accuracy, and clinical applicability compared to the traditional GRACE score. In the validation set, EAMI also demonstrated good predictive performance for MACE. …”
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Workplace Health Promotion as a good solution to the negative impact of the financial crisis on healthcare systems by Francesco Chirico

“…At the beginning of the century, the widespread Mediterranean diet, the favorable climate and the relaxed traditional lifestyle increased life expectancy for southern Italians, before growing factors, such as lower birthrates and worsening of economic resources, caused a trend inversion. …”
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