Characteristics of gastric fluid microbiota in patients with refractory Helicobacter pylori infection by Huiting Zhu, Shijie Sun, Shijie Sun, Yujing Wang, Yujing Wang, Wensi Zhang, Shiyu Du, Yanli Zhang

“…The Rhp group also had higher H. pylori PZ5004/P79 abundance, more complex microbial interactions, and enriched sulfur relay pathways than the other groups.ConclusionH. pylori infection disrupts the diversity, structure, and function of gastric microbiota. The close interaction between characteristic microbiota and H. pylori subspecies may be a key factor contributing to the difficulty in treating RHPI.…”
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Problem of Transmitting Non-Personal Verb Forms in Modern English and Translating Them from English into Russian (by Example of English Aviation Texts) by A. V. Meldianova

“…Part-of-speech and functional features of the impersonal forms of the verb in modern English that are of particular difficulty for analysis and translation are considered. …”
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Interspinous process devices for treatment of degenerative lumbar spine stenosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Arthur Werner Poetscher, Andre Felix Gentil, Mario Ferretti, Mario Lenza

“…Primary outcomes were pain assessment, functional impairment, Zurich Claudication Questionnaire, and reoperation rates. …”
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INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IN TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH DENTAL ANOMALIES by l.V. Smahlyuk, N.V. Kulish, O. M. Nesterenko

“…After creating the maximum occlusal contact, the patient regained chewing function. Thus, the treatment of mesial occlusion and its prognosis largely depends on etiological factors and the possibility of their elimination, as well as the severity of morphological and functional disorders, the difficulty of eliminating them during permanent occlusion. …”
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Comparative effect of Chamomile flower (Matricaria chamomilla L.) andPassion flower (Passiflora incarnata L.) powder tea in patients suffering from primary insomnia by Zartasha Khalid, Sana Noreen, Patrick Maduabuchi Aja, Abdul Rehman, Ayesha Sadiqa

“…Primary insomnia, a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep, can negatively impact overall health. …”
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Mechanical Fault Diagnosis Method of a Disconnector Based on Improved Dung Beetle Optimizer–Multivariate Variational Mode Decomposition and Convolutional Neural Network–Bidirection... by Chi Zhang, Hongzhong Ma, Wei Sun

“…Then, the energy, entropy, and time–frequency domain eigenvalues of the selected intrinsic mode function were calculated to construct the feature matrix, and its dimensions were reduced to two dimensions. …”
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Multidimensional patient-reported problems within two weeks of HIV diagnosis in East Africa: a multicentre observational study. by Victoria Simms, Nancy Gikaara, Grace Munene, Mackuline Atieno, Jeniffer Kataike, Clare Nsubuga, Geoffrey Banga, Eve Namisango, Suzanne Penfold, Peter Fayers, Richard A Powell, Irene J Higginson, Richard Harding

“…<h4>Results</h4>There were 438 participants (62% female, 30% with restricted physical function). The most prevalent problems were lack of help and advice (47% reported none in the previous 3 days) and difficulty sharing feelings. …”
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CLASSIFYING LIVER DISEASE WITH BOOSTING MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES by Erol Özçekiç, Ümit Yılmaz

“…Liver diseases pose a significant global health challenge due to their impact on metabolic function and the difficulty of early detection. Traditional diagnostic methods such as liver biopsy have limitations due to their invasive nature and high costs. …”
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YOLOv8-DBW: An Improved YOLOv8-Based Algorithm for Maize Leaf Diseases and Pests Detection by Xiang Gan, Shukun Cao, Jin Wang, Yu Wang, Xu Hou

“…At the same time, the Wise-IoU loss function was combined to optimize the training process, which improved the convergence speed and regression accuracy of the loss function. …”
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EFM-ResNet: A Feature Enhanced Network for Tobacco Strips Classification by Bo Zhang, Shanshan Zheng, Leyuan Han, Yucan Qiu

“…Finally, a WFL loss function is used to address the limitations of the traditional cross-entropy loss function. …”
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Mental state of medical students three years into the war by V. V. Ogorenko, A. V. Shornikov, V. O. Kokashynskyi, O. A. Makoviichuk, O. E. Kachan

“…At the same time, 18.3 % of students exhibited pronounced functional impairment (≥8 points). Depressive symptoms of any severity were present in 76.9 % of respondents; 39.4 % had clinically significant depression, and 19.2 % had severe depression. …”
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Brain stimulation used as biofeedback in neuronal activation of the temporal lobe area in autistic children by Vernon Furtado da Silva, Mauricio Rocha Calomeni, Rodolfo Alkmim Moreira Nunes, Carlos Elias Pimentel, Gabriela Paes Martins, Patrícia da Cruz Araruna Oliveira, Patrícia Bagno Silva, Alair Pedro Ribeiro de Souza e Silva

“…ABSTRACT This study focused upon the functional capacity of mirror neurons in autistic children. 30 individuals, 10 carriers of the autistic syndrome (GCA), 10 with intellectual impairments (GDI), and 10 non-autistics (GCN) had registered eletroencephalogram from the brain area theoretically related to mirror neurons. …”
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Improving Stability of Spiroplasma citri MreB5 Through Purification Optimization and Structural Insights by Vani Pande, Pananghat Gayathri

“…It is essential for cell shape in the majority of rod-shaped cell-walled bacteria. Structural and functional characterization of MreB protein is important to understand the mechanism of ATP-dependent filament dynamics and membrane interaction. …”
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The physical, social and emotional aspects are the most affected in the quality of life of the patients with cervical dystonia by Roberta Weber Werle, Sibele Yoko Mattozo Takeda, Marise Bueno Zonta, Ana Tereza Bittencourt Guimarães, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive

“…Objective : Describe the functional, clinical and quality of life (QoL) profiles in patients with cervical dystonia (CD) with residual effect or without effect of botulinum toxin (BTX), as well as verify the existence of correlation between the level of motor impairment, pain and QoL. …”
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Is Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress the Key Contributor to Diaphragm Atrophy and Dysfunction in Critically Ill Patients? by Hongjie Duan, Hailiang Bai

“…Among these contributors, mitochondrial oxidative stress is strongly implicated to play a key role in the process as it modulates diaphragm protein synthesis and degradation, induces protein oxidation and functional alteration, enhances apoptosis and autophagy, reduces mitochondrial energy supply, and is regulated by inflammatory cytokines via related signaling molecules. …”
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Public management platform construction and mode innovation thinking under the background of big data by Zhou Chunyu, Zheng Zunwen

“…Although the application of big data analysis is becoming more and more common, it is faced with many difficulties in the practical application of public management, such as too many data source channels, and the difficulty of data privacy and security protection is getting higher and higher. …”
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Design of SiC MOSFET half-bridge driver and protection circuit by Zheng Gaoming, Sun Feng, Li Huan, Hu Yating, Liu Jing, Liu Yujie

“…In response to the challenges in designing silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET driving circuits, such as high difficulty in design, susceptibility to crosstalk, incomplete protective functions, and the issue of full domestic production, a half-bridge driving and protection circuit for silicon carbide MOSFETs has been designed based on domestic chips. …”
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Dual Power Transformation and Yeo–Johnson Techniques for Static and Dynamic Reliability Assessments by Bao-Hua Liu, Long-Wen Zhang, Yi-Qiang Wei, Chen Chen

“…For static reliability problems, a dual power transformation is employed to transform the performance function into a form approaching a normal distribution. …”
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A Novel Network for Choroidal Segmentation Based on Enhanced Boundary Information by Wenbo Huang, Chaofan Qu, Yang Yan

“…Furthermore, the channel enhancement mechanism further refines the expression of salient channel futures, while the adaptive activation function improves the sensitivity of the network to boundary futures. …”
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Long COVID Is Associated with Severe Cognitive Limitations Among U.S. Adults by Rolake Neba, Iman Mohamed, Theodora Iwudibia, Jahnavi Pinnamraju, Usha Sambamoorthi

“…The cognitive limitations were abstracted from the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning, as follows: No difficulty; Some difficulty; A lot of difficulty; and Cannot do at all; we combined “a lot of difficulty” or “unable to do” under the category “severe cognitive limitation”. …”
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