From classroom to screen: a cross-sectional study on medical students’ first experiences with e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic by Laleh Khojasteh, Zahra Karimian, Elham Nasiri, Sedigheh Sharifzadeh, Majid Reza Farrokhi

“…The content validity of the questionnaire was assessed using Content Validity Index (CVI) and Content Validity Ratio (CVR). The reliability of the questionnaire, based on the internal consistency of the questions, was confirmed by a Cronbach’s alpha of 97.5%. …”
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Association of ultra-processed food-related metabolites with selected biochemical markers in the UK Biobank by Anthony Kityo, Byeonggeun Choi, Jung-Eun Lee, Chulho Kim, Sang-Ah Lee

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Genome-wide association study identifies four pan-ancestry loci for suicidal ideation in the Million Veteran Program. by Allison E Ashley-Koch, Nathan A Kimbrel, Xue J Qin, Jennifer H Lindquist, Melanie E Garrett, Michelle F Dennis, Lauren P Hair, Jennifer E Huffman, Daniel A Jacobson, Ravi K Madduri, Hilary Coon, Anna R Docherty, Jooeun Kang, Niamh Mullins, Douglas M Ruderfer, VA Million Veteran Program (MVP), MVP Suicide Exemplar Workgroup, International Suicide Genetics Consortium, Philip D Harvey, Benjamin H McMahon, David W Oslin, Elizabeth R Hauser, Michael A Hauser, Jean C Beckham

“…Pan-ancestry gene-based analysis identified GWS associations with DRD2, DCC, FBXL19, BCL7C, CTF1, ANNK1, and EXD3. Gene-set analysis implicated synaptic and startle response pathways (q's<0.05). …”
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TikTok medio de divulgación empleado por los viajeros que realizan turismo sostenible by Ariana Paola Herrera Pérez

“…Los vídeos con los hashtags más relevantes son los siguientes: #turismo con 299,8 millones de visualizaciones, #turismosostenible con un total de 101,6 mil visualizaciones, #tiktoktravel contiene 20,1 millones de visualizaciones y #travel con 27,3 millones de visualizaciones. …”
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Sequence-based GWAS in 180,000 German Holstein cattle reveals new candidate variants for milk production traits by Ana-Marija Križanac, Christian Reimer, Johannes Heise, Zengting Liu, Jennie E. Pryce, Jörn Bennewitz, Georg Thaller, Clemens Falker-Gieske, Jens Tetens

“…The top potential causal variants determined with fine-mapping explained a large percentage of genetic variance compared to random ones; 178 variants explained 11.5%, 104 explained 7.7%, and 68 variants explained 3.9% of the variance for MY, FY, and PY, respectively, demonstrating the potential for causality. …”
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Exploring Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds through Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models by Duo Xu, Jenna Karcheski, Chi-Yan Law, Ye Zhu, Chia-Jung Hsu, Jonathan C. Tan

“…The code and trained model are available on GitHub at http://github.com/xuduo117/DDPM_Bmag . We assessed the models on both synthetic test samples and new simulation data that were outside the training set's distribution. …”
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Verbascoside Inhibits the Activation of NLRP3 Inflammasome and Improves BV-2 Cell Inflammatory Damage by Wenjing HUANG, Fang CHENG, Min DU, Jiayi CHEN, Wei XIANG, Ke SHI, Xingliang XIE, Yanmei SHENG

“…Shipin gongye ke-ji…”
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Optimización del diseño de talud en minería superficial mediante el método de elementos finitos by Pamela Patricia Catari Colque, Christ Jesus Barriga Paria, Carmen Rosa Villanueva Ari, Juan Mauricio Gomez Velasquez, Helaman Luis Alvarado Ramirez, Dalila Rosmeri Melgar Raymundo, Emily Adriana Chirinos Quintanilla

“…En la zona norte (sección B-B'), se recomienda un IRA de 38° para lograr un FS de 1.57. Los hallazgos son fundamentales para garantizar la seguridad y eficiencia operativa en la mina, ya que un diseño de talud inadecuado podría comprometer la integridad de la infraestructura y la seguridad de los trabajadores. …”
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Assessing the Safety Level of Hospitalized Patients: Analyzing Patient Activities by Sayedeh Somayyeh Mousavipour, Mousa Jabbari, Mahnaz Saremi, Abbas Ebadi, Ehsan Shariat Bahadori, Davoud Khorasani Zavareh

“…Therefore, improving the level of management and prioritization and providing the controlling and the suggested solutions, which are the main management tasks in a hospital, can improve the safety of the hospitalized patients. …”
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Design of Bacterial Cultures in Fermented Functional Maize Product Formulation by Zuzana Matejčeková, Anna Mikulajová, Eva Vlková, Denisa Liptáková, Silvia Mošovská, Eva Hybenová, Ľubomír Valík

“…Although milk is a typical growth medium for lactic acid cocci of the Fresco culture, fermentation increased its counts by about 3 log CFU/mL after 8 h (37°C), whereas pH of 4.54 and 4.69 was achieved after the fermentation in products with sucrose and caramel, respectively. …”
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Impact of chemoradiotherapy for first primary lung cancer on the prognosis and re-chemoradiotherapy sensitivity of second primary lung cancer by Zhe Chen, Gaoming Wang, Nan Wang, Jiangjiang Liu, Yu Yao, Haitao Ma, Haitao Ma, Jing Luo, Kai Xie

“…Patients with SPLC who received combined chemoradiotherapy for FPLC exhibited significantly reduced survival times (OS: HR=1.157, P=0.030; CSS: HR=1.198, P=0.018), a finding confirmed across multiple models. …”
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低浓度雷公藤甲素联合伊达比星诱导急性髓系白血病 干细胞凋亡及其机制

“…IC20浓度的雷公藤甲素(5 nmol/L)单药组?IC50浓度的IDA(27nmol/L)单药组及上述浓度的雷公藤甲素联合IDA组作用于AML干细胞细胞,24 h凋亡率分别为:(5.63 ± 0.67)%?…”
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Are Suggested Hiking Times Accurate? A Validation of Hiking Time Estimations for Preventive Measures in Mountains by Marco Vecchiato, Nicola Borasio, Emiliano Scettri, Vanessa Franzoi, Federica Duregon, Sandro Savino, Andrea Ermolao, Daniel Neunhaeuserer

“…In contrast, MOVE showed no statistically significant difference (ΔWM: −0.27 ± 65.72 min; <i>p</i> = 0.278), providing the most accurate predictions. …”
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High clinical burden of classical homocystinuria in the United States: a retrospective analysis by Mahim Jain, Mehul Shah, Kamlesh M. Thakker, Andrew Rava, Agnes Pelts Block, Colette Ndiba-Markey, Lionel Pinto

“…Thrombotic/thromboembolic events (n = 186, 30.9%) were the most common type of events, followed by skeletal (n = 100, 16.6%), ocular (n = 63, 10.5%), and neurological events (n = 50, 8.3%). During follow-up, 5.7% (n = 34) of the patients died. All events assessed were more prevalent in the 50 to < 100 µM group and ≥ 100 µM group compared with those in the < 50 µM group. …”
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Toward measurements of absolute membrane potential in Bacillus subtilis using fluorescence lifetime by Debjit Roy, Xavier Michalet, Evan W. Miller, Kiran Bharadwaj, Shimon Weiss

“…Membrane potential (MP) changes can provide a simple readout of bacterial functional and metabolic state or stress levels. …”
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Postoperative Analgesic Effects of Quadratus Lumborum Block Versus Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in Pediatric Lower Abdominal Surgeries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Aldalati AY, Hussein AM, Ataya R, Alrabadi B, Odat RM, Idrees M, Al-dabagh A, Kamal Z, Aloudat O, Al-qaoud A

“…Pooled analysis indicated that postoperative pain measured by the FLACC score was lower in the QLB group compared to the TAPB group (MD: − 0.37; 95% CI: − 0.51, − 0.23; P < 0.00001). QLB was also associated with lower rescue analgesic demand (OR: 0.25; 95% CI, 0.13, 0.49; P < 0.0001), higher parent satisfaction (SMD: 0.78; 95% CI: 0.53, 1.02; P < 0.00001), longer time without the need for analgesic administration (MD: 1.04; 95% CI: 0.38, 1.71; P = 0.002), and lower paracetamol consumption (SMD: − 1.40; 95% CI: − 2.43, − 0.36; P = 0.008). …”
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Evolution of local heterogeneity towards flat free energy landscape: Optimization of piezoelectric response in PNN-PZ-PT at morphotropic phase boundary by Shubham Modgil, Varun Kamboj, Mukul Kumar, Arun Kumar Singh, Shobhna Dhiman, Gyaneshwar Sharma, OP Thakur, Sanjeev Kumar

“…Piezoelectric coefficient increases from 545pC/N (x = 0%) to 810pC/N (x = 1%) with Sm3+ doping. …”
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Differential controls on CO2 and CH4 emissions from the free-flowing Neretva River, Bosnia and Herzegovina by Martin Dalvai Ragnoli, Thea Schwingshackl, Serafine Kattus, Julius Lissy, Elisabeth Weninger, Gabriel Singer

“… Streams and rivers emit methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2), two greenhouse gasses contributing to global warming. …”
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The effectiveness of static balloon atrioseptostomy for correcting hemodynamics in complex congenital heart diseases by O.O. Motrechko, A.V. Maksymenko, Yu.L. Kuzmenko, M.P. Radchenko, N.M. Rudenko

“…Early mortality was 4.7 % (1 patient died). Late mortality 4.7 % (n = 1). …”
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Altered circadian rhythmicity of the QT interval predicts mortality in a large real-world academic hospital population by Rutger R. van de Leur, Bastiaan C. du Pré, Markella I. Printezi, Rutger J. Hassink, Pieter A. Doevendans, René van Es, Linda W. van Laake

“…The association of this individual QT interval with all-cause mortality was assessed using a left-truncated Cox regression model. Results: The baseline QT correction model was fitted using 237,555 ECGs of 100,644 patients. …”
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