The so-called Mongolian spots and suspected child abuse - difficulties in differential diagnosis by Szymon Rzepczyk, Paweł Świderski, Damian Rusek, Jakub Czerwik, Ryszard Żaba, Czesław Żaba

“…Lesions on the skin of children can morphologically resemble bruises, so their evaluation requires special attention. …”
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Impact of sleep chronotype on blood pressure and metabolic markers by Weiwei Huang, Qinglu Wang, Yuan Gao, Jiefeng Wang, Feihao Wang, Jiyou Tang

“…The sleep chronotype was divided into morning type (167 cases), neither type (224 cases), and evening type (51 cases). …”
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Hyperchaos on the dynamics of memristive Tabu learning neuron model under influence of electromagnetic radiation: Application in biomedical data privacy by Bertrand Frederick Boui A Boya, Jacques Kengne, Arnaud Nanfak, Sishu Shankar Muni, Jean de Dieu Nkapkop, Germaine Djuidje Kenmoe, Lyudmila Klimentyevna Babenko

“…Furthermore, electromagnetic radiation can significantly impact the system's behavior, giving rise to hyperchaotic dynamics. …”
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Everyday life and boredom of people living with dementia in residential long-term care: a merged methods study by Doris Gebhard, Julia I. Frank

“…Of these, 17 participants took part in the interviews. Results The residents spend 47.5% of their day doing nothing and follow a routine that is strongly determined by communal meals. 62.5% of participants are bored, with 18.5% describing boredom as a constant/prevalent condition in their everyday lives. …”
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Cardiovascular Disease and Its Implication for Higher Catastrophic Health Expenditures Among Households in Sub-Saharan Africa by Folashayo Ikenna Peter Adeniji, Taiwo Akinyode Obembe

“…Households who reported having CVD were twice as likely to incur CHE at 5% threshold (odds ratio [OR], 1.946; confidence interval [CI], 0.965-1.095), 3 times as likely at 10% threshold (OR, 2.710; CI, 1.401-5.239), and 4 times more likely to experience CHE at both 25% and 40% thresholds, (OR, 3.696; CI, 0.956-14.286) and (OR, 4.107; CI, 1.908-8.841), respectively. …”
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Metal‐based nanomaterials and nanocomposites as promising frontier in cancer chemotherapy by Sunil Kumar, Monu Kumar Shukla, Abhishek Kumar Sharma, Gururaj K. Jayaprakash, Rajiv K. Tonk, Dinesh K. Chellappan, Sachin Kumar Singh, Kamal Dua, Faheem Ahmed, Sanjib Bhattacharyya, Deepak Kumar

“…Nanomaterials (NMs) have unique properties that make them useful for various diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in cancer research. NMs can be engineered to target cancer cells for early detection and can deliver drugs directly to cancer cells, reducing side effects and improving treatment efficacy. …”
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Factors Associated with the Utilization of Traditional Health Services among People with Non-Communicable Diseases in Indonesia: Findings from a Nationwide Survey by Iwan Abdi Suandana, Putu Ayu Swandewi Astuti, Pande Putu Januraga

“…We conducted a secondary analysis of integrated nationwide health and socio-economic survey data in 2018. Of the 127,198 people with NCDs included in the analysis, 38.7% of people with NCDs have ever used traditional health services, with the most common type being those that involve manual therapies. …”
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Genesis of the Longmendian Ag–Pb–Zn Deposit in Henan (Central China): Constraints from Fluid Inclusions and H–C–O–S–Pb Isotopes by Xinglin Chen, Yongjun Shao, Chunkit Lai, Cheng Wang

“…The vapor comprises primarily H2O, with some CO2, H2, CO, N2, and CH4. The liquid phase contains Ca2+, Na+, K+, SO42−, Cl−, and F−. …”
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Cultivable Actinobacteria First Found in Baikal Endemic Algae Is a New Source of Natural Products with Antibiotic Activity by Denis V. Axenov-Gribanov, Daria V. Kostka, Ulyana А. Vasilieva, Zhanna M. Shatilina, Maria E. Krasnova, Ekaterina V. Pereliaeva, Elena D. Zolotovskaya, Maria M. Morgunova, Olga O. Rusanovskaya, Maxim A. Timofeyev

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Exercise Training in Athletes with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Does Not Result in Increased Dimensions and Impaired Performance of the Left Ventricle by Laura Stefani, Giorgio Galanti, Gabriele Innocenti, Roberto Mercuri, Nicola Maffulli

“…In BAV athletes, the typical form was found in 51% (107/210) of soccer players, 10% (21/210) of basketball players, 10% track and field athletics (20/210), 8% (17/210) of cyclists, 6% (13/210) swimmers, and 15% (32/210) of rugby players and others sport. …”
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Prognostic significance of mast cell and microvascular densities in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor with and without neurofibromatosis type 1 by Roberto André Torres de Vasconcelos, Pedro Guimarães Coscarelli, Thyago Marsicano Vieira, Washington Silva Noguera, Davy Carlos Mendes Rapozo, Marcus André Acioly

“…There was a negative correlation of NF1 status (affected, P = 0.037), tumor size (>10 cm, P = 0.023), and MVD in the tumor periphery (higher tercile, P = 0.002) to survival. …”
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Indoor and Outdoor Exposure to PM2.5 during COVID-19 Lockdown in Suburban Malaysia by Eliani Ezani, Peter Brimblecombe, Zulfa Hanan Asha’ari, Amirul Aiman Fazil, Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail, Zamzam Tuah Ahmad Ramly, Md Firoz Khan

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Bioinspired thermally conducting packaging for heat management of high performance electronic chips by Huawei Wang, Pengfei Bai, He Cui, Xiaotong Zhang, Yifan Tang, Shaoyu Liang, Shixiao Li, Guofu Zhou

“…This means that the structure of CoVC has a good thermal conducting ability and can reduce energy consumption for heat dissipation.…”
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γ-Gammaglutamyl transferase predicts all-cause mortality within three-year intervals in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis by Yan-Bing Chen, Xiao-Jiang Zhan, Jun Xiao, Heng-Mei Zhu

“…Kaplan–Meier survival analysis and multivariate Cox regression analysis were performed.Results Within five years of initiating PD, the observed all-cause mortality rates at one, three, and five years were 11.72%, 16.09%, and 23.44%, while cardiovascular mortality rates were 2.97%, 7.34%, and 11.09%, respectively. …”
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Design, synthesis and evaluation of benzofuran-acetamide scaffold as potential anticonvulsant agent by Shakya Ashok K., Kamal Mehnaz, Balaramnavar Vishal M., Bardaweel Sanna K., Naik Rajashri R., Saxena Anil K., Siddiqui H. H.

“…The ED50 of synthesized compounds ranged from 0.055 to 0.259 mmol kg-1 (~23.4 to 127.6 mg kg-1) body mass. The pharmacophore mapping of the examined compounds on standard drugs (phenobarbital, phenytoin, ralitolin and carbamazepine) strongly suggests that these compounds may exert their anticonvulsant activity via the same established mechanism as that of known drugs.…”
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Air Quality, Atmospheric Variables and Spread of COVID-19 in Delhi (India): An Analysis by Abhishek Dutta, Wanida Jinsart

“…Between January 2020 to 11 May–19 June 2020 period, the pollutants O3 and SO2 increased significantly by 217.33% and 57.58 % respectively. The rise of SO2 in Delhi was due to long-distance transfer, power plant emissions, and biomass burning. …”
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Defect width as a percentage of transverse abdominal diameter: An index to predict the requirement for component separation in incisional hernia repair by Ping Wang, Zicheng Guo, Hua Jin, Zhun Chen, Qingqing Li, Yonggang Huang

“…Accuracies of DW and DTP in predicting necessity of CS were compared through statistical analysis. Results: Mean RS DW was 59.41 ± 18.70 mm and CS DW 105.76 ± 13.47 mm (p = 0.000). …”
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‘Tobolyak’: an oat cultivar for universal use by M. N. Fomina, Yu. S. Ivanova, O. A. Pay, N. A. Bragin

“…The yield of green biomass varied from 31.4 to 47.3 t/ha, depending on the growing conditions, and averaged 37.7 t/ha in 2014–2019 (+7.3 t/ha to the reference). …”
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The predictors of sleep quality in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders in the west of Iran: A path analysis by Ensiyeh Jenabi, Azam Maleki, Erfan Ayubi, Saeid Bashirian, Mahdieh Seyedi, Sara Abdoli

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Translation of Ancient Works During the First Two Years of the Full-scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine by Svyatoslav Zubchenko

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