Interest in digital health tools for miscarriage support: A qualitative assessment of Canadian women facing early pregnancy loss by Breanna Flynn, Anjali Sergeant, Genevieve Tam, Megan Gomes, Roopan Gill

“…In Canada, resources to support individuals and their partners facing EPL remain scarce despite a high burden of psychosocial sequelae. …”
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Intestinal Microbiome Changes in Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) vs. FMT Enriched with Lactobacillus in the Treatment of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection by Elvira Garza-González, Soraya Mendoza-Olazarán, Rayo Morfin-Otero, Andrea Ramírez-Fontes, Patricia Rodríguez-Zulueta, Samantha Flores-Treviño, Paola Bocanegra-Ibarias, Héctor Maldonado-Garza, Adrián Camacho-Ortiz

“…Overall, both groups had a reduction in bowel movements per day, from 8.6 to 3.2 in the first 48 h (62.7% reduction, p=0.001). …”
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Performance optimization of sorption-enhanced DME synthesis (SEDMES) from captured CO2 and renewable hydrogen by I. Tyraskis, A. Capa, G. Skorikova, S. N. Sluijter, J. Boon

“…Multiple Pareto fronts were generated to express the trade-offs between DME productivity and carbon selectivity in the SEDMES process for the first time. The impact of such process parameters as operating pressure, cycle duration, amount of inert gases, tube geometry and feed flow rate was analysed. …”
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“We are Performance Philosophy Problems” by Janet Gibson, Kate Maguire-Rosier, Tony McCaffrey

“… This article originates from a KeyGroup presentation at the June 2022 Performance Philosophy Problems conference in Helsinki in which the performers of Different Light Theatre Company, a learning-disabled theatre company based in Christchurch, New Zealand, interrogated the conference process, proposing their own research questions for the conference participants as well as questions about theatre, Zoom, and thinking. …”
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Causal associations between osteoporosis and HBV infection across Asian and European populations: evidence from Mendelian randomization and colocalization analysis by Zhengnan Li, Jiarui Cao, Ke Li, Yixin Wu, Zhanpeng Luo, Rui Cao, Zhiheng Cheng, Zhendong Tian, Yiyang Han, Yuping Lai, Bangqi Wang, Shen Chen

“…Bayesian co-localization analysis revealed co-localization of HBV infection and osteoporosis on STAT4 at rs11889341based on East Asian GWAS data.ConclusionsOur study identified a causal relationship between HBV infection and osteoporosis in East Asian and European populations. …”
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Optogenetic control of horizontally acquired genes prevent stuck fermentations in yeast by David Figueroa, Diego Ruiz, Nicolò Tellini, Matteo De Chiara, Eduardo I. Kessi-Pérez, Claudio Martínez, Gianni Liti, Amparo Querol, José M. Guillamón, Francisco Salinas

“…To do this, we first sequenced the genome of the wine yeast strain using long-read sequencing and determined that region A is present in a single copy. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation and Driving Factors of Carbon Sequestration Rate in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Ningxia, China by Yi Zhang, Chunxiao Cheng, Zhihui Wang, Hongxin Hai, Lulu Miao

“…Based on ground observation data and multimodal datasets, the optimal machine learning model (EXT) was used to invert a 30 m high-resolution vegetation and soil carbon density dataset for Ningxia from 2000 to 2023. …”
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A Few Words about the Hybrid Nature of Mawlid’s Text of the 18th Century by Alla Kozhinowa

“…The fact that there is a mixture of not only phonetic and morphological but also lexical elements in the text does not seem to suggest that such a process took place only as a result of repeated text rewriting. There also may be a case typical of undifferentiated multilingualism when a speaker does not separate the system of languages and uses the first option that comes to mind without thinking about its linguistic affiliation.   …”
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A 5.5–7.5‐GHz band‐configurable wake‐up receiver fully integrated in 45‐nm RF‐SOI CMOS by Rui Ma, Florian Protze, Frank Ellinger

“…To the authors' best knowledge, this work offers the largest RF bandwidth from 5.5 to 7.5 GHz, the most operation channels (≥8) and the fastest settling time (<115 ns) among the WuRXs reported to date.…”
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Biotechnological methods as a tool for efficient sugar beet breeding by T. P. Zhuzhzhalova, E. O. Kolesnikova, E. N. Vasilchenko, N. N. Cherkasova

“…As compared to common inbreeding, this method shortens the time for development of homozygous material from 10-12 to 3-5 years, which is of great importance for speeding-up the breeding process. …”
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Using the modified frailty index as a predictor of complications in adults undergoing transforaminal interbody lumbar fusion by Momin M. Mohis, Simon G. Ammanuel, Cuong P. Luu, James A. Stadler

“…Objective: To correlate the operative characteristics and complications of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) to patient frailty status for the first time in a multicenter study. Methods: Using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement (ACS-NSQIP) database, all patients who underwent TLIF in 2015–2020 were filtered for their demographics, operative characteristics, and 30-day complication outcomes. …”
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Clinical outcomes over 2 years following arthroscopic ankle lateral ligament repair with os subfibulare by Shohei Sano, Noriyuki Kanzaki, Kiminari Kataoka, Koji Nukuto, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Yuta Nakanishi, Kyohei Nishida, Kanto Nagai, Yuichi Hoshino, Takehiko Matsushita, Ryosuke Kuroda

“…Results: There were significant improvements in the mean total JSSF scale scores from pre-operative to post-operative measurements in both the ossicle and non-ossicle groups. …”
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Effects of obesity on outcomes of laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair: a retrospective analysis by Dawid Golik, Przemysław Sroczyński, Krzysztof Jędras, Grzegorz Dobkowski, Michał R. Janik

“…The patients were categorized based their BMI as obese (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) and nonobese (BMI <⁠30 kg/m2). …”
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Impact of the national health guidance intervention for obesity and cardiovascular risks on healthcare utilisation and healthcare spending in working-age Japanese cohort: regressio... by Yusuke Tsugawa, Shingo Fukuma, Mitsuru Mukaigawara, Toshiaki Iizuka

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of population-level health guidance intervention introduced nationally in Japan on healthcare utilisation and spending.Design Retrospective cohort study, using a quasiexperimental regression discontinuity design.Setting Japan’s nationwide employment-based health insurers.Participants Participants in the national health screening programme (from January 2014 to December 2014) aged 40–74 years.Predictors Assignment to health guidance intervention (counselling on healthy lifestyles, and referral to physicians as needed) determined primarily on whether the individual’s waist circumference was above or below the cut-off value in addition to having at least one cardiovascular risk factor.Primary and secondary outcome measures Healthcare utilisation (the number of outpatient visits days, any medication use and any hospitalisation use) and spending (total medical expenditure, outpatient medical expenditure and inpatient medical expenditure) within 3 years of the intervention.Results A total of 51 213 individuals within the bandwidth (±6 cm of waist circumference from the cut-off) out of 113 302 screening participants (median age 50.0 years, 11.9% woman) were analysed. …”
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A Generic Approach towards Amharic Sign Language Recognition by Netsanet Yigzaw, Million Meshesha, Chala Diriba

“…The LSTM was used to extract sequence information from a sequence of image frames of a specific sign language, while the pretrained deep learning model was used to extract features from single frame images. …”
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Voxel Volumes and Biomass: Estimating Vegetation Volume and Litter Accumulation of Exotic Annual Grasses Using Automated Ultra‐High‐Resolution SfM and Advanced Classification Techniques by Josh Enterkine, Ahmad Hojatimalekshah, Monica Vermillion, Thomas Van Der Weide, Sergio A. Arispe, William J. Price, April Hulet, Nancy F. Glenn

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Estimation of the pattern of ocular manifestations, risk factors, and imaging of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients by Rajwinder Kaur, Grace Budhiraja, Upasana Bhumbla, Manjot Kaur, Vandana Sharma, Priyanka Gupta, Ritesh Singla, Akashdeep Goel, Ekta Gupta, Priyanka Dahiya

“…There was diffuse involvement of sinuses in 18 cases (51.4%). Staging based on magnetic resonance imaging scans showed that 7 (20%) had stage II, 20 (57.1%) had stage III, and 28.7% had stage IV disease. …”
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Psychological Aspects of a Police Officer’s Professional Success by M. V. Butenko

“…The article analyses the general concept of human success from various psychological and scientific perspectives, as well as the concept of “a police officer’s professional success” separately, since it plays an important role for both the individual and society at the present stage of society development. …”
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A Comparative Study to Assess the Level of Stress and Coping Strategies among Introvert and Extrovert Nursing Students in Selected Colleges of Nursing, Delhi and NCR by Shilpa Sharma, M. Jibanlata Devi, Arshi Anjum Khan

“…Demographic profile, Modified Questionnaire Based on Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Perceived Stress Scale, Brief-COPE Inventory were used to collect the data. …”
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Influencing factors of the outcome of patients with haemophilia after knee replacement–a retrospective study by Hongyu Jiang, Xueke Chang, Fubin Yu, Ming Zhang, Yifan Liu, Jianzhi Man, Kangshu Guo, Hongzheng Meng, Wenqiang Zhang

“…The excellent and poor groups were divided based on these factors. Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze factors that may affect the knee joint efficacy of patients. …”
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