Women's Quality of Life After Surgical Treatment for Breast Cancer by Daniel Alejandro Arroyo Zumarraga, Ximena Elizabeth Trujillo Romero, Miguel Ramos Argilagos

“…Women with higher education, high economic status, and stable employment showed a greater tendency toward more positive health behaviors than those with lower economic and educational status. <br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> several factors influence the quality of life and psychosexual functioning of the women studied: the scope of the surgical intervention, the effectiveness of oncological treatment, age, number of children, educational level, economic situation and status labor.…”
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Smart Urban Mobility and Social Sustainability: Exploring the relationship(Case Study:Shiraz City) by elahe kavoosi, Jamal Mohammadi

“…Different indices of each of these dimensions point to the same issue, as its level of evaluation (significance level less than 0.05 and average lower than the criterion) points to their undesirability from the point of view  citizens. …”
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Chemical and Sensory Characterisation of Two Rubus rosifolius (Red Raspberry) Varieties by Theresa F. Rambaran, Camille S. Bowen-Forbes

“…The WR fruits had a greater quantity of the deep red anthocyanin, cyanidin-3-glucoside (66.2 mg/100 g FW), and a significantly lower lightness value. They also received a significantly higher sweetness score, which is associated with their higher total sugar content (4.8 g/100 g) and maturity index (6.7). …”
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Assessment of the Nutritional Status of the Children with Acute Leukemia on Chemotherapy in Karbala City by Dheyaa Aldeen Nawfal Al-khateeb, Ali Hussein Al-hafidh, Usama Ahmed Hadi Al-jumaily

“…Nutritional assessment during chemotherapy (48.6%) of case groups was normal weight, The results of this study indicate that the participants who had normal weight were at likely lower risk of complication acute leukemia than those with acute malnutrition (P. value=0.022; OR=0.297). …”
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From Blocking Shots to Blocking GI Transit, This Professional Basketball Player Does It All: A Case Report on Small Bowel Obstruction by Emily L. DeMaio, Richard C. Jarvis, Jessica A. Cohen, Courtney N. Gleason

“…A female professional basketball player in her mid-20’s with no past medical history presented with a seven-hour history of worsening abdominal pain beginning in the epigastric region and migrating to the right lower quadrant. Physical exam did not reveal abdominal distension, tympany to percussion, or high-pitched bowel sounds. …”
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Ghrelin Protects Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Acute Lung Injury Rats against Pulmonary Vascular Dysfunction by Inhibiting Inflammation by Guang Li, Chen-Liang Zhou, Wen-Fang Xia, Di Zhang, Hui-Qing Lin

“…The ghrelin-pretreated ALI rats showed lower mPAP, RVSP, PCNA expression, MPO activity, W/D lung weight ratio, TNF-α and IL-6 levels, and BALF cell count than the saline-pretreated ALI rats, but ghrelin had no effect on the intrapulmonary arterial wall thickness of ALI rats. …”
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Epidemiology and morbidity of spina bifida in Hispanic Americans: a systematic review by Roxanna M Garcia, Sandi K Lam, Sunny Abdelmageed, Megan Votoupal

“…Risk factors associated with spina bifida included prenatal exposures, sociodemographic factors and maternal clinical characteristics. Lower levels of maternal education, age and income were associated with an increased risk of spina bifida. …”
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Continuity of care with doctors—a matter of life and death? A systematic review of continuity of care and mortality by Kate Sidaway-Lee, Denis J Pereira Gray, Eleanor White, Angus Thorne, Philip H Evans

“…These significant protective effects occurred with both generalist and specialist doctors.Conclusions This first systematic review reveals that increased continuity of care by doctors is associated with lower mortality rates. Although all the evidence is observational, patients across cultural boundaries appear to benefit from continuity of care with both generalist and specialist doctors. …”
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Surveillance of tick-borne encephalitis virus foci in Slovakia: A seroprevalence study in ruminants combined with virus detection in ticks by Martina Ličková, Bronislava Víchová, Markéta Derdáková, Monika Sláviková, Sabína Fumačová Havlíková, Dana Zubriková, Diana Selyemová, Michal Chvostáč, Lucia Blaňarová, Viktória Čabanová, Veronika Vaňová, Lucia Šulejová, Jana Kerlik, Tomáš Szemes, Katarína Šoltys, Boris Klempa

“…The estimated prevalence in adults was lower (2.15 %) than in nymphs (2.9 %). Positive ticks (all I. ricinus) and milk samples were then used for virus isolation. …”
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AgIn2 thickness on void rate, microstructure, IMC growth, thermal and mechanical properties of fluxless In@AgIn2 joint by Jing Wen, Guoliao Sun, Jinyang Su, Yi Fan, Linzheng Fu, Zhuo Chen, Wenhui Zhu

“…The results showed that In@0.4AgIn₂; had a contact angle of 26.2°, which was 2.6° lower than that of pure In solder. Joints prepared with In@0.4AgIn₂; also exhibited the lowest void fraction (≤2%), which contributed to better heat dissipation. …”
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Simulation of Thin-Film Solar Cells with a CuInSe2 Chalcopyrite Structure by A. K. Esman, G. L. Zykov, V. A. Potachits, V. K. Kuleshov

“…It is shown that in order to obtain the highest possible efficiency of a solar cell, it is necessary to use concentrated solar radiation with a power density, the maximum value of which should be 8 kW/m2 in July and 10 kW/m2 in January. In the case of lower and higher values of power density, an appropriate thermal stabilization of the cell under consideration is necessary. …”
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The Association between Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and Oral Neoplasm among Smokers and Betel Quids Chewers by Mei-Sheng Ku, Pallop Siewchaisakul, Amy Ming-Fang Yen, Chen-Yu Liu

“…After adjusting for sex, age, and behavior of betel quid chewing and cigarette smoking, we found that subjects from areas of higher levels of PM2.5 (≥ 35 µg m−3) had an increased risk of OPMD/OC and OC by 11% (aRR = 1.11; 95% CI: 1.09–1.13) and 55% (aRR = 1.55; 95% CI: 1.49–1.60) respectively, compared to those from areas of lower PM2.5 (< 35 µg m−3). Such effect was further demonstrated in a concentration-dependent manner. …”
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STUDY ON THE ESTIMATION OF SARS-CoV-2 VIRUS PATHOGENS’ TRANSMISSION PROBABILITIES FOR DIFFERENT PUBLIC BUS TRANSPORT SERVICE SCENARIOS by Rafał BURDZIK, Niko SPEYBROECK

“…For effective monitoring of potential epidemic threats and for designing suitable interventions and restrictions to lower the risk of future pandemics, it may be necessary to understand the role that transportation systems, particularly public transport systems, play in the spread of pathogens.…”
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Characteristics and Meteorological Factors of Severe Haze Pollution in China by Chao He, Song Hong, Hang Mu, Peiyue Tu, Lu Yang, Biqin Ke, Jiayi Huang

“…Hourly mean PM2.5 concentration presented multiple U-shaped curves, with higher values at night and lower values during the day. The ratios of PM2.5 to PM10 were large in target cities and the results of multiscale geographic weighted regression model (MGWR) and Pearson correlation coefficients showed that PM2.5 had a significant positive or negative correlation with PM10, CO, NO2, and SO2. …”
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An Accurate Estimation of the Eigenfrequency of an Offshore Wind Turbine Considered as the Stepped Euler-Bernoulli Beam in Three-Spring Flexible Foundation Using the Power Series M... by Mouafo Teifouet Armand Robinson, Zhenyu Wang

“…Results reveal that case 2, used by previous researches, was only accurate for OWT with tower wall thickness lower than 15 mm. Frequencies produced in case 3 are the most accurate as the relative error is up to 0.01%, especially for the OWT with thicknesses higher or equal to 15 mm. …”
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Edible mushrooms as a potent therapeutics of subclinical thyroid dysfunction among adults, especially in obese individuals: a prospective cohort study by Juanjuan Zhang, Sabina Rayamajhi, Amrish Thapa, Ge Meng, Qing Zhang, Li Liu, Hongmei Wu, Yeqing Gu, Shunming Zhang, Tingjing Zhang, Xuena Wang, Zhixia Cao, Jun Dong, Xiaoxi Zheng, Xu Zhang, Xinrong Dong, Xing Wang, Shaomei Sun, Ming Zhou, Qiyu Jia, Kun Song, Kaijun Niu

“…Conclusions: his population-based prospective cohort study has firstly demonstrated that higher edible mushrooms consumption was significantly associated with lower incidence of subclinical hypothyroidism among general adult population, especially in obese individuals.…”
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Non-modifiable and Modifiable Risk Factors in Vascular Ageing Extremes: The African-PREDICT Study by Donavan Rooi, Ruan Kruger, Esmé Jansen van Vuren, Yolandi Breet

“…Another factor pattern of socio-economic status and total dietary fat showed lower odds (OR 0.64, p = 0.003) for EVA. Conclusion Poor lifestyle behavioural risk factors seem detrimental in the EVA group conferring a possible higher risk of future CVD.…”
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Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of the microcystic elongated and fragmented pattern in endometrial cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yan Zhang, Peng Jia, Baofeng Duan

“…Employing a fixed-effects approach, the analysis demonstrated an association of the MELF pattern with reduced overall survival (HR 2.21, 95% CI 1.50–3.25, p=0.000) and lower disease-free survival rates among patients with endometrial cancer (HR 1.72, 95% CI 1.17 to 2.55, p=0.006). …”
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Health literacy and medication adherence in adults from ethnic minority backgrounds with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a systematic review by Jinal Parmar, Aymen El Masri, Freya MacMillan, Kirsten McCaffery, Amit Arora

“…While some studies suggest an association between poor medication adherence and lower levels of health literacy, the evidence for this association remains inconclusive. …”
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Evidence in Lager Yeasts of β-Lyase Activity Breaking Down γ-GluCys-Conjugates More Efficiently Than Cys-Conjugates to Odorant Beer Polyfunctional Thiols by Romain Christiaens, Margaux Simon, Raphaël Robiette, Sonia Collin

“…Up to a 0.28–0.35% release was measured with <i>S. pastorianus</i> strains BRAS-45 and SafLager^TM E-30, while much lower activities (≤0.16%) were observed with <i>S. cerevisiae</i> yeasts, including the maltose-negative <i>chevalieri</i> variety. …”
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