TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES FROM CRUDE OIL SPILL by OYETUNJI BABATUNDE OKEDERE, ADEWOLE JOHNSON ADESANMI, JACOB ADEMOLA SONIBARE, OLUSOLA ADEDAYO ADESINA, GBADEBO OMONIYI ADENIYI

“…The observed TSP concentrations breached the WHO (lower limit) and World Bank limits at all temperatures and over all spill media and consequently the toxicity potentials exceeded 1.0 which were indications of hazards to human health. …”
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Automated Measurement of Coronary Artery Calcifications and Routine Perioperative Blood Tests Predict Survival in Resected Stage I Lung Cancer by Federica Sabia, MSc, Camilla Valsecchi, MSc, Roberta Eufrasia Ledda, MD, Giorgio Bogani, MD, Riccardo Orlandi, MD, Luigi Rolli, MD, Michele Ferrari, MD, Maurizio Balbi, MD, Alfonso Marchianò, MD, Ugo Pastorino, MD

“…Male smokers had the highest CAC values: 32% compared with only 17% of nonsmokers. Females had lower CAC values compared with males both in smokers and nonsmokers: CAC greater than or equal to 400 only for 10% of smoking females and 0% in nonsmoking females. …”
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Influence of Test Protocol on Filtration Efficiency of Medical Face Mask Material by Aurélie Joubert, Ala Bouhanguel, Yves Andrès, Laurence Le Coq

“…The results in the sub-micron size range for charged face mask material showed that the filtration efficiency of neutral aerosols was lower than that of charged aerosols due to the electrostatic forces, e.g., 92% versus 99% efficiency for DEHS and alumina respectively for a mean aerodynamic diameter of 0.6 µm. …”
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Association between resolution of MRI-detected inflammation and improved clinical outcomes in axial spondyloarthritis under long-term anti-TNF therapy by Joachim Sieper, Denis Poddubnyy, Fabian Proft, Mikhail Protopopov, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Murat Torgutalp, Judith Rademacher, H Haibel, Kay-Geert Hermann, Christian Althoff

“…Furthermore, resolution of osteitis in the SI joint (Berlin MRI osteitis score of ≤1) was associated with lower ASDAS at the next time point (β=−0.26, 95% CI (−0.42; −0.09)), higher odds of achieving ASDAS low disease activity (OR=5.61, 95% CI (1.06; 29.67)) and inactive disease status (OR=2.23, 95% CI (1.01; 4.94)) at the next time point.Conclusions The presence of inflammation on SI joints-MRI is associated with higher disease activity in axSpA. …”
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Accumulation of chemical elements in the roots of <I>Euphorbia fischeriana</I> Steudel in the Shilka river basin (Transbaikal region) by V. P. Makarov

“…The chemical elements whose concentrations were significantly higher or, contrariwise, lower than the clarke of terrestrial plants were identified. …”
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Divisive Refinement of Metal Fiber at the PM0.1 Classification Stage for PM0.5–0.1 Sampling with Nanosampler by Yuta Kurotsuchi, Kazuhiko Sekiguchi, Yohei Hayakawa

“…Observations using the 4D cartridge revealed that the relative standard deviation (RSD) of sulfate ions was lower for mesh with a large open area. In the case of the mesh with a large opening area, the partition did not block too much of the cross-sectional area of the SUS wool fiber, thus minimizing its effect on the airflow and possibly suppressing particle adhesion on the stainless-steel mesh. …”
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Assessing a clinical vital sign in severe mental illness: validation study of the 5 sit-to-stand test for monitoring muscle strength – The PsychiActive Project by Alvaro Lopez-Moral, Diego Munguia-Izquierdo, Javier Bueno-Antequera

“…The 5-STS test demonstrated accuracy, with a standard error of estimate lower than the within-subject variability on the KES test. …”
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Reduced Numbers of Returning Atlantic Salmon (<i>Salmo salar</i>) and Thiamine Deficiency Are Both Associated with the Consumption of High-Lipid Prey Fish by Marja Keinänen, Jari Raitaniemi, Jukka Pönni, Tiina Ritvanen, Timo Myllylä, Pekka J. Vuorinen

“…The fewer the 0-year-old herring were and the more abundant were the youngish sprat in the Baltic Proper when the post-smolts arrived there, and the greater the lipid content and lower the protein-to-lipid ratio of the prey fish, the fewer salmon returned to the Rivers Tornionjoki and Simojoki to spawn two years later. …”
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Heterologous Materials Are Really Better than Autologous in Tympanoplasty Mastoid Obliteration? A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis by Francesca Viberti, Giovanni Monciatti, Aniello Donniacuo, Fabio Ferretti, Lorenzo Salerni, Andrea De Vito, Daniele Bernardeschi, Marco Mandalà

“…Conclusion: Heterologous materials are associated with significantly lower rates of recurrent and residual cholesteatoma and retraction pockets development, although they are associated with higher rates of otorrhea and TM perforation.…”
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Sedimentary Facies of the Longmaxi Formation Shale Gas Reservoir in the Weiyuan Area Based on Elemental Characteristics by Yijia Wu, Hongming Tang, Ying Wang, Jing Li, Yanxiang Zeng, Songlian Jiang, Yongcheng Mu

“…The Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation in the southern Sichuan Basin is composed of a series of dark carbonaceous shales deposited in a hydrostatic shelf reduction environment. …”
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In-hospital cardiac rehabilitation and clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction after percutaneous coronary intervention: a retrospective cohort study by Hiroaki Iijima, Kiyohide Fushimi, Natsuko Kanazawa

“…The results of those analysis were consistent and showed that the CR participants had lower risk of revascularisation (adjusted HR: 0.74; 95% CI: 0.65 to 0.84), all-cause readmission (HR: 0.81; 95% CI: 0.74 to 0.88) and cardiac readmission (HR: 0.77; 95% CI: 0.70 to 0.85). …”
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Development of Sustainable Bioplastic Composite Films from Cocoa Pod Husk Waste Cellulose and Kappa-Carrageenan by Esa Ghanim Fadhallah, Ahmad Sapta Zuidar, Sri Hidayati, Haidawati Haidawati, Amarilia Harsanti Dameswary, Aisyah Tri Ramadhani

“…However, the significant drawback in barrier properties was found in water vapor transmission rate (WVTR), with the higher kappa-carrageenan and lower cellulose concentrations films resulting in increased WVTR values by 13% (P5) and 17% (P6). …”
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Fibrosis in PCLS: comparing TGF-β and fibrotic cocktail by Carlos Machahua, Thomas M. Marti, Patrick Dorn, Manuela Funke-Chambour

“…FC showed a significant increase of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) 7 and 1 compared to control, while TGF-β receptor 2 was lower after FC compared to TGF-β1 or control. FC or TGF-β1 showed similar fibronectin protein expression in lysates and supernatants, while type I collagen protein expression in lysates was significantly greater with TGF-β1 compared to control. …”
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Gastrointestinal Bleeding in COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis by Giovanni Marasco, Marcello Maida, Gaetano Cristian Morreale, Massimo Licata, Matteo Renzulli, Cesare Cremon, Vincenzo Stanghellini, Giovanni Barbara

“…A total of 91887 COVID-19 patients were considered, of whom 534 reported gastrointestinal bleeding (0.6%) [409 (76.6%) upper and 121 (22.7%) lower gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB and LGIB, resp.)]. …”
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Realitas Sosial pada Masa Pandemi dalam Cerpen Atai Balak dan Rencana Lebaran Korona (Social Reality during a Pandemic in the short story of Atai Balak dan Rencana Lebaran Corona) by Septina Krismawati

“…The results of the study show that 1) this short story can be a reflection of reality during a pandemic, 2) the life of the lower class community during a pandemic is represented in Atai Balak as the main character, and 3) social reality during a pandemic that can be found in the short story, namely related to the policy of Large-Scale Social Restrictions and the reality of increasing poverty.…”
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Therapeutic alliance during trauma focused treatment in adolescent and young adult patients with PTSD by Anne Grass, Rita Rosner, Angelina Ciner, Babette Renneberg, Regina Steil

“…Patients with a higher perceived therapeutic alliance showed a greater reduction in self-reported symptoms over the course of therapy, compared to patients with lower alliance ratings. However, this only applied to the therapeutic alliance assessed by the patients. …”
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Privacy leakage risk assessment for reversible neural network by Yifan HE, Jie ZHANG, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a crucial technology in various fields.However, the training process of deep learning models often requires a substantial amount of data, which may contain private and sensitive information such as personal identities and financial or medical details.Consequently, research on the privacy risk associated with artificial intelligence models has garnered significant attention in academia.However, privacy research in deep learning models has mainly focused on traditional neural networks, with limited exploration of emerging networks like reversible networks.Reversible neural networks have a distinct structure where the upper information input can be directly obtained from the lower output.Intuitively, this structure retains more information about the training data, potentially resulting in a higher risk of privacy leakage compared to traditional networks.Therefore, the privacy of reversible networks was discussed from two aspects: data privacy leakage and model function privacy leakage.The risk assessment strategy was applied to reversible networks.Two classical reversible networks were selected, namely RevNet and i-RevNet.And four attack methods were used accordingly, namely membership inference attack, model inversion attack, attribute inference attack, and model extraction attack, to analyze privacy leakage.The experimental results demonstrate that reversible networks exhibit more serious privacy risks than traditional neural networks when subjected to membership inference attacks, model inversion attacks, and attribute inference attacks.And reversible networks have similar privacy risks to traditional neural networks when subjected to model extraction attack.Considering the increasing popularity of reversible neural networks in various tasks, including those involving sensitive data, it becomes imperative to address these privacy risks.Based on the analysis of the experimental results, potential solutions were proposed which can be applied to the development of reversible networks in the future.…”
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Effects of аntimicrobials on <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> biofilm formation by U. M. Nemchenko, K. O. Sitnikova, N. L. Belkova, E. V. Grigorova, N. M. Voropaeva, M. V. Sukhоreva, E. S. Sukhareva, E. D. Savilov

“…Antimicrobial susceptibility of P. aeruginosa strains in the formed biofilm was significantly lower (p &lt; 0.05). Carbapenems and cephalosporins did not affect the mature biofilms of the tested P. aeruginosa strains in more than 60 % of cases. …”
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Association between serum bicarbonate and 28-day mortality in critically ill patients with infective endocarditis: a cohort study from MIMIC-IV by Yingxiu Huang, Ting Ao, Peng Zhen, Ming Hu

“…In patients with IE in the ICU, elevated serum bicarbonate upon admission was independently linked to a lower 28-day mortality. These findings indicate that serum bicarbonate can serve as a prognostic marker, supporting the process of risk assessment and providing direction for the clinical care of patients with IE.…”
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Comprehensive Analysis of the Expression, Prognostic Value, and Immune Infiltration Activities of GABRD in Colon Adenocarcinoma by Fakun Huang, Zhengyang Wang, Liyue Zhu, Changqing Lin, Jia-xing Wang

“…According to the results of the survival tests, patients whose GABRD expression was high had a lower overall survival time and progression-free survival time than those whose GABRD expression was low. …”
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