Life-course socioeconomic status and breast and cervical cancer screening: analysis of the WHO's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) by Dejana Braithwaite, Tomi Akinyemiju, Kemi Ogunsina, Swati Sakhuja, Valentine Ogbhodo

“…Objectives Socioeconomic differences in screening have been well documented in upper-income countries; however, few studies have examined socioeconomic status (SES) over the life-course in relation to cancer screening in lower-income and middle-income countries. Here, we examine individual, parental and life-course SES differences in breast and cervical cancer screening among women in India, China, Mexico, Russia and South Africa.Setting Data from the WHO's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) 2007–2008 data were used for survey-weighted multivariable regression analysis. …”
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FedBFGCN: A Graph Federated Learning Framework Based on Balanced Channel Attention and Cross-Layer Feature Fusion Convolution by Hefei Wang, Ruichun Gu, Jingyu Wang, Xiaolin Zhang, Hui Wei

“…The FedBFGCN was evaluated on standard reference network datasets (Cora, Citeseer, Polblogs), and experimental results showed that it has lower losses and higher performance in multiple aspects. …”
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DNA methylation of leptin before and after weight loss intervention program among sample of Egyptian obese females: Epigenetic approach in obesity by Nayera E. Hassan, Sahar A. El-Masry, Waheba A. Zarouk, Nayra S. Mehanna, Rehab M. Mosaad, Maha M Kobesiy, Mohamed S. Kishta, Mohamed Selim, Mahmoud A.S. Afify, Khadija Alian, Aya Khalil, Heba T. Aboud

“…Results After successful weight loss in obese females, Leptin receptor (LEPR) promoter methylation patterns had significantly higher values, and serum LEP levels had significantly lower values compared with before the dietary intervention program (P<0.05). …”
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A Quantitative Comparison of High Latitude Electric Field Models During a Large Geomagnetic Storm by L. Orr, A. Grocott, M.‐T. Walach, G. Chisham, M. P. Freeman, M. M. Lam, R. M. Shore

“…We explore the relationships between the IMF conditions and the model output parameters such as transpolar voltage, the polar cap size and the lower latitude boundary of convection. We find that the electric potential and field parameters from the spacecraft‐based models have a significantly higher magnitude than the SuperDARN‐based models. …”
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Relationship between socioeconomic status and social network with loneliness: a cross-sectional study of China older adults with activity of daily living disabilities by Xin Cao, Luyao Niu, Wenjie Qu, Xinyu Ying, Ruyu Li, Xiyue Wang, Ruizhi Gao, Yuhua Chen, Yue-Xia Gao

“…Regression showed that lower loneliness was associated with being females (β=−1.534, 95% CI: −2.841 to –0.228), married (β=−3.554, 95% CI: −4.959 to –2.149), often communicating with children (β=−3.213, 95% CI: −4.519 to –1.908), having more than two friends (β=−5.373, 95% CI: −6.939 to –3.808) and receiving home-based rehabilitation once a day (β=−3.692, 95% CI: −5.642 to –1.743). …”
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Analysis of Retinal Perfusion in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography by Chiara Mameli, Alessandro Invernizzi, Alice Bolchini, Giorgio Bedogni, Elisa Giani, Maddalena Macedoni, Gianvincenzo Zuccotti, Chiara Preziosa, Marco Pellegrini

“…Mean vessel density measured with OCTA was lower in patients compared to controls with the temporal sector showing the highest difference both in the SCP (0.55 vs. 0.57, p<0.001) and the DCP (0.63 vs. 0.65, p<0.001). …”
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Targeted sequencing analysis pipeline for species identification of human pathogenic fungi using long-read nanopore sequencing by Nattapong Langsiri, Navaporn Worasilchai, Laszlo Irinyi, Piroon Jenjaroenpun, Thidathip Wongsurawat, Janet Jennifer Luangsa-ard, Wieland Meyer, Ariya Chindamporn

“…Comparing various methods to generate the consensus sequence for fungal species identification, the results from this study indicate that read clustering using a modified version of the NanoCLUST pipeline is more sensitive than Canu or VSEARCH, as it classified species accurately with a lower abundance cluster of reads (3% abundance compared to 10% with VSEARCH). …”
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Sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors in heart failure: an updated meta‐analysis by Yang Cao, Pengxiao Li, Yi Li, Yaling Han

“…Compared with placebo, SGLT2i is associated with a lower incidence of composite of first hospitalization for heart failure (HHF) or cardiovascular death (CV death) [hazard ratio (HR) = 0.76 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.71–0.81], which is consistent regardless of the diabetes status, type of gliflozines used, and follow‐up duration. …”
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New era, new GOALs: cardiovascular screening and lipid management in cystic fibrosis by Katherine A. Despotes, Agathe S. Ceppe, Jennifer L. Goralski, Scott H. Donaldson

“…In the past year, 29% of adult providers prescribed lipid-lowering therapy, 54% started anti-hypertensive medications, and 48% initiated ischemic cardiac evaluations for pwCF. …”
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“I lock myself in my room and cry in frustration”: an analysis of adolescent behaviors of child-to-parent violence by Shirley Arias-Rivera, Barbara Lorence, Barbara Lorence, Jesus Maya

“…However, in contrast to milder cases, severe cases showed a lower percentage of adolescents who felt bad or apologized and a higher proportion who normalized, avoided talking about, or justified their violent actions (23.4% of adolescents with severe CPV). …”
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Analysis of regional photovoltaic power generation suitability in China using multi-source data by Hongju Tong, Ziyu Lv, Junyi Jiang, Xingguo Gao, Ziqing Wang, Chaoshuai You, Kun Xu, Yuhang Wu, Xin Pan, Xin Pan

“…In contrast, southeastern coastal and southern provinces such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian exhibited lower suitability scores (&lt;3.5) and annual average generation of less than 19.2262 KWh, primarily due to limited land availability and reduced solar radiation.DiscussionThe findings emphasize the critical need to prioritize photovoltaic development in Northwest China, where favorable conditions offer considerable potential for large-scale photovoltaic generation. …”
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Layer dependent thermal transport properties of one- to three-layer magnetic Fe:MoS2 by Elham Easy, Mengqi Fang, Mingxing Li, Eui-Hyeok Yang, Xian Zhang

“…At the room temperature, the lateral thermal conductivity of 1-3L Fe:MoS2 were discovered as 24 ± 11, 18 ± 9, and 16 ± 8 W/m·K, respectively which presents a decreasing trend from 1 to 3L and is about 40% lower than that of MoS2. The interfacial thermal conductance of between Fe:MoS2 and the substrate were discovered to be 0.3 ± 0.2, 1.1 ± 0.7, and 3.0 ± 2.3 MW/m2⋅K for 1L to 3L respectively. …”
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A randomized controlled trial to study the efficacy of 1% vs. 2% lignocaine in topical airway anesthesia in routine bronchoscopy procedures by Danny Prasad, Prince James, Richa Gupta

“…Conclusions One percent of lignocaine was found to be as effective as 2% lignocaine for topical anesthesia during routine flexible bronchoscopy procedures, and it was achieved at a significantly lower dose of lignocaine in the 1% arm. So, in flexible bronchoscopy, we suggest 1% lignocaine as the preferred topical airway anesthetic agent over 2% lignocaine.…”
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Enhance health evidence quality in classification tasks: A triangulation approach utilizing case-based reasoning and process features by Ruihua Guo, Ross Smith, Qifan Chen, Angus Ritchie, Simon Poon

“…A total of 56 unique combinations were identified from the QCA, with 28 configurations having raw coverage lower than 1.0%. The overall model performance (i.e. weighted F1 and area under the curve scores) increased after adopting this integrated approach. …”
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The moderating effect of alternate Mediterranean diet on the association between sedentary behavior and insomnia in postmenopausal women by Zhumei Sheng, Mincong Zhou

“…Among the postmenopausal women with lower adherence to the aMED, the odds of insomnia symptoms were higher in those with sedentary time ≥8 h (OR = 1.63, 95% CI: 1.02–2.62). …”
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Comparison of ZnS(Ag) Scintillator and Proportional Counter Tube for Alpha Detection in Thin-Layer Chromatography by Marc Pretze, Jan Wendrich, Holger Hartmann, Robert Freudenberg, Ralph A. Bundschuh, Jörg Kotzerke, Enrico Michler

“…(1) <b>Background</b>: Targeted alpha therapy is an emerging field in nuclear medicine driven by two advantages: overcoming resistance in cancer-suffering patients to beta therapies and the practical application of lower activities of ²¹²Pb- and ²²⁵Ac-labelled peptides to achieve the same doses compared to beta therapy due to the highly cytotoxic nature of alpha particles. …”
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Investigation of Consultations Requested by Dermatology Inpatient by Dağdaş AD, Fettahlioglu Karaman B, Aksungur VL

“…Therefore, if dedicated dermatology wards will continue to exist, in order to lower the number of consultations so length of stay, dermatologist should be trained in a manner so that they have more knowledge about common comorbidities.Keywords: inpatient dermatology, consultation, ward, length of stay, comorbidity…”
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Quantitative Evaluation of Top Coal Caving Methods at the Working Face of Extra-Thick Coal Seams Based on the Random Medium Theory by Shi Jiulin, Zhang Quntao, Gao Xiaojin, Xue Jisheng

“…The results show the following: (1) The coal-rock settlement and the caving body demonstrate clear axial symmetrical features along the working face; the size of the caving body increases as the caving height grows and its shape turns progressively from semicircular to semielliptical with a lower foot of the coal-rock settlement. (2) The caving interval is derived using the sum of the radii of the coal-rock settlement curves formed by the two largest caving bodies. (3) The symmetrical caving approach provides a symmetrical space for the subsequent movement of the broken top coal, which enables a uniform development of the caving body. (4) Compared with the traditional sequential coal caving method with the same number of supports, the interval symmetrical caving method results in a 21.7% of coal production increase, 17% caving rate promotion, and a shortened caving time by 23.4%. (5) The interval symmetrical caving method is found to improve the controllability of the caving process at the fully mechanized top coal caving working face. …”
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Differences in gut microbial diversity and composition between growth phenotypes of farmed juvenile sandfish, Holothuria scabra by Joselito A. Tabardillo, Marie Antonette Juinio-Meñez, Adam M. Reitzel, Rachel Ravago-Gotanco

“…Gut microbiota of large juveniles had lower bacterial diversity than its smaller counterparts. …”
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AI-assisted diagnosis of vulvovaginal candidiasis using cascaded neural networks by Zhongxiao Wang, Ruliang Wang, Haichun Guo, Qiannan Zhao, Huijun Ren, Jumin Niu, Ying Wang, Wei Wu, Bingbing Liang, Xin Yi, Xiaolei Zhang, Shiqi Xu, Xianling Dong, Liqun Wang, Qinping Liao

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) offers potential improvements in diagnostic accuracy and efficiency by objectively analyzing microscopic images of lower genital tract infections in women. A cascaded model was developed using 100,387 microscope images and 1,761 slides to diagnose VVC at slide level. …”
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