Genetically predicted causal link between the plasma lipidome and pancreatic diseases: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study by Liaoyi Lin, Yingbao Huang, Songzan Qian, Lifang Chen, Houzhang Sun

“…Some lipid classes showed significant effects both in the FinnGen consortium and UK Biobank datasets.ConclusionsThe findings of this study indicate a potential genetic predisposition linking the plasma lipidome to pancreatic diseases and good prospects for future pancreatic disease clinical trials.…”
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Examine the impact of green-synthesized nanomaterials on the germination rates and seedling characteristics of African Marigold (Tagetes erecta L. var. Pusa Narangi Ganda and Pusa... by Kunal Adhikary, Tapas Mondal, Jayoti Majumder, Tapas Kumar Chowdhuri, Subhra Mukherjee, Karishma Maherukh

“…Background: West Bengal is key to India's flower industry, contributing 10.61 % of total production, with marigolds valued at 63.44 thousand tonnes. To achieve good yields, many farmers heavily use chemical fertilizers and insecticides. …”
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L’abdication du Congrès après le 11 septembre : crise constitutionnelle ou politique ? by Maya KANDEL

“…But it also reflected a good dose of politics. This in turn stemmed from several key aspects of the contemporary American political landscape : a Congress more fractious and polarized than at any time in the last hundred years (an obvious trend starting with the 1994 elections), and a Democratic party still not at ease with foreign policy and the Vietnam heritage. …”
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Phytophthora: an ancient, historic, biologically and structurally cohesive and evolutionarily successful generic concept in need of preservation by Clive Brasier, Bruno Scanu, David Cooke, Thomas Jung

“…In our assessment of 196 species for twenty morphological and behavioural criteria the clades show good biological cohesion. Saprotrophy, necrotrophy and hemi-biotrophy of woody and non-woody roots, stems and foliage occurs across the clades. …”
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Implementation of a goal-directed Care Bundle for intracerebral hemorrhage: Results of embedded process evaluation in the INTERACT3 trial. by Menglu Ouyang, Anila Anjum, Francisca Gonzalez Mc Cawley, Mohammad Wasay, Lu Ma, Xin Hu, Xiaoying Chen, Alejandra Malavera, Xi Li, Paula Muñoz Venturelli, H Asita de Silva, Nguyen Huy Thang, Kolawole W Wahab, Jeyaraj D Pandian, Octavio M Pontes-Neto, Carlos Abanto, Venessa Cano-Nigenda, Antonio Arauz, Chao You, Stephen Jan, Lili Song, Craig S Anderson, Hueiming Liu, INTERACT3 Investigators

“…Facilitating factors included good communication and collaboration with staff in emergency departments, the development of pathways within available resources, and regular training and monitoring. …”
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Role Of Low Dose Aspirin In Preventing Preterm Birth In Patients With Previous History Of Preterm Delivery by Maliha Sadaf, Aasia Saleem, Tallat Farkhanda, Khansa Iqbal, Sabeen Ashraf, Amna Iftikhar

“…Some studies have shown good outcomes but recent studies revealed that the use of vaginal progesterone was not related to a decreased likelihood of PTB or neonatal adverse effects. …”
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Rapid Classification and Treatment Algorithm of Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Coronary Syndromes: The SAVE ACS Classification by Vasileios Panoulas, Charles Ilsley

“…Based on these predictors, we created the SAVE (SBP, Arterial blood gas, and left Ventricular Ejection fraction) ACS classification, which showed good discrimination for 30-day AUC 0.814 (0.782 to 0.845) and long-term mortality plog−rank<0.001. …”
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Development of an Injury Burden Prediction Model in Professional Baseball Pitchers by Garrett Bullock, Charles Thigpen, Gary Collins, Nigel Arden, Thomas Noonan, Michael Kissenberth, Ellen Shanley

“…The final model demonstrated good prediction ability (RMSE: 11.9 days, R^2^: 0.80) and a calibration slope of 0.98 (95% CI: 0.92, 1.04). …”
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An Efficient 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Dose Prediction in Cancer Radiotherapy from CT Images by Lam Thanh Hien, Pham Trung Hieu, Do Nang Toan

“…<b>Results and Conclusions</b>: Our model achieved strong performance, with a good DVH score (1.444 Gy) on the test dataset, compared to previous studies and state-of-the-art models. …”
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How it started, how it evolved: Ukrainian entrepreneurship in Poland by Konrad Pędziwiatr, Hanna Smaliichuk, Inna Voznyuk, Jan Brzozowski

“…Paradoxically, border closures increased demand for ethnic goods and services. Businesses established by refugees after 2022 now mainly cater to ethnic customers, marking the rise of an ethnic enclave economy. …”
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Role and sensitivity of Positron Emission Tomography with [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose in diagnosis and follow-up of patients affected by chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) by Gianfranco Schiraldi, Cristina Elena Popescu, Michele Chiericozzi, Salvatore Lo Cicero, Flavio Allegri, Franco Mosca, Claudio Rossetti

“…Results: At the time of first diagnosis, agreement between 18F-FDG PET/CT and serologic tests was ‘almost perfect’ (88%, Kappa = 0.846, P < 0.05), whereas it was ‘good’ at 12 months follow-up (81%, Kappa = 0.684, P < 0.05). …”
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Colorimetric and Naked-Eye Detection of Inorganic Arsenic in Water using BF2-Curcumin and Silica Nanoparticle-BF2-Curcumin Sheets by Farshid Ghorbani, Sheyda Mohammadi Isaabad

“…On the other hand, the optimum time to produce nano silica sheets was 4 hours. Moreover, there is a good correlation between absorbance intensities at 520 nm and arsenic ion concentration at the 0.06 to 100 µM limitation, with 1.94 µM as the limit of detection in the solid phase. …”
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Analysis of epidemiological trends and risk factors in high-risk areas for pulmonary tuberculosis: an observational longitudinal study in Xinjiang, China by Liping Zhang, Di Wu, Yanling Zheng, Yaoqin Lu, Salawati Haritebieke, Guangchao Liu

“…Objective To explore the spatial and temporal variations in the long-term risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) and the factors influencing it in order to contribute to the goal of eradicating TB.Design Observational longitudinal study.Setting Xinjiang, China, 2005–2019.Primary and secondary outcome measures Comparison of TB incidence across age, period, cohort and space using socioeconomic (including gross domestic product per capita, population density, public budget revenue and total retail sales of consumer goods), public health (including the number of hospital beds, health technicians and basic medical insurance for urban residents) and environmental variables (PM2.5, mean air temperature, mean wind speed, mean relative humidity and precipitation). …”
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Influence of Secondary Inorganic Aerosol on the Concentrations of PM2.5 and PM0.1 during Air Pollution Episodes in Hanoi, Vietnam by Nguyen-Quoc Dat, Bich-Thuy Ly, Trung-Dung Nghiem, Thu-Thi Hien Nguyen, Kazuhiko Sekiguchi, Truong-Thi Huyen, Thai-Ha Vinh, Le-Quang Tien

“…Relative humidity, pressure, temperature, and radiation had a good correlation with SIA of PM0.1 and a moderate correlation with PM0.1. …”
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Changes in household purchasing of soft drinks following the UK soft drinks industry levy by household income and composition: controlled interrupted time series analysis, March 20... by Jean Adams, Martin White, Stephen J Sharp, Harry Rutter, David Pell, Steven Cummins, Richard D Smith, Nina Trivedy Rogers

“…We examined changes in volume of and amount of sugar in purchases of soft drinks according to household income and composition, 19 months following the implementation of the UK soft drinks industry levy.Methods Data were from the Kantar Fast Moving Consumer Goods panel, a market research panel which collects data on weekly household purchases (mean weekly number of households=21 908), March 2014–November 2019. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of “U” Route Transforaminal Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy in Chronic Pain Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Combined with Disc Herniation by Binbin Wu, Xinyi Tian, Ce Shi, Chenchen Jiang, Jing Zhang, Gonghao Zhan, Danli Xie

“…The results indicated that mDCSA was improved significantly after operation (p<0.001), either low back and leg VAS or ODI decreased over time (p<0.001), and the excellent-to-good rate was improved from 88.75% to 93.42% during postoperative 2 years (p<0.05). …”
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Efficacy of Physiologically Active nutrients in the Treatment of Asthenic Disorders in Patients with Chronic Diffuse Liver Diseases by M. V. Mayevskaya, M. A. Morozova, A. G. Beniashvili, V. D. Lunkov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The safety profile was good, 1/3 of the patients noted the appearance of heartburn, which was eliminated when taking the product with food.Conclusion. …”
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Assessment of stress and health conditions among students in the context of the war in Ukraine by Vladimir Potop, Igor Vypasniak, Iryna Ivanyshyn, Vasyl Lutskyi, Iryna Kryventsova, Lyudmila Shesterova, Katarzyna Prusik

“…Cronbach's alpha values for Factor 1 (0.87) indicate high reliability, while for Factor 2 (0.79), they indicate good reliability. A correlation of 0.89 for Factor 1 indicates a very strong positive relationship between this factor and the overall level of stress. …”
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Bazhenov formation anomalous section within the Uvat oil and gas bearing area by Dmitry A. Staroselets, Pavel V. Smirnov, Anatoly V. Trenkin

“…The deposits of the Bazhenov formation are dated by the Titonian (Volga) Stage, part of which is represented by a mixed composition containing both the amorphous organic matter typical of the Bazhenov formation and the Valanginian or Valanginian-Goterivian palynoforms of good preservation. The authors clarified the boundary of the Bazhenov formation anomalous section in the Uvat oil and gas area: in comparison with the previously established contours of distribution, the eastern boundary shifted to the west, due to which the total area of the anomalous section reduced almost twofold; the contours of the north-eastern border of Bazhenov formation anomalous section were slightly revised and shifted to the south-west direction. …”
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The role of exercise-based prehabilitation in enhancing surgical outcomes for patients with digestive system cancers: a meta-analysis by Shasha Xu, Rong Yin, Haiou Zhu, Yin Gong, Jing Zhu, Changxian Li, Qin Xu

“…Conclusions Prehabilitation reduces postoperative complications and improves short-term physical function in digestive surgery patients, with good patient acceptance; however, the long-term effects are unknown due to a lack of follow-up data. …”
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