What happens when you stop using the combined contraceptive pill? A qualitative study protocol on consequences and supply needs for women who discontinued the combined contraceptiv... by Matthias Richter, Liane Schenk, Gertraud Stadler, Jana Niemann

“…Introduction For more than 60 years, contraceptive pills have been prescribed to mostly healthy biological women. An emerging body of research concerning the possible physiological and psychological side effects of hormonal contraception has been published over the past two decades. …”
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Preparation and characterisation of ciprofloxacin‐loaded silver nanoparticles for drug delivery by Samer Hasan Hussein‐Al‐Ali, Suha Mujahed Abudoleh, Qais Ibrahim Abdallah Abualassal, Zead Abudayeh, Yousef Aldalahmah, Mohd Zobir Hussein

“…The release of Cipro from Cipro‐AgNPs nanocomposites showed slow release properties which reached 98% release within 750 min, and followed the Hixson–Crowell kinetic model. In addition, the toxicity of AgNPs and Cipro‐AgNPs nanocomposites was evaluated using normal (3T3) cell line. …”
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A Comparison of the Outcomes of COVID-19 Vaccinated and Nonvaccinated Patients Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit in a Low-Middle-Income Country by Waleed Bin Ghaffar, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Moeed Bin Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Sohaib, Asma Rayani, Muhammad Mehmood Alam, Syed Talha Sibtain, Zahra Cheema, Asad Latif

“…This study aimed to meticulously compare outcomes between COVID-19 vaccinated and nonvaccinated patients admitted to the ICU. In addition, demographic factors and the ICU course influencing mortality were also assessed. …”
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Patterns Exploration on Patterns of Empirical Herbal Formula of Chinese Medicine by Association Rules by Li Huang, Jiamin Yuan, Zhimin Yang, Fuping Xu, Chunhua Huang

“…Doctors will add extra ingredients or cancel some of them by CM syndrome diagnosis. …”
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A Peculiar Cause of Shock: Analysing Two Clinical Cases by João Oliveira, Alberto Costa-Silva, Luís Vale, Daniel Costa, Rui Almeida-Pinto, Carlos Martins-Silva, Tiago Antunes-Lopes, João Silva

“…CT demonstrated a staghorn calculus, hydronephrosis, and signs compatible with xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in the right kidney. Additionally, and incidentally, it revealed a 60 mm nodule on the right adrenal gland. …”
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Impregnation of Silver Nanoparticles onto Polymers Based on Sugarcane Bagasse for the Remediation of Endocrine Disruptor–Bisphenol A from Water by Farid Mzee Mpatani, Ussi Makame Kombo, Khamis Rashid Kheir, Nahya Khamis Nassor, Daniel Joshua, Salma Saleh Mussa, Salama Abubakar Mohamed, Saide Abdulla Mbarak, Ali Shehe Hamad, Salum Ali Ahmada

“…The adsorption phenomenon was controlled mainly by physisorption (via host–guest inclusion van der Waals bonding and pore filling effect). In addition, oxidative degradation of BPA by AgNPs-SB-βCD could marginally contribute the removal of BPA due to oxidative dissolution of AgNPs at pH 7. …”
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Acute aortic dissection on CT: is D-dimer determination useful for a timely and correct diagnosis? A case report by Alicja Stankiewicz, Beata Moczulska, Wiktoria Izdebska, Aleksandra Wińska, Leszek Gromadziński

“…POCUS when AAD is suspected in high-risk patients, regardless of the results of additional laboratory tests such as the D-dimer (DD) assay. …”
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Development of Postural Control in Healthy Children: A Functional Approach by Christine Assaiante, Sophie Mallau, Sébastien Viel, Marianne Jover, Christina Schmitz

“…The studies dealing with adaptation of postural strategies aimed at testing short and long-term adaptation capacity of the CNS during imposed transient external biomechanical constraints in healthy children, and during chronic internal constraints in children with skeletal pathologies. In addition to maintenance of balance, another function of posture is to ensure the orientation of a body segment. …”
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Image inpainting forensics method based on dual branch network by Dengyong ZHANG, Huang WEN, Feng LI, Peng CAO, Lingyun XIANG, Gaobo YANG, Xiangling DING

“…Image inpainting is a technique that uses information from known areas of an image to repair missing or damaged areas of the image.Image editing software based on it has made it easy to edit and modify the content of digital images without any specialized foundation.When image inpainting techniques are used to maliciously remove the content of an image, it will cause confidence crisis on the real image.Current researches in image inpainting forensics can only effectively detect a certain type of image inpainting.To address this problem, a passive forensic method for image inpainting was proposed, which is based on a two-branch network.The high-pass filtered convolutional network in the dual branch first used a set of high-pass filters to attenuate the low-frequency components in the image.Then features were extracted using four residual blocks, and two transposed convolutions were performed with 4x up-sampling to zoom in on the feature map.And thereafter a 5×5 convolution was used to attenuate the tessellation artifacts from the transposed convolutions to generate a discriminative feature map on the high-frequency components of the image.The dual-attention feature fusion branch in the dual branch first added a local binary pattern feature map to the image using a preprocessing block.Then the dual-attention convolution block was used to adaptively integrate the image’s local features and global dependencies to capture the differences in content and texture between the inpainted and pristine regions of the image.Additionally, the features extracted from the dual-attention convolution block were fused, and the feature maps were up-sampled identically to generate the discriminative image content and texture on the feature maps.The extensive experimental results show the proposed method improved the F1 score by 2.05% and the Intersection over Union(IoU) by 3.53% for the exemplar-based method and by 1.06% and 1.22% for the deep-learning-based method in detecting the inpainted region of the removed object.Visualization of the results shows that the edges of the removed objects can be accurately located on the detected inpainted area.…”
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Magnetic Integrated Multi-Trap Filters Using Mutual Inductance to Mitigate Current Harmonics in Grid-Connected Power Electronics Converters by Maged Al-Barashi, Aicheng Zou, Yongjun Wang, Wei Luo, Nan Shao, Zeyu Tang, Bing Lu

“…Building on the conventional integrated inductor–capacitor–inductor (<i>LCL</i>) filter, the approach involves connecting a small capacitor in parallel with either the inverter-side or grid-side inductors to create an <i>LC</i> trap. Additionally, a second <i>LC</i> trap can be achieved by integrating the filter capacitor in series with the equivalent trap inductance, established by the magnetic coupling between the grid-side inductor and inverter-side one. …”
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Experimental Study on Water-Jet Shock Microforming Process Using Different Incident Pressures by James Kwasi Quaisie, Wang Yun, Xu Zhenying, Yu Chao, Fuzhu Li, Philip Baidoo, Joseph Sekyi-Ansah, Emmanuel Asamoah

“…The forming depth and surface roughness increased with the incident pressure. In addition, the forming depth increased from 124.7 μm to 327.8 μm, while the surface roughness also increased from 0.685 μm to 1.159 μm at an incident pressure of 8 MPa to 20 MPa. …”
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A Comparative Study on Drought Stress Response In Vitro and In Vivo Propagated <i>Fragaria vesca</i> Plants by Marta Rokosa, Małgorzata Mikiciuk, Danuta Kulpa, Piotr Ptak

“…Additionally, the ratio of monovalent to divalent cations in leaves, roots, and crowns was analyzed. …”
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Uncoded chronic kidney disease prevalence in secondary care: a retrospective audit with population health implications by Samantha Dolan, Ajitesh Anand, Philip A. Kalra, Stuart Stewart

“…Conclusions Uncoded CKD is highly prevalent in an acute medical hospital ward highlighting opportunity to improve coding in another part of the health system in addition primary care.…”
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Assessing the influence of matcha green tea extract on NF-κB/MAPK signaling pathway activation in rats: A study on irradiation-induced acute hepatic inflammatory response by Noha Sayed Hamed, Eithar K. El Adham, Amal I. Hassan

“…Liver miR-122 expression levels were determined using real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. In addition, the present study investigated the mechanism by which M stops the inflammatory process's crucial NF-κB/MAPK signaling. …”
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Perceived MOOC satisfaction: A review mining approach using machine learning and fine-tuned BERTs by Xieling Chen, Haoran Xie, Di Zou, Gary Cheng, Xiaohui Tao, Fu Lee Wang

“…The fine-tuned BERT model outperforms baseline models with precision, recall, and F1 scores of 78.4%, 74.4%, and 75.9%, respectively, in classifying review topics. Additionally, the regression analysis identifies key factors affecting learner satisfaction, such as the positive influence of “Instructor” frequency and the negative impact of “Platforms and tools” and “Process”. …”
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Särndal Approach and Separate Type Quantile Robust Regression Type Mean Estimators for Nonsensitive and Sensitive Variables in Stratified Random Sampling by Usman Shahzad, Ishfaq Ahmad, Nadia H. Al-Noor, Soofia Iftikhar, A. H. Abd Ellah, Troon J. Benedict

“…Thus, three techniques (namely additive, mixed, and Bar-Lev) are incorporated for the purposes of the article. …”
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Comparison of intravenous dexmedetomidine versus ketamine–dexmedetomidine combination on spinal block characteristics in patients undergoing lower limb orthopaedic surgery – A rand... by Annapureddy Sai Krishna, Jyotsna Agarwal, Samiksha Khanuja, Sandeep Kumar, Adam Khan, Khairat Mohammad Butt

“…Background and Aims: One major limitation of the spinal block remains the inability to extend the duration of the block intraoperatively unless planned before with spinal or epidural catheters and/or intrathecal additives. This study was designed to compare the effects of intravenous dexmedetomidine versus low-dose ketamine–dexmedetomidine combination infusion on spinal anaesthesia in lower limb orthopaedic surgeries. …”
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Comparative efficacy of 0.1% and 0.15% Sodium Hyaluronate on lipid layer and meibomian glands following cataract surgery: A randomized prospective study. by Seung Ahn Yang, Mu Ryang Jeong, Cheon Ho Park, Ki Bum Cheon, Jun Ho Chang, Ji Eun Lee

“…<h4>Results</h4>Throughout the study, the postoperative ocular surface disease index score was significantly lower in the group receiving 0.15% hyaluronic acid than in the group receiving 0.1% hyaluronic acid. Additionally, the postoperative ocular surface disease index score showed a significant positive correlation with the postoperative use of 0.15% hyaluronic acid and the preoperative Schirmer's I test score. …”
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Effects of project-based learning on EFL learners' writing performance. by Abebaw Andargie, Dawit Amogne, Ebabu Tefera

“…The participants of the study were given a series of three problem-solving essay writing tests before and after the intervention, which employed project-based essay writing instruction. In addition, to discover their attitudes toward the impacts of project-based learning and its applications on the ground, three randomly selected students were interviewed at the end of the intervention. …”
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Barium Sulfate Scale Removal at Low-Temperature by Hany Gamal, Saad Al-Afnan, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Mohamed Bahgat

“…The developed dissolver showed a very low precipitation tendency for the scale dissolved solids (1.9 and 3.2% for samples 1 and 2, respectively) under 35°C for 24 hours. Without any additives of corrosion inhibitors, the corrosion rate was 0.001835 g/cm2 at 6.9 MPa and 100°C for 6 hours. …”
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