Prehospital triage of patients with acute cardiac complaints: study protocol of HART-c, a multicentre prospective study by Jan Bosch, Charles JHJ Kirchhof, Mark J Boogers, Enrico de Koning, Tom E Biersteker, Saskia Beeres, Barbra E Backus, Reza Alizadeh Dehnavi, Helen AM Silvius, Martin Schalij

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Neurophysiological Effects of Chronic Indoor Environmental Toxic Mold Exposure on Children by Ebere C. Anyanwu, Andrew W. Campbell, Aristo Vojdani

“…Clinical neurological and neurobehavioral questionnaires were administered with the cooperation of the children�s parents. The children then underwent a series of neurophysiological tests including electroencephalogram (EEG), brainstem evoked potential (BAEP), visual evoked potential (VEP), and somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP). …”
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Intersectional Analysis of Urban Land Corruption in Harare, Zimbabwe by Manase Kudzai, Praise Karuma, Tanaka Mutume, Primrose Hove

“…Consequently, many turn to housing cooperatives, which are rife with corruption and often exploitative. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Inflammatory Biomarkers in Cervical Cancer Treated with Chemoradiotherapy by Timur Koca, Nurcihan Gocen Vardar, Rahmi Atıl Aksoy, Aylin Fidan Korcum

“…In the univariate analysis, several variables were predictive of overall survival (OS), including NLR, PLR, MLR, SII, PIV, CRP, LDH, albumin, tumor size, and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS). …”
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The Relationship Between Mindset and Poverty Levels in Kisinga Sub-County Kasese District by Kambere, Roggers

“…Banks should improve their services to small-scale farmers and enterprises by syndicating small loans with financial cooperatives and community banks, thereby promoting resource mobilization and financial intermediation in rural areas. …”
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Primary Schools’ Determinants of Pupils Academic Performance in Primary Leaving Examinations in Bubaare Sub-County Uganda. by Busingye, Annet

“…The study recommended that primary schools prioritize instructional materials, enhance assessment systems, promote student motivation, and conduct community sensitization to improve parent-school cooperation, ultimately enhancing pupils’ academic performance.…”
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Reproductive Health Services and Quality of Health Status of Woman in Kyanamira Sub-County Kabale District. by Atwongyeire, Precious

“…Community sensitization on how to review some of the counseling and testing procedures so as to encourage reproductive mothers to test on before giving birth and there is need for government intervention on reproductive health care services among adolescent mothers and quality of health status with in Kyanamira sub-county Kabale district and people should join in the fight against sexual transmitted diseases by not cooperate with ignorance or primitive mothers on individuals and officials basis, Basing on study objectives, the study included that there were the importance of reproductive health services and quality of health status of Women in Kyanamira sub-county Kabale district as they included: health care quality, increased mortality rate, hospital committee, early detection, behavioral change, age of an individual, famil y influence, stigma and cervical education with, were chal enges faced by reproductive health care services by women in Kyanamira sub-county Kabale district as they included; poverty, trust, culture, care, lack of government concern, ignorance, family size and lack of access to informa t ion and possible ways in which Reproductive health services and quality of health status of women can be strengthen its services in Kyanamira sub-county Kabale district as they included; palative care, clinical care, spiritual care, social care, psychological support, government concern and community sensitization.…”
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Synergistic photothermal conversion and visible-light photodegradation of antibiotic in S-type TiO2 derived Ti3C2-MXene loaded on NaYF4: Tm3+, Er3+, Yb3+ @BiOI by Seyyedeh Fatemeh Hosseini, Mir Saeed Seyed Dorraji, Shiva Mohajer, Seyedeh Narges Saeedi, Masoumeh Kianfar, Alexandr V. Koshelev, Nataliya A. Arkharova, Denis N. Karimov

“…Significantly, the cycling results demonstrated that the photocatalysts had the requisite reusability and recyclability for real-world applications. The cooperative MXene and UCNPs utilized in this study provide a helpful basis for the logical design of full-spectrum photocatalysts.…”
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Ditch management using low-grade weirs: an opportunity for mitigating water quality and quantity impacts by J. S. Strock, A. Z. Ranaivoson

“…Stage-discharge data were collected using a data logger and bubble level sensor. Water samples were collected for water quality analysis daily using automated samplers. …”
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Enhancing CO₂ selectivity in MOFs through a dual-ligand strategy: Experimental and theoretical insights by Amir Kazemi, Akram Karbalaee Hosseini, Mahyar Ashourzadeh Pordsari, Mohsen Tamtaji, Saber Keshavarz, Faranak Manteghi, Azadeh Tadjarodi, Ahad Ghaemi, Sohrab Rohani, William A. Goddard

“…A dual-ligand strategy was employed using 4,4′-oxybis(benzoic acid) (OBA) and 2,5-di(pyridine-4-yl)thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole (DPTTZ), with OBA acting as a rigid linker and DPTTZ providing nitrogen and sulfur heteroatoms to enhance gas adsorption. …”
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An endoscopic ultrasound-based interpretable deep learning model and nomogram for distinguishing pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors from pancreatic cancer by Nan Yi, Shuangyang Mo, Yan Zhang, Qi Jiang, Yingwei Wang, Cheng Huang, Shanyu Qin, Haixing Jiang

“…A novel interpretable DL model and nomogram were developed and validated using EUS images, cooperating with machine learning algorithms. This approach demonstrates significant potential for enhancing the clinical applicability of EUS in predicting PNETs from pancreatic cancer, thereby offering valuable insights for future research and implementation.…”
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Fatal toxoplasmic encephalitis triggered by anti-TNF therapy by Rodrigo A. Montoro, Michael Moran, Katherine A. Overmyer, Andrew Periaccante, Joshua J. Coon, Swapnil Lanjewar, Laura J. Knoll, Rob Striker

“…Reactivation of T. gondii by TNF-a blockade is rare in humans though despite widespread use of TNF-a blockers. Serologic evidence of a possible latent T. gondii infection in humans is common worldwide, so why anti-TNF-α reactivation isn't more common is unknown. …”
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Pembrolizumab and Pemetrexed for Older Patients With Nonsquamous NSCLC and Programmed Cell Death-Ligand 1 Tumor Proportion Scores of Less Than 50% by Yoshihito Kogure, MD, PhD, Hiroya Hashimoto, PhD, Haruko Daga, MD, PhD, Yasushi Fukuda, MD, Akihiro Bessho, MD, PhD, Tadaaki Yamada, MD, PhD, Yukihiro Toi, MD, Tomoki Kimura, MD, PhD, Hiroshige Yoshioka, MD, PhD, Koichi Azuma, MD, PhD, Naoki Furuya, MD, PhD, Yasutaka Fukui, MD, PhD, Akiko M. Saito, MD, PhD, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, MD, PhD, Hideo Saka, MD, Masashi Kondo, MD, PhD

“…Eligible participants had metastatic or recurrent nonsquamous NSCLC without sensitizing EGFR or ALK alterations, were aged 75 years or above, had a programmed cell death-ligand 1 tumor proportion score of less than 50%, had not undergone systemic chemotherapy, and had an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1. …”
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FEASTS: Radial Distribution of H i Surface Densities Down to 0.01 M⊙ pc−2 of 35 Nearby Galaxies by Jing Wang, Dong Yang, Xuchen Lin, Qifeng Huang, Zhijie Qu, Hsiao-wen Chen, Hong Guo, Luis C. Ho, Peng Jiang, Zezhong Liang, Céline Péroux, Lister Staveley-Smith, Simon Weng

“…These results imply that, in the absence of major tidal interactions, physical processes must cooperate so that Σ _H _i distributes in a self-similar way in the outer region down to the 0.01 M _⊙ pc ^−2 level. …”
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Designing a broad-spectrum multi-epitope subunit vaccine against leptospirosis using immunoinformatics and structural approaches by Guneswar Sethi, Guneswar Sethi, Young Kyu Kim, Su-Cheol Han, Jeong Ho Hwang, Jeong Ho Hwang

“…These epitopes were fused with a heparin-binding hemagglutinin (HBHA) adjuvant and appropriate linkers to construct the broad-spectrum vaccine. The physicochemical properties of the vaccine were assessed, including antigenicity, immunogenicity, allergenicity, and conservation. …”
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A harmonized dataset relating alternative farmer management practices to crop yield, soil organic carbon stock, nitrous oxide emissions, and nitrate leaching generated using IPCC m... by Roberta Calone, Angela Fiore, Guido Pellis, Maria Luz Cayuela, Gabriele Mongiano, Alessandra Lagomarsino, Simone Bregaglio

“…The dataset presents four ∑i series, corresponding to alternative perceptions of sustainability from three potential stakeholder categories (young farmers’ cooperative, agrochemical company, public agricultural policy agency) plus one equally weighted option. …”
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Deep eutectic solvent enhances antibacterial activity of a modular lytic enzyme against Acinetobacter baumannii by Aleksandra Maria Kocot, Tomasz Swebocki, Karolina Ciemińska, Adrianna Łupkowska, Małgorzata Kapusta, Dennis Grimon, Ewa Laskowska, Anna-Karina Kaczorowska, Tadeusz Kaczorowski, Rabah Boukherroub, Yves Briers, Magdalena Plotka

“…The bioinformatic analysis allowed us to determine the spatial architecture of MLE-15, whose components were bactericidal peptide cecropin A connected via a flexible linker to the cell wall binding domain (CBD) of mesophilic 201ϕ2 − 1 endolysin and catalytic domain (EAD) of highly thermostable Ph2119 endolysin. …”
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Evaluación de los efectos microclimáticos que tiene la vegetación en la mitigación de la isla de calor urbana: Parque en la ciudad de Torreón, México by Jesthly Leticia Flores-De la O., Jorge Villanueva-Solis, Jaime Andrés Quiroa-Herrera

“…El análisis se desarrolló en 2 fases, la primera orientada a clasificar los distintos ambientes y su densidad de vegetación; la segunda, corresponde a la campaña de monitoreo, mediante transectos con dispositivos data logger HOBO. Los resultados, además de mostrar la conveniencia del método, contribuyen a la evaluación de los beneficios de las áreas verdes como resumideros térmicos y, con ello, a sentar las bases para el establecimiento de una política de planificación urbana orientada a mitigar la ICU en la ciudad, que coadyuve al proceso de adaptación ante el cambio climático en ciudades con clima árido. …”
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Second-Generation Triple Reporter for Bioluminescence, Micro–Positron Emission Tomography, and Fluorescence Imaging by Aparna H. Kesarwala, Julie L. Prior, Jinwu Sun, Scott E. Harpstrite, Vijay Sharma, David Piwnica-Worms

“…To exploit the combined strengths of each and facilitate multimodality imaging, we engineered a dual-reporter construct in which firefly luciferase (FLuc) and a 12–amino acid nonstructural linker were fused in frame to the N-terminus of a mutant herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (mNLS-SR39TK) kinetically enhanced for positron emission tomography (PET). …”
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Dye-based fluorescent organic nanoparticles made from polar and polarizable chromophores for bioimaging purposes: a bottom-up approach by Daniel, Jonathan, Dal Pra, Ophélie, Kurek, Eleonore, Grazon, Chloé, Blanchard-Desce, Mireille

“…Their luminescence can be tuned in the whole visible region down to the Near Infra-Red I (NIR-I) region while their nonlinear optical responses can be enhanced thanks to cooperative effects. Intriguingly, the implemented strategy also enables modulating and improving the dFONs colloidal and structural stability as well as their photostability. …”
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