Assessment of Risk Factors for Fractures in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes over 60 Years Old: A Cross-Sectional Study from Northeast China by Yan Guo, Yingfang Wang, Feng Chen, Jiabei Wang, Difei Wang

“…This cross-sectional study was conducted with community-dwelling people over 60 years old in nine communities from the city of Shenyang, which is the capital of Northeast China’s Liaoning Province. …”
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RAS/BRAF Circulating Tumor DNA Mutations as a Predictor of Response to First-Line Chemotherapy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients by Jiannan Yao, Wanchun Zang, Yang Ge, Nathaniel Weygant, Pan Yu, Lei Li, Guanhua Rao, Zhi Jiang, Rui Yan, Linjia He, Yang Yu, Mulan Jin, Gang Cheng, Guangyu An

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Factors associated with girl child marriage in Iran: a qualitative socio-ecological approach by Asma Pourtaheri, Mehrsadat Mahdizadeh, Mehrsadat Mahdizadeh, Hadi Tehrani, Hadi Tehrani, Jamshid Jamali, Jamshid Jamali, Nooshin Peyman, Nooshin Peyman

“…Therefore, this research was conducted to identify the factors driving girl child marriage based on the Socio-Ecological Model.MethodsThe present qualitative study employed guided content analysis and a deductive approach to identify the driving factors behind girl child marriage in Bam City. Sampling was targeted among Women aged 15–30 got married under the age of 15, family members, informants, and policymakers. …”
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Contemporary Management of Patients With Chagas Cardiomyopathy in Bolivia by Evan Czulada, BS, Sascha Bercovitch, BA, Yazan Alshawkani, MD, Natalia Noya Weise, MD, Adriana E. Hernani Rodrigo, BS, Ronald Gustavo Durán Saucedo, MD, Marcelo Buhezo Chamón, MD, Robert H. Gilman, MD, David T. Martin, MD

“…Responses were collected from every major Bolivian city. More than 70% of cardiologists cared for CCM patients daily or weekly. …”
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Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in a Surgical Population of Southeast China: A Large-Scale Multicenter Study by Ping Chen, Yang Zheng, Yubo Cai, Pengfei Zou, Nan Li, Conggao Peng, Hainv Gao, Jimin Liu, Yongping Chen, Zhaowei Tong, Lanjuan Li

“…Blood samples obtained from 78,484 surgical patients from 18 different city and county hospitals were enrolled. The incidence of serum HCV antibody positivity, HCV RNA load, and HCV genotyping, as well as demographics and relevant clinical history, were investigated. …”
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Improved Functionality, Quality, and Shelf Life of <i>Merguez</i>-Type Camel Sausage Fortified with Spirulina as a Natural Ingredient by Djamel Djenane, Boumediène Méghit Khaled, Yamina Ben Miri, Mohammed Said Metahri, Luis Montañés, Mohammed Aider, Agustín Ariño

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A Data-Driven Deep Learning Framework for Prediction of Traffic Crashes at Road Intersections by Mengxiang Wang, Wang-Chien Lee, Na Liu, Qiang Fu, Fujun Wan, Ge Yu

“…Traffic crash prediction (TCP) is a fundamental problem for intelligent transportation systems in smart cities. Improving the accuracy of traffic crash prediction is important for road safety and effective traffic management. …”
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Theoretical Aspects of Professional Competence of Police Officers from the Tactical and Operative Response Unit by Ye. S. Romanenko

“…The new challenges have arisen before the new-organized police unit [3, 6]: to minimize the risks which may appear during public events; to decrease tense in the crowd without demonstrating force; to prevent and to resist street criminality; to be on patrol in the city for the operational support of the patrol police crews in the case of calls with the higher degree of the risk; to react on the situations where there is a real threat of using the weapon or another threat to people’s life; to detain people who are hiding from justice or are wanted and can be dangerous. …”
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Development of nucleic acid-based vaccines against dengue and other mosquito-borne flaviviruses: the past, present, and future by Muhammad Bashir Bello, Ahlam Alsaadi, Asif Naeem, Sarah A. Almahboub, Mohammad Bosaeed, Mohammad Bosaeed, Safia S. Aljedani

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CONSERVATION STATUS AND RESEARCH ON PROPAGATION OF CAMELLIA PIQUETIANA IN LAM DONG PROVINCE, VIETNAM by Hong En Le, Quang Cuong Truong, Van Cam Ngo, Pham Doan Nguyen, Van Phuc Nguyen, Van Duong Do, Thi Thuy Hoa Le, Si Hung Ho, Ba Trung Nguyen, Giang Phi Ngo, Thi Phuong Ho

“…Our survey recorded 246 mature individuals in the wild at three locations in Lam Dong Province: Bao Loc City, Bao Lam District, and Da Huoai District. The conservation assessment for this species, determined with GeoCat software, is still CR. …”
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Effect of Prolonged-Release Pirfenidone on Renal Function in Septic Acute Kidney Injury Patients: A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial by Jonathan S. Chávez-Iñiguez, Jorge L. Poo, Miguel Ibarra-Estrada, Leonel García-Benavides, Guillermo Navarro-Blackaller, Cynthia Cervantes-Sánchez, Eduardo Nungaray-Pacheco, Ramón Medina-González, Juan Armendariz-Borunda, Guillermo García-García

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Physical symptoms distress and demoralization among haemodialysis patients; the mediating effect of spirituality and self-compassion. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey by Chia-Hui Lin, Yi-Chien Chiang, Wen-Yi Li, Tsung-Lan Chu, Ya-Chu Hsiao

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Therapeutic potential of hydrogen-rich water in zebrafish model of Alzheimer’s disease: targeting oxidative stress, inflammation, and the gut-brain axis by Jiaxuan He, Peiye Xu, Ting Xu, Haiyang Yu, Lei Wang, Rongbing Chen, Kun Zhang, Yueliang Yao, Yanyan Xie, Qinsi Yang, Wei Wu, Da Sun, Dejun Wu

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Le site antique de la clinique des Dames Blanches à Tours (Indre-et-Loire) : aménagements d’un embarcadère romain sur la Loire et évolution du trait de rive by Nicolas Fouillet, Philippe Gardère

“…During the Early Roman Empire period the site of “clinique des Dames Blanches” in Tours/Caesarodunum (Indre-et-Loire) was located a few dozen metres from the Loire river, along the river bank road which lead to the ancient city of Tours/Caesarodunum. This road corresponds to the current street, rue Courteline. …”
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Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender by Jennifer E. Lansford, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Anna Silvia Bombi, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Desmond K. Runyan, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Arnaldo Zelli

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MaveDB 2024: a curated community database with over seven million variant effects from multiplexed functional assays by Alan F. Rubin, Jeremy Stone, Aisha Haley Bianchi, Benjamin J. Capodanno, Estelle Y. Da, Mafalda Dias, Daniel Esposito, Jonathan Frazer, Yunfan Fu, Sally B. Grindstaff, Matthew R. Harrington, Iris Li, Abbye E. McEwen, Joseph K. Min, Nick Moore, Olivia G. Moscatelli, Jesslyn Ong, Polina V. Polunina, Joshua E. Rollins, Nathan J. Rollins, Ashley E. Snyder, Amy Tam, Matthew J. Wakefield, Shenyi Sunny Ye, Lea M. Starita, Vanessa L. Bryant, Debora S. Marks, Douglas M. Fowler

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Mapping Biodiversity Coast‐to‐Coast‐to‐Coast Across Canada's Three Oceans Using eDNA Metabarcoding by Loïc Jacquemot, Brian P. V. Hunt, Shaorong Li, Angela D. Schulze, Christoph M. Deeg, Ben J. G. Sutherland, Amy Tabata, Connie Lovejoy, Kristina M. Miller

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Association between normal weight obesity and comorbidities and events of cardiovascular diseases among adults in South China. by Miaomiao Ma, Deliang Lv, Xiaobing Wu, Yuqing Chen, Shimiao Dai, Yutian Luo, Hui Yang, Wei Xie, Fengzhu Xie, Qinggang Shang, Ziyang Zhang, Zhiguang Zhao, Ji-Chang Zhou

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Based on the CVD prevalence of 4% in Shenzhen and a calculated sample size of 6,000, a cross-sectional study with a multi-stage stratified cluster sampling method was conducted in Shenzhen City. The cardiovascular comorbidities being studied were abdominal obesity (AO), diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, and chronic kidney disease, while the CVD events were occurrences of myocardial infarction and strokes. …”
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Endocrine Adverse Events in Patients Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Comprehensive Analysis by Meriç Dökmetaş, Harun Muğlu, Erkan Özcan, Buket Bayram Kuvvet, Kaan Helvacı, Ender Kalacı, Seda Kahraman, Musa Barış Aykan, İrfan Çiçin, Fatih Selçukbiricik, Ömer Fatih Ölmez, Ahmet Bilici

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Relationship between cognitive impairment and hippocampal iron overload: A quantitative susceptibility mapping study of a rat model by Xi Deng, Meiru Bu, Jiali Liang, Yihao Sun, Liyan Li, Heishu Zheng, Zisan Zeng, Muliang Jiang, Bihong T. Chen

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