METTL16 controls airway inflammations in smoking-induced COPD via regulating glutamine metabolism by Xinyu Jia, Shan Liu, Chunan Sun, Manni Zhu, Qi Yuan, Min Wang, Tingting Xu, Zhengxia Wang, Zhongqi Chen, Mao Huang, Ningfei Ji, Mingshun Zhang

“…Mechanistically, METTL16 could regulate lung epithelial mitochondrial function by participating in the reprogramming of glutamine metabolism. …”
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Emotional intelligence as a predictor of clinical competence in nursing students by Maryam Aghabarary, Mahsa Khedmatizare

“…The mean score of participants’ clinical competence was 102.58 ± 19.94, indicating a moderate level. …”
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The Comparison Of Physical Capacities, In-Game Activity Profiles And Decision-Making Skills Of Football Referees According To Their Experience Level by Halil İbrahim Ceylan, Özcan Saygın, Hakan Karabalcık

“…A total of 10 football referees, 5 experienced ( gt;5 years) and 5 less experienced ( lt;5 years) participated in this study voluntarily. As a result of statistical analysis; aerobic capacity of experienced referees (61.14±3.31 ml/kg/min) was significantly higher than less-experienced referees (54.67±2.93 ml/kg/min.) …”
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Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy Among Single Mothers in Khartoum, Sudan: Sociodemographic Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences by Amal Abdelgadir Ali Mohamed, Elshafee Ahmed Apaker Babiker, Sohair Mohmoud Godat, Salma Mohammed Gomaa Doalbet, Aida AF Ahmed, Maha Hamed Mohamed Ali, Abdalkhaliq Ahmed Obadi, Amna Mohammed Ali Mustafa, Amani Awad Elkarim Taha, Amira Elnour Eltayeb Elbashir, Ragaa Gasim Ahmed, Fahad A Alghamdi, Waled AM Ahmed

“…Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted at the Mygoma Orphanage Center (MOC) and Shamaa Rehabilitation Center (SRC) using convenience sampling among 200 participants. A validated questionnaire with 25 items was used to collect data. …”
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Is Physical Activity Related to Depression and Anxiety among Adults? Observations from a Noncommunicable Disease Screening Clinic in North India by Madhur Verma, Amandeep Kaur, Ankush Upneja, Preeti Dhoat, Jitender Aneja, Rakesh Kakkar

“…Materials and Methods: A study was conducted between March 2021 and August 2022 using a cross-sectional study design. We recruited 334 participants >40 years of age from the noncommunicable disease (NCD) screening clinic of a tertiary care institute in North India. …”
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Intraoperative Complications of Cataract Surgery Using Intracameral Illumination in the Elderly over 75 Years by Yu Jeong Kim, Su Jin Park, Jong Yeon Lee, Dae Yeong Lee, Dong Heun Nam

“…A retrospective, consecutive, interventional case series Participants. Two hundred eighty-six eyes of 184 patients older than 75 years who underwent cataract surgery using microscope and intracameral illuminations. …”
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Making stereopsis related to the ability of ocular deviation: a new paradigm for assessment of intermittent exotropia by Jian-Bing Li, Wan-Ting Kong, Tao Shen, Yong-Guang Yuan, Chong-Lin Chen, Dan-Min Peng, Min-Tong Liang, Xuan He, Dan Luo, Jia-Yi Su, Wei Wang, Rui-Xin Wang, Xin-Ping Yu

“…RESULTS: A total of 48 patients (age range: 4-33y; 54.17% male) participated in the study. When viewing 3D optotypes with polarized glasses, their median control scores were 1 (interquartile range, 0-4) at distance and 0 (0-1) at near. …”
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Deviation from the balanced time perspective and depression and anxiety symptoms: the mediating roles of cognitive-behavioral emotion regulation in a cross-cultural model by Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar, Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar, Ayse Altan-Atalay, Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad, Bulent Turan, Mehmet Eskin

“…Despite extensive research on TP and ER, their joint impact, particularly in the context of depression and anxiety, and cultural differences remain underexplored.MethodParticipants (N = 513 Iranian, N = 470 Turkish) completed self-report questionnaires on time perspective, cognitive and behavioral ER, anxiety, and depression symptoms. …”
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A Feature Selection Approach Based on Archimedes’ Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Data Classification by Lahbib Khrissi, Nabil El Akkad, Hassan Satori, Khalid Satori

“…It explains the behavior of the force exerted when an object is partially or fully immersed in a fluid. AOA optimization maintains a balance between exploration and exploitation, keeping a population of solutions and studying a large area to find the best overall solution. …”
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Anti-linealidad temporal y la realidad de la ficción : el vanguardismo de la revista Crononauta (1964) by David AJ Murrieta Flores

“…In 1964, the artist Alejandro Jodorowsky and the writer René Rebetez edited and launched Crononauta magazine in Mexico, proposed as a science fiction publication, and in which artists and writers such as Manuel Felguérez, Roland Topor, Fernando Arrabal, and Raquel Jodorowsky participated. As part of the artistic movements that were later denominated as « rupturistas » by the country’s art historiography, the magazine represents both an experiment and a thought model articulated around the connection between aesthetics and knowledge and its possibilities regarding the transformation of reality. …”
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Active Moss Biomonitoring of Mercury in the Mine-Polluted Area of Abbadia San Salvatore (Mt. Amiata, Central Italy) by Federica Meloni, Sergio Calabrese, Orlando Vaselli, Francesco Capecchiacci, Francesco Ciani, Lorenzo Brusca, Sergio Bellomo, Walter D’Alessandro, Kyriaki Daskalopoulou, Stefania Venturi, Barbara Nisi, Daniele Rappuoli, Franco Tassi, Jacopo Cabassi

“…Hg was accumulated in the mosses via GEM adsorption, uptake of particulate Hg, and precipitation via raindrops/snowfall, with almost no loss and without post-deposition volatilization. …”
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Automated red cell exchange in sickle cell disease patients: Retrospective analysis of series of cases in a tertiary care hospital in Eastern India by Girijanandini Kanungo, Priyanka Nagrath, Priyanka Samal, Santosh Mishra

“…A total number of red blood cells (RBCs) transfusion in all the cases were 7, 6, 8, 5, 6, 7, and 7 with an average hematocrit of 55%, 56%, 54%, 56%, 55%, 51.7%, and 52.2%, respectively. All the patients partially phenotypically matched, leukoreduced, gamma-irradiated, fresh packed RBCs were provided. …”
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Will things feel better in the morning? A time-of-day analysis of mental health and wellbeing from nearly 1 million observations by Daisy Fancourt, Feifei Bu, Jessica K Bone

“…But although broader mental health and well-being also vary over months and weeks, it is unclear whether there are diurnal changes in how people experience and report their mental health.Objective To assess time-of-day association with depression, anxiety, well-being and loneliness.Methods The study analysed data from 49 218 adults drawn from the University College London COVID-19 Social Study, which gathered detailed repeated measurements from the same participants across time over a 2-year period (March 2020–March 2022, 18.5 observation per person). …”
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Insulin Resistance Increases MRI-Estimated Pancreatic Fat in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Normal Controls by Niraj S. Patel, Michael R. Peterson, Grace Y. Lin, Ariel Feldstein, Bernd Schnabl, Ricki Bettencourt, Ekihiro Seki, Claude B. Sirlin, Rohit Loomba

“…We found a strong correlation between hepatic and pancreatic MRI-PDFF (Spearman correlation, P = 0.57, P value <0.001). Participants with increased insulin resistance determined by homeostatic-model-of-insulin-resistance (HOMA-IR) greater than 2.5 had higher pancreatic (7.3% versus 4.5%, P value =0.015) and liver (13.5% versus 4.0%, P value <0.001) MRI-PDFF. …”
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Multidimensional analysis of embeddedness and cooperation in a cluster – a literature and empirical study by Marzena Frankowska

“…Literature studies have revealed the so far very meager and scattered work in the field of embedding cooperation between enterprises in inter-organizational networks, which definitely does not sufficiently describe the impact of the context of collaboration on enterprise cooperation. The main aim of the article was to understand and explain, on the basis of the concept of embeddedness, whether there are relations between the participation of enterprises in a cluster-type inter-organizational network (embeddedness and its dimensions) and their cooperation in the cluster. …”
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Comparative legal analysis of the expertise in court under the criminal law of Ukraine and CIS countries by A. N. Protsenko

“…The presiding judge at the request of the parties should provide an opportunity to study in detail the conclusion of the expertise conducted in court.…”
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Diagnosis of the mechanisms of different types of discordances between phylogenies inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial markers by A. A. Poroshina, D. Y. Sherbakov, T. E. Peretolchina

“…The mechanisms that g nerated extremely high biodiversity in the ancient lakes have not been sufficiently studied and remain only partially known. Sequences of environmental changes in highly complex ecosystems such as Lake Baikal, may induce sophisticated combinations of microevolutionary processes. …”
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A hypothesis about interrelations of epigenetic factors and transposable elements in memory formation by R. N. Mustafin

“…Also, a number of studies on different animals have revealed the preservation of long-term memory without the participation of synaptic plasticity. The data obtained suggest that transposons, which are genome sensors highly sensitive to various environmental and internal influences, form memory at the nuclear coding level. …”
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Estéticas de la aspiración, políticas de la inclusión: glosas al desarrollo en dos saraus de Rio de Janeiro by Diego Bustos

“…El artículo presenta, a partir del trabajo etnográfico en tres de estos eventos, un paisaje cultural que interpreta el contexto y los significados de un fenómeno que no sólo se inscribe en relación con la tradición de los saraus como el espacio por antonomasia de la cultura periférica, sino con las narrativas de desarrollo económico en la región, especialmente las puestas en práctica por los gobiernos del Partido de los Trabajadores. …”
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EUROPEAN UNION AFTER THE CRISIS: DECLIN OR RENAISSANCE? by O. V. Butorina

“…The headline targets and indicators of the "Europe 2020" strategy will be implemented only partially. Modernization process will be hampered by the lack of funding for basic science, which occurred due to the end of the "cold war", as well as social factors whose role in the economic progress had been previously underestimated. …”
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