Lower Limb Metaphyseal Bone Is Lost in Men with Coeliac Disease and Does Not Relate to Parathyroid Status by Michael W. J. Davie, Sally F. Evans, Christopher A. Sharp

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Colonel k. Škirpa's suggestion to guarrantee Lithuanian independence by Germany and the Soviet Union and their pledge to support Lithuania in her fight for Vilnius by Linas Locaitis

“…It was during this time that Lithuania looked to the German and Soviet governments for diplomatic support in her push to re-establish rule over the former Lithuanian capital. In the early 1930's, Germany turned its foreign policy towards an open revision of the Versailles peace accord. …”
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Slipping Rib Syndrome in a Female Adult with Longstanding Intractable Upper Abdominal Pain by Noman Ahmed Jang Khan, Saba Waseem, Saad Ullah, Hassan Mehmood

“…Awareness among health care personnel of this rare but significant disorder is necessary for early recognition. Prompt treatment can avoid unnecessary testing, radiographic exposure, and years of debilitating pain. …”
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The Imprint of the War in Ford Madox Ford’s Critical Writings by Isabelle BRASME

“…Both his private life and his literary career were profoundly disrupted by the global conflict. In the early months of the First World War, Ford wrote prolifically about the future of literature and on a broader scope, of civilisation and human psychology; in his “Literary Portraits” that were published in Outlook, he showed remarkable prescience when it came to the consequences that the war would bear on the arts and on what he termed “the mind”. …”
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Capacity Compensation Price Accounting of Coal-Fired Units Under the Background of New Power System by WANG Yongli, GUO Wenhui, LI Yuyang, GUO Lu, ZHANG Yuze

“…China is in the early stages of power market reform. With the gradual decline in the utilization hours of coal-fired power generation， it is difficult for coal-fired power units to recover all fixed costs by electricity price alone. …”
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Effect of Metal Dopant on Ninhydrin—Organic Nonlinear Optical Single Crystals by R. S. Sreenivasan, N. Kanagathara, G. Ezhamani, N. G. Renganathan, G. Anbalagan

“…Single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that the compound crystallizes in monoclinic system with noncentrosymmetric space group P21 with lattice parameters a=11.28 Å, b=5.98 Å, c=5.71 Å, α=90∘, β=98.57, γ=90∘, and V=381 (Å)3, which agrees very well with the reported value. The sharp and strong peaks in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern confirm the good crystallinity of the grown crystals. …”
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Depression Increases Stroke Hospitalization Cost: An Analysis of 17,010 Stroke Patients in 2008 by Race and Gender by Baqar Husaini, Robert Levine, Linda Sharp, Van Cain, Meggan Novotny, Pamela Hull, Gail Orum, Zahid Samad, Uchechukwu Sampson, Majaz Moonis

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Incidence rate and associated patient characteristics of liver disease in Wales 2004–2022: a retrospective population-scale observational study by Ashley Akbari, Andrew Yeoman, Haroon Ahmed, Jingwei Gao, Aled Davies, Thomas Peter Ignatius Pembroke

“…NAFLD has contributed to most of the change in incidence.Conclusions We observed increasing incidence rates of liver disease in Wales, with NAFLD showing a particularly sharp increase and frequently identified as an underlying condition. …”
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Identifying neurobiological heterogeneity in clinical high-risk psychosis: a data-driven biotyping approach using resting-state functional connectivity by Xiaochen Tang, Yanyan Wei, Jiaoyan Pang, Lihua Xu, Huiru Cui, Xu Liu, Yegang Hu, Mingliang Ju, Yingying Tang, Bin Long, Wei Liu, Min Su, Tianhong Zhang, Jijun Wang

“…A total of 239 participants from the Shanghai At Risk for Psychosis (SHARP) program were enrolled, consisting of 151 CHR individuals and 88 matched healthy controls (HCs). …”
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The EU Sanctions Policy: A Thorny Path of Transformation by L. D. Oganisyan

“…It shows that it was as early as the 2010s that the EU countries started to switch from using sanctions primarily as a means of conveying an addressee a certain ‘political message’ designed to ensure human rights and democratic values, to harnessing them as an economic leverage. …”
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Treatment of Brachial Plexus Injuries following Gunshot Injuries: A Systematic Review by Rohun Gupta, Isabel Herzog, Lauren Phung, Jacquelyn Roth, Joseph Weisberger, Margaret Luthringer, Edward S. Lee, Ashley Ignatiuk

“…The optimal timing for surgeries involving BPIs should be determined after examining the level of nerve damage, associated injuries, operative risks, and electrophysiological workup for indications of spontaneous regeneration. Early surgical interventions were indicated for patients presenting with associated vascular or thoracic injuries, compressive masses, and nerve transection by sharp instruments in most selected papers.…”
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Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of a Compact Aerosol Wind Tunnel and its Application for Performance Investigation of Particulate Matter Instruments by Prashant Patel, Shankar G. Aggarwal

“…Furthermore, we compared the performance of a low-cost sensor against that of a reference instrument in measuring PM2.5 concentrations, and our results agreed with those from previous studies.…”
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Genesis of social security regulation for police officers in Ukraine by A. S. Kolotik

“…We do not deny the existence of certain gaps and other problematic issues in the current legal framework for the organisation and functioning of the police in Ukraine, but we do not agree with the current opinion that the police reform has failed. …”
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Regulation of Lithuania and Czechoslovakia trade relations: Negotiations and agreements in 1931-1939 by Dalia Bukelevičiūtė

“…In 1932-1937, the Czechoslovakian delegation didn’t agree to sign an agreement with Lithuania. All negotiations finished only in oral agreement.   …”
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Predicting bullying victimization among adolescents using the risk and protective factor framework: a large-scale machine learning approach by Ethan Low, Joshua Monsen, Lindsay Schow, Rachel Roberts, Lucy Collins, Hayden Johnson, Carl L. Hanson, Quinn Snell, E. Shannon Tass

“…Gender analysis showed that for male and females, family issues and hating school were most highly predictive. …”
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Effect of folic acid supplementation on diminished ovarian reserve: study protocol of a single-centre, open-label, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial by Yan Wang, Ling Zheng, Kaijun Liao, Dongli Lu, Jiaxin Wu, Binjin Wu, Zhaochun Wu, Zhenghua Jiang

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Breast cancer patients with a pre-existing mental illness are less likely to receive guideline-recommended cancer treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Katie Elliott, Emily Haworth, Iakov Bolnykh, R. Hamish McAllister-Williams, Alastair Greystoke, Adam Todd, Linda Sharp

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Dependence of Water Vapour Adsorption on the Polarity of the Graphene Surfaces of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Robert H. Bradley, Aurik Andreu, Kelby Cassity, Susan Osbeck, Rodney Andrews, Mark Meier, Colin Johnston

“…The work described herein therefore provides early experimental confirmation of the quantitative role of surface oxygen chemistry in determining the water adsorption character of MWCNT graphene surfaces; it also validates previous simulation studies.…”
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Simulation of Flow Around a Finite Rectangular Prism: Influence of Mesh, Model, and Subgrid Length Scale by Xutong Zhang, Maxime Savoie, Mark K. Quinn, Ben Parslew, Alistair Revell

“…Experimental measurements were shown to agree well with reference data for the same geometry, after which particle image velocimetry (PIV) data were gathered to extend the reference dataset. …”
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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

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