Obesity in pregnancy: infant health service utilisation and costs on the NHS by Ronan A Lyons, Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Sinead T Brophy, Kelly L Morgan, Muhammad A Rahman, Rebecca A Hill

“…Total mean additional resource cost was estimated at £65.13 for infants born to overweight mothers and £1138.11 for infants born to obese mothers, when compared with infants of healthy weight mothers.Conclusions Increasingly infants born to mothers with high BMIs consume additional health service resources in the first year of life; this was apparent across inpatient and general practitioner services. …”
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Daily time series of 12 human thermal stress indices in Greece, aggregated at commune level (1998–2022)Zenodo by Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, Chloe Brimicombe, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varbara Mouchtouri, Christos Hadjichristodoulou

“…The heat indices contained in the dataset include Apparent Temperature (AT), Heat Index (HI), Humidity Index (Humidex), Normal Effective Temperature (NET), Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (simple version WBGT), Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (thermofeelWBGT), Wet Bulb Temperature (WBT), Wind Chill Temperature (WCT), Mean Radiant Temperature (MRT), and Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) with two variations (UTCI indoor and UTCI outdoor).To develop the dataset, we used hourly climate variables, acquired from the ERA5 and ERA5-Land datasets, produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which are accessible through the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS) Application Program Interface (API) client. …”
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Rare <i>Wolbachia</i> genotypes in laboratory <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> strains by A. S. Ryabinin, O. D. Shishkina, Yu. Yu. Ilinsky, R. A. Bykov

“…A comparison of Wolbachia genetic diversity between the wild-type laboratory strains and previously obtained data on mutant laboratory strains demonstrated differences in the frequencies of rare CS genotypes, which were more prevalent in mutant strains, apparently due to the breeding history of these Drosophila strains.…”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Food Handlers in Mettu Town, Southwest Ethiopia by Solomon Yeshanew, Melaku Tadege, Abdulhakim Abamecha

“…The study thus revealed a high prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection among apparently healthy food handlers in food establishments of the study area. …”
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Constructing a Multicultural Identity at the Canadian Frontier: Mordecai Richler and Jewish-Canadian Writing by Julie Spergel

“…Comme de nombreux Juifs de sa génération, Richler souffrait d’une double complexité historique liée à ses rôles en apparence incompatibles de Juif et de Canadien. Ses écrits de fiction reflètent les changements qui ont eu lieu dans un Canada alors lancé dans sa quête d’identité nationale et lui-même perdu quelque part entre les Etats-Unis et la Grande-Bretagne. …”
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Genetic history of the Koryaks and Evens of the Magadan region based on Y chromosome polymorphism data by B. A. Malyarchuk, M. V. Derenko

“…Haplogroups C-B90-B91 and N-B202 are Siberian in origin, and haplogroup Q-B143 was apparently inherited by the ancestors of the Koryaks and other Paleo-Asiatic peoples from the Paleo-Eskimos as a result of their migrations to Northeast Asia from the Americas. …”
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High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Level in Children with Congenital Heart Disease: A Single Center Study by Faten Abd el-Aziz, Nevian Nabil Abbas, Hala Ashraf, Rehab Mohammed Elkady, Heba H. Zeid

“…Aim of the work: to study the effect of cyanosis in children with cyanotic CHD on level of Hs-CRP compared to apparently healthy children. Subjects and Methods: This cross-sectional case-control study included 30 children with CHD as a study group (13 cyanotic and 17 acyanotic) and 30 healthy age and sex matched children as a control group. …”
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Quality of Life Philosophy III. Towards a New Biology: Understanding the Biological Connection between Quality of Life, Disease, and Healing by Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…All we can do is describe the cell and the organisms arising from its cells as filled with energy and information as well as an unbeatable ability to organize itself way down to the molecular level, where apparently the cell is in control of almost every single molecule.Our understanding today of how the information is stored and how it flows through living matter is still very limited. …”
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Is maternal diabetes during pregnancy associated with neurodevelopmental, cognitive and behavioural outcomes in children? Insights from individual participant data meta-analysis in... by Rachelle A. Pretorius, Demetris Avraam, Mònica Guxens, Jordi Julvez, Jennifer R. Harris, Johanna Thorbjornsrud Nader, Tim Cadman, Ahmed Elhakeem, Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Hanan El Marroun, Serena Defina, Tiffany C. Yang, Rosie McEachan, John Wright, Jesús Ibarluzea, Loreto Santa-Marina, Juana Mari Delgado, Marisa Rebagliato, Marie-Aline Charles, Chloe Vainqueur, Silvia Maritano, Daniela Zugna, Wen Lun Yuan, Barbara Heude, Rae-Chi Huang

“…The association was no longer apparent in further adjustments. Conclusions This study found that children between 4 - 6 and 7–10 years of age born to mothers with GDM have a greater likelihood of developing externalising problems and ADHD symptoms, respectively. …”
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Different starch sources and amino acid levels on growth performance, starch and amino acids digestion, absorption and metabolism of 0- to 3-week-old broilers fed low protein diet by Caiwei Luo, Jinping Wang, Wei Jiang, Dafei Yin, Gang Meng, Jiwei Wang, Jing Xu, Jianmin Yuan

“…The treatments included 3 different starch sources (corn, waxy corn, and tapioca) with 3 different apparent ileal digestible lysine (AID Lys) levels (1.08%, 1.20%, and 1.32%). …”
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Low dose DNA methyltransferase inhibitors potentiate PARP inhibitors in homologous recombination repair deficient tumors by Romain Pacaud, Scott Thomas, Sibapriya Chaudhuri, Ann Lazar, Luika A. Timmerman, Pamela N. Munster

“…We predict that clinical benefit will more likely be apparent in patients with DNA repair defective tumors and are focusing clinical exploration of this drug combination in these patients, with the goals of enhancing tumor cell death at minimal toxicities.…”
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Population Pharmacokinetics of Pegcetacoplan in Patients with Geographic Atrophy or Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration by Ryan L. Crass, PharmD, Komal Prem, MD, Francois Gauderault, PhD, Ramiro Ribeiro, MD, PhD, Caroline R. Baumal, MD, Brandon Smith, PhD, Daniel Epling, PhD, Sunny Chapel, PhD

“…Age, sex, and baseline C3 level were identified as significant (P < 0.001) predictors of apparent serum pegcetacoplan clearance after intravitreal administration; however, none of the covariate effects appeared to be clinically meaningful given the low absolute maximum serum concentrations achieved (<5 μg/mL). …”
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Dietary omega-3 fatty acids affect the growth performance of broiler chickens reared at high stocking density by Shahgol Rahbari, Abdolreza Salehi, Seyed Davood Sharifi, Shirin Honarbakhsh

“…Live body weight (LBW), feed intake (FI), and feed conversion ratio (FCR) were recorded periodically. The apparent metabolizable energy (AME), digestibility of crude protein (CP), organic matter (OM), and lipid of experimental diets, were measured from days 30 to 37 of age. …”
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The evolution of primate vocal communication: a social route by Alban Lemasson, Camille Coye, Nancy Rebout, Florence Levréro

“…Orang-utan, the most solitary species, preferentially used repeated and isolated calls apparently outside of any vocal interactions. Chimpanzee, the most competitive species displayed a high proportion of overlapping vocalisations. …”
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Integration of simulation-based medical education: Student satisfaction and self-confidence at Faculty of Medicine, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia by Abuobaida Yassin

“…The importance of feedback mechanisms for improving satisfaction and self-confidence became apparent, suggesting that customized educational strategies could optimize the advantages of SBME. …”
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Digestive Fermentation, Antioxidant Status, and Haemato-Biochemical Indices of Growing Rabbits Fed on Diets Supplemented with Ziziphus spina-christi Leaf by Suha Hashim Abduljawad

“…On the other hand, there was no significant change in the apparent digestion coefficient of DM, OM, CP, and fat. …”
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Blood Meal Utilization as Organic Fe Source for Polka Dot Grouper Cromileptes altivelis Growth Performance by Mia Setiawati, P. Purnama, I. Mokoginta

“…The use of organic Fe with 6% blood meal apparently resulted in a lower body Fe content, feed consumption and lipid retention but a higher protein retention and feed efficiency. …”
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Exploring Medium- and Long-Term Respiratory and Functional Sequelae in Young Adults Post-COVID-19 by Büşra Ülker Ekşi, Eylül Pınar Kısa, Özge Ertan Harputlu, Begüm Kara Kaya, Zeynep Hoşbay, Buket Akıncı

“…In addition, the deterioration in respiratory and physical functions becomes apparent within 6–12 months.…”
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Chingi-tura in the History of the Tyumen Khanate by Maslyuzhenko D.N., Ryabinina E.A.

“…The collapse of the city is associated with the crisis of the Tyumen Khanate itself in late 1510. Despite the apparent decrease of its importance, the city continued to exist and play a certain role in the political ideology of Khan Kuchum, a grandson of Ibrahim. …”
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Performance of Ground Clay Brick Mortars in Simulated Chloride and Sulphate Media by Festus Ngui Musyimi, Jackson Muthengia Wachira, Joseph Karanja Thiong’o, Joseph Mwiti Marangu

“…Blended cement showed lower apparent diffusion coefficients (Dapp) compared with OPC. …”
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