Upregulated miR-206 Aggravates Deep Vein Thrombosis by Regulating GJA1-Mediated Autophagy of Endothelial Progenitor Cells by Yan Li, Jingping Ge, Yuanyuan Yin, Ruowen Yang, Jie Kong, Jianping Gu

“…Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the third most prevalent vascular disease worldwide. …”
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Effects of <italic>Cistanche Deserticola</italic> on Behavior and Expression of GSK-3β in Hippocampus of Rat Model of Parkinson's Disease by Shasha YANG, Wei QIN, Shiya CHEN, Jing CAI

“…Behavioral step test was conducted respectively at the third, 7th and 14th day after given the decoction of <italic>cistanche deserticola</italic>. …”
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Assessment of bacterial positivity rate changes in anesthesia machine internal circuits within recovery rooms and associated risk factors by Shuxiao Zhang, Jingwu Ge, Xuelong Zhou, Yanhong Ji, Junjie Hong, Wensu Xu, Tonglai Li

“…There were no statistically significant differences when the positive rates of the next five time points and the third day were compared (P > 0.05). Risk factors for the contamination in the internal circuits of anesthesia machines was the number of elderly patients and the overall surgical use duration, with the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.025). …”
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Country economic status is strongly associated with burn survival - validation of the (modified) ABSI by Julia Elrod, Christoph Mohr, Ludvik Branski, Joshua M. Peterson, Fionna M. Wood, Dale W. Edgar, Pius Agbenorku, Shobha Chamania, Anant Sharma, Flavio N. Novaes, Jean Bosco Katabogama, Michael Boettcher, Konrad Reinshagen, Ingo Koenigs

“…Data from 2015 to 2019 were collected, including age, gender, presence of inhalation injury, full-thickness burn, percentage of total body surface area, and outcome. …”
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Is Whole‐Brain Radiotherapy for Brain Metastases an Overestimated Therapy? A Retrospective Study of Real‐World Data Using Landmark Analyses by Florian Hoelzl, Oliver Koelbl, Isabella Gruber

“…Conclusion These results indicate an insufficient patient selection, as one‐third of patients treated with whole‐brain radiotherapy died within 90 days. …”
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Drains vs. no drains following burr-hole evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma by Sajag Gupta

“…All patients were discharged on the third postoperative day and were observed for 6 months. …”
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Pulse wave parameters as a predictor of the development of post-transplant diabetes mellitus after kidney transplantation by Dominika Macakova, Josef Zadrazil, David Karasek, Veronika Kucerova, Katerina Langova, Lubica Cibickova

“…However, post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) is a common complication, occurring in approximately one-third of renal transplant recipients. This study aims to evaluate the role of pulse wave parameters in predicting PTDM and to identify other pre-transplant risk factors. …”
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Can the Rwandan Catholic Church Overcome its History of Politicization? A Reply to Philippe Denis by Anthony Court

“…Consequently, when in the aftermath of the genocide,the church declared that ‘ethnism’ lay at the heart of all social and politicalills, moreover refusing to acknowledge its own role in propagating a state ideology of ethnic racism, it not only risked re-inscribing a binary-logic that guided its thinking and defined its role in the Rwandan politics throughout the 20thcentury, but alsodeflected attention away from its problematic assumption of moral authority to mediate between perpetrators and victims/survivors. …”
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Exploring awareness of hearing loss and ear health in Jordanian adults. by Yazan Gammoh, Rama Alasir, Laila Qanawati

“…While most of the sample population were aware that a sudden loss of hearing is considered an emergency, only one third knew that defects in vocal cords do not play a role in deafness/muteness. …”
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Environmental burden of disease resulting from long-term nitrogen dioxide exposure in Germany by Paulina Sell, Dietrich Plass, Sarah Kienzler, Hajo Zeeb

“…Then, we estimated the years of life lost (YLL), years lived with disability (YLD) and, where possible, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to these health outcomes in Germany, using mostly publicly available data. In a third step, using the ERFs and modelled ambient NO2 exposure data, the fraction of the disease burden attributable to NO2 exposure was estimated for each health outcome and year, stratified by sex. …”
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Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Playing Card Dalam Model Pembelajaran Make a Match Pada Materi Sistem Reproduksi Untuk Melatih Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis Peserta Didik Kelas XI... by Amin Dwi Cahyanti, Rita Nur Rahmawati

“…Pembelajaran pada abad-21 ini menuntut peserta didik agar memiliki  keterampilan-keterampilan seperti berpikir kritis (critical thinking), komunikasi  (communication), kerja sama (collaboration), dan kreativitas (creativity) atau disebut 4C. …”
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The burden of headache disorders in the adult population of Morocco: estimates, and a health-care needs assessment, from a cross-sectional population-based door-to-door survey by Najib Kissani, Latifa Adarmouch, Aboubacar Sidik Sidibe, Abderrahmane Garmane, Rachid Founoun, Mohamed Chraa, Andreas Husøy, Timothy J. Steiner

“…While this will be of obvious concern to health policy in Morocco, the call for provision of health care for almost one third of this population is challenging. On the other hand, economic policy should recognise the lost-productivity costs of inadequately treated headache, especially migraine.…”
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Characterisation of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Strains and Their Prophages That Carry Horse-Specific Leukocidin Genes <i>lukP/Q</i> by Stefan Monecke, Sindy Burgold-Voigt, Andrea T. Feßler, Martina Krapf, Igor Loncaric, Elisabeth M. Liebler-Tenorio, Sascha D. Braun, Celia Diezel, Elke Müller, Martin Reinicke, Annett Reissig, Adriana Cabal Rosel, Werner Ruppitsch, Helmut Hotzel, Dennis Hanke, Christiane Cuny, Wolfgang Witte, Stefan Schwarz, Ralf Ehricht

“…One was found in CC1 and CC97 sequences; one was present mainly in CC350 but also in other lineages (CC1, CC97, CC133, CC398); and a third one was exclusively observed in CC816 and CC8115. …”
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Prevalence of Tactile Hallucination of Phone Vibration among Individuals Aged 18–22 Years by Tanisha Sunil Mali, Trupti Yadav

“…Conclusions: More than half of the people on this planet carry smartphone and most use it on vibration mode. Even if one-third of them experience hallucinations, a planned treatment is required for this.…”
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Risk factors and machine learning prediction models for intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy by Yingchun Ren, Xiaoying Shan, Gengchao Ding, Ling Ai, Weiying Zhu, Ying Ding, Fuzhou Yu, Yun Chen, Beijiao Wu

“…Abstract Background Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a liver disorder that occurs in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and is associated with a significant risk of fetal complications, including premature birth and fetal death. …”
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The Life Mission Theory III. Theory of Talent by Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…Thus, self-actualisation is a result of a person fully expressing and realizing his core talent.The theory of talent states that a core talent can be expressed optimally when a human being takes possession of a three-dimensional space with the axis of purpose, power and gender, as we have a threefold need: 1-Acknowledging our core talent (our purpose of life) and intending it 2-Understanding our potential powers and manifesting them 3-Accepting our human form including our sex and expressing itThe first dimension is spiritual, the next dimension is mental, emotional and physical, and the third dimension is bodily and sexual. We manifest our talents in a giving movement from the bottom of our soul trough our biological nature onto the subject and object of the outer world. …”
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Function and Morphology of the Meibomian Glands Using a LipiView Interferometer in Rotating Shift Medical Staff by Jing Zhang, Zhengzheng Wu, Liangnan Sun, Xin-hua Liu

“…LipiView® II Ocular Surface Interferometer was used for lipid layer thickness (LLT), MG dropout, and partial blink (PB) rate tests. …”
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Comparison of the neurological outcomes and infection rate in surgical and conservative management of compound depressed skull fractures by Shashank Nahar, Pavni Agrawal

“…As per level 3 evidence of recent brain trauma foundation guidelines, depressed fracture segments greater than the thickness of the calvaria should undergo operative intervention to prevent infection and to improve neurological outcomes. …”
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Research on Clue Mining in Criminal Cases of Smart Phone Trojan Horse under the Background of Information Security by Li Gang, Yong Wen

“…For the same unlabeled event pair, the relationship prediction results are consistent; then, the event pair is considered to have a higher classification confidence and is placed in the labeled set of the third classifier after labeling. Finally, a well-trained classifier is used to determine the relationship between the pair of events to be tested by voting. …”
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Dairy Production in the Chuvash Republic: Success Factor Analysis by Natalya M. Suray, Alexander L. Tatochenko, Elena A. Krasil'nikova, Naila A. Teplaia, Alexey P. Mikhalev, Galina V. Zhdanova

“…Leading regional milk producers have their own agricultural lands to provide environmentally friendly feed, as well as specialized premises for herd keeping and milking, retail outlets to sell their products, etc. A third of enterprises maintain the milk productivity at 7800–9200 kg, which is as high as in Denmark, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Germany. …”
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