Predicting Future Surface Runoff Delivered to the Euphrates River Using LARSWG and SWAT Models: (Sahiliya Valley in the Iraqi Western    Desert as a Case Study) by Wisam Abdulabbas Abidalla, Basim Sh. Abed

“…SWAT modeling was done for watershed delineation for this valley yielding (14) sub-basins and (59) hydrological response units. To test the suitability of applying this model, two Statistical tests (Nash-Sutcliffe - NS) and Coefficient of determination - R2 test were applied for the two sets of data on Surface Runoff in both calibration and validation periods.  …”
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New Orleans as the city of misfit women in Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) and The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair, 1941) by Taïna TUHKUNEN

“…Viewed as a strikingly un-American city where cultural codes mingle and mix without, however, engendering a “melting pot”, New Orleans offers an engaging backdrop for filmic fictions challenging the archetypal romantic image of the “Old South”.This article explores two such fictional female figures who defy the vision of the pastoral South rooted in 19th century plantation novels in William Wyler’s Jezebel (1938) and The Flame of New Orleans (1941), a movie made by the French filmmaker René Clair during his exile in the United States during the Second World War. …”
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Factors associated with failure of humerus nonunion surgery in patients with initial nonoperative management by Alexander Hysong, MD, Noah Harrison, MD, Samuel Posey, MD, Ziqing Yu, MS, Andrew T. Chen, MD, Patrick Pallitto, MD, Joseph R. Hsu, MD, William Obremskey, MD, Evidence-Based Musculoskeletal Injury and Trauma Collaborative (EMIT), Hassan Mir, MD, Roman M. Natoli, MD, PhD, Ishani Sharma, MD, MBA, Jenna Jones, Med, Luke A. Lopas, MD, Hassan Farooq, MD, Robert D. Zura, MD, Alexander Padovano, MD, Nathaniel Koutlas, MD, Steve Hemmerly, BS, Elsa Rodriguez, MD, Daniel E. Pereira, MD, Sharon Babcock, MD, Gabriel James Sowards, BS, Martha Holden, AAS, AA, Anna N. Miller, MD, Marc Schatz, MD, Jessica Rivera, MD, PhD, Katrina Bang, MD, Kamryn King, BS, Zachery Hong, BA, Jarrod Dumpe, MD, Gabriella Lea Stribling, BS, Merritt John Thompson, MD, Tracy Johns, MSN, RN-BC, Rachel Seymour, PhD, Susan Odum, PhD, Stephen Sims, MD, Olivia Rice, MD, Ainsley Bloomer, MD, Katheryn Peterson, BSPH, Amber Stanley, BSPH, Mario Cuadra, MD, Gisele Bailey, MS, Matthew Braswell, MD, Landon Bulloch, MD, William Haynes, MD, Josef Jolissaint, MD, Julia Mastracci, MD, Andrew Wohler, MD, Eddie Komie Afetse, BS, BA, Cara Girardi, Juliette Sweeney, BS, Benjamin Averkamp, MD, Meghan Wally, PhD, Madhav Karunakar, MD, Kevin Phelps, MD, Laurence Kempton, MD, Christine Churchill, MA, CCRP, David Macknet, MD, Hannah Pollock, BS, Rodney Arthur, MS, Samuel Cohen-Tanugi, Isaac Boateng, James Michael Ruth, BS, Joseph Michalski, MD, Anna Hemminger, BS, Kathryn Leighty, Mir Ibrahim Sajid, MD, Thea Lance, BA, William Hunter Waddell, MD, Andres Fidel Moreno Diaz, MD, Joseph Gutbrod, BS, Christopher G. Herbosa, BS

“…Of 108 humerus nonunions, 26 (24.07%) failed to unite after nonunion surgery. Moreover, 34 patients (31.48%) experienced 1 or more postoperative complications. …”
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Economic diplomacy of Russia towards Venezuela: From H. Chaves to N. Maduro by K. A. Isaev

“…The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela faces a deep political and economic crisis that is exacerbated by severe restrictive measures imposed against it by the United States and their allies. In these circumstances, the availability of external economic support becomes particularly important. …”
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Older People's Perceptions of Well-Being by I.V. Vasileva, M.V. Chumakov

“…Data processing was carried out using frequency analysis, rank calculation, z-criterion calculation to compare the frequencies of the identified associative and semantic groups. 2376 associates were received, of which the most frequent ones were identified; the selection boundary was 1% of the total number of associates (24 units). The most frequent ones were combined into 21 associative groups. …”
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Awareness and Perception of Healthcare Providers about Proxy Consent in Critical Care Research by Rania Mahafzah, Karem H. Alzoubi, Omar F. Khabour, Rana Abu-Farha

“…Study participants were resident and specialist physicians, registered nurses, and registered pharmacists from ICU units in Jordan. Participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire developed to assess their knowledge and attitudes towards informed proxy consent for research studies conducted at the ICU. …”
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Research hotspots and frontiers in the tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer: a bibliometric study from 2014 to 2024 by Xinran He, Tingyi Xie, Li Shi, Xuyi Kuang, Lei Li, Xingyu Shang, Bo Fu

“…Then we analyzed and visualized the data using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, bibliometrix package, and Microsoft Excel 2019.ResultsA total of 748 publications were included in our study, and the number of publications entered a period of rapid growth after 2019. China and the United States are the major research and collaboration centers in this field. …”
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Metabolic Syndrome and Its Associated Factors among Type 2 Diabetic Patients in Southwest Ethiopia, 2021/2022 by Dereje Gemeda, Endegena Abebe, Abdissa Duguma

“…This study is aimed at assessing metabolic syndrome and its associated factors among patients with type 2 diabetes attending chronic follow-up units at hospitals in Southwest Ethiopia, in 2020. …”
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The Effect of teach-back educational method on self-management in hemodialysis patients by Rif'atul Fani, Shinta Wahyusari, Apriyani Puji Hastuti, Chairul Huda Al Husna

“…It is recommended that nurses in hemodialysis units implement teach-back education as a routine practice in caring for hemodialysis patients. …”
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The Impact of the 2020 Medicaid Expansion in a Community Clinic Serving the Marshallese Population in a Rural State by Robert Brand, Samantha Robinson, Mohammod Mahmudur Rahman, Alshaimaa Hazaa, Sheena CarlLee, Hanna Jensen

“…This study analyzes the impact of this expansion on the healthcare of Marshallese patients at a dedicated community clinic on a regional medical campus, serving this unique population.  Methods Through retrospective review of patients who utilized the community clinic either before (05/2020 to 02/2021) or after (05/2021 to 02/2022) the Medicaid expansion, this study sought to compare patients’ insurance information, number of total patients visiting the clinic, number of total patient visits, referrals per patient, and completed referrals per patient were compared between time periods.   …”
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Temporal and Spatial Seasonal Variations in Quality of Gravity Flow Water in Kyanamira Sub-County, Kabale District, Uganda by Hannington, Ngabirano, Denis, Byamugisha, Emmanuel, Ntambi

“…Two of the basic biological parameters for drinking water such as faecal coliforms and salmonella were analyzed by incubation followed by counting colony forming units (CFUs). Statistical presentations of data including cluster analysis, dendrograms and principal component analysis were used with the assistance of PAST software. …”
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Genome-wide analyses of genomic diversity, population structure and selection signatures in Italian turkey populations by Medhat S. Saleh, Vincenzo Landi, Martijn F.L. Derks, Gerardo Centoducati, Martien A.M. Groenen, Pasquale De Palo, Elena Ciani, Maria G. Strillacci, Alessandro Bagnato, Nicola Pugliese, Elena Circella, Antonio Camarda

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Dissemination of Staphylococcus epidermidis in Swedish bovine dairy herds: minimal overlap with human isolates by Karin Persson Waller, Mattias Myrenås, Hyeyoung Kim, Micael Widerström, Tor Monsen, Stefan Börjesson, Stefan Börjesson, Stefan Börjesson, Emma Östlund, Wonhee Cha

“…A total of 283 S. epidermidis isolates were analyzed using whole genome sequencing (WGS): 128 SCM milk isolates, 55 milk filter isolates, 13 farmer/personnel isolates, and 87 human patient isolates. Sixty unique sequence types (STs) of S. epidermidis were identified. …”
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Genomic scans for selection and runs of homozygosity in southern Italian turkey populations by Medhat S. Saleh, Vincenzo Landi, Martijn F.L. Derks, Gerardo Centoducati, Martien A.M. Groenen, Pasquale De Palo, Elena Ciani, Nicola Pugliese, Elena Circella, Antonio Camarda

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Dietary supplementation of lysozyme can improve growth rate, laying performance, blood biochemistry, and mRNA levels of some related genes in different plumage-colored quails by Ibrahim Elkhaiat, Seham El-Kassas, Karima El-Naggar, Safaa Abdo, Haitham K. Shalaby, Mahmoud M. Azzam, Alessandro Di Cerbo, Mahmoud Alagawany, Reyad Y. Nofal

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Developmental Proteomics Reveals the Dynamic Expression Profile of Global Proteins of <i>Haemaphysalis longicornis</i> (Parthenogenesis) by Min-Xuan Liu, Xiao-Pei Xu, Fan-Ming Meng, Bing Zhang, Wei-Gang Li, Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Qiao-Ying Zen, Wen-Ge Liu

“…<i>H. longicornis</i> is used as an experimental animal model for the study of three-host ticks due to its special life cycle and easy maintenance in the laboratory and in its reproduction. …”
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Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis in Border Collie Dogs in Japan: Clinical and Molecular Epidemiological Study (2000–2011) by Keijiro Mizukami, Takuji Kawamichi, Hiroshi Koie, Shinji Tamura, Satoru Matsunaga, Shigeki Imamoto, Miyoko Saito, Daisuke Hasegawa, Naoaki Matsuki, Satoshi Tamahara, Shigenobu Sato, Akira Yabuki, Hye-Sook Chang, Osamu Yamato

“…The current high prevalence in Japan might be due to an overuse of these carriers by breeders without any knowledge of the disease. For NCL control and prevention, it is necessary to examine all breeding dogs, especially in kennels with a high prevalence. …”
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Effects of Artemisia argyi leaf water extract (AWE) on growth performance, muscle quality, intestinal microbial, and metabolomics of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) by Di Sun, Nanyang Zeng, Yingjia Pan, Qingsong Shu, Jixing Zou, Yingshi Huang, Guoxia Wang, Jun Shi

“…These findings enhance our understanding of the potential applications of AWE in aquaculture practices and provide a theoretical basis for its utilization.…”
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Effective adaptation of flight muscles to tebuconazole-induced oxidative stress in honey bees by Máté Mackei, Fanni Huber, Csilla Sebők, Júlia Vörösházi, Patrik Tráj, Rege Anna Márton, Zsuzsanna Neogrády, Gábor Mátis

“…These findings shed light on the detrimental impact of tebuconazole on the redox balance of honey bee flight muscles, also highlighting, that unlike other organs such as the brain, they may effectively adapt to acute tebuconazole exposure.…”
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Persistently high concentrations of β-hydroxybutyrate affect hepatic SOD2 expression and blood SOD activity in high-yielding dairy cows by Dominika Grzybowska, Katarzyna Żarczyńska, Przemysław Sobiech, Paweł Brym, Dawid Tobolski

“…The EXP group maintained BHB levels between 0.8 and 1.2 mmol/L, while the CONT group remained below 0.8 mmol/L. All animals were monitored up to 9 weeks postpartum. This cohort study utilized weekly blood samples from 7 days prepartum to 9 weeks postpartum and liver biopsy samples from 4 to 7 weeks postpartum. …”
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