When do science recommendations stop being effective? The case of the sprawl of diesel electricity generators in Beirut. by Mohammad Al Hallak, Abdul Aziz Kurdieh, Amira Yassine, Rachel El Hage, Najat Saliba

“…Particulate Matter 2.5μm (PM2.5) mean levels at AUB, BCD and NSMU, which was found to be 14.3 μg/m3, 18.3 μg/m3 and 22.6 μg/m3 respectively, beside the high annual PM2.5 mean level (17.19 μg/m3) exceeded the World Health Organization (WHO) standard levels. …”
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Transfer of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility to the Female Parents of Heat- and Drought-Resilient Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.) Hybrids by Ayyanagouda Patil, Kushal Gowda, Shivananda T. Lakshman, Prakash H. Kuchanur, Gajanan Saykhedkar, Sudha Krishnan Nair, Kisan B. Jadhav, Sharanabasappa Yeri, Gururaj Sunkad, Jayaprakash M. Nidagundi, Vinayan Madhumal Thayil, Pervez H. Zaidi

“…Maize is the second most important staple food crop in the world after wheat. For maize hybrid seed production, a prominent step is detasseling in the female parent, which is laborious, time consuming, and increases the hybrid seed cost by 15 to 20 percent. …”
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Measurement report: The ice-nucleating activity of lichen sampled in a northern European boreal forest by U. Proske, U. Proske, U. Proske, M. P. Adams, G. C. E. Porter, M. A. Holden, M. A. Holden, J. Bäck, B. J. Murray

“…The great terrestrial abundance of lichens in Hyytiälä, and around the world, calls for further research to combine their ice-nucleating ability with dispersal studies to evaluate the flux of lichenous INPs into the atmosphere, as well as to what extent these particles reach heights and locations where they might influence cloud properties.…”
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The Effect of Strength Training on the Quality of Life and Cognitive Functions of Elderly People by Ernesta Klimavičiūtė, Sandra Naujalė, Lina Mickevičienė, Erika Krasinskė, Margarita Drozdova – Statkevičienė, Vida Janina Česnaitienė

“…The short version of the World Health Organization (WHO 100) Quality of Life Questionnaire was used to assess quality of life, the subjects’ physical abilities were evaluated using the Fullerton Test set, and ANAM4 cognitive function tests were used to assess cognitive functions   Results: When comparing restricted blood flow, concentric training and control groups, the results of the functional test evaluation were improved statistically significantly: standing and walking, standing up from a chair (p<.001). …”
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Molecular Mechanism During Mycelium Subculture Degeneration of <i>Volvariella volvacea</i> by Lidan Feng, Lujuan Wang, Yuanxi Lei, Jie Li, Fengyun Zhao

“…The downregulation of the related differentially expressed genes would lead to the excessive accumulation of reactive oxygen species, inhibit nutrient absorption and energy acquisition, and lead to the degradation of <i>V. volvacea</i>. …”
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THE WAY TO THE SELF: THE NOVEL «STEPPENWOLF» THROUGH THE LENS OF JUNGIAN PROCESS OF INDIVIDUATION by Tetiana V. Danylova

“…For the salvation of humankind as a whole and every single human in our world full of conflicts and violence, we all need to experience the feeling of our spiritual unity and our deep connection to the universe. …”
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Stan biologiczny populacji ludzkich a przemiany środowiska społeczno-ekonomicznego by Anna Siniarska, Napoleon Wolański

“…Humans with their culture - especially medicine and social care - protect lives of individuals who otherwise would have been eliminated by natural selection. …”
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Regulation of Lithuania and Czechoslovakia trade relations: Negotiations and agreements in 1931-1939 by Dalia Bukelevičiūtė

“… The world great economic depression had influence on Lithuanian economics only in 1931, and then in Czechoslovakia became aware of its negative results earlier. …”
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Study of Di-Muon Production Process in pp Collision in CMS Data from Symmetry Scaling Perspective by Susmita Bhaduri, Anirban Bhaduri, Dipak Ghosh

“…Apart from conventional approaches to the study of the dynamics of particle production in high-energy collision the present authors proposed a new approach with successful application in context of symmetry scaling in AA collision data from (ALICE-Collaboration, 2014) in the work (Bhaduri, S. et al., 2019) and pp collision data at 8TeV from (CMS-collaboration, 2017) in the work (Bhaduri, S. et al., 2019) and also in other numerous works with different collision data. …”
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Adjuvant Therapy after Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: Who Needs It?: Multi-institution Worldwide Observational Study by Siva Raja, MD, PhD, Thomas W. Rice, MD, Min Lu, PhD, Marie E. Semple, MPH, Andrew J. Toth, MS, Eugene H. Blackstone, MD, Sudish C. Murthy, MD, PhD, Usman Ahmad, MD, Michael McNamara, MD, Hemant Ishwaran, PhD, for the Worldwide Esophageal Cancer Collaboration Investigators

“…Based on current practice guidelines, we hypothesized that most patients with esophageal cancer, particularly those with locally advanced cancer, would benefit from adjuvant therapy after esophagectomy versus esophagectomy alone. …”
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Wildfire danger under changing climates in the southern Great Plains throughout the 21st century by Shanmin Fang, Jia Yang, Chris B. Zou, Erik S. Krueger, Tyson E. Ochsner, Quan Zhang

“…Therefore, our objectives were to (1) simulate the spatial and temporal dynamics of the Burning Index (BI), a widely used fire danger index in the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS), and high fire danger days based on CMIP5 climate simulations, comparing the 1986–2005 historical period and 2006–2099 under two climate change scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5), and (2) identify important weather variables driving projected BI changes. We found that the BI would increase at 0.1 × 10 ft per decade under RCP4.5 and 0.4 × 10 ft per decade under RCP8.5. …”
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The impact of self-care training using the teach-back method on health anxiety in patients with coronary artery disease: A randomized controlled clinical trial by Mansoreh Barati, Zahra Amouzeshi, Fahimeh Nikraftar

“…The results indicated that there was a statistically significant difference in the total mean score (P = 0.000) and mean scores of subscales of health anxiety (awareness of bodily sensations or changes (P = 0.001), feared consequences of having an illness (P = 0.001), and worry about health (P = 0.008)) between the two groups. …”
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Exploring the epidemiological impact of attractive targeted sugar bait against malaria in combination with standard malaria control by Nima R. Moghaddas, Mohamed M. Traore, Gunter C. Müller, Joseph Wagman, Javan Chanda, Julian Entwistle, Christen M. Fornadel, Thomas S. Churcher

“…For example, observing a dyed fraction of 5% would indicate a daily bait-feeding rate of 0.024 (range 0.008–0.049) which is projected to result in 0.13 clinical cases averted per person-year (range 0.051–0.22), a 39% efficacy (range 12–66%) in this particular site. …”
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Spatiotemporal Relationship Between Carbon Metabolism and Ecosystem Service Value in the Rural Production–Living–Ecological Space of Northeast China’s Black Soil Region: A Case Stu... by Yajie Shang, Yuanyuan Chen, Yalin Zhai, Lei Wang

“…Amid global climate challenges and an urgent need for ecological protection, the northeastern black soil region—one of the world’s remaining “three major black soil regions”—confronts significant tensions between agricultural economic development and land ecological protection, threatening national food security. …”
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USABILITY OF PROGRAM INTERFACES FOR TEACHING 3D GRAPHICS IN A SCHOOL COURSE OF INFORMATICS by Oleksandr O. Mosiiuk, Yaroslava B. Sikora, Olena Yu. Usata

“…This is a consequence of the fact that in today's world it is impossible to imagine a sphere of human activity where 3D modeling and 3D printing technologies are not used. …”
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Use of 18F-NaF PET in the staging of skeletal metastases of newly diagnosed, high-risk prostate cancer patients: a nationwide cohort study by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Mette Nørgaard, Helle D Zacho, Lars J Petersen, Anna Winther Mogensen, Marie T Pank

“…Objective To determine whether preoperative staging of high-risk prostate cancer with 18F-sodium-fluoride (18F-NaF) positron emission tomography (PET) reduces the risk of skeletal metastases.Design Nationwide, population-based cohort study using real-world data.Setting The study used national health registries, including all sites in Denmark from 2011 to 2018.Participants Newly diagnosed high-risk prostate cancer patients who underwent radical prostatectomy from 2011 to 2018. …”
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Impact of early versus late artificial rupture of membranes during oxytocin induction of labour on the incidence of chorioamnionitis: a randomised controlled trial (ARM trial) by Meghan G. Hill, Michelle R. Wise, Emmanuelle Pauleau, Beatrice Treadwell, Lynn Sadler

“…Chorioamnionitis entails risk to both the pregnant person and the fetus and is an important contributor to neonatal sepsis, neonatal intensive care unit admission, maternal sepsis, caesarean, wound infection and postoperative infective complications. …”
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Associations between degree of food processing and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a multicentre prospective cohort analysis in 9 European countriesResearch in context by Esther M. González-Gil, Michèle Matta, Fernanda Morales Berstein, Manon Cairat, Geneviève Nicolas, Jessica Blanco, Nathalie Kliemann, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Fernanda Rauber, Inarie Jacobs, Aline Al Nahas, Emine Koc Cakmak, Eszter P. Vamos, Kiara Chang, Sahar G. Yammine, Christopher Millett, Mathilde Touvier, Maria Gabriela Matias Pinho, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Alicia K. Heath, Christina M. Lill, Valeria Pala, Conchi Moreno-Iribas, Maria Santucci De Magistris, Christina C. Dahm, Niels Bock, Anja Olsen, Anne Tjønneland, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Pilar Amiano, Franziska Jannasch, Matthias B. Schulze, Francesca Romana Mancini, Chloé Marques, Claire Cadeau, Catalina Bonet, Daniel Redondo-Sánchez, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Magritt Brustad, Guri Skeie, Jesús Humberto-Gómez, Alessandra Macciotta, Pietro Ferrari, Laure Dossus, Marc J. Gunter, Inge Huybrechts

“…Funding: l’Institut National du Cancer, and World Cancer Research Fund International.…”
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Automated process assessment of primary healthcare for hyperlipidemia: preliminary findings and implications form Anhui, China by Ningjing Yang, Yuning Wang, Ying Li, Dongying Xiao, Ruirui Cui, Nana Li, Rong Liu, Jing Chai, Xingrong Shen, Debin Wang

“…Conclusions The measures identified are not only feasible from real-world PHC records but also give some useful metrics about how well current HL-management is going and what future actions are needed.…”
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Implementation of an information system for tuberculosis in healthcare facilities in Indonesia: evaluation of its effectiveness and challenges by Rita Dian Pratiwi, Bachti Alisjahbana, Yanri Wijayanti Subronto, Sigit Priyanta, Suharna Suharna

“…Results The evaluation indicated that user convenience and timeliness require improvement, as well as the match between the system and the real world and error prevention, as shown in the heuristic evaluation of the SITB user interface. …”
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