Burden of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Associated Severe Pneumonia in Hospitalized Children by Madhusha Gonapaladeniya, Thushari Dissanayake, Guwani Liyanage

“…A hospital-based prospective study examined children below five years of age admitted with radiologically confirmed severe or very severe pneumonia in two tertiary care centers in Sri Lanka. …”
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A Novel PET Imaging Using 64Cu-Labeled Monoclonal Antibody against Mesothelin Commonly Expressed on Cancer Cells by Kazuko Kobayashi, Takanori Sasaki, Fumiaki Takenaka, Hiromasa Yakushiji, Yoshihiro Fujii, Yoshiro Kishi, Shoichi Kita, Lianhua Shen, Hiromi Kumon, Eiji Matsuura

“…The 64Cu-labeled 11-25 mAb is potentially useful as a PET probe capable of being used for wide range of tumors, rather than 18F-FDG that occasionally provides nonspecific accumulation into the inflammatory lesions.…”
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Continuous Delivery of D-Luciferin by Implanted Micro-osmotic Pumps Enables True Real-Time Bioluminescence Imaging of Luciferase Activity in Vivo by Shimon Gross, Ute Abraham, Julie L. Prior, Erik D. Herzog, David Piwnica-Worms

“…Pumps allowed direct repetitive imaging at < 5-minute intervals of the pharmacodynamics of proteasome- and IKK-inhibiting drugs in mice bearing tumors stably expressing ubiquitin-firefly luciferase or IκBα-firefly luciferase fusion reporters. …”
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Exploring novel and potent glycogen synthase kinase-3β inhibitors through systematic drug designing approach by Shabir Ahmad Ganai, Suma Mohan, Shahid Ahmad Padder

“…Abstract Significant implications of glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β) have been reported in various neuronal disorders and malignant cancers. …”
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Demonstration of two qubit entangling gates in a 2D ring resonator based coupler architecture by Anirban Bhattacharjee, Panya Jain, Jay Deshmukh, Srijita Das, Madhavi Chand, Meghan P. Patankar, R. Vijay

“…The ring resonator acts as a multi-path coupler between qubits and can provide beyond nearest neighbour interactions. …”
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EFFECT OF CORE HEIGHT ON GENERAL STABILITY OF HONEYCOMB SANDWICH STRUCTURE by JIN Di, QIAO LingYun, FAN Yu

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Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Endangered Species Act by Michael T. Olexa, Luke D'Isernia, Laura Minton, Dulcy Miller, Sarah Corbett

“…However, the reader should be aware that because the laws, administrative rulings, and court decisions on which this handbook is based are subject to constant revision, portions of this publication could become outdated at anytime. …”
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The changing context of Jews in American Politics – 1930s to the Trump Era by Fred Lazin

“…The conclusion from the conducted analyses is the thesis that Jews in the USA went from an ethnic and religious minority, who was on the margins of society and politics to being an influential and mainstream actor in American politics. …”
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A Case of Simultaneous, Biopsy-Proven, Classic, ANCA-Positive Wegener's Granulomatosis and Anti-GBM Disease, but without Detectible Circulating Anti-GBM Antibodies by Aleksandra Gmurczyk, Shubhada N. Ahya, Robert Goldschmidt, George Kim, L. Tammy Ho, Kevin Nash

“…Virtually all of these patients also have circulating anti-GBM antibodies. While it has been reported that some patients with ANCA vasculitis have circulating anti-GBM antibodies, and patients with anti-GBM disease may have positive ANCA, review of the literature does not demonstrate other cases of biopsy-proven, simultaneous, ANCA-associated vasculitis and anti-GBM disease. …”
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Analysis of the Efficacy and Safety of Coronary Catheterization through Distal Transradial Access: A Single-Center Data by Huanhuan Wang, Dan Liu, Jidong Guo, Nuerbahati Heisha, Lei Wang, Qiang Zhang, Yihui Han, Xiping Wang, Bo Zhang, Jinqing Yuan, Lijian Gao

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Enhanced Removal of Lead by Chemically and Biologically Treated Carbonaceous Materials by Mohamed E. Mahmoud, Maher M. Osman, Somia B. Ahmed, Tarek M. Abdel-Fattah

“…Lead(II) sorption mechanisms were found to obey the Langmuir and BET isotherm models. The potential applications of chemically and biologically modified-active carbonaceous materials for removal and extraction of lead from real water matrices were also studied via a double-stage microcolumn technique. …”
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A framework for chronic care quality: results of a scoping review and Delphi survey by Grace Marie V. Ku, Willem Van De Put, Deogratias Katsuva, Mohamad Ali Ag Ahmed, Megumi Rosenberg, Bruno Meessen

“…However, to our knowledge, tailoring to systematically arrive at a comprehensive care for chronic conditions quality (CCCQ) framework has never been done. We conducted a scoping review and Delphi survey to produce a CCCQ framework, comprehensively delineating aims, determinants and measurable attributes. …”
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Statistical Modeling and Kinetic Studies on the Adsorption of Reactive Red 2 by a Low-Cost Adsorbent: Grape Waste-Based Activated Carbon Using Sulfuric Acid Activator-Assisted Ther... by Seyyed Alireza Mousavi, Davood Shahbazi, Arezoo Mahmoudi, Parviz Mohammadi, Tooraj Massahi

“…The efficiency of activated carbon produced from grape waste as a low-cost, nontoxic, and available adsorbent to remove Reactive Red 2 from aqueous solution has been investigated. The prepared activated carbon has been characterized by FTIR, SEM, and BET. …”
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Ethics of Procuring and Using Organs or Tissue from Infants and Newborns for Transplantation, Research, or Commercial Purposes: Protocol for a Bioethics Scoping Review [version 1;... by Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Joe Brierley, Jerry Menikoff, Trung Nguyen, Brian D. Earp, Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu, Xiu Lim, Maide Barış, David Shaw, Melanie T Almonte

“…The review will be limited to articles for which the full text is available, which increases the risk of missing relevant sources that otherwise may have been included in the scoping review had the full text been accessible.…”
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Observations and Modeling Studies of Solar Eclipse Effects on Oblique High Frequency Radio Propagation by M. L. Moses, L. J. Kordella, G. D. Earle, D. Drob, J. D. Huba, J. M. Ruohoniemi, S. G. Shepherd, V. Sivakumar

“…The received power of backscattered signal decreases during the eclipse, and the slant ranges from the westward looking radar beams initially increase and then decrease after totality. …”
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Cellular and Molecular Mediators of Neuroinflammation in the Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease by Sandeep Vasant More, Hemant Kumar, In Su Kim, Soo-Yeol Song, Dong-Kug Choi

“…This phenomenon further supports their active participation in self-enduring neuronal damage cycles. As the relationship between PD and neuroinflammation is being studied, there is a realization that both cellular and molecular mediators are most likely assisting pathological processes leading to disease progression. …”
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Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments by G. J. Feldman, J. Hartnell, T. Kobayashi

“…With a fixed baseline and detectors providing good energy resolution, precise measurements of the ratio of distance/energy (L/E) on the scale of individual events have been made and the expected oscillatory pattern resolved. …”
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River water quality monitoring using machine learning with multiple possible in-situ scenarios by Dani Irwan, Saerahany Legori Ibrahim, Sarmad Dashti Latif, Chris Aaron Winston, Ali Najah Ahmed, Mohsen Sherif, Amr H. El-Shafie, Ahmed El-Shafie

“…The study looks into the possibility of estimating WQI solely using dissolved oxygen (DO) and pH as predictors because the chemical parameters in the current Malaysian WQI calculation method takes some time to compute. …”
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Facile Method for Obtaining Gold-Coated Polyester Surfaces with Antimicrobial Properties by M. Drobota, M. Butnaru, N. Vornicu, O. Plopa, M. Aflori

“…The antimicrobial and antifungal activity of polymers used in medical devices has been extensively studied due to the growing impact of hospital-related infections in patients. …”
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A Digital Tool (Technology-Assisted Problem Management Plus) for Lay Health Workers to Address Common Mental Health Disorders: Co-production and Usability Study in Pakistan by Maham Saleem, Shamsa Zafar, Thomas Klein, Markus Koesters, Adnan Bashir, Daniela C Fuhr, Siham Sikander, Hajo Zeeb

“…Thematic analyses using the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation for Behavioral Change (COM-B) model were conducted. Stage 2 included over eight online workshops, and a multidisciplinary intervention development group co-produced TA-PM+. …”
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