The epidemiology and phylogenetic trends of Omicron subvariants from BA.5 to XBB.1 in Taiwan by Jih-Jin Tsai, Shyh-Shin Chiou, Po-Chih Chen, Chun-Hong Chen, Ping-Chang Lin, Ching-Yi Tsai, Wan-Long Chuang, Shang-Jyh Hwang, Inn-Wen Chong, Li-Teh Liu

“…Multiple coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks began in April 2022. We monitored the replacement of Omicron subvariants after BA.1/BA.2 and analyzed their correlation with COVID-19 outbreaks. …”
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Granulomatous lymphocytic interstitial lung disease in common variable immune deficiency: an in-depth clinical, immunological, functional and radiological exploration with a focus... by Mattia Moratti, Mattia Moratti, Gioacchino Schifino, Francesco Baccelli, Francesco Baccelli, Simona Ferrari, Elisabetta Magrini, Mirna Bassi, Aldo Guerrieri, Maurizio Zompatori, Marcello Lanari, Marcello Lanari, Francesca Conti, Francesca Conti

“…Current management strategies for GLILD rely on expert opinion due to a lack of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).ObjectivesThis study aims to provide a comprehensive immunophenotypical characterization of CVID patients with and without GLILD, investigate predictive biomarkers for GLILD development, and explore therapeutic strategies, particularly during concomitant SARS-CoV-2 and chronic cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections.SourcesPrimary data were collected from a cohort of 25 patients with CVID who underwent high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT), immunophenotyping, and serum immunoglobulin analysis at diagnosis and after immunoglobulin replacement therapy. …”
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Developing and validating machine learning models to predict next-day extubation by Samuel W. Fenske, Alec Peltekian, Mengjia Kang, Nikolay S. Markov, Mengou Zhu, Kevin Grudzinski, Melissa J. Bak, Anna Pawlowski, Vishu Gupta, Yuwei Mao, Stanislav Bratchikov, Thomas Stoeger, Luke V. Rasmussen, Alok N. Choudhary, Alexander V. Misharin, Benjamin D. Singer, G. R. Scott Budinger, Richard G. Wunderink, Ankit Agrawal, Catherine A. Gao, NU SCRIPT Study Investigators

“…Our findings suggest that an ML model may serve as a useful clinical decision support tool rather than complete replacement of clinical judgement. However, any ML-based model should be compared with protocol-based practice in a prospective, randomized controlled trial to determine improvement in outcomes while maintaining safety as well as cost effectiveness.…”
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CURRENT LEVELS OF MEDICAL EXPOSURE IN RUSSIA by M. I. Balonov, V. Ju. Golikov, I. A. Zvonova, S. A. Kal’nickij, V. S. Repin, S. S. Sarycheva, L. A. Chipiga

“…We considered conditions of patients’ medical radiation exposure in Russian diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine basing on the data of our own research, of the Unified system of individual dose control and of some relevant literature. We analyzed the data on the number of diagnostic examinations, patients’ individual and collective doses and their distribution by examination types. …”
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Screening and Identification of Cold-Tolerant Phosphorus and Potassium Solubilizing Bacteria and Their Growth-Promoting Effects on Soybean in Cold Regions by Hao Yan, Tianyi Wang, Haocheng Wang, Nan Sun, Xuebing Wang, Xingbo Zhao, Zhongbao Yao, Hao Tian, Shengjie Chen, Songyan Tang, Chenyang Li

“…This study has important theoretical value for the replacement of chemical fertilizer application by microbial agents in the cold region of China, and it has important practical and strategic significance for the promotion of income green safety in China’s main grain-producing areas.…”
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Evaluation of Environmental Effects of Applied Pesticides on Canola (Brassica napus L.), Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris L.), and Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Fields in Ali Abad Katool... by Zahra Deilam, Hossein Kazemi, Maral Niazmoradi, Javid Gherekhloo

“…IntroductionConsidering the growth of the human population, limited resources in the agricultural sector, and the urgent need to increase production, it is essential to implement logical and principled pest control measures, with a strong emphasis on protecting the health of farmers, community members, and the environment. …”
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Heart transplantation in diabetic recipients by V. N. Poptsov, E. A. Spirina, E. N. Zolotova, V. M. Zakharevich, N. N. Koloskova, N. P. Mozheiko, A. A. Sibiakina, I. L. Poz, A. I. Skokova, V. V. Boronova, V. Yu. Voronkov, V. M. Khatutskii

“…The study enrolled 891 recipients who underwent HT within the period 2011 to 2018, and were divided into two groups: main group (T2D) – recipients with pretransplant T2D (n = 80, 9.0%) and the control group (T2D-free) – recipients without T2D (n = 811, 91.0%). …”
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The reactive vaccination campaign against cholera emergency in camps for internally displaced persons, Borno, Nigeria, 2017: a two-stage cluster survey by Wondimagegnehu Alemu, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Moise Chi Ngwa, Ifeanyi Okudo, Collins Owili, Uzoma Ugochukwu, Peter Clement, Isabelle Devaux, Lorenzo Pezzoli, David A Sack, James Agada Oche

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Transcatheter aortic valve implantation for aortic stenosis in high surgical risk patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Zulian Liu, Elaine Kidney, Danai Bem, George Bramley, Susan Bayliss, Mark A de Belder, Carole Cummins, Rui Duarte

“…Many patients are considered inoperable or at high surgical risk for surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), reflecting their age, comorbidities and frailty. …”
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AAV8 gene therapy for mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) in a patient's liver maintained ex situ for 9 days by Teresa Brevini, Lisa Swift, Helen Reynolds, John Ong, Richard Stopforth, Yogeshkumar Malam, Harry Spiers, AnnaPaterson, Adam Duckworth, Arthur Kaser, Vassillis Kosmoliaptsis, Ramon Marti, Jelle van den Ameele, Gwilym Webb, Christopher Watson, Andrew Butler, Fotios Sampaziotis

“…Subsequently, one lobe received AAV8-TYMP, while the other served as an internal control and received carrier injection. The viral vector was taken up by hepatocytes and TYMP expression was restored in the treated lobe within 3 days. …”
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Characterization and health, productivity, and economic effects of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle by Zelmar Rodriguez, Annette O'Connor, Barry J. Bradford, Catalina Picasso-Risso

“…The cost of HPAI H5N1 for affected cows based on milk reduction, replacement, treatment costs, and reduced DMI was estimated at $504 (90% range = $422–$597). …”
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The Effect of Seaweed Extract Foliar Application on the Growth and Yield of Different Genotypes of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) by H Najafi, A Mohammadi, M Bagheri

“…Various studies have shown that organic fertilizer can ensure the sustainability of agricultural systems’ production, sometimes as a replacement and most often as a supplement to chemical fertilizers. …”
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Physical and insecticidal durability of PermaNet® 3.0 and Olyset® plus piperonyl butoxide-synergist insecticide-treated nets in Sierra Leone: results of durability monitoring from... by Raymond Kiprop Sudoi, Keith Esch, Frederick Yamba, Laurent Iyikirenga, Charlene Youssef, Prince Nallo, Isabel Swamidoss, Carla Mapp, Dennis Marke, Samuel Juana Smith, Ronald Carshon-Marsh, Musa Sillah-Kanu, Dave Schnabel, Jacky Raharinjatovo, Jenny Carlson, Rebecca Levine, Evelyne Alyko, Ramlat Jose, Tony Hughes, Djenam Jacob, Yemane Yihdego, Kevin Opondo, Stephen Poyer

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Effects of Degossypolized Cottonseed Protein on the Laying Performance, Egg Quality, Blood Indexes, Gossypol Residue, Liver and Uterine Histopathological Changes, and Intestinal He... by Ru Li, Xingyuan Luo, Shiping Bai, Xuemei Ding, Jianping Wang, Qiufeng Zeng, Yue Xuan, Shanshan Li, Sharina Qi, Xiaojuan Bi, Chao He, Xuanming Chen, Keying Zhang

“…Four experimental diets were formulated by replacing 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of the soybean meal protein-equivalent capacity with DGCP, where 100% replacement corresponded to the maximum safe inclusion of DGCP. …”
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Appraising the role of previously reported risk factors in epithelial ovarian cancer risk: A Mendelian randomization analysis. by James Yarmolinsky, Caroline L Relton, Artitaya Lophatananon, Kenneth Muir, Usha Menon, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Axel Walther, Jie Zheng, Peter Fasching, Wei Zheng, Woo Yin Ling, Sue K Park, Byoung-Gie Kim, Ji-Yeob Choi, Boyoung Park, George Davey Smith, Richard M Martin, Sarah J Lewis

“…We obtained summary statistics for the association of these SNPs with risk of overall and histotype-specific invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (22,406 cases; 40,941 controls) and low malignant potential tumours (3,103 cases; 40,941 controls) from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC). …”
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Activity of Different Types of Cactus Forage on Testicular Function and Morphology of Sheep Subjected to Environmental Heat Stress by Giselle Woolley Cardoso da Silva, Fernanda Carolina Ribeiro Dias, Marli do Carmo Cupertino, Alluanan Adelson do Nascimento Silva, Ângela Maria Vieira Batista, Emanuel Felipe de Oliveira Filho, Francisco Fernando Ramos de Carvalho, Ana Lúcia Figueiredo Porto, Valdemiro Amaro da Silva Júnior

“…Thirty-two male lambs, of the Santa Inês type, not castrated, approximately six months old, and averaging 21.0 ± 2.0 kg body weight, were divided into four groups, as follows: G1, which was fed an elephant grass hay diet (control); G2, with a diet with partial replacement using small cactus forage (<i>Opuntia cochenillifera</i>) (SMALL); G3, which was fed Mexican elephant ear (<i>Opuntia stricta</i> Haw) (MEE); and G4, which was fed IPA Sertania (<i>Nopalea cochenillifera</i> Salm Dyck) (IPA) for 63 days. …”
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Research on Model Reconstruction Methods for Partial Point Cloud Information Loss by Zhengping CHANG, Guoshuai YUAN, Jiuhua LI, Yang ZHAO, Zhongqi WANG

“…The corresponding region of the theoretical model is replaced with the scanned point cloud to obtain a complete point cloud of the part.Methods The theoretical model and the scanned area point cloud were used as data sources. …”
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Effect of Two Selected Levels of <i>Padina gymnospora</i> Biowaste and Enteric Methane Emission, Nutrient Digestibility, and Rumen Metagenome in Growing Sheep by Archit Mohapatra, Shraddha Trivedi, Chaluvanahalli S. Tejpal, Manojkumar Janardhan Aware, Shalini Vaswani, Vedant Jayeshkumar Prajapati, Atul Purshottam Kolte, Pradeep Kumar Malik, Artabandhu Sahoo, Chandragiri Nagarajarao Ravishankar, Raghavendra Bhatta

“…The animals were fed on a basal diet comprising finger millet straw (<i>Eleusine coracana</i>) and a concentrate mixture in a 35:65 ratio. The sheep in the control group (C) were offered a concentrate mixture without waste, whereas the wheat bran in the concentrate mixture in test group I (A₂) and test group II (A₅) was replaced (<i>w</i>/<i>w</i>) with the biowaste of <i>Padina gymnospora</i> at a level of 3.07 and 7.69%, respectively. …”
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Short-term and long-term oncological outcomes of chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer patients with or without oxaliplatin: a propensity score-matched retrospective analysis by Amirali Azimi, Fatemeh Sadat Tabatabaei, Kasra Kolahdouzan, Hamideh Rashidian, Forouzan Nourbakhsh, Maryam Abedini Parizi, Nima Mousavi Darzikolaee, Reyhaneh Bayani, Samaneh Salarvand, Azadeh Sharifian, Farzaneh Bagheri, Saeed Rezaei, Naeim Nabian, Reza Nazari, Negin Mohammadi, Mohammad Babaei, Marzieh Lashkari, Farshid Farhan, Mahdi Aghili, Felipe Couñago, Maria Antonietta Gambacorta, Reza Ghalehtaki

“…Results Data from 29 patients who received CAPEOX and 216 patients who received capecitabine were analyzed after propensity score matching without replacement. After propensity score matching, in the multivariate analysis, CAPEOX significantly increased the likelihood of achieving a pathologic complete response (pCR) by 4.38 times (CI: 1.90–10.08, p value < 0.001). …”
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What are the important morbidities associated with paediatric cardiac surgery? A mixed methods study by Stephen Morris, Serban Stoica, Andrew Parry, Christina Pagel, Jo Wray, David J Barron, Karen Sheehan, Kathleen Selway, Lyvonne Tume, Jane Cassidy, Alison Jones, John Stickley, David Anderson, Deborah Ridout, Peter Davis, Emma Hudson, Andrew Mclean, Warren Rodrigues, Thomas Witter, Victor T Tsang, Sheryl Snowball, Luke Maidment, Sarah Bohannon, Kate Penny-Thomas, Joanne Webb, Sinead Cummins, Natasha Khan, Teresa Dickson, Ray Samson, Isobel Mcleod, Paul Wellman, Rhian Lakhani, Carrie Cherrington, Rob Tulloh, Bill Gaynor, Rodney Franklin, Lisa Allera, Kate Bull, Trevor Ritchens, Branko Mimic, Jon Smith, Vibeke Hjortdal, Michael Vath, Tom Treasure, Anne Keatley Clarke, Bea Tuten

“…The impact substudy in 340 children with morbidity and 326 control children with no morbidity indicated that morbidity-related impairment in quality of life improved between 6 weeks and 6 months. …”
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