Leveraging the Chain on Goals Model in Football: Applications for Attack and Defensive Play by Blanca De-la-Cruz-Torres, Miguel Navarro-Castro, Anselmo Ruiz-de-Alarcón-Quintero

“…Conclusions: The Spanish women’s league exhibited defensive weaknesses, conceding more goals and showing lower goalkeeper performance. …”
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GC-MS Analysis, Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activities of Extracts of the Aerial Parts of <i>Conyza sumatrensis</i> by Olapeju O Aiyelaagbe, Stephen O Oguntoye, Abdulmumeen A Hamid, Adebola M Ogundare, David B Ojo, Ajibola Ajao, Nurudeen O Owolabi

“…The extracts were also analysed using Gas chromatography – Mass spectrometry, and the chromatogram coupled with mass spectra of the compounds were matched with a standard library. RESULTS: Preliminary phytochemical investigation of  rude n-hexane, ethyl acetate and methanol extracts of the aerial parts of Conyza sumatrensis revealed the presence of anthraquinones, flavonoids, terpenoids, phenolics, tannin, glycosides and carbohydrate. …”
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Analysis of macular retinal thickness in polyarteritis nodosa using spectral domain optical coherence tomography by Che-Ning Yang, Chia-Ping Chen, Yi-Ting Hsieh

“…Conclusions PAN patients without visual impairments or abnormal CFP findings may exhibit significant thinning in RNFL and OPL-ONL complex. …”
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An overlap-weighted analysis on the association of constipation symptoms with disease progression and survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a nested case-control study by Tongyang Niu, Peize Wang, Xiaomeng Zhou, Tingting Liu, Qi Liu, Rui Li, Haitao Yang, Hui Dong, Yaling Liu

“…Design: This prospective matching nested case-control (NCC) study was conducted within an ongoing ALS cohort at the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University. …”
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Age Matters: Objective Gait Assessment in Early Parkinson’s Disease Using an RGB-D Camera by Beatriz Muñoz Ospina, Jaime Andrés Valderrama Chaparro, Juan David Arango Paredes, Yor Jaggy Castaño Pino, Andrés Navarro, Jorge Luis Orozco

“…Methods. 30 PD patients and 30 age-matched controls were recruited. Descriptive analysis was used for clinical variables, and Spearman’s rank correlation was used to correlate age and gait variables. …”
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Left ventricle remodeling by CMR in treated patients with primary aldosteronism and primary systemic arterial hypertension. by Carolina S Reiser, Antonildes N Assuncao, Jose A B Araujo-Filho, Roberto N Dantas, Luiz A Bortolotto, Jose R Parga-Filho

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) with T1 mapping were performed in 14 patients with treated PA matched with 15 treated patients with primary hypertension (PH) and 15 healthy individuals. …”
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Polygenic risk score for acute rejection based on donor-recipient non-HLA genotype mismatch. by Rui Cao, David P Schladt, Casey Dorr, Arthur J Matas, William S Oetting, Pamala A Jacobson, Ajay Israni, Jinbo Chen, Weihua Guan

“…Additional work will be needed to understand the role of SNPs included in the PRS and to further improve donor-recipient genetic matching algorithms. Trial registry: Deterioration of Kidney Allograft Function Genomics (NCT00270712) and Genomics of Kidney Transplantation (NCT01714440) are registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.…”
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Characterizing the plasma protein binding profiles of chemistry diversified antisense oligonucleotides in human and mouse plasma using an ultrafiltration method by Cassandra Yun, Kazuki Fukami, Raku Shinkyo, Rongrong (Rosa) Jiang

“…This study focuses on examining two pairs of sequence-matched ASOs: phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers (PMOs) and 2’-O-methoxyethyl/phosphorothioate (MOE/PS)-modified ASOs, to assess their plasma protein binding profiles.MethodsThe binding of both PMO and MOE/PS-modified ASOs was investigated using an ultrafiltration method combined with hybridization electrochemiluminescence, allowing for the measurement of the unbound fraction (fu) in both mouse and human plasma. …”
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Carboxylated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes as Dispersive Solid-Phase Extraction Sorbent to Determine Eighteen Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Vegetable Samples by Gas Chromatography-Ma... by Tengfei Liu, Daifeng Yang, Jian Mao, Xueming Zhang, Minghui Dong

“…Matrix effects were evaluated, and matrix-matched calibration was recommended. Under the optimized conditions, carboxylated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs-COOH), which exhibit excellent adsorption capabilities due to large surface area and unique structure, were employed as d-SPE sorbent to remove interfering substances, rather than the analytes, from vegetable samples. …”
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Validation of DSDs of GPM DPR with Ground-Based Disdrometers over the Tianshan Region, China by Xinyu Lu, Xiuqin Wang, Cheng Li, Yan Liu, Yong Zeng, Hong Huo

“…With the disdrometer observations as the true values, we performed spatiotemporal matching between the satellite radar and laser disdrometer data. …”
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VisGraphVar: A benchmark generator for Assessing Variability in Graph Analysis Using Large Vision-Language Models by Camilo Chacon Sartori, Christian Blum, Filippo Bistaffa

“…While human observers can readily identify subtle visual details and perform accurate analyses, our investigation reveals that state-of-the-art LVLMs exhibit consistent limitations in specific visual graph scenarios, especially when confronted with stylistic variations. …”
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Sleep quality during pregnancy following assisted reproductive technology and natural conceiving: a prospective birth cohort study by Yidong Xie, Yidong Xie, Ruoti Peng, Li Xiao, Li Xiao, Shangwei Li, Shangwei Li, Xiaohong Li, Xiaohong Li

“…Additionally, the IVF/ICSI group exhibited higher levels of negative psychological factors as measured by the CES-D and PSS during T1 and T2, showing statistical significance in T1 (P = 0.008, P &lt; 0.001) and T2 (P = 0.038, P &lt; 0.001), except at T3 (P = 0.107, P = 0.253). …”
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Critical raw material-free multi-principal alloy design for a net-zero future by Swati Singh, Mingwen Bai, Allan Matthews, Saurav Goel, Shrikrishna N. Joshi

“…The Cuckoo Search Optimization (CSO) method produced reduced-CRM MPEAs that closely matched Thermo-Calc predictions, with an error margin below ± 20%. …”
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Effect of prehospital physician presence on Out-of-Hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients undergoing extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR): A secondary analysis of t... by Futoshi Nagashima, Satoshi Inoue, Tomohiro Oda, Tomohiro Hamagami, Tomoya Matsuda, Makoto Kobayashi, Akihiko Inoue, Toru Hifumi, Tetsuya Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Kuroda

“…However, the 8-covariate IPTW model exhibited residual imbalance (SMD > 0.1 in four covariates). …”
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Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii group in Taiwan by Tran Lam Tu Quyen, Yu-Chia Hsieh, Shiao-Wen Li, Lii-Tzu Wu, Ya-Zhu Liu, Yi-Jiun Pan

“…Our analysis revealed that the rpoB alleles of OXA51-like-negative strains matched those of two NAB species, A. seifertii and A. nosocomialis, while all OXA51-like-positive strains matched A. baumannii, as per the Pasteur MLST scheme database. …”
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A Highly Compact Split Ring Resonator-Based Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna With Multiband Characterization by Shahid Khan, Owais Khan, Kiran Raheel, Syed Ahson Ali Shah, Bilal Tariq Malik, Salahuddin Khan, Neelam Gohar, Slawomir Koziel

“…At the corresponding resonance frequencies, the suggested design exhibits &#x2212;10 dB impedance bandwidths of 9.2%, 5%, 8.3%, and 5.6%. …”
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Bone Mineral Status in Children and Adolescents with Klinefelter Syndrome by Stefano Stagi, Mariarosaria Di Tommaso, Cristina Manoni, Perla Scalini, Francesco Chiarelli, Alberto Verrotti, Elisabetta Lapi, Sabrina Giglio, Laura Dosa, Maurizio de Martino

“…KS children and adolescents exhibited impaired bone mineral status and metabolism with higher PTH levels and a significant reduction of 25-OH-D and bone formation markers. …”
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Extracellular vesicles display distinct glycosignatures in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma by Kristina Mae Bienes, Akira Yokoi, Masami Kitagawa, Hiroaki Kajiyama, Morten-Thaysen Andersen, Rebeca Kawahara

“…Building on our recent observation documenting that HGSOC-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) exhibit aberrant protein expression patterns, we here explore the protein N-glycosylation displayed by EVs isolated from HGSOC cell lines and patient ascites relative to those from matching controls to unveil candidate markers for HGSOC. …”
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Analysis of clinical characteristics of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome with acute pancreatitis: a retrospective study by Lihua Huang, Min Xiao, Xiaoling Huang, Jun Wu, Jiao Luo, Fuxing Li, Wei Gu

“…Patients were divided into HFRS with AP (n = 34) and HFRS without AP groups (n = 356). Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and logistic regression analyzed the impact of AP on HFRS severity and short-term prognosis. …”
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Assessing Thermospheric Neutral Density Models Using GEODYN's Precision Orbit Determination by Z. C. Waldron, K. Garcia‐Sage, J. P. Thayer, E. K. Sutton, V. Ray, D. D. Rowlands, F. G. Lemoine, S. B. Luthcke, M. Kuznetsova, R. Ringuette, L. Rastaetter, G. D. Berland

“…DTM2020 requires the least scaling (∼−7%) to achieve orbit fits closely matching the PSO within an in‐track RMSe of 7 m when scaled over 2 weeks and 2 m when scaled daily. …”
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