Culturally Sensitive Treatment of Caregiver Anxiety With Virtual Reality: A Prospective, Pragmatic, Randomized Study by Ricardo T Jimenez BA, Michelle Zuniga-Hernandez BS, Man Yee Suen MMedSci, Ruth Feng BA, Kassandra Pinedo MD, Faaizah Arshad BA, Faith Collins BS, Avani Ganesan, Christian Jackson BS, Ellen Y Wang MD, Samuel T Rodriguez MD, Thomas J Caruso MD, PhD

“…After controlling for baseline trait anxiety, the STAI found a greater reduction in state anxiety in the VR group ( p  ≤ 0.0001). …”
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Clinical and demographic data and the significance of various dysfunctions and severity indicators in multiple sclerosis patients by Gennadii M. Chupryna, Natalia V. Khanenko

“…Oculomotor disorders were more widely represented in patients with multiple sclerosis, which, in our opinion, is associated with damage to the structures of the posterior longitudinal bundle, which is often affected in multiple sclerosis due to the “dissemination in space” characteristic of the disease. It was found that in patients with multiple sclerosis visual disorders were most clearly correlated with the level of depression and cognitive impairment. …”
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Diagnostic dilemma: Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy in a 70-year-Old woman by Alexandra Pietraszkiewicz, Azraa Ayesha, Kathleen B. Digre, Judith EA. Warner, Meagan D. Seay, Alison V. Crum, Bradley J. Katz

“…Her visual acuities were 20/200-1 and 20/25-2. She had no afferent pupillary defect and intraocular pressures were normal. …”
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The Geographical Distribution of Global Biobanks by Farzad Parvizpour, Sarvenaz Salahi, Mohammad Amin Mahmanzar, Karim Rahimian, Neda Esfandiari, Zahra Fatahi, Niousha Khoshdast, Reyhaneh Yarmohammadi, Mohamad Amir Amirkhani, Arefeh Jafarian

“…This study aimed to comprehensively review the global biobanks to visualize their geographical distribution. The protocolfor this review consisted of the following steps: i. …”
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Selective otolithic dysfunction in patients presenting with acute spontaneous vertigo: consideration based on MRI by Keun-Tae Kim, Sangeun Park, Sun-Uk Lee, Sun-Uk Lee, Euyhyun Park, Euyhyun Park, Byungjun Kim, Ji-Soo Kim, Ji-Soo Kim

“…Patients usually showed abnormal oVEMP (n = 3) and cVEMP (n = 2) or subjective visual vertical (n = 3). Gadolinium enhancements were found in the vestibule (n = 3), inferior (n = 2) or superior (n = 1) vestibular nerves on dedicated inner ear MRI.DiscussionSelective otolithic dysfunction can present with AVS, which can be easily overlooked. …”
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Bringing climate health conversations to frontline clinics: A qualitative post-intervention assessment of utilization of the Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit by Yi-Ting Hana Lee, Mingyue Ma, Caroline Sarpy, Casey Dai, Jinia Sarkar, Chelsea Heberlein, Theodore Miles, Caleb J. Dresser

“…Results: Participants generally found the toolkit valuable, noting that it addressed an unmet need by providing actionable information on climate health risks in resource-constrained settings. …”
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Consumers’ perception and liking of breast fillets from broiler chickens fed diets including dehydrated microalgae (Arthrospira spp.) and Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) by Rosalba Roccatello, Matilde Tura, Eugenio Aprea, Sihem Dabbou, Francesca Soglia, Federico Sirri, Tullia Gallina Toschi

“…By Penalty Analysis, pink color and juiciness were found to be drivers of liking, while grey, white, dry and pale had a negative impact.…”
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Comparative meta-analysis of TightRope vs. hook plate for acromioclavicular joint dislocation by Manuel Alejandro Villagrán-Luján, Alejandro Alarcon-Mendoza, Edgar Azael Perez-Gutierrez, Manuel Alberto Gutierrez-Moreno, Nadia Karina Portillo-Ortiz, Edmundo Berumen-Nafarrate

“…However, no disparities were found in UCLA scores, VAS scores, or CCD improvement. …”
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Acute soft head syndrome and orbital compression syndrome in a child with sickle cell disease: a case report by David Mukunya, Catherine Nabaggala, Oguttu Faith, Annet Nakirulu, Rebecca Claire Lusobya, Patience Atuhaire, Lyness Bitira, Doris Nduhukire, Robert Kitenge, Dorah Nakayiwa, Ruth Namazzi, Deogratias Munube

“…However, due to migration trends, patients with sickle cell disease are increasingly found in the Western world. As such, knowing rare complications of sickle cell disease, such as acute soft head syndrome and orbital compression syndrome, is important to avoid misdiagnosis and mismanagement. …”
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Increased face perception in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis: mechanisms, sex differences, and clinical correlates by Tanya Tran, Brian P. Keane, Judy L. Thompson, Ben Robinson, Joshua Kenney, Trevor F. Williams, James A. Waltz, Jason A. Levin, Eren Kafadar, James M. Gold, Jason Schiffman, Lauren M. Ellman, Elaine F. Walker, Gregory P. Strauss, Vijay A. Mittal, Richard E. Zinbarg, Philip R. Corlett, Albert R. Powers, Scott W. Woods, Steven M. Silverstein

“…In a preliminary study, we found that CHR participants reported perceiving more faces in binarized human portraits on the Mooney Faces Test (MFT). …”
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Collective escape waves provide a generic defence against different avian predators by David Bierbach, Juliane Lukas, Luis Gómez-Nava, Fritz A. Francisco, Lenin Arias-Rodriguez, Stefan Krause, Korbinian Pacher, Yunus Sevinchan, Pawel Romanczuk, Jens Krause

“…Here, fish schools are frequently attacked by many different bird species and fish respond with synchronized and often repeated collective diving behaviour (escape waves). We found all bird species to wait longer until they attacked as they encountered more waves, both before they launched their first attack (pre-attack) and between subsequent attacks (post-attack). …”
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Growth and development of two predator species fed a diet of genetically engineered mosquitoes by Claire M. Egan, Lisa Chamberland, Robert E. Ditter, Melina Campos, Fatima Batchelor, Aleena Bosky, Christine H. Coleman, Andrew J. Goffinet, Ariana Hosseini, Morgan Kammersgard, Brian Leetakubuulidde, Danspaid P. Mabuka, Ivan Mulongo Mugeni, Gregory C. Lanzaro

“…Results No adverse effects were found in either predator species fed GEM diets. Gambusia affinis showed no significant growth differences between diet groups. …”
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A Clinical Trial of Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture for Abirritation during High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Adenomyosis by Chenning Liu, Xiaoyang Lin, Yuhui Liu, Meiduo Zhao, Qiuxian Shen, Li Tang, Yanqin Wang, Xiaojuan Zhou, Huituan Liu, Hongjin Yu

“…The statistically significant differences were not found in pain relief scores at 30 or 60 min (p > 0.05). …”
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Wheat dwarf virus and its impact on the 2020 harvest in some regions of Ukraine by L. Mishchenko, A. Dunich, I. Mishchenko, A. Dashchenko, O. Boyko, O. Skufinskyi, A. Kyrychenko, N. Kozub, T. Mukha

“…Identify the virus that causes symptoms of dwarfism and non-earing of winter wheat (reduced or no ear formation), and investigate its effect on plant yields. Methods. Visual diagnostics, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in double sandwich modification (DAS-ELISA), polymerase chain reaction, biometric, determination of yield and its structure, statistical data processing. …”
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Quality of life in patients with pan-cancer undergoing concurrent chemoradiotherapy: a bibliometric analysis (1995-2024) by Ao Shen, Pan Fan, Pan Fan, Dingrong Fan, Dingrong Fan, Yidi Wang, Yidi Wang, Kailin Tang, Kailin Tang, Ying Cai, Hengyu Zhou

“…Tree-ring map of terms related to QOL was visualized and multiple clusters were found, respectively named as “malnutrition”, “watch and wait”, and so on. …”
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Limitación funcional y rendimiento académico en universitarios de Popayán, Colombia (Functional limitation and academic performance in university students from Popayan, Colombia)... by Nancy Janneth Molano-Tobar, Dolly Ximena Molano-Tobar, Enmanuel Fernando Portilla Fernández

“…Descriptive-correlational study of a cross-sectional cohort with 115 university students to whom the CIF instrument (classification system of functional health and disease outcomes) was applied, as well as the evaluation of academic performance measured through the general career average, the normal distribution of the population according to age was verified, to obtain measures of central tendency and dispersion as a Pearson statistic (p<0.05). Results. It was found that the population in general did not present functional limitations, but those that do appear are related to academic performance corresponding to cognitive, visual, voice and speech functions, with statistical significance (p=0.000). …”
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A meta-analysis for the nighttime light remote sensing data applied in urban research: Key topics, hotspot study areas and new trends by Baiyu Dong, Ruyi Zhang, Sinan Li, Yang Ye, Chenhao Huang

“…Although there are currently some review articles focusing on NTL-based urban studies, they lack visual analysis of research keywords based on co-occurrence analysis, as well as the research topics and changes of global countries and regions. …”
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Big Data Intelligent Analysis Technology for the Study of Spatial and Time Trends in the Development of Large Cities by K. V. Mulyukova, I. V. Mulyukov, V. M. Kureichik

“…During the study, it was found that the presentation of groups of the received data in a graphic image has a number of advantages over a tabular presentation of data (a vector image is easy to scale, the ability to compare without plotting).The proposed way for visualizing big data by constructing abstract vector images is an alternative to traditional tables, allowing you to take a different look at data arrays and the results of their processing. …”
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Unraveling the impact of laser refractive surgery on corneal ectasia: an in silico study by Benedetta Fantaci, José Félix Rodriguez Matas, Vittoria Squartecchia, Lucia Vavassori, Begoña Calvo, Begoña Calvo

“…Among the three procedures, PRK was found to be the least invasive treatment from a mechanical perspective, while SMILE showed the greatest impact on the posterior surface, suggesting a potential long-term risk for ectasia progression.…”
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Phybrata Digital Biomarkers of Age-Related Balance Impairments, Sensory Reweighting, and Intrinsic Fall Risk by Ralston JD, Stanley S, Roper JM, Ralston AB

“…As a fall risk biomarker, Ec phybrata power was found to have the strongest statistical correlation with the reported retrospective incidence of falls within the previous 6 months. …”
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