COVID-19 and its impact on healthcare professionalism: a qualitative study of behaviour among paediatric emergency physicians by Kent Mun Loh, Catrin Kar Yee Kong, Sashikumar Ganapathy

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A glimpse on influences of ginger and its derivatives as a feed additive in finfish farming: A mini-review by Lee Seong Wei, Albaris B. Tahiluddin, Wendy Wee

“…Additionally, the review examines the mechanisms of action of these additives and explores the optimal supplementation levels for inclusion in fish diets. Previous studies reported the optimal doses of dietary ginger and its derivatives were ranged from 0.0002 to 4 % of diet whereas 0.0004 % for bathing treatment. …”
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Toxicity of Brewery Effluents (Burukutu Effluent) to <i>Clarias gariepinus </i>and its Effect on some Target Organs by T.O. Ariyomo, A.M. Akinsorotan, E.N. Nwachukwu

“…The values of RBC, PCV, Hg reduced as the concentration increased (p<0.05) while the WBC increased (p<0.05) as the concentration increased and the 96h LC50 of 646ml/L was obtained. …”
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A Family of Measures of Noncompactness in the Locally Sobolev Spaces and Its Applications to Some Nonlinear Volterra Integrodifferential Equations by H. Mehravaran, M. Khanehgir, R. Allahyari

“…We study a new family of measures of noncompactness in the locally Sobolev space Wlocn,1(R+N), equipped with a suitable topology. …”
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Incidence of Keratoconus and Its Association with Systemic Comorbid Conditions: A Nationwide Cohort Study from South Korea by Jong Youn Moon, Jesang Lee, Yoon Hyung Park, Eun-Cheol Park, Si Hyung Lee

“…The incidence during the same period was 15.1 cases per 100,000 person-years. Adjusted logistic regression analysis after propensity score matching revealed significant associations between keratoconus and allergic rhinitis (odds ratio (OR): 1.86; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.63–2.13; p<0.001), asthma (OR: 1.20; 95% CI: 1.06–1.36; p<0.001), atopic dermatitis (OR: 1.33; 95% CI: 1.13–1.56; p<0.001), and diabetes mellitus (DM) (OR: 1.35; 95% CI: 1.15–1.58; p<0.001). …”
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Correction: Knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about polycystic ovarian syndrome, and its determinants among Pakistani undergraduate students

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Sustainable digital leap: a bibliometric study on its impact on human learning and organizational development in the MENA region by Ajay Singh

“…The findings indicated that Blau, I from Israel is the leading author, King Faisal University from Saudi Arabia is the most productive institution, “International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning” is the most productive journal, and “Investigating users’ perspectives on e-learning: An integration of TAM and IS success” is the highly cited article in target domain. …”
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Incorporation of opacifier to Type III alpha gypsum and its effect on scannability and linear setting expansion – An in vitro study by Sai Akhil Khadkekar, Mahendranadh Reddy Kareti, Mahadev Shastry Yelishetty, S. Venkata Aditya, Srilekha Daripalli

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Dying to be famous: retrospective cohort study of rock and pop star mortality and its association with adverse childhood experiences by Mark A Bellis, Karen Hughes, Olivia Sharples, Tom Hennell, Katherine A Hardcastle

“…Objectives Rock and pop fame is associated with risk taking, substance use and premature mortality. We examine relationships between fame and premature mortality and test how such relationships vary with type of performer (eg, solo or band member) and nationality and whether cause of death is linked with prefame (adverse childhood) experiences.Design A retrospective cohort analysis based on biographical data. …”
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Evolution of the “Production-Living-Ecological” space of urban trituration and its prediction of carbon mitigation potential–The case of Xi’an by Jinzhao Song, Jie Lei, Peijia Wang

“…The net carbon emission of Xi’an City showed a fluctuating increase, and the net carbon emission increased by 3,683,800 tons in 20 years. …”
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Understanding the dynamics of post-surgical recovery and its predictors in resource-limited settings: a prospective cohort study by Awoke Fetahi Woudneh

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A New RH-Regular Matrix Derived by Jordan’s Function and Its Domains on Some Double Sequence Spaces by Sezer Erdem, Serkan Demiriz

“…In the present study, we introduce a new RH-regular 4D (4-dimensional) matrix derived by Jordan’s function and define double sequence spaces by using domains of 4D Jordan totient matrix Jt on some classical double sequence spaces. …”
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Phosphate, Calcification in Blood, and Mineral Stress: The Physiologic Blood Mineral Buffering System and Its Association with Cardiovascular Risk by Andreas Pasch, Willi Jahnen-Dechent, Edward R. Smith

“…CPP2 are oblongated, 100-200nm in the long axis, and they contain a crystalline mineral core. …”
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Probing the chirality of a single microsphere trapped by a focused vortex beam through its orbital period by Diniz Kainã, Schoger Tanja, da Fonseca Arthur L., Dutra Rafael S., Ether Jr Diney S., Ingold Gert-Ludwig, Pinheiro Felipe A., Viana Nathan B., Neto Paulo A. Maia

“…Taking advantage of such sensitivity, we put forth a method to experimentally characterize with high precision the chiroptical response of individual optically trapped particles. …”
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Serum Levels of Soluble ST2 and IL-10 Are Associated with Disease Severity in Patients with IgA Nephropathy by Zhihui Zhang, Haifeng Wang, Li Zhang, Rebecca Crew, Nan Zhang, Xiaolei Liu, Yanfang Jiang

“…Higher levels of sera IL-2, IL-4, IL-10, IL-17A, and IFN-γ were detected in patients compared to the HC. …”
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Palaeoenvironment and Its Control on the Formation of Miocene Marine Source Rocks in the Qiongdongnan Basin, Northern South China Sea by Wenhao Li, Zhihuan Zhang, Weiming Wang, Shuangfang Lu, Youchuan Li, Ning Fu

“…This study provides a window for better understanding the main factors influencing the marine source rocks in the continental margin basins, including productivity, preservation conditions, and the input of terrestrial organic matter.…”
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Editorial: Activation of the cGAS-STING pathway by extra-nuclear DNA and its pharmacognostic modulation in human disease by Preston M. McCourt, Charles A. Day, Souren Paul, Souren Paul

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HIV-1 transcription start sites usage and its impact on unspliced RNA functions in people living with HIV by Saiful Islam, Frank Maldarelli, Olga A. Nikolaitchik, Zetao Cheng, Robert Gorelick, Maria A. Nikolaitchik, Vinay K. Pathak, Wei-Shau Hu

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The Molecular Effects of SGLT2i Empagliflozin on the Autophagy Pathway in Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Its Complications by Ranin Saad, Hagar Tadmor, Offir Ertracht, Nakhoul Nakhoul, Farid Nakhoul, Farber Evgeny, Shaul Atar

“…The disturbance of autophagy is involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. We aim to investigate the molecular effect of sodium-glucose transporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT2i) on the expression of ATG5 and its downstream collaborator LC3-II in diabetic nice model. …”
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Graphene oxide and its derivatives films for sustained-release trace element zinc based on cation-π interaction by Wei Zhang, Yijia He, Hongwei Zhu, Xiao Li, Zucai Zou, Chaogui Luo, Jianlie Wei, Baoying Lu, Duo Zhang, Ming Zhou

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