Development of a compact near-infrared lamp furnace for synchrotron powder diffraction and its application for in situ high-temperature observation of ferrite magnets by Shintaro Kobayashi, Shogo Kawaguchi

Subjects: “…Synchrotron X-ray diffraction…”
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Enzymatic recovery of glycopeptides from different industrial grades edible bird’s nest and its by-products: nutrient, probiotic and antioxidant activities, and physicochemical characteristics by Hidayati Syamimi Mohd Noor, Rafidah Mohd Ariff, Lee Sin Chang, Xin Yi Chai, Hui Yan Tan, Nur’ Aliah Daud, Abdul Salam Babji, Seng Joe Lim

“…Interestingly, the antioxidant activities (DPPH and ABTS scavenging activities and ferric reducing antioxidant powder (FRAP) activity) were significantly higher (P ≤ 0.05) in hydrolysates recovered from EBN by-products (EBNhC and EBNhD) as compared to the high grade EBN hydrolysates (EBNhA and EBNhB). …”
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Landscape ecological risk based on optimal scale and its tradeoff/synergy with human activities: A case study of the Nanjing metropolitan area, China by Xia Wang, Tianke Zhu, Changzheng Jiang

“…The results indicated that 60 m and 9 km were the appropriate granularity and amplitude, respectively, for LER analysis in the NMA. …”
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Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Infection and Its Determinants among Exposed Infants on Care and Follow-Up in Dire Dawa City, Eastern Ethiopia by Fisseha Wudineh, Bereket Damtew

“…AIDS Research and Treatment…”
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Zooplankton as an Indicator: A Dramatic Shift in Its Composition Following a Sudden Temporal Brownification of a Tropical Oligotrophic Lake in Southern Mexico by Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Martha Valdez-Moreno, Lucia Montes-Ortiz, Alma E. García-Morales

“…A dramatic shift in the zooplankton community occurred: biomass was reduced to a minimum and 20 species of water mites, five copepods, three cladocerans, three chironomids and six species of fish larvae disappeared for a period of at least one year. …”
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A Chemical Synthesis of Benzo[a]pyrene Hapten and Its Application in a Streptavidin-Horseradish Peroxidase-Based Enzyme-Linked Immunological Analysis by Zhen Ma, Huisheng Zhuang

“…Under optimal conditions, a detection limit of 0.0094 ng mL−1 was obtained and good linearity was achieved within a range of 0.03–35.40 ng mL−1. …”
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Dissecting Causal Relationships Between Antihypertensive Drug, Gut Microbiota, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications: A Mendelian Randomization Study by He Zheng, Shiping Wu, Wenbin Wang, Weida Qiu, Yingqing Feng

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Pragmatic performance, its relationship with symptom severity, and early clinical predictors of pragmatics in 5 ~ 6-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder by Lu Qian, Ning Ding, Hui Fang, Ting Xiao, Bei Sun, HuiYun Gao, XiaoYan Ke

“…Methods In the present study, 71 children with ASD and 38 age- and gender- matched 24- to 30-month-old typically developing (TD) children were enrolled. …”
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A New Conformable Fractional-Order Time-Delay Grey Bernoulli Model with the Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm and Its Application in Rural Regional Economy by Ran Wang, Hui Liu, Qinwen Yang, Hongmei Du

“…To further promote the development of the grey system theory, this paper develops a novel conformable fractional-order grey Bernoulli model with a time-delay effect, namely, the CFTDNGBM (1, 1) model. …”
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Clinical characteristics of Kawasaki disease with pulmonary radiographic abnormalities and its impact on the incidence of coronary artery lesions: a randomized retrospective cohort study by Chenchen Liu, Xing Rong, Huixian Qiu, Jinhui Zhou, Yufei Chen, Xuhong Huang, Maoping Chu, Zhenquan Wang

“…After adjusting for confounding variables, patients with pneumonia-like changes had a greater likelihood of developing CALs, with an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 1.94 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.21, 3.11]. …”
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A Survey Study on Management Practices Associated With Voluntary Waiting Period and Its Effects on Reproductive Performance of dairy cows in Iranian Dairy Farms by Behnaz Mirzaie, Ali Sadeghi‐Sefidmazgi, Mahdi Zhandi

“…This model considered animals and herds as random factors and management practices as fixed factors in the analysis. Results Among herds that reported altering the VWP based on heat stress, DFS significantly increased (61.68 ± 0.68 vs. 58.4 ± 0.83) while DO (119.70 ± 1.86 vs. 126.9 ± 2.29) and NSPC (1.98 ± 0.04 vs. 2.48 ± 0.05) reduced compared to herds that did not alter the VWP. …”
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An Improved LC-MS/MS Method for Simultaneous Determination of the Eleven Bioactive Constituents for Quality Control of Radix Angelicae Pubescentis and Its Related Preparations by Jin Li, Qiu-Hong Zhang, Jun He, Er-wei Liu, Xiu-mei Gao, Yan-xu Chang

“…It was the first report on the quantification of bioactive constituents in different preparations of Radix Angelicae Pubescentis by LC-MS/MS analytical method. These samples were separated with an Agilent Zorbax Extend reversed-phase C18 column (1.8 μm, 4.6 × 100 mm) by linear gradient elution using aqueous ammonium acetate and acetonitrile as mobile phase. …”
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Prevalence of Food Insecurity and Its Associated Factors among Adult People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Hagos Degefa Hidru, Haftay Gebremedhine, Alem Gebretsadik, Hirut Teame, Hadush Negash, Meresa Berwo Mengesha

“…The pooled prevalence of food insecurity was 52% (95% CI, 40%, 63%). Cluster of differentiation 4 CD4 count<350 cell/mm3 [AOR=1.29 (95% CI, 1.08, 1.54)], develop opportunistic infection [AOR=4.09 (95% CI, 2.47, 6.78)], rural residence [AOR=1.59 (95% CI, 1.09, 2.34)], and World Health Organization (WHO) clinical stages III and IV [AOR=1.98 (95% CI, 1.23, 3.19)] was among the significantly associated factors. …”
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Erratum to “A Novel Method for Extraction of Galegine by Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) Technique Reinforced with Graphene Oxide and Its Evaluation Using Polarography” by M. Azimi, M. Ahmadi Golsefidi, A. Varasteh Moradi, M. Ebadi, R. Zafar Mehrabian

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NADH Reductive Stress and Its Correlation with Disease Severity in Leigh Syndrome: A Pilot Study Using Patient Fibroblasts and a Mouse Model by Tamaki Ishima, Natsuka Kimura, Mizuki Kobayashi, Chika Watanabe, Eriko F. Jimbo, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Takuro Horii, Izuho Hatada, Kei Murayama, Akira Ohtake, Ryozo Nagai, Hitoshi Osaka, Kenichi Aizawa

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Generalised anxiety disorder and its determinants amongst patients with diabetes in primary healthcare clinics: a cross-sectional study in Kuwait City, 2024 by Sana Mubarak Alali, Doaa Khalifa Hussein Abdalla, Aisha Alsaqabi, Hessa Al-Kandari, Ozayr Mahomed

“…Among participants with moderate-to-severe anxiety (n = 21), 52% were aged 50–59 years, 90% were non-native Kuwaiti citizens, and 62% had an HbA1C measurement > 7 mmol/L. …”
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Histological chorioamnionitis and its predictors among mothers with premature rupture of membranes delivering at tertiary hospitals in Uganda: a multicenter cross-sectional study by Ibrahim Abdi Abdinasir, Marie Pascaline Sabine Ishimwe, Maxwell Okello, Paul Byaruhanga, Ralph Samson Enyamitoit, Theoneste Hakizimana

“…Referral status (aOR = 4.5, 95% CI: 1.511–13.315, p = 0.007) and lack of prenatal care (PNC) attendance (aOR = 9.8, 95% CI: 2.802–14.504, p = 0.000) were independently associated with histological chorioamnionitis. …”
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Assessment of post-partum physical exercise practice and its associated factors among women in postpartum period, in West Wollega zone, Oromia, Ethiopia by Tegegne Yadeta, Daniel Belema, Seifedin Ahmad, Nurye Sirage, Abubeker Seid Ali, Kedir Ali, Ali Yimer

“…The results were presented using graphs and tables.ResultThis research involved 416 women, achieving a response rate of 98.6%. The prevalence of postpartum physical exercise practice among the participants was determined to be 19.5% (95% CI: 12.03–22.50). …”
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One hundred years since the draft of the constitutional charter: Legal regulation up to the 10th century and its reflection on the current source of law by Vasiljević Aleksandar B.

“…Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu…”
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Translation and validation of the Polish-language version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) and its relationship to the type of delivery and the baby’s Apgar score by Paulina Pawlicka, Wiktor Wróbel, Barbara Baranowska, Daria Macewicz, Michał Olech, Caroline J. Hollins Martin, Colin R. Martin

“…Conclusions The PL-BSS-R is a psychometrically robust measure of birth experience appropriate for clinical and research use within Po-land. …”
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