A chromosome-level genome assembly of the heteronomous hyperparasitoid wasp Encarsia sophia by Xiaoming Man, Cong Huang, Shengyong Wu, Jianyang Guo, Fanghao Wan, Frédéric Francis, Nianwan Yang, Wanxue Liu

“…Utilizing Hi-C assisted assembly, the genome was organized into five chromosomes, with a mounting rate of 95.1%. Repetitive sequences make up 54.6% of the genome, and 14,914 protein-coding genes were predicted, with 95.5% functionally annotated. …”
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LncRNAs Regulate Vasculogenic Mimicry in Human Cancers by Eloísa Ibarra-Sierra, Mercedes Bermúdez, Carlos Esteban Villegas-Mercado, Macrina B. Silva-Cázares, César López-Camarillo

“…The vast amount of data about its genomic expression in tumors can allow us to dissect their functions in cancer biology and make them suitable biomarkers for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. …”
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SlideTiler: A dataset creator software for boosting deep learning on histological whole slide images by Leonardo Barcellona, Lorenzo Nicolè, Rocco Cappellesso, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos, Stefano Ghidoni

“…Therefore, strategies to make these steps more efficient are worth investigation. …”
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Advancing health equity and the role of digital health technologies: a scoping review by Tobias Kowatsch, Marcia Nißen, Laura Bitomsky, Estelle Pfitzer

“…This offers practitioners and researchers alike a comprehensive overview to make health equity advancement more tangible and actionable.Registration details https://osf.io/94pht…”
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Living restricted lives - Understanding the impact of isolation, social distancing and other restriction measures on older care home residents and their relatives in England during... by Sarah Sims, Amit Desai, Ruth Harris, Anne Marie Rafferty, Shereen Hussein, Richard Adams, Lindsay Rees, Sally Brearley, Joanne M Fitzpatrick

“…Interviews were audio- and video-recorded with participants' permission and analysed using an inductive orientation to thematic analysis, with coding and theme development driven by the data content.…”
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Characterization of novel human endogenous retrovirus structures on chromosomes 6 and 7 by Nicholas Pasternack, Nicholas Pasternack, Ole Paulsen, Avindra Nath

“…Moreover, both proviruses can make full-length, or nearly full-length, HERV-K proteins in multiple transcription orientations. …”
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Number of ICD-10 diagnosis fields required to capture sepsis in administrative data and truncation bias: A nationwide prospective registry study. by Nina Vibeche Skei, Jan Kristian Damås, Lise Tuset Gustad

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Expanding the utilization of multiple diagnosis fields can enhance the comparability of data in epidemiological studies, both internationally and within countries. To make truncation bias visible, reporting guidelines should specify the number of diagnosis fields when extracting ICD-10 codes.…”
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Developing a model for promoting self-coherence in old age by considering Iranian Islamic lifestyle: a qualitative study by Maryam Raoufi, Ebrahim Namani, Hosein Keshavarz Afshar

“…The data was collected with semi-structured interviews and analyzed in three stages open, selective, and central coding. Results: After reviewing and analyzing the data, 97 themes, 17 subcategories, and 4 main categories were identified. …”
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Therapeutic potential of exosomal lncRNAs derived from stem cells in wound healing: focusing on mesenchymal stem cells by Ali Morabbi, Mohammad Karimian

“…Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) enclosed in exosomes, as one of the leading actors of these extracellular microvesicles, through interaction with miRNAs and regulation of various signaling pathways involved in inflammation, angiogenesis, cell proliferation, and migration, could heal the wounds. …”
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A Study of Influential Factors in Online Teaching in Architectural Design Studios; the Case of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, during CO... by ّFarhad Shariatrad, Monire Adine Doost Abadi, Ramin Dehbandi, Fatemeh Senemari

“…Open, axial, and selective coding were used to analyse the data. In the end, member checking was used to validate final results and conclusions. …”
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Optimization of the Morphological Parameters of a Metal Foam for the Highest Sound Absorption Coefficient Using Local Search Algorithm by Mohammad Javad JAFARI, Ali KHAVANIN, Touraj EBADZADEH, Mahmood FAZLALI, Mohsen Niknam SHARAK, Rohollah Fallah MADVARI

“…The presented method can be a reliable guide for optimizing microstructure parameters of metal foam to increase the SAC at any frequency and can be used to make optimized metal foam.…”
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Integration of MicroRNAs with nanomedicine: tumor targeting and therapeutic approaches by Pelin Telkoparan-Akillilar, Silvia Chichiarelli, Paolo Tucci, Luciano Saso

“…MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNA molecules that play a pivotal role in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. …”
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Genome-wide identification and characterization of DNA enhancers with a stacked multivariate fusion framework. by Yansong Wang, Zilong Hou, Yuning Yang, Ka-Chun Wong, Xiangtao Li

“…Enhancers are short non-coding DNA sequences outside of the target promoter regions that can be bound by specific proteins to increase a gene's transcriptional activity, which has a crucial role in the spatiotemporal and quantitative regulation of gene expression. …”
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MORTALITY FROM MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN RUSSIA IN THE YEARS 2006 AND 2015 by I. V. Samorodskaya, О. L. Barbarash, V. V. Kashtalap, М. А. Starinskaya

“…Main impact on the decrease of SMC in dynamics during 2006-2015 do make male patients with primary (acute) MI. Decrease of SMC from MI in males was found in all ages, in women — excluding the groups of 20-29 y.o., 80-89 and ≥90 y.o. …”
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TRAINING OF THE FUTURE INTERPRETERS’ WORKING MEMORY by Antonina V. Prokopenko, Valeriia M. Rava

“…The paper notes that the coding of information is mainly carried out in three ways: acoustic, visual and semantic. …”
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PMD-Transformer: A Domain Generalization Approach for Person Re-Identification by Xingguo Jiang, Ling Yu, Guojun Lin, Yuchao Zhang

“…However, the supervised learning strategy on the source domain makes the Transformer-based ReID model inevitably overfit the bias in some regions. …”
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Engaging underrepresented populations in public health monitoring: strategies for people with mild intellectual disability or low literacy skills by Meike C.M. Theunissen, Monique C.J. Koks-Leensen, Jane van Geenen, Geraline L. Leusink, Jenneken Naaldenberg, Kirsten E. Bevelander

“…Abstract Background Recruitment challenges, the use of complex language, and reluctance toward research are factors that make people with low literacy skills (LL skills), such as people with mild intellectual disability (MID), an underrepresented group in public health monitoring questionnaires. …”
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Exploring barriers and enabling factors for surgical task sharing with physician assistants in Liberia: a qualitative pre-implementation study by Håkon A Bolkan, Alex J van Duinen, Ankie van den Broek, Theophilus C Hampaye, Markus Jan Werz

“…Failing to obtain such support should make the implementors consider alternative strategies to strengthen surgical human resources in rural Liberia.…”
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A POPULATION-BASED STUDY ON MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES IN THE LAZIO REGION (ITALY), MEDICAL MISCODING AND 11-YEAR MORTALITY FOLLOW-UP: THE GRUPPO ROMANO-LAZIALE MIELODISPLASIE EXPER... by Flavia Mayer, Laura Faglioni, Nera Agabiti, Susanna Fenu, Francesco Buccisano, Roberto Latagliata, Roberto Ricci, Maria Antonietta Aloe Spiriti, Caterina Tatarelli, Massimo Breccia, Giuseppe Cimino, Luana Fianchi, Svitlana Gumenyuk, Stefano Mancini, Luca Maurillo, Carolina Nobile, Pasquale Niscola, Anna Lina Piccioni, Agostino Tafuri, Giulio Trapè, Alessandro Andriani, Paolo De Fabritis, Maria Teresa Voso, Marina Davoli, Gina Zini

“…Our is the first regional Lazio study about medical coding, diagnosis, classification and mortality of MDS patients. …”
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Challenges in estimating airfield pavement strength by Angeliki Armeni, Andreas Loizos

“…The study demonstrates the benefits of developing a model, which can provide a useful tool for airport authorities in order to support decision-making planning optimization in terms of airport asset management.…”
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