Identify predictive factors for the emergence of self-reported oropharyngeal dysphagia in older men and women populations: a retrospective cohort analysis by Shuang Liu, Shuang Liu, Ling-Jie Fan, Hao Tian, Sha-Sha Wei, Si-Jie Zhang, Mei He, Ji-Hong Wei

“…Notably, gender-specific disparities emerged, highlighting the critical role of cognitive function and mood in men, whereas in women, the overarching influence of general health status and comorbidities was more pronounced.ConclusionThis condensed examination highlights the complex, multifactorial nature of OD in older adults, influenced by sociodemographic, physical, and psychological factors, and underscores the need for gender-specific approaches in predicting, preventing, and managing OD.…”
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The Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Ecosystem Services Value in Laos between 2000 and 2020 by Jun Ma, Jinliang Wang, Jianpeng Zhang, Suling He, Lanfang Liu, Xuzheng Zhong

“…In addition, the elasticity value of artificial surfaces was more prominent, with a more evident impact on ESV. …”
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Gain-Scheduled Disturbance Observer-Based Saturated Controllers for Non-Linear First-Order System by Mikulas Huba, Pavol Bistak, Damir Vrancic

“…Responses were more homogeneous when simple ultralocal models were used, regardless of controller saturation constraints. …”
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Carbon Sequestration of Above Ground Biomass Approach in the Rehabilitated Mangrove Stand at Jepara Regency, Central Java, Indonesia by Arif Noor Hayati, Norma Afiati, Supriharyono, Muhammad Helmi

“…Highlight Research • Mangrove rehabilitation area has a better potential for carbon sequestration • The more trees that grew and developed with a large DBH size the more affected the biomass, carbon content and carbon sequestration of mangroves…”
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AMFEF-DETR: An End-to-End Adaptive Multi-Scale Feature Extraction and Fusion Object Detection Network Based on UAV Aerial Images by Sen Wang, Huiping Jiang, Jixiang Yang, Xuan Ma, Jiamin Chen

“…This enables the convolutional kernels to effectively adapt to varying scales of ground targets, capturing more details while expanding the receptive field. …”
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Normalization of Cystic Fibrosis Immune System Reverses Intestinal Neutrophilic Inflammation and Significantly Improves the Survival of Cystic Fibrosis MiceSummary by Callie E. Scull, Yawen Hu, Scott Jennings, Guoshun Wang

“…CF neutrophils expressed significantly more iNOS and produced significantly more NO. Pharmaceutical blocking of iNOS significantly improved intestinal transit and survival of CF mice. …”
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TREM 2 in Parkinson’s Disease: A Promising Candidate Gene for Disease Susceptibility and Progression by Paolo Alonge, Carmela Rita Balistreri, Angelo Torrente, Daniele Magro, Elisa Rubino, Roberto Monastero

“…<b>Methods</b>: A comprehensive search was performed using PubMed, Medline, and Web of Science, looking for English papers investigating the role of TREM2 in PD, or more in general, the genetic profile of microglia. …”
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PREVALENCE AND DYNAMICS OF ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION, CAROTID AND CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE by V. S. Petrov

“…Endothelial dysfunction takes place in the presence of mitral stenosis or AS, it is more expressed in AS. Also, atherosclerosis of carotid arteries in patients with CRHD and AS is more prevalent than in the population. …”
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A Wide-field Map of Ultracompact Dwarfs in the Coma Cluster by Richard T. Pomeroy, Juan P. Madrid, Conor R. O’Neill, Alexander T. Gagliano

“…We find red (metal-rich) UCDs are more likely located closer to a host galaxy, with blue (metal-poor) UCDs showing a greater dispersion and lower average density in the region.…”
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Efficiency of neutralization of electric charges on the surface of dielectric nonwoven fabric of two dual and triode electrode systems by B. Yahiaoui, A. Messaoudene, A. Melahi, A. Rahmani, B. Bendahmane, L. Dascalescu

“…Thus, their neutralization is more than necessary. The objective of this work is to improve the neutralization rate with equipment that can be easily integrated in the production lines. …”
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Integrated course on ocular anatomy for ophthalmology clerkship by Li Huang, Xinyu Liu, Yuxian Zou, Xianchai Lin, Zhen Mao

“…Fifty-four participants were satisfied with the integrated anatomy course (79.3% strongly agreed, 18.2% more agreed). Fifty-two participants agreed (76.4% strongly agreed, 18.2% more agreed) that the course could help them better understand the anatomy of the eye. …”
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A Novel Reconstruction Method for Irregularly Sampled Observation Sequences for Digital Twin by Haonan Jiang, Yanbo Zhao, Qiao Zhu, Yuanli Cai

“…Finally, a weighted loss function is constructed to better train the network parameters of the model. …”
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Effects of Pravastatin on Type 1 Diabetic Rat Heart with or without Blood Glycemic Control by Jeong Jin Min, Byung-Seop Shin, Jong-Hwan Lee, Yunseok Jeon, Dae Kyun Ryu, Sojin Kim, Young Hee Shin

“…Groups C and IP showed more preserved ACE2 and lower ACE expressions than the other groups did (D, I, and P). …”
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Enhancing Microwave Disinfection: Impact of Sodium Chloride on Microbial Inactivation by Saleh A. Alfawaz, Ibrahim N. Alquaydheb, Amirreza Ghadimi Avval, Sara Ghayouraneh, Samir M. El-Ghazaly, Jianhong Zhou, Yuchun Du

“…It is observed that exposure time critically influences the inactivation performance, necessitating the design of predefined cycles to achieve more consistent and efficient microbial inactivation. …”
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Horseshoe kidney robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy by D. Kovács, P. Tenke, B. Kovács

“…Using surgical robots enable experienced console surgeons to perform more and more complex procedures. Partial nephrectomy in a horseshoe kidney can be demanding due to the kidney's vascular supply and depending on the tumor location, necessitating careful preoperative planning. …”
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Study of physical and chemical properties of spray drying whey powder by Gholamreza Chegini, Ali HamidiSepehr, Mohsen Fakher Dizaji, Seyed Vahid Mirnezami

“…Its main objective is to categorize unknown samples using analysis of discrimination function between the operating variables and powder properties in two or more naturally occurring groups. …”
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Effects of short-term heat stress on PSII and subsequent recovery for senescent leaves of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Red Globe by Kun ZHANG, Bai-hong CHEN, Yan HAO, Rui YANG, Yu-an WANG

“…The inhibition of energy fluxes for senescent leaves in November was earlier and more pronounced than that for healthy leaves, which did not recover from heat stress of more than 15 min after 2 h recovery at room temperature.…”
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Revealing speckle obscured living human retinal cells with artificial intelligence assisted adaptive optics optical coherence tomography by Vineeta Das, Furu Zhang, Andrew J. Bower, Joanne Li, Tao Liu, Nancy Aguilera, Bruno Alvisio, Zhuolin Liu, Daniel X. Hammer, Johnny Tam

“…The combination of two parallel discriminators in P-GAN provides additional feedback to the generator to more faithfully recover both local and global cellular structures. …”
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Comparison of Visual Outcome and Morphologic Change between Different Surgical Techniques in Idiopathic Epiretinal Membrane Surgery by Yo-Chen Chang, Chia-Ling Lee, Kuo-Jen Chen, Li-Yi Chiu, Tzu-En Kao, Pei-Kang Liu, Kwou-Yeung Wu, Wen-Chuan Wu

“…Maculorrhexis ILM peeling achieves more rapid improvement of visual function, better final visual outcome, and a higher rate of normal foveal contour than whole-piece ILM peeling.…”
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Paradoxes in pediatric rehabilitation: building an interdisciplinary, total-child framework to promote effective interventions and life course well-being by Sharon Landesman Ramey, Michael E. Msall, Craig T. Ramey

“…The paradoxes support a major revision in hypotheses about how effective interventions can alter a child's functioning and life course. The following conclusions derive from the paradoxes: (1) the intertwined biological and environmental influences on a child's well-being contribute more to functional outcomes than do the primary medical diagnoses and biological risks alone; (2) high-intensity, high-cost interventions that are well-timed, wholistic, and multi-domain can be more powerful and economical (i.e., yield higher “returns on investment”) than many treatments that initially appear less costly and easier to implement; (3) treatments that are individualized to the child and family, while adhering to evidence-backed treatment protocols, are among the most likely to result in large and long-lasting benefits compared to those that are solely individualized or adherent to a treatment protocol that does not make adjustments for the child; and 4) a clearly presented conceptual theoretical framework about human development can be a remarkably practical and informative tool in maximizing benefits of pediatric rehabilitation. …”
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