Chinese expert consensus on vaginal self-sampling with high-risk human papillomavirus testing for cervical cancer screening by Linhong Wang, Yun Zhao, Beihua Kong, Ding Ma, Ruifang Wu, Hui Du, Xinfeng Qu, Lihui Wei, Long Sui, Mingzhu Li, Fanghui Zhao, Jingran Li

“…In light of the push for HR-HPV testing as a primary cervical cancer screening strategy and considering the current status of cervical cancer screening in China, experts from five academic societies developed a consensus that including the definition, value, advantages, applicable people, screening proposal, tools and methods, process, sampler distribution form, organisational screening model, HPV DNA testing, abnormal results management of vaginal self-sampling, information system construction, management quality control and so on, aims to guide the standardised application of vaginal self-sampling screening, enhance cervical cancer screening coverage in China and advance the efforts to eliminate cervical cancer in the country.…”
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Considerations in assessing blood glucose in mice: coping with interferences of intraperitoneal injection, noise, fasting, housing and blood sampling by Si-Li Zheng, Xue-Lian Wang, Pin Wang, Jin Chen, Chao-Yu Miao

“…Blood glucose tested during different stages of blood sampling varied greatly, where values of blood collected by inferior vena cava puncture were significantly higher than those of tail-tip blood, and values of serum samples after immediate centrifugation of blood were the highest, followed by those of serum samples underwent a common clotting process of 2 h. …”
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Viability of Web-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling of Belgian Men Who Have Sex With Men: Process Evaluation by Estrelle Thunnissen, Veerle Buffel, Linda Campbell, Bea Vuylsteke, Philippe Bos, Edwin Wouters

“… BackgroundObtaining a representative sample is a substantial challenge when undertaking health research among hidden and hard-to-reach populations such as men who have sex with men Web-based respondent-driven sampling (WEB RDS) was developed to overcome such sampling challenges and to create population estimates based on network and sampling characteristics. …”
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Self-Collected versus Clinician-Collected Sampling for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Carole Lunny, Darlene Taylor, Linda Hoang, Tom Wong, Mark Gilbert, Richard Lester, Mel Krajden, Gina Ogilvie

“…Taking into account that urine samples may be less sensitive than cervical samples, eight chlamydia studies that compared urine self-collected verses clinician-collected cervical samples had a sensitivity of 87% (95% CI 81-91) and high specificity of 99% (95% CI 0.98-1.00). …”
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Detection of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Water Samples by Annular Platform-Supported Ionic Liquid-Based Headspace Liquid-Phase Microextraction by Xiaojie Sun, Jie Tan, Haiyan Ding, Xiaojie Tan, Jun Xing, Lihong Xing, Yuxiu Zhai, Zhaoxin Li

“…The method was more suitable for extraction of volatile PAHs, with recoveries from 65.0% to 102% and quantification limits from 0.01 to 0.05 µg·L−1. …”
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Sequencing of pooled DNA samples (Pool-Seq) uncovers complex dynamics of transposable element insertions in Drosophila melanogaster. by Robert Kofler, Andrea J Betancourt, Christian Schlötterer

“…Here, we describe a novel and cost-effective approach for estimating population frequencies of TE insertions using paired-end Illumina reads from a pooled population sample. Importantly, the method treats insertions present in and absent from the reference genome identically, allowing unbiased TE population frequency estimates. …”
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Safety-Prioritized Optimization of Asteroid Sample Site Selection Using Genetic Algorithm and Variable Neighborhood Tabu Search by Huan Xie, Jie Chen, Xiongfeng Yan, Yifan Wang, Yaqiong Wang, Qingfan Zhang, Yuanting Xi, Jun Xie, Ming Yang, Yongjiu Feng, Yusheng Xu, Xiaohua Tong

“…This method leverages the global search capability of the GA for the initial coarse search of selection sites and refines the selection through more localized optimization with the VNTS. …”
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A modified RNA-Seq approach for whole genome sequencing of RNA viruses from faecal and blood samples. by Elizabeth M Batty, T H Nicholas Wong, Amy Trebes, Karène Argoud, Moustafa Attar, David Buck, Camilla L C Ip, Tanya Golubchik, Madeleine Cule, Rory Bowden, Charis Manganis, Paul Klenerman, Eleanor Barnes, A Sarah Walker, David H Wyllie, Daniel J Wilson, Kate E Dingle, Tim E A Peto, Derrick W Crook, Paolo Piazza

“…We demonstrate the effectiveness of this method by sequencing three Norovirus samples from faeces and two Hepatitis C virus samples from blood, on an Illumina MiSeq benchtop sequencer. …”
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Direct Conditional Score Modeling for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction by Hongki Lim

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Assessment of greenness for solid phase microextraction techniques of sample preparation for flavors by AGREE Prep & SPMS tools by Ruchita Rajput, Sonal Desai

“…As per AGREE Prep, method 34 was found to be environmental friendly with score of 0.66, attributed to safe solvents, minimized waste, high sample throughput, and low energy consumption where as method 7 with SPMS scores of 7.05 is more sustainable due to miniaturization, fewer steps, and low energy use.…”
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Aqueous Two-Phase Systems: A New Approach for the Determination of Brilliant Blue FCF in Water and Food Samples by Sabah Shiri, Tahere Khezeli, Shahram Lotfi, Sina Shiri

“…A novel, simple, and more sensitive spectrophotometric procedure has been developed for the determination of brilliant blue FCF in water and food samples by an aqueous two-phase system (ATPS). …”
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Designing Fuzzy Inference System by Learning from Training Samples to Measure the Participation of Operational Staff in the Health of Workplace by Saeed Malekinejad, Ahmad Tavakoli, Naser Motahari

“…Rules have been created by using modified CT08 method based on training samples. In the end, we created 17 rules and the system was tested with 5 prototypes. …”
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Acute stress and fear scales during the COVID-19 pandemic: development and evaluation in a Costa Rican sample by Ana María Jurado-Solórzano, Gloriana Rodríguez-Arauz, Vanessa Smith-Castro, Mariano Rosabal-Coto, Sebastián Saborío, Henriette Raventós-Vorst, Benjamín Reyes-Fernández

“…Conclusion: In this order, the measures showed acceptable  psychometric properties with the evaluated sample. Future research is needed to gather more evidence of reliability and validity in probabilistic samples. …”
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A Bayesian tool for optimizing sample size in phase I dose-finding trials for head and neck cancer by Sivakamavalli Jeyachandran

“…Traditional sample size planning often uses fixed statistical methods that lack flexibility. …”
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An Experimental Study of Locally Assembled Vacuum Chamber and Estimation of Sample Porosities from Various Formations, Northern Iraq by Bafren Kamil Raoof, Khabat Mohammed Ahmed, Rand Mohammed Othman

“…To meet the process development required, part of the samples was tested in a more sophisticated device to provide well-aimed results and decrease the margin of error where B (1,2) and S5 were measured using a nitrogen porosimeter to attain further accuracy and reliability and compare the results to a saturation method. …”
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Research on Small-Sample Credit Card Fraud Identification Based on Temporal Attention-Boundary-Enhanced Prototype Network by Boyu Liu, Longrui Wu, Shengdong Mu

“…In small sample data environments, traditional fraud detection methods based on prototype network models struggle with the loss of time-series features and the challenge of identifying the uncorrected sample distribution in the metric space. …”
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Bidirectional causal relationship between obesity and osteoarthritis: Insights from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Anne Kamps, Jos Runhaar, Katerina Trajanoska, William D. Thompson, Weiya Zhang, Bahar Sedaghati-khayat, Joyce B.J. van Meurs, Sita M.A. Bierma-Zeinstra

“…The study's aim was to investigate the causal relationship between obesity and OA. Method: This study employed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach to investigate the bidirectional causal relationship between obesity, using body mass index (BMI) as its proxy, and OA of the knee, hip, and hand. …”
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Towards an automated protocol for wildlife density estimation using camera‐traps by Andrea Zampetti, Davide Mirante, Pablo Palencia, Luca Santini

“…While algorithms for automated species classification are becoming more common, they have only served as supporting tools, limiting their true potential in being implemented in ecological analyses without human supervision. …”
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Evaluation of Skeletal Variations and Establishment of Cephalometric Norms in a sample of Kurdish Population Using Bjork-Jarabak’s Analysis by Saya Salar Yousif, Brwa Khoshnaw

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Differential Effects by Caring and Positive Empathy on Depression and Anxiety: Gender Differences in a Sample of Spanish University Students by Diego Gomez-Baya, Denisse Manrique-Millones, Arlen J. Garcia, Esther Lopez-Bermudez

“…The present study aimed to analyze the associations between caring and positive empathy with youth depression and anxiety, as well as examine gender differences. (2) Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out by administering an online self-report to a sample composed of 370 university students (67.2% women), aged 18–29 (M = 21.29, SD = 3.61), enrolled across 10 universities in the Spanish region of Andalusia; (3) Results: Women reported higher levels of the caring dimension of PYD, more positive empathy, but more symptoms of depression and anxiety. …”
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