Evaluating Obstructive Sleep Apnea Utilizing Arterial Tonometry in Individuals with Cystic Fibrosis by Michelle Chiu, Bethany Bartley, Elizabeth Gootkind, Salma Batool-Anwar, Donald G. Keamy, Thomas Bernard Kinane, Lael M. Yonker, Kevin S. Gipson

“…Home sleep apnea testing using a validated peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT) device may offer an accurate diagnosis of OSA in a more convenient and low-cost method than in-lab polysomnography. …”
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Audiophonologopedic Telerehabilitation: Advantages and Disadvantages from User Perspectives by Maria Lauriello, Anna Maria Angelone, Sara Iannotti, Eleonora Nardecchia, Benedetta Scopano, Alessandra Fioretti, Irene Ciancarelli, Alberto Eibenstein

“…Discussion: This study reveals a favourable perception of telerehabilitation as a therapy approach to be regarded as a supplement or temporary option to the irreplaceable face-to-face one. More research, as well as a larger sample sizes, will be useful to increase the significance of the correlations reported in this study.…”
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Promising Solutions to Address the Non-Specific Adsorption in Biosensors Based on Coupled Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Resonance Detection by Alina Vasilescu, Szilveszter Gáspár, Mihaela Gheorghiu, Cristina Polonschii, Roberta Maria Banciu, Sorin David, Eugen Gheorghiu, Jean-Louis Marty

“…Due to the comparatively much more scarce literature, for SPR and EC-SPR biosensors the discussion was extended to the early 2010s. …”
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In Vitro Efficacy of Water-Soluble Mercaptopyridine-Substituted Oxotitanium (IV) Phthalocyanine Compounds in Photodynamic Therapy of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Merve Çiftçi, Mansur Doğan, Didem Duman, Özge Göktuğ Temiz, Mahmut Durmuş, Efkan Bağda

“…The cytotoxic values of the cancerous (SCC-9) and healthy (L-929) cell samples to which different Pc concentrations were applied under laser light were evaluated spectroscopically with the XTT method. …”
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Are Gill Rackers Involved in Taste Perception and Food Ingestion for Gobio carpathicus (Vladykov, 1925)? A Debate Sustained by Histological Arguments by Maria-Catalina MATEI-LATIU, Calin LATIU, Vasile RUS, Adrian Florin GAL

“…Paired gills were harvested from Carpathian gudgeon fish Gobio carpathicus Vladykov, 1925 and immersed in 10% buffered formalin. The samples were processed according to the current paraffin embedding technique and stained with Goldner’s trichrome method. …”
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From Pre‐Darcy Flow to Darcy Flow in Porous Media: A Simple Unified Model by Hui Cheng, Fugang Wang, Shengwei Li, Zhongle Cheng, Yilong Yuan, Guanhong Feng

“…Although numerous pre‐Darcy flow models have been proposed, these models generally contain one or more empirical parameters with no clear physical meaning. …”
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Single-cell sequencing of full-length transcripts and T-cell receptors with automated high-throughput Smart-seq3 by Hsiu-Chun Chuang, Ruidong Li, Huang Huang, Szu-Wen Liu, Christine Wan, Subhra Chaudhuri, Lili Yue, Terence Wong, Venina Dominical, Randy Yen, Olivia Ngo, Nam Bui, Hubert Stoppler, Tangsheng Yi, Silpa Suthram, Li Li, Kai-Hui Sun

“…Abstract We developed an automated high-throughput Smart-seq3 (HT Smart-seq3) workflow that integrates best practices and an optimized protocol to enhance efficiency, scalability, and method reproducibility. This workflow consistently produces high-quality data with high cell capture efficiency and gene detection sensitivity. …”
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Leucocytozoon caulleryi discovery utilizing indirect-ELISA in East Java, Indonesia as a new approach in detecting leucocytozoonosis by Endang Suprihati, Lucia Tri Suwanti, Poedji Hastutiek, Nunuk Dyah Retno Lastuti, Akira Ito, Naomi Himeno

“…Aim: This study aimed to detect the presence of L. caulleryi in broiler chickens in East Java Province using two different diagnostic methods. Method: Blood samples were taken from the brachial vein of death broiler chickens from several farms recorded as endemic areas of lecucytozoonosis in East Java, Indonesia. …”
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An Enhanced Cycle Generative Adversarial Network Approach for Nighttime Pineapple Detection of Automated Harvesting Robots by Fengyun Wu, Rong Zhu, Fan Meng, Jiajun Qiu, Xiaopei Yang, Jinhui Li, Xiangjun Zou

“…When applied to YOLOv7-based detection, this method significantly outperforms existing approaches, improving precision, recall, average precision, and F1 score by 13.34%, 45.11%, 56.52%, and 30.52%, respectively. …”
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Sodium alginate/κ-carrageenan films for mupirocin dermal delivery by Tamara Rodrigues de Sousa, Sayza Dias de Santana, Grasiele Soares Cavallini, Nelson Luis Gonçalves Dias de Souza

“…Methods: Vibrational spectroscopy (Raman and infrared spectroscopies) was used to characterize the chemical structure and crosslinking process. …”
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Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of Dry and Water Saturated Igneous Rock with Acoustic Emission Monitoring by Jun Guo, Guo-rui Feng, Ting-ye Qi, Pengfei Wang, Jian Yang, Zhen Li, Jinwen Bai, Xianjie Du, Zehua Wang

“…The water saturated specimens have lower peak strength, more accumulated strains, and increase of AE count during the cyclic loading. …”
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RETURNABLE BAKING WASTE — A NEW TYPE OF RAW MATERIALS FOR DISTILLATES PRODUCTION (PART I. BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF RAW MATERIALS) by L. N. Krikunova, E. V. Dubinina, V. P. Osipova

“…The paper gives an assessment of biochemical composition of various types of returnable baking waste, pregrouped into five groups depending on recipe and bakery products production method, in comparison with traditional types of starch-containing raw materials — wheat and rye. …”
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Effects of Mobile Blogs Augmented Learning Strategies on Pre-Service Teachers’ Learning Outcomes in Woodwork in North Western Nigeria by Oluwafemi Abanikannda, Amosa Gambari, Wahab Kareem, Isiyaku Abdulraheem, Emeka Chukwuemeka

“…MWAT was pilot tested using test-retest method and reliability index of 0.86 was obtained. …”
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Composite Based on Biomineralized Oxidized Bacterial Cellulose with Strontium Apatite for Bone Regeneration by Ana Lorena de Brito Soares, Erika Patrícia Chagas Gomes Luz, Igor Iuco Castro-Silva, Rodolpho Ramilton de Castro Monteiro, Fábia Karine Andrade, Rodrigo Silveira Vieira

“…Rejections of commercial bone implants have driven research in the biomaterials field to develop more biocompatible and less cytotoxic alternatives. …”
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Identification and Analysis of Galactic Bars in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys by Wenwen Wang, Zhimin Zhou

“…These results validate our automated method for bar identification and measurement, demonstrating its reliability. …”
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Comparison of Antioxidant Activity of Dracocephalum polychaetum Bornm and Nepeta cataria L. and Their Effect on Probiotic Bacteria in a Simulated Gastrointestinal Environment by Fatemeh Shahdadi, Maryam Payandeh, Ali Salehi Sardoei

“…The viability results in the same gastrointestinal environment showed that samples containing N. cataria extract had a more remarkable survival rate than the controls and D. polychaetum Bornm extract. …”
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Mental health of airline pilots in France: insights from an anonymous online survey by Madeleine Percheron, Bernard Prouvost-Keller, Jonathan Allouche, Michel Benoit, Christian Pradier

“…Additionally, 13.1% of subjects reported depressive symptoms, including 8.9% suspected depressive disorders and 4.2% confirmed depressive disorders, according to the HAD. More than a third of the sample (40.1%) showed alcohol misuse.InterpretationThis study represents a major advancement in understanding the mental health of European airline pilots. …”
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Is there an association between traumatic dental injury and social capital, binge drinking and socioeconomic indicators among schoolchildren? by Haroldo Neves de Paiva, Paula Cristina Pelli Paiva, Carlos José de Paula Silva, Joel Alves Lamounier, Efigênia Ferreira E Ferreira, Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Ichiro Kawachi, Patrícia Maria Zarzar

“…<h4>Research design and method</h4>A cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 633 12-year-old students. …”
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Polymerase-free measurement of microRNA-122 with single base specificity using single molecule arrays: Detection of drug-induced liver injury. by David M Rissin, Barbara López-Longarela, Salvatore Pernagallo, Hugh Ilyine, A D Bastiaan Vliegenthart, James W Dear, Juan J Díaz-Mochón, David C Duffy

“…We have developed a single probe method for detecting microRNA from human serum using single molecule arrays, with sequence specificity down to a single base, and without the use of amplification by polymerases. …”
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Genetic evidence of bidirectional mendelian randomization study on the causality between gut microbiome and respiratory diseases contributes to gut-lung axis by Xiaoqing Zhou, Shuyan Shen, Zhen Wang

“…Among them, 30 causal associations were found in more than one MR method. Multiple statistical corrections have confirmed three causal associations: genus Holdemanella was a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (P = 1.3 × 10−4, OR = 1.18), family FamilyXIII was a protective factor for COPD (P = 1.3 × 10−3, OR = 0.75), and genus Oxalobacter was a risk factor for asthma (P = 2.1 × 10−4, OR = 1.09). …”
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