Native insect pollinators in Apple orchards under different management practices in the Kashmir Valley by Muzaffar Ahmad Ganie, Amit Kumar Pal, Nazeer Ahmad

“…Despite of having significant knowledge of managed pollination, only few farmers (2%) adopted supplementary methods of pollination (renting honey bee colonies, hand pollination etc.). …”
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Biogeography of human infectious diseases: a global historical analysis. by Elizabeth Cashdan

“…Pathogens increased with temperature in high-latitude zones, while mean annual precipitation was a more important predictor in low-latitude zones. Other environmental factors associated with more pathogens included seasonal dry extremes, frost-free climates, and human population density outside the tropics. …”
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Recognition of Conus species using a combined approach of supervised learning and deep learning-based feature extraction. by Noshaba Qasmi, Rimsha Bibi, Sajid Rashid

“…Cone snails are venomous marine gastropods comprising more than 950 species widely distributed across different habitats. …”
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Illness perception in patients with dental caries: A co-relational study in Odisha by Hemamalini Rath, Abhijit Panda, Shilpa Mahapatra

“…The present study was conducted to assess illness perception of patients having dental caries using Illness Perceptions Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R) in Odisha. Materials and methods: A descriptive co-relational study was conducted among 250 patients with self-reported dental caries in at least one tooth and more than 18 years of age. …”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of lipid-lowering agents by V. G. Shevko, M. A. Galas, T. L. Galankin, A. S. Kolbin

“…Surrogate endpoints are wellknown sources of bias that can distort the risk-benefit analysis.The objective of the study was to assess the significance of lipid-lowering therapy with statins in relation to mortality.Methods and materials. The analysis of prospective controlled trials was carried out with a sample of 2000 patients and more, in which mortality rate was assessed for 2 or more years of statin therapy, as well as systematic literature reviews with a meta-analysis of mortality rates. …”
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D-dimer levels at the time of admission to hospital as a predictor of outcome in trauma patients: A prospective observational study by Amarjyoti Hazarika, Mandeep Kumar, Jasmina Ahluwalia, Bisman J. K. Khurana, Varun Mahajan, Nidhi Bhatia, Navneen Naik, Deepak Kumar

“…The aim of the study was to find whether DD levels at the time of admission can predict the outcome of patients. Methods: This prospective observational studied 205 adult patients of age group 18–60 years, presenting to trauma emergency within 24 h of injury and blood samples collected within this period. …”
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Determinants of food insecurity among Syrian refugee women and their coping strategies by Kübra Esin, Feride Ayyıldız

“…Women who are older, have more children, lower income, lower education, and higher BMI are more likely to experience food insecurity. …”
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Persistent effects of legal status on healthcare access and outcomes: findings from a state-wide representative cross-sectional survey in California by Lei Chen, Michelle Kao Nakphong, May Sudhinaraset, Nadereh Pourat, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young

“…Citizens who were previously undocumented were more likely to delay medical care (aOR=2.32, p<0.05) compared with CLS. …”
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Quality of life and issues related to body image and intimacy in breast cancer survivors by Kim Sadler, Sarah Alsaif, Ghadeer Alsaffar, Shahd Melibari, Norah Albedah, Rania Abed Salah, Meaad Abdullah Alharbi, Ruth Evangelista

“…Setting and Design: A cross-sectional design was used in a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: Data were collected through the self-reported Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Breast (FACT-B) with women two or more years posttreatment and between 18 and 75 years. …”
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The "hypnotic state" and eye movements: Less there than meets the eye? by Etzel Cardeña, Barbara Nordhjem, David Marcusson-Clavertz, Kenneth Holmqvist

“…s experiment). Highs reported being more deeply in hypnosis than Lows but only in the hypnotic condition, as expected. …”
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Mislabeled out-of-hospital patient care records during transitions of care: a quality improvement intervention using root cause analysis (RCA) in an EMS system. by Luis Mauricio Pinet-Peralta, Nicole Y. Duppins

“…The purpose of this quality study is to identify the cause of mislabeled EMS patient care reports in an EMS agency and develop an intervention to reduce the rate of mislabeled patient care reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quality improvement study follows the model for improvement process, using PDCA cycles and root cause analysis, and used the two-sample unmatched Wilcoxon rank-sum to test for differences in the number of mislabeled records after intervention implementation. …”
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Consequences of Delayed Endoscopies on the IBD Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Karen C. Young, Vitaliy Poylin

“…There were more IBD related surgeries in the on-time group (16) compared to the delayed group (4), P=0.03. …”
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Intraocular pressure variations in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment: Does it point towards an alternate biomechanical response? by R Aswathy, Padma B. Prabhu, Ranjini Kotancheri

“…Objective: To evaluate the variations in intraocular pressure and its relation with the severity and chronicity of Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), as well as the type of break and presence of myopia. Methods: Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study; sample size 75 (4 pq/d2); duration 1 year; exclusion-combined Retinal Detachment (RD), exudative Rd, associated choroidal detachment, and anterior Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). …”
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Physical activity and excess weight in pregnancy have independent and unique effects on delivery and perinatal outcomes. by Kelly L Morgan, Muhammad A Rahman, Rebecca A Hill, Shang-Ming Zhou, Gunnar Bijlsma, Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Ronan A Lyons, Sinead T Brophy

“…A total of 466 women sampled from the Growing Up in Wales: Environments for Healthy Living study. …”
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Is it safe? The effect of narrative vs. non-narrative messages on story-related knowledge of medicated abortion by Judy Watts, Austin Hubner, Jun Pei, Michaella Barros Coelho

“…This study aims to investigate the potential for media-based learning from exposure to narratives.MethodsWe conducted a between subjects (format: narrative vs. non-narrative) by within subjects 2 (time: immediate post-test vs. delayed post-test) on a college population sample (time 1: n = 220; time 2: n = 125). …”
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THE EFFECT OF PBL INTEGRATED WITH PHET VIRTUAL LABORATORY AND SELF-EFFICACY ON STUDENTS’ SCIENCE PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS by Indah Lastari Siregar, Aan Hendrayana, Lukman Nulhakim

“…The sample consisted of 61 randomly selected grade VIII students. …”
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The Association of ITGBL1 and LPPR4/PRG1 Expression Profile in Patients with Prostate Cancer History by Asmaalsadat Nikkhouy-Tanha, Nazanin Nazari, Maryam Moradi, Mahsa Talebi, Fatima Masoomi Sarvestani, Fatemeh Rahmanzad, Maryam Mahmoudi, Zahra Jafarinia, Banafsheh Rastegari

“…Conclusion: According to the role of ITGBL1 in several tumor phenotypes, we cannot ignore the importance of ITGBL1 genes as one of the critical regulatory proteins in prostate cancer development or progression. Therefore, more studies are required to explore the associations of prostate cancer with these regulatory proteins in more Iranian populations.…”
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Identifying HEXACO personality types: what do type characteristics tell us about student misconduct? by Ana Cristina Veríssimo, Pedro Oliveira, Paula Mena Matos, Laura Ribeiro

“…The distribution of the personality types was also compared across sociodemographic groups and fields of study. Methods A sample of 1,398 health and non-health university students replied to a multiple-choice questionnaire covering HEXACO personality traits, eight forms of academic misconduct, and background information. …”
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Isolation and Identification of Toxoplasma gondii from Aborted Fetuses of Goats by PCR in Lorestan Province by Morad Beiranvand, Hossein Hamidinejat, Somayeh Bahrami, Mohammad Reza Tabandeh, Meysam Makki

“…The study was performed in three aborted fetus groups, less than 2 months, 2 to 4 months and more than 4 months. Results: From a total of 100 examined samples, conventional PCR detected the T. gondii infection in 6 (6%) and 2 of the brain and liver fetuses respectively. …”
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Increasing event‐driven HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis use among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Australia: results from behavioural surveillance 2019–2023 by Curtis Chan, Martin Holt, Anthony K. J. Smith, Timothy R. Broady, James MacGibbon, Limin Mao, Ben Wilcock, John Rule, Benjamin R. Bavinton

“…In a cross‐sectional sub‐sample in 2022–2023 (n = 8840), compared to ED‐PrEP users, non‐PrEP users were less likely to have received three or more HIV tests in the last 12 months (aRRR = 0.26, 95% CI = 0.22−0.31, p < 0.001), have 2−10 male sexual partners in the last 6 months (aRRR = 0.24, 95% CI = 0.14−0.41, p < 0.001) or 11 or more (aRRR = 0.26, 95% CI = 0.15−0.45, p < 0.001) compared to none, or to report condomless anal intercourse with casual partners (aRRR = 0.38, 95% CI = 0.32−0.46, p < 0.001). …”
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