Exploring the Link Between Periodontal Pathogens and Systemic Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome by Ramanarayana Boyapati, Vijaya Krishna Prasad Vudathaneni, Ruparani Bodduru, Jyothi Todima, Ankineedu Babu Dasari, Lalitha Chintala

“…Younger research shows that dental bacteria cause more bodywide swelling, hurting MetS patients. Materials and Methods: Study included 100 MetS patients together with 100 healthy individuals having chronic periodontitis symptoms. …”
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The incidence and clinical burden of respiratory syncytial virus disease identified through hospital outpatient presentations in Kenyan children. by Emelda A Okiro, Mwanajuma Ngama, Ann Bett, D James Nokes

“…<h4>Background</h4>There is little information that describe the burden of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) associated disease in the tropical African outpatient setting.<h4>Methods</h4>We studied a systematic sample of children aged <5 years presenting to a rural district hospital in Kenya with acute respiratory infection (ARI) between May 2002 and April 2004. …”
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Digital Neuropsychology: Technological Approaches for the Assessment of Cognitive Functions in Older Adults by Elif Yıldırım

“…Although assessment methods using new technologies, such as virtual reality, are still in their infancy, they have great potential for more sensitive measurements. …”
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Identification of hypertension gene expression biomarkers based on the DeepGCFS algorithm. by Zongjin Li, Liqin Tian, Libing Bai, Zeyu Jia, Xiaoming Wu, Changxin Song

“…The algorithm then uses hybrid clustering methods for gene module detection. Finally, it combines integrated feature selection methods to determine the gene biomarkers. …”
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Pedagogical conditions for the formation of a conscious-based attitude of older preschoolers to the emotional display rules by Olga S. Pavlova

“…An intermediate level was recorded in more than 35% of children. A low level of understanding of the rules for expressing emotions and their use was not recorded after the classes, while before the classes it was about 40%. …”
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Needle-Like Leaf Organs of Conifers. Part II. Modeling the Needle Surface Area by Sergei I. Tarasov, Natalya V. Gerling

“…The developed method has been compared to other methods for estimating the surface area of needle-like samples by the examples of the needles of Siberian fir (Abies sibirica L.) and common juniper (Juniperus communis L.), as well as banana fruits (Musa paradisiaca L.), and the good predictive ability of the model has been demonstrated. …”
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Serum proteome and cytokine analysis in a longitudinal cohort of adults with primary dengue infection reveals predictive markers of DHF. by Yadunanda Kumar, Cui Liang, Zheng Bo, Jagath C Rajapakse, Eng Eong Ooi, Steven R Tannenbaum

“…Using fluorescent bioplex assays, we measured 27 cytokines in these serum samples. Additionally, we used multiple mass spectrometry methods for iTRAQ-based comparative analysis of serum proteome as well as measurements of protein adducts- 3-nitrotyrosine and 3-chlorotyrosine as surrogate measures of free radical activity. …”
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Jump amplitude inference in SDEs with cosine kernel by Wuchen Li, Luwen Zhang, Jian Xu, Linghui Li, Liping Bai

“…Our approach addresses these systematic errors, especially under large sample conditions, enabling more accurate statistical inference for the jump amplitude in stochastic differential equations with jumps. …”
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Picking Induced Seismicity with Deep Learning (piSDL) by Janis Heuel, Vincent Maurer, Michael Frietsch, Andreas Rietbrock

“…The models trained with the new data set and noise samples clearly outperform PhaseNet’s original published model and traditional methods in seismology by detecting up to 62% more events compared to a seismicity catalogue published by an agency. …”
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Technology and quality of Skorup - traditional Montenegrin dairy product by Slavko Mirecki, Danilo Tomić, Snežana Vučinić, Milan Marković, Božidarka Marković

“…The presence of Escherichia coli, coagulase positive staphylococci and aerobic mesophilic bacteria in Skorup was detected by standard broth base methods. All Skorup samples contained more than 80 % of fat in dry matter, more than 70 % dry matter, approximately 60 % milk fat and 6 % proteins. …”
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Resolving prokaryotic taxonomy without rRNA: longer oligonucleotide word lengths improve genome and metagenome taxonomic classification. by Eric B Alsop, Jason Raymond

“…Tetranucleotide signatures have been especially useful in environmental metagenomics samples as many of these samples contain organisms from poorly classified phyla which cannot be easily identified using traditional homology methods, including NCBI BLAST. …”
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Skeletal and dental features of class II malocclusion among Palestinian population: a retrospective cephalometric stud by Ibrahim Alturk, Mohammed R. Jaradat, Khaled R. Beshtawi, Hisham Atwan, Nader Giacaman, Mahmoud F. Abu-Ta’a

“…This study aims to assess the dentofacial characteristics for a sample of palestinian population with skeletal Class II malocclusion. …”
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Rural-urban determinants of HIV/AIDS testing uptake among Ghanaian women of reproductive age by Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, Samuel Ampaw, Alex Bawuah

“…Against this backdrop, this paper examines the drivers of HIV testing status among women of reproductive age in Ghana to inform policy. Methods We analysed a nationally representative sample of 14,997 women aged 15–49 from the 2022 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS). …”
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The tip of the iceberg: extraordinarily high diversity while examining two infralittoral nematode communities on Okinawa-jima Island, Japan, using morphology and DNA barcoding by Marilyn Carletti, Nuria Viñuela Rodríguez, Gaia Rossetti, Virginia Rossi, Bryan Gabriel Pulido Tan, James Davis Reimer

“…Results The results showed an overwhelmingly high biodiversity of nematofauna with both methods. The morphological identification of free-living nematodes was partly supported by molecular analyses, with the results varying more regarding less common taxa. …”
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Bloodthirsty bites: host-feeding patterns of phlebotomine sand flies from two localities in the Aegean Region of Türkiye by Metin Pekagirbas, Fatma Bursali, Serkan Bakirci

“…Blood-feeding patterns of these species was determined using direct ELISA technique and multiplex PCR method. Results All the samples collected from Aydin blood fed from Bos taurus whereas females sampled from Mugla locality blood-fed from Canis lupus (8/15) and Gallus domesticus (7/15). …”
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The impact of thermal and non-thermal processing on the phytochemical characteristics and nutritional value of Daucus carota (carrots) by Zeynab Fartoosi, Maryam Kolahi, Fariba Heidarizadeh, Andrea Goldson-Barnaby

“…Low temperature preservation (cold storage and freezing) appears to be more effective in preserving the nutritional composition of carrots as compared to thermal processing. …”
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Analysis of characteristics of symbiotic flora in patients with IgA nephropathy based on literature analysis by ZHAO Jin, BAI Ming, SUN Shi-ren

“…Objective To analyze the characteristics of oral and intestinal microbiota of IgA nephropathy（IgAN） patients.Methods Literature investigating the characteristics of symbiotic flora in IgAN patients were searched in Pubmed,Web of science,Cochrane Library and CNKI,and the results were systematically summarized and analyzed.Results With limitation of the intergenerational difference of methods for bacterial identification and the incompleteness of literature reports,there were big difference among results of the included studies.The structure of tonsillar flora in patients with IgAN was similar to that in patients with recurrent tonsillitis; the structure of salivary flora in IgAN patients was distinct from that in healthy people; the structure of gingival plaque flora was different among patients with periodontitis with or without IgAN.Compared with the healthy control,the intestinal microbiota abundance in IgAN patients was reduced the flora structure changed.Conclusions The abundance and composition of oral and intestinal microbiota in IgAN patients may be altered,and more specific changes require larger studies using advanced sequencing techniques and studies of bigger sample size are required for further clarification of detailed features of oral and intestinal microbiota in IgAN patients.…”
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Towards efficient and reliable utilization of automated data collection: Media scrapers applied to news on climate change by Erkki Mervaala, Jari Lyytimäki

“…While easing or even removing some of the key problems, such as laborious and time-consuming data collection and potential errors and biases related to subjective coding of materials and distortions caused by focus on small samples, automated methods also bring in new risks such as poor understanding of contexts of the data or non-recognition of underlying systematic errors or missing information. …”
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The Origin of Pediatric Hand Molds and Proof of Concept by Joseph Upton, MD, Kimberly S. Khouri, MD

“…Methods:. Using materials readily available in pediatric operating rooms, the details of the simple, efficient, and cost-effective method of creating hand molds are outlined. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Digital Tools on the Recruitment Process Using the Design Thinking Methodology by Danijela Magdalenić, Ljerka Luić

“…Methods such as desk research, interviews, diary methods, and P/C matrix diagonalization, supported by original metrics, assess the effectiveness of these approaches. …”
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