Time-varying harmonic impedance estimation based on locally-geographically weighted regression by XU Fangwei, XIE Pei′ang, WANG Chuan, LIU Kai, GUO Kai, FAN Lijuan

“…For the time interval between two sample points, large numerical value probably gives rise to more conspicuous difference between the impedance and the background harmonics at the corresponding time. …”
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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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Association between Mindful Eating and Food Consumption in the NutriNet-Santé Cohort Study by Pauline Paolassini-Guesnier, Marion Van Beekum, Rebecca Shankland, Angélique Rodhain, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Mathilde Touvier, Sandrine Péneau

“…The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between ME levels and food consumption, in particular, diet quality, food groups, and ultra-processed food consumption, in a general population sample. Methods: In 2022, 2069 participants of the NutriNet-Santé Study completed the Mind-Eat scale, a validated questionnaire assessing ME as a whole and its six dimensions. …”
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SDDT-SR: A Scale-Decoupling Super-Resolution Network With Domain Transfer for Heterogeneous Images by Simin Lin, Jiangdi Ru, Jiaqi Li, Keyao Wen, Mengxi Liu, Qian Shi

“…Recently deep learning based methods achieved great success in RSI-SRR, making RSI-SRR more efficient and accurate. …”
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The Development of a Brief but Comprehensive Therapeutic Assessment Protocol for the Screening and Support of Youth in the Community to Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis by Margaret Danielle Weiss, Eleanor Castine Richards, Danta Bien-Aime, Taylor Witkowski, Peyton Williams, Katie E. Holmes, Dharma E. Cortes, Miriam C. Tepper, Philip S. Wang, Rajendra Aldis, Nicholas Carson, Benjamin Le Cook

“…The final sample included disproportionately more Black or African American and Hispanic youth as compared to school and community statistics, suggesting that optimization of online and offline methods in research may facilitate the recruitment of diverse populations. …”
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LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS WITH COVID-19-RELATED ARDS WITH AND WITHOUT INITIAL COMORBIDITIES by М.V. OSIKOV¹,², V.N. ANTONOV, S.О. ZOTOV

“…Objective: To evaluate the complications, outcomes, and development of chronic diseases in patients following COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with diffuse alveolar damage of varying severity in patients with and without initial comorbidities. Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted using a random sample of 158 medical records from patients at the Chelyabinsk Regional Clinical Hospital in Chelyabinsk, Russia. …”
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Cardiovascular risk in childhood and young adulthood is associated with the hemodynamic response function in midlife: The Bogalusa Heart Study by Kai-Cheng Chuang, Maryam Naseri, Sreekrishna Ramakrishnapillai, Kaitlyn Madden, Julia St Amant, Kevin McKlveen, Kathryn Gwizdala, Ramasudhakar Dhullipudi, Lydia Bazzano, Owen Carmichael

“…Conclusions: In a diverse middle-aged community sample, HRF-based indicators of faster and more efficient neurovascular functioning were associated with better brain health and cognitive function, as well as better lifespan cardiovascular health.…”
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Prevalence and factors associated with awareness and use of HIV self-testing kits among young women aged 15–24 in Ghana by Martin Wiredu Agyekum, Margaret Appiah, Frank Kyei-Arthur, Grace Frempong Afrifa-Anane, Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi, Isaac Yeboah, Marijanatu Abdulai

“…The sample was restricted to young women aged 15–24 who have ever had sex, yielding a sample size of 3312. …”
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Investigating the influence of soil organic carbon on pore structure within aggregates by Jingjing Liu, Yu Tian, Chiara Pasut, Mark Farrell, Shenggao Lu

“…In Cambisols, SOC removal was associated with more pronounced shifts in pore morphology, whereas Ultisols showed more heterogeneous responses, likely due to differing mineralogical properties. …”
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Self-aligning prosthetic device for older patients with vascular-related amputations: protocol for a randomised feasibility study (the STEPFORWARD study) by Elizabeth Coleman, Catriona McDaid, Natasha Mitchell, Judith Watson, Kerry Bell, Cleveland Barnett, Martin Twiste, Fergus Jepson, Abayomi Salawu, Dennis Harrison, Natalie Vanicek

“…This trial will establish the feasibility of conducting a large-scale trial to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a self-aligning prosthesis for older patients with vascular-related amputations and other health issues compared with a standard prosthesis.Methods and analysis This feasibility trial is a pragmatic, parallel group, randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing standard treatment with a more rigid prosthesis versus a self-aligning prosthesis. …”
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Mapping Wheat Stem Sawfly (<i>Cephus cinctus</i> Norton) Infestations in Spring and Winter Wheat Fields via Multiway Modelling of Multitemporal Sentinel 2 Images by Lochlin S. Ermatinger, Scott L. Powell, Robert K. D. Peterson, David K. Weaver

“…The results of this study indicate that multitemporal RS can help estimate total and adequate WSS infestations, but more holistic methods of field level sensing should be explored, especially for estimating WSS cutting.…”
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Suicidal Ideation and Self-Injury in Trigeminal Neuralgia by Fishbein NS, Bakhshaie J, Greenberg J

“…This study reports rates and severity of suicidal ideation and self-injury and the association between suicidality, emotional distress, and pain intensity in a large sample of adults with trigeminal neuralgia and related neuralgias.Patients and Methods: We recruited 229 adults with trigeminal neuralgia and other related conditions to complete a cross-sectional survey assessing suicidal ideation, self-injury, and emotional distress. …”
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Pore Properties of the Lacustrine Shale in the Upper Part of the Sha-4 Member of the Paleogene Shahejie Formation in the Dongying Depression in East China by Ziyi Wang, Liuping Zhang, Yuan Gao, Wenxiu Yang, Yongshi Wang, Huimin Liu, Zhaoyang Li, Shanshan Zhou

“…However, the factors controlling pores for lacustrine shale oil remain unclear, as the relationships between pore properties of Soxhlet-extracted samples and geological factors have not been studied using multivariate analytical methods. …”
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Predictors of not wanting to seek help or information for suicide thoughts by Christine Mohn, Egil Haga, Hanne Sofie Wernoe Nilsson, Jane Pirkis, Lars Mehlum

“…Moreover, we identify the strongest predictors of non-help-seeking intentions. Methods A population sample (N = 3251) from the Mid- and West- Norway regions participated in an online survey of attitudes to suicide and help-seeking for mental ill health. …”
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Validation of selection signatures for coat color in the Podolica Italiana gray cattle breed by Silvia Bruno, Giacomo Rovelli, Vincenzo Landi, Fiorella Sbarra, Andrea Quaglia, Fabio Pilla, Emiliano Lasagna, Elena Ciani

“…In a previous study adopting the FST-outlier approach with BayeScan v2.0, we identified differentially selected genomic regions in a set of gray cattle breeds, including the Podolica Italiana, and contrasted these findings with four non-gray cattle breeds. More supported signals were detected on bovine chromosomes (BTAs) 2, 4, 14, and 26 that encompassed more than fifty genes known to be directly or indirectly related to one or more steps in pigment biology. …”
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Implications of cytokine genes polymorphisms in Jordanian patients with obsessive compulsive disorder by Ahmad M. Khalil, Manal W. Khrais, Khaled M. Al-Qaoud, Mohamad Y. Al Ta’any

“…The alleles of two SNPs (IL-1β + 3954 C > T and TNF-α-308 G > A) were more predominant and more positively correlated with a higher risk in OCD women. …”
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The Alteration in Composition and Function of Gut Microbiome in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Xue Zhao, Yiding Zhang, Ruixue Guo, Wei Yu, Fanliang Zhang, Feng Wu, Jin Shang

“…We aimed to explore the alteration in composition and function of the gut microbiome in T2DM patients. Methods. A total of 137 patients with diabetes and 179 age- and gender-matched healthy controls selected from the healthy people sample center in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University were divided into the DM group and the Con group, respectively. …”
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Doctor-patient communication in obesity disease - the perspective of Polish primary care physicians by Iwona Drozdowska, Antonina Doroszewska, Tomasz Pasierski

“…Doctors who rated their communication skills and medical knowledge needed for conversations with patients living with obesity more highly were more likely to address this topic during a visit for an unrelated medical condition. …”
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Neurologic manifestations of COVID-19 and viral test in cerebrospinal fluid. by Carla de Oliveira Cardoso, Evandra Strazza Rodrigues Sandoval, Lilian Beatriz Moreira de Oliveira Chagas, Soraya Jabur Badra, Dimas Tadeu Covas, Simone Kashima Haddad, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo

“…<h4>Background</h4>Neurological manifestations are present in about one-third of COVID-19 cases, ranging from mild symptoms, such as anosmia, to more severe forms like demyelinating syndromes. Although direct invasion of the CNS has been demonstrated, the immune- mediated pathway is also described and more accepted. …”
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The effect of radiation dose rate on radiosensitization potential of PEG-coated bismuth oxide nanoparticles: A nanoscopic biodosimetry by DNA plasmid by Farshad Seyednejad, Elham Mansouri, Asghar Mesbahi

“…Increasing the dose rate from 50 MU/min to 833 MU/min did not cause any obvious change in the amount of plasmid damage in the plasmid samples without nanoparticles. Considering the plasmid samples containing metal nanoparticles, the values of the dose enhancement factor for the samples exposed to 6MV X-ray irradiation at a dose rate of 833 MU/min were significantly increased compared to the samples irradiated with 6 MV X-rays at a dose rate of 50 MU/min. …”
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