Factors influencing evidence-based cardiovascular disease prevention programming in rural African American communities: a community-engaged concept mapping study by Amelia DeFosset, Breanna Deutsch-Williams, Mysha Wynn, Katrina Blunt, Scott Rosas, Mary Wolfe McKinley, Brian Ellerby, Shirley McFarlin, Veena Reddy, Giselle Corbie, Gaurav Dave

“…Group concept mapping helped distill and prioritize initial leverage points for action in our project catchment area by facilitating a community-engaged process of data generation and interpretation.…”
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DISCUSSIONS REGARDING A POSSIBLE GOVERNMENT GUARDIANSHIP CONTROL OVER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTS by Constantin Claudiu ULARIU

“…This objective involves a systematic analysis of the domestic normative framework and the identification of elements relevant to the domain subject to analysis through this legal initiative.…”
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High temperature QDs organization and re-crystallization in glass supported MgO QDs doped PMMA film by Satya Pal Singh, Archana Kumari Singh, Suraj Vishwakarma

“…We observe that the film loses its overall crystallinity in the initial stages of annealing, which improves slightly owing to the temperature-induced limited diffusion of MgO QDs (sizes in the range of 7.0603–9.5647 nm). …”
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Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis technique failure in adult patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa: a retrospective analytical study by Tshifhiwa B. Sikhipha, Claire Barrett, Nicoline van Zyl, Cornel van Rooyen, Feziwe B. Bisiwe

“…Technique failure rates at 1-, 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-years post-PD initiation were 31.9%, 35.2%, 13.2%, 8.8% and 11.0%, respectively. …”
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Urinary System Manifestation of IgG4-Related Disease: Clinical, Laboratory, Radiological, and Pathological Spectra of a Chinese Single-Centre Study by Fei Teng, Hui Lu, Ke Zheng, Gang Chen, Yubing Wen, Zheng Liu, Linyi Peng, Li Huo, Xiaofeng Zeng, Wen Zhang, Xuemei Li

“…Patients showed good initial response to immunosuppressive treatment but relapses could occur at the maintenance period.…”
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Understanding the cost-utility of implementing HIV self-testing with digital-based supports by Brianna Empringham, Brianna Empringham, Angela Karellis, Marta Fernandez-Suarez, Sergio Carmona, Nitika Pant Pai, Alice Zwerling

“…The main drivers of cost-utility included HIV test and treatment costs, HIV test-positivity, rates of linkage to care, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation rates. Digital-based supports were associated with an increased cost compared to facility-based testing, but they also had increased utility, which led to favorable cost-utility estimates.DiscussionHIVST with digital supports has the potential to be a highly cost-effective approach, with the potential to make HIV testing more available and accessible, thereby increasing overall uptake and coverage of HIV testing. …”
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Effect of exercise on kidney-relevant biomarkers in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Paul Welsh, Carlos Celis-Morales, Patrick Mark, Qiaoling Liu, Jennifer Lees

“…This manuscript synthesised the evidence of the association of changes in PA with kidney biomarkers in the general population free from kidney disease.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources Embase, PubMed, MEDLINE and Web of Science databases were searched from inception to 12 March 2023.Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Studies of longitudinal or interventional design were selected initially. The following studies were excluded: (1) case-control studies, (2) studies where PA was measured at a single time point, (3) populations with known kidney disease, (4) studies evaluating the impact of a single episode/event of PA and (5) non-English language studies.Data extraction and synthesis Two independent reviewers extracted data from a pre-designed table and assessed the risk of bias using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool. …”
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Catalytic effect of Fe@Fe2O3 nanowires and Fenton process on carbamazepine removal from aqueous solutions using response surface methodology by M.M. Amin, S. Yousefinejad, M. Dehghani, S. Rahimi

“…The effects of different parameters such as initial pH, H₂O₂, FeSO₄.7H₂O, carbamazepine concentrations, oxidation time, and nanowires dose were evaluated using response surface methodology. …”
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Rehabilitation Protocol Variability Following Arthroscopic Bankart Repair and Remplissage for Management of Anterior Shoulder Instability: A Systematic Review by Juan B. Villarreal-Espinosa, Michael M. Reinold, Mohammad Khak, Mohammad J. Shariyate, Carol Mita, Jeffrey Kay, Arun J. Ramappa

“…Moreover, 23/41 studies described their initial post-operative shoulder range of motion restrictions, while 17/41 specified any shoulder motion allowed during this restrictive phase. …”
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Development of an implementation intervention to promote adoption of the COMFORT clinical practice guideline for peripartum pain management: a qualitative study by Limi Sharif, Shelytia Cocroft, Shawna N. Smith, Christopher Benincasa, Alex F. Peahl, Lisa Kane Low, Jennifer Waljee, Carrie Miller, Carey Simpson, Michelle H. Moniz

“…Focus groups included physicians, midwives, nurses, and unit-based quality improvement (QI) staff working at Michigan hospitals within the Obstetrics Initiative, a statewide perinatal quality collaborative funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network. …”
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Wave erosion, frontal bending, and calving at Ross Ice Shelf by N. B. Sartore, T. J. W. Wagner, M. R. Siegfried, N. Pujara, L. K. Zoet

“…Stresses from foot-induced bending are likely not sufficient to initiate crevassing but rather act to propagate existing crevasses. …”
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Sarcolemma resilience and skeletal muscle health require O-mannosylation of dystroglycan by Jeffrey M. Hord, Sarah Burns, Tobias Willer, Matthew M. Goddeeris, David Venzke, Kevin P. Campbell

“…O-mannose glycan biosynthesis is initiated by the protein O-mannosyltransferase 1 (POMT1) and POMT2 enzyme complex and leads to three subtypes of glycans called core M1, M2, and M3. …”
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Impact of pandemic service changes on ethnic inequalities in maternal and perinatal outcomes in England: a population-based study by Andrew Judge, Erik Lenguerrand, Tim Draycott, Stamatina Iliodromiti, Asma Khalil, Buthaina Ibrahim, Jennifer Elizabeth Jardine

“…The overall incidence of adverse outcomes per 1000 births initially decreased maternal: from 308.0 (95% CI 307.0 to 309.0) to 291.0 (95% CI 311.4 to 314.9) (p<0.001); perinatal: from 133.0 (95% CI 132.3 to 133.7) to 111.9 (95% CI 110.1 to 113.7) (p<0.001)), but then increased in the second pandemic period (maternal: 313.2 (95% CI 311.4 to 314.9) (p<0.001); perinatal 118.9 (95% CI 117.7 to 120.0) (p<0.001)). …”
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Gene content of seawater microbes is a strong predictor of water chemistry across the Great Barrier Reef by Marko Terzin, Steven J. Robbins, Sara C. Bell, Kim-Anh Lê Cao, Renee K. Gruber, Pedro R. Frade, Nicole S. Webster, Yun Kit Yeoh, David G. Bourne, Patrick W. Laffy

“…Conclusion This study reveals that functional information in reef-associated seawater microbes more robustly associates with physico-chemical variables than taxonomic data, highlighting the importance of incorporating microbial function in reef monitoring initiatives. Our integrative approach to mine for stable seawater microbial biomarkers can be expanded to include additional continuous metrics of reef health (e.g., benthic cover of corals and macroalgae, fish counts/biomass) and may be applicable to other large-scale reef metagenomics datasets beyond the GBR. …”
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Developing Guidelines for Conducting Stigma Research With Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals: Protocol for Creation of a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research by Augustus Klein, Sarit A Golub, Danielle Berke, Elijah Castle

“…Second, the qualitative findings will be used to develop an initial set of survey items representing a preliminary set of guidelines. …”
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Exploring the Functional Brain Activity of Motor Control of Abdominal Muscle Associated with Voluntary Voiding Based on Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by SHI Yinshuang, WANG Menghuan, PAN Yingying, LIN Feng

“…And further activation of the prefrontal cortex can be induced during abdominal muscle contractions in the strong urination state, suggesting that the prefrontal cortex plays a positive role in facilitating abdominal muscle movements and initiating urination following the perception of urinary awareness.…”
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Secreted LGALS3BP facilitates distant metastasis of breast cancer by Seung-Su Kim, Issac Park, Jeesoo Kim, Na-Lee Ka, Ga Young Lim, Mi-Ye Park, Sewon Hwang, Ji-Eun Kim, So Yeon Park, Jong-Seo Kim, Hyun-Woo Rhee, Mi-Ock Lee

“…Abstract Background Patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer (BC) can be treated with endocrine therapy targeting ER, however, metastatic recurrence occurs in 25% of the patients who have initially been treated. Secreted proteins from tumors play important roles in cancer metastasis but previous methods for isolating secretory proteins had limitations in identifying novel targets. …”
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Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review by C O Egbe, C Dare, S Gwambe, C van Walbeek

“…Results. We identified 6 743 initial records. A total of 223 articles were included in the final analysis. …”
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A Structural Model of Truncated Gaussia princeps Luciferase Elucidating the Crucial Catalytic Function of No.76 Arginine towards Coelenterazine Oxidation. by Nan Wu, Zhi-Chao Xu, Kai-Dong Du, Shen Huang, Naohiro Kobayashi, Yutaka Kuroda, Yan-Hong Bai

“…Both intramolecular electron transfer and the convergence of S1/S0 potential energy surfaces occurred in the last elementary reaction, which was regarded as the reported Chemically-Initiated-Electron-Exchange-Luminescence (CIEEL) reaction. …”
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Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers” by P. Marbaix, P. Marbaix, P. Marbaix, A. K. Magnan, A. K. Magnan, A. K. Magnan, V. Muccione, V. Muccione, P. W. Thorne, Z. Zommers

“…Since its Third Assessment Report (AR3), released 2 decades ago, the IPCC has developed a synthetic representation of how risks increase with global warming, with risk levels reflected by the colours used, including shades of yellow and red, which led to the nickname “burning embers”. While initially designed to illustrate five overarching Reasons for Concern, these diagrams have been progressively applied to risks in specific systems and regions over the last 10 years. …”
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