Growth and development of two predator species fed a diet of genetically engineered mosquitoes by Claire M. Egan, Lisa Chamberland, Robert E. Ditter, Melina Campos, Fatima Batchelor, Aleena Bosky, Christine H. Coleman, Andrew J. Goffinet, Ariana Hosseini, Morgan Kammersgard, Brian Leetakubuulidde, Danspaid P. Mabuka, Ivan Mulongo Mugeni, Gregory C. Lanzaro

“…Further research is needed to explore whether GEM visual or behavioral traits increase their susceptibility to predators. …”
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Preoperative Evaluation with fMRI of Patients with Intracranial Gliomas by Ioannis Z. Kapsalakis, Eftychia Z. Kapsalaki, Efstathios D. Gotsis, Dimitrios Verganelakis, Panagiotis Toulas, Georgios Hadjigeorgiou, Indug Chung, Ioannis Fezoulidis, Alexandros Papadimitriou, Joe Sam Robinson, Gregory P. Lee, Kostas N. Fountas

“…The purpose of our study was to evaluate fMRI’s accuracy by comparing it to intraoperative cortical stimulation (DCS) mapping. Material and Methods. Eighty-seven patients, with presumed glioma diagnosis, underwent preoperative fMRI and intraoperative DCS for cortical mapping during tumor resection. …”
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Network pharmacology and experimental study of Angelica sinensis and Astragalus membranaceus capsules in treating heart failure by Xue Wu, Ai Liu, Xinfang Lv, Xiaodong Zhi, Xiangting Zeng, Kai Liu, Xinke Zhao, Bing Jiang, HuGang Jiang, Yingdong Li

“…Objective: This study explores the mechanism of AAC in intervening heart failure (HF) using network pharmacology, molecular docking, and in vitro experimental validation. Methods: The “active component-target” network and the “drug-disease target” protein interaction network were constructed using Cytoscape 3.9.0 and STRING Database. …”
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A Clinical Trial of Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture for Abirritation during High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Adenomyosis by Chenning Liu, Xiaoyang Lin, Yuhui Liu, Meiduo Zhao, Qiuxian Shen, Li Tang, Yanqin Wang, Xiaojuan Zhou, Huituan Liu, Hongjin Yu

“…The purpose of this research is to assess the efficacy of WAA for relieving pain during HIFU treatment of adenomyosis. Methods: Fifty-eight patients with adenomyosis treated with HIFU were enrolled in this study. …”
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Behavioural responses of common dolphins to naval sonar by Brandon L. Southall, John W. Durban, John Calambokidis, Caroline Casey, James A. Fahlbusch, Holly Fearnbach, Kiirsten R. Flynn, Selene Fregosi, Ari S. Friedlaender, Samantha G. M. Leander, Fleur Visser

“…Social delphinids occur in groups of hundreds of individuals that travel quickly, change behaviour ephemerally and are not amenable to conventional tagging methods, posing challenges in quantifying noise impacts. …”
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DeepVinci: Organ and Tool Segmentation with Edge Supervision and a Densely Multi-Scale Pyramid Module for Robot-Assisted Surgery by Li-An Tseng, Yuan-Chih Tsai, Meng-Yi Bai, Mei-Fang Li, Yi-Liang Lee, Kai-Jo Chiang, Yu-Chi Wang, Jing-Ming Guo

“…This study focuses on the first step in automated surgical navigation by identifying organs in gynecological surgery. <b>Methods</b>: Due to the difficulty of collecting da Vinci gynecological endoscopy data, we propose DeepVinci, a novel end-to-end high-performance encoder–decoder network based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for pixel-level organ semantic segmentation. …”
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Wheat dwarf virus and its impact on the 2020 harvest in some regions of Ukraine by L. Mishchenko, A. Dunich, I. Mishchenko, A. Dashchenko, O. Boyko, O. Skufinskyi, A. Kyrychenko, N. Kozub, T. Mukha

“…Identify the virus that causes symptoms of dwarfism and non-earing of winter wheat (reduced or no ear formation), and investigate its effect on plant yields. Methods. Visual diagnostics, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in double sandwich modification (DAS-ELISA), polymerase chain reaction, biometric, determination of yield and its structure, statistical data processing. …”
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Greater neural pattern similarity to the native language is associated with better novel word learning by Yuan Feng, Yuan Feng, Yuan Feng, Yuan Feng, Aqian Li, Aqian Li, Aqian Li, Aqian Li, Jing Qu, Jing Qu, Jing Qu, Jing Qu, Huiling Li, Huiling Li, Huiling Li, Huiling Li, Xiaoyu Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, Jingxian Zhang, Jingxian Zhang, Jingxian Zhang, Jingxian Zhang, Jiayi Yang, Jiayi Yang, Jiayi Yang, Jiayi Yang, Leilei Mei, Leilei Mei, Leilei Mei, Leilei Mei

“…Nevertheless, it is still unclear how the utilization of the L1 neural strategies affects visual word learning in a new language.MethodsTo address this question, the present study scanned native Chinese speakers while performing implicit reading tasks before 9-day form-meaning learning in Experiment 1 and before 12-day comprehensive word learning in Experiment 2. …”
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Big Bubble Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty for Management of Deep Fungal Keratitis by Hua Gao, Peng Song, Jose J. Echegaray, Yanni Jia, Suxia Li, Man Du, Victor L. Perez, Weiyun Shi

“…To evaluate the therapeutic effect of big bubble deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) in patients with deep fungal keratitis. Methods. Consecutive patients who had DALK for deep fungal keratitis at Shandong Eye Hospital between July 2011 and December 2012 were included. …”
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SuperCoT-X: Masked Hyperspectral Image Modeling With Diverse Superpixel-Level Contrastive Tokenizer by Miaomiao Liang, Weigang Wu, Huifang Shen, Lingjuan Yu, Xiangchun Yu, Licheng Jiao

“…Comprehensive experiments on five HSI datasets demonstrate that our proposed methods achieve favorable results and are competitive with other self-supervised approaches.…”
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Patient with severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy and comorbidity: analysis of solved and unsolved problems in diabetic retinal involvement diagnosis and treatment from the po... by T. A. Novikova-Bilak, A. V. Zheleznyakova, O. E. Iljukhin, D. V. Lipatov, A. M. Nikolaeva, K. S. Turko, O. K. Vikulova, M. V. Shestakova

“…BACKGROUND: Diabetic retinal involvements as proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and diabetic macular edema (DME), revealed in most cases of PDR, are main causes of best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) loss in diabetic patients. PDR represents late diabetes mellitus (DM) complication, in severe cases it requires vitreoretinal surgery (VRS). …”
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Intelligence quotient discrepancy indicates levels of motor competence in preschool children at risk for developmental delays by Yu T, Chen K, Chou W, Yang S, Kung S, Lee Y, Tung L

“…The second finding was that preschoolers with larger VIQ&amp;gt;PIQ discrepancy had worse motor competence in visual-motor integration and body-movement coordination. …”
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Transversus abdominis plane block as a component of anesthesia in kidney transplantation by A. V. Shabunin, E. P. Rodionov, P. A. Drozdov, A. A. Malyshev, B. A. Smolev, A.  A.  Efanov, S.  A. Fedorishchev, R. I. Malashenko, S. A. Astapovich, E. A. Lidzhieva

“…To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the transversus abdominis plane block in kidney transplantation from deceased donor.Material and methods. The first stage included a retrospective comparative analysis of the results using the transversus abdominis plane block in renal transplantation. …”
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Effect of Clinic-Based and Asynchronous Video-Based Exercise on Clinic and Psychosocial Outcomes in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: Quasi-Experimental Study by Chidozie E Mbada, Henry Akintunji Awosika, Oluwatobi Ademola Sonuga, Micheal Akande, Tadesse Gebrye, Richard Woolf, Francis Fatoye

“…However, a higher score was observed for the CbSE group in the Quadruple Visual Analog Scale’s least pain domain (1.2, SD 0.2 vs 0.7, SD 0.2; P=.04). …”
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Twelve-Month Outcomes and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Biomarkers After Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implantation in Pseudophakic Eyes with Post-Vitrectomy Cystoid Macular Edem... by Francesco Pignatelli, Alfredo Niro, Giuseppe Addabbo, Pasquale Viggiano, Giacomo Boscia, Maria Oliva Grassi, Francesco Boscia, Cristiana Iaculli, Giulia Maria Emilia Clima, Antonio Barone, Ermete Giancipoli

“…The mean best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA; logMAR), mean central macular thickness (CMT; μm) change, and response to different treatments [medical therapy and intravitreal dexamethasone (DEX) implant] were evaluated 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after PPV. …”
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Revealing the Multi-Target Mechanisms of Fespixon Cream in Diabetic Foot Ulcer Healing: Integrated Network Pharmacology, Molecular Docking, and Clinical RT-qPCR Validation by Tianbo Li, Dehua Wei, Jiangning Wang, Lei Gao

“…The interaction network was visualized using Cytoscape version 3.7.2 software. The potential mechanisms of the shared targets were analyzed by Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analysis using R software packages, and results were visualized through Bioinformatics online tools. …”
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Ondas de densidad semántica para el análisis de la argumentación clínica multimodal en la formación de profesionales de la salud by Giovanni Garcia-Castro, Francisco Javier Ruiz-Ortega

“…Resultados: los análisis revelaron que la densidad semántica aumenta con el uso intencionado de recursos multimodales, como gestos, gráficos y lenguaje visual, facilitando la integración de conceptos complejos. …”
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A Deep Learning Model for Identifying the Risk of Mesenteric Malperfusion in Acute Aortic Dissection Using Initial Diagnostic Data: Algorithm Development and Validation by Zhechuan Jin, Jiale Dong, Chengxiang Li, Yi Jiang, Jian Yang, Lei Xu, Ping Li, Zhun Xie, Yulin Li, Dongjin Wang, Zhili Ji

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to develop and validate a deep learning–based model that integrates multimodal data to identify patients with AAD at high risk of MMP. MethodsThis multicenter retrospective study included 525 patients with AAD from 2 hospitals. …”
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Optimizing Sports Training Lessons by Using the Led System for Beginner Basketball Groups by Adrian PAȘCAN, Cosmin MOCA

“…Materials and methods: The subjects of the experiment were the athletes of the beginner basketball group born in 2010-2011, namely 16 girls. …”
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Efectos del foam roller sobre el rango de movimiento, el dolor y el rendimiento neuromuscular: revisión sistemática (Foam roller effects on joint range of motion, pain, and neurom... by Blanca Romero-Moraleda, Alexandra López-Rosillo, Jaime González-García, Esther Morencos

“…Therefore, our goal was to carry out a systematic review to determine the effectiveness of foam rollers both during warm-ups and after exercising as a means for increasing recovery. Methods: A systematic review was performed in the scientific databases Pubmed, Wos, Scopus, and PEDro from November to March 2019. …”
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