Availability of trace minerals in feed ingredients and supplemental sources (inorganic, organic, and nano) in broiler chickens by Junhyung Lee, Minju Kim

“…At d 15 of age, a total of 480 birds, one-day-old Ross 308 males, were used in the current trial and housed in metabolic cages for chickens. …”
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The impact of dropouts in scRNAseq dense neighborhood analysis by Alisa Pavel, Manja Gersholm Grønberg, Line H. Clemmensen

“…This implies that sub-populations within cell types are increasingly difficult to identify under increasing dropout rates because observations are not consistently close.Our results challenge the current practice of using default clustering pipelines and the general assumption of identifiable local neighborhoods on high dropout data. …”
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Impact of frailty in older people on health care demand: simulation modelling of population dynamics to inform service planning by Bronagh Walsh, Carole Fogg, Tracey England, Sally Brailsford, Paul Roderick, Scott Harris, Simon Fraser, Andrew Clegg, Simon de Lusignan, Shihua Zhu, Francesca Lambert, Abigail Barkham, Harnish Patel, Vivienne Windle

“…Prescriptions increased with increasing age in both Fit and Mild frailty categories but decreased in moderate and severe categories. …”
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Hospital-based innovation labs to accelerate digital health transformation: lessons learned from twenty types of experts by Eric R. Edelman, Joost G. E. Verbeek, Perry Hunen, Martijn de Groot, Nicole van Eldik, Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg

“…With our results, we aim to better understand the innovation process and possibly increase the chances of success of digital health innovations. …”
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Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Simulation of the Tuberculosis Epidemic as a Function of Population Coverage with Screening by A. A. Starshinova, I. F. Dovgalyuk, N. N. Osipov, D. A. Kudlay

“…The adjusted coefficient of determination of the model (adjusted R-squared) was 0.9969, which meant that the model contained almost no random components. It showed that tuberculosis cases missed due to low population coverage with preventive screening lead to future spread of tuberculous infection and a significant increase in the number of new tuberculosis cases. …”
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Contributory Risk Factors for Hypertension in Adolescent Offsprings of Hypertensive Fathers Attending a Tertiary Hospital in Lagos by Babatunde A. Akodu, Victor A. Inem, Stephen Yohanna, Jane N. Ajuluchukwu

“…RESULTS: Among the adolescents whose fathers were hypertensives, 45.3% were current drinkers of coffee, and 76.7% were users of caffeine containing drugs while among the controls, 35.1% were drinkers of coffee and 52.8% were current users of caffeine containing drugs (P. value < 0.05). …”
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Development of Soy-Based Meat Analogues via Wet Twin-Screw Extrusion: Enhancing Textural and Structural Properties Through Whole Yeast Powder Supplementation by Shikang Tang, Yidian Li, Xuejiao Wang, Linyan Zhou, Zhijia Liu, Lianzhou Jiang, Chaofan Guo, Junjie Yi

“…Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) confirmed an increase in β-sheet content (0.267 ± 0.003 vs. 0.260 ± 0.003), which contributed to improved protein aggregation. …”
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Environmental awareness factor of used cell phones by N. Wibowo, R. Nurcahyo, D.S. Gabriel

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Electronic equipment production is one of the major industrial sectors in Indonesia, as it also contributes to Indonesia’s export commodities, which increase because of rapid technological developments. …”
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Roundup and glyphosate’s impact on GABA to elicit extended proconvulsant behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans by Akshay S. Naraine, Rebecca Aker, Isis Sweeney, Meghan Kalvey, Alexis Adams, Venkatesh Shanbhag, Ken Dawson-Scully

“…Currently, there are no neurological targets proposed for glyphosate and little comparison to Roundup. …”
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Trends in Canadian Respiratory Clinical Trials from 2001 to 2011 by Claire Elizabeth Tacon, Hina Abbas, Shiyuan Zhang, Barbara Nicholls, Glenn Crater, Zhen Su

“…Clinical research bridges patients’ unmet medical need with innovative medicines, increases knowledge acquisition by clinicians, and creates solutions to improve the sustainability and quality of the Canadian health care system and economy. …”
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Commonly prescribed medications and risk of pneumonia and all-cause mortality in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a UK population-based cohort study by Ann D. Morgan, Georgie M. Massen, Hannah R. Whittaker, Iain Stewart, Gisli Jenkins, Peter M. George, Jennifer K. Quint

“…We also observed a small increased risk for all-cause mortality in the “regular ICS user” group compared with the “non-user” control group (HRadj = 1.19, 1.06–1.33). …”
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CFD Simulation of Hydrodynamic Properties of Perforated Triangular Corrugated Plate Filler Under Reduced Pressure by Yang QIN, Zheng-yu ZOU, Shi-sheng LI, Xiao-hong XIONG, Chang-da LI, Zhi-wei ZHANG, Qing-zhao LIU, Guo-bing LI

“…As the perforation aperture increases, the flow rate decreases overall and the low flow rate area increases. …”
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Optimization of the defense forces personnel under mobilization conditions: The role of occupational selection as a personnel allocator by V. V. Kalnysh, A. V. Shvets

“…The second problem is the age aspect in the ranges of 20-30, 30-40 and 40-60 years, for which it is necessary to develop and apply the criteria of occupational suitability for each of the currently relevant professions. A generalized definition of the psychological readiness state was formulated as a stable, multifaceted and hierarchically structured result of preparation for a certain activity, which contains a number of subsystems adequate to the requirements, content and conditions of the activity. …”
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New multifactor spatial prediction method based on Bayesian maximum entropy by YANG Yong, ZHANG Chutian, HE Liyuan

“…., organic matter and heavy metal content) are vital to soil quality evaluation and regional environment assessment. Currently, the spatial distribution of soil properties is usually predicted with classical geostatistics or environmental correlation. …”
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Combined Oral Contraceptives for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: <i>Pro</i> and <i>Contra</i> (Review) by I. A. Mazerkina, I. G. Davydov, O. S. Alyautdina

“…Women with PCOS are at increased risk of endometrial cancer due to prolongation of the oestrogen-dependent proliferative phase. …”
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Output Characteristics of Graphene Field Effect Transistors by V. N. Mishchenka

“…To perform the simulation, a computational algorithm was developed and a program of numerical simulation using the Monte-Carlo method in three-dimensional space using the Poisson equation was compiled and debugged.The results of the studies show that the development of field-effect transistors using graphene layers can improve the output characteristics – to increase the output current and transconductance, as well as the limit frequency of semiconductor structures in high frequency ranges.…”
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Advances in vaccine adjuvant development and future perspectives by Genada Sinani, Sevda Şenel

“…Use of highly purified antigens to improve vaccine safety has led to reduced immunogenicity and efficacy, resulting in the need for adjuvants to increase and/or modulate the immunogenicity of the vaccine. …”
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A Comparison of The Content Of The Azerbaijan Press in The Reza Shah Period and The First Four Year Rule Od Mohammad Reza Shah (1925-1945) by Zühre Nur Celep

“…No criticisms were found regarding the current situation of the country or the senior officials of the Pahlavi administration. …”
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Self-Determination as a Mediator Between Mindfulness and Perfectionism in Theory and Practice by João Paulo Teixeira Antunes, Saúl Neves de Jesus, Marta Brás, Cláudia Carmo

“…There was also a significant intragroup increase in mindfulness ( p  ≤ .001), although there were no motivational changes. …”
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Label-free determination of hemodynamic parameters in the microcirculaton with third harmonic generation microscopy. by Steffen Dietzel, Joachim Pircher, A Katharina Nekolla, Mazhar Gull, André W Brändli, Ulrich Pohl, Markus Rehberg

“…The cell free layer containing the glycocalyx was also visualized. Comparison of the current microscopic resolution with theoretical, diffraction limited resolution let us conclude that an about sixty-fold THG signal intensity increase may be possible with future improved optics, optimized for 1200-1300 nm excitation. …”
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