Pembrolizumab and Pemetrexed for Older Patients With Nonsquamous NSCLC and Programmed Cell Death-Ligand 1 Tumor Proportion Scores of Less Than 50% by Yoshihito Kogure, MD, PhD, Hiroya Hashimoto, PhD, Haruko Daga, MD, PhD, Yasushi Fukuda, MD, Akihiro Bessho, MD, PhD, Tadaaki Yamada, MD, PhD, Yukihiro Toi, MD, Tomoki Kimura, MD, PhD, Hiroshige Yoshioka, MD, PhD, Koichi Azuma, MD, PhD, Naoki Furuya, MD, PhD, Yasutaka Fukui, MD, PhD, Akiko M. Saito, MD, PhD, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, MD, PhD, Hideo Saka, MD, Masashi Kondo, MD, PhD

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Otodectes cynotis (Acari: Psoroptidae) infestations in Southern pudus (Pudu puda): In situ and ex situ data of an unexpected host-parasite record by Caroline Wilhelm, Edwin Kniha, Pamela Muñoz, Ángelo Espinoza, Laura Platner, Saskia Dreyer, Lisa Grund, Zoë Tess Lara Lindhorst, Ulrich Gärtner, Julia Walochnik, Anja Taubert, Dominik Fischer, Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck, Carlos Hermosilla, David Ebmer

“…Otodectes cynotis (Acari: Psoroptidae) constitutes an obligate, non-burrowing ectoparasite and causes otodectic mange primarily in domestic and wild carnivores. …”
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Balneotherapy for the treatment of post-COVID syndrome: a randomized controlled trial by Diana Ovejero, Anna Ribes, Judit Villar-García, Marta Trenchs-Rodriguez, Daniel Lopez, Xavier Nogués, Robert Güerri-Fernandez, Natalia Garcia-Giralt

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A new signature associated with anoikis predicts the outcome and immune infiltration in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Yonglin Luo, Wenyang Wei, Yaxuan Huang, Jun Li, Weiling Qin, Quanxiang Hao, Jiemei Ye, Zhe Zhang, Yushan Liang, Xue Xiao, Yonglin Cai

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HMGB-1 as a predictor of major bleeding requiring activation of a massive transfusion protocol in severe trauma by Michal Frelich, Marek Bebej, Jan Pavlíček, Filip Burša, Vojtěch Vodička, Zdeněk Švagera, Adéla Kondé, Ondřej Jor, Markéta Bílená, Tereza Romanová, Peter Sklienka

“…HMGB-1 levels correlated significantly with the number of red blood cell units (rs [95% CI] 0.46 [0.28–0.61]; p < 0.001), units of fresh frozen plasma (rs 0.46 [0.27–0.61]; p < 0.001), platelets (rs 0.48 [0.30–0.62]; p < 0.001), and fibrinogen (rs 0.48 [0.32–0.62]; p < 0.001) administered in the first 6 h after hospital admission. …”
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Photobiomodulation preconditioning for oral mucositis prevention and quality of life improvement in chemotherapy patients: a randomized clinical trial by Marwa Khalil, Omar Hamadah, Maher Saifo

“…Conclusion Preconditioning before starting chemotherapy, whether with the intraoral red laser alone or in combination with the extraoral infrared laser, has shown significant results in preventing oral mucositis and dry mouth, and it has also played a major role in improving patients’ quality of life. …”
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Factors associated with prolonged length of stay following cardiac surgery in a major referral hospital in Oman: a retrospective observational study by Paul Aylin, Ahmed Almashrafi, Hilal Alsabti, Mirdavron Mukaddirov, Baskaran Balan

“…Objectives Two objectives were set for this study. The first was to identify factors influencing prolonged postoperative length of stay (LOS) following cardiac surgery. …”
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Rapid landslide detection from free optical satellite imagery using a robust change detection technique by Rosa Coluzzi, Angela Perrone, Caterina Samela, Vito Imbrenda, Salvatore Manfreda, Letizia Pace, Maria Lanfredi

“…Abstract In the last decades, the availability of multi-source, multi-scale, and multi-resolution remote sensing data and the consequent progress of processing techniques brought a significant positive impact for landslide detection. …”
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Development and functional validation of a disulfidoptosis-related gene prognostic model for lung adenocarcinoma based on bioinformatics and experimental validation by Tao Shen, Tao Shen, Zhuming Lu, Sisi Yang, Dongxi Zhang, Yongwen Ke, Zhuowen Chen, Jinqiang Wu, Jinqiang Wu, Weidong Wu

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Ex vivo detection of recreational consumed nitrous oxide in exhaled breath by Dinesh Durán Jiménez, Frederick Vinckenbosch, Joris Busink, Jerro van Zijl, Hendrik J. F. Helmerhorst, Desirée van Tuin, Albert Dahan, Johannes Gerardus Ramaekers, Marcel J. van der Schans, Floris J. Bikker

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Catastrophic and violent tornadoes: a detailed review of physical-mathematical models by Sergey A. Arsen’yev, Lev V. Eppelbaum

“…As an alternative, the authors also proposed a model for the emergence of a tornado from a thundercloud filled with highly rotating mesoscale vortices. In this case, the theory of mesoscale turbulence is used, which allows for the phenomenon of the red turbulent cascade: the energy transfer from smaller turbulent eddies to the region of large scales. …”
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Advancing the Indian cattle pangenome: characterizing non-reference sequences in Bos indicus by Sarwar Azam, Abhisek Sahu, Naveen Kumar Pandey, Mahesh Neupane, Curtis P Van Tassell, Benjamin D Rosen, Ravi Kumar Gandham, Subha Narayan Rath, Subeer S Majumdar

“…Additionally, 70.28% of BICIs are shared with other domesticated and wild species, highlighting their evolutionary significance. …”
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No major impact of new grape varieties on Bordeaux wine typicity: expert assessments in blind and non-blind tastings by Marc Plantevin, Sophie Tempère, Cécile Thibon, Lucile Dijkstra, Julien Lecourt, Agnès Destrac-Irvine, Cornelis van Leeuwen

“…Recently, a study investigating the typicity of 26 red varieties isolated five potential candidates (Fer Servadou, Duras, Manseng noir, Vinhão and Arinarnoa) sharing similar sensorial spaces compared to classical Bordeaux varieties. …”
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