Life cycle assessment for calcination process of flue gas desulfurization gypsum and transformation into β-CaSO4·0.5H2O by Payal Bakshi, Asokan Pappu, Dhiraj Kumar Bharti

“…FGD gypsum has transformed into β-CaSO4·0.5H2O via frugal and easy method for construction applications with geometric microstructure, which offers high mechanical strength with better workability. …”
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Interacciones tierra-mar-tierra, con énfasis en la actividad pesquera en la región norte del Ecosistema Costero Bonaerense, Argentina by Anahí Brun, Eleonora Verón, Juliana Sócrate

“…[Resultados]: Se notaron 121 interacciones de UyA T-M-T vinculadas con la pesca. …”
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Characterization of visual cognition in pre-manifest, manifest and reduced penetrance Huntington’s disease by Rocio Del Pino, Maria Ángeles Acera, Amaia Ortiz de Echevarrría, Beatriz Tijero, Marta Ruiz-Lopez, Johanne Somme, Javier Ruiz-Martínez, Andrea Gabilondo, Ioana M. Croitoru, Lara Pardina, Naia Ayo-Mentxakatorre, Ane Murueta-Goyena, Iñigo Gabilondo, Rosario Sanchez-Pernaute, Tamara Fernández-Valle, Juan Carlos Gómez Esteban

“…Abstract Cognitive and visual impairment are common in Huntington’s Disease (HD) and may precede motor diagnosis. We investigate the early presence of visual cognitive deficits in 181 participants, including HD carriers (40 pre-manifest, 30 early manifest, 27 manifest, and 6 reduced penetrance) and 78 healthy controls (HC). …”
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Real-World Health Care Outcomes and Costs Among Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in Spain by Jordi Antón, Estefania Moreno Ruzafa, Mireia Lopez Corbeto, Rosa Bou, Judith Sánchez Manubens, Sonia Carriquí Arenas, Joan Calzada Hernández, Violetta Bittermann, Carolina Estepa Guillén, Juan Mosquera Angarita, Lucía Rodríguez Díez, Estíbaliz Iglesias, Miguel Marti Masanet, Berta Lopez Montesinos, Maria I. González Fernández, Alfonso de Lossada, Carmen Peral, Mónica Valderrama, Noelia Llevat, María Montoro Álvarez, Immaculada Calvo Penadés

“…**Results:** Overall, children had inactive disease/low disease activity according to JADAS-71 score and very low functional disability as measured by Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire score. …”
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Evaluating maternal drug use disparities, risk factors and outcomes in Northeast Arkansas: a pre, during, and post-COVID-19 pandemic analysis by Enrique Gomez Pomar, Johnna Berryhill, Sudeepa Bhattacharyya

“…Results Among 8,030 live births, 957 dyads were included in the analysis, with 47% (N = 450) of infants testing positive for at least one substance. Of these, 64.2%, 11.1%, and 6.7% were positive for THC, amphetamines, and opioids, respectively; and 17.8% tested positive for more than one substance. …”
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Associations of daily steps and step intensity with peripheral arterial disease in Chinese community-dwelling older women by Chenfei Li, Litao Du, Xiangli Xue, Na Zhao, Qiang He, Si Chen, Xianliang Zhang

“…Results: After adjusting for confounding factors, it was found that daily steps was not independently associated with PAD, and brisk steps, peak 30 as well as peak 60, were significantly associated with PAD, with ORs of 0.68 (0.50–0.93), 0.71 (0.52–0.96) and 0.60 (0.40–0.90), respectively. …”
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A Serious Game to Study Reduced Field of View in Keyhole Surgery: Development and Experimental Study by Phoebe Whitley, Connor Creasey, Matthew J Clarkson, Stephen Thompson

“…Reducing the field of view resulted in participants taking significantly longer (P<.001) to perform otherwise identical tasks (mean 6.4 seconds, 95% CI 5.0-7.8 seconds vs mean 13.6 seconds, 95% CI 10.3-16.9 seconds). …”
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Assessment of Physicochemical Characteristics of Produced Water from Terminals of Some Oil Industry Facilities in Nigeria by CC Obunwo, C Chukwudi

“…However, the concentration of Fe ranged between 0.53 ± 0.11mg/l 1.06 ± 0.26mg/l. With the exception of salinity, TDS and TSS, the levels of other physico- chemical characteristics including the trace metals were within the permissible limits set out by Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). …”
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Hubungan Night Time Eating dan Asupan Lemak Dengan Kejadian Gizi Lebih Pada Mahasiswa di Kota Medan by Yatty Sandy, Erni Rukmana, Kanaya Yori Damanik, Caca Pratiwi

“…Analisis data menggunakan chi square dan regresi logistik berganda. Hasil: Penelitian menunjukkan ada hubungan antara makan tengah malam dengan kejadian gizi lebih (p-value = 0,040). …”
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Constructing a potential HLA haplo-homozygous induced pluripotent stem cell haplobank using data from an umbilical cord blood bank by Ji He, Yanmin He, Qigang Zhan, Zhipan Wu, Qi Sheng, Wei Zhang, Faming Zhu

“…Results Thirteen HLA-A, -B, and -DRB1 and 11 HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, and -DQB1 haplotype homozygotes were observed among the stored umbilical CB units which were as HLA zero-mismatched iPSC donors cumulatively matched 37.01% and 32.99% of 5421 potential patients respectively. …”
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Efficacy of Group O Washed Red Blood Cell Transfusion on Vital Signs and Hematologic Stability in Trauma Patients With Different Blood Types by Gou XJ, Li LF, He XL, Chen X, Yu AY, Tian WY

“…Xian-Juan Gou,1 Lin-Fei Li,1 Xiao-Li He,1 Xi Chen,2 An-Yong Yu,1 Wei-Yan Tian1 1Department of Emergency, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, 563000, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Nursing, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, 563000, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Wei-Yan Tian, Department of Emergency, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, 563000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 19184321912, Email 907359734@qq.comObjective: To comprehensively assess the impact of emergency transfusion of group O washed red blood cells on the vital signs and hematological parameters of patients with severe trauma and to analyze the differential responses among different blood types, thereby providing valuable evidence for optimizing transfusion strategies.Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of patients with severe trauma who underwent emergency transfusion in the hospital’s emergency department from April 2023 to March 2024. …”
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Prevalence of anhedonia in women with deep endometriosis by Aida Mallorquí, Alessandra Fortuna, Emma Segura, Gemma Cardona, Marta Espinosa, Lara Quintas-Marquès, Meritxell Gracia, Elena Angulo-Antúnez, Francisco Carmona, María-Angeles Martínez-Zamora

“…Our findings show that 27,8% [95% CI 22.1, 26.5] of DE patients experience abnormal hedonic tone. …”
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Stent as a bridge to surgery for malignant colonic obstruction: a retrospective study on survival and outcomes by Thanawin Wong, Tanawat Pattarapuntakul, Nisa Netinatsunton, Jaksin Sottisuporn, Thanapon Yaowmaneerat, Wongsakorn Chaochankit, Siriboon Attasaranya, Pimsiri Sripongpun, Naichaya Chamroonkul, Viraksakdi Chongsuvivatwong

“…Baseline characteristics were similar except for ASA classification and chemotherapy rates. The median OS was 56.1 months, with no significant differences in OS (51.4 vs. 61.0 months, p = 0.67) or 5-year DFS (53.8% vs. 59.9%, p = 0.32) between the two groups. …”
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EVALUACIÓn DEL KIT FISH FARMING FF1A ® PARA ANÁLI SIS DE CALIDAD DE AGUAS EN ACUICULTURA by HE. Higuera, JF. González

“…Se evaluó a través de métodos analíticos alternos y mediciones de varios observadores la contabilidad en la cuantificación de pH, nitrito (NO2), amoniaco (NH3) y oxígeno disuelto (O2) en aguas utilizando el kit Fish Farming FF1A ® (Hach). …”
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Evaluación del efecto del pastoreo sobre el banco de semillas del suelo, en condiciones de campo, en pastizales serranos del centro de Argentina by Maria Andrea Amuchástegui, Cesar Omar Nuñez, Juan José Cantero, José Alejandro Mulko, Emiliano Foresto

“…La relación entre pastoreo-conservación de los pastizales naturales, ha sido motivo de preocupación para la comunidad científica. …”
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Classification of peripheral vitreoretinal interface lesions using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography with guidance of ultrawide field imaging by Weiwei Zheng, Ying Huang, Ying Huang, Shanshan Qian, Bing Lin, Bing Lin, Shenghai Huang, Shenghai Huang

“…In the OCT classification of VRI lesions, 18 (17.1%) cases were category A, 28 (26.7%) cases were category B1, 30 (28.6%) cases were category B2, and 29 (27.6%) cases were category C. …”
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Automatic Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm From Computed Tomography Angiography Using a Patch-Based Dilated UNet Model by Merjulah Roby, Juan C. Restrepo, Haehwan Park, Satish C. Muluk, Mark K. Eskandari, Seungik Baek, Ender A. Finol

“…Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is still a socially relevant public health challenge, evidenced by an 82.1% increase in associated fatalities from 1990 to 2019 (with 172,427 deaths in 2019 alone). …”
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility of <i>Salmonella typhi</i> and <i>paratyphi</i> among Pediatric Population at Tertiary Care Center of North Delhi: A Retrospective Study by Shekhar Biswas, Sulagna Tripathy, Arvind Kumar, Sanjay Chattree

“…Enteric fever remains a major concern in India with an estimated incidence from hospital surveillance ranging from 12 to 1,622 cases per 100,000 child-years among children between the ages of 6 months and 14 years, and from 108 to 970 cases per 100,000 person-years among those who are 15 years of age or older. …”
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Own Experience in the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Diagnosis of Esophageal Achalasia by O. A. Storonova, N. I. Kanevskii, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…With a maximum possible value of 1.0, these hyperparameters achieved f1_score=0.91 in 27 seconds. …”
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Meniran (Phyllanthus niruri Linn) Extract Potential on Texel Sheep Feed Consumption, Body Weight Gain and Feed Conversion by Rara Irbah Fitriana Karimah, Sri Hidanah, Mohammad Anam Al-Arif, Kadek Rachmawati, Emy Koestanti Sabdoningrum, Suwarno

“…The treatment groups consisted of : P0 (sheeps were given CMC-Na 0.5% solution), P1 (given meniran extracts at 5% concentration), P2 (given meniran extracts at 10% concentration) and P3 (given meniran extracts at 20% concentration). administration of treatment between groups using a syringe (20 ml) amount of 1ml/kgBB per oral. …”
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