Aberrant T-cell phenotypes in a cohort of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease by Alexander A. Girgis, Alexander A. Girgis, Raffaello Cimbro, Ting Yang, Alison W. Rebman, Thelio Sewell, Daniela Villegas de Flores, Aarti Vadalia, William H. Robinson, William H. Robinson, Andrea L. Cox, Erika Darrah, Mark J. Soloski, John Aucott

“…Characterized by fatigue, generalized myalgias, and cognitive impairment, PTLD symptomatology closely resembles long COVID and other post-acute infection syndromes. …”
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The role of high-tech certification in enterprise green innovation: from the perspectives of substantive innovation and strategic innovation by Zhiqiang Liang, Yao Shen, Kunyu Yang, Jinsong Kuang

“…Specifically, in state-owned enterprises, technology-intensive sectors, and enterprises located in the central regions, the positive effect on substantive green innovation is particularly pronounced. …”
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Drivers and patterns of community completeness suggest that Tuscan Fagus sylvatica forests can naturally have a low plant diversity by Emanuele Fanfarillo, Leopoldo de Simone, Tiberio Fiaschi, Bruno Foggi, Antonio Gabellini, Matilde Gennai, Simona Maccherini, Emilia Pafumi, Enrico Tordoni, Daniele Viciani, Giulio Zangari, Claudia Angiolini

“…Data were collected in mature, closed-canopy beech forests in Tuscany, central Italy. Site-specific species pools were estimated based on species co-occurrences. …”
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Machine learning prediction of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease risk in American adults using body composition: explainable analysis based on SHapley Additive e... by Yan Hong, Xinrong Chen, Ling Wang, Fan Zhang, ZiYing Zeng, Weining Xie

“…Six ML algorithms were implemented: decision tree (DT), support vector machine (SVM), generalized linear model (GLM), gradient boosting machine (GBM), random forest (RF), and XGBoost. …”
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Associations between testosterone and future PTSD symptoms among middle age and older UK residents by Hanyang Shen, Ciera Stafford, Joeri Meijsen, Lijin Zhang, Jacob Reiter, Rebecca B. Lawn, Alicia K. Smith, Mytilee Vermuri, Laramie E. Duncan

“…Analyses using calculated free testosterone (cFT) and the free androgen index (FAI) were generally consistent with total testosterone (TT) results. …”
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Brain Health in Neuroradiology by Karl-Olof Lövblad, Isabel Wanke, Daniele Botta, Felix T. Kurz, Roland Wiest, Daniel Rüfenacht, Luca Remonda

“…Additionally, inflammatory diseases of the brain, as well as tumors of the central nervous system, can be imaged and localized in order to set in place both an early diagnosis and initiate treatment. …”
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Ice and snow thickness of the IGAN Glacier in the Polar Urals from ground-based radio-echo sounding 2019 and 2021 by I. I. Lavrentiev, G. A. Nosenko, A. F. Glazovsky, A. N. Shein, M. N. Ivanov, Ya. K. Leopold

“…For comparison: according to the radar data of 1968, the total ice thickness then reached 150 m in the central part, and the thickness of the upper layer of cold ice was 40–50 m. …”
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Host blood transcriptomic biomarkers of tuberculosis disease in people living with HIV: a systematic review protocol by Mary Shelton, Humphrey Mulenga, Stanley Kimbung Mbandi, Simon C Mendelsohn, Mark Hatherill, Fatoumatta Darboe, Thomas J Scriba

“…We aim to conduct a systematic review of performance of transcriptomic signatures of tuberculosis in PLHIV.Methods and analysis We will search MEDLINE (PubMed), WOS Core Collection, Biological Abstracts, and SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science), Africa-Wide Information and General Science Abstracts (EBSCOhost), Scopus, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases for articles published in English between 1990 and 2020. …”
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Bundled interventions for consumption management and monitoring of personal protective equipment in COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong local hospitals by Wai-Man Kwan, Chun-Keung Mok, Yick-Ting Kwok, Hon-Wai Lam, Kwan-Ho Chan, Tat-Hong Samuel Law, Pik-Man Leung, Man-Yu Mak, Tak-Lun Que, Yiu-Hang Tang

“…Interventions including cutting down non-essential services, implementing telecare, monitoring PPE consumption at unit level and PPE stock at the Cluster Central Distribution Centre and forming mobile infection teams were implemented. …”
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Eleven-year results on soft and durum wheat crops grown in an organic and in a conventional low input cropping system by Paolo Benincasa, Michela Farneselli, Giacomo Tosti, Umberto Bonciarelli, Maria Chiara Lorenzetti, Marcello Guiducci

“…For both species, grain yield and protein content were more variable across years and generally lower in the organic than in the conventional system. …”
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Assessing the landscape of clinical and observational trials involving bioprinting: a scoping review by Yumi Briones, Beatrice Pascua, Narra Tiangco, Isabel Crisostomo, Samantha Casiguran, Roland Remenyi

“…Methods The term “bioprint” and its variants were searched in five trial databases (ICTRP, ScanMedicine, CENTRAL, NIHCC, HCCTD) and two registries (ClinicalTrials.gov, PHRR) on 22 February 2024. …”
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Nurses' Knowledge and Self‐Efficacy in the Management of Vascular Access Devices Before and After Field Training Course: A Quasi‐Experimental Study by Marzia Lommi, Maria Ymelda Tolentino Diaz, Michela Piredda, Barbara Raffaele, Simona Ricci, Graziella Montini, Luca Guarente, Marianna Leonardo, Giorgia Petrucci, Jacopo Fiorini, Barbara Porcelli

“…Knowledge scores were lowest for short peripheral catheters and ports, intermediate for general knowledge and long peripheral catheters/midline and highest for peripherally inserted central catheter. …”
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Valuing health-related quality of life among the Indian population: a protocol for the Development of an EQ-5D Value set for India using an Extended design (DEVINE) Study by Atul Sharma, Manmeet Kaur, Shankar Prinja, Gaurav Jyani, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Mayur Trivedi, Binod Patro, Fredrick Purba, Star Pala, Swati Raman, Shalu Jain

“…The anonymised EQ-5D-5L value set will be available for general use and in the HTAs commissioned by India’s central HTA Agency.…”
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THE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE PLACENTA ACCRETA SPECTRUM IN TERTIARY CENTERS IN TÜRKİYE by Selim Büyükkurt, Rauf Melekoğlu, İrem Hatipoğlu

“…Penetrative sexual intercourse is prohibited (78.4%); perineal shaving (81.1%) and rectal enema (94.6%) are not used; general anesthesia (75.7%) is the preferred technique; hypothermia control (97.3%) is not omitted; and administration of oxytocin (75.7%) is similar to routine cesarean section; vascular injuries are managed by vascular surgeons (78.4%); gynecologic oncologists are not a regular part of the surgical team (86.5%); routine insertion of a central venous cannula (78.4%) is not considered and placement of an abdominal drain (89.2%) is usually performed. …”
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Clinic and diagnosis of encephalopathy of critical conditions in children with infectious diseases by E. S. Egorova, A. V. Klimkin, A. A. Vilnits, N. V. Skripchenko, V. B. Voitenkov, Yu. P. Vasilyeva, M. A. Bedova

“…Exclusion criteria: patients with cerebral palsy, organic lesions of the central nervous system, neuroinfections and epilepsy. …”
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Cesarean Section: The Anesthesiologist’s Point of View by Houssam Rebahi, Mourad Ait Sliman, Ahmed-Rhassane El Adib

“…Above all, taking into consideration the possible central nervous system (CNS) contamination by circulating blast cells when performing spinal or epidural approach is primordial. …”
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Linking patterns to processes: Using hunting bag data to classify raccoon (Procyon lotor) invasion stages in Germany since the 2000s by Sarah Cunze, Gaby Schneider, Norbert Peter, Sven Klimpel

“…Effective and successful management of invasive alien species requires a deep understanding of population dynamics in the invasion process. Following general concepts in invasion ecology we adapted the theoretical background to the stages of raccoon invasion in Germany. …”
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Explainable artificial intelligence for targeted protein degradation predictions by Francis J. Prael III, Jutta Blank, William C. Forrester, Lingling Shen, Raquel Rodríguez-Pérez

“…Defining structure-activity relationships (SAR) is a central task in medicinal chemistry. Apart from optimizing activity against the target of interest, off-target activities and other properties need to be balanced to ensure a suitable property profile, which is an exceptional challenge in drug design. …”
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The distribution of Babesia odocoilei in Ixodes species ticks in Canada: Implications for one health surveillance by Camille Guillot, Jérôme Pelletier, Cécile Aenishaenslin, Heather Coatsworth, Antonia Dibernardo, Jules K. Koffi, Manisha A. Kulkarni, Jean-Philippe Rocheleau, Christy Wilson, Curtis Russell, Mark P. Nelder, Jacqueline Badcock, Justin Carr, Sylvia Checkley, Katie M. Clow, Stephanie Cooper, Susan Cork, Ariane Dumas, Shaun Dergousoff, Nicoletta Faraone, Erin Fraser, Scott Graham-Derham, Alejandra Irace-Cima, Stefan Iwasawa, Emily Jenkins, Patrick A. Leighton, Roman McKay, Muhammad Morshed, Roxane Pelletier, Marion Ripoche, Kateryn Rochon, Karine Thivierge, Maarten J. Voordouw, Nicholas H. Ogden, Catherine Bouchard

“…Ixodes spp. ticks collected through active and passive surveillance were submitted to the National Microbiology Laboratory of the Public Health Agency of Canada for analysis of the presence of B. odocoilei from 2018 to 2021. Generalized linear models were constructed to evaluate the temporal change of B. odocoilei prevalence across Canada. …”
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Distribución espacio-temporal de la tuberculosis de 2011 al 2016 en el municipio de Maputo, Mozambique by Antonio C. Titosse, Marcus Vinícius Pimenta Rodrigues, Ana Paula Marques Ramos, Lucas Prado Osco, Rogério Giuffrida, Elivelton da Silva Fonseca, Alba Regina Azevedo Arana

“…Se utilizó estadística descriptiva para calcular las medidas de tendencia central (media) y la aplicación del modelo de regresión lineal de Poisson Las notificaciones trimestrales se estratificaron por distrito, forma clínica y grupo de edad. …”
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