Short-term results of wearing spectacle lenses with embedded rings of highly aspherical lenslets Stellest™ for myopia control by E. P. Tarutta, O. V. Proskurina, N. A. Tarasova, S. G. Arutyunyan, S. V. Milash, G. A. Markossian

“…In the control group, YPR was found to drop in 65 % of cases and averaged 0.49 ± 0.1 D. …”
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Effect of Body Position and Support Surface on the Postural Control Challenge During the Pallof Press Exercise: A Smartphone Accelerometer-Based Study by Casto Juan-Recio, Amaya Prat-Luri, Heidy Rondón-Espinosa, David Barbado, Francisco J. Vera-Garcia

“…<i>Results</i>: Significant effects were found for the within-subject factor exercise variations but not for the between-subject factor sex. …”
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Influência da escolaridade na avaliação neuropsicológica de idosos: aplicação e análise dos resultados da Escala de Mattis para Avaliação de Demência (Mattis Dementia Rating Scale... by Maria Paula Foss, Francisco de Assis Carvalho do Vale, José Geraldo Speciali

“…Illiteracy is a determinant factor of lower MDRS scores that could generate diagnostic errors.…”
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Hypertension and cognitive impairment among older persons in rural Northern Uganda: a cross-sectional study by Joel Oyugi, Jonathan Izudi, Francis Bajunirwe

“…We used the modified Poisson regression with robust standard errors for the analysis, applying a 5% significance level. …”
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State of India's Birds 2023: A framework to leverage semi‐structured citizen science for bird conservation by Ashwin Viswanathan, Karthik Thrikkadeeri, Pradeep Koulgi, Praveen J., Arpit Deomurari, Ashish Jha, Ashwin Warudkar, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, M. D. Madhusudan, Monica Kaushik, Naman Goyal, Rajah Jayapal, Suhel Quader, Sutirtha Dutta, Tarun Menon, Vivek Ramachandran

“…SoIB 2023 assessed the status of 942 bird species in India by evaluating each species based on three metrics: (1) long‐term change, (2) current annual trend, and (3) distribution range size. We found evidence that 204 species have declined in the long term and that 142 species are in current decline. …”
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Práticas e nível de conhecimento sobre doença cerebrovascular em um hospital universitário: Parte 2. educação médica na nova era de tratamento do infarto cerebral Knowledge and att... by Charles André, Letícia L. Vermelho, Ronir Raggio, Mônica F. Costa, Sérgio A. P. Novis

“…However, a large number of errors was found in questions addressing mortality and hospital mortality following stroke and the intimate relation between coronary and cerebral atherosclerosis. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Screening for Hypertension and Diabetes Among Community Groups of Older Adults in Vietnam: Mixed Methods Study by Trang Thi Thu Nong, Giang Hoang Nguyen, Alexander Lepe, Thuy Bich Tran, Lan Thi Phuong Nguyen, Jaap A R Koot

“…For anthropomorphic measurements, such as blood pressure, body weight, and abdominal circumference, less than 1% errors were found. The data on NCD risk factors were not adequately recorded in 1908 (29.5%) of the screenings. …”
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What’s Going On With Me and How Can I Better Manage My Health? The Potential of GPT-4 to Transform Discharge Letters Into Patient-Centered Letters to Enhance Patient Safety: Prospe... by Felix Eisinger, Friederike Holderried, Moritz Mahling, Christian Stegemann–Philipps, Anne Herrmann–Werner, Eric Nazarenus, Alessandra Sonanini, Martina Guthoff, Carsten Eickhoff, Martin Holderried

“…By contrast, learning objectives regarding “lifestyle” and “organizational” aspects were addressed more frequently. Medical errors were found in a small proportion of sentences (31/787, 3.9%). …”
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Representation of Well-Being / Ill-Being of the Modern Russian Family and Student Behaviour: The Phenomenon of Teachers’ Reflection by O. V. Usova, N. G. Chevtaeva, A. S. Nikitina, C. Scavo

“…Taking these errors into account makes it possible to identify “errors” in the educational work of educational organisations based on the provision of real assistance to the family and students. …”
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ATP-enhanced platinum nanoparticle's peroxidase activity in alkaline environment for simplifying alkaline phosphatase detection by Lu Dang, Aoxue Zhang, Jinqing Li, Jin Cao, Xiangke Rong, Minyang Su, Baoji Du, Yazhong Bu

“…It was found that ATP enhanced the POD activity of positively charged Pt-CS NPs the most, manifested as a significant increase in the maximum reaction rate (Vmax). …”
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Digoxin for atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomised clinical trials. by Naqash J Sethi, Emil E Nielsen, Sanam Safi, Joshua Feinberg, Christian Gluud, Janus C Jakobsen

“…We used Trial Sequential Analysis (TSA) to control for random errors. We used GRADE to assess the quality of the body of evidence.…”
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Virtual reality navigation for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease by Sayuri Shima, Reiko Ohdake, Yasuaki Mizutani, Harutsugu Tatebe, Riki Koike, Atsushi Kasai, Epifanio Bagarinao, Epifanio Bagarinao, Kazuya Kawabata, Kazuya Kawabata, Akihiro Ueda, Mizuki Ito, Junichi Hata, Shinsuke Ishigaki, Junichiro Yoshimoto, Hiroshi Toyama, Takahiko Tokuda, Akihiko Takashima, Hirohisa Watanabe, Hirohisa Watanabe

“…Covariance of PI and AD biomarkers was assessed statistically, including tests for multivariate linear regression, logistic regression, and predictor importance ranking using machine learning, to identify predictive relationships for PI errors.ResultsWe found significant positive correlations between PI errors with age and plasma GFAP, p-tau181, and NfL levels. …”
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Variation within and between digital pathology and light microscopy for the diagnosis of histopathology slides: blinded crossover comparison study by David RJ Snead, Ayesha S Azam, Jenny Thirlwall, Peter Kimani, Louise Hiller, Adam Bickers, Clinton Boyd, David Boyle, David Clark, Ian Ellis, Kishore Gopalakrishnan, Mohammad Ilyas, Paul Kelly, Maurice Loughrey, Desley Neil, Emad Rakha, Ian SD Roberts, Shatrughan Sah, Maria Soares, YeeWah Tsang, Manuel Salto-Tellez, Helen Higgins, Donna Howe, Abigail Takyi, Yan Chen, Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Jason Madan, Henry Nwankwo, George Partridge, Janet Dunn

“…We took 2400 (600 × 4) breast reports to correspond to 705 (2400/3.4) independent reports to give a margin of error of 2.2%. So, precision was high while analysing breast, skin and GI specimens separately. …”
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Accurate irrigation decision-making of winter wheat at the filling stage based on UAV hyperspectral inversion of leaf water content by Xuguang Sun, Baoyuan Zhang, Menglei Dai, Cuijiao Jing, Kai Ma, Boyi Tang, Kejiang Li, Hongkai Dang, Limin Gu, Wenchao Zhen, Xiaohe Gu

“…Partial least squares regression (PLSR) and random forest (RF) were employed to establish an LWC inversion model. The SPA-RF model was found to be the most effective, with determination coefficients (R²) of 0.95 and 0.96, root mean square errors (RMSE) of 3.00 % and 2.70 %, and normalized root mean square errors (NRMSE) of 6.47 % and 6.01 %, respectively. …”
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Application of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L_{1}-L_{2}$</tex-math></inline-formula> Regularization in Sparse-View Photoacoustic Imaging Reconstruction by Mengyu Wang, Shuo Dai, Xin Wang, Xueyan Liu

“…Additionally, in a pig liver experiment, the <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L_{1}-L_{2}$</tex-math></inline-formula> norm based on the DCA method was compared to other methods and found to be superior in reducing errors and ensuring stability. …”
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The associations of negative and disorganization symptoms with verbal fluency in schizophrenia: the mediation effect of processing speed and cognitive flexibility by Ernest Marek Tyburski, Ewa Zawadzka, Adrianna Bober, Ewa Karabanowicz, Piotr Podwalski, Jerzy Samochowiec, Anna Michalczyk, Leszek Sagan, Ashok Jansari, Shane T. Mueller, Michał Harciarek, Błażej Misiak, Karolina Lutkiewicz, Krzysztof Wietrzyński, Jolanta Kucharska-Mazur, Artur Reginia, Monika Mak

“…Referring to executive functioning, schizophrenia patients exhibit decreased cognitive flexibility, problem-solving, and formulating concepts, as well as slow processing speed. It was found that processing speed and cognitive flexibility may be understood as the neuropsychological mechanisms modifying the relationships between negative symptoms, disorganization symptoms, and semantic and phonemic fluency. …”
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Usability Testing of a Digitized Interventional Prehabilitation Tool for Health Care Professionals and Patients Before Major Surgeries: Formative and Summative Evaluation by Andreas A Schnitzbauer, Charlotte Detemble, Sara Fatima Faqar-Uz-Zaman, Julia Dreilich, Lisa Mohr, Svenja Sliwinski, Dora Zmuc, Mark Siller, Johannes Fleckenstein

“…Usability testing improves medical devices early in the design and development process, reduces errors, and mitigates risks, and in this study, it delivered a profound ethical and medical justification for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Prehab App in a remote setting as a next step in the development process. …”
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EDITORIAL by Ivan Čuk

“…From last October issue we have to apologize to the authors Luísa Amaral, José Ferreirinha, Paulo Santos and Albrecht Claessens as we did some errors in article design; you can find corrected article on our web pages. …”
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Prevalence and contributors to anaemia among children aged 6 to 59 months in Kyangwali Refugee settlement, Western Uganda: a cross-sectional study by Christine Nakimera, Philip Bright Bwajojo, William Kaweesa, Joan Nampiima, Faith Chebet, Sharifah Namuwawu, Martin Bwemage, Moses Nuwabasa, Regina Ndagire, Allan Lugaajju, Joel Tumwebaze, Catherine Nassozi Lwanira

“…Associations between the independent variables and anaemia were examined using modified Poisson regression with robust standard errors. In all statistical tests, a P- value of < 0.05 was considered as significant. …”
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Causal association of obesity-related anthropometric traits with myopia and the mediating role of educational attainment: a Mendelian randomization study by Yi Lu, Can-Can Zhang, Run-Ting Ma, Yuan-Jing Li, Wen-Ping Li, Die-Wen-Jie Hu, Lian-Hong Zhou

“…As a supplement to previous observational studies, it provides strong evidence for the relationship between anthropometric traits and refractive errors and offers a theoretical basis for future measures to prevent and control myopia.…”
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