Probabilistic seasonal dengue forecasting in Vietnam: A modelling study using superensembles. by Felipe J Colón-González, Leonardo Soares Bastos, Barbara Hofmann, Alison Hopkin, Quillon Harpham, Tom Crocker, Rosanna Amato, Iacopo Ferrario, Francesca Moschini, Samuel James, Sajni Malde, Eleanor Ainscoe, Vu Sinh Nam, Dang Quang Tan, Nguyen Duc Khoa, Mark Harrison, Gina Tsarouchi, Darren Lumbroso, Oliver J Brady, Rachel Lowe

“…Past approaches to dengue forecasting have used seasonal climate forecasts, but the predictive ability of a system using different lead times in a year-round prediction system has been seldom explored. …”
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Does Interhospital Transfer Influence the Outcomes of Patients Receiving Surgery for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection? Type A Aortic Dissection: Is Transfer Hazardous or Beneficial? by Yuan-Hsi Tseng, Chih-Chen Kao, Chien-Chao Lin, Chien-Wei Chen, Ming-Shian Lu, Chu-Hsueh Lu, Yao-Kuang Huang

“…Univariate analysis revealed that group 1 had significantly more patients with a previous stroke (p = 0.007). …”
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Effects of Virtual Reality-based Interventions on Depression, Anxiety, and Abilities of Daily Living in Stroke Survivors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Huanhuan Li, Lu Zhou, Gao Liu, Lei Wang, Qingwei Zhao, Shaohong Xu, Enli Cai

“…Subgroup analysis indicated that participants under 60 years old who received VR intervention had a significant reduction in depression scores (SMD = –1.13; 95% CI: –1.89, –0.37, p = 0.004) compared with the control group. …”
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Explainable clinical diagnosis through unexploited yet optimized fine-tuned ConvNeXt Models for accurate monkeypox disease classification by Muhammad Waqar, Zeshan Aslam Khan, Shanzey Tariq Khawaja, Naveed Ishtiaq Chaudhary, Saadia Khan, Khalid Mehmood Cheema, Muhammad Farhan Khan, Syed Sohail Ahmed, Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja

“…Deep learning (DL) has had an incredible influence on many different scientific areas over the past couple of decades. …”
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The critical role of Toxoplasma gondii GRA1 in nutrient salvage by Bolin Fan, Biyun Qin, Mingjun Li, Yuchao Zhu, Fuqiang Fan, Hao Xu, Lilan Xue, Yukun Chen, Ming Pan, Bang Shen

“…In agreement with the mislocalization of GRA proteins, mutants lacking GRA1 had a strong defect in absorbing nutrients like glucose and pantothenate from host cells. …”
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Jacmel, entre rêve et réalité by Jean Davoigneau, Isabelle Duhau

“…Out of all the houses surveyed, 95 % had balconies on the street side, a kind of privatisation of public space providing shelter for cool strolling during the heat of the day. …”
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Caracterización de adultos mayores con cáncer de cabeza y cuello by Rodolfo Suárez García, Carmen Yanet Pérez Martínez, Lisset Fernández Rojas, Annarelis Pérez Pupo

“…The majority of patients had toxic habits: smoking (64.62%). The highest percentage of patients was in IV (41.52%) and III (25.06%) stages. …”
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Effect of airtime incentives on response and cooperation rates in non-communicable disease interactive voice response surveys: randomised controlled trials in Bangladesh and Uganda by Saifuddin Ahmed, Dustin G Gibson, Adaeze C. Wosu, George William Pariyo, Joseph Ali, Alain B Labrique, Iqbal Ansary Khan, Elizeus Rutebemberwa

“…Adults aged 18 years and older who had a working mobile phone were sampled using random digit dialling. …”
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Hubungan Indeks Masa Tubuh dan Lingkar Perut dengan Low Density Lipoprotein pada Pasien Penyakit Jantung Koroner di Poliklinik Jantung RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Medika Prasetya, Fadil Oenzil, Yerizal Karani

“…The statistical results obtained by  p=0.02, it can be concluded that there is a difference between the proportion of high LDL levels to high<br />LDL levels. …”
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Stress‐related coping and its relationship to well‐being in nursing assistants and personal care aides in nursing homes and assisted living by Philip D. Sloane, Lea Efird‐Green, David Reed, Jasmine L. Travers, Krista M. Perreira, Christine Lathren, Karen Bluth, Sheryl Zimmerman

“…The sample included 391 professional caregivers and had a representative distribution by age; it was 87% female; 42% non‐Hispanic/Latinx (NHL) Black, 25% NHL White, 20% Hispanic/Latinx, and 7% NHL Asian. …”
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Integration of anti-PD-1 antibody into chemotherapeutic regimens improved the outcome of aggressive NK cell leukemia: a single-center retrospective real-world analysis by Kai Shen, Yi Liao, Yang Dai, Jie Ji, Pu Kuang, Zhigang Liu, Liping Xie, Ting Niu, Nenggang Jiang, Hongbing Ma

“…Overall survival (OS) of different risk groups was analyzed by Kaplan-Meier method. …”
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La salud bucal, repercusión en la calidad de vida by Mileidy Cutiño García, Edna García Macías, Ivonne Guerrero Ricardo, Elizabet González Arévalo

“…Some descriptive statistic processing was developed to determine the effects upon general welfare caused by the different oral affections. Results: regarding the effects upon general welfare, some affection were predominant such as masticatory deficiency with a prevalence of 73.5% in the group of 18-34 years old; regarding the group of 35-59 years old there was a prevalence of 81.2%; and  depression had the highest prevalence on patients older than 60 years old. …”
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Digital Biomarkers for Parkinson Disease: Bibliometric Analysis and a Scoping Review of Deep Learning for Freezing of Gait by Wenhao Qi, Shiying Shen, Chaoqun dong, Mengjiao Zhao, Shuaiqi Zang, Xiaohong Zhu, Jiaqi Li, Bin Wang, Yankai Shi, Yongze Dong, Huajuan Shen, Junling Kang, Xiaodong Lu, Guowei Jiang, Jingsong Du, Eryi Shu, Qingbo Zhou, Jinghua Wang, Shihua Cao

“…The analysis revealed a growing number of related publications, with 3700 researchers contributing. Neurology had the highest average annual participation rate (12.46/19, 66%). …”
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Hippocampal dysmetabolism contributes to cognitive loss in autoimmune encephalitis and focal temporal epilepsy by Olga Taraschenko, Lakshman Arcot Jayagopal, Audrina Mullane, Kyle Greenman, Matthew White, Hesham Ghonim, Shelley Lee, Rana Khalil Zabad, Tracy Jasinski, Mariano Uberti

“…Subjective cognitive complaints were reported by 83.3% of AE and all TLE patients. AE patients had fewer seizures and used fewer anti-seizure medications than TLE patients (p = 0.04, t-test and p = 0.03, post-hoc test). …”
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LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC NORMS IN FORMATION OF STATE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE COMPETENCY by Liliia V. Kharchuk

“…The new stage of Ukrainian literary language development began in the late 20th century, because state-making processes had legitimated the status of the Ukrainian language due to the law, following the main goal – to facilitate self-expression of the national genotype, raising prestige and full-fledged functioning of the state language in independent Ukraine. …”
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Impact of chronic kidney disease on case ascertainment for hospitalised acute myocardial infarction: an English cohort study by Jemima Scott, Fergus Caskey, Dorothea Nitsch, David Adlam, Clive Weston, Spiros Denaxas, John Deanfield, Mark De Belder, Michael Sweeting, Lucy Teece, Patrick Bidulka, Udaya Udayaraj

“…People with AMIs recorded in HES only or MINAP only had increased odds of death during hospitalisation compared with those recorded in both (adjusted OR 1.61, 95% CI 1.32 to 1.96 and OR 1.60, 95% CI 1.26 to 2.04, respectively). …”
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Correlation between pain sensitivity and postoperative sleep disturbance in adult patients undergoing intestinal polypectomy under general anaesthesia: a prospective cohort study by Yan Li, Qian Liu, Yun Chen, Ziyan Pan, Haichuan He, Jiangwen Yin

“…Patients with high pain sensitivity had an increased risk of developing PSD (adjusted OR=2.789, 95% CI=1.020 to 7.628, p=0.046). …”
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Prevalence of Onchocerca lupi in shelter dogs from an endemic region of the Southwestern USA by Maureen A. Kelly, Erin Clarke, Hassan Hakimi, Christine M. Budke, Guilherme G. Verocai

“…Of those, 194 were female, and 210 were male. We also had nine different American Kennel Club breed groups represented, as well as two coat colors: single (33.0%) and mixed (67.0%). …”
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Characteristics of isolated lactic acid bacteria at low temperature and their effects on the silage quality by La Zhu, Muqier Zhao, Yuting Yan, Pengbo Sun, Xingquan Yan, Mingjian Liu, Risu Na, Yushan Jia, Suna Cha, Gentu Ge

“…Salicylic acid was significantly (P < 0.05) positively correlated with Lactiplantibacillus plantarum, while L-proline had significantly (P < 0.05) positive correlations with Pediococcus acidilactici, Lactococcus lactis, and Weissella confusa. …”
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The Fetal Region-specific Optimized Growth Standard (FROGS)-A fetal and birthweight centile calculator validated in a national population. by Natasha L Pritchard, Stephen Tong, Teresa MacDonald, Elizabeth McCarthy, Lisa Hui, Michael Bethune, Hannah G Gordon, Roxanne Hastie, Emerson Keenan, Michael Permezel, Susan P Walker, Anthea C Lindquist

“…This study is limited in that it retrospectively assesses birthweight, which may have different implications to a prospective evaluation of estimated fetal weight.…”
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