De-Stiffening the Aged Aorta with Regular Aerobic Exercise in Humans: Fact or Fallacy? by Gary L. Pierce

“…Summary: Short-term (3–12 months) aerobic exercise interventions, 2–3 days per week initiated in middle age or older age without hypertension, result in small decreases in carotid-femoral PWV that is likely the result of reductions in distending pressure (i.e., mean arterial pressure) rather than an alteration in structural wall properties. …”
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Social Skills Training Program and its Effect on Quality of Life and Stigma among Patients with Schizophrenia by Samah Ali, Amal Awad, Hanaa Ewise, Shimaa Adam

“…Results: Most schizophrenic patients in this study initially exhibited low social skills before the program; however, this proportion declined to less than one-fifth after the program, showing a statistically significant improvement in all aspects of social skills. …”
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Strategies to achieving deep decarbonisation in power generation: A review by Abdullah Alotaiq

“…The literature underscores the pivotal role of power generation in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, emphasising the urgency of substantial emissions reductions by 2050. While faster transitions to low-carbon power may incur higher costs initially, delaying the transition could lead to significant economic and environmental consequences. …”
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Examining the Potential of a University-Accredited Islamic Education Teacher Training Program: A Conceptual Exploration by Asma Ahmed

“…However, Islamic schools are stuck in normative, secular, and reductive pedagogies, with most, if not all, Islamic teachers lacking training in Islamic pedagogy. …”
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Do We Need Meropenem Treatment Beyond 7 Days in Febrile Neutropenic Patients: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis by Leyla Yumrukaya, Arnold Hagens, Ahmet Çağkan İnkaya, Gökhan Metan, Maarten Postma, Selen Yeğenoğlu, Murat Akova

“…Background: Febrile neutropenia is a critical complication in patients with hematological malignancies; immediate initiation of empirical treatment with a broad-spectrum agent is the standard of care. …”
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Trends, burden, and risk factors of stomach cancer in China, 1990 - 2021 by Kevin Lu, Xiangxiang Jiang, Gang Lv, Jing Yuan

“…Findings: In 2021, the ASIR, ASMR, and ASDALYs for stomach cancer in China were 29.05, 21.51, and 627.98 per 100,000, with average annual percent change (AAPC) of -0.40, -0.53, and -0.58, respectively, compared to 1990. The AAPC reductions for incidence, mortality, and DALYs decreased with increasing age for individuals over 45, with the 45-49 age group exhibiting the highest reductions in AAPCs. …”
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Experimental study on modal analysis and vibration response of tunnel structures under different damage conditions due to subway train loads by Rui Hou, Tao Li, Zhongyu Zhang, Lingfeng Li, Bo Liu, Dongwei Ren

“…Damage decreases the tunnel structure’s modal frequency, with the first two modal frequencies showing the most significant reductions of 9.87% and 7.34%, respectively. The adjacent segments show reductions of 7.7% and 4.2%. …”
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Innovative sterile male release strategies for Aedes mosquito control: progress and challenges in integrating evidence of mosquito population suppression with epidemiological impac... by Arya Rahul, Appadurai Daniel Reegan, A. N. Shriram, Florence Fouque, Manju Rahi

“…Notably, two SIT and two Wolbachia-based IIT trials reported epidemiological outcomes, including reductions in dengue incidence and associated risk ratios. …”
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Planetary Health Rounds: A novel educational model for integrating healthcare sustainability education into postgraduate medical curricula by Tajdeep Brar, Jordana Compagnone, Sanjana Sudershan, Maryam Yunus, Loukman Ghouti, Allen Tran, Joffre Munro, Babar Haroon, Nabha Shetty

“…Introduction: Climate change poses a major threat to public health, necessitating significant reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to limit its effects. …”
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Secondary failure of oral therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes: How to overcome it? by Marković Aleksandra, Dojčinović Tamara, Risović Ivona, Grujičić Milorad, Malinović-Pančić Jelena

“…Improvements in beta-cell function and reductions in insulin resistance were confirmed during the period after insulin therapy (p < 0.001). …”
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Sturge–Weber syndrome: updates in translational neurology by Chase Solomon, Anne Comi, Anne Comi, Anne Comi

“…Sturge–Weber syndrome (SWS) is a rare congenital neurovascular disorder that initially presents with a facial port-wine birthmark (PWB) and most commonly associated with a R183Q somatic mosaic mutation in the gene GNAQ. …”
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The Fragile Promise of Culture-Led Development: Lessons from Holon by Noga Raved, Havatzelet Yahel

“…Reliance on public funding and political support for cultural initiatives exposed this strategy’s fragility. Political transitions and budget reductions highlight the vulnerabilities of cultural institutions to shifting priorities and economic pressures. …”
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Analysis of Meteorological Factors That Start Operação Comboio in the Anchieta-Imigrantes System in Brazil: Fog Case Study by Brenda Almeida Santos, Rita Yuri Ynoue

“…This study investigated the meteorological factors that initiated OC in AIS during 2015 using a comprehensive array of data sources, for example, meteorological stations and synoptic charts. …”
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Identifying brain degeneration patterns in early-stage Parkinson’s disease: a multimodal MRI study by Zihao Zhu, Jiaqi Wen, Xiaojie Duanmu, Weijin Yuan, Qianshi Zheng, Tao Guo, Chenqing Wu, Haoting Wu, Cheng Zhou, Qingze Zeng, Jianmei Qin, Jingjing Wu, Jingwen Chen, Yuelin Fang, Bingting Zhu, Yaping Yan, Jun Tian, Baorong Zhang, Minming Zhang, Xiaojun Guan, Xiaojun Xu

“…Two subtypes were identified: the early-deterioration subtype, characterized by fronto-temporal atrophy, parietal thickening, widespread reductions in fractional anisotropy (FA) values, and increased subcortical iron content, which exhibited more severe baseline symptoms and a trend of faster memory decline; and the early-compensatory subtype, characterized by rostral middle frontal atrophy, parietal-occipital thickening, increased FA values, and normal iron content, which exhibited milder symptoms initially but experienced faster progression of both motor and non-motor symptoms. …”
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Effects of Decentralized Sequencing on National Listeria monocytogenes Genomic Surveillance, Australia, 2016–2023 by Patiyan Andersson, Sally Dougall, Karolina Mercoulia, Kristy A. Horan, Torsten Seemann, Jake A. Lacey, Tuyet Hoang, Lex E.X. Leong, David Speers, Louise Cooley, Karina Kennedy, Rob Baird, Rikki Graham, Qinning Wang, Avram Levy, Dimitrios Menouhos, Norelle L. Sherry, Susan A. Ballard, Vitali Sintchenko, Amy V. Jennison, Benjamin P. Howden

“…Another 3 jurisdictions initially had increased turnaround times, highlighting the need for defined sequence referral mechanisms. …”
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A Path to Better Care for Older Adults: Optimizing Medicare and Medicaid Payments Through Implementation of the CMS Age Friendly Hospital Measure by Leslie J. Pelton MPA, Kedar Mate MD, Rani E. Snyder MPA, Terry Fulmer PhD, RN, FAAN

“…Starting January 1, 2025, hospitals in the IQR program will avoid Medicare payment reductions by reporting on the 5 domains of the CMS Age Friendly Hospital Measure. …”
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An Update on Hepatorenal Syndrome by Samuel Chan, Kenneth Au, Ross Francis, David W Mudge, David W Johnson, Tony Rahman

“…HRS is associated with poor prognosis and represents the end-stage of a sequence of reductions in renal perfusion induced by progressively severe hepatic injury. …”
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Increased HIV incidence in men who have sex with men despite high levels of ART-induced viral suppression: analysis of an extensively documented epidemic. by Andrew N Phillips, Valentina Cambiano, Fumiyo Nakagawa, Alison E Brown, Fiona Lampe, Alison Rodger, Alec Miners, Jonathan Elford, Graham Hart, Anne M Johnson, Jens Lundgren, Valerie C Delpech

“…Much higher rates of HIV testing combined with initiation of ART at diagnosis would be likely to lead to substantial reductions in HIV incidence. …”
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Esaxerenone improves the blood pressure and metabolic parameters of hypertensive subjects with diabetes by Saki Kuwabara, Hiraku Kameda, Kei Yokozeki, Aika Miya, Hiroshi Nomoto, Kyu Yong Cho, Akinobu Nakamura, Naohide Koyanagawa, Kohei Yamamoto, Jun Takeuchi, So Nagai, Arina Miyoshi, Norio Wada, Shinji Taneda, Yoshio Kurihara, Tatsuya Atsumi

“…The esaxerenone group showed significantly larger reductions in systolic BP, AST, ALT, and UACR than the amlodipine group (p &lt; 0.05). …”
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Dynamic reconnaissance operations with UAV swarms: adapting to environmental changes by Petr Stodola, Jan Nohel, Lukáš Horák

“…Comparative analysis shows consistent superior performance over classical and state-of-the-art methods, with reductions in optimization time and mission completion time. …”
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