Factors associated with anemia among pregnant and lactating women during the COVID-19 pandemic in the targeted municipalities of five selected provinces in Nepal: a cross-sectional... by Pratik Niraula, Atul Upadhyay, Sanjeev Kumar Karn, Roman Karki

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Incidence and predictors of mortality among HIV positive children on anti-retroviral therapy in the selected health facilities of West Wollega Zone, Western Ethiopia: Retrospective... by Gelane Gurmu, Emiru Merdassa, Gemechu Tiruneh, Keneni Efrem, Firezer Belay, Lalisa Mekonnen, Jira Wakoya Feyisa, Matiyos Lema, Adisu Tafari Shama, Markos Desalegn

“…A simple random sampling method was employed to select 286 children living with HIV who started ART from 01 January 2012 to 31 October 2021. …”
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Echoes of ‘bygone’ divisions within the context of democratic changes in Northern Ireland and South Africa. A comparative analysis on the basis of selected novels by Lucy Caldwell... by Ryszard Bartnik

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Predictors of recovery time from severe community-acquired pneumonia among paediatrics patients in selected hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: an institution-based retrospective c... by Mekonen Adimasu Kebede, Kalkidan Mekonnen Sinishaw, Girum Sebsbie

“…The aim of this study was to determine the recovery time from SCAP and factors in paediatric patients in selected hospitals in Addis Ababa.Design, participants and setting A retrospective cohort study was conducted among 407 randomly selected paediatric patients admitted with SCAP in Addis Ababa public hospitals from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2020.Primary and secondary outcomes Recovery time and recovery rate from SCAP were estimated using Kaplan-Meier and simple frequency statistics, respectively, and the adjusted HR with a 95% CI was used to identify associated factors for recovery.Results 91.5% (95% CI: 88.3% to 94.1%) of children recovered from SCAP with an overall recovery rate of 11.5 (95% CI: 10.37 to 12.76) per 100 person-day observation, and the median recovery time was 6 days. …”
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A Poly(methacrolein-<i>co</i>-methacrylamide)-Based Template Anchoring Strategy for the Synthesis of Fluorescent Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Nanoparticles for Highly Selective Se... by Madhav Biyani, Mizuki Matsumoto, Yasuo Yoshimi

“…The poly(methacrolein-<i>co</i>-methacrylamide) synthesized under Condition 3 (5:1 methacrolein-to-methacrylamide molar ratio, 1:150 initiator-to-total monomer ratio, and 4.59 M total monomer concentration) yielded the most selective fMIP-NPs, whose fluorescence intensity increased with an increase in serotonin concentration, rising by up to 37% upon serotonin binding. …”
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Clothes Retrieval Using M-AlexNet With Mish Function and Feature Selection Using Joint Shannon&#x2019;s Entropy Pearson&#x2019;s Correlation Coefficient by Marryam Murtaza, Muhammad Sharif, Mussarat Yasmin, Muhammad Fayyaz, Seifedine Kadry, Mi Young Lee

“…This research aims to enhance clothes retrieval training and test accuracy by using two different means. Initially, features are extracted using the modified AlexNet (M-AlexNet) with slight modification. …”
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First use of cenerimod, a selective S1P1 receptor modulator, for the treatment of SLE: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept study by Viktoria Hermann, Anastas Batalov, Svetlana Smakotina, Pierre-Eric Juif, Peter Cornelisse

“…Objective To investigate the pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics and safety of cenerimod—a potent, oral, selective sphingosine 1-phosphate 1 receptor modulator—in patients with SLE.Methods This multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted in two parts. …”
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Evaluation of the incremental effect of fasting length on pH, select cecal microbial groups, cecal volatile fatty acid concentrations, and secretory IgA excretion in roosters by B.W. Parsons, M.R. Bedford, C.L. Wyatt

“…Adult White Leghorn roosters with intact ceca were provided a nutrient-adequate corn-soybean meal diet ad libitum for 3 weeks. Prior to initiation of the experimental phase, ad libitum feed intake was recorded for 8 h and immediately after the fasting period commenced. …”
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An Analytical Prior Selection Procedure for Empirical Bayesian Analysis Using Resampling Techniques: A Simulation-Based Approach Using the Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Data from the S... by Aditya Chakraborty, Mohan D. Pant

“…This statistical framework offers greater flexibility, enabling researchers to incorporate prior information and rigorously estimate parameters of interest. However, the selection of suitable prior distributions can be a challenging endeavor, with profound implications for the resulting inferences. …”
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Propuesta innovadora al sistema de selección de talentos de velocistas del atletismo cubano (Innovative proposal to the talent selection system for Cuban athletics sprinters) by Lianell Jova Elejalde, Magda Mesa Anoceto

“…This article aims to establish adjustments to the talent selection system for the speed category in the admission and retention of athletes aged 12-13 years at the Schools of Sports Initiation (EIDE). …”
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The inducible role of autophagy in cell death: emerging evidence and future perspectives by Xiangliang Huang, Hao Yan, Zhifei Xu, Bo Yang, Peihua Luo, Qiaojun He

“…Aim of review This review aims to summarize the existing studies on autophagy-mediated RCD, to elucidate the mechanism by which autophagy initiates RCD, and to comprehensively understand the role of autophagy in determining cell fate. …”
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Reduced Inter-Element Interference mmWave MIMO Antenna and Its Application in WBAN by Jawad Ahmad, Mohammad Hashmi

“…Initially, a mmWave dual-band antenna was designed by incorporating a modified elliptical patch with rotating arms. …”
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International land-sea trade corridor for sustainable transportation: A review of recent literature by Hui Zhao, Nan Yu, Siying Zhu

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Measurement and spatiotemporal evolution of geo-economic relationships in China’s sporting goods manufacturing industry by Zhijiang Yu, Viktoriia Medvid, Yuzhong Le

“…Using the standardized Euclidean distance method, the geo-economic relationship of sporting goods manufacturing industry between China and each One Belt and One Road Initiative (BRI) country is obtained. Statistic results show that the geo-economic relationship of the sporting goods manufacturing industry between China and other BRI countries is more competitive than complementary. …”
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DREAMS AND REALITY OF THE ACADEMICIAN I.G. KALINENKO IN CREATION OF DURUM WINTER WHEAT by N. E. Samofalova

“…The article gives the analysis of 40-years selection activity of the academician I.G. Kalinenko in creation of the own initial material and the varieties of turgid and durum wheat which was new for the conditions of the Rostov region. …”
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The value of a PET scan in selecting the best lymph node to biopsy, and confirming the diagnosis of idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease with HLH and EBV viremia in a previous... by Erica Bitektine, Hamila Hagh-Daoust, René P. Michel, Stephane Isnard, Jean-Pierre Routy

“…Initial axillary lymph node biopsy was not diagnostics. …”
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Individualized functional brain mapping machine learning prediction of symptom-change resulting from selective kappa-opioid antagonism in an anhedonic sample from a Fast-Fail trial by Matthew D. Sacchet, Joseph L. Valenti, Poorvi Keshava, Shane W. Walsh, Moria J. Smoski, Andrew D. Krystal, Diego A. Pizzagalli

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A Quality Soft Sensing Method Designed for Complex Multi-process Manufacturing Procedures by Kaixiang PENG, Xin QIN, Jiahao WANG, Hui YANG

“…GA is employed as the optimal feature search strategy, where the initial feature subset is binary encoded (1 for selected feature, 0 for unselected feature), and an initial population is randomly generated. …”
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Efficient and Effective Detection of Repeated Pattern from Fronto-Parallel Images with Unknown Visual Contents by Hong Qu, Yanghong Zhou, P. Y. Mok, Gerhard Flatz, Li Li

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AOAFS: A Malware Detection System Using an Improved Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm by Rafat Alshorman, Bilal H. Abed-alguni, Yaqeen E. Alqudah

“…First, the K-means clustering method is used to improve the initial population of the AOAFS. Second, sixteen Binary Transfer Functions are applied to model the binary solution space for FS in the AOAFS. …”
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