Assessment of the essential oil extracted from Citrus aurantifolia leaves using solvent-free microwave extraction technique by G.M. Masud Rana, Md. Jasim Uddin, Jaytirmoy Barmon, Bijoy Chandra Ghos, Tahmina Akter Chowdhury, Amit Kumar Dey, Bijoy Maitra, Ismat Moin Tamanna, AHM Mahbubur Rahman, Barun Kanti Saha, Mst. Sarmina Yeasmin

“…Which revealed that C. aurantifolia leaves EO had better antioxidant properties than the standard BHT. …”
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Parasitic contamination of lettuce: comparison between establishments located in areas with high and low economic values by Gustavo Trentini Barancelli, Larissa Kochenborger, Fernanda Gracieli Machado Brum, Fabiana Tonial, Cassiano Mateus Forcelini

“…Areas with high and low economic values had the same frequency of contamination, but there was a trend to higher contamination by cestode eggs in areas with low economic values. …”
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Lack of Tissue Virological Response as a Predictor of Relapse in Chronic Hepatitis D after Completion Bulevirtide Therapy by P. O. Bogomolov, N. A. Shub, N. A. Gasilova, A. A. Belyakova, T. G. Lidzhieva, E. A. Kondrasheva, N. A. Barsukova, M. V. Arapova, E. A. Isaeva, S. V. Koblov, M. V. Kalashnikov, O. S. Kuzymina, A. Yu. Demyanov, A. O. Bueverov, I. V. Maev

“…Out of 21 patients with sustained complete virological response (negative polymerase chain reaction result for HDV RNA in serum), 8 (38 %) had HDV RNA detected in liver tissue, indicating that a tissue virological response was not achieved. …”
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Magnitude and pattern of usage of contraception and counselling services in an urban health centre in East Delhi: A secondary data analysis by Garima Singh, Subham Kansal, Arihant Jain, Kanishka Garg, Manan Tayal, Boyana T. Tejaswi, Anita S. Acharya, Ananya R. Laskar, Jyoti Khandekar

“…Among all participants, 38.32% of couples had two children. The usage of condoms was reported by 40.6% of the participants. …”
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Functional study on the regulation of adventitious root formation by PpSAT4 gene in peach rootstock ‘GF 677’ by HAO Lanlan, WANG Hong, ZHANG Fan, ZHANG Xuebing, YANG Yang

“…Phylogenetic analysis showed that PpSAT4 had the closest relationship with European sweet cherries and almonds. …”
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Investigation of the Incidence of Coital Incontinence in Incontinent Women by Omer Demir, Cihan Comba

“…The women with coital incontinence had significantly higher stress test positivity than the control group (p = 0.00). …”
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Cervical pedicle screw fixation with the Tianji orthopedic surgical robot by Hao Shen, Jinlong Zhou, Lipeng Yu

“…Results Compared with the traditional fluoroscopy group, the orthopedic surgical robot group had better accuracy in screw implantation that is, a higher acceptable rate of screws (p = 0.0083). …”
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Serum High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Concentrations in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Its Association With Histological Grade in a Chinese Population by Ying-Ying Cao PhD, Xiao-Jing Lv MD, Hui Li PhD, Li-Chao Qian PhD, Hai-Peng Si MD, Yuan Li PhD, Kai Guo PhD, Shuai Ren PhD, Zhong-Qiu Wang MD

“…Results Patients with high-grade PDAC had significantly lower HDL-c levels compared to those with low-grade PDAC across both training and validation cohorts ( P < 0.05). …”
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Case Report: Combined Autoimmune Pancreatitis, Ulcerative Colitis and Sclerosing Cholangitis in 28-y.o. Patient by A. R. Khurmatullina, A. V. Okhlobystin, L. N. Androsova, R. T. Rzayev, A. S. Tertychnyy, A. P. Kiryukhin, O. Z. Okhlobystina, M. S. Zharkova, O. S. Shifrin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Colonic lesions that initially had low grade of inflammation were resistant to immunosuppressive therapy.Key points. …”
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Ethnographic Study of Perspective and Attitude of Breastfeeding Mothers Towards the use of Elaeis Guineensis Sap As Galactagogue Among Igbo Women of Southeastern Nigeria by Okamkpa Jude Chikezie, Anibeze Ikechukwu Chike, Ozor Ikemefuna Ignatius, Ikenna Kingsely Ndu, Uchenna Anthony Umeh

“…STUDY DESIGN: Mothers who had breastfed or breastfeeding at the time of the survey, were invited to complete a questionnaire that asked about their, perceptions, efficacy, and possible side effects of Elaeis guineensis sap on both mother and child during breastfeeding. …”
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Do We Need A Bone Block Procedure in Recurrent Anterior Shoulder Instability?: A Case Report by Hastomo Agung Wibowo, Dadang Rona Sasetyo, Yusa muhammad Thoriq, Felix Giovanni Hartono

“…Case Report: The 28-year-old man complained of right shoulder instability for the past eight years, which worsened in the last year. The patient had a history of trauma. Anterior apprehension and relocation test for the right shoulder showed a positive result. …”
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THE IMPLICATIONS OF TERRORISM ON FOOD PRICES IN NIGERIA by LILIAN NNENNE AKHANOLU, HEZEKIAH AMAMIZO OGUNNUBI

“…In view of these occurrences , this paper examines the implications of terrorism on the recent prices of food and our empirical results shows that terrorism has a negative effect on the prices of food in the country .The study adopted the descriptive analysis of secondary data to examine the effects of terrorism on food prices in the nation .The study will examine the topic in detail and based on this ,the following policy recommendations will be put forward which includes government providing securities for farmers by using the non-biased military to silent the insurgents, adopt a registration data of herders with government which will capture all operating herders in Nigerian states for easy tracking of any misbehavior, provide employment for our jobless youths who had become instruments in the hands of terrorist promoters, and  above all, Nigerian government should adopt State police for a better protection of our rural areas and communities. …”
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Leveraging paired mammogram views with deep learning for comprehensive breast cancer detection by Jae Won Seo, Young Jae Kim, Kwang Gi Kim

“…Using VGGnet16, PMVnet achieved a Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 0.709 in segmentation and a recall of 0.950 at 0.156 false positives per image (FPPI) in detection tasks, outperforming the single-view model, which had a DSC of 0.579 and a recall of 0.813 at 0.188 FPPI. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of epiretinal membrane using spectralis OCT in Fujian Eye Study by Yang Li, Xiaoxin Li, Yonghua Hu, Bin Wang, Mingqin Zhang, Qinrui Hu

“…Among them, 8.42% (95% CI 0.0782–0.0902) had ERM in at least one eye. Multiple logistic regression showed the presence of ERM was only associated with urbanization and geographic location, but not with age, sex, refractive error, IOP, SBP, DBP, HR, BMI, hypertension, diabetic mellitus, hyperlipidemia, education, income, smoking, alcohol and tea consumption. …”
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Establishment of a bat lung organoid culture model for studying bat-derived infectious diseases by Mohamed Elbadawy, Nagisa Saito, Yuki Kato, Kimika Hayashi, Amira Abugomaa, Mio Kobayashi, Toshinori Yoshida, Makoto Shibutani, Masahiro Kaneda, Hideyuki Yamawaki, Kazuaki Sasaki, Tatsuya Usui, Tsutomu Omatsu

“…Furthermore, we showed that BLO had no susceptibility to Pteropine orthoreovirus (PRV) compared to bat intestinal organoids. …”
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Integrating E-cadherin expression levels with TNM staging for enhanced prognostic prediction in colorectal cancer patients by Jae-Ghi Lee, Ilkyu Park, Hannah Lee, Seungyoon Nam, Jisup Kim, Won-Suk Lee, Myunghee Kang, Jung Ho Kim

“…Results The E-cadherinLow group had significantly worse outcomes, with HRs of 2.30 for EFS and 2.76 for DSS compared to the E-cadherinHigh group. …”
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Exploratory study on the efficacy of topical pan-JAK inhibitor in ocular and skin GVHD in a sclerodermatous GVHD mouse model by Shinri Sato, Yoko Ogawa, Kazuki Asai, Eisuke Shimizu, Shota Shimizu, Hiroko Taniguchi, Takahiro Okazaki, Shigeto Shimmura, Kazuno Negishi, Masatoshi Hirayama

“…In summary, our data suggested that topical delgocitinib administration had the potential to attenuate cGVHD phenotype severity in the skin and eyes of sclerodermatous GVHD mice.…”
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Clinical characteristics of female Fabry disease patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-ventricular obstruction by Natsuko Inagaki, Yasuyoshi Takei, Tsuguhisa Hatano, Yasuyuki Takada, Yoshinao Yazaki, Hisanori Kosuge, Masatake Kobayashi, Shinji Suzuki, Tomohiro Umezu, Masahiko Kuroda, Kazuhiro Satomi, Takeharu Hayashi

“…In addition, none of these female patients had renal dysfunction, indicating a different pattern of organ damage compared with that previously reported in male patients.…”
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Managing Liver Cirrhosis: a Multidisciplinary Approach by V. M. Durleshter, S. A. Gabriel, N. V. Korochanskaya, O. V. Kovalevskaya, S. N. Serikova, P. V. Markov, O. A. Usova, D. S. Murashko, V. Yu. Dyn'ko, A. Yu. Bukhtoyarov, M. A. Basenko

“…Among 17 liver transplant patients, 6 had oesophageal variceal bleeding in history. Endoscopic ligation was performed in 5, and TIPS — in 3 patients awaiting a transplant. …”
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Improvement of Air Quality during the COVID-19 Lockdowns in the Republic of Slovenia and its Connection with Meteorology by Maja Ivanovski, Petra Dolšak Lavrič, Rudi Vončina, Darko Goričanec, Danijela Urbancl

“…Our findings indicate that COVID-19 restrictions had a moderate and indirect impact on PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations, which were more evident at PM10 monitoring sites near traffic locations. …”
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