Unveiling immune mechanisms and potential biomarkers in intervertebral disc degeneration through integrated analysis by Xuehu Xie, Guoqiang Zhang, Ning Liu

“…We also identified differentially expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and constructed an mRNA-miRNA-lncRNA network. …”
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Impact of market orientation on competitiveness: Analysis of internationalized medium-sized and large enterprises by Miklós Stocker, Lídia Várkonyi

“…If managers would like to increase their companies’ adaptivity and/or operationality then they should also focus on interfunctional coordination procedures as well. …”
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Perceived stress among graduate students in health sciences at a military university: a mixed-method approach by Omar Mushtaq, Michael Soh, Ting Dong, Steven J. Durning, John Melton, Khalilah M. McCants, Laura Taylor, Laura Baumann, Bolanle Olapeju

“…Active-duty students were less likely to see finances as a source of stress (67.7%) than their civilian counterparts. …”
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Use of varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy in people with and without general practitioner-recorded dementia: retrospective cohort study of routine electronic medical reco... by Amy Taylor, Tim Jones, Taha Itani, Richard Martin, Gemma Taylor, Kyla Thomas, Neil Davies

“…Smokers with GP-recorded dementia were 74% less likely (95% CI 64% to 82%) to be prescribed varenicline than NRT, compared with smokers without GP-recorded dementia. …”
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Novel NFA engine construction method of regular expressions by Mao-hua JING, Yi-xian YANG, Tao WANG, Yang XIN

“…A novel method for constructing smaller non-deterministic finite automata (NFA) engine from given regular expressions named PFA was proposed.There are three main algorithms in PFA,the pretreatment algorithm,the coding parser tree algorithm and the NFA construction algorithm based on the coded binary tree.The smaller NFA named NFA_p with only one start state and one final state can be obtained by using PFA construction method.NFA_phave linear size in terms of the size of given regular expressions.It is the smallest NFA comparing with current methods like Thompson NFA,follow automata,position automata and partial derivatives automata.The size of NFA_pis one third of Thompson’s and it is smaller than the size of follow automata whose size has nearly closed to optimal.…”
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND FORENSIC LINGUISTICS : WHAT RELATIONSHIP ? by GUEBOUDJ Salah, BARECHE Khalissa & BOUREGBA Abla

“…Beyond this, language plays a role in crime, as it can be purely linguistic—such as insults, or threats—or a means of planning a crime, like luring someone before committing murder or using secret codes to smuggle weapons and drugs. …”
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Pesticide Safety Miniposter: Daily Personal Care by Rebecca W. Baldwin, Stephanie K. Hill, Philip Koehler, W. Walker, J. C. Medley

“…The information and video links (QR codes) on the Daily Personal Care poster provide technicians with examples of areas that are commonly contaminated by pesticides. …”
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Slowness and sparseness lead to place, head-direction, and spatial-view cells. by Mathias Franzius, Henning Sprekeler, Laurenz Wiskott

“…The system extracts a distributed grid-like representation of position and orientation, which is transcoded into a localized place-field, head-direction, or view representation, by sparse coding. …”
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Métropole, cosmopolitisme et médiation by Gilberto Velho

“…Through an examination of classic authors like Simmel, it considers the discontinuities between objective and subjective cultures in modern-contemporary society. …”
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Speed modulations in grid cell information geometry by Zeyuan Ye, Ralf Wessel

“…Overall, our results demonstrate that grid cell spatial coding improves with speed, and GKR provides an intuitive tool for characterizing neural population codes.…”
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Telemedicine use in rural areas of the United Kingdom to improve access to healthcare facilities: A review of current evidence by Rama K. Gobburi, David B. Olawade, Gbolahan Deji Olatunji, Emmanuel Kokori, Nicholas Aderinto, Aanuoluwapo Clement David-Olawade

“…Methods: The research process combines a systematic literature review with a thematic analysis using open coding. The results were presented through thematic representation from an open-coding method, following an established search strategy, inclusion/exclusion criteria, a two-step screening procedure, and data extraction. …”
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A lightweight triple-modal fusion network for progressive mild cognitive impairment prediction in Alzheimer's disease by Xiangyu Shen, Xiangyang Hu, Renfeng Zhang, Yunzhan Fu, Jiamin Xu, Degang Lyu, Hongbiao Xie, Hongbiao Xie, Deen Shi, Changsheng Shi, Lisi Li, Yuantong Gao

“…Early identification of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who are likely to convert to AD is essential for timely diagnosis and therapeutic intervention. …”
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Evaluating racial and ethnic disparities in antibiotic treatment for pneumonia patients in a major academic health system by David Evans, Kingsley Fortin-Leung, Vishnu Ravi Kumar, Yanru Ma, Radhika Prakash Asrani, Zanthia Wiley, Scott K. Fridkin, CDC Prevention Epicenters Program

“…Patients: Adult inpatients from January 2019 through June 2022 discharged from the Hospital Medicine Service with an ICD-10 Code for Pneumonia. Methods: We describe variability in days of therapy of antimicrobials with activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (anti-Pseudomonas agents) or against MRSA (anti-MRSA agents), by patient’s race and ethnicity. …”
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Cytochrome P450 2C9-mediated interactions: molecular docking studies of natural anti-arthritic compounds by Boon Hooi Tan, Nafees Ahemad, Yan Pan, Uma Devi Palanisamy, Chin Eng Ong

“…Methods: The investigated compounds were docked individually to the defined binding site in CYP2C9 based on the published crystal structure (PDB code: 1R9O). Results: All investigated ligands bound deep in the active site pocket in close proximity to the heme. …”
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Is postoperative cognitive dysfunction a disease of microglial inflammatory memory? A state-transition model from metabolic stress to epigenetic lock-in by Xiangyu Wu, Xiangyu Wu, Tingye He, Tingye He, Fei He, Fei He, Li Liu, Li Liu

“…These events engage epigenetic machinery—including HDAC3, DNMT3a, and long non-coding RNAs like MEG3—which reinforce transcriptional programs that lower activation thresholds and amplify cytokine output. …”
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Dynamic response mechanisms of limestone pillars with weak interlayers under vertical stress wave disturbance of blasting by JIANG Lichun, LI Yinghao, ZHONG Qipeng

“…By using the Newmark-β code program for calculation, the goals of short time consumption and high efficiency are achieved, which is basically in line with the actual situation and provides a new idea for the study of rock mass dynamic response under blasting excitation.…”
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Development of an algorithm for ethnicity recording in cohorts from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink primary care and linked Hospital Episode Statistics databases by Rachael Williams, Eleanor L Axson, Suhail I Shiekh

“…Objective To evaluate various prioritisation strategies within an algorithm designed to ascertain the most likely ethnicity and create a standardised methodology to benefit future research.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting The Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) primary care and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data sets.Participants The population of 54 029 174 patients included all acceptable patients registered at English practices in CPRD GOLD or CPRD Aurum from the May 2023 to May 2022 builds, respectively.Primary outcome measure Ethnicity data within CPRD and HES data sets were identified by employing established code lists and subsequently categorised into broader ethnic groups. …”
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High clinical burden of classical homocystinuria in the United States: a retrospective analysis by Mahim Jain, Mehul Shah, Kamlesh M. Thakker, Andrew Rava, Agnes Pelts Block, Colette Ndiba-Markey, Lionel Pinto

“…To obtain a study population most likely to have HCU, stratifications by tHcy levels, clinical characteristics, and phenotypic expressions were applied to refine the cohort. …”
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Trends in initial pharmacological COPD treatment in primary care (2010–2021): a population-based study using the PHARMO Data Network by Guilherme Rodrigues, Joana Antão, Qichen Deng, Brenda N. Baak, Alda Marques, Frits M. E. Franssen, Martijn A. Spruit

“…Conclusions Shifts in initial pharmacological COPD treatment from 2010 to 2021 likely reflect the introduction of new inhalers and updated management strategies. …”
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Comparison of long COVID, recovered COVID, and non-COVID Post-Acute Infection Syndromes over three years. by Caleb R Carr, Nicole L Gentile, Jeanne Bertolli, Warren Szewczyk, Jin-Mann S Lin, Elizabeth R Unger, Quan M Vu, Nona Sotoodehnia, Annette L Fitzpatrick

“…Compared to the recovered COVID control group, the long COVID group had more health problems prior to the infection, including respiratory and metabolic as well as more severe infections and comorbidities based on the ICD codes found in the acute phase records. In the post-acute timeframe, many symptoms were more likely to be associated with long COVID than recovered patients with COVID-19 including abnormalities of heart beat [OR (95% CI), 5.31 (3.96-7.13)], cognition, perception, or emotional state symptoms [OR (95% CI), 5.14 (3.81-6.92)], malaise and fatigue [OR (95% CI), 4.20 (3.13-5.63)], and sleep disorders [OR (95% CI), 2.47, (1.79-3.43)], all p < 0.05. …”
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