Utilizing the Ethereum blockchain for retrieving and archiving augmented reality surgical navigation data by Sai Batchu, Michael J. Diaz, Lauren Ladehoff, Kevin Root, Brandon Lucke-Wold

“…Smart contracts are packages of code that are self-executing and reside in the Ethereum state, defining conditions for programmed transactions. Though powerful, limited attempts have been made to showcase the clinical utility of such technologies, especially in the pre- and post-operative imaging arenas. …”
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Interval velocity determination by downward continuation of the traveltime function: Paraxial ray approximation by Montes Vides Luis

“…With the interval velocity and geometry of the two limiting interfaces of the layer, the travel time function of the following reflector is estimated at the bottom interface. …”
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Prediction and impact of high burden of ventricular pacing in patients with pacemaker after transcatheter aortic valve replacement by Frédéric Anselme, MD, PhD, Iliès Jaballah, MD, Arnaud Savoure, MD, Raphaël Al Hamoud, MD, Charles Fauvel, MD, Eric Durand, MD, PhD, Hélène Eltchaninoff, MD, PhD, Corentin Chaumont, MD, PhD

“…Dual-chamber pacemakers were programmed with an algorithm favoring spontaneous atrioventricular (AV) conduction. …”
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Zoonotic diseases awareness and food safety practices among livestock farmers in Nepal by Deepak Subedi, Alok Dhakal, Sumit Jyoti, Sanjay Paudel, Sanjay Paudel, Ganesh Ranabhat, Ananda Tiwari, Ahmad I. Al-Mustapha, Ahmad I. Al-Mustapha, Ahmad I. Al-Mustapha

“…It emphasizes the importance of understanding risks, effective behavioral change strategies, and engaging farmers in developing zoonotic disease and foodborne illness prevention programs.…”
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Blockade of CLEVER-1 restrains immune evasion and enhances anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in gastric cancer by Tianwei Xu, Jing Qin, Xiaolei Zhang, Zihao Zhang, Xinxin Guo, Yifan Cao, Yichao Gu, Kuan Yu, Leihao Wang, Zhenbin Shen

“…Despite the advancements in immunotherapy for patients with GC, the heterogeneity of GC limits response rates, especially in immune “cold” subtypes, including genomically stable and epithelial-mesenchymal transition GC. …”
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Impact of a demand-side integrated WASH and nutrition community-based care group intervention on behavioural change: a randomised controlled trial in western Kenya by Matthew C Freeman, Katie Micek, Amy Webb Girard, Anna S Ellis, Emily Awino Ogutu, Bethany A Caruso, Molly Linabarger, Richard Muga, Breanna K Wodnik, Kimberly Jacob Arriola

“…Due to the multifaceted causes of undernutrition and the identified limitations of siloed nutrition programmes, improving the delivery of integrated water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and nutrition programming could improve child health.Methods We conducted a cluster randomised trial in western Kenya to assess the impact on household behaviours of a novel, theory-informed and integrated WASH and nutrition intervention delivered through care groups as compared with the standard care group approach. …”
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Experimental Study on Desorption Characteristics of Coalbed Methane under Variable Loading and Temperature in Deep and High Geothermal Mine by Haifeng Ma, Lingjie Wang, Housheng Jia, Jucai Chang, YingMing Li, Xiangyang Zhang, Zuxiang Hu, Zhiqiang Yin

“…Due to the influence of deep high stress, geothermal heat, and other factors, the law of desorption of methane in coal seams is more complicated in the process of mining deep coal seams, which is prone to methane over-limit, coal and gas outburst, and other accidents. …”
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Variable selection strategies for genomic prediction of growth and carcass related traits in experimental Nellore cattle herds under different selection criteria by Lucio F. M. Mota, Leonardo M. Arikawa, Júlia P. S. Valente, Larissa F. S. Fonseca, Maria E. Z. Mercadante, Joslaine N. S. G. Cyrillo, Henrique N. Oliveira, Lucia G. Albuquerque

“…Abstract Genomic selection (GS) has become a widely used tool in breeding programs, enhancing selection accuracy and leading to faster genetic progress. …”
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Thirty years after the Cairo declaration on population & development: have family planning measurements caught up? by Nour Horanieh, Nour Horanieh, Alice Witt, Marieme Fall, Eloisa Montt-Maray, Lamiah Adamjee, Elizabeth Larson, Thais Gonzalez-Capella, Beniamino Cislaghi, Beniamino Cislaghi

“…Participants identified challenges in adopting new indicators and emphasised that funding for FP programs remains largely concentrated among international agencies based in the Global North, which results in maintaining certain traditional demographic approaches.ConclusionCurrent indicators affect the understanding of success of FP programmes and influence how FP services translate on the ground. …”
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Effects and moderator of high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training among children and adolescents with overweight or obese: a systematic review an... by Weihua Zheng, Mingyue Yin, Yan Guo, Haiyang Liu, Jiaxin Sun, Ao Zhu, Yuming Zhong, Kai Xu, Hansen Li, Shunzhe Piao

“…Results should be interpreted cautiously due to limited subgroup data and potential bias.Prospero RegistrationCRD42024612098.…”
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Strengthening the WHO Emergency Care Systems Framework: insights from an integrated, patient-centered approach in the Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services system—a qualitative sys... by Simone Böbel, Jeske Verhoeven, Mirjam Scholz, Bart Penders, Lorraine Frisina Doetter, Helle Collatz Christensen, Thomas Krafft

“…Due to the prehospital focus of the CPH EMS, limited data was available for the “facility” site. …”
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Applying global NASA data to local planning for extreme heat in Prince George’s County, Maryland by Stephanie Schollaert Uz, Katharine C. Stover, Katharine C. Stover, Samantha L. Smith, Samantha L. Smith, Debra M. Collier, Jacob Riley, Evelyn H. Hoban

“…This unique combination of global and local data serves to pilot science-based criteria to inform and prioritize projects and programs to reduce heat exposure of Prince George’s County’s workers and residents.…”
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Psychosocial hazards and work-life balance: the role of workplace conflict, rivalry, and harassment in Latvia by Diāna Inga Paegle, Svetlana Lakiša, Linda Matisāne, Monta Matisāne, Linda Paegle, Kristīne Mārtinsone, Daiga Kamerāde, Daiga Kamerāde, Valentīna Krūmiņa, Elīna Akmane, Amanda Ķule, Ivars Vanadziņš

“…Practical implications include prioritizing leadership development programs focusing on conflict resolution and fostering a supportive organizational culture to improve employee WLB.…”
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First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole by The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Kazunori Akiyama, Antxon Alberdi, Walter Alef, Keiichi Asada, Rebecca Azulay, Anne-Kathrin Baczko, David Ball, Mislav Baloković, John Barrett, Dan Bintley, Lindy Blackburn, Wilfred Boland, Katherine L. Bouman, Geoffrey C. Bower, Michael Bremer, Christiaan D. Brinkerink, Roger Brissenden, Silke Britzen, Avery E. Broderick, Dominique Broguiere, Thomas Bronzwaer, Do-Young Byun, John E. Carlstrom, Andrew Chael, Chi-kwan Chan, Shami Chatterjee, Koushik Chatterjee, Ming-Tang Chen, Yongjun Chen, Ilje Cho, Pierre Christian, John E. Conway, James M. Cordes, Geoffrey B. Crew, Yuzhu Cui, Jordy Davelaar, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Roger Deane, Jessica Dempsey, Gregory Desvignes, Jason Dexter, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Ralph P. Eatough, Heino Falcke, Vincent L. Fish, Ed Fomalont, Raquel Fraga-Encinas, William T. Freeman, Per Friberg, Christian M. Fromm, José L. Gómez, Peter Galison, Charles F. Gammie, Roberto García, Olivier Gentaz, Boris Georgiev, Ciriaco Goddi, Roman Gold, Minfeng Gu, Mark Gurwell, Kazuhiro Hada, Michael H. Hecht, Ronald Hesper, Luis C. Ho, Paul Ho, Mareki Honma, Chih-Wei L. Huang, Lei Huang, David H. Hughes, Shiro Ikeda, Makoto Inoue, Sara Issaoun, David J. James, Buell T. Jannuzi, Michael Janssen, Britton Jeter, Wu Jiang, Michael D. Johnson, Svetlana Jorstad, Taehyun Jung, Mansour Karami, Ramesh Karuppusamy, Tomohisa Kawashima, Garrett K. Keating, Mark Kettenis, Jae-Young Kim, Junhan Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Motoki Kino, Jun Yi Koay, Patrick M. Koch, Shoko Koyama, Michael Kramer, Carsten Kramer, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Cheng-Yu Kuo, Tod R. Lauer, Sang-Sung Lee, Yan-Rong Li, Zhiyuan Li, Michael Lindqvist, Kuo Liu, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Wen-Ping Lo, Andrei P. Lobanov, Laurent Loinard, Colin Lonsdale, Ru-Sen Lu, Nicholas R. MacDonald, Jirong Mao, Sera Markoff, Daniel P. Marrone, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Martí-Vidal, Satoki Matsushita, Lynn D. Matthews, Lia Medeiros, Karl M. Menten, Yosuke Mizuno, Izumi Mizuno, James M. Moran, Kotaro Moriyama, Monika Moscibrodzka, Cornelia Müller, Hiroshi Nagai, Neil M. Nagar, Masanori Nakamura, Ramesh Narayan, Gopal Narayanan, Iniyan Natarajan, Roberto Neri, Chunchong Ni, Aristeidis Noutsos, Hiroki Okino, Héctor Olivares, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, Tomoaki Oyama, Feryal Özel, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Nimesh Patel, Ue-Li Pen, Dominic W. Pesce, Vincent Piétu, Richard Plambeck, Aleksandar PopStefanija, Oliver Porth, Ben Prather, Jorge A. Preciado-López, Dimitrios Psaltis, Hung-Yi Pu, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Alexander W. Raymond, Luciano Rezzolla, Bart Ripperda, Freek Roelofs, Alan Rogers, Eduardo Ros, Mel Rose, Arash Roshanineshat, Helge Rottmann, Alan L. Roy, Chet Ruszczyk, Benjamin R. Ryan, Kazi L. J. Rygl, Salvador Sánchez, David Sánchez-Arguelles, Mahito Sasada, Tuomas Savolainen, F. Peter Schloerb, Karl-Friedrich Schuster, Lijing Shao, Zhiqiang Shen, Des Small, Bong Won Sohn, Jason SooHoo, Fumie Tazaki, Paul Tiede, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Kenji Toma, Pablo Torne, Tyler Trent, Sascha Trippe, Shuichiro Tsuda, Ilse van Bemmel, Huib Jan van Langevelde, Daniel R. van Rossum, Jan Wagner, John Wardle, Jonathan Weintroub, Norbert Wex, Robert Wharton, Maciek Wielgus, George N. Wong, Qingwen Wu, Ken Young, André Young, Ziri Younsi, Feng Yuan, Ye-Fei Yuan, J. Anton Zensus, Guangyao Zhao, Shan-Shan Zhao, Ziyan Zhu, Juan-Carlos Algaba, Alexander Allardi, Rodrigo Amestica, Jadyn Anczarski, Uwe Bach, Frederick K. Baganoff, Christopher Beaudoin, Bradford A. Benson, Ryan Berthold, Jay M. Blanchard, Ray Blundell, Sandra Bustamente, Roger Cappallo, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Chih-Cheng Chang, Shu-Hao Chang, Song-Chu Chang, Chung-Chen Chen, Ryan Chilson, Tim C. Chuter, Rodrigo Córdova Rosado, Iain M. Coulson, Thomas M. Crawford, Joseph Crowley, John David, Mark Derome, Matthew Dexter, Sven Dornbusch, Kevin A. Dudevoir, Sergio A. Dzib, Andreas Eckart, Chris Eckert, Neal R. Erickson, Wendeline B. Everett, Aaron Faber, Joseph R. Farah, Vernon Fath, Thomas W. Folkers, David C. Forbes, Robert Freund, Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz, David M. Gale, Feng Gao, Gertie Geertsema, David A. Graham, Christopher H. Greer, Ronald Grosslein, Frédéric Gueth, Daryl Haggard, Nils W. Halverson, Chih-Chiang Han, Kuo-Chang Han, Jinchi Hao, Yutaka Hasegawa, Jason W. Henning, Antonio Hernández-Gómez, Rubén Herrero-Illana, Stefan Heyminck, Akihiko Hirota, James Hoge, Yau-De Huang, C. M. Violette Impellizzeri, Homin Jiang, Atish Kamble, Ryan Keisler, Kimihiro Kimura, Yusuke Kono, Derek Kubo, John Kuroda, Richard Lacasse, Robert A. Laing, Erik M. Leitch, Chao-Te Li, Lupin C.-C. Lin, Ching-Tang Liu, Kuan-Yu Liu, Li-Ming Lu, Ralph G. Marson, Pierre L. Martin-Cocher, Kyle D. Massingill, Callie Matulonis, Martin P. McColl, Stephen R. McWhirter, Hugo Messias, Zheng Meyer-Zhao, Daniel Michalik, Alfredo Montaña, William Montgomerie, Matias Mora-Klein, Dirk Muders, Andrew Nadolski, Santiago Navarro, Joseph Neilsen, Chi H. Nguyen, Hiroaki Nishioka, Timothy Norton, Michael A. Nowak, George Nystrom, Hideo Ogawa, Peter Oshiro, Tomoaki Oyama, Harriet Parsons, Scott N. Paine, Juan Peñalver, Neil M. Phillips, Michael Poirier, Nicolas Pradel, Rurik A. Primiani, Philippe A. Raffin, Alexandra S. Rahlin, George Reiland, Christopher Risacher, Ignacio Ruiz, Alejandro F. Sáez-Madaín, Remi Sassella, Pim Schellart, Paul Shaw, Kevin M. Silva, Hotaka Shiokawa, David R. Smith, William Snow, Kamal Souccar, Don Sousa, T. K. Sridharan, Ranjani Srinivasan, William Stahm, Anthony A. Stark, Kyle Story, Sjoerd T. Timmer, Laura Vertatschitsch, Craig Walther, Ta-Shun Wei, Nathan Whitehorn, Alan R. Whitney, David P. Woody, Jan G. A. Wouterloot, Melvin Wright, Paul Yamaguchi, Chen-Yu Yu, Milagros Zeballos, Shuo Zhang, Lucy Ziurys

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CMRNet: An Automatic Rapeseed Counting and Localization Method Based on the CNN-Mamba Hybrid Model by Jie Li, Chenbo Yang, Chengyong Zhu, Tao Qin, Jingmin Tu, Binhui Wang, Jian Yao, Jiangwei Qiao

“…However, traditional methods for quantifying lodging rates, which rely on manual measurements of lodged plant proportions, are often labor-intensive and prone to inaccuracies, limiting their utility in large-scale breeding programs. …”
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Immunotoxicity Studies on the Insecticide 2-((1-(4-Phenoxyphenoxy)propan-2-yl)oxy)pyridine (MPEP) in Hsd:Harlan Sprague Dawley SD^® Rats by Victor J. Johnson, Stefanie C. M. Burleson, Michael I. Luster, Gary R. Burleson, Barry McIntyre, Veronica G. Robinson, Reshan A. Fernando, James Blake, Donna Browning, Stephen Cooper, Shawn Harris, Dori R. Germolec

“…The broad-spectrum insect growth regulator (IGR) and insecticide 2-((1-(4-Phenoxyphenoxy)propan-2-yl)oxy)pyridine (MPEP; also known as pyriproxyfen) is increasingly being used to address public health programs for vector control, initiated by the spread of Zika virus in 2015–2016. …”
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Identification and genetic analysis of candidate genes for resistance against Phytophthora sojae in soybean using a genome-wide association study by Hye Rang Park, Su Vin Heo, Beom Kyu Kang, Hyoseob Seo, Eunsoo Lee, Jihee Park, Yun Woo Jang, Jeong Hyun Seo, Girim Park, Jun Hoi Kim, Yeong Hoon Lee, Won Young Han, Myung Chul Seo, Ji-Ung Jeung

“….], is an important threat to soybean production in South Korea; however, the precise genetic mechanisms related to PRSR resistance remain largely unclear, limiting the development of resistant cultivars. This study aimed to identify candidate resistance (R) genes related to PRSR resistance in soybeans through a genome-wide association study (GWAS). …”
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Targeting sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 3 inhibits T-cell exhaustion and regulates recruitment of proinflammatory macrophages to improve antitumor efficacy of CAR-T cells agains... by Weiting Liao, Ge Gao, Xia He, Pei Shu, Qizhi Ma, Benxia Zhang, Diyuan Qin, Yongsheng Wang

“…Backgrounds Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells (CAR-T) are limited in solid tumors due to the hostile tumor microenvironment (TME). …”
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Screening and Assessment of Genetic Diversity of Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.) Germplasm in Response to Soil Salinity Stress at Germination Stage by Alia Anwar, Javaria Tabassum, Shakeel Ahmad, Muhammad Ashfaq, Adil Hussain, Muhammad Asad Ullah, Nur Shuhadah Binti Mohd Saad, Abdelhalim I. Ghazy, Muhammad Arshad Javed

“…However, to date, there have been limited efforts to screen rice germplasm for salt tolerance under this approach. …”
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Growth and nitrogen productivity of drip-irrigated winter wheat under different nitrogen fertigation strategies in the North China Plain by Sunusi Amin ABUBAKAR, Abdoul Kader Mounkaila HAMANI, Guang-shuai WANG, Hao LIU, Faisal MEHMOOD, Abubakar Sadiq ABDULLAHI, Yang GAO, Ai-wang DUAN

“…The six treatments consisted of five fertigation N application scheduling programs and one slow-release fertilizer (SRF) application. …”
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