Biomechanical Analysis of <i>Camellia oleifera</i> Branches for Optimized Vibratory Harvesting by Rui Pan, Ziping Wan, Mingliang Wu, Shikui Lu, Lewei Tang

“…For instance, Huaxin branches demonstrated the highest rigidity, while Huashuo branches were softer in general. For the proposed empirical fitting equations, when the fitting parameter <i>k</i> is 168 ± 20 and the parameter <i>c</i> is 3.102 ± 0.421, the bending load–deflection relationship of the branches can be predicted more accurately. …”
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Molecular Factors Mediating Neural Cell Plasticity Changes in Dementia Brain Diseases by Wojciech Kozubski, Kevin Ong, Wioletta Waleszczyk, Matthew Zabel, Jolanta Dorszewska

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SUDDEN SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH PATENT FORAMEN OVALE IN SCUBA DIVERS by Yaroslava V. Bondarenko, Yuliia V. Dieieva

“…Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is a condition typically characterized by unilateral hearing impairment, with a decrease of at least 30 dB across three or more adjacent frequencies. Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a common finding in the general population. …”
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Multimodal physical therapy intervention based on a biobehavioral approach in a patient with chronic upper limb pain: a case report by Fernando-Balbino Blanco-Fernández, Carlos Forner-Álvarez, Celia Vidal-Quevedo, Ferran Cuenca-Martínez, Mónica Grande-Alonso

“…Chronic upper limb pain is rather common among people in general and is characterized by a complex diagnosis due to the wide variety of factors that are involved in its development. …”
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Plant extracellular vesicles: A promising bionic medicine platform for disease treatment and drug delivery by Jichun Yang, Yuhan Wang, Yunqian Fu, Sitong Wang, Yao Luo, Xin Cui, Chenyu Sun, Jianing Ji, Jiaxi Mo, Yang Wang, Yilin Liu, Xinghong Hu, Xiaohui Chen, Yimin Jia, Yang Luo

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The Correlation of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with Visceral Fat Area and Thyroid Nodules in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by ZENG Jialing, MENG Yan, DENG Tingting, LI Jinhua, ZHAO Ping

“…They were divided into two groups based on abdominal ultrasound findings: NAFLD group and non-NAFLD group. General data, including VFA, subcutaneous fat area (SFA), insulin function, thyroid function, prevalence of thyroid nodules, blood glucose levels, lipid levels, and liver and kidney function were compared between the two groups. …”
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CHANGES IN REGIONAL PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION IN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING by A. A. Tashilova

“…Precipitation changes in response to warming are more uneven than before, and this occurs mainly during events that are considered extreme . …”
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Prevalence and Correlates of Neurocognitive Disorders among HIV Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy at a Kenyan Hospital by A. G. Mugendi, M. N. Kubo, D. G. Nyamu, L. M. Mwaniki, S. K. Wahome, J. E. Haberer

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MagicCraft: Natural Language-Driven Generation of Dynamic and Interactive 3D Objects for Commercial Metaverse Platforms by Ryutaro Kurai, Takefumi Hiraki, Yuichi Hiroi, Yutaro Hirao, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hideaki Uchiyama, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa

“…To address this challenge, we present MagicCraft, a system that generates functional 3D objects from natural language prompts for metaverse platforms. …”
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Descriptive and temporal analysis of the mortality rate and average hospital stay due to burns and corrosion in the elderly in Brazil between 2010 and 2019 by Arthur Antunes Coimbra Pinheiro Pacífico, Ester Saraiva Carvalho Feitosa, Anna Letícia Silveira Parnaíba, Pedro Lucena de Aquino, Amanda de Andrade Cavalcante, Thalia de Souza Bezerra, Leandro Dantas Rolim, Samy Lima Carneiro

“…Introduction: Aging leads to physical and cognitive limitations and decreased functional capacity. Therefore, there is a greater risk, a higher rate of complications and death in elderly patients from burns. …”
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Caste- and environment-associated differential expression of olfactory receptors in pest ants by Kayli R. Sieber, Maya Saar, Nicholas Newell, Katrina Fernandez, Flávia P. Franco, Fernando R. Sujimoto, Charlotte B. Francoeur, Roberto M. Pereira, Cameron R. Currie, José Mauricio Simões Bento, Hua Yan

“…To develop such compounds, it is first important to comprehensively understand the target species’ olfactory transcriptome in order to guide future targeted functional characterization of relevant olfactory proteins. …”
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RESTORE ME: a RCT of oxaloacetate for improving fatigue in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome by Alan Cash, Suzanne D. Vernon, Candace Rond, Lucinda Bateman, Saeed Abbaszadeh, Jennifer Bell, Brayden Yellman, David L. Kaufman

“…Secondary and exploratory endpoints included functional capacity and general health status.ResultsAnhydrous enol-oxaloacetate (oxaloacetate) was well tolerated at the tested doses. …”
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Is there a relationship between joint hypermobility and gastrointestinal disorders in children? by Paolo Quitadamo, Nikhil Thapar, Giovanni Di Nardo, Matilde Pescarin, Luca Bertelli, Clelia Tortora, Osvaldo Borrelli, Roberto De Giorgio, Annamaria Staiano

“…JH was reported in 7/70 (10%) children with FGIDs (p=0.26 compared to controls), 4/50 (8%) children with Crohn`s disease (p=0.21 compared to controls) and 15/50 (30%) children with ulcerative colitis (p=0.09 compared to controls; p=0.01 compared to FGIDs; p=0.01 compared to Crohn`s). Conclusions. JH is more prevalent in patients suffering from ulcerative colitis compared to the healthy general population, yet the difference did not reach statistical significance. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of magnetic chitosan microspheres as coking wastewater adsorbents by Yunlong Zhao, Hao Peng, Lei Zhang, Wanwan Fu, Man Zhang, Zhishan Chen, Longfei Li, Yutao Chen

“…As a new type of polymer functional material, magnetic chitosan has been widely used in wastewater treatment. …”
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The effectiveness of acupuncture in treating carpal tunnel syndrome: A literature review by Paweł Jan Kuna, Alicja Katarzyna Chojniak, Monika Gajda-Bathelt, Julia Adasiewicz, Katarzyna Kwaterska, Agnieszka Benecka, Kamil Janawa, Michał Tomaszek, Klaudia Michalak, Kacper Janowski

“…Conclusion: Acupuncture-especially manual acupuncture and when combined with other interventions like splinting-shows promise in reducing CTS symptoms and improving functional outcomes. In some cases, it may be more effective than pharmacological treatments. …”
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Development of recipes for poultry snacks and their quality assessment by I. V. Asfondyarova, A. A. Abutalimova, V. A. Demchenko

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Enhanced effective convolutional attention network with squeeze-and-excitation inception module for multi-label clinical document classification by M. Venkata Krishna Reddy, L. Raghavendar Raju, Kashi Sai Prasad, Dr. D Anitha Kumari, Vadlamani Veerabhadram, Nagendar Yamsani

“…EAB-CDC is not a standalone model but a functional part applied to the architecture for discriminative feature extraction by sum-pooling and multi-layer attention mechanisms. …”
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[18F]PARPi Imaging Is Not Affected by HPV Status In Vitro by Navjot Guru, Paula Demétrio De Souza França, Giacomo Pirovano, Cien Huang, Snehal G. Patel, Thomas Reiner

“…Here, we explore whether HPV affects functional biomarkers, including γH2AX, RAD51, and PARP1. …”
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Strategy of the effective structure of farmers funding by Denis Y. Samygin, Nikolay G. Baryshnikov

“…On the other hand, at insufficient interest of financial structures in agricultural industry, weak competitiveness of landowners with the banking sector, low availability of credit resources to the most part of producers, the specified support measures only promote growth of debt load of major agricultural firms and limit farmers in obtaining budgetary funds that does not increase their special legal status and the importance for agrarian economy, does not add social importance for rural territories, does not lead to increase in the general effectiveness in agricultural production and does not promote efficiency to use the means of support, and, therefore, demands formation basic other more effective approach to subsidizing of small farms in the village. …”
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Surgical Management of Bilateral Superolateral Displacement of Condylar Segment with Intracapsular Fracture in Complex Facial Trauma: A Case Report by Divya Suvarna Dixit, Nitin Bhola, Bhushan Mundada, Deepankar Shukla

“…These fractures can involve several bones, making treatment more challenging in achieving both functional and aesthetic rehabilitation due to the complexity of the anatomical structures involved. …”
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