Collecting at-Home Biometric Measures for Longitudinal Research From the i3C: Feasibility and Acceptability Study by Marta Russell, Erin Cain, Lydia Bazzano, Ileana De Anda, Jessica G Woo, Elaine M Urbina

“…The scale that measured weight, body composition, and pulse wave velocity (PWV) was more difficult to use (113/134, 84% participants recorded at least one weight and 84/134, 63% recorded a PWV). …”
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Polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthesis by oxalotrophic bacteria from high Andean soil by Roger David Castillo-Arteaga, Edith Mariela Burbano-Rosero, Iván Dario Otero-Ramirez, Juan Camilo Roncallo, Sandra Patricia Hidalgo-Bonilla, Pablo Fernández-Izquierdo

“…The polymeric composition was characterized using gas chromatography. …”
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Design and performance investigation for substrate filler in protected horticulture by WEI Yuyong, LU Jun, SHENG Kuichuan, QIAN Xiangqun, SHEN Junfeng

“…With the rapid development of modern horticultural production, the demand for substrate filler is increasing dramatically. However, the composition of substrate filler is very complicated in structure. …”
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Deciphering of differences in gut microbiota and plasma metabolites profile between non-obese and obese Golden Retrievers dogs by Yazhen Cai, Huayu Tang, Guilin Xiang, Hongyu Yi, Jie Zhong, Zhaoxi Xie, Qinfeng Hu, Romaissaa El Bouhi, Pan Zhou, Yong Zhang, Honglin Yan

“…Moreover, there was a significant difference in gut microbiota composition between the two groups (p < 0.05). The phyla Proteobacteria, Fusobacteriota, and Bacteroidota as well as genera Fusobacterium, Prevotella, Faecalibacterium, Escherichia-Shigell, and Alloprevotella were more abundant, while phylum Firmicutes and genera Peptoclostridium, Blautia, Turicibacter, Allobaculum, and Erysipelatoclostridium were less abundant in the Obe group compared to the Ctrl group (p < 0.05). …”
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Bioenergy potential of Chlorella vulgaris under the influence of different light conditions in a bubble column photobioreactor by S. Dhanasekar, R. Sathyanathan

“…The higher biomass potential from the wastewater treatment shows significant benefit in terms of feedstock and biofuel production.CONCLUSIONS: The present investigation identified the nutrient reduction and biomass productivity to be more in blue light condition for Chlorella vulgaris algae. …”
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Corrosion resistance of a calcium carbonate coating prepared by ultrasound-assisted chemical conversion in calcium disodium edetate solution by Ye Wang, Zhipeng You, Sanlve Pei, Kai Ma, Chaoneng Dai, Danqian Wang, Jingfeng Wang, Fusheng Pan

“…This could be due to the formation of a much more compact CaCO3 coating on AZ41 Mg alloy, which is mainly benefit from the assistance of the ultrasound. …”
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The nutriRECIPE-Index – development and validation of a nutrient-weighted index for the evaluation of recipes by Frank Forner, Ina Volkhardt, Toni Meier, Olaf Christen, Gabriele I. Stangl

“…Finally, the nutriRECIPE-Index should generate similar or more specific results than existing indices such as the Nutri-Score and the Healthy Meal Index. …”
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Labour precariousness in the Mexican health workforce: taking to the surface a neglected problematic issue by Gustavo Nigenda, Edson Serván-Mori, Patricia Aristizabal, Rosa Amarilis Zárate-Grajales, Germán Fajardo-Dolci, Rafael Lozano

“…However, the private–public gap narrowed to a greater extent and more accelerated among physicians than among nurses. …”
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Correlation of Working Style to Stress, Coping Mechanism and Metabolic Syndrome Risk in Sedentary Workers by Dominikus Raditya Atmaka, Shintia Yunita Arini, Bian Shabri Putri Irwanto, Asri Meidyah Agustin, Aliffah Nurria Nastiti, Muh. Agus Prianto, Andi Suci Rahman

“…Introduction: Emotional eating, as a method of stress coping mechanism in workers, makes a person tend to consume more energy daily. …”
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DENTAL STATUS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH MOUTH BREATHING by L.P. Ulasevych

“…The purpose of our study was to assess the dental status of preschool children with oral breathing to develop more effective methods of preventing caries of temporary teeth that can be applied chairside during the dental appointment. …”
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Urban landfill site selection with combined environmental and socio-economic criteria in Naein County and estimation of its possible emitted biogas by Mohammad Erfan Kaghazchi, Said Pourmanafi, Reza Peykanpour Fard

“…Finally, the amount of emitted gas from the landfill in two conditions with and without leachate recycling was also modeled to investigate the potential of the landfill for energy recycling.Results and discussion: The results of this study showed that all the proposed regions for constructing landfills include the pixels with more than 0.8 usefulness in weighted linear composition maps. …”
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Immune cell topography of head and neck cancer by Bernard A Fox, Rieneke van de Ven, Carmen Ballesteros-Merino, Tara Muijlwijk, Sonja H Ganzevles, Ruud H Brakenhoff, Jos B Poell, Dennis N L M Nijenhuis, C René Leemans, Laura A N Peferoen, Elisabeth Bloemena, Fatima Ekhlas

“…Within the tumor center, especially B cells stayed at the tumor stroma, whereas CD163+macrophages, followed by T cells, were more often localized within tumor fields. Also, B cells were found further away from other cells and often formed aggregates while T cells and CD163+macrophages tended to be more closely located to each other. …”
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Using the Nutri-Score to visualise food reformulation in Germany: the case of breakfast cereals by Corinna Gréa, Anna Dittmann, David Wolff, Hanna Haidar, Silvia Roser, Benedikt Merz, Stefan Storcksdieck genannt Bonsmann

“…Hence, any benefit for public health would require that consumers switch to (newly introduced) breakfast cereals with a more favourable composition. Overall, more reformulation efforts guided by a holistic product monitoring are needed to improve the nutritional quality of the food supply.…”
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Malaria epidemics and its drivers in Uganda in 2022 by Maru W. Aregawi, Catherine Maiteki, John C. Rek, Bosco Agaba, Charles Katureebe, Mansour Ranjbar, Chunzhe Zhang, Samson Kiware, Jimmy Opigo

“…Provinces with bimodal rainfall patterns were more prone to epidemics, while unimodal regions had fewer epidemics but higher incidence rates. …”
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Nutritional aspects of the organization of standard nutrition for dogs by I. Y. Semchuk, O. S. Naumyk, Yu. M. Lunyk

“…Currently, dog breeding is gaining more and more importance in various branches of the national economy. …”
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A novel hybrid machine learning approach for δ13C spatial prediction in polish hard-water lakes by Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Alicja Ustrzycka, Natalia Piotrowska, Janusz Filipiak, Marzieh Hajizadeh Tahan

“…In accordance with the results, the ARAMT hybrid model performed more effectively in predicting δ13C than the other benchmark ML methods (R2 = 0.9882, MAE = 0.456, and RMSE = 0.527), the others giving: AMT (R2 = 0.982, MAE = 0.558, and RMSE = 0.347), RF (R2 = 0.8014, MAE = 0.612, and RMSE = 0.550), M5P (R2 = 0.7508, MAE = 0.813, and RMSE = 0.701), and GP (R2 = 0.7315, MAE = 0.768, and RMSE = 0.683). …”
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The GD3 ganglioside promotes cell growth, plasticity and chemotherapy resistance of human glioblastoma cancer stem cells by Victoria Hein, Nathalie Baeza-Kallee, Raphaël Bergès, Nora Essakhi, Aurélie Soubéran, Carole Colin, Philippe Morando, Romain Appay, Thomas Graillon, Aurélie Tchoghandjian, Dominique Figarella-Branger, Emeline Tabouret

“…We performed mono-dimensional Thin Layer Chromatography to analyse ganglioside composition of the glioblastoma samples and RNA-seq analyses to reveal oncogenic pathways and more specifically transcripts affected by ST8SIA1 silencing. …”
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Gastrodin: a potential natural product for the prevention and treatment of cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury by Wenxiu Qin, Wenxiu Qin, Wenxiu Qin, Jianqiang Du, Jianqiang Du, Jianqiang Du, Feng Wang, Feng Wang, Junfeng Xu, Junfeng Xu

“…Due to the complexity of the pathological processes of CIRI, current treatments have not shown the expected effects. More and more researchers are beginning to turn their focus on combating CIRI to natural metabolites derived from botanical drugs. …”
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Supragingival plaque microbiota and caries risk factors among children with mixed dentition by Justyna Opydo-Szymaczek, Natalia Torlińska-Walkowiak, Kalina Maćkowiak, Małgorzata Mizgier, Katarzyna Pacholak, Agnieszka Olejnik-Schmidt, Marcin Schmidt, Renata Śniatała

“…Methods This study included 54 children (6–12 years, mean ± SD = 8 ± 2) from Greater Poland Province. …”
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Trend of Cervical Cancer Incidence and Age Change in Cancer Registration Areas of Jiangsu Province from 2009 to 2019 by Lingling WU, Fudong LIU, Weigang MIAO, Renqiang HAN, Jinyi ZHOU, Pengfei LUO

“…The incidence rate of cervical cancer in rural areas (AAPC=4.46, 95%CI: 1.13−7.91) increased more than that in urban areas (AAPC=3.83, 95%CI: 2.81−4.86). …”
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