Problems of treatment adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and comorbidity by N. M. Nikitina, E. V. Egorova, I. F. Melehina, S. N. Grigoryeva, A. P. Rebrov

“…Non-adherent patients had higher RA activity index and lower functional capacity.Conclusion. Simultaneous use of several methods to assess treatment adherence is a reasonable way to get more information about the patient and to implement therapy as planned. …”
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Review: Feed efficiency and metabolic flexibility in livestock by W.M. Rauw, L.H. Baumgard, J.C.M. Dekkers

“…Metabolic flexibility for adaptation to disease, and response to regular stress implies that a more reactive immune response and reduced fear response results in higher feed efficiency. …”
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Model of the Interactive Educational Environment at the University by A. V. Vasilieva

“…The purpose of the article is to develop a comprehensive model of an interactive educational environment at the university that allows to create and develop conditions for the effective interactive learning system functioning and development and, in general, for the formation of a creative future specialist personality capable for further self-learning and self-improvement throughout life. …”
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Using hierarchical drift diffusion models to elucidate computational mechanisms of reduced reward sensitivity in adolescent major depressive disorder by Lei Shen, Ya-xin Hu, Qin-yu Lv, Zheng-hui Yi, Jing-bo Gong, Chao Yan

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YOLOv8-Scm: an improved model for citrus fruit sunburn identification and classification in complex natural scenes by Guoxun Cong, Guoxun Cong, Xinghong Chen, Xinghong Chen, Zongyu Bing, Zongyu Bing, Wenhuan Liu, Wenhuan Liu, Xiangling Chen, Qun Wu, Zheng Guo, Zheng Guo, Yongqiang Zheng, Yongqiang Zheng

“…Three key enhancements are introduced: (1) DSConv module replaces the standard convolution for a more efficient and lightweight design, (2) Global Attention Mechanism (GAM) improves feature extraction for multi-scale and occluded targets, and (3) EIoU loss function enhances detection precision and generalization. …”
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Advanced Classifiers and Feature Reduction for Accurate Insomnia Detection Using Multimodal Dataset by Ameya Chatur, Mostafa Haghi, Nagarajan Ganapathy, Nima TaheriNejad, Ralf Seepold, Natividad Martinez Madrid

“…Sleep deprivation is a significant contributor to various diseases, leading to poor cognitive function, decreased performance, and heart disorders. …”
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Interleukin 17A inhibitor secukinumab in the treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis by N. A. Shostak, D. Yu. Andriyashkina, A. S. Dvornikov, N.  M. Babadaev, D. V. Somov

“…Treatment with secukinumab improved physical function and quality of life and was generally well tolerated in both short and long term. …”
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Human NK cells and cancer by Claudia Cantoni, Michela Falco, Massimo Vitale, Gabriella Pietra, Enrico Munari, Daniela Pende, Maria Cristina Mingari, Simona Sivori, Lorenzo Moretta

“…In fact, in spite of the impressive progress obtained in the first decades, these cells proved far more complex than expected and, paradoxically, the accumulating findings have continuously moved forward the attainment of a complete control of their function for immunotherapy. …”
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Identification and characterization of new structured RNA classes in plants by Maximilian Sack, Maren Reinhardt, Rica Burgardt, Philipp Berg, Julia Bauer, Andreas Wachter, Zasha Weinberg

“…Alternative splicing is a very important mechanism to diversify an organism’s transcriptome with minimal increases in genome size. It can modify the function of the finished protein or affect its regulation, e.g. induce nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) to degrade the transcript. …”
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Application of artificial intelligence large language models in drug target discovery by Xinyu Liu, Jia Zhang, Xiaoran Wang, Maoda Teng, Guoying Wang, Xiaoming Zhou, Xiaoming Zhou

“…These technological advancements provide multi-dimensional biological evidence supporting drug target discovery and contribute to a more efficient screening process for candidate targets. …”
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Spatial optimization of agricultural production from the perspective of “Greater Food Concept” in Yangzhou, China by Xin Li, Xin Xu, Ru Meng Yin

“…The distribution pattern was closely related to the land use status, urban development, topography, and spatial functional positioning of the national territory. The natural quality of agricultural production was better, and the spatial form was more regular and compact. …”
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Mammographic Screening as a Tool for Cardiovascular Risk Assessing. Part 1. Breast Arterial Calcification: Pathomorphology, Prevalence and Risk Factors by E. V. Bochkareva, I. V. Kim, E. K. Butina, I. D. Stulin, S. A. Trukhanov, B. A. Rudenko, S. A. Boytsov, O. M. Drapkina

“…BAC is believed to be a marker of a more generalized trend towards the development of medial calcification in other vascular areas. …”
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Prox-STA-LSTM: A Sparse Representation for the Attention-Based LSTM Networks for Industrial Soft Sensor Development by Yurun Wang, Yi Huang, Dongsheng Chen, Longyan Wang, Lingjian Ye, Feifan Shen

“…The results show that Prox-STA-LSTM can successfully sparsify the STA-LSTM networks. More importantly, the prediction performances are also enhanced.…”
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Actitudes hacia la diversidad sexual en el deporte en estudiantes de educación secundaria (Secondary Education Students’ Attitudes toward Sexual Diversity in Sport) by Alejandro Ramírez-Díaz, Ruth Cabeza-Ruiz

“…The Attitudes towards Sexual Diversity in Sport Scale was used to determine students' attitudes towards sexual diversity. Results: In general, positive attitudes towards sexual diversity in sport were found, boys scoring more negatively than girls, mainly towards transgender individuals. …”
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Abstract 180: A Prospective, Single‐Center Study Appraising Aneurysm Embolization using the Balt Optima™ Coil System (APPLY Study) by Hunter J. King, Nicole Mercado, Siamak Bonabi, Antik Patel, Zeyad Khokhar, Nikil Swamy, Asif Taqi

“…Introduction Intracranial aneurysms, both ruptured and unruptured, pose a significant risk to the general population. Cases of unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIA) are estimated to affect roughly 3% of the general population and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) have an incidence of 8 to 9 people per 100,000. …”
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Establishment of patient-derived 3D in vitro models of sarcomas: literature review and guidelines on behalf of the FORTRESS working group by Lore De Cock, Ieva Palubeckaitė, Francesca Bersani, Tobias Faehling, Sandro Pasquali, Sam Umbaugh, Michael Torsten Meister, Molly R. Danks, Piotr Manasterski, Richard Miallot, Manuela Krumbholz, Siyer Roohani, Dominique Heymann, Florencia Cidre-Aranaz, Agnieszka Wozniak, Patrick Schöffski, Judith V.M.G. Bovée, Alessandra Merlini, Sanne Venneker

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Сomparative characteristics of serum and cerebrospinal interleukin-6 values in patients with serous and purulent meningitis by Ya. S. Ulyanova, P. D. Urusova, V. V. Provorova, E. F. Agletdinov, S. L. Ryzhikova, O. V. Melnikova, E. I. Krasnova, T. A. Kolpakova

“…In neuroinfections due to bacteremia or viralemia, generalized vasculitis occurs, including cerebral vessels, which causes the development of endothelial dysfunction. …”
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NMPC-Based Performance Evaluation of Active Balancing Networks of Li-ion Batteries for Overnight EV Charging by Muhammad Azmat Ullah, Afaq Ahmed, Ali Arshad Uppal, Qadeer Ahmed

“…For each framework, extensive simulations are conducted by varying the weights of different terms in the cost function of the NMPC problem. The simulation results demonstrate that both SC- and BB-based architectures have been able to achieve balancing, wherein the average balancing time of SC is <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$186~\%$ </tex-math></inline-formula> more than that of BB. …”
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Unraveling the Determinant Mechanisms in Flow-Mediated Crystal Growth and Phase Behaviors by L. Connor Willis, Tesia D. Janicki, Rekha R. Rao, Z. Leonardo Liu

“…Unlike previous efforts, the devised coupling to the structural PFC (XPFC) equations allows generalization to more complex crystal structures through explicit parameterization of the direct correlation function (DCF). …”
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Minimal Clinically Important Differences in the Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaires in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer by Athanassios Kyrgidis, Athanasia Printza, Evangelos Vitkos, Konstantinos Lallas, Alexandra Vlassi, Jannis Constantinidis, Stefanos Triaridis

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