Students’ subjective well-being, school bullying, and belonging during the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparison between PISA 2018 and PISA 2022 by Jian Li, Eryong Xue, Wenrui Zhou, Shuxuan Guo, Yimei Zheng

“…School bullying had a significant negative impact on students’ SWB, and the need to repeat the grade had a weak negative impact on SWB. …”
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Venous thromboembolic complications in scoliosis surgery: a review of the literature by M.N. Lebedeva, A.A. Ivanova

“…For children and adolescents, the most important factors are patient age, family or personal thrombotic history, surgical site, duration of surgical intervention more than 120 minutes, repeated and complicated surgeries, blood loss, anemia, infections, immobilization for more than 48 hours, long hospital stay, and the presence of chronic diseases or concomitant hemostatic disorder in the form of hypercoagulation. …”
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Candidate antirheumatic genotherapeutic plasmid constructions have low immunogenicity by T. S. Nepomnyashchikh, T. V. Tregubchak, S. N. Yakubitskiy, O. S. Taranov, R. A. Maksyutov, S. N. Shchelkunov

“…TNF inhibitors such as recombinant receptors or monoclonal antibodies are the most widely used biotherapeutics in clinical practice. …”
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Callus Induction of Gendarussa (Justicia gendarussa) by Various Concentration of 2,4-D, IBA, and BAP by Dwi Kusuma Wahyuni, Putri Andriani, Arif Nur Muhammad Ansori, Edy Setiti Wida Utami

“…The experiment consisted of 24 treatments, each of which was repeated 3 times. Observation was carried out in 6 weeks. …”
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Recurrent bioprosthetic tricuspid valve endocarditis with valve stenosis and septic pulmonary embolism by Tomasz Czerski, Szymon Jaszczur, Alicja Borowska, Krzysztof Kuśmierski

“…DISCUSSION: Among iv-drug-addicted patients after tricuspid valve implantation, recurrent endocarditis occurs in approximately one-third of cases, and extremely rarely as valvular stenosis. The most common pathogen of prosthetic valve endocarditis is coagulase-negative Staphylococcus. …”
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Investigation of the acute effect of different warm-up protocols on test performance in young soccer players by Umut Gok, Yagmur Gok, Emine Ilkcan Kurt, Abdullah Canikli

“…However, identifying the most effective protocols requires consideration of the specific conditions and age of young athletes. …”
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Prevalence of Thyroid Dysfunction and Antithyroid Antibodies in North India by Cherry Bansal, Amanpreet Singh, Pragya Pandey

“…The overall prevalence of thyroid dysfunction was 24% (3133/12,775). Hypothyroidism was most prevalent, constituting 51% (1603/3133), followed by hyperthyroidism in 26% (819/3133). …”
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Breaking the vicious cycles of self-criticism: a qualitative study on the best practices of overcoming one’s inner critic by Bronislava Šoková, Katarína Greškovičová, Júlia Halamová, Martina Baránková

“…In this study, we aimed to analyse the self-critical cycles of participants who scored high on coping to understand the most adaptive strategies and responses to the self-critic. …”
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The role of acceleration, maximum velocity, and speed endurance in sprint performance by Mohammed Nadim Abd, Jihad Mohammed Hassan Al Eqabi, Haider Radhi Raheem Alsaedi, Bareq Rahman Hashim Alfadhli, Mustafa Mohsin Flayyih Khlaifawi

“…Athletes demonstrating balanced development across all three components achieved the most significant performance gains. Discussion: The findings align with previous biomechanical and physiological research on sprinting but underscore the need for integrated training approaches targeting all performance domains simultaneously. …”
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Comparative efficacy of new combined drugs against complicated otodectic mange in small domestic animals by O. V. Agureeva

“…On treatment day 8, the animals showed a positive effect of the studied drugs; clinical signs of the disease reduced significantly. In a repeated clinical examination on day 11, most animals showed clinical recovery that was confirmed by negative bacteriological and mycological studies. …”
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Facies variations in gravelly cyclic steps deposited from turbidity currents: Miocene fan delta front deposits compared with a modern active fan delta, central Japan by Takeshi Nakajima, Yoshiki Saito

“…Most of these are short‐lived due to erosion of thalwegs by powerful surge‐type turbidity currents triggered by slope failures or burial of thalwegs by deposition, possibly from river‐fed hyperpycnal flows. …”
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Peritoneal Carcinomatosis in Patients with Locally Advanced Colon Cancer: Literature Review by S. Yu. Trishchenkov, O. V. Levina, V. M. Nekoval, V. V. Balaban, P. V. Tsarkov

“…Laparoscopy is a minimally invasive diagnostic tool and plays an important role in assessing the degree of dissemination, as it allows detailed visualization of the peritoneal surface, performing abdominal biopsies/flushes, and calculating the peritoneal carcinomatosis index (PCI).The issue of early diagnosis of isolated peritoneal carcinomatosis is still relevant. and one of the most accurate methods of diagnosing small-focal peritoneal carcinomatosis is a repeated diagnostic operation (second look). …”
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Pott’s puffy tumor associated with subperiosteal empyema and osteomyelitis in a pediatric patient by Hassan Akhtar, Fiona Sweeney, Wojciech Wawrzynek

“…Early diagnosis with imaging studies and prompt treatment with antibiotics and percutaneous drainage of the abscess requires in most cases for a successful outcome. We report a case of a 12-year-old boy who initially presented with left sided retro-orbital/frontal area headache associated with high grade temperature and painful localized small forehead swelling. …”
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Anxiety, Depression, and Expanded Disability Status Scale Independently Predict the Perception of Disability in Persons With Multiple Sclerosis: A Cross-Sectional Study by Chiara Curatoli, Alessia Marcassoli, Filippo Barbadoro, Arianna Fornari, Matilde Leonardi, Alberto Raggi, Silvia Schiavolin, Rachele Terragni, Carlo Antozzi, Laura Brambilla, Valentina Torri Clerici, Paolo Confalonieri, Renato Mantegazza, Martina Lanza

“…Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common cause of disability in young adults due to several motor, sensory, and cognitive symptoms. …”
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Improving HPV vaccine acceptance through peer-to-peer education among adolescent girls in the urban poor settings of Kisenyi, Kampala, Uganda. by Doreen Tuhebwe, Christine Adyedo, Emmanuel Ahumuza, Steven Ssendagire, Rhoda K Wanyenze

“…In Uganda, cervical cancer due to Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is the most prevalent cancer among women. In 2015, the HPV vaccine was introduced into Uganda's EPI program, targeting young girls in-and out-of-school. …”
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Improved potassium reliability in whole blood through hemolysis detection on the novel GEM Premier 7000 blood gas analyzer by Pighi Laura, Salvagno Gian Luca, Marcazzan Filippo, Rizza Mariateresa, Lippi Giuseppe

“…Background: Hemolysis is the most frequent preanalytical error in clinical laboratories, but its detection in point-of-care (POC) settings remains challenging due to the lack of sample separation. …”
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Frequency and Risk Factors for Hematoma Formation Following Bone Marrow Biopsy in Patients with Severe and Very Severe Thrombocytopenia by Ayesha Bangash, Fawad Rahim, Sheema Tariq, Khushal Nadir Hadi, Sobia Ahmed Qureshi, Ayesha Hamid, Gul E Lala Noman

“…Data analysis was carried out in SPSS. RESULTS Most patients had severe thrombocytopenia (60.3%, n = 132), while the remaining patients had very severe thrombocytopenia (39.7%, n = 87). …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Cenchrus fungigraminus indicates structural dynamics and sequence divergences in Poaceae family by Wentao Sheng, Wentao Sheng

“…It was shown that C. fungigraminus is most closely related to Saccharum officinarum within the Poaceae family by Phylogenetic analysis. …”
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The effect of acute circuit resistance exercise on plasma concentration of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in young men by R Alizadeh, w Tahmasebi, R Rezaei Nejad, M Salehpour, S Sheikhi

“…Background: Neurotrophins belong to a small group of growth factors family and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) as one of the most active forms of them is widely distributed in mammalian brain and also can be found in plasma and platelets. …”
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Equilibrium, kinetic, and selectivity studies for high-capacity and -selectivity uranium adsorption on polyacrylic acid copolymer hydrogel by Fatemeh Maleki, Zahra Rafiei-Sarmazdeh, Rezvan Torkaman, Mehdi Asadollahzadeh

“…This led to optimum conditions of 0.06 g absorbent mass per 100 mL of solution, pH of 4.3-, and 126-min adsorption time, validated through repeated experiments. A pseudo-second-order mechanism was observed for uranium adsorption, and the equilibrium data fit the Langmuir isotherm model, which indicates it has an impressive capacity of 1111.11 mg/g, higher than most absorbents reported to date. …”
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