The mediating role of social support in self-management and quality of life in patients with liver cirrhosis by Ying Zhang, LeYao Xiao, Qian Liu, XinYi Zhang, MingDan Li, YaLi Xu, Mei Dai, Fei Zhao, YouShu Shen, Jordan Tovera Salvador, Ping Yang

“…Social support had a mediating effect between self-management and quality of life, with an indirect effect of 0.489 (95% CI: 0.362, 0.629), accounting for 40.58% of the total effect. (4) Exercise frequency and malnutrition risk assessment were independent influencing factors for social support, self-management, and quality of life. (5) In the regression model, after excluding confounding factors, Model I explained 14% of the variance in quality of life due to control variables, Model II explained 49.5%, and when social support was added, Model III explained 56.9% of the variance in quality of life. Under the mediating role of social support, self-management can improve quality of life. …”
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RCE-IFE: recursive cluster elimination with intra-cluster feature elimination by Cihan Kuzudisli, Burcu Bakir-Gungor, Bahjat Qaqish, Malik Yousef

“…On average, RCE-IFE attains an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.85 among tested expression datasets with the fewest features and the shortest running time, while RCE-IFE-SVM (the SVM-adapted version of RCE-IFE) and SVM-RCE achieve similar AUCs of 0.84 and 0.83, respectively. …”
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Left atrial strain predicts paroxysmal atrial fibrillation recurrence after catheter ablation: a 1-year study using three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography by Rui Zhang, He Li, Yan Wang, Tianle Yu, Jiacheng Li, Yumeng Wu, Zhiwen Yu, Cuixing Liang, Dan Yu, Li Xue

“…Receiver operating characteristic(ROC) curve showed that the area under the curve(AUC) for LASr in assessing the risk of recurrence after RFCA in patients with PAF was 0.70 ( 95% CI, 0.60–0.81, P = 0.001). …”
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Progress in the Management of Retinal Detachment Associated With Morning Glory Syndrome by Wu S, Wang W, Liu L, Wang W, Jiang K, Peng C, Sun H, Zhang J

“…Long-term outcomes for patients with MGS largely depend on the severity of associated complications and the timing of interventions; while some individuals may attain reasonable visual function post-treatment, others may continue to experience challenges due to the underlying malformation and its consequences. Thus, MGS remains a complex condition requiring a multidisciplinary approach for effective management and enhanced patient outcomes, emphasizing the need for continued research into its genetic underpinnings and optimal treatment strategies to improve understanding and care for those affected.Keywords: morning glory syndrome, retinal detachment, vitrectomy, paraoptic disc laser photocoagulation…”
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Rehabilitation Protocol Variability Following Arthroscopic Bankart Repair and Remplissage for Management of Anterior Shoulder Instability: A Systematic Review by Juan B. Villarreal-Espinosa, Michael M. Reinold, Mohammad Khak, Mohammad J. Shariyate, Carol Mita, Jeffrey Kay, Arun J. Ramappa

“…This variability prompts consideration of the underlying factors influencing these disparities and underscores the need for future research to elucidate optimal rehabilitation. …”
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Characterisation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence and machine learning risk prediction in middle-aged and elderly populations: data from the China health and retirement lo... by Qing Huang, Zihao Jiang, Bo Shi, Jiaxu Meng, Li Shu, Fuyong Hu, Jing Mi

“…Model performance was evaluated via analyses including the area under the ROC curve (AUC), precision, recall, F1 score, and SHAP plots for interpretability. …”
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Clinical course, management and outcomes of COVID-19 in HIV-infected renal transplant recipients: A case series by L Bertels, K Manning, A Redd, T du Toit, Z Barday, E Muller

“…HIV‐infected kidney transplant recipients with COVID‐19 are at increased risk of acute illness and death owing to their underlying comorbidities and chronic immunosuppression. …”
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Intertextuality in Selected Narrative Poems of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí by Arinpe Adejumo, Adefemi Akinseloyin

“…Fálétí’s works ̀ are greatly influenced by his family background because his father was a 120 Arinpe Adejumo and Adefemi Akinseloyin prominent member of the sàkàrá calabash beating oral poets and entertainers under Olatunji Kúdẹẹ̀ ̀fù in the court of Ọba Ṣiyanbọ́lá Oníkẹẹ̀ pé Ládìg ́ - bòlù I, the Aláàfin of Ọyọ̀ (1911-1944). …”
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Associations of prognostic nutritional index with cardiovascular all-cause mortality among CVD patients with diabetes or prediabetes: evidence from the NHANES 2005–2018 by WenYi Xu, Li Zhang, Li Zhang, QianKun Yang, Ying Cao, Rui Rao, Li Lv, Qin Cen, Qiong Wei, LuLing Yang

“…Time-dependent ROC curve revealed that the areas under the curve (AUC) of PNI for 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-year survival rates were 0.66, 0.66, 0.66, and 0.67 for all-cause mortality, and 0.72, 0.70, 0.72, and 0.69 for CVD mortality, respectively.ConclusionIncreased PNI is significantly associated with reduced risks for all-cause and CVD mortality in diabetic or prediabetic CVD patients, especially for diabetic CVD patients.…”
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Computational analysis of heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in a diamond microchannel heat sink with orthogonal ribs by Liang Du, Wenbo Hu, Ningkang Deng, Zhaoyang Zhang, Hongxing Wang

“…Effective thermal management technologies ensure that electronic equipment operates under optimal conditions, extends its service life, improves system integration and reliability, and ensures compliance with industry regulations and standards. …”
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Exploratory study on the ascending pain pathway in patients with chronic neck and shoulder pain based on combined brain and spinal cord diffusion tensor imaging by Zhiqiang Qiu, Tianci Liu, Chengxi Zeng, Maojiang Yang, HongYing Yang, Xiaoxue Xu

“…These findings contribute a novel neuroimaging perspective to the evaluation and elucidation of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying chronic pain in the ascending conduction pathways.…”
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First report of serological, molecular detection, and characterization of human parvovirus B19 infections among sickle cell anaemia patients in Khartoum State, Sudan by Khalid Salman, Sittna Hayder El Nagar, Abdel Rahim M. El Hussein, Mohammed A. El Hussein, Hadi M. Yassine, Hebah A. Al Khatib, Mashael Ali Al- Badr, Ibrahim Farah, Khalid A. Enan

“…Among the 23 DNA-positive patients, 7 (30 %) were seronegative for both IgG and IgM antibodies, highlighting the importance of molecular diagnostics in identifying active infections, especially in early stages. Children under 5 years of age exhibited a higher nucleic acid detection rate compared to older age groups, suggesting the importance of molecular testing in younger patients particularly in the early detection of Parvovirus B19 during the acute phase of infection, before the body has developed detectable antibodies and also in immunocompromised children, who may not mount an antibody response detectable by serological methods. …”
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From the Banks of the Orkhon to the Banks of the Neva: the History of Mining and Transit of Mongolian Gold to the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. by Aldar A. Shirapov, Anna M. Plekhanova

“…At the beginning of the 20th century, one of the sources of gold for Russia were mines in the northern regions of Mongolia. A company created under the control of the Russian government, the Joint-Stock Company of Mining of the Tushetukhanovsky and Tsetsenkhanovsky aimags in Mongolia (“Mongolor”), was able to quickly establish the extraction of the precious metal. …”
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The m6A modification regulates the composition of myofiber types in chicken skeletal muscle by Yanju Shan, Yifan Liu, Ming Zhang, Lichuan Pang, Gaige Ji, Xiaojun Ju, Yunjie Tu, Jingting Shu

“…To investigate the post-transcriptional modification underlying the myofiber type diversity in chicken skeletal muscle, we evaluated the m6A methylation levels of chicken skeletal muscles with different phenotypic traits, and profiled a transcriptome-wide m6A map in the oxidative and glycolytic skeletal muscles by methylated RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (MeRIP-seq). …”
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Using a Two-Steps Clustering and PCA Analysis for Stratified Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Care: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Peiró AM, Barrachina J, Escorial M, Aguado I, Margarit C, Grimby-Ekman A

“…Being older than 65 years old, retired or on medical leave, under opioids and anxiolytic prescription, had a severe impact on daily quality of life without any sex-difference.Conclusion: These clusters based on real-world clinical information might be useful for screening even more where the access to physical exploration is limited. …”
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Diagnostic Effectiveness of Transforming Growth Factor Beta 1 in Assessing the Risk of Developing Graft Dysfunction in Liver Recipient Children by R. M. Kurabekova, O. M. Tsiroulnikova, I. E. Pashkova, A. G. Olefirenko, O. E. Gichkun, L. V. Makarova, R. A. Monakhov, P. O. Shevchenko

“…The analysis of the test diagnostic efficiency showed that the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was 0.85 ± 0.05, 95 % CI 0.75–0.94, the sensitivity of the method was 83 %, its specificity was 77 %. …”
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Cost-benefit analysis of VKA versus NOAC treatment in German patients with atrial fibrillation utilizing patient self-testing by Roland Diel, Niklas Lampenius

“…In PSA, implementation of self-management results on average in a cost saving between €619.20 [USD 699.39] and €785.24 [USD 886.93] per VKA patient in favor of the SHI. Under all reasonable assumptions, PST remains constantly less expensive irrespective of which NOAC is administered. …”
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Investigating the Feasibility of Behavioral Nudges to Reduce the Phenomenon of Escape from Responsibility in Public Sector by Seyed Kamal Vaezi, Mahboubeh Hosseini

“…By understanding the underlying psychological underpinnings of this issue and applying the principles of behavioral science, organizations can effectively reduce this issue and foster a culture of responsible management. …”
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Ginsenoside Rg1 alleviates chronic testicular damage caused by cranial irradiation through the SCF/PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in mice by Qiuhua Zhou, Yiquan Ou, Xiangsheng Tian, Yujun Ning, Yuwei Mao, Weichao Zhao, Dingxin Long

“…Objective: To investigate whether Ginsenoside Rg1 can mitigate the adverse effects of cranial irradiation on distal reproductive function in mice and to explore the underlying mechanisms. Methods: Forty male C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided to four groups [Control, irradiation (IR), IR ​+ ​Rg1, Rg1), IR ​+ ​Rg1 and Rg1 group treated with intraperitoneal injections of Ginsenoside Rg1 for 30 ​d, followed by single-dose irradiation of 5 ​Gy X-ray irradiation (2 ​Gy/min) for the IR and IR ​+ ​Rg1 group. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: NR3C2 affects the proliferation and invasiveness of colon cancer cells through the Wnt/β-Catenin signaling pathway by Ke Nie, Zhong-Jiang He, Ling-Jun Kong

“…Abstract Purpose The aim of this study was to explore the potential correlation between the nuclear receptor subfamily 3 group C member 2 (NR3C2) and outcomes of colon cancer, along with the mechanisms underlying this association. Method mRNA (messenger RNA) data and clinical records pertaining to colon cancer were retrieved from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. …”
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