The burden and etiologies of diarrhea in Asia and its countries from 1990 to 2021 and the forecast to 2040: analyses informed by the global burden of disease study 2021 by Shan Liu, Zhiping Wu, Qingyu An, Jun Wu, Jinjian Bai, Wei Sun, Linan Guo, Luxi Gong

“…BackgroundThis study aimed to analyze the burden, temporal trends and etiologies of diarrhea from 1990 to 2021, and to forecast the burden from 2022 to 2040 in Asia and Asian countries.MethodsData were sourced from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2021 study. …”
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Consideration of Cybersecurity Risks in the Benefit-Risk Analysis of Medical Devices: Scoping Review by Oscar Freyer, Fatemeh Jahed, Max Ostermann, Christian Rosenzweig, Pascal Werner, Stephen Gilbert

“…Data were extracted and analyzed using MAXQDA 2022, and the findings were narratively summarized and visualized in figures and tables. ResultsThe search identified 150 documents, with 34 (22.7%) meeting the inclusion criteria. …”
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CO30 | Joint prosthetic surgery in patients with hemophilia A: clinical-functional outcomes and quality of life

“…Clinical-functional evaluations included the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for pain, Range of Motion (ROM), Gilbert Score for joint status, and the Knee Society Score (KSS). …”
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Fixed timed artificial insemination in buffalo heifers with fresh and frozen-thawed semen in Argentina by José Luis Konrad, Alexis Bandeo, Natalia Vallejos, Pablo Ponce, Jesús Alfredo Berdugo, Pablo Maldonado-Vargas

“…The aim of the present work was to evaluate the effect of sperm source on pregnancy rates using an IATF protocol in heifers. …”
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Support of individual educational trajectories based on the concept of explainable artificial intelligence by I. G. Zakharova, M. S. Vorobeva, Yu. V. Boganyuk

“…It included special services for students, teaching staff, tutors, and administrators, providing visual and user-oriented predictive results and recommendations. …”
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Global prevalence and contributing factors of nurse burnout: an umbrella review of systematic review and meta-analysis by Addisu Getie, Temesgen Ayenew, Baye Tsegaye Amlak, Mihretie Gedfew, Afework Edmealem, Worku Misganaw Kebede

“…Meta-regression and subgroup analyses were conducted to identify the source of high heterogeneity. Publication bias was assessed using funnel plots and Egger’s regression test, with the former providing a visual assessment of bias and the latter offering a statistical method to detect asymmetry. …”
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Workbench for a Parabolic Trough Solar Collector with a Tracking System by Luciano A. Fiamonzini, Gustavo A. R. Rivas, Oswaldo H. Ando Junior

“…Solar energy found abundantly in nature is considered a renewable energy source. It is also of great interest as an option for energy generation and CO2 emissions reduction. …”
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Characteristics and evolution of chemical structural differences between vitrain and durain during anaerobic microbial degradation by Dan LI, Yuan BAO, Fengyin XU, Xiangrong LIU, Yiliang HU, Xiaojing WANG

“…The aromatic carbon content remained virtually unchanged, with variations not exceeding 0.05. …”
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Radiation Resistant Imaging System Based on Conductive Optics by MA Fengjuan1, 2, DENG Hao3, LIU Guihua1, 2, ZHAO Junqin4

“…As professional optical design software, Zemax is able to accurately simulate the behavior of optical systems and conduct precise optical performance evaluations in a virtual environment. Meanwhile, the system was irradiated in a radiation chamber with a 60Co source of 5×105 Ci capacity, receiving a cumulative dose of 104 Gy. …”
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Numerical simulation and experimental study of the temperature field of AlCoCrFeNi2.1 by selective laser melting by Congcong YUE, Ruixiang ZHANG, Wanting SUN, Dongzhou JIA, Ying FU, Xiangqing KONG

“…The samples exhibited a relative density of 99.7%, with virtually no pores, spheroidization, or warping defects observed. …”
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Організація виставкових комплексів на базі ботанічних садів by Kseniia Rozhak-Lytvynenko, Vita Нorupakha

“…Open-air exhibitions have been used since ancient times, and even then they were considered an effective source of information. They were organized most often for the purpose of public demonstration of results of any creative process, kinds of art, achievements in various spheres, display and popularization of historically valuable objects of biological species of representatives of flora and fauna, etc. — in the form of an artificially created object-spatial environment under the open sky. …”
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Impact of antiparasitic therapy on cardiovascular outcomes in chronic Chagas disease. A systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context by Anis Rassi, Jr, Alyssa Grimshaw, Ashwin Sarwal, Ranjit Sah, Sangam Shah, Nelson I. Agudelo Higuita, Fabio Mahamed Rassi, Michaele Francesco Corbisiero, Hannah M. Kyllo, Jordan Stellern, Samantha Kaplan, Luis A. Marcos, Edgar A. Ramírez-García, Martin Casapia, Peter Hotez, Maria Elena Bottazzi, Shital Patel, Carlos Franco-Paredes, José Antonio Marin-Neto, Andrés F. Henao-Martínez

“…Funding: This study had no funding source.…”
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Assessing pteropod shell dissolution to advance ocean monitoring techniques: a methods comparison of SEM, CT, and light microscopy by Bryce E. Koester, Bryce E. Koester, John C. Handley, John C. Handley, Maven Mercado, Maven Mercado, Owen A. Goodchild, Owen A. Goodchild, Rosie L. Oakes, Rosie L. Oakes, Rosie L. Oakes, Jocelyn A. Sessa, Jocelyn A. Sessa

“…However, severely dissolved areas apparent in SEM were visually discernible in CT thickness heatmaps. While CT may not detect minor shell dissolution, previous studies have used CT to detect reduced calcification in response to ocean acidification. …”
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AlphaMissense Predictions and ClinVar Annotations: A Deep Learning Approach to Uveal Melanoma by David J. Taylor Gonzalez, MD, Mak B. Djulbegovic, MD, MSc, Meghan Sharma, MD, MPH, Michael Antonietti, BS, Colin K. Kim, BS, Vladimir N. Uversky, PhD, DSc, Carol L. Karp, MD, Carol L. Shields, MD, Matthew W. Wilson, MD

“…Subjects: Genetic data from patients diagnosed with UM were analyzed, explicitly focusing on missense mutations sourced from the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC) database. …”
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Radiomics Signature of Aging Myocardium in Cardiac Photon-Counting Computed Tomography by Alexander Hertel, Mustafa Kuru, Johann S. Rink, Florian Haag, Abhinay Vellala, Theano Papavassiliu, Matthias F. Froelich, Stefan O. Schoenberg, Isabelle Ayx

“…Radiomics analysis of left ventricular myocardium offers a unique opportunity to visualize changes in myocardial texture during aging and could serve as a cardiac risk predictor.…”
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Oligosaccharide production using β-galactosidase from Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Kluyveromyces lactis in sweetened reconstituted nonfat dry milk by Giselle K.P. Guron, Arland T. Hotchkiss, Jr., Brittany H. Bodnar, Andrew Harron, John A. Renye, Jr., Michael J. McAnulty

“…High-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection was used to visualize the presence of oligosaccharides with degrees of polymerization of 3 to 7. …”
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Stomata as the Main Pathway for the Penetration of Atmospheric Particulate Matter Pb into Wheat Leaves by Ke Zhang, Yujing Liang, Chuang Ma, Haopeng Guo, Fuyong Liu, Aihua Gao, Nan Liu, Hongzhong Zhang

“…The absorption of atmospheric particulate matter lead (APM-Pb) by wheat leaves is the primary source of Pb in wheat grains, yet the mechanisms of how wheat leaves absorb Pb remain unclear. …”
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Generative modeling of the Circle of Willis using 3D-StyleGAN by Orhun Utku Aydin, Adam Hilbert, Alexander Koch, Felix Lohrke, Jana Rieger, Satoru Tanioka, Dietmar Frey

“…Qualitative analysis was performed via a visual Turing test. We demonstrated the utility of generated data in a downstream task of multiclass semantic segmentation of CoW arteries. …”
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Assessment of choroidal vessels in healthy eyes using 3-dimensional vascular maps and a semi-automated deep learning approach by Nicola Valsecchi, Elham Sadeghi, Elli Davis, Mohammed Nasar Ibrahim, Nasiq Hasan, Sandeep Chandra Bollepalli, Sumit Randhir Singh, Luigi Fontana, Jose Alain Sahel, Kiran Kumar Vupparaboina, Jay Chhablani

“…In this cross-sectional retrospective study, swept-source OCT 6 × 6 mm scans on Plex Elite 9000 device were obtained. …”
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Formation and mitigation of heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in high temperature processed meat products: a review by Samuel Ayofemi Olalekan Adeyeye, Thiyagarajan Sivapriya, Palaniyandi Sankarganesh

“…While mitigation of carcinogenic PAHs during grilling could be done by removing visual charring, reducing dripping from the meat into the source of heat to minimize fat pyrolysis, however, it has also been discovered that using acidic marinades, lean meat, and skinless chicken meat can all effectively lower the production of carcinogenic PAHs in high-temperature cooked meat. …”
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