The effect of increasing running speed on three-dimensional changes of lower limb joint angles in open motor chain and swing phase by Mohammad Soltani, Ali Fatahi, Razieh Yousefian Molla

“…Objective Running is known as one of the most popular sports for which there is no time and space limit. …”
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Systematic Review and Meta: Analysis of Aortic Graft Infections following Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair by O. S. Niaz, A. Rao, D. Carey, J. R. Refson, A. Abidia, P. Somaiya

“…Aortic graft infection (AGI) is a rare complication following AAA repair and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Management is variable, and there are no evidence-based guidelines. …”
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Agricultural Terraced Areas in the Tuscan Archipelago (Italy): Mapping, Consistency, and Territorial Analysis by Leonardo Conti, Paolo Armanasco, Caterina Sottili, Stefano Camiciottoli, Donato Liberto, Michele Moretta, Alberto Masoni, Enrico Palchetti

“…Exposure was found to be the most heterogeneous parameter, and a strong relationship emerged between the functional abandonment of agricultural terraced areas and the distance from road networks. …”
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Information about nutritional aspects of edible insects: Perspectives across different European geographies by Raquel P. F. Guiné, Sofia G. Florença, Cristina A. Costa, Paula M. R. Correia, Manuela Ferreira, Ana P. Cardoso, Sofia Campos, Ofélia Anjos, Elena Bartkiene, Marijana Matek Sarić

“…Tree classification revealed that the most important discriminating variable was country, with Lithuanian participants being better informed than those from Portugal or Croatia.…”
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Evaluation of microcirculation disorders in patients with severe COVID-19 by nail bed capillaroscopy by Е. Е. Ladozhskaya-Gapeenko, К. N. Khrapov, Yu. S. Polushin, I. V. Shlyk, I. V. Vartanova, А. М. Fionik, D. M. Danilova

“…Microcirculation disorders caused by thrombosis are the most important factor determining the pathogenesis of organ damage in severe COVID-19 including the absence of obvious macrohemodynamic instability. …”
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Exploring personal, community, and societal conditions associated with South Korean new graduate nurses’ organizational socialization: a cross-sectional survey study by Jihye Song, Jeongsuk Lee, Youmin Cho, Ahyoung Jeon, Moonhee Gang

“…Results The final analysis included 262 responses, with a mean (SD) age of 24.32 (2.42) years. Most participants were female (91.60%), held a bachelor of science in nursing degree (91.98%), and were in their first nursing position (88.55%). …”
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Isolated celiac trunk dissection following blunt abdominal trauma: A case report and review of the literature by Mohamed Guelbi, Mohamed Hajri, Aziz Atallah, Zied Hadrich, Hafedh Mestiri, Sahir Omrani

“…Most stable patients without ischemic complications can be managed nonoperatively, provided adequate collateral circulation exists. …”
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A high-entropy image encryption scheme using optimized chaotic maps with Josephus permutation strategy by Nawal El Ghouate, Mohamed Amine Tahiri, Ahmed Bencherqui, Hanaa Mansouri, Ahmed El Maloufy, Hicham Karmouni, Mhamed Sayyouri, Sameh Askar, Mohamed Abouhawwash

“…This algorithm uses Kepler Chaotic Optimisation Algorithm (CKOA) to select the most suitable chaotic maps, guaranteeing optimal diffusion and complex pixel confusion. …”
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Using Behavioural Skills Training with Healthcare Staff to Promote Greater Independence for People Living with Dementia: A Randomised Single-Case Experimental Design by Janette Hanniffy, Michelle E. Kelly

“…This study incorporated Behavioural Skills Training (BST) to train healthcare staff how to increase opportunities for independence for PLwD by using task analyses and least-to-most (L-M) prompting procedures during ADLs. Three healthcare staff, two female and one male (mean age = 42.67, SD = 16.82), participated in the intervention. …”
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Prediction and mapping of leaf water content in Populus alba var. pyramidalis using hyperspectral imagery by Zhao-Kui Li, Hong-Li Li, Xue-Wei Gong, Heng-Fang Wang, Guang-You Hao

“…Despite certain influences of variable preprocessing and selection on multivariate model performance, most models exhibited robust predictive accuracy for LWC. …”
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Quantitative evaluation of influencing factors for landslide, rockfall and debris flow hazards in the Nyingchi area of Xizang Autonomous Region by Mingwei YU, Yonggang GUO, Libin SU

“…Among these hazards, landslides, collapses, and debris flows are the most common geological hazards in Nyingchi area. …”
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Temporal trends of psychiatric disorders incidence by sex, education and immigration status among young and middle-aged adults in Sweden, 2004–2019 by Ali Kiadaliri, Mehdi Osooli, Henrik Ohlsson, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist

“…Combining sex (female, male), education (low, medium, high) and immigration status (first- or second-generation immigrant, native), we created a variable with 18 strata. Average annual percent changes (AAPCs) in age-standardized incidence rates (ASIRs) were estimated using Joinpoint regression. …”
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Gastrointestinal side effects of the radioiodine therapy for the patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma two days after prescription by Mehran Pashnehsaz, Abbas Takavar, Sina Izadyar, Seyed Zakariaee, Mahmoud Mahmoudi, Reza Paydar, Parham Geramifar

“…There was no significant correlation between age and gender as the independent parameters and GI complaints. The most prevalent GI side effect was nausea that occurs in 26.4% of the patients. …”
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Association between socioeconomic factors and cancer risk: a population cohort study in Scotland (1991-2006). by Katharine H Sharpe, Alex D McMahon, Gillian M Raab, David H Brewster, David I Conway

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Different and independent socioeconomic variables are inversely associated with different cancer risks in both sexes; no one socioeconomic variable captures all aspects of socioeconomic circumstances or life course. …”
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption: A National Ecological Study in Mexican Adolescents by Leticia Ávila-Burgos, Rebeca Guzmán-Saldaña, María de Lourdes Márquez-Corona, América Patricia Pontigo-Loyola, Sonia Márquez-Rodríguez, Mariana Mora-Acosta, Gladys Remigia Acuña-González, Antonio Hernández-Morales, Carlo Eduardo Medina-Solís

“…Alcohol and cigarettes are the psychoactive substances that adolescents use most frequently. When both addictions are combined, they carry the worst burden of disease globally. …”
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Improving Subsurface Soil Moisture Estimation Using a 2‐Dimensional Data Assimilation Framework Incorporated With a Dual State‐Parameter Scheme by Dehai Liao, Jun Niu, Taisheng Du, Shaozhong Kang

“…The soil thickness (d2) and hydraulic conductivity exponent (expt2) are the most influential parameters affecting subsurface SM dynamics through model propagation. …”
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Use of the LCM Model in the prospective simulation of land use in the Nafoun watershed (Northern Ivory Coast) by Kamagate Anzoumanan, Koffi Ehouman Serge, Koffi Yao Blaise

“…Environmental change assessment is the most accurate method for understanding land use, the types of change to be estimated, and the forces and evolutions driving these changes. …”
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Impact of the intensity of infection in birds on Plasmodium development within Culex pipiens mosquitoes by Julie Isaïa, Molly Baur, Jérôme Wassef, Sarah Monod, Olivier Glaizot, Philippe Christe, Romain Pigeault

“…Abstract Background In vector-borne diseases, invertebrate hosts are exposed to highly variable quantities of parasites during their blood meal. …”
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Linking land value to indicators of soil quality and land use pressure by John J. Drewry, Stephen J. McNeill, Richard W. McDowell, Richard Law, Bryan A. Stevenson

“…We tested an array of models with the random forest model exhibiting the best goodness-of-fit metrics. The most important explanatory variable in predicting land valuation per hectare in the random forest model was catchment elevation (mean decrease in the mean square error; 0.92), followed by catchment potential evapotranspiration (0.78). …”
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The role of gut microbes in drought adaptation in the five-toed jerboa (Orientallactaga sibirica) by Haoting Zhang, Dongyang Chu, Haiwen Yan, Shanshan Sun, Xiaodong Wu, Heping Fu, Shuai Yuan

“…Fecal samples from both groups were collected for sequencing and analysis of the V3-V4 variable region using 16 S rRNA. The results indicated that while the microbial composition is similar, there are differences in the relative abundance of microbes. …”
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