The effect of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug on the locomotor activity of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) on their natural pastures after clamp castration—a pilot stu... by Hanna Nurmi, Laura Hänninen, Sauli Laaksonen, Anna Valros

“…Conclusions Meloxicam may reduce restlessness in newly castrated reindeer, changing postoperative locomotor activity patterns in a way that suggests pain alleviation during the first 2–3 days following clamp castration. …”
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Patient Voices in Dialysis Care: Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling Study of Social Media Discourse by Ravi Shankar, Qian Xu, Anjali Bundele

“…Our longitudinal analysis demonstrated evolving discourse patterns, with technology-related discussions increasing by 24% in recent years, whereas financial concerns remained consistently prominent. …”
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Sleep Disorders in Pediatric Patients Affected by Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Reports of a Questionnaire and an Apple Watch Sleep Assessment by Alessia Migliore, Manuela Lo Bianco, Roberta Leonardi, Stefania Salafia, Claudia Di Napoli, Martino Ruggieri, Agata Polizzi, Andrea D. Praticò

“…This observational case–control study aimed to explore the association between NF1 and sleep disorders in pediatric patients, comparing the prevalence and patterns of sleep disturbances between NF1 patients and healthy controls. …”
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Sleep in the academic sphere: identifying sleep profiles and their influencing factors using latent profile analysis in German university students by Johanna M. Schmickler, Simon Blaschke, Filip Mess, Nils Olson, Barbara Reiner, Thorsten Schulz, Julian Friedrich

“…Students reporting better subjective health status were less likely to be assigned to profiles characterized by maladaptive sleep patterns. Conclusion These findings underscore the variability in sleep quality among university students, offering insights for the development of tailored preventive interventions. …”
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Genetic Spectrum of Lithuanian Familial Hypercholesterolemia Patients by Urte Aliosaitiene, Rimante Cerkauskiene, Aleksandras Laucevicius, Migle Vilniskyte, Viktoras Sutkus, Antanas Mainelis, Birute Burnyte, Jurate Barysiene, Zaneta Petrulioniene

“…The study population comprised males and females ranging from 0 to 85 years of age, with LDL-C levels exceeding 4.9 mmol/L in adults and 3.9 mmol/L in children. …”
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Analysis of Factors Influencing the Mental Health Status of Personnel Stationed at High- and Low-Altitude Bases by Li HF, Chen J, Ge YF, Liu SJ, Zhou LJ, Dong GG

“…Principal component analysis (PCA) based on a Random Forest algorithm was employed to evaluate psychological symptom patterns.Results: The mental health status of personnel included in this study surpassed the national average for China, with personnel stationed at high-altitude bases reporting better overall mental health than those stationed at low-altitude bases. …”
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Distribution Characteristics and Ecological Risk Assessment of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in Different Water Sources, Soil Profiles and Rice Crops Under Rura... by Menghua Xiao, Caijie Yang, Lei Wang, Shizong Zheng, Ling Xiong, Peipei Kong, Jiafang Cai

“…The objective of the research was to explore the distribution patterns in soil-crop system, further evaluating the ecological risks of PPCPs in soil and rice plants under the regulation of RDRW irrigation. …”
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Age-related differences in borderline personality disorder traits and childhood maltreatment: a cross-sectional study by GuoRong Li, Yong Lin, Yun Xu, Yong Zhou, YanYan Wei, LiHua Xu, XiaoChen Tang, Zixuan Wang, Qiang Hu, JiJun Wang, HaiSu Wu, ZhengHui Yi, TianHong Zhang

“…Participants were categorized into three age groups: adolescents (15-21 years), young adults (22-30 years), and older adults (31-50 years).ResultsAdolescents reported significantly higher frequencies of BPD traits and diagnoses compared to young adults and older adults (p=0.036). …”
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Plasmid-driven clonal expansion of multidrug-resistant monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium in a Global Food Trade Hub by Dingjie Huang, Ziqi Wu, Yixiang Jiang, Lulu Hu, Rui Cai, Xi Yang, Chen Du, Shiting Chen, Panpan Yang, Bingchan Guo, Xiaolu Shi, Shuang Wu, Yinghui Li, Zhemin Zhou, Qinghua Hu

“…We explored the serovar’s population structure, antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) patterns, and transmission dynamics locally and globally. …”
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Mortality trends related to cardiogenic shock in heart failure patients aged 25 and older across the United States: A study utilizing the CDC WONDER database from 1999 to 2023 by Abdullah Naveed Muhammad, Sivaram Neppala, Himaja Dutt Chigurupati, Muhammad Omer Rehan, Hamza Naveed, Rabia Iqbal, Bazil Azeem, Ahila Ali, Mushood Ahmed, Prakash Upreti, Mobeen Zaka Haider, Yasar Sattar, Jamal S. Rana, Gregg C. Fonarow

“…This study investigates demographic patterns and trends in CS mortality among HF patients over 25 years. …”
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Characterizing everyday exposure to volatile organic compounds and upper respiratory health effects by Youn Soo Jung, Simon Chiang, Tejas S. Athni, Janaki Shah, Kara McCurdy, Sophie E. Yu, Rohith Kariveda, Margaret Mitchell, Mengyuan Ruan, Jonathan Zou, Mitali Banerjee, Zainab Awan, Tanujit Dey, Curtis L. Nordgaard, Joseph G. Allen, Alice Maxfield, Rachel Roditi, Regan Bergmark, Kari Nadeau, Stella E Lee

“…Our study included 981 participants (mean ages = 58.8 years, ranges = 40–80 years) from the 2013–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) with available urinary VOC metabolites (mVOC) data. …”
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Automatic detection for a comprehensive view of Mayotte seismicity by Retailleau, Lise, Saurel, Jean-Marie, Laporte, Marine, Lavayssière, Aude, Ferrazzini, Valérie, Zhu, Weiqiang, Beroza, Gregory C., Satriano, Claudio, Komorowski, Jean-Christophe, OVPF Team

“…Moreover, while the VT earthquakes of the proximal cluster occur continuously with no apparent pattern, LP events occur in swarms that last for tens of minutes. …”
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Statistical Trends in JWST Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres by Guangwei Fu, Kevin B. Stevenson, David K. Sing, Sagnick Mukherjee, Luis Welbanks, Daniel Thorngren, Shang-Min Tsai, Peter Gao, Joshua Lothringer, Thomas G. Beatty, Cyril Gapp, Thomas M. Evans-Soma, Romain Allart, Stefan Pelletier, Pa Chia Thao, Andrew W. Mann

“…Our brains are hardwired for pattern recognition as correlations are useful for predicting and understanding nature. …”
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Explaining COVID-19 mortality among immigrants in Sweden from a social determinants of health perspective (COVIS): protocol for a national register-based observational study by Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Helena Honkaniemi, Sol Pia Juárez, Mikael Rostila, Enrico Debiasi, Eleonora Mussino, Siddartha Aradhya, Agneta F Cederström

“…The study population includes all adults registered in Sweden in the year before the start of the pandemic (2019), as well as individuals who immigrated to Sweden or turned 18 years of age after the start of the pandemic (2020). …”
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Multimorbidity frailty index and clinical outcomes among 42,989 older heart failure patients directly discharged from emergency departments: A nationwide retrospective cohort study by Wan-Ju Liao, Hsi-Yu Lai, Liang-Yi Lin, Cheng-Hsueh Wu, Fei-Yuan Hsiao, Liang-Kung Chen

“…Readmission rates showed similar patterns. The severely frail group had higher risks of mortality (aHR 1.44, 95 % CI 1.33–1.55), all-cause readmissions (sHR 1.69, 95 % CI 1.62–1.76), and HF-related readmissions (sHR 1.59, 95 % CI 1.48–1.71). …”
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Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma: a great mimicker with unpredictable clinical course—experience from a tertiary care cancer center in India by Ajas Ibrahim, Mohmad Hussain Mir, Farhana Siraj Bagdadi, Mushtaq Ahmad Sofi, Abrar Rasool Khanday, Suhail Ahmad Wani, Sunil K. Regmi, Mudasir Hamid Bhat, Nisar Ahmad Syed, Faisal R. Guru, Ulfat Ara Wani, Sumyra Khurshid Qadri

“…The median age was 28 years (range, 21–51 years). There were four male and two female patients, with male-to-female ratio of 2:1. …”
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Primary versus secondary infertility: Epidemiology and characteristics from a referral hospital in Saudi Arabia by Nouf A AlShamlan, Reem S AlOmar, Abdulrahman Abdulrazzaq Alfryyan, Abdulsalam Essam Almuhanna, AlJawhara Raed AlSaadoun, Halah Raaed AlMuhaidib, Mohammad Ghazi Alhaidari, Rakan Saud Alharbi, Abdullah H Alreedy, Nouf A AlTooq, Amani S AlOtaibi

“…The most frequently defined causes were unexplained, followed by combined factors. Temporal patterns show a gradual, but significant decrease in cases during the COVID-19 pandemic peak months (25.82% reduction between January and April). …”
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Novel transcription and replication-competent virus-like particles system modelling the Nipah virus life cycle by Yulong Wang, Linjin Fan, Pengfei Ye, Zequn Wang, Chudan Liang, Quan Liu, Xiaofeng Yang, Zhenyu Long, Wendi Shi, Yuandong Zhou, Jingyan Lin, Huijun Yan, Hongxin Huang, Linna Liu, Jun Qian

“…Nipah virus (NiV), a highly pathogenic Henipavirus in humans, has been responsible for annual outbreaks in recent years. Experiments involving live NiV are highly restricted to biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratories, which impedes NiV research. …”
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Healthy and Active Lifestyles Are Not Always Environmentally Sustainable: A Dietary Water Footprint Analysis in Mexico by Mariana Lares-Michel, Fatima Ezzahra Housni, Avilene Rodríguez-Lara, Sofía Cecilia López-Salido, María Guadalupe Castrejón-Barajas, Nahid Ochoa, Dalila Betsabee Meza-Rodriguez, Jesús R. Huertas

“…., fitness) with sedentary and obesogenic patterns and examining protein consumption. A validated and adapted Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) was applied to 400 adults (18–74 years) from the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. …”
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Infections among adults hospitalized in intensive care after the 2023 earthquake in the southeastern part of Türkiye: a multi-center observational study by Esat Kivanc Kaya, Burcin Halacli, Goksel Guven, Mehmet Yildirim, Asir Eren Seven, Emin Gemcioglu, Meltem Simsek, Begum Erdemir Sullu, Recep Civan Yuksel, Ahmet Safa Kaynar, Aliye Esmaoglu, Banu Kilicaslan, Seda Banu Akinci, Kursat Gundogan, Ebru Ortac Ersoy, Jordi Rello, Arzu Topeli, On behalf of the Turkish Intensive Care Studies-Network (TRICS-Net)

“…The secondary objectives included determining antibiotic susceptibility patterns, identifying the types of antibiotics administered upon ICU admission, evaluating the appropriateness of antibiotic usage, assessing patient outcomes, and identifying factors that influence microbiologically confirmed clinical infections. …”
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