Slow virologic control but strong immune and metabolic recovery with dolutegravir-anchored therapy in an HIV cohort in Ghana by Mark Appeaning, Edwin Magomere, Alberta Mawulawoe Abotsi, Nana Ama Yeboaa Amoako, Kirk Elorm Kouffie, Becky Ewurama Tetteh, Bridget Nana Darkoa Quist, Christèle Nguepou Tchopba, Gloria Akosua Ansa, Evelyn Yayra Bonney, Peter Kojo Quashie

“…Laboratory analyses included viral load, CD4 and CD8 counts, co-infection screening (hepatitis B/C, syphilis), liver and kidney function tests, haemoglobin estimation, and HIV-1/2 typing. …”
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Feline Calicivirosis in the catteries by A. O. Rudchenko

“…There was conjunctivitis with serous to catarrhal-purulent exudate. Laboratory tests revealed leukopenia, acceleration of erythrocyte sedimentation rate, left shift of the nucleus, lymphocytosis, and monocytosis, which indirectly determine the viral disease and stimulation of immune functions, and the development of a systemic inflammatory response. …”
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Metronidazole Induced Liver Injury: A Rare Immune Mediated Drug Reaction by Dayakar Kancherla, Mahesh Gajendran, Priyanka Vallabhaneni, Kishore Vipperla

“…At the 2-week posthospitalization follow-up visit, the patient reported a significant improvement in his overall sense of being well and liver functions tests trended down substantially (total bilirubin 7.2 mg/dL, ALT 420 IU/L, AST 276 IU/L, AP 183 IU/L, and INR 1.5).…”
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Haemophilus influenzae Acute Prosthetic Joint Infection: A Rare Case Report on Time-Critical, Pathogen-Specific Management by Shreya Chaudhuri, Rahul Kakran, Vipin Tyagi

“…At 6-week and 16-week follow-up, the patient was asymptomatic, with normal inflammatory markers and radiographs, and a functioning retained implant. Conclusion: This case underscores the clinical value of rapid syndromic testing in detecting rare, fastidious pathogens like H. influenzae in PJIs. …”
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FetA Antibodies Induced by an Outer Membrane Vesicle Vaccine Derived from a Serogroup B Meningococcal Isolate with Constitutive FetA Expression. by Holly Sanders, Gunnstein Norheim, Hannah Chan, Christina Dold, Caroline Vipond, Jeremy P Derrick, Andrew J Pollard, Martin C J Maiden, Ian M Feavers

“…Invasive meningococcal disease causes over 3500 cases each year in Europe, with particularly high incidence among young children. …”
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Model development to improve the predictive maintenance reliability of medical devices by Khalid Musallam Alahmadi, Essam Rabea Ibrahim Mahmoud, Fitrian Imaduddin

“…Implementing this model in the case study hospitals could reduce maintenance costs by 36% over ten years. …”
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Edge enhancement of potential field data using the enhanced gradient (EG) filter by Ahmad Alvandi, Korimilli N Durga Prasad, Hazel Deniz Toktay

“…For this purpose, various filters have been introduced in recent years to determine lateral boundaries. However, each of these filters has its limitations and advantages. …”
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Research on the pathogen causing root rot on Phyllanthus emblica from the perspectives of identification, bionomics, fungicide sensitivity assay, and transcriptome analysis under d... by Yiming Zhang, Minyan Song, Minyan Song, Yonghong He, Yehua Si

“…The indoor toxicity testing and biological characteristic research on Diaporthe eres were carried out. …”
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Clinical case of an acquired hemophilia by P. N. Barlamov, E. R. Vasilyeva, M. E. Golubeva, V. G. Zhelobov, A. A. Shutylev, T. Yu. Kravtsova

“…Standard laboratory tests, computed tomography of soft tissues of the neck, lungs, abdomen; coagulogram; blood clotting factors; inhibitor of factor VIII were evaluated in dynamics during the patient’s stay in the hospital; platelet aggregation function.Results. …”
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Combined Use of Guanfacine and N-Acetylcysteine for the Treatment of Cognitive Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury by Siddharth Khasnavis, Timothy Belliveau, Amy Arnsten, Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh

“…Despite this categorization, many persons continue to report persistent cognitive changes in the months to years after injury, with particular impairment in the cognitive and executive functions of the pre-frontal cortex. …”
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Self-supervised denoising method for single neutron image based on the S2S-NR network by Wangtao Yu, Peng Xu, Xinghui Cai, Man Zhou, Jie Bao

“…In recent years, self-supervised learning has become a powerful tool for single image denoising. …”
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Comparison of New‐Onset Peripheral Artery Disease in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Exposed to Sodium–Glucose Cotransporter‐2 Inhibitors, Dipeptidyl Peptidase‐4 Inhibitors, or Gluca... by Oscar Hou‐In Chou, Zhiyao Luo, Cheuk To Skylar Chung, Jeffrey Chan, Huixian Li, Ishan Lakhani, Sharen Lee, Dawnie Ho Hei Lau, Qingpeng Zhang, Tong Liu, Wing Tak Wong, Bernard Man Yung Cheung, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Fung Ping Leung, Gary Tse, Jiandong Zhou

“…After matching, 186 and 256 patients had PAD in the SGLT2I and DPP4I groups, respectively, over a median follow‐up of 5.6 years. SGLT2I use was associated with lower risks of PAD (hazard ratio [HR], 0.79 [95% CI, 0.66–0.93]) compared with DPP4I use after adjusting for demographics, comorbidities, medications, renal function, and glycemic tests. …”
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Prevalence of Hypothyroidism among Dialysis Patients in Palestine: A Cross-Sectional Study by Zaher A. Nazzal, Emad N. Khazneh, Razan A. Rabi, Ahlam A. Hammoudeh, Ahmed F. Ghanem, Mohammed A. Zaidan

“…This cross-sectional study was conducted in the dialysis unit of An-Najah National University Hospital. 209 dialysis patients (60% were male, 57.6 ± 14.5 years, mean age) meeting our inclusion criteria were tested for thyrotropin (TSH) and free thyroxine (FT4) in addition to routine laboratory tests. …”
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Interfacial tension reduction and viscosity control by chemically grafted polymeric surfactant for enhanced oil recovery by Amin Yousefrooz, Mohammad Hossein Shabani, Arezou Jafari, Zahra Fakhroueian, Mehrdad Manteghian

“…In addition, the SDS@PVA hybrid could increase recovery up to 57% in micromodel flooding tests and presented great properties and high oil recovery in micromodel tests which indicates that it is very suitable for EOR process.…”
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Coastal Urban Ecological Security Pattern Identification Integrating Land Subsidence Factors: A Deep Learning-Based Case Study of Zhuhai City by Yuan Shaoxiong, Gong Qinghua, Ye Yuyao, Wang Jun, Hao Yinlei, Zhang Yaze, Liu Bowen

“…The methodology consisted of four main steps: (1) correlation and principal component analyses to identify key factors and reduce dimensionality; (2) development of a multilayer perceptron (MLP) deep learning model with three fully connected hidden layers using ReLU activation functions and dropout regularization to predict ecological pattern types; (3) comparison of four fusion methods (weighted average, nonlinear sigmoid transformation, information entropy, and principal component analysis) to integrate prediction results; and (4) spatial analysis of the relationship between land subsidence and ecological security patterns using chi-square tests and spatial overlay analysis. …”
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Bone mineral density in elderly patients with osteoarthrosis by N V Mitrofanova, T A Raskina, N V Mitrofanova, T A Raskina

“…A hundred and fifty-five patients above 65 years of age, diagnosed as having OA according to the criteria developed by R. …”
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Effect of the Administration of Alpha-Lipoic Acid on Contrast Sensitivity in Patients with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes by Anna Gębka, Ewelina Serkies-Minuth, Dorota Raczyńska

“…CS was evaluated with the Functional Acuity Contrast Test (FACT, Stereo Optical). …”
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Kikuchi-fujimoto disease by Đokić Milomir, Begović Vesna, Bojić Ivanko, Tasić Olga, Stamatović Dragana

“…Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is usually manifested with lymphadenopathy and high fever, and is associated with lymphopenia splenomegaly, and hepatomegaly with abnormal liver function tests arthralgia, and weight loss. The disease has the tendency of spontaneous remission, with mean duration of three months. …”
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Robust Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting Using Adaptive Shallow Neural Networks by Matrenin P.V., Manusov V.Z., Igumnova E.A.

“…Wind speed forecasting is necessary to integrate wind farms into power systems. In the past ten years, the forecasting models have become increasingly complex due to the development of arti-ficial intelligence methods and computing power. …”
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Reconfigurable Hardware-based Embedded Control System Development using LabView Environment by SZÁSZ Csaba

“…In recent years embedded systems gains attractiveness over traditional computer-based systems in many industrial applications. …”
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