Explainable AI in Diagnostic Radiology for Neurological Disorders: A Systematic Review, and What Doctors Think About It by Yasir Hafeez, Khuhed Memon, Maged S. AL-Quraishi, Norashikin Yahya, Sami Elferik, Syed Saad Azhar Ali

“…Nevertheless, with the advent of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), the old-school black boxes of deep learning (DL) systems have been unraveled. …”
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Nerve repair with polylactic acid and inosine treatment enhance regeneration and improve functional recovery after sciatic nerve transection by Fellipe Soares dos Santos Cardoso, Guilherme dos Santos Maria, Fernanda Marques Pestana, Ricardo Cardoso, Bruna dos Santos Ramalho, Bruna dos Santos Ramalho, Luiza dos Santos Heringer, Tiago Bastos Taboada, Ana Maria Blanco Martinez, Fernanda Martins de Almeida, Fernanda Martins de Almeida

“…Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the regenerative potential of inosine after nerve transection and polylactic acid conduit repair.MethodsC57/Black6 mice were subjected to sciatic nerve transection, repair with PLA conduit, and intraperitoneal injection of saline or inosine 1 h after injury and daily for 1 week. …”
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A comparison of applicant and accepted student characteristics to research training programs with implications for recruitment and selection strategy by Young-Hee Cho, Young-Hee Cho, Chi-Ah Chun, Chi-Ah Chun, Hector Ramos, Paul Buonora, Paul Buonora, Paul Buonora, Vasanthy Narayanaswami, Vasanthy Narayanaswami, Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Kim-Phuong L. Vu

“…Majors were categorized as either biomedical or behavioral disciplines, while URM status was defined as students who self-identified their race and ethnicity as African American/Black, Native American, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or Hispanic. …”
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Alternative psychopharmacologic treatments for pediatric catatonia: a retrospective analysis by Joshua R. Smith, Joshua R. Smith, Isaac Baldwin, Tasia York, Carina Anderson, Trey McGonigle, Simon Vandekar, Lee Wachtel, James Luccarelli, James Luccarelli

“…A retrospective clinical global impressions-improvement (CGI-I) score was assigned by four authors.Results102 pediatric patients diagnosed with catatonia were identified, and 31 met criteria for the study. 20 (65%) were white, 6 (19%) were Black, 4 (13%) were Hispanic, and 1 (3%) were Indian. …”
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Identification of EXPA4 as a key gene in cotton salt stress adaptation through transcriptomic and coexpression network analysis of root tip protoplasts by Qiankun Liu, Pengtao Li, Muhammad Jawad Umer, Mubashir Abbas, Yongqing Zhao, Yu Chen, Yanfang Li, Aiming Zhang, Yuling Liu, Yangyang Wei, Quanwei Lu, Mengying Yang, Yiman Liu, Xiaoyan Cai, Zhongli Zhou, Shuxun Yu, Fang Liu, Renhai Peng

“…Transcriptome based weighted gene coexpression network analysis (WGCNA) clustered 885 commonly differentially expressed genes into four distinct modules. Black and yellow modules were highly upregulated under salt treatment, containing hub genes integral to signaling and transport, highlighting their importance. …”
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TEKNIK MENENTUKAN WAKTU HILANGNYA SYAFAQ (CAHAYA MERAH) MENGGUNAKAN SQY QUALITY METER (SQM) DENGAN METODE TITIK POTONG (CUTOFF) by M. Asep Rizkiawan, Rosalina Rosalina, Emilia Roza

“…Imam Syafi'i and the majority of scholars are of the opinion that the beginning of Isha' is when the red mega disappears, while Imam Hanafi is of the opinion that the beginning of Isha' is when the black mega appears or when the sky is really dark, meaning that the sky is really dark. …”
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Large-scale analysis highlights obesity as a risk factor for chronic, non-communicable inflammatory diseases by Sadegh Mousavi, Katja Bieber, Henner Zirpel, Artem Vorobyev, Henning Olbrich, Cristian Papara, Cristian Papara, David A. De Luca, David A. De Luca, Diamant Thaci, Enno Schmidt, Gabriele Riemekasten, Peter Lamprecht, Matthias Laudes, Khalaf Kridin, Khalaf Kridin, Khalaf Kridin, Ralf J. Ludwig, Ralf J. Ludwig

“…In race-stratified analysis, overweight and obesity were linked to a higher risk for seven CIDs in White individuals and to one CID in “Black or African American” individuals.ConclusionOverweight and obesity increase the risk for the majority of CIDs in a sex- and race-specific manner.…”
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Profiling Key Phytoconstituents in Screw-Pressed <i>Nigella</i> Solid Residue and Their Distribution in Products and Byproducts During Oil Processing by Parbat Raj Thani, Joel B. Johnson, Surya Bhattarai, Tieneke Trotter, Kerry Walsh, Daniel Broszczak, Mani Naiker

“…<i>Nigella sativa</i> L. (generally known as black cumin) is a medicinal plant prized for its therapeutic and nutritional benefits. …”
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Consecutive prediction of adverse maternal outcomes of preeclampsia, using the PIERS-ML and fullPIERS models: A multicountry prospective observational study. by Guiyou Yang, Tünde Montgomery-Csobán, Wessel Ganzevoort, Sanne J Gordijn, Kimberley Kavanagh, Paul Murray, Laura A Magee, Henk Groen, Peter von Dadelszen

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>This multicountry prospective study used data of 8,843 women (32% white, 30% black, and 26% Asian) with a median age of 31 years. …”
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Association of T3/T4 ratio with inflammatory indicators and all-cause mortality in stroke survivors by Sheng Zhang, Zhongzhou Su, Xianqiang Wen

“…Multivariate regression analysis showed that age ≥ 60 years, race of non-Hispanic black, low T3/T4 ratio (p = 0.014, HR = 0.92, 95% CI = 0.87~0.98) and high NPAR (p = 0.009, HR = 2.50, 95% CI = 1.26~4.99) were independent risk factors for all-cause mortality. …”
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Study for the Effect on Structure and Properties of Highland Barley Proteins During Stir-frying by HUANG Liang-liang, JIANG Kang-hui, LI Qi, YANG Jie, HU Yun, LI Liang

“…After frying, the protein free sulfhydryl group and disulfide bond in both black and white highland barley were significantly changed (P < 0.05), which increased by 0.04 μmol/g, 0.43 μmol/g, 0.23 μmol/g and 0.31 μmol/g, respectively. …”
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Multiple imputation to deal with missing objectively-measured physical activity data: findings from two cohorts by Rafaela Costa Martins, Bruna Gonçalves C. da Silva, Cauane Blumenberg, Luiza Isnardi Ricardo, Shana Ginar da Silva, João Pedro Ribeiro, Alicia Matijasevich, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Helen Gonçalves, Fernando César Wehrmeister, Iná dos Santos, Inácio Crochemore-Silva, Aluísio JD Barros

“…Male individuals, participants with black skin color, and less schooled individuals presented higher averages of overall physical activity than their counterparts. …”
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Аssessment of the prospects for growing forest crops of European larch in the Eastern Forest-Steppe of Ukraine by Svitlana Raspopina, Maksim Didenko

“…The results obtained indicate that monocultures of European larch were created on leached light loamy chоrnozem (black soils) on loess loam. The thickness of the humus horizon (H) is 37 cm, and the layer with significant humus content (H + Hp + PH) reaches 70 cm. …”
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Effect of Lactic Acid Bacteria Fermentation on Quality, Flavour and Antioxidant Activity of Rice Milk by Xiaomei GAO, Yong SUI, Zhenzhou ZHU, Shuyi LI, Lei ZHOU, Jianbin SHI, Tian XIONG, Fang CAI, Xin MEI

“…In order to explore the effects of lactic acid bacteria fermentation on the quality, flavour and antioxidant activity of rice milk, different rice varieties (black rice, red rice and brown rice), auxiliary ingredients (milk powder and sucrose) and lactic acid bacteria were used to produce rice milk in this study. …”
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Infection‐Related Hospitalization and Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study by Rebecca L. Molinsky, Amil Shah, Melana Yuzefpolskaya, Bing Yu, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Bruno Bohn, David Vock, Richard MacLehose, Barry A. Borlaug, Paolo C. Colombo, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Junichi Ishigami, Kunihiro Matsushita, Pamela L. Lutsey, Ryan T. Demmer

“…Median follow‐up time was 27 years, 55% were women, 26% were Black, mean age at baseline was 54±6 years, 46% had an IRH, and 3565 had incident HF. …”
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GmERF57 negatively regulates root development and phosphate absorption in soybean by Hongqing Zhu, Dandan Hu, Yifei Yang, Xuhao Zhai, Shanshan Zhang, Mengshi He, Huifang Zuo, Lina Zhang, Mengjun Xu, Shanshan Chu, Haiyan Lü, Hengyou Zhang, Yu Zhang, Dan Zhang

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Syphilis reactivity among blood donors in Brazil: associated factors and implications for public health monitoring by Natalia A. Braga, Sheila de Oliveira Garcia Mateos, Renata Buccheri, Vivian I. Avelino-Silva, Donald E. Warden, Cesar de Almeida-Neto, Maisa Ribeiro, Luiz Amorim, Paula Loureiro, Nelson Fraiji, Marcio K. Oikawa, Eduard Grebe, Mars Stone, Ester C. Sabino, Brian Custer, for the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-IV-Pediatric (REDS-IV-P)

“…The incidence of syphilis in RD was 90/105 person-years (95% CI 86–95), with younger age, male gender, Black and Mixed race (relative to White) and lower education associated with incident syphilis in RD. …”
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Cigarette Smoking Patterns Among Racial and Ethnic Groups With Chronic Lung Diseases During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Vijaya L. Seegulam, MPH, Caretia J. Washington, BS, Parvathy P. Surendran, BPT, Alyssa M. Falise, PhD, MSPH, Diana Gomez-Manjarres, MD, Catalina Lopez-Quintero, MD, MPH, PhD

“…No significant changes were observed in the mean number of days or cigarettes smoked in the past 30 days, except for a marginally significant increase in cigarette consumption among non-Hispanic Black individuals. Conclusions: These analyses suggest that the pandemic had a differential impact on the rates of current smoking across racial/ethnic subgroups in adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and/or asthma, with a detrimental effect in Hispanic individuals and an improvement among non-Hispanic White individuals. …”
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Weighted EHR-based prevalence estimates for hypertension at the state and local levels in Louisiana by Wenjun Li, Meng Zhang, Jie Cheng, Sandra L. Jackson, Adam S. Vaughan, Michael Klompas, Thomas W. Carton, Elizabeth Nauman, Lee Mendoza, Arun Adhikari, Jeanie Donovan, Katherine H. Hohman

“…Prevalence was higher than the overall state estimate among men (47.3% weighted; 55.9% crude), Black patients (50.2% weighted; 55.7% crude), those receiving Medicare (70.6% weighted; 76.2% crude), and individuals living in rural areas (46.1% weighted; 49.8% crude). …”
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Evolving racial/ethnic disparities in AML survival in the novel therapy era by Xin Wang, Phyllis A. Gimotty, Andrew H. Matthews, Ronac Mamtani, Selina M. Luger, Elizabeth O. Hexner, Daria V. Babushok, Shannon R. McCurdy, Noelle V. Frey, Ximena Jordan Bruno, Saar Gill, Mary Ellen Martin, Vikram R. Paralkar, Ivan Maillard, David L. Porter, Alison W. Loren, Alexander E. Perl, Keith W. Pratz, Kelly D. Getz, Catherine Lai

“…Patients in the Post era were older and had more comorbidities than Pre era. Non-Hispanic Black (NHB) and Hispanic patients were younger and more likely to have lower socioeconomic status than non-Hispanic White (NHW) patients, with no differences in the distributions of key disease features. …”
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