Devonian–Mississippian magmatism related to extensional collapse in Svalbard: implications for radiating dyke swarms [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Gillian R. Foulger, Sebastian Tappe, Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Ingrid M. Anell

“…The sills crosscut a late Neoproterozoic Timanian thrust system, which was reworked during Caledonian contraction. The sills are unconformably overlain by relatively undeformed Pennsylvanian–Mesozoic sedimentary rocks and crosscut by Cretaceous dykes of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province. …”
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Prevalence and influencing factors of occupational burnout among healthcare workers in the Chinese mainland during the late 2022 Omicron COVID-19 outbreak: a multicenter cross-sect... by Shu Jing, Zhenwei Dai, Yijin Wu, Xin Liu, Ling Zhang, Xiaoyang Liu, Tianrui Ren, Jiaqi Fu, Xu Chen, Wenjun Wang, Xiaofen Gu, Li Ma, Shaokai Zhang, Yanqin Yu, Li Li, Zhili Han, Xiaoyou Su, Youlin Qiao

“…Working as nurses, in a department currently taking charge of the treatment of COVID-19 patients, perceived high risk of contracting COVID-19 due to work, perceived high work intensity, and a higher level of anxiety and depressive symptoms were risk factors of occupational burnout. …”
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Older Fallers’ Comprehensive Neuromuscular and Kinematic Alterations in Reactive Balance Control: Indicators of Balance Decline or Compensation? A Pilot Study by Ringo Tang-Long Zhu, Timmi Tim Mei Hung, Freddy Man Hin Lam, Jun-Zhe Li, Yu-Yan Luo, Jingting Sun, Shujun Wang, Christina Zong-Hao Ma

“…<b>Results</b>: Compared to non-fallers, fallers had significantly: (a) smaller activation rate of the ankle dorsiflexor, delayed activation of the hip flexor/extensor, larger activation rate of the knee flexor, and smaller agonist-antagonist co-contraction in lower-limb muscles; (b) larger knee/hip flexion angles, longer ankle dorsiflexion duration, and delayed timing of recovery in joint motions; and (c) earlier downward COM displacements and larger anteroposterior overshooting COM displacements following unpredictable perturbations (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Ursodeoxycholic acid relieves clinical severity of COVID-19 in patients with chronic liver diseases by Tiantian Hu, Tiantian Hu, Jie Tong, Yunhui Yang, Changrong Yuan, Jiming Zhang, Jiming Zhang, Jiming Zhang, Jinyu Wang, Jinyu Wang

“…This study aims to investigate the effect of UDCA on the prognosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with chronic liver diseases.MethodsA total of 926 patients with chronic liver diseases who contracted their first SARS-CoV-2 infection during December 2022 to January 2023, were included in this study. …”
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A Propulsion Neuroprosthesis Improves Overground Walking in Community-Dwelling Individuals After Stroke by Dabin K. Choe, Ashlyn J. Aiello, Johanna E. Spangler, Conor J. Walsh, Louis N. Awad

“…Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a common neuromotor intervention whereby electrically evoked dorsiflexor muscle contractions assist foot clearance during walking. Plantarflexor neurostimulation has recently emerged to assist and retrain gait propulsion; however, safe and effective coordination of dorsiflexor and plantarflexor neurostimulation during overground walking has been elusive, restricting propulsion neuroprostheses to harnessed treadmill walking. …”
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Construction of a rodent neural network-skeletal muscle assembloid that simulate the postnatal development of spinal cord motor neuronal network by Haiyang Yu, Shangbin Yang, Yuanfeng Chen, Chuangran Wu, Jing Xu, Yue Yang, Rongjie Wu, Yinan Guo, Zhen Chen, Ying Ding, Xiang Zeng, Ge Li, Yuanhuan Ma, Qiujian Zheng, Yuanshan Zeng, Biqin Lai

“…The amplitude and frequency of SkM cell contraction in NN-SkM assembloids were increased by optogenetic and glutamate stimulation and blocked by tetrodotoxin and dizocilpine, respectively, confirming the existence of multisynaptic motor NNs. …”
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Temperature and repeated catecholamine surges modulate regional wall motion abnormalities in a rodent takotsubo syndrome model by Ermir Zulfaj, AmirAli Nejat, Abdulhussain Haamid, Aaron Espinosa, Ahmed Elmahdy, Tetiana Pylova, Sandeep Jha, Björn Redfors, Elmir Omerovic

“…The TS phenotype showed reduced longitudinal strain with RWMA characterized by apical end-systolic akinesia/dyskinesia, a contracting base, and a narrow transition zone, resulting in apical ballooning. …”
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Risk perceptions and changes in tobacco use in relation to Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic: A qualitative study on adolescent tobacco users in Hong Kong by Tianqi Chen, Lijun Wang, Yee Tak Derek Cheung, Man Ping Wang, Tai Hing Lam, Sai Yin Ho

“…Results Adolescents generally perceived higher risks of contracting and having more severe COVID-19 from using cigarettes than ECs/HTPs, but they had limited knowledge of COVID-19 risks from EC/HTP use, particularly. …”
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Self-reported sexually transmitted infections and associated factors among sexually active men in East Africa: a multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health surveys by Beminate Lemma Seifu, Yohannes Mekuria Negussie, Bezawit Melak Fente, Zufan Alamrie Asmare, Angwach Abrham Asnake, Meklit Melaku Bezie, Hiwot Atlaye Asebe

“…Implementing targeted public health initiatives for men with lower education levels, as well as devising strategies to address factors that elevate the risk of STI contraction, is also crucial.…”
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End-to-End Security Mechanism Using Blockchain for Industrial Internet of Things by Muhammad Shahid Dildar, Adnan Shahid Khan, Irshad Ahmed Abbasi, Reema Shaheen Naseem Akhtar, Khalil Al Ruqaishi, Shakeel Ahmed Ghulam Sarwar

“…That mechanism is based on smart contracts that enforce security policies. Our framework allows for the switching of any access rule at any time, as well as it can immediately react to some suspicious behavior. …”
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Clinical Significance of Screening Electrocardiograms for the Administration of Propranolol for Problematic Infantile Hemangiomas by James D. Phillips, Tyler Merrill, J. Reed Gardner, R. Thomas Collins, Jenika Sanchez, Adam B. Johnson, Brian K. Eble, Larry D. Hartzell, Jay M. Kincannon, Gresham T. Richter

“…Two patients had abnormal rhythms; one had first-degree atrioventricular (AV) block, and one had occasional premature atrial contractions. Of the 31 patients who underwent echocardiograms, 20 (35%) were abnormal. 2.9% of infants with PIH treated with propranolol required a follow-up with a cardiologist. …”
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Application of the hypoplastic model for validating direct shear tests to investigate the impact of fines on the behavior of chlef sand by Benali Nougar, Abdelkader Brahimi, Djamel Edddine Bouri, Abdallah Krim, Omar Safer, Kamel Menad, Ahmed Arab

“…At large strains, sands with 30% clay rather than 30% clay silt showed the highest shear strengths respectively. More contracted sands have the greatest increased maximum shear strengths. …”
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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF MAGADAN: FROM A PLANNED ECONOMY TO A MARKET ECONOMY (1960–2020) by Natalya V. Galtseva, Oksana S. Favstritskaya, Olga A. Sharypova

“…In contrast, the market economy era saw economic contraction, reduced living standards compared to the national average, and migration shifts, including a population decline both regionally and within the city itself. …”

Event-related theta synchronization over sensorimotor areas differs between younger and older adults and is related to bimanual motor control by Andreas Wulff-Abramsson, Ana Zvornik, Keenie Ayla Andersen, Yan Yang, Mikael Novén, Jesper Lundbye-Jensen, Leo Tomasevic, Anke Ninija Karabanov

“…Trials began with a visually cued contraction from a baseline force to a novel target force (P1). …”
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COVID-19–sensitive tumour response: 2-year assessment of the SARS-CoV-2 humoral response in cancer patients in oncology hospital in Poland by Piotr Kosiorek, Bożena Mikołuć, Samuel Stróż, Anna Hryniewicz, Dorota E. Kazberuk, Robert Milewski, Anna Grzeszczuk, Magdalena J. Borkowska, Anna Stasiak‐Barmuta

“…The concentration of antibodies was assessed in groups of oncological patients: those undergoing anticancer therapy after contracting COVID-19 and those after vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 infection. …”
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Changes in motor unit firing pattern are associated with post‐exercise blood pressure response in older untreated but not treated hypertensive adults by Ryosuke Takeda, Tetsuya Hirono, Akito Yoshiko, Shun Kunugi, Masamichi Okudaira, Saeko Ueda, Taichi Nishikawa, Kohei Watanabe

“…Participants performed ramp‐up exercises until 50% of maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) of knee extension and five MVCs. During the ramp‐up exercise, high‐density surface electromyography signals were recorded and each MU firing rate (FR) and recruitment threshold was assessed. …”
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Bisecting GlcNAc modification of vesicular GAS6 regulates CAFs activation and breast cancer metastasis by Jing Li, Xueting Ren, Lin Cao, Kaixiang Min, Meng Wang, Shuai Lin, Lei Lei, Zengqi Tan, Xiaoliang Cheng, Xiang Li, Feng Guan

“…The effects of small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) derived from MDA-MB-231/OEvec and MDA-MB-231/OEMGAT3 cells on CAFs activation were examined using western blotting, transwell, and collagen contraction assays. Proteomic analysis was performed to identify dysregulated proteins in sEVs from different cell lines. …”
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An Effective Iterative Process Utilizing Transcendental Sine Functions for the Generation of Julia and Mandelbrot Sets by Khairul Habib Alam, Yumnam Rohen, Anita Tomar, Naeem Saleem, Maggie Aphane, Asima Razzaque

“…This study presents an innovative iterative method designed to approximate common fixed points of generalized contractive mappings. We provide theorems that confirm the convergence and stability of the proposed iteration scheme, further illustrated through examples and visual demonstrations. …”
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Disorders of esophageal clearance in gastroesophageal reflux disease and option of their treatment by O. A. Storonova, A. S. Trukhmanov, N. L. Dzhahaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…At investigation of motor function decrease of amplitude and nonperistaltic waves are registered in 33,3 and 13,3% of patients respectively, esophageal spasm – in 20%, and tertiary contractions – in 36,7% of cases. In 46,7% of patients delay in clearance of the esophagus up to 9 min on average was registered [3,5; 15], all patients with erosive RE had increased clearance time (р&lt;0,05). …”
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Do all patients with rheumatic Diseases have a higher risk of COVID 19? Initial results from the Karnataka Rheumatology Association COVID 19 Cohort Study (KRACC) by Vineeta Shobha, K Chanakya, Vikram Haridas, Sharath Kumar, Pramod Chebbi, Benzeeta Pinto, Vikramraj Jain, Subramaniam Ramaswamy, Shiv Prasad, Abhishek Patil, Vijay K Rao, G C Yathish, B G Dharmanand, Ramesh Jois, Ashwini Kamath, Chethana Dharmapalaiah, K N Sangeeta, Ramya Janardana, C Srinivasa, A S Harshini, Nagaraj Srinivasulu, Yogesh Preet Singh, Shweta Singhai, K M Mahendranath, S Chandrashekara

“…Twenty-three (0.6%) patients contracted SARS-CoV-2 infection. Age >60 years (P = 0.01), diabetes (P = 0.009), hypertension (P = 0.001), preexisting lung disease (P = 0.0002), current prescription of either angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blockers (P = 0.01), and higher glucocorticoids dosage (P = 0.002) were identified as potential risk factors in our cohort. …”
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