Bees on the run: Nosema spp. (Microsporidia) in Apis mellifera and related products, Italy by Giovanni Sgroi, Luigi Jacopo D’Auria, Luigi Jacopo D’Auria, Maria Gabriella Lucibelli, Andrea Mancusi, Yolande Thérèsa Rose Proroga, Mauro Esposito, Mauro Esposito, Simona Rea, Daniel Signorelli, Federica Gargano, Nicola D’Alessio, Ranju Ravindran Santhakumari Manoj, Peyman Khademi, Giuseppe Rofrano, Giuseppe Rofrano

“…IntroductionThe decline of the European/western honeybee (Apis mellifera) population is on account of a plethora of microorganisms, such as Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae, two microsporidian fungi responsible of nosemosis that affects welfare and production of the bee industry. …”
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Cognitive impairment in a primary healthcare population: a cross-sectional study on the island of Crete, Greece by Panagiotis Simos, Simeon Panagiotakis, Joanna Moschandreas, Dimitrios Boumpas, Antonios Konstantinos Bertsias, Ioanna Tsiligianni, Sophia Papadakis, Ioannis Zaganas, George Duijker, Emmanouil K Symvoulakis, Polyvios Papadokostakis, Kornilia Makri, Eliza Iatraki, Chariklia Tziraki, Maria Basta, Alexandros Vgontzas, Christos Lionis

“…Female gender (adjusted OR (AOR)=2.72; 95% CI 2.31 to 3.47), age (AOR=1.11; 95% CI 1.10 to 1.13), having received only primary or no formal education (AOR=2.87; 95% CI 2.26 to 3.65), alcohol intake (AOR=1.19; 95% CI 1.03 to 1.37), reporting one or more sleep complaints (AOR 1.63; 95% CI 1.14 to 2.32), dyslipidaemia (AOR=0.80; 95% CI 0.65 to 0.98) and history of depression (AOR=1.90; 95% CI 1.43 to 2.52) were associated with low MMSE scores.Conclusions This study identified a relatively high prevalence of low MMSE scores among persons attending PHC practices in a southern European community setting and associations with several known risk factors.…”
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Genomic epidemiology of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli from companion animals and human infections in Europe by Adrien Biguenet, Benoit Valot, Farid El Garch, Xavier Bertrand, Didier Hocquet

“…The aim of this study was to compare the genomes of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant (3GC-R) Escherichia coli responsible for human and pet infections in Europe.Whole-genome sequencing data from 3GC-R E. coli isolated from clinical samples of humans, dogs and cats, and published in eight European studies were re-analyzed using bioinformatics tools. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Study on the False Positive of Monomethyltin Determination in Toys Based on Gastric Juice Migration by Lina Huang, Hanke Li, Yuhang Li, Peng Ren, Lezhou Yi, Yang Chen, Tongmei Ma

“…With metal tin powder as a representative of inorganic tin which existed in real samples, it was treated with artificial gastric juice (0.07 mol/L·HCl), followed by ethyl derivatization using sodium tetraethylborate [NaB(Et)4] and then analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) according to the procedure specified in the standard of EN 71-3:2013+A3:2018 issued by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). Results. …”
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Do coping strategies mediate the effects of childhood adversities and traumata on clinical high-risk of psychosis, depression, and social phobia? A cross-sectional study on patient... by Zhixiong Chang, Naweed Osman, Carolin Martha Doll, Theresa Katharina Lichtenstein, Marlene Rosen, Eva Meisenzahl, Hanna Kadel, Joseph Kambeitz, Kai Vogeley, Frauke Schultze-Lutter

“…Methods Using path analyses, we analyzed data of 736 patients (mean age 24 years, 67% male) who presented at an early detection service between 2002 and 2013, answered questionnaires on CAT, coping, depressiveness, and social phobia, and underwent clinical examination for CHR-P according to the recommendations of the Guidance project of the European Psychiatric Association. Results All path models (total sample, males and females) showed good to excellent fit to the data. …”
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Therapy for Dupuytren’s Disease (II): Collagenase Therapy vs. Limited Fasciectomy—A Long-Term Comparative Study by Nikolaus Wachtel, Francesca Romana Dingler, Constanze Kuhlmann, Sinan Mert, Elisabeth Maria Haas-Lützenberger, Verena Alt, Nicholas Moellhoff, Riccardo Giunta, Wolfram Demmer

“…Background: Dupuytren’s disease (DD) is a systemic connective tissue disorder of the palm, predominantly affecting men of Northern European or Caucasian origin over 55. In addition to conventional surgery, Dupuytren’s contracture can be treated in a minimally invasive way by injecting bacterial collagenase into the cord. …”
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Dietary incorporation of biological curcumin nanoparticles improved growth performance, ileal architecture, antioxidative status, serum lipid profile, and humoral immune response o... by Abdel-Moneim Eid Abdel-Moneim, Noura M. Mesalam, Bing Yang, Mohamed Farouk Elsadek

“…Dietary CurNPs supplementation linearly (P > 0.001) improved weight gain, feed conversion ratio and European production efficiency index, while feed intake decreased linearly (P > 0.001) with increasing CurNPs supplementation. …”
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Diagnostic and Management Pathways for Pulmonary Carcinoid Tumours in the United Kingdom: Results from the National Lung Neuroendocrine Tumour Pathway Project by Wasat Mansoor, Stuart Ferguson, Victoria Ross, Denis Talbot

“…We conducted a UK-wide clinician survey to assess current practice for the diagnosis, management, and follow-up of patients with TC/AC and descriptively compared management between European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) accredited centres of excellence (CoE) and nonaccredited centres (non-CoE). …”
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Management of sustainable land use projects in accordance with EU requirements by Elena Shebanina, Iurii Kormyshkin, Alona Kliuchnyk, Georgiy Reshetilov, Oleksandr Zhebko

“…The purpose of the study was to conduct a comparative analysis of the management of sustainable land use development projects in Ukraine and the EU countries and to develop recommendations for improving Ukrainian practices in accordance with the requirements of the European Union. The methodology was based on a systematic approach and included the analysis of statistical data, an expert survey, and the calculation of an integral index of compliance with EU requirements. …”
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HISTORICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL-LEGAL RESEARCH OF THE PHENOMENON OF THE GENDER AS THE FACTOR OF THE SOCIAL STATUS OF THE UKRAINIAN WOMAN by H. F. Moskalyk, M. Y. Baranovska, M. O. Bulach

“…Under the conditions of Ukraine’s integration into the European community, there is an urgent need to restructure all social institutions, freeing them from all forms of discrimination, including on the basis of gender. …”
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Decoding the chicken gastrointestinal microbiome by PB. Burrows, F. Godoy-Santos, K. Lawther, A. Richmond, N. Corcionivoschi, SA. Huws

“…Geographical locations, and thus environmental effectors, also impacted upon gastrointestinal tract microbiota, with Canadian and European datasets being dominated by Lactobacillus, whilst UK and Chinese datasets were dominated by Eisenbergiella and Bacteroides respectively. …”
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Daily time series of 12 human thermal stress indices in Greece, aggregated at commune level (1998–2022)Zenodo by Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, Chloe Brimicombe, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varbara Mouchtouri, Christos Hadjichristodoulou

“…The heat indices contained in the dataset include Apparent Temperature (AT), Heat Index (HI), Humidity Index (Humidex), Normal Effective Temperature (NET), Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (simple version WBGT), Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (thermofeelWBGT), Wet Bulb Temperature (WBT), Wind Chill Temperature (WCT), Mean Radiant Temperature (MRT), and Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) with two variations (UTCI indoor and UTCI outdoor).To develop the dataset, we used hourly climate variables, acquired from the ERA5 and ERA5-Land datasets, produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which are accessible through the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS) Application Program Interface (API) client. …”
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Phenome-wide association studies between SERINC2 and neuropsychiatric disorders by Ping Liu, Xinqun Luo, Liping Cao, Yong Zhang, Jiawu Ji, Xiaoping Wang, Kesheng Wang, Xinghua Pan, Ruilan Yang, Zewen Tan, Yunlong Tan, Chiang-shan Li, Xiaoyun Guo, Zhiren Wang, Xingguang Luo, Xingguang Luo

“…Finally, functional studies on the differential SERINC2 mRNA expression in brains and the potential regulatory effects of disease-risk alleles on SERINC2 mRNA expression, gray matter volumes (GMVs) of subcortical structures, cortical surface area (SA) and average thickness (TH) were conducted.ResultsIn European descent, alcoholism was most significantly associated with SERINC2 variants (245 SNPs with 5.5×10-8≤p ≤ 0.049 and 4.9×10-5≤q ≤ 0.034) that were largely shared across cocaine dependence, marijuana dependence, nicotine dependence, polysubstance dependence, schizophrenia, OCD, and autism (8.2×10-8≤p ≤ 0.050 and 1.9×10-5≤q ≤ 0.049); in Chinese population, bipolar disorder was also significantly associated with SERINC2 variants (10 SNPs: 1.3×10-4≤p ≤ 4.7×10-4 and 0.025≤q ≤ 0.031). …”
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Assessment of the quality of life in metastatic colorectal cancer patients with KRAS gene mutant: a case-control study by Fahmideh Bagrezaei, Bahram Pourghassem Gargari, Reza Eghdam Zamiri, Abdolrasoul Safaiyan, Mohammad Alizadeh

“…The QOL was evaluated through validated questionnaires from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), including QLQ-C30 and the QLQ-CR29 questionnaire for colorectal cancer patients. …”
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Prediction of Blood Lipid Phenotypes Using Obesity-Related Genetic Polymorphisms and Lifestyle Data in Subjects with Excessive Body Weight by Omar Ramos-Lopez, Jose I. Riezu-Boj, Fermin I. Milagro, Marta Cuervo, Leticia Goni, J. A. Martinez

“…This cross-sectional study enrolled 304 unrelated overweight/obese adults of self-reported European ancestry. A total of 95 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) related to obesity and weight loss were analyzed by a targeted next-generation sequencing system. …”
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Combination of clinical factors predicts successful glucocorticoid withdrawal in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): results from a multicentre, retrospective cohort study by Alessandra Bortoluzzi, Marcello Govoni, Dimitrios T Boumpas, Antonis Fanouriakis, Prodromos Sidiropoulos, George Bertsias, Konstantinos Parperis, Argyro Repa, Ettore Silvagni, Myrto Nikoloudaki, Nestor Avgoustidis, Sofia Pitsigavdaki, Antonio Marangoni, Irini Flouri, Spyridon Katechis

“…Objective Glucocorticoid (GC) tapering and withdrawal to reduce damage represents a key aspect of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) SLE recommendations. …”
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Do non-mammary conditions influence patients’ cosmetic perception after breast conserving surgery? by Idam de Oliveira-Junior, Idam de Oliveira-Junior, Fabíola Cristina Brandini da Silva, Fabíola Cristina Brandini da Silva, Almir José Sarri, René Aloísio da Costa Vieira, René Aloísio da Costa Vieira

“…The patients answered the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ) - C30, EORTC QLQ-BR23 and Breast Cancer Treatment Outcome Scale (BCTOS) questionnaires, underwent cosmetic breast self-assessment and had their breasts photographed. …”
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Prediction accuracy of discrete choice experiments in health-related research: a systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context by Ying Zhang, Thi Quynh Anh Ho, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Matthew Quaife, Esther de Bekker-Grob, Peter Vickerman, Jason J. Ong

“…Most studies were conducted in high-income countries (11/14, 79%) from the European region (9/14, 64%) and analysed using mixed logit models (5/14, 36%). …”
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Career Adaptability and Career Construction as Mediating Variables Between Hardiness and Vocational Identity by Enrique Merino-Tejedor, María José Serrano-Fernández, Maria Boada-Cuerva, Beatriz Sora

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Achieving adherence to positive airway pressure in commercial drivers using an employer-mandated remote management programme by Elizabeth Kneeland, Nadia Ali, David G. Maislin, Yoon Hee Chang, Joyce Epelboim, Brendan T. Keenan, Allan I. Pack

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