Best practice advice for asthma exacerbation prevention and management in primary care: an international expert consensus by Neil Skolnik, Barbara P. Yawn, Jaime Correia de Sousa, María Mar Martínez Vázquez, Amanda Barnard, Wendy L. Wright, Austin Ulrich, Tonya Winders, Stephen Brunton

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Food access interventions in American Indian and Alaska Native communities by Danya Carroll, Lynn Mad Plume, Nicole Redvers

“…Using a scoping review methodology, we aimed to map the existing Indigenous community food access literature in the U.S. to the SEM to identify common SEM impact leve ls that food access interventions are targeting. …”
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Sulforaphane acutely activates multiple starvation response pathways by Kendra S. Plafker, Constantin Georgescu, Nathan Pezant, Atul Pranay, Scott M. Plafker

“…., cancer, diabetes, seizures) that are likewise mitigated by dietary restrictions leading us to test the hypothesis that this compound elicits cellular responses consistent with being a fasting/caloric restriction mimetic. …”
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Asking an AI for salary negotiation advice is a matter of concern: Controlled experimental perturbation of ChatGPT for protected and non-protected group discrimination on a context... by R Stuart Geiger, Flynn O'Sullivan, Elsie Wang, Jonathan Lo

“…Our epistemology does not permit us to definitively certify these models as either generally biased or unbiased on the attributes we test, but our study raises matters of concern for stakeholders to further investigate.…”
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The European Union’s Policies Towards Iraq (2014–2020) by L. D. Oganisyan

“…Although the EU’s ability to influence Baghdad remains limited, compared to that of the US and regional actors, the European Union is perceived in Iraq as a neutral player and this might facilitate the achievement of its policy objectives. …”
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Mathematical Modeling of Public Opinions: Parameter Estimation, Sensitivity Analysis, and Model Uncertainty Using an Agree-Disagree Opinion Model by Sara Bidah, Omar Zakary, Mostafa Rachik, Hanane Ferjouchia

“…We consider two sets of data from the Reuters polling system regarding the approval rating of the U.S presidential in two terms. These two weekly polls data track the percentage of Americans who approve and disapprove of the way the President manages his work. …”
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Thermal performance of radiation heater in summer period by V. I. Karagusov, V. A. Nemykin

“…Experimental and computational studies performed allow us to predict the thermal performance produced by the life support radiation system. …”
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Impact of Ultrasonic-Assisted Preparation of Water Caltrop Starch–Lipid Complex: Structural and Physicochemical Properties by Kuan-Wei Huang, Lih-Shiuh Lai

“…Differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) analysis revealed that the control starch-lipid complex without ultrasound treatment (US-0-0) exhibited two distinct endothermic peaks above 90 °C, representing Type I (95–105 °C) and Type II (110–120 °C) V-type complexes. …”
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Enhancing Manufacturing Precision: Leveraging Motor Currents Data of Computer Numerical Control Machines for Geometrical Accuracy Prediction Through Machine Learning by Lucijano Berus, Jernej Hernavs, David Potocnik, Kristijan Sket, Mirko Ficko

“…Feature extraction was performed using Tsfresh and ROCKET, which allowed us to capture the patterns in the motor current data corresponding to the geometric features of the machined parts. …”
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Experience in organizing the cadets’ practical training by means of the discipline “Foreign language” by Olga V. Igumnova

“…Methodological foundations, empirical and theoretical research methods allowed us to determine the logic of in-class learning, a set of training tasks, to specify the forms of the cadets classroom activities (shift groups working) and the principles of evaluating the learners success. …”
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Life in the Bubble: How a Nearby Supernova Left Ephemeral Footprints on the Cosmic-Ray Spectrum and Indelible Imprints on Life by Caitlyn Nojiri, Noémie Globus, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

“…Matching the intensity and shape of the cosmic-ray spectrum allows us to place stringent constraints on the cosmic-ray energy content from the supernova as well as on the cosmic-ray diffusion coefficient. …”
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The Impact of Online Learning System on Students Affected with Stroke Disease by Sobia Wassan, Chen Xi, Tian Shen, Kamal Gulati, Kinza Ibraheem, Rana M. Amir Latif Rajpoot

“…Cronbach’s alpha tells us which attribute or item to delete to increase the reliability, and we also have analyzed the correlation among the class students while watching the same video lecture. …”
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Humanitarian Aid of the Red Cross and Other Public Organizations of the Netherlands To Soviet Russia During the Famine of 1921–1923 by G. G. Tsidenkov

“…The collected data allow us to identify four main channels for the receipt of Dutch humanitarian aid in the areas affected by crop failure:1) Pro-government and public charitable organizations (the Red Cross of the Netherlands, the Dutch branch of the International Union "Save the Children"), which provided aid to the population in Volga region, Crimea and in Ukraine. …”
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A New Functional Model for Prediction of Chaperone Activity of the Recombinant M. tb Acr (α-Crystallin) Using Insulin as Substrate by Gautam Krishnan, Utpal Roy

“…Far-ultraviolet Circular Dichroism (UV-CD) analysis provided fresh insights into the role of β-sheets and α-helices in chaperone activity, particularly in (H) samples suggesting a reversible conformational transition from helices to sheets. This enabled us to formulate a functional model for binding of Acr to insulin B chains which incorporated 4 types of secondary structure molecules. …”
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Algorithm and Architecture Optimization for 2D Discrete Fourier Transforms with Simultaneous Edge Artifact Removal by Faisal Mahmood, Märt Toots, Lars-Göran Öfverstedt, Ulf Skoglund

“…We tested our proposed optimizations on a PXIe-based Xilinx Kintex 7 FPGA system communicating with a host PC, which gives us the advantage of further expanding the design for biomedical applications such as electron microscopy and tomography. …”
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Model of Liver Fibrosis Induction by Thioacetamide in Rats for Regenerative Therapy Studies by Nathaly Enciso, José Amiel, Fredy Fabián-Domínguez, Jhon Pando, Nancy Rojas, Carlos Cisneros-Huamaní, Ernesto Nava, Javier Enciso

“…The aim of this work was to establish a protocol for the induction of advanced liver fibrosis in rats using thioacetamide (TAA), which will allow us to perform trials using MSC as a possible therapy for fibrosis regression. …”
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The Impact of Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists on Utilization and Costs of Antipsychotic Medication by Christian Frois, Thomas O’Connell, Jacqueline Pesa, John Fastenau

“…**Background:** Few studies have attempted to assess the effectiveness of formulary management in reducing the antipsychotic costs and utilization across U.S. state Medicaid programs, despite concerns about the potential impact of such formulary management on Medicaid patient health outcomes. …”
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A Retrospective Claims-Based Study Evaluating Clinical and Economic Burden Among Patients With Moderate to Severe Osteoarthritis Pain in the United States by Patricia B. Schepman, Sheena Thakkar, Rebecca L. Robinson, Craig G. Beck, Deepa Malhotra, Birol Emir, Ryan N. Hansen

“…Understanding the heterogeneity within the OA population may allow us to further appreciate the true burden of illness for patients in pain.…”
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Activity impairment, work productivity, health-related quality-of-life, and costs associated with uncomplicated urinary tract infection among females in Germany. by Megan O'Brien, Alen Marijam, Fanny S Mitrani-Gold, Laura Terry, Gavin Taylor-Stokes, Ashish V Joshi

“…A cross-sectional online survey assessed activity impairment and work productivity, HRQoL, costs, and treatment satisfaction of female patients with uUTIs in the US; the current study applies this earlier methodology to Germany to provide a European perspective. …”
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Facial Edema Evaluation Using Digital Image Processing by A. E. Villafuerte-Nuñez, A. C. Téllez-Anguiano, O. Hernández-Díaz, R. Rodríguez-Vera, J. A. Gutiérrez-Gnecchi, J. L. Salazar-Martínez

“…The results allow evaluating the measurement system before its use in a real test, using the pain model approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which consists in extracting the third molar to generate the facial edema.…”
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