Mental Health, Emotional Regulation, and Psychosocial Work Factors Among Scientific Researchers: A Cross-Sectional Study from Paraguay by Julio Torales, Anthon Torres-Romero, Iván Barrios, Marcelo O’Higgins, Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Antonio Ventriglio

“…High job demands and emotional dysregulation were strongly associated with poorer mental health outcomes, while hazardous alcohol consumption and low physical activity further exacerbated risks. …”
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Sociodemographic and Behavioral Factors Associated with HIV Vulnerability according to Sexual Orientation by Maria Aparecida A. O. Serra, Antoninho B. Milhomem, Samae B. Oliveira, Francisca Aline A. S. Santos, Roberta Araújo e Silva, Ana Cristina P. J. Costa, Maria da Conceição S. O. Cunha, Antônio Uelton A. Silva, Roberto Wagner J. F. Freitas, Márcio Flávio M. Araújo

“…These individuals demonstrated a lower chance of HIV infection (p<0.001), sexually transmitted infections (p<0.001), alcohol use (p<0.001) and condom use (p<0.001), compared to men who have sex with men and/or bisexuals. …”
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Elevated Serum C-Reactive Protein and Markers of Sleep Disordered Breathing by R. Constance Wiener, Rouxin Zhang, Anoop Shankar

“…The additive score was not associated in men but moderately associated in women in a multivariable model adjusting for age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, hypertension, alcohol intake, physical activity, body mass index, depression, diabetes, hypertension, and total cholesterol (P-interaction =0.42). …”
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El pulque de Jiquipilco, Estado de México, y sus productores by Omar Franco-Mora, Laura Malváis-Guzmán, Álvaro Castañeda-Vildózola, Jesús Ricardo Sánchez-Pale

“…Las mayores diferencias se observaron en las variables dulzor (13.2 a 3.7 ̊Bx), contenido de alcohol (12.5 a 7 ̊GL) y contenido de sedimentos (11 a 2 % p/v). …”
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Properties of Whey-Protein-Coated Films and Laminates as Novel Recyclable Food Packaging Materials with Excellent Barrier Properties by Markus Schmid, Kerstin Dallmann, Elodie Bugnicourt, Dario Cordoni, Florian Wild, Andrea Lazzeri, Klaus Noller

“…The developed whey protein formulations had excellent barrier properties almost comparable to the ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers (EVOH) barrier layer conventionally used in food packaging composites, with an oxygen barrier (OTR) of <2 [cm³(STP)/(m²d bar)] when normalized to a thickness of 100 μm. …”
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Physical Characteristics of Tetrahydroxy and Acylated Derivatives of Jojoba Liquid Wax in Lubricant Applications by Rogers E. Harry-O’kuru, Girma Biresaw, Sherald Gordon, Jingyuan Xu

“…Jojoba liquid wax is a mixture of esters of long-chain fatty acids and fatty alcohols mainly C38:2–C46:2. The oil exhibits excellent emolliency on the skin and, therefore, is a component in many personal care cosmetic formulations. …”
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Effect of In Vitro Exposure of Corticosteroid Drugs, Conventionally Used in AMD Treatment, on Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Raffaele Nuzzi, Monica Gunetti, Deborah Rustichelli, Barbara Roagna, Francesca Fronticelli Bardelli, Franca Fagioli, Ivana Ferrero

“…Morphology, viability, growth kinetics, and immunophenotype were evaluated on healthy donors’ MSCs, treated with triamcinolone acetonide, alcohol-free triamcinolone acetonide, micronized intravitreal triamcinolone and dexamethasone at different concentrations, and in a human retinal pigment epithelial cell line supernatant (ARPE-19). …”
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Lifestyle Factors in Hypertension Drug Research: Systematic Analysis of Articles in a Leading Cochrane Report by Dan E. Wilson, Tashina Van Vlack, Brendin P. Schievink, Eric B. Doak, Jason S. Shane, Elizabeth Dean

“…Source articles (n=34) were systematically reviewed for lifestyle interventions including smoking cessation, diet, weight loss, physical activity and exercise, stress reduction, and moderate alcohol consumption. 54% of articles did not mention lifestyle modification; 46% contained nonspecific descriptions of interventions. …”
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Characterization of ZnO Nanoparticles Pineapple Skin Extract (Ananas comosus L.) as Photocatalytic Activity by Lydia Rohmawati, Lytha Lailia, Nugrahani Putri, Munasir Nasir, Darminto Darminto

“…This research showed that ZnO nanoparticles had wurtzite phase, alcohol functional groups, and phenol O-H, C=C alkenes, C-O, C-N, and Zn-O. …”
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In Vivo Hypoglycaemic Effect and Inhibitory Mechanism of the Branch Bark Extract of the Mulberry on STZ-Induced Diabetic Mice by Hua-Yu Liu, Meng Fang, Yu-Qing Zhang

“…Branch bark extract (BBE) derived from the mulberry cultivar Husang 32 (Morus multicaulis L.) with aqueous alcohol solution has been investigated as an inhibitor of α-glycosidase in vitro. …”
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Natrium Alginate and Graphene Nanoplatelets-Based Efficient Material for Resveratrol Delivery by Cristina Mormile, Ocsana Opriș, Stefano Bellucci, Ildiko Lung, Irina Kacso, Alexandru Turza, Adina Stegarescu, Septimiu Tripon, Maria-Loredana Soran, Ioana Bâldea

“…For the AGR formulation, sodium alginate was dissolved in water, and graphene was dispersed in isopropyl alcohol to achieve smaller flakes. Resveratrol was dissolved in an ethanol/water mixture and added to the graphene dispersion; the resulting solution was mixed with the alginate one. …”
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Optimization of Time-Varying Temperature Profiles for Enhanced Beer Fermentation by Evolutive Algorithms by Pablo Ruarte, Nadia Pantano, Marianela Noriega, Cecilia Fernández, Emanuel Serrano, Gustavo Scaglia

“…Beer is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages globally, leading to continuous efforts to enhance its production methods. …”
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Safety and Efficacy of Hepatitis B Vaccination in Cirrhosis of Liver by D. Ajith Roni, Rama Mohan Pathapati, A. Sathish Kumar, Lalit Nihal, K. Sridhar, Sujith Tumkur Rajashekar

“…We observed that the alcoholic chronic liver disease had less antibody response (44%) than other causes of chronic liver disease such as cryptogenic 69% and HCV 75%. …”
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Interfacial structure and strengthening mechanisms of NiO-coated graphene reinforced aluminum matrix composites by Xin Gao, Dong Ai, Jiahao Zhang, Hongyan Yue, Xiaohua Zhang, Chunyu Zhang, Zhongkai Zhang, Jing Chang

“…In this paper, nickel oxide nanoparticle-coated reduced graphene oxide (NiO@rGO) reinforcements were synthesized by alcohol-thermal and annealing process. Subsequently, NiO@rGO/Al composites were fabricated through intermittent ball milling and hot-press sintering. …”
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Reducing the Radioactive Surface Contamination Level of Cobalt-60-Contaminated Material with PVA-Glycerol-EDTA Combination Gel by Rezky Anggakusuma, Gemilang Lara Utama, Muhammad Khoirul Zain, Kartini Megasari

“…In this study, a gel consisting of a mixture of 15 g polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), 15 mL of glycerol, and 2 g Na-EDTA was dissolved in 100 mL. …”
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Hyperthyroidism with Biventricular Heart Failure and Cirrhotic Transformation of the Liver by Rashmi Dhital, Shivani Vyas, Priyadarshani Sharma, Theresa Lynn, Oreoluwa Oladiran, Sijan Basnet

“…Also, unlike cirrhosis caused by alcohol or viral hepatitis, the effect of cardiac cirrhosis on overall prognosis has not been clearly established.…”
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XPS-Characterization of Heterometallic Coordination Compounds with Optically Active Ligands by Yenny Ávila-Torres, Lázaro Huerta, Noráh Barba-Behrens

“…The heterometallic optical complexes [Cu2Co(S,S(+)cpse)3(H2O)3]·4H2O (1) and [Cu2Ni(S,S(+)cpse)3(H2O)3]·10H2O (2) were obtained from the mononuclear copper(II) compound by the addition of nickel(II) or cobalt(II) chlorides, where (H2cpse) is the acetyl amino alcohol derivative N-[2-hydroxy-1(R)-methyl-2(R)-phenylethyl]-N-methylglycine. …”
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Copolymer SJ-1 as a Fluid Loss Additive for Drilling Fluid with High Content of Salt and Calcium by Hongping Quan, Huan Li, Zhiyu Huang, Tailiang Zhang, Shanshan Dai

“…A ternary copolymer of 2-acrylamide-2-methyl propane sulfonic acid (AMPS), acrylamide (AM), and allyl alcohol polyoxyethylene ether (APEG) with a side chain polyoxyethylene ether (C2H4O)n SJ-1 were designed and synthesized in this work. …”
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Association between metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease and gallstones in the US population using propensity score matching by Yingying Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Dan Yu, Fan Tu, Jun Liu, Bing Han, Binghua Li, Yihang Yuan, Chaobo Chen, Mingli Zhou

“…While the relationship between gallstones and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) has been debated, the association between MASLD and gallstones remains unclear. …”
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Biocompatible autonomous self-healing PVA-CS/TA hydrogels based on hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interaction by Xiaogang Yu, Jinxin Huang, Chengwei Wu, Wei Zhang

“…Here, we introduced chitosan (CS) into the polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-tannic acid (TA) hydrogel and investigated the effects of the CS content, as CS can not only form reversible H bonds with PVA and TA but also form reversible electrostatic interactions with TA. …”
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