Sarcopenia and frailty as predictor of outcome in critically ill elderly patients with multiple comorbidities by Dina mostafa Elmaleh, Dina Morsy Ahmed Mohamed

“…Crucially, this might assist patients and their families in making well-informed choices on the course of treatment while they are in critical condition. …”
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Dual Roles of IL-27 in Cancer Biology and Immunotherapy by Marina Fabbi, Grazia Carbotti, Silvano Ferrini

“…IL-27 is a pleiotropic two-chain cytokine, composed of EBI3 and IL-27p28 subunits, which is structurally related to both IL-12 and IL-6 cytokine families. IL-27 acts through a heterodimer receptor consisting of IL-27Rα (WSX1) and gp130 chains, which mediate signaling predominantly through STAT1 and STAT3. …”
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How Do We Treat Children with Anterior Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome and Is the Biopsychosocial Model Also Being Applied? A Scoping Review by Anke P. C. Top, Thomas G. de Leeuw, Wichor M. Bramer, Bernadette C. M. de Mol, Frank J. P. M. Huygen, Maaike Dirckx

“…In accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for managing chronic pain in children, these patients and their families and caregivers should be treated within the context of the biopsychosocial model; pain should not be treated purely as a biomedical problem. …”
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Prevalence and economic costs of diarrheal illness among adult slum dwellers in Khulna City, Bangladesh by Faijan Bin Halim, Mohammed Ziaul Haider

“…Results: The highest prevalence of diarrheal illness was at the age group 30-39 (31%), among illiterate (46%) and married (92%) slum dwellers who were living in small families with ≤ 4 household size (66%), and with a household income level ≤ 5,000 BDT per year. …”
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Impact of Social Media on Marriage Stability in Central Division Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Ainembabazi, Georgianah

“…The study assessed the impact of social media on the stability of families in Central Division, Kabale municipality. …”
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The Role of Community-Based Organisations in Compating HIV/AIDS in Kanungu District, Uganda. by Denis, Karugaba

“…Kanungu Development Initiative has proved that CBOs have great potential in not only educating people about the prevention of HIV/AIDS, but also in providing care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS and their families, by providing a wide range of interventions to both the people infected and affected by the pandemic. …”
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Agribusiness strategy and rural development: A case study of Ihunga Sub County, Ntungamo District by Denis, Simpson Singahache

“…Basing on the study objectives and subsequent findings, the study recommended among others: to have food security in homes and families using agribusiness strategy for developments; to launch cooperative societies so that agro-based producers with common goals advance their aim to kick poverty out of their areas by setting up the bargaining power to look for market, reliable technology and inputs to boost their operations aiming at developing their rural area; to adopt agribusiness strategy for rural development and widening employment opportunities; Government to come in and enforce policies and laws aiming at regulating birth so as to control population growth, Government should come in to properly articulate policies and ensure their effective implementation to enhance rural development basing on agribusiness strategy as the benchmark and the Ugandan government to prioritize the agriculture sectors by allocating a big proportion of the budget to agriculture and industry sectors.…”
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Influence of Grassland Habitats on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) Species Diversity in Different Divisions of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps by Yuxian Liu, Shaoshan Wang, Yuheng He, Guanzheng Yuan, Xingyu Pu, Chao Zhou

“…Using the netting method, we collected 5290 Acridoidea specimens, representing eight families, 37 genera, and 83 species. The Acridoidea were most abundant in mountain meadows and temperate grasslands, with 42 and 43 species, respectively, while the species richness in temperate desert grasslands and temperate steppe desert grasslands was comparably high. …”
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Clinical phenotype and trio whole exome sequencing data from a patient with glycogen storage disease IV in Indonesia(NCBI) by Ivan William Harsono, Yulia Ariani, Beben Benyamin, Fadilah Fadilah, Dwi Ari Pujianto, Cut Nurul Hafifah, Titis Prawitasari

“…Proband and trio whole exome sequencing analysis remains a cost-effective and widely available method for diagnosing rare diseases detecting between 21 and 40% of cases. We present a trio (familial) exome sequences data from a patient with Glycogen Storage Disease IV from Indonesia. …”
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Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis incidentally diagnosed by video-associated lung surgery for lung cancer: A case report by Katsuhiro Itogawa, Shintaro Sato, Hideaki Yamakawa, Keiichi Akasaka, Masako Amano, Akiko Adachi, Hidekazu Matsushima

“…Thus, the diagnosis of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis was made, and the subsequent investigation identified familial amyloid polyneuropathy. Finally, treatment with vutrisiran, a small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting the TTR gene, was successfully initiated. …”
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DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL TRENDS IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC by Pavel M. Dashkevich, Natalia A. Flud, Irina I. Eliseeva

“…Key measures to stabilize and grow the population in the Arctic include comprehensive support for families with children, poverty reduction initiatives, retention of local youth and attraction of young professionals from other regions, economic diversification, and the establishment of competitive services to meet residents’ needs in healthcare, general and vocational education, infrastructure, and other essential aspects of quality of life in northern latitudes.…”

Study protocol for Video Images about Decisions to Improve Ethical Outcomes with Palliative Care Educators (VIDEO-PCE): a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of older... by Joshua R Lakin, Na Wang, Howard J Cabral, Michael K Paasche-Orlow, Charlotta Lindvall, Angelo Volandes, Aretha Delight Davis, Michael R Winter, Edward T Moseley, Lori Henault, Sophia N Zupanc, Sophiya Das, Kate Sciacca, Edith A Burns, Maria T Carney, Jennifer Itty, Santiago Lopez, Kaitlin Emmert, Narda J Martin, Sherene Lambert, Jennifer Polo, Shreya Sanghani, Julianne N Dugas, Michele Gomez, Shira Gabry-Kalikow, Alexandra Dobie, Meredith Amshoff, Traci Cucinotta, Milton Joel, Lisa B Caruso, Ana Maria Ramirez, Kathleen Salerno, Qausarat Ogunneye

“…Introduction Despite the known benefit to patients and families, discussions about goals, values and preferences for medical care in advancing serious illness often do not occur. …”
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Prenatal Diagnosis of Bilateral Ectrodactyly and Radial Agenesis Associated with Trisomy 10 Mosaicism by Jonathan Lévy, Jean-Marie Jouannic, Julien Saada, Ferdinand Dhombres, Jean-Pierre Siffroi, Marie-France Portnoï

“…They represent a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder, with both sporadic and familial cases. Most of the genomic rearrangements identified to date in some forms of SHFM are autosomal dominant traits, involving various chromosome regions. …”
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Definition of Triangular Norms and Triangular Conorms on Subfamilies of Type-2 Fuzzy Sets by Pablo Hernández-Varela, Francisco Javier Talavera, Susana Cubillo, Carmen Torres-Blanc, Jorge Elorza

“…The structure of these families provides a more solid algebraic foundation for the applications. …”
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Solid waste management beliefs and practices in rural households towards sustainable development and pro-environmental citizenship by M.R. Limon, J.P.C. Vallente, N.C.T. Corales

“…The sample used for this study involved rural families comprising of 332 households, which was drawn from the population using multistage cluster unequal allocation sampling technique. …”
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Lifestyle and Chronic Constipation in Medical Students by Mehmet Aykut Yildirim, Murat Cakir, Mehmet Bicer, Mustafa Senturk, Harun Yonar, Merve Nur Gur, Zeliha Nur Akiner, Ayse Guldiken, H. Kaan Karagul, Bugra Ceri

“…The rate of students reporting constipation and familial history was statistically significant. While regular eating habits were reported in the first and third years, this rate was much lower in the sixth year group working at clinical departments. …”
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X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome and Common Variable Immunodeficiency May Not Be Differentiated by SH2D1A and XIAP/BIRC4 Genes Sequence Analysis by Nesrin Gulez, Guzide Aksu, Afig Berdeli, Neslihan Karaca, Sema Tanrıverdi, Necil Kutukculer, Elif Azarsiz

“…Recently, X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP/BIRC4) gene defects, in families with XLP but without SH2D1A gene defects, has been defined. …”
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Economic impact of cholera in households in rural southern Malawi: a prospective study by Florian Marks, Wilm Quentin, Vittal Mogasale, Amber Hsiao, Enusa Ramani, Hye-Jin Seo, GiDeok Pak, Dan Vuntade, Maurice M’bang’ombe, Bagrey Ngwira

“…The COI per patient was US$14.34 (in 2020), more than half of which was from direct non-medical costs from food, water, and transportation to the health centre.Conclusion For the majority of Malawians who struggle to subsist on less than US$2 a day, the COI of cholera represents a significant cost burden to families. While cholera treatment is provided for free in government-run health centres, additional investments in cholera control and prevention at the community level and financial support beyond direct medical costs may be necessary to alleviate the economic burden of cholera on households in southern Malawi.…”
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Comparative transcriptome and metabolome analysis reveals the differential response to salinity stress of two genotypes brewing sorghum by Wei Zhou, Zhen Guo Wang, Yan Li, Guo Jiang Wu, Mo Li, Zhi Lan Deng, Feng Juan Cui, Qing Quan Xu, YiMeng Li, Ya Xing Zhou

“…Specifically, certain transcription factors belonging to the WRKY, MYB, and NAC families were identified as being involved in the response to increased external salinity. …”
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The Study of Viral RNA Diversity in Bird Samples Using De Novo Designed Multiplex Genus-Specific Primer Panels by Andrey A. Ayginin, Ekaterina V. Pimkina, Alina D. Matsvay, Anna S. Speranskaya, Marina V. Safonova, Ekaterina A. Blinova, Ilya V. Artyushin, Vladimir G. Dedkov, German A. Shipulin, Kamil Khafizov

“…The existing approaches for the design of oligonucleotides for targeted enrichment are usually involved in the development of primers for the PCR-based detection of particular viral species or genera, but not for families or higher taxonomic orders. In this study, we have developed a computational pipeline for designing the oligonucleotides capable of covering a significant number of known viruses within various taxonomic orders, as well as their novel variants. …”
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