Characterisation of the wildlife reservoir community for human and animal trypanosomiasis in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia. by Neil E Anderson, Joseph Mubanga, Eric M Fevre, Kim Picozzi, Mark C Eisler, Robert Thomas, Susan C Welburn

“…Variation in infection rates was demonstrated at species level rather than at family or sub-family level. …”
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Epigenetic Alterations in Ovarian Function and Their Impact on Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Systematic Review by Charalampos Voros, Antonia Varthaliti, Despoina Mavrogianni, Diamantis Athanasiou, Antonia Athanasiou, Aikaterini Athanasiou, Anthi-Maria Papahliou, Constantinos G. Zografos, Vasileios Topalis, Panagiota Kondili, Menelaos Darlas, Sophia Sina, Maria Anastasia Daskalaki, Marianna Theodora, Panos Antsaklis, Georgios Daskalakis

“…Changes in miRNA expression patterns in follicular fluid and granulosa cells were associated with oocyte maturation, ovarian reserve, and implantation potential. …”
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Analysis and Research on Associated Elements Nb, Zr, Ga and Sc in Sedimentary Rare Earth Ores by Shujun LIU, Lu XU, Daxing GONG, Jianchun YI, Chaohui ZHAO

“…A preliminary exploration of their distribution patterns during selective leaching processes was also conducted. …”
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Perception of quality and adoption of health-preventive measures in gym-goers after the COVID-19 pandemic peak in Italy by L Falese, E Langiano, M Ferrara, P Diotaiuti, A Rodio, T Di Libero, A Andrade, E De Vito

“…Participants generally rated the gym positively, with 34.49% considering it "Good" and 39.23% rating it "Very good." …”
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Tasas de desnitrificación en una laguna costera tropical, la Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Mar Caribe, Colombia by Herrera Martínez Yimy, Campos Néstor H., Ramírez Triana Gustavo

“…The rates of denitrification were measured as flows of N₂O in two sites in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta as a first step toward the identification of the patterns of this process in tropical coastal lagoons of Colombia. …”
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Distribution of malignant neoplasms of the oral cavity in Ecuador: an epidemiological study from 2015 to 2019 by Karina Lalangui, Emmanuelle Quentin, Juan Marcos Parise-Vasco, Claudia Reytor-Gonzalez, Evelyn Frías-Toral, Daniel Simancas-Racines

“…Variables such as age, gender, province, and location of the neoplasms were analyzed, and frequencies, proportions, and crude rates were calculated. Results Between 2015 and 2019, 4444 hospitalizations and 726 deaths were reported, with a notable increase in 2019. …”
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Exposure-Sensitivity-Adaptability (ESA) framework based evaluation and characteristics analysis of urban disasters vulnerability in China by Rui Zhang, Anli Jiang, Linlin Jiang

“…Analysis reveals distinct spatial patterns: eastern cities show 35% lower vulnerability scores compared to central and western regions, forming a clear vulnerability gradient. …”
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Development of prediction models for screening depression and anxiety using smartphone and wearable-based digital phenotyping: protocol for the Smartphone and Wearable Assessment f... by Sujin Kim, Ah Young Kim, Yu-Bin Shin, Seonmin Kim, Min-Sup Shin, Jinhwa Choi, Kyung Lyun Lee, Jisu Lee, Sangwon Byun, Heon-Jeong Lee, Chul-Hyun Cho

“…However, their detection and diagnosis rates remain low owing to the limitations of the current screening methods. …”
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Primary Mediastinal Germ Cell Tumors: A Real-World Analysis of Clinical Characteristics, Treatment, and Survival Outcomes From Two Tertiary Cancer Centers in India by Bharath Gangadhar, Chitrakshi Nagpal, Aparna Sharma, Bivas Biswas, Somnath Roy, Aditya Bhagwat, Deepam Pushpam, Sameer Bakhshi, Sunil Kumar, Kunhi Parambath Haresh, Atul Batra

“…First-line chemotherapy comprised bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin (BEP; 60.5%) and etoposide, ifosfamide, and cisplatin (VIP; 27.8%). Response rates included complete response (25.3%) and partial response (54.4%). …”
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From Margin to Mainstream: Informal Street Vendors and Local Politics in Kolkata, India by Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy

“…A new, fragmented spatial structure has started emerging, with the middle classes and the globalizing segments of the economy, moving away to gated enclaves at the urban fringe. These changes are not isolated phenomenon, but rather symptomatic with the larger process of urban transformation and entwined with the political-economic change in the state level.…”
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Emoji-Driven Sentiment Analysis for Social Bot Detection with Relational Graph Convolutional Networks by Kaqian Zeng, Zhao Li, Xiujuan Wang

“…Subsequently, seven sentiment-based features are extracted to quantify statistical disparities in emotional expression patterns between bot and human accounts. An attention gating mechanism is further designed to dynamically fuse these sentiment features with user description, tweet content, numerical attributes, and categorical features. …”
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Space–Time Dynamics of Mortality and Recruitment of Stems and Trees in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest: Effect of the 2012–2021 Droughts by Maria Beatriz Ferreira, Rinaldo Luiz Caraciolo Ferreira, Jose Antonio Aleixo da Silva, Robson Borges de Lima, Alex Nascimento de Sousa, Marcos Vinícius da Silva

“…An accumulative effect of droughts on increasing mortality rates and reducing recruitment during the study period was observed. …”
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Race, gender and stroke subtypes mortality in São Paulo, Brazil Raça, gênero e mortalidade por subtipos da doença cerebrovascular em São Paulo, Brasil by Paulo A. Lotufo, Alessandra C. Goulart, Isabela M. Bensenor

“…For women, the rates were lower compared to men and the same pattern was observed among Black (125.4), Mixed (88.5) and White (64.1) women. …”
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Neural Correlates of Cognitive Deficit in Emotional Directed Forgetting in Major Depressive Disorder: An Event-Related Potential Study by Chang Chen, Xiaoting Zhou, Xiaohong Liu, Xuezheng Gao, Limin Chen, Zhenhe Zhou, Hongliang Zhou

“…Results: HCs had higher hit rates than did MDD patients; more false alarms occurred in MDD patients than in HCs, and higher false alarm rates occurred with negative images than with neutral images. …”
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Contributions of District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) to maternal and child health service performance in Ethiopia: an interrupted time series mixed-methods study by Taddese Alemu Zerfu, Moges Asressie, Amare Abera Tareke, Zenebu Begna, Tigist Habtamu, Netsanet Werkneh, Tariku Nigatu, Meskerem Jisso, Addisalem Genta

“…Specifically, DHIS2 led to increased monthly mean performance of key indicators such as antenatal care visits, skilled birth attendance, and immunization rates. Notable improvements in service delivery were observed, with significant increases in institutional delivery rates over time. …”
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Global, regional, and national burdens of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and skull fracture and their attributable risk factors from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysi... by Yikang Wang

“…Data were presented as both numerical counts and age-standardized rates (ASRs) per 100,000 population, with corresponding uncertainty intervals. …”
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Multi-Sensor Satellite Analysis for Landslide Characterization: A Case of Study from Baipaza, Tajikistan by Francesco Poggi, Olga Nardini, Simone Fiaschi, Roberto Montalti, Emanuele Intrieri, Federico Raspini

“…The employment of these two techniques enables the acquisition of insights into the distinctive characteristics and dynamics of the landslide, including the displacement rates up to 246 mm/year in the horizontal component; the precise mapping of landslide boundaries and the identification of distinct sectors with varying deformation patterns; and an estimation of the volume involved within the landslide, which is approximately of 1 billion m³.…”
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Characterizing Holocene sediments for assessing coastal-deltaic subsidence: the role of cone penetration tests and geomechanics by Carla Buffardi, Philip S. J. Minderhoud, Philip S. J. Minderhoud, Philip S. J. Minderhoud, Alessandro Mandolini, Daniela Ruberti

“…These variable characteristics underlie, and in part explain, the spatial patterns in observed subsidence rates. The increased geomechanical insights advance our understanding of the spatio-temporal consolidation of the Holocene sedimentary sequence and its various depositional facies beyond standard lithological geotechnical characterization. …”
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RADON IN GROUNDWATERS IN THE BAIKAL REGION AND TRANSBAIKALIA: VARIATIONS IN SPACE AND TIME by K. Zh. Seminsky, A. K. Seminsky

“…Q values are indirectly influenced by parameter T via changes of water temperature, variations in flow rates of water sources, freezing of the top layer of soil and other processes, which parameters require further research.According to the monitoring data (see Table 3, and Fig. 6, A), the content of radon in near-surface water sources (Group I) can vary by a few and the first dozens of units, while changes by tens of becquerel per liter are recorded in the deeper near-fault water sources (Group II). …”
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Relationship of psychoalgological status and results of neurosurgical treatment of patients with discogenic radiculopathy by V. I. Leonov, I. O. Kritskaya, D. V. Svistov, E. V. Litvinenko, T. V. Sergeeva, V. V. Flud, M. N. Kravtsov, S. D. Mirzametov, N. P. Alexeyeva, A. Yu. Shcherbuk, Yu. A. Shcherbuk

“…According to the long-term results of neurosurgical treatment, patients were divided into three groups: 1 – with a good result; 2 – patients with a number of preserved complaints, who rated the result of the operation as satisfactory; 3 – unsatisfactory outcome. …”
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