Missing The Forest For The Trees: A Lack Of Upper Extremity Physical Performance Testing In Sports Physical Therapy by Matthew L Gauthier, Casey A Unverzagt, Luciana De Michelis Mendonça, Amee L Seitz

“…# Background Despite shoulder and elbow injuries being common in athletics, return to sport and reinjury rates are less than ideal. These outcomes may be driven by the absence of evidence-informed testing to determine an athlete's readiness for sport…”
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Occurrence and Genetic Variation of <i>Monolepta hieroglyphica</i> (Motschulsky, 1858) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a Newly Emerging Pest, Among Hosts in Northeast China by Wei Sun, Xiuhua Zhang, Jiachun Zhou, Yuebo Gao

“…High gene flow rates were observed, likely contributing to decreased genetic variation. …”
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Smart deep learning model for enhanced IoT intrusion detection by Faisal S. Alsubaei

“…This superb performance of the OSNN model can be explained by the careful optimization of hyperparameters like strong activation functions (ReLU, GeLU, LeakyReLU), learning rates, dropout rates, and regularization techniques that enable it to learn intricate intrusion patterns efficiently using various datasets. …”
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The Sociology of Suicide After COVID-19: Assessment of the Spanish Case by Enrique Fernández-Vilas, Juan R. Coca, Juan José Labora González, Marcos Iglesias Carrera

“…This paper aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide rates in Spain, using a theoretical ex post facto analysis. …”
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Global, Regional, and National Burden of Smoking-Related Diseases and Associations With Health Workforce Distribution, 1990–2021: Analysis From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2... by Yuzhou Cai, Guiming Chen, Peng Bai

“…Correlation analyses examined relationships between 22 health workforce categories and disease burden.ResultsGlobally, age-standardized death rates from smoking-related diseases increased by 12.3% from 1990–2021, with males showing higher rates than females across all regions. …”
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Excess and reduced work absence during COVID-19 in Poland: insights from cause-specific time-series models by Błażej Łyszczarz, Jakub Wojtasik

“…Results We observed notable deviations in work absence rates during the pandemic period (until the end of Q1-2022). …”
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Occupation, displacement, and violence in the West Bank: A retrospective analysis of data from 2014-2024. by Sarah Aly, Fatima Mossolem, Ayeh Khalil, Tushara Surapaneni, Abd Al-Rahman Traboulsi, Waleed Aldadah, Eleanor Reid, Shakoor Hajat

“…Refugee camps had increased death rates: IRR = 7.91 (5.26, 11.89; p < 0.0001) compared to non-refugee camp populations. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of the Implementation and Impact of Nikshay Poshan Yojana in India’s National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme by Sethuraman Sivaraman, Saurabh Kumar Banerjee

“…Key aspects analysed include coverage and enrolment rates, disbursement processes, awareness and utilisation patterns, implementation challenges, and the scheme’s impact on treatment outcomes and nutritional status. …”
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Indirect exposure to insect growth disruptors affects honey bee (Apis mellifera) reproductive behaviors and ovarian protein expression. by Julia D Fine, Leonard J Foster, Alison McAfee

“…Curiously, eggs laid by queens exposed to pyriproxyfen exhibited increased hatching rates, and those larvae developed into worker progeny with increased responsiveness to their queens. …”
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A computational DNA methylation method to remove contaminated DNA from spent embryo culture medium for noninvasive preimplantation genetic testingResearch in context by Yidong Chen, Jin Huang, Fuchou Tang, Lu Wen, Jie Qiao

“…By testing simulated SECM samples, the method demonstrated a substantial reduction in the false-negative rate even with up to 75% cumulus cell contamination. …”
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Regional lymph node invasion in pediatric non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma: an international cohort study from the International Soft Tissue Sarcoma ConsortiumResearch in c... by Daniel Orbach, Matthieu Carton, Amadeus T. Heinz, Lise Borgwardt, J Herve Brisse, Carlo Morosi, Erin R. Rudzinski, Akmal Safwat, Monika Sparber-Sauer, Stephanie Terezakis, Andrea Ferrari, Aaron R. Weiss, William H. Meyer, David O. Walterhouse, Timothy B. Lautz

“…We therefore to analyze the rate of N1 at diagnosis, the pattern of nodal relapse, and the prognostic impact of N1 in pediatric patients with NRSTS. …”
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Effectiveness of the sterile insect technique in controlling Aedes albopictus as part of an integrated control measure: evidence from a first small-scale field trial in Switzerland by Diego Parrondo Monton, Damiana Ravasi, Valentina Campana, Francesco Pace, Arianna Puggioli, Matteo Tanadini, Eleonora Flacio

“…Similar spatial trends were observed for hatch rates and adult females (P < 0.01). These findings highlight both the overall effectiveness of SIT and the influence of mosquito immigration on spatial patterns. …”
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Breeding of a new mid-to-late ripening apple cultivar Wangyuebingcui by XU Haihong, YANG Kai, LI Guangjin, ZHANG Guoqiang, TIAN Ge, AI Bohao, LI Xuqiang, WANG Junya

“…The cultivar combines high budbreak rate with moderate branching capacity, exhibiting spur-type growth pattern, sustained cluster-base productivity, and axillary flowering propensity. …”
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Low-level atmospheric turbulence dataset in China generated by combining radar wind profiler and radiosonde observations by D. Meng, D. Meng, J. Guo, J. Guo, J. Chen, X. Guo, N. Li, Y. Sun, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, N. Tang, H. Xu, T. Chen, R. Yang, J. Hua

“…This dataset includes squared Brunt–Väisälä frequency (<span class="inline-formula"><i>N</i>²</span>), turbulent dissipation rate (<span class="inline-formula"><i>ε</i></span>), vertical eddy diffusivity (<span class="inline-formula"><i>K</i></span>), inner scale (<span class="inline-formula"><i>l</i>₀</span>), and buoyancy length scale (<span class="inline-formula"><i>L</i>_B</span>), which are provided twice daily at 00:00 and 12:00 UTC with a vertical resolution of 120 m, covering altitudes from 0.12 to 3.0 km above ground level (a.g.l.). …”
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A novel twin time series network for building energy consumption predicting. by Zhixin Sun, Han Cui, Xiangxiang Mei, Hailei Yuan

“…To overcome these issues, the study proposes Twin Time-Series Networks (T2SNET), which incorporates a time-embedding layer and a Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) to extract patterns from Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise (CEEMDAN), along with an adaptive fusion gate to combine energy consumption and meteorological data. …”
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Global assessment of current extinction risks and future challenges for turtles and tortoises by Chuanwu Chen, Jiang Wang, Marcel Holyoak, Liu Lin, Yanping Wang

“…Furthermore, the projected rates of climatic and environmental changes across species’ distributions are significantly higher than the rates of evolution for traits linked to resilience to climate change and altered environments. …”
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Extreme heat and pediatric health in a warming world: a space-time stratified case-crossover investigation in Ontario, Canada by Hallah Kassem, Eric Lavigne, Kate Weinberger, Michael Brauer

“…Conclusions In Ontario, EHEs decreased the rates of pediatric emergency healthcare utilization for injuries and increased the rates of respiratory illnesses, asthma, heat-related illnesses, heatstroke, dehydration, infectious and parasitic diseases, lower respiratory infections, and enteritis. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 Alchemy: Understanding the dynamics of age, vaccination, and geography in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in India. by Mansi Patel, Uzma Shamim, Umang Umang, Rajesh Pandey, Jitendra Narayan

“…Geographic analysis emphasizes notable regional variation in substitution rates, potentially driven by population density and local transmission dynamics, while regions with more homogeneous strain circulation show relatively lower substitution rates. …”
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Inequities in mortality and potential years of life lost (PYLL) in greater Santiago, Chile, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic by Claudio Vargas, Paola Salas, Felipe Elorrieta, Valentina Muñoz, Erika Vivanco, Matilde Maddaleno

“…Abstract Introduction In Chile and worldwide, disparities in age-adjusted mortality rates and Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) intensified during the initial two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, with low- and middle-income countries experiencing a disproportionate burden. …”
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Eyes in the wild: Thelazia callipaeda in wild carnivores of Croatia by Ema Gagović, Šimun Naletilić, Daria Jurković Žilić, Željko Mihaljević, Adnan Hodžić, Relja Beck

“…The infections were geographically restricted to continental regions, with the highest prevalence recorded in eastern counties. Seasonal patterns were evident in red foxes, where infection rates and reproductive activity peaked in autumn and winter. …”
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