Isolation and relationship analysis of Listeria phages with various serotype hosts and morphological characterization by Jinni chen, Yan Wang, Lingyun Liu, Hao Zhou, Pan Mao, Lingling Li, Ji Pu, Xuefang Xu, Jing Yang, Jingdong Song, Hui Sun, Xia Luo, Kui Dong, Changyun Ye

“…Abstract Listeriosis, caused by Listeria monocytogenes (Lm), is a severe foodborne illness with a high fatality rate. Listeria phages specifically target and lyse Lm, offer a promising alternative for biocontrol and phage therapy. …”
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Efficacy of Ginkgo biloba on parameters in glaucoma: A systematic review. by Julia Prinz, Verena Prokosch, Xiaosha Wang, Yuan Feng, Peter Walter, Matthias Fuest, Filippo Migliorini

“…All clinical studies investigating the efficacy of GBE administration on the intraocular pressure (IOP), the corrected pattern standard deviation (CPSD) and the mean deviation of visual field testing, and heart rate were considered. …”
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Lake Evaporation and Its Effects on Basin Evapotranspiration and Lake Water Storage on the Inner Tibetan Plateau by Liuming Wang, Junxiao Wang, Lachun Wang, Liping Zhu, Xingong Li

“…The spatial pattern of the effect is mainly controlled by α, and the increasing trend of α (0.6%/10 a) also dominated the increasing trend in regional ETB rate (0.30 mm/a) though with large spatial heterogeneity. …”
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Differential Cortical Responses of Functional and Sensory Electrical Stimulation in Closed-Loop Tremor Suppression for Parkinson’s Disease by Xiaoqi Zhao, Tinglan Huang, Mengyue Jin, Hongbo Zhao, Yu Shi, Yanlin Wang, Xiao Shen, Zhen Li, Qingqing Shi, Xiaodong Zhu, Lin Meng

“…Both FES and SES significantly reduced tremor amplitude, with FES showing overall greater suppression (hand suppression rate: 60.72% vs. 48.31%, p >0.05; forearm suppression rate: 62.25% vs. 54.41%, p >0.05) where substantial inter-individual variability was observed. …”
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Timing of Surgery and Preoperative Predictors of Surgical Site Infections for Patients with Depressed Skull Fractures in a Sub-Saharan Tertiary Hospital: A Prospective Cohort Study by Hervé Monka Lekuya, Jelle Vandersteene, Larrey Kasereka Kamabu, Rose Nantambi, Ronald Mbiine, Anthony Kirabira, Fredrick Makumbi, Stephen Cose, David Patrick Kateete, Mark Kaddumukasa, Edward Baert, Moses Galukande, Jean-Pierre Okito Kalala

“…The group of surgical intervention >48 h had an increased incidence of SSI (57.3% vs. 42.7%, p = 0.006), a longer median of postoperative hospital stay (8[IQR = 6–12] days versus 5 [IQR = 4–9], [p < 0.001]), and a higher rate of reoperation (71.4% vs. 28.6%, p = 0.05) in comparison with the group of ≤48 h. …”
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Annual dialysis data report 2022, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) Renal Data Registry by Norio Hanafusa, Masanori Abe, Nobuhiko Joki, Junichi Hoshino, Masatomo Taniguchi, Kan Kikuchi, Takeshi Hasegawa, Shunsuke Goto, Tetsuya Ogawa, Eiichiro Kanda, Shigeru Nakai, Toshihide Naganuma, Kenichiro Miura, Atsushi Wada, Yoshiaki Takemoto

“…The number of chronic dialysis patients was 347,474 at the end of 2022, marking the first decrease since the beginning of this survey. The prevalence rate of dialysis patients was 2781 per million population. …”
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Clinicopathological characterization of Switch/Sucrose-non-fermentable (Swi/Snf) complex (ARID1A, SMARCA2, SMARCA4)-deficient endocervical adenocarcinoma by Chao Cao, Zi-Yun Wu, Wei Liao, Li-Jun Wei, Hao-Yu Liang, Xia Yang, Rong-Zhen Luo, Li-Li Liu

“…Defining Swi/Snf deficiency as loss of any subunit, the overall deficiency rate was 5.96% (36/604). Swi/Snf-deficient ECA tended to advanced FIGO stage (III-IV, P = 0.041), larger tumor size (P < 0.001), deeper stromal invasion (≥ 1/3, P = 0.046), and higher lymph node metastasis rate (P = 0.037). …”
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Mechanical behavior of waste rock-based geopolymer as a sustainable backfill material: Strength evolution and fracture mechanisms by Yu Tian, Zhile Wang, Shiyuan Li, Chuning Ji, Chuangang Gong, Abdoul Wahab, Shengkang Zhang, Zhongchen Ao

“…Specifically, the compressive strength test was conducted to evaluate the effect of materials interaction, aggregate gradation index, alkali activator dosage, water-to-binder ratio and waste rock utilization rate on the strength. And acoustic emission (AE) technology was used to clarify fracture mechanisms of materials. …”
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End‐to‐End Crystal Structure Prediction from Powder X‐Ray Diffraction by Qingsi Lai, Fanjie Xu, Lin Yao, Zhifeng Gao, Siyuan Liu, Hongshuai Wang, Shuqi Lu, Di He, Liwei Wang, Linfeng Zhang, Cheng Wang, Guolin Ke

“…XtalNet achieves a top‐10 Match Rate of 90.2% and 79% for hMOF‐100 and hMOF‐400 in conditional crystal structure prediction task, respectively. …”
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Monitoring long-term cardiac activity with contactless radio frequency signals by Bin-Bin Zhang, Dongheng Zhang, Yadong Li, Zhi Lu, Jinbo Chen, Haoyu Wang, Fang Zhou, Yu Pu, Yang Hu, Li-Kun Ma, Qibin Sun, Yan Chen

“…Here we present a radio frequency (RF)-based (60 to 64 GHz) sensing system that monitors long-term heart rate variability (HRV) with clinical-grade accuracy. …”
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Three-Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Slim Weighted Generative Adversarial Imputation Network: Spatio-Temporal Silm Weighted Generative Adversarial Imputation Net to Repair Missing Oce... by Yiwan Yue, Juan Li, Yu Zhang, Meiqi Ji, Jingyao Zhang, Rui Ma

“…Experiments show that on the three-dimensional flow field dataset of the South China Sea, compared with methods such as GAIN, under a 50% random missing rate, this method reduces the error by 37.2%. It effectively solves the problem that traditional interpolation methods have difficulty handling non-uniform missing and spatio-temporal correlations and maintains the spatio-temporal continuity of the current field’s three-dimensional structure.…”
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Precise irrigation of dryland cotton under canal irrigation system constraints based on the CERES-CROPGRO-Cotton model by Lei Wang, Liang He, Weihong Sun, Chen Gao, Zhenxiang Han, Meiwei Lin

“…Meteorological data from 1980 to 2024, 13 sets of soil data, and field experiments conducted in 2023 and 2024 were used to calibrate the DSSAT model (with a calibration rate of 0.856). Additionally, water channel quota time constraints were established to determine the optimal irrigation timing. …”
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Sex differences in adiposity and hemodynamic parameters as cardiovascular risk indicators among South African university staff: a descriptive cross-sectional study by Sibusiso Gogoba, Samuel Oluwaseun Olojede, Babatunde Adebola Alabi, Sodiq Kolawole Lawal, Odey Akpa, Ayoola Isaac Jegede, Onyemaechi Okpara Azu

“…Additionally, the study indicated that mean values for HP, such as systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and mean arterial pressure, were elevated in males, whereas pulse pressure was higher in females. Notably, heart rate was consistent across both sexes. Conclusion This study provides useful information about the sex-based patterns of adiposity indices and hemodynamic distribution among selected South African populations.…”
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Functional Identification and Transcriptional Activity Analysis of <i>Dryopteris fragrans HMGR</i> Gene by Meng Sun, Qian Ma, Xueqi Wang, Jialiang Guo, Jiaxuan Wang, Dongrui Zhang, Kirill Tkachenko, Wenzhong Wang, Ying Chang

“…Schott synthesizes volatile sesquiterpenes through the mevalonate pathway (MVA), in which 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMGR) serves as the key rate-limiting enzyme. Although HMGR plays a crucial role in terpenoid biosynthesis, its functional characteristics in <i>D. fragrans</i> and its involvement in stress responses remain unclear. …”
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Loss of <i>Myostatin</i> Shapes the Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Landscapes Across Multiple Muscle Types in Cattle by Chao Hai, Xuefei Liu, Chunling Bai, Guanghua Su, Lei Yang, Guangpeng Li

“…The results showed that the <i>MSTN</i> gene-edited (MT) cattle skeletal muscle exhibited significantly larger myofiber cross-sectional areas (<i>p</i> = 0.049), accompanied by reduced shear force (<i>p</i> = 0.044), cooking loss rate (<i>p</i> = 0.0029), and pH (<i>p</i> = 0.014). …”
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A randomized controlled trial of timing and dosage of upper extremity rehabilitation in virtual environments in persons with subacute stroke by Jigna Patel, Qinyin Qiu, Gerard G Fluet, Holly Gorin, Jennifer Gutterman, Kiran Karunakaran, Karen J Nolan, Emma Kaplan, Alma S Merians, Sergei V Adamovich

“…At 4 months post stroke the DVR group showed a higher rate of change from baseline on the Action Research Arm Test compared to the EVR group. …”
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A Lower Energy Balance is Associated With Higher Severity and Odd of Depression Based on the Beck Depression Inventory‐13 (BDI‐13) in a Retiring Age Population: A Population‐Based... by Mohammad Reza Shadmand Foumani Moghadam, Mostafa Shahraki Jazinaki, Zohre Hosseini, Fatemeh Rajabi, Sharif Etemdi, Melika Hadizadeh, Parnian Pezeshki, Mohammad Amushahi, Reza Rezvani

“…Energy balance was calculated by subtracting energy intake from Total Energy Expenditure (TEE) and Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) which was calculated using Bio‐Electrical Impedance Analysis and Mifflin and St‐Jeor formula. …”
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Multivariate Evaluation of Flash Drought Across the United States by Jason A. Otkin, Yafang Zhong, Trent W. Ford, Martha C. Anderson, Christopher Hain, Andrew Hoell, Mark Svoboda, Hailan Wang

“…The FDII method uses the rate of intensification (FD‐INT) and subsequent drought severity (DRO‐SEV) to determine when a flash drought occurred and the strength of the event. …”
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Experimental Study on Temperature-time Characteristics of Loess under the Freeze-Thaw Cycles by Cao Xueye, Zhang Eryuan, Bai Xiaopeng, Ji Jiaqiang, Sun Jielong

“…The change pattern of the thawing curve remained consistent across various w, with only a certain extent of influence on the rate of change. …”
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Pharmacoepidemiological analysis of routine management of heart failure patients in the Russian Federation. Part I by Yu. M. Lopatin, S. V. Nedogoda, M. V. Arkhipov, A. S. Galyavich, N. A. Koziolova, N. G. Lozhkina, E. V. Reznik, A. S. Salasyuk, M. Yu. Frolov, A. I. Chesnikova, E. V. Chumachek, L. A. Shpagina

“…There was sufficient follow-up rate, but the extent examinations do not correspond to the recommended one. …”
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