Chemoprevention of 4NQO-Induced Mouse Tongue Carcinogenesis by AKT Inhibitor through the MMP-9/RhoC Signaling Pathway and Autophagy by Panpan Yin, Jiahui Chen, Yanlin Wu, Feng Gao, Jinlin Wen, Wenbin Zhang, Ying Su, Xinyan Zhang

“…Oral cancer (OC), the most common cancer in the head and neck, which has a poor prognosis, histopathologically follows a stepwise pattern of hyperplasia, dysplasia, and cancer. Blocking the progression of OC in the precancer stage could greatly improve the survival and cure rates. …”
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Pod Production Dynamics and Pod Size Distribution of Theobroma cacao L. Clone CCN 51 in Full Sunlight by Ramón E. Jaimez, Luigy Barragan, Miguel Fernández-Niño, Oswaldo J. Larreal B, Byron Flores

“…During this period, 65% of the pods had lengths between 5 and 15 cm, which corresponds to the period of the highest pod growth rate. The average length values of the harvested pods were generally below 23 cm and rarely exceeded 7 pods/tree. …”
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Long-term growth and risk factors for crankshaft phenomenon following posterior hemivertebra resection with mono-segment fusion in congenital early-onset scoliosis by Zhiming Peng, Yiwei Zhao, You Du, Haoran Zhang, Shengru Wang, Jianguo Zhang

“…Although VBH, IPL, and VBAP increased significantly in all vertebrae (p < 0.05), there were no significant differences between the crankshaft and non‑crankshaft groups in terms of final follow‑up values, absolute growth, or growth rate. Multivariate analysis identified incomplete hemivertebra resection as the predominant risk factor (OR = 18.85, 95% CI: 2.65–251.66, p = 0.002). …”
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Influence of precipitation and runoff on human-induced land subsidence in the Yellow River Delta by Yaoshen Fan, Guangzhou Wang, Shentang Dou, Chao Jiang, Hongyu Ji, Shenliang Chen, Xiaokang Du, Shoubing Yu, Yan Wu, Shaohua Zhang

“…The study reveals pronounced seasonal variations in land subsidence across the YRD, with subsidence rates in summer being substantially lower than those in spring, autumn, and winter. …”
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The impact of referral workload on cardiology registrars in a high-volume district general hospital: implications for workforce well-being and service efficiency by Md Imran Hossain, Jaymin Shantilal Shah

“…A structured survey was distributed to 12 cardiology registrars, achieving a 92% response rate, assessing workload perception, stress, exhaustion, bleep volume impact, consultant support and training limitations. …”
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Sex disparities in alcohol-associated liver disease and subtype differences in alcohol-attributable cancers in the United States by Pojsakorn Danpanichkul, Yanfang Pang, Tanuj Mahendru, Primrose Tothanarungroj, Luis Antonio Díaz, Juan Pablo Arab, Pimtawan Jatupornpakdee, Mark D. Muthiah, Kwanjit Duangsonk, Won-Mook Choi, Daniel Q. Huang, Donghee Kim, Mazen Noureddin, Karn Wijarnpreecha, Suthat Liangpunsakul, Amit G. Singal, Ju Dong Yang

“…The age-standardized incidence and death rate of ALD rose disproportionately among females compared to males. …”
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Wideband absorption with polarization and angular insensitive metamaterial for optical applications based on Tungsten-SiO2 composites by Md Raihan, Saif Hannan, Md Ismail Haque, Mohamed Ouda, Abdulmajeed M. Alenezi, Mohamed S. Soliman, Mohammad Tariqul Islam

“…A 96.93 % average absorption rate was found for visible 380 nm–700 nm, along with a maximum peak absorption point at 604.53 nm, which is 99.996 %. …”
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A novel wound dressing material with prolonged action by S. M. Dronov, V. Yo. Mamchur, I. P. Koshova, D. O. Stepanskyi, H. M. Kremenchutskyi, V. M. Toropin, B. V. Murashevych, K. S. Burmistrov

“…Acute toxicity pharmacological studies of material test-samples containing 6 % and 9 % active chlorine in a single application on the skin of rats and rabbits found that these applications did not lead to deaths, as well as changes in their behavioral pattern, consumption of feed and water. The epithelization rate of uninfected wound surface in application of dressings containing both sodium N-chlorosulfonamide and N, N-dichlorosulfonamide was significantly, on average 1.5 times, faster at the end of the observational period (day 14) in comparison with the control group animals. …”
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Drug Utilization Evaluation of Erythropoietin at a Referral Teaching Hospital in Iran by Iman Karimzadeh, Hanieh Rasekh, Ava Karimian, Mojtaba Shabani-Borujeni, Afsaneh Vazin

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the pattern of erythropoietin use, according to standard guidelines, in patients admitted to Namazi Hospital in Shiraz, Iran. …”
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Efficiency of Electrical Cardioversion of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in the Use of Bipolar QuasiSinusoidal Impulse in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease by V. A. Vostrikov, K. V. Razumov

“…The ECV success rate was 88.6% in patients with clinically relevant and severe (acute chronic) heart failure (HF), 98% in those with mild HF and without its clinical signs (p&lt;0.05), and 83% in those with acute myocardial infarction. …”
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The Influence of Running Technique Modifications on Vertical Tibial Load Estimates: A Combined Experimental and Machine Learning Approach in the Context of Medial Tibial Stress Syn... by Taylor Miners, Jeremy Witchalls, Jaquelin A. Bousie, Ceridwen R. Radcliffe, Phillip Newman

“…<b>Results</b>: A 10% speed reduction decreased peak tibial acceleration (PTA), vertical average loading rate (VALR), vertical instantaneous loading rate (VILR), and vertical impulse by 13%, 10.9%, 9.3%, and 3.2%, respectively. …”
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Recent trends in dental research in Saudi Arabia: Mapping review (2010–2020) by Waad Khayat, Mona Rajeh

“…The most productive years were 2018 and 2019, and the average annual growth rate of research productivity was 21%. Implant dentistry showed the fastest growth rate. …”
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Sociodemographic and regional differences in neonatal and infant mortality in Switzerland in 2011–2018: the Swiss National Cohort by Veronika W. Skrivankova, Leonie D. Schreck, Claudia Berlin, Radoslaw Panczak, Kaspar Staub, Marcel Zwahlen, Sven M. Schulzke, Matthias Egger, Claudia E. Kuehni

“… BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Despite a well-funded healthcare system with universal insurance coverage, Switzerland has one of the highest neonatal and infant mortality rates among high-income countries. Identifying avoidable risk factors targeted by evidence-based policies is a public health priority. …”
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A spatiotemporal model for urban taxi Origin–Destination prediction based on Multi-hop GCN and Hierarchical LSTM by Jiang Rong, Wangtu Xu, Yanjie Wen

“…HLSTM unit incorporates a standard LSTM gate to manage cell state updates, enabling selective access to the internal memory. …”
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A novel model for accurate and fast prediction of cancer incidence by Mahmoud Hamed, Berlanty A. Zayed, Fotouh R. Mansour

“…The proposed model incorporated actual cancer incidence rates and yearly changes in RSVI. Results The model was applied to predict the rates of new cancer cases in fifty American states over four consecutive years (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). …”
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Wastewater-based epidemiology of influenza A virus in Shenzhen: baseline values and implications for multi-pathogen surveillance by Xiuyuan Shi, Shisong Fang, Chen Du, Guixian Luo, Yanpeng Cheng, Zhen Zhang, Qiuying Lv, Xin Wang, Zhigao Chen, Bincai Wei, Ziqi Wu, Bingchan Guo, Panpan Yang, Miaomiao Luo, Weihua Wu, Liping Zhou, Ting Huang, Xuan Zou, Xiaolu Shi, Songzhe Fu, Zhanwei Du, Xinxin Han, Yinghui Li, Qinghua Hu

“…The optimized random forest model (mean absolute error = 2,307, R2 = 0.988) integrated IAV concentration, flow rate, wastewater temperature, chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen, and phosphorus. …”
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Cancer Genetics in the Arab World by Waleed S. Al Amri PhD, Muna Al Jabri PhD, Aisha Al Abri MS, Thomas A. Hughes PhD

“…Cancer remains a major global health burden, with incidence rates rising globally. The Arab world, which is often regarded as an underrepresented population in literature, shows distinct patterns in cancer incidences, genetics, and outcomes in comparison with Western populations. …”
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Glucose‐Induced Developmental Dynamics: Understanding Male Prevalence in Early Mouse Embryo Stages by Fikri Ardhani, Asako Okamoto, Masayuki Shimada

“…Conclusions Glucose availability accelerated embryonic development and created sex‐specific patterns of developmental timing, with male embryos exhibiting faster progression rates, which might be associated with differential X‐linked PDHA1 metabolic gene expression during early mouse embryogenesis.…”
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Unequal trends in coronary heart disease mortality by socioeconomic circumstances, England 1982-2006: an analytical study. by Madhavi Bajekal, Shaun Scholes, Martin O'Flaherty, Rosalind Raine, Paul Norman, Simon Capewell

“…However, this concealed contrasting patterns in underlying age-specific rates. From 2000, mortality rates levelled off in the youngest groups but accelerated in middle aged and older groups. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics and influencing factors of the cluster outbreaks of influenza-like illness in Yangpu District， Shanghai， 2012‒2022 by XIE Qianru, JIANG Chenyan, TAO Fangfang, QIAO Peng

“…ObjectiveTo analyze the epidemiological characteristics and influencing factors of clustered influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreaks in Yangpu District, Shanghai from 2012 to 2022, and to provide a scientific basis for formulating specific prevention and control measures of influenza in this district.MethodsData on clustered ILI outbreaks from 2012 to 2022 were collected, and the epidemiological pattern of the cluster outbreaks of influenza and its influencing factors of prevalence and duration were explored using statistical methods such as descriptive epidemiology, χ² test and logistic regression analysis.ResultsA total of 60 clustered ILI outbreaks were reported in Yangpu District, Shanghai from 2012 to 2022, with a cumulative number of 543 cases and an annual average incidence rate of 16.96%. …”
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