Outcomes of breast cancer management from an Urban specialist breast center in South India by Naga Amulya Mullapudi, Kabeer Katherine Kirti, Naveen Padmanaban, Ramesh Nimmagadda, Selvi Radhakrishna

“…Context and Aims: The disease pattern and presentation of breast cancer in India are thought to differ from the West. …”
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Cultivation strategy optimization and pilot-scale production of Spirulina subsalsa grown in seawater and monosodium glutamate wastewater by Mingyan Liu, Liqun Jiang, Ze Yu, Meng Ma, Huiying Chen, Haiyan Pei

“…Yet, due to its unique pattern of attached growth followed by upward flotation, there is an urgent need to find a suitable cultivation strategy and achieve scale-up. …”
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THE EFFECT OF RED AND YELLOW CARBON QUANTUM DOTS (CQDS) IN TIO2 PHOTOANODES FOR DSSC APPLICATION by Farhan Nur Al-Afandy, Markus Diantoro, Herlin Pujiarti

“…However, in terms of enhancing light absorption and the electron transfer rate, doping with Carbon Quantum Dots (CQDs) in TiO2-based photoanodes has gained attention as a promising approach to improve efficiency. …”
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Four-Element Meandered Sunflower MIMO Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Systems by Ijaz Ahmad, Yuhuai Liu, Fang Wang, Mian Muhamad Kamal, Parveez Shariff B. G., Nosherwan Shoaib, Hala Mostafa, Mariana Dalarsson

“…Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is known to have a high data rate in wireless communications due to its broad frequency range and low power consumption. …”
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MALDI imaging mass spectrometry for in situ proteomic analysis of preneoplastic lesions in pancreatic cancer. by Barbara M Grüner, Hannes Hahne, Pawel K Mazur, Marija Trajkovic-Arsic, Stefan Maier, Irene Esposito, Evdokia Kalideris, Christoph W Michalski, Jörg Kleeff, Sandra Rauser, Roland M Schmid, Bernhard Küster, Axel Walch, Jens T Siveke

“…Various GEM were analyzed with MALDI IMS to investigate the peptide/protein-expression pattern of precursor lesions in comparison to normal pancreas and PDAC with cellular resolution. …”
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Severe Brain Injury by Yu. A. Churlyaev, M. Yu. Verein, S. L. Kan, Ye. V. Grigoryev, N. N. Yepifantseva, T. P. Aikina

“…Their general condition was rated as very critical. The patients were divided into three groups: 1) non-ARDS; 2) Stage 1 ARDS; and 3) Stage 2 ARDS. …”
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Prevalence and Antibiotic Susceptibility Profile of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Isolates in Diabetes Patients with Foot Ulcers by Unegbu Valentine N, Nwachukwu Ndubuisi O, Obum-Nnadi Charity N, Okey-ndeche Ngozika F

“…The antibiotics sensitivity pattern of MRSA showed 100% sensitivity to vancomycin and chloramphenicol but 100% resistance to penicillin, ceftriaxone, and oxacillin. …”
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Genetic admixture and population substructure in Guanacaste Costa Rica. by Zhaoming Wang, Allan Hildesheim, Sophia S Wang, Rolando Herrero, Paula Gonzalez, Laurie Burdette, Amy Hutchinson, Gilles Thomas, Stephen J Chanock, Kai Yu

“…Based on the clustering pattern observed in both STRUCTURE and principal components analysis, two subpopulations were identified that differ by approximately 20% in LD block size averaged over all LD blocks identified by Haploview. …”
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Slope Stability Assessment along Qalachwalan-Suraqalat Main Road, Sulaimani, NE-Iraq by Ghafor A. Hamasur, Nzho M. Qadir

“…The slope stations were chosen on the basis of difference in discontinuities pattern, variation in slope morphology and difference in the type of failure and the data were analyzed for their potential degree of stability by kinematic analysis, using DIPS v6.008 software and slope mass rating system [discrete-SMR and continuous-SMR (CSMR)], using SMR Tool - v205 software. …”
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Strategies and Structures in Verbal Fluency Tasks in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease by J. Kessler, M. Bley, R. Mielke, E. Kalbe

“…They both showed a percentuallikely distribution pattern of items into different supermarket categories. …”
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Changes in the functional activity of thrombocytes in rats with experimental disruption of the periodontal connective tissue by V. F. Cheremisina

“…Reduction in the degree of platelets aggregation and aggregation rate were observed at an inductor concentration of 2.5 μmol/L in a group of rats with experimental periodontitis in comparison with the control. …”
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Midwives’ competence in interpretation of the intrapartum cardiotocograph at public hospitals in Gauteng: An explanatory sequential mixed-methods study by Sanele Lukhele, Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi, Rodwell Gundo

“…Results: The Pillar Integration Process led to the identification of six pillars: 1) substandard CTG interpretation training leads to a lack of understanding of key concepts; 2) absence of norms and standards pertaining to CTG interpretation training; 3) Essential Steps in Managing Obstetric Emergencies (ESMOE) training does not result in improved CTG interpretation scores; 4) lack of standardization of CTG interpretation guidelines causes confusion among interpreters; 5) level of knowledge of foundational concepts of CTG interpretation affects clinical judgment; and 6) CTG interpretation skill is a combination of understanding of CTG characteristics, fetal heart rate pattern, fetal physiology and clinical context. …”
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The territorialization of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and its socioeconomic, demographic and public health policy risk factors in Belém, state of Pará, Eastern Amazon, Brazil... by Nelson Veiga Gonçalves, Alessandra Lima Leal, Heloisa Maria Melo E Silva Guimarães, Arthur Carneiro Bernardes, Silvana Rossy de Brito, Taiana Moita Koury Alves, Tainara Carvalho Garcia Miranda Filgueiras, Thayse Moraes de Moraes, Matheus Pereira do Couto Rocha, Renan Faria Cardoso, Bruno Yudi Shimomaebara Sousa, Claudia do Socorro Carvalho Miranda

“…It has a high mortality rate related to risk factors that include systemic arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, male gender and advanced age. …”
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Individual Differences in Strategy and the Item-Position Effect in Reasoning Ability Measures by Helene M. von Gugelberg, Stefan J. Troche

“…When investigating the toggle rate, the participants used more constructive matching towards the end of the APM. …”
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Evolution of bitcoin as a Financial Asset by K. D. Shilov, A. V. Zubarev

“…We can conclude that Bitcoin is becoming a popular means of diversification as a high-risk asset, which, however, follows the pattern of a speculative bubble at the beginning of 2021. …”
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A theory of memory for binary sequences: Evidence for a mental compression algorithm in humans. by Samuel Planton, Timo van Kerkoerle, Leïla Abbih, Maxime Maheu, Florent Meyniel, Mariano Sigman, Liping Wang, Santiago Figueira, Sergio Romano, Stanislas Dehaene

“…The theory predicts that the psychological complexity of a given sequence should be proportional to the length of its shortest description in the proposed language, which can capture any nested pattern of repetitions and alternations using a limited number of instructions. …”
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Psychophysiological correlates of science communicators. by David Vagni, Gennaro Tartarisco, Simona Campisi, Loredana Cerbara, Marco Dedola, Alessandra Pedranghelu, Alexandra Castello, Francesca Gorini, Chiara Failla, Marco Tullio Liuzza, Antonio Tintori, Giovanni Pioggia, Marco Ferrazzoli, Antonio Cerasa

“…We conducted a study in an ecological setting to evaluate the heart rate variability (HRV) of expert communicators during a live national primetime video interview. …”
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Vision-Related Quality of Life in Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma Patients with or without Visual Field Dysfunction by Pingping Ma, Yingru Liu, Yufang Su, Yajun Yang

“…No significant differences were found in gender, VFQ rating for “composite score” and “color vision” between the three groups. …”
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Exploration and validation of the prognostic value of mitophagy and mitochondrial dynamics-related genes in cervical cancer by Jiankui Li, Xi Chen, Juan Li

“…Abstract The mechanisms underlying mitophagy and mitochondrial dynamics (MD) in cervical cancer (CC), a disease with a high mortality rate, remain poorly understood. This study aimed to assess the prognostic significance of these processes in CC. …”
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The Effect of an Anesthetic Support of Endoscopic Gastric Resection on Intraoperative Hemodynamics in Patients with Morbid Obesity by M. I. Neymark, R. V. Kiselev

“…In Group 2 (n=21), combined anesthesia based on the low-flow desflurane inhalation was applied along with the prolonged epidural analgesia (PEA) with 0.2% ropivacaine solution and VC%CMV respiratory pattern, with PEEP dose escalation using titration, inverted respiratory cycle, and a gradual increase in the respiratory rate. …”
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