Picking up litter when walking outdoors: People engage in physical activity for planetary health by Stephanie Schoeppe, Emily Bryson, Rebecca Williams, Sally Symons, Tayla Hall

“…In the web-based Litter Walker Survey conducted in 2021/2022, we investigated Australian adults aged 18+ years (N = 547, mean age: 51 years, 86% female) who pick up litter when walking outdoors in terms of litter walking behaviour, motivations to start picking up litter, and individual and social factors associated with litter walking. Findings showed that most participants (80%) regularly engaged in litter walking (≥1–3 times per week). …”
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Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin type B (SEB) and alpha-toxin induced apoptosis in KB cell line by Milad Heidari1*, Abbas Doosti1

“…Introduction: According to global cancer statistics, oral cancer is the 11th most prevalent cancer worldwide. Despite the availability of numerous modern treatments for oral cancer, a complete reduction of mortality rates has not been achieved. …”
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Zooplankton of Bahía de Los Ángeles (Gulf of California) in the Context of Other Coastal Regions of the Northeast Pacific by Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Guillermo Ortuño-Manzanares, José Luis Cadena-Ramírez

“…They showed strong seasonal fluctuations, reaching a third of the total zooplankton from spring to autumn, with <i>Penilia avirostris</i> being the most abundant species. These results are compared with other temperate and tropical coastal locations of the eastern Pacific.…”
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Research of the polyethylene packaging layer structure change in contact with a food product at exposure to ultraviolet radiation by O. B. Fedotova, N. S. Pryanichnikova

“…The sanitary and hygienic safety of modern packaging is determined by the layer of packaging material in direct contact with the food product. This layer in most cases is a synthetic polymer of the polyolefin class — low density polyethylene. …”
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Métodos de geração de colunas para problemas de atribuição Column generation methods for assignment problems by Edson Luiz França Senne, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Lorena, Silvely Nogueira de Almeida Salomão

“…<br>This work presents column generation methods for two important assignment problems: the Generalized Assignment Problem (GAP) and the problem of assigning cells to switches in cellular mobile networks (PACS). GAP is one of the most representative combinatorial optimisation problems and can be stated as the problem of optimising the assignment of n jobs to m agents, such that each job is assigned to exactly one agent and the resource capacity of each agent is not violated. …”
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Dry eye disease and associated factors in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan by Q. B. Maskati, Sh. Kumar, V. Chaubey, N. Katakwar, S. Sharma

“…Doctors from both countries considered hydrating property of artificial tears to be the most important ones for the management of DE.…”
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Is Diet Perceived as a Cancer Risk Factor? Lay Perceptions in a Representative French Sample by Kristopher Lamore, Valentyn Fournier, Iris Cervenka, Bernard Srour, Jérôme Foucaud

“…Some foods were considered by most participants to increase cancer risk (ultra‐processed food, processed meats, and red meat), whereas others (fruit and vegetables) were perceived as decreasing cancer risk or were thought either to decrease risk or to have no effect (organic foods and pulses). …”
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Climate change of ZayandehRood watershed based on IPCC scenarios and Köppen–Geiger classification by Mojgan Mirzaei, Bryce Lawrence, Amir Masoud Samani Majd

“…The results show that in all scenarios and time periods, Pixel 8, which is located near Fereydunshahr, will have the most changes. However, the extent of these changes is more evident in A1F1 and A2 scenarios, which include climate change from Dsa to Csa in both A1F1 and A2 scenarios from 2001-2025 to 2025-2050, and from Csa to Bsk from 2051-2075 to 2076-2100. …”
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Unpacking the relationship between task complexity and driving risk: Insights from a UK on-road trial by Evita Papazikou, Rachel Talbot, Laurie Brown, Sally Maynard, Ashleigh Filtness

“…This study provides insights to inform efforts to mitigate risk exposure through design and training interventions, targeting the most predictive factors linked to task complexity. …”
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Quality of randomized clinical trials published by plastic surgeons: a long-term follow-up study by Thiago Bezerra Morais, Daniela Francescato Veiga, Miguel Sabino, Lydia Masako Ferreira

“…According to an assessment conducted using the Delphi List, there was an improvement in the items "most important characteristics of the prognosis" (p < 0.001), "use of an independent evaluator" (p = 0.0029), and "measures of variability and estimation of points for the primary variable" (p = 0.0057) compared to the 1966-2003 assessment ; there was no difference in the assessment of the same items from 2004-2008. …”
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Mechanotransduction-related ferroptosis: Enhancing boron neutron capture therapy efficacy in glioblastoma using a spheroid model by Lin-Sheng Yu, Jia-Jun Liu, Ming-Hung Yang, Yu-chun Lin, Chi-Shuo Chen

“…Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) shows potential for the treatment of glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of primary brain tumor. Recently, ferroptosis, a cell death triggered by phospholipid peroxidation, has been identified as an important process in tumor therapy. …”
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Q fever endocarditis: a diagnostic challenge in a complex cardiological case by Riccardo Rovelli, Elisa Brangi, Francesca Capasso, Martina Mazzini, Michela Raffo, Enrico Vizzardi

“…Although it is a rare condition, it is crucial to recognize, as it represents the most common cause of endocarditis with persistently negative blood cultures. …”
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Association of Self-Perceived Health with Social and Psychological Environment, the Mode of Life and Cardiovascular Risk Markers in Middle-Aged Men – Residents of Moscow by M. B. Kotova, V. B. Rozanov, E. I. Ivanova

“…Material wealth influenced systolic BP level, the waist/hips circumference ratio, a number of cigarettes per day and thus the SPH status. The most significant determinants of SPH were the level of personal happiness, nervous stress at work, support by family, sports activities, working conditions, total cholesterol level, satisfaction with own work.Conclusion. …”
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Silent Killers: The Alarming Impact of Microplastics Polystyrene on Catfish Liver Health by Haidar Rafli Putra Suhardi, Moch Irfan Hadi, Atiqoh Zummah

“…Results and Discussion: As determined by the analysis of variance (ANOVA) statistical test (P>0.05), it showed that MP-PS had a significant effect on liver damage in catfish, resulting in the most severe liver damage and the least damage depending on the amount of MP-PS given to the fish. …”
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Efficacy and safety of rituximab in the treatment of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis by David Jayne, Rachel B Jones, Vítor Teixeira, Aladdin J Mohammad, Rona Smith

“…Rituximab is a licensed therapy for granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis but there is limited experience of rituximab in EGPA.Methods EGPA patients from a tertiary centre who received rituximab for mostly refractory EGPA or in whom cyclophosphamide was contra indicated were studied. …”
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Systematic Review of Pre-Clinical Systems Using Artificial Microenvironments and Anti-Migratory Drugs to Control Migration of Glioblastoma Cells by Hana Selvi, Anke Brüning-Richardson, Davide Danovi

“… Abstract Background Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most prevalent primary brain tumour, with an incidence of 2 per 100,000. …”
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Assessing the transferability of BERT to patient safety: classifying multiple types of incident reports by Ying Wang, Farah Magrabi

“…The default parameters of BERT were found to be the most optimal configuration. For incident type, fine-tuned BERT achieved high F-scores above 89% across all test datasets (CNNs=81%). …”
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Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in subsoils after 20 years of added precipitation in a Mediterranean grassland by L. M. Wahab, S. L. Kim, A. A. Berhe

“…Subsoils are large carbon (C) reservoirs; however, most studies that have investigated precipitation effects on soil organic matter (SOM) have primarily focused on near-surface soils. …”
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BiLSTM-Based Parallel CNN Models With Attention and Ensemble Mechanism for Twitter Sentiment Analysis by Anas W. Abulfaraj

“…To evaluate the validity of the developed model, experiments were performed on two sentiment-labeled datasets commonly used, and we compared it to some of the most efficient baseline models in the field of sentiment analysis and achieved better results.…”
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Bibliometric Analysis of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Research in South Korea by Geunin Lee, Young Ae Kang, Youngmok Park

“…The National Research Foundation of Korea was the most significant funding source, supporting 181 studies (32.5% of funded articles). …”
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