On the Professional and Personal Networks of a 16th-Century Ottoman Scholar: A Study Based on the Reference Letters Written for Seyfîzâde Ahmed Efendi, the First Professor of Gazan... by Uğur Öztürk, Günhan Börekçi

“…This article delves into a collection of reference letters penned for Seyfîzâde Ahmed Efendi (1562-1613), who assumed the role of the inaugural professor at the madrasa established by Gazanfer Agha, one of the most eminent chief eunuchs of the premodern Ottoman imperial court. …”
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Clinical and pathological features of lymphomas in the breast: a comprehensive multicentric study by Umberto Maccio, Anton Rets, Claudia Grosse, Nicholas Andrew Ferguson, Rupert Langer, Marco Matteo Bühler, Alessandra Gallo, Isabel Witzel, Christine Beham-Schmid, Jann Wieler, Maria Orsaria, Zsuzsanna Varga

“…Secondary breast involvement, observed in 43.5% of cases, displayed a more diverse histological distribution, with follicular lymphoma being the most common subtype. Breast implant-associated lymphomas (BIA-ALCL) constituted 6.5% of cases, exclusively involving anaplastic large cell T-cell lymphoma, ALK-negative. …”
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T-bet syndrome-associated bronchial asthma phenotype by L. N. Sorokina, V. N. Mineev, A. V. Eremeeva, M. A. Nyoma

“…The study of rs324011 polymorphism of STAT6 protein gene in these patients revealed CC and CT genotypes, mostly observed in severe BA. Moreover, they were observed in 100% patients with severe clinical course of BA. …”
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Prediction of the composition of prolonged release tablets based on 4,4'-(propandiamido) sodium dibenzoate using the SeDeM method by Ju. M. Kotsur, Ju. M. Ladytko, I. A. Narkevich, E. V. Flisyuk

“…Direct compression technology is one of the most common tablet technologies. As known, many active pharmaceutical ingredients are not suitable for this technology without the addition of special excipients. …”
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Assessing awareness of colorectal cancer symptoms, risk factors and screening barriers among eligible adults in Jordan: a cross-sectional study by M. S. El Muhtaseb, Aseel Ghanayem, Wa’ad N. Almanaseer, Husam Alshebelat, Rawan Ghanayem, Ghadeer M. Alsheikh, Fahed Al Karmi, Daoud O. Al Aruri

“…Abstract Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most prevalent malignancy in Jordan. Because early detection can greatly improve treatment outcomes, it is crucial to increase awareness of signs and symptoms, risk factors, and the significance of routine CRC screenings. …”
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Investigation of the thermal conductivity of RT58 phase change material during the charging process of a thermal storage tank under natural convection conditions by Giedrė Streckienė, Gustas Viganauskas, Eldar Rynkevič, Artūras Banuškevičius

“…They allow efficient thermal energy storage by using the latent heat that is absorbed or released during the transformation of the aggregate state. One of the most important properties of PCM for efficient heat transfer is the thermal conductivity. …”
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Diagnostics and treatment of peptic ulcer: clinical guidelines of the Russian gastroenterological Association by V. T. Ivashkin, A. A. Sheptulin, I. V. Mayev, Ye. K. Baranskaya, A. S. Trukhmanov, T. L. Lapina, S. G. Burkov, A. V. Kalinin, A. V. Tkachev

“…The PUD continues to remain one of the most widespread digestive disease. Despite a tendency to decrease of hospital admission rate of patients with uncomplicated PUD, increase in complicated forms of disease rate is noted that it is related mainly to the growing intake of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID). …”
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Maximizing multi-source data integration and minimizing the parameters for greenhouse tomato crop water requirement prediction by Xinyue Lv, Youli Li, Lili Zhangzhong, Chaoyang Tong, Yibo Wei, Guangwei Li, Yingru Yang

“…Subsequently, Spearman correlation analysis was utilized to select the combination of canopy coverage and environmental data, followed by the random forest feature importance ranking method to identify the most optimal feature variables. We constructed average fusion, weighted fusion, and stacking fusion models based on RandomForest, LightGBM, and CatBoost machine learning algorithms to accurately predict the water requirements of greenhouse tomato crops. …”
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Association of medication adherence and glycemic control with pain severity among patients with diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study from Palestine by Bushra Elayyan, Dania Abuhalima, Samah W. Al-Jabi, Sa’ed H. Zyoud

“…Conclusions Pain severity was most strongly associated with pain interference, educational level, ankle pain, and the use of orphenadrine. …”
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Trends in atrial fibrillation and flutter mortality associated with disorders of thyroid gland in the United States from 1999 to 2020 by Shahzaib Ahmed, Shoaib Ahmad, Hamza Ashraf, Eeman Ahmad, Umar Akram, Abbas H. Mallick, Irfan Ullah, Raheel Ahmed, Chadi Alraies, Gregg C. Fonarow

“…Despite being a well‐established risk factor, most studies have primarily examined prevalence, comorbidities, and treatment patterns with little to no research on mortality trends for this association. …”
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Assessment of the Quality of Smartphone-Based Applications and Games for Teaching Medical Terminology Using the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) by Seyyedeh Fatemeh Mousavi Baigi, Reyhaneh Norouzi Aval, Masoumeh Sarbaz, Khalil Kimiafar

“…Background and Aim: Proficiency in medical terminology is a basic competency of most medical students, which ensures communication with other healthcare providers. …”
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A novel hybrid fuzzy analytical hierarchy process–game theory model for prioritizing factors affecting the deterioration of water pipelines by Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader, Tarek Zayed, Nehal Elshaboury

“…It was also inferred that water pressure (6.64%) is the most significant factor influencing water pipe deterioration followed by internal corrosion and protection method (6.11%), and then soil corrosivity (6.05%). …”
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Targeted next-generation sequencing of 50 cancer-related genes in Japanese patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma by Takafumi Nakagaki, Miyuki Tamura, Kenta Kobashi, Akina Omori, Ryota Koyama, Masashi Idogawa, Kazuhiro Ogi, Hiroyoshi Hiratsuka, Takashi Tokino, Yasushi Sasaki

“…Of the 80 oral squamous cell carcinoma specimens from Japanese patients, including formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples, 56 specimens presented at least one somatic mutation among the 50 investigated genes, and 17 of these samples showed multiple gene somatic mutations. TP53 was the most commonly mutated gene (50.0%), followed by CDKN2A (16.3%), PIK3CA (7.5%), HRAS (5.0%), MET (2.5%), and STK11 (2.5%). …”
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A novel adaptive multi-scale wavelet Galerkin method for solving fuzzy hybrid differential equations by V. Murugesh, M. Priyadharshini, Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Sultan Mesfer Aldossary, Shakti Kundu, Saksham Malik, Kedir Botamo Adem, Arshad Hashmi

“…The selective refinement approach enables the method to utilise minimal computational efforts where they are most needed, resulting in a significant order of magnitude reduction in computational cost with no loss in solution accuracy. …”
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Short-term outcome of physiotherpy and surgical treatment of obstetrical brachial plexus palsy by Krishna Priya Das, Rumpa Mani Chowdhury, Sk. Murad Ahmed, Md. Moniruzaman, Mohammod Shahidullah

“…Conclusion: Treatment initiated within six months have ensured nearly full recovery of most upper trunk and incomplete OBPP cases, but outcomes of severely affected lower trunk and panpalsy cases was poor. …”
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Persistent COVID-19 symptoms and associated factors in a tertiary hospital in Thailand by Dujrath Somboonviboon, Pattanapol Aramareerak, Amornchai Lertamornpong, Kunchit Piyavechviratana, Pattarin Pirompanich

“…Conclusions: There was a high prevalence of persistent COVID-19 symptoms. The most common symptom was dyspnea. Female gender and oxygen supplementation were independent associated factors. …”
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The first UK case of congenital Zika syndrome by Dominic A Haigh, Lynne Warrander, Philip Bullen, Philip Veal, Christina Petridou

“…Background: Following the 2015–2016 Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas and Caribbean, cases have globally declined but persist in endemic regions like the Americas and Southeast Asia. While most infections are mild or asymptomatic, ZIKV during pregnancy can cause congenital Zika syndrome (CZS), leading to severe fetal malformations, including microcephaly. …”
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Machine learning models based on routine blood and biochemical test data for diagnosis of neurological diseases by Wanshan Ning, Zhicheng Wang, Ying Gu, Lindan Huang, Shuai Liu, Qun Chen, Yunyun Yang, Guolin Hong

“…The nervous system disease prediction model constructed by XGBoost possessed the best performance (AUC: 0.9782). And the most models of distinguishing various nervous system diseases also had good performance, the model performance of distinguishing neuromyelitis optica from other nervous system diseases was the best (AUC: 0.9095). …”
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A Lightweight Method for Detecting Bearing Surface Defects Based on Deep Learning and Ontological Reasoning by Xiaolin Shi, Haisong Xu, Han Zhang, Yi Li, Xinshuo Li, Fan Yang

“…Aiming at the different sizes and textures of the defect types on the surface of the outer ring of the bearing, and the fact that most of the target detection algorithms relying on deep learning show low speed and low precision in the detection of defects on the surface of the bearing, this paper presents a lightweight method for detecting the defects on the surface of the bearing based on deep learning and ontological reasoning. …”
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Treatment of Early Cesarean Scar Pregnancy with Double Balloon Catheter: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Irene Passerini, Francesco Marasciulo, Federico Prefumo, Anna Fichera, Nicola Fratelli, Filippo Alberto Ferrari, Federico Ferrari, Franco Odicino

“…The gestational age at treatment ranges from 5 + 0 to 10 + 1 gestational weeks, with variable human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) levels (433–64.700 IU/mL). Most of the patients (73%) received adjuvant systemic methotrexate (MTX) and the catheter dwell time ranges from 1 to 5 days. …”
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