Image based quantification method reveals differential patterns of lip desquamation associated with age and sex by Hanji Kim, Jung Yeon Seo, Sangseob Leem, Seung Won You, Yunkwan Kim, Nae Gyu Kang

“…It is notable that the most pronounced differences between sexes were only observed in individuals in their 20s (p < 0.001). …”
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IoST-Enabled Robotic Arm Control and Abnormality Prediction Using Minimal Flex Sensors and Gaussian Mixture Models by Tajim Md. Niamat Ullah Akhund, Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh, Isabel De La Torre Diez, Manal Gafar, Deep H. Ajabani, Osama Alfarraj, Amr Tolba, Henry Fabian-Gongora, Luis Alonso Dzul Lopez

“…This system utilizes four flex sensors strategically placed on the most flexible fingers across both hands to control a Six-DoF robotic arm, offering a novel interface for those with limited mobility. …”
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The Prevalence and Predictors of Digital Proxy Behavior in the United States: Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Pin Sym Foong, Camellia Zakaria, Pavithren Pakianathan, Andrew Ian-Hong Phua, Gerald CH Koh

“…ConclusionsInformal access practices are widespread and pose potential risks to vulnerable adults. Although most proxies used formal access when available, a significant portion have used insecure, informal methods. …”
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Watercress-derived glucosinolates as potential allosteric PTP1B inhibitors: a dual in silico and in vitro study on insulin signaling modulation by Noha A. Ahmed, Ahmed A. Allam, Hassan A. Rudayni, Fahad M. Alshabrmi, Faris F. Aba Alkhayl, Doaa A. Abdelrheem, Al Mokhtar Lamsabhi, Sarah I. Othman, Emadeldin M. Kamel

“…Potential Energy Landscape (PEL) analysis further confirmed that these two compounds occupied the most stable low-energy conformational states, reinforcing their favorable binding to PTP1B. …”
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Disulfidptosis-related gene SLC3A2: a novel prognostic biomarker in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Xinyi Zhang, Yiqi Lin, Liang Shi, Aixia Zhai, Chao Wu, Qian-Ying Zhu

“…IntroductionNasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), one of the most common malignancies of the head and neck, is characterised by a complex pathogenesis and an unfavourable prognosis. …”
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MICROPOLARIZATION IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTELY DEVELOPED VERTIGO by E. V. Shevchenko, D. V. Baymuratova, G. R. Ramazanov, S. S. Petrikov

“…Background Vertigo is the most common complaints addressed to a neurologist. …”
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Synthesis and Insecticidal Activity of Novel Camptothecin Derivatives Containing Analogs of Chrysanthemic Acid Moieties by Li DENG, Lan ZHANG, Li-dong CAO, Ru-liang XIE, Yan-ning ZHANG, Wei-zhi HE, Hong-yun JIANG

“…Compound 2a was also found to be the most effective cytotoxic compound to the tested insect cell lines, IOZCAS-Spex-II, which were established from the fat bodies of S. exigua. …”
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Novel selenoprotein neighborhoods suggest specialized biochemical processes by Daniel H. Haft, Igor Tolstoy

“…Here, we report the discovery of 18 novel selenoprotein families or second selenocysteine sites in previously unrecognized extensions of protein translations. Most of these families had some confounding factors—too small a family, too few selenoproteins in the family, selenocysteine (U) too close to one end, a skew toward understudied or uncultured lineages, and consequently were missed previously. …”
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Integrating climate change and fine-scale habitat suitability to assess amphibian range shift in Mount Emei, China by Zijian Sun, Tian Zhao, Suwen Hu, Guangfeng Chen, Wei Zhu, Xiwen Peng, Shengqi Su

“…Abstract Background Habitat range shifts driven by climate change threaten global biodiversity, with impacts likely to be most pronounced at mountainous regions. As key consumers, amphibians play critical roles in mountainous ecosystems by contributing to nutrient cycling, soil aeration through burrowing activities, and aquatic bioturbation. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variations in Socioeconomic and Hydrological Factors Impacting Water Quality in Thailand’s Major Rivers by Khanittha Uthaipan, Zhongwei Yuan, Yangyang Zhao, Wissarut Intararuang, Varintha Vasinamekhin, Chalermrat Sangmanee, Somkiat Khokiattiwong, Minhan Dai

“…During this period, socioeconomic development, characterized by a 2.8% population increase, 6.1% gross domestic product growth, and 9.4% expansion of built-up areas, was most pronounced in the lower Chao Phraya River basin. …”
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Prediction of barite scale formation and inhibition in hydrocarbon reservoirs using AI modeling: Focus on different optimization algorithms by Ouafa Belkacem, Ahmed Rezrazi, Kamel Aizi, Lokmane Abdelouahed, Maamar Laidi, Abdelhafid Touil, Leila Cherifi, Salah Hanini

“…The ELM model emerged as the most precise (RMSE = 0.0005, R² = 0.999), closely followed by the SVR-PSO model (RMSE = 0.0008, R² = 0.999). …”
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Exploring public preferences and demand for ovarian cancer screening: a discrete choice experiment by Rebekah Hall, Anne E. Spencer, Abigail Lloyd, Willie Hamilton, Antonieta Medina-Lara

“…Ovarian cancer deaths (0.42, [95% CI: 0.40 – 0.44]) was the most important attribute overall, followed by the rate of false positive results (0.30, [95% CI: 0.30-0.30]). …”
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Resilience of Neural Networks Underlying the Stroop Effect in the Aftermath of Severe COVID-19: fMRI Pilot Study by Valérie Beaud, Nicolas Farron, Eleonora Fornari, Vincent Dunet, Sonia Crottaz-Herbette, Stephanie Clarke

“…In controls, the Stroop effect yielded an increase in activity in prefrontal, cingulate and parieto-temporal clusters as well as in the nucleus accumbens during the first part, and the activity receded during the second part in most regions. Two distinct response profiles were found among patients: (i) a Stroop effect-linked increase during the first part followed by a partial decrease during the second part, as in healthy subjects; and (ii) a weak or absent Stroop effect increase during the first part followed by a partial increase during the second part. …”
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scE2EGAE: enhancing single-cell RNA-Seq data analysis through an end-to-end cell-graph-learnable graph autoencoder with differentiable edge sampling by Shuo Wang, Yuanning Liu, Hao Zhang, Zhen Liu

“…The results show that, on the scRNA-Seq data denoising task, scE2EGAE outperforms most of the methods, proving that it can learn cell-to-cell graphs containing real information of cell-to-cell relationships. …”
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Bizarre behavior during intracarotid sodium amytal testing (Wada test): are they predictable? Reações bizarras durante o teste do amital sódico intracarotídeo (TASI ou Teste de Wad... by Luciano de Paola, Maria Joana Mäder, Francisco M.B. Germiniani, Patrícia Coral, Jorge A.A. Zavala, Djon J. Watzo, Jorge Kanegusuku, Carlos E.S. Silvado, Lineu C. Werneck

“…Even though it may last several minutes, in most cases it is subtle and easily manageable. We report a series of patients in whom those reactions were unusually bizarre, including agitation and aggression. …”
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Clinical profile and liver function assessment in children with typhoid fever by Ahmed Abdul Hadi Mohsen, Ghada Ali Yaqoob, Faris M. Al-Haris, Alaa Jumaah Manji Nasrawi

“…All patients presented with fever, 25 (58.1 %) with anorexia, 22 (51.2 %) with abdominal pain, 17 (39.5 %) with headache, 14 (32.6 %) with vomiting, and other symptoms were less frequent. Regarding signs, most patients had hepatomegaly — 19 (44.2 %), 12 (27.9 %) were toxic looking, abdominal tenderness was detected in 10 (23.3 %) children, splenomegaly in 7 (16.3 %), edema in 2 (4.7 %), jaundice in 2 (4.7 %), and only 1 (2.3 %) patient had skin rash. …”
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Investigating the efficacy of bioactive compounds from selected plant extracts against Gibberella fujikuroi species complex associated with damping off disease in sweet corn by Alyaa Abd Ali, Ayoob Obaid Alfalahi, Aalaa Khudhair Hassan, Ahlam Khalofah, Eilyn Mena, Abdelfattah A. Dababat, Fouad Mokrini

“…., Oxalis pes-caprae L. and Ducrosia ismaelis was conducted using GC-MS analysis. The most abundant bioactive compounds in the three selected extracts (E. vesicaria, O. pes-caprae L. and D. ismaelis) were 1-eicosanol, (Z)6,(Z)9-Pentadecadien-1-ol and n-Hexadecanoic acid, and Nonadecane, respectively. …”
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The Possibilities of Thromboelastography in Assessing Safety of Neuraxial Blocks in Gestational Thrombocytopenia (Clinical Study) by E. N. Plakhotina, T. N. Belousova, N. B. Kuzina, A. N. Kuzovlev, E. V. Bryantsev

“…Gestational thrombocytopenia (GT) is the most common type of thrombocytopenia during pregnancy. …”
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Trastuzumab deruxtecan versus trastuzumab emtansine for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 positive metastatic breast cancer: cost-effectiveness analysis from Iranian experie... by Neda Yaghoubi, Behzad Fatemi, Razieh Ahmadi, Yalda Metghalchi, Bita Shahrami, Mohammad Vaezi, Soheila Rezaei

“…One-way sensitivity analysis identified the unit price of T-DXd as the most influential parameter. PSA results indicated that T-DXd has a 52% probability of being cost-effective. …”
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Genetic landscape of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Hong Kong Chinese population by Derek P. H. Lee, Derek P. H. Lee, Ye Cao, Lilei Zhang

“…We aim to characterize the genetic landscape of HCM in patients from Hong Kong Chinese population.MethodsFrom March 2023 to March 2024, fifty-three unrelated patients with an unequivocal clinical diagnosis of HCM were enrolled at a single tertiary center in Hong Kong and underwent genetic testing using a standardized 19-gene panel.ResultsIn this cohort study, we identified 13 patients (24.5%) with a predominant pathogenic or likely pathogenic (P/LP) variant and 12 patients (22.6%) with a predominant variant of unknown significance (VUS). Most of the P/LP variants identified were in MYBPC3 (46.2%, n = 6) or MYH7 (38.5%, n = 5). …”
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