Underlying Diagnosis of Food Bolus Obstruction Acute Admissions to Otorhinolaryngology: A Shift to Provide the Best Care as per the Current Guidelines by Rasads Misirovs, Anna Kamusella, Michael Miller, Samit Majumdar

“…In the literature, eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is the most common cause of FBO. We analysed ENT FBO admissions and interventions used in our hospital to investigate for EoE. …”
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Analysis of different biological matrices for glucocorticoid detection in wild Cervidae and Bovidae from Europe and North America: a review by Valentina Barukčić, Fiammetta Berlinguer, Valeria Pasciu, Francesca Daniela Sotgiu, Nikica Šprem

“…Results We reviewed the scientific literature published between 1979 and 2024 and found 77 papers studying the correlations between different stressors and glucocorticoid levels in wild ungulates. Most researchers used feces as the matrix of choice for analyzing glucocorticoid levels as well as enzymatic immunoassay (EIA) as the analytical method. …”
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Optimization and Analysis of Central bank Losses for Oil Exporting Economy, Application of DSGE Model (Case study of Iranian Economy) by Marzieh Asadi Asad Abad, Seyyed Abbas Najafizadeh, Baytollh Akbari Moghaddam

“…One of the most important macroeconomic challenges has always been creating and implementing an economic policy, and it continues to be a key element of planner's decisions. …”
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Energy-Efficient Route and Velocity Planning for Electric Vehicles: A Hierarchical Eco-Driving Framework Integrating Traffic and Road Information by Dong Xie, Jianhua Guo, Yu Jiang, Zhuoran Hou, Jintao Deng

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method computes in less than 2 s for most scenarios and can effectively save energy and time by over 10%. …”
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<p><strong>Population parameters of <em>Tetranychus turkestani</em> (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) on fourteen melon genotypes</strong></p> by Saeid Javadi Khederi, Mohammad Khanjani, Hassan Babolhavaeji, Mohammad Ali Soleimani, Bahman Asali Fayaz

“…The comparison and cluster analysis of biological parameters of T. turkestani on different melon genotypes demonstrated that CMC-132, Ananasi and CMI-167 were the most resistant genotypes to this pest.  …”
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Autophagy modulates Arabidopsis male gametophyte fertility and controls actin organization by He Yan, Zhen Lu, Xiaojuan Du, Zhengtao You, Mingkang Yang, Nianle Li, Xuequan Li, Zailue Ni, Hong Wu, Xiangfeng Wang, Lifeng Zhao, Hao Wang

“…However, autophagy is thought to be functionally dispensable in Arabidopsis thaliana since most of the ATG mutants lack severe growth and reproductive defects. …”
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Deeplex Sequencing of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Strains Isolated in Kosovo by Rrezarta Bajrami, Alina Minias, Greta Lila

“…CONCLUSIONS: We found that all analyzed M. tuberculosis strains belong to the most prevalent in Europe lineage 4, and five out of 18 of them were drug-resistant. …”
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Today's Biothreats – Where the Past Predictions Meet the Future by J. Lakota

“…The technologies that, most probably, can be used for the development of new means of biological destruction are: binary bioweapons – these are two-component systems that are relatively safe to handle but become deadly when the two components come together on deployment; designer genes – where specific unnatural gene sequences are built into viruses or other life forms to incorporate into the genome of the unsuspecting host, which later becomes the victim; gene therapy – today a medical (partial) reality; the technology that allows medicine to repair or replace defective genes in a diseased individual might be subverted to introduce pathogenic sequences into healthy individuals; stealth viruses – viruses that could be fashioned by a researcher to infect the host but remain silent until activated by some physiological or environmental trigger; host-swapping diseases – new zoonotic agents which might be developed specifically for bioweapon purposes by modifying existing pathogens to seek human hosts; designer diseases – where the detailed knowledge of biochemical signaling pathways could conceivably be used to create designer diseases. …”
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Robot Floor-Tiling Control Method Based on Finite-State Machine and Visual Measurement in Limited FOV by Shun Wang, Huixing Zhou, Zhongyue Zhang, Xiaoyu Zheng, Yannan Lv

“…In recent years, accelerative aging society is meeting the short supply of young and middle-aged labor. Particularly, most young people are reluctant to work in the construction industry, which has caused the labor cost of floor tiling to rise year by year. …”
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Prognostic Value of Multiple Manual Segmentation Methods for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma with ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT by Andrej Doma, Andrej Studen, Barbara Jezeršek Novaković

“…Although PET-derived MTV metrics provide prognostic value in univariate analysis, threshold selection has minimal impact, and their added value is limited when combined with IPI, reinforcing its role as the most reliable survival predictor in DLBCL.…”
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Characteristics of Type 2 Diabetes with Ketosis in Baoshan, Yunnan of China by Shichun Du, Xia Yang, Degang Shi, Qing Su

“…The mean HbA1c (13.3±3.1%, P=0.01), fasting plasma glucose (16.9±6 mmol/L, P<0.0001), and plasma triglyceride (4.0±4.0 mmol/L, P<0.0001) in T2D patients with ketosis were significantly higher than ordinary T2D patients without ketosis. Infections were the most common inducements in T2D patients with ketosis. …”
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Precise Crop Pest Detection Based on Co-Ordinate-Attention-Based Feature Pyramid Module by Chenrui Kang, Lin Jiao, Kang Liu, Zhigui Liu, Rujing Wang

“…In this area, deep learning technologies have come to represent the method with the most potential. However, for small-sized crop pests, recent deep-learning-based detection attempts have not accomplished accurate recognition and detection due to the challenges posed by feature extraction and positive and negative sample selection. …”
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Progress and Challenges toward the Development of Vaccines against Avian Infectious Bronchitis by Faruku Bande, Siti Suri Arshad, Mohd Hair Bejo, Hassan Moeini, Abdul Rahman Omar

“…Recombinant DNA vaccines have also been enhanced to target multiple serotypes and their efficacy has been improved using delivery vectors, nanoadjuvants, and in ovo vaccination approaches. Although most recombinant IB DNA vaccines are yet to be licensed, it is expected that these types of vaccines may hold sway as future vaccines for inducing a cross protection against multiple IBV serotypes.…”
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High-throughput microRNA sequencing in the developing branchial arches suggests miR-92b-3p regulation of a cardiovascular gene network by Sian Goldsworthy, Marta Losa, Nicoletta Bobola, Sam Griffiths-Jones

“…We identified 550 expressed microRNAs, of which approximately 20% demonstrate significant differential expression across BA domains. The three most posterior BAs and the connecting outflow tract (PBA/OFT) express genes important for cardiovascular development. …”
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Essential Oil from Hibiscus Flowers through Advanced Microwave-Assisted Hydrodistillation and Conventional Hydrodistillation by Hesham H. A. Rassem, Abdurahman H. Nour, Gomaa A.M. Ali, Najat Masood, Amal H. Al-Bagawi, Tahani Y. A. Alanazi, Sami Magam, Mohammed A. Assiri

“…Extraction time and solvent polarity were the most critical factors. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to investigate the surface morphologies of raw powdered hibiscus flowers (not exposed to any pretreatment) and pretreated powdered hibiscus flowers (exposed to methanol absorption for 60 minutes prior to extraction). …”
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Strength Calculation of the Coupling of the Floor Slab and the Monolithic Reinforced Concrete Frame Column by the Finite Element Method by P. P. Gaidzhurov, V. A. Volodin

“…An engineering technique has been developed for numerical analysis of the stress-strain state of the coupling of the floor and the column of the reinforced concrete monolithic frame under static loading. The most accurate result was provided by a finite element model constructed using beam finite elements as reinforcing rods.   …”
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Association between Tooth Agenesis and Skeletal Malocclusions by Ana Maria Guerra Costa, Mariana Trevizan, Mírian Aiko Nakane Matsumoto, Raquel Assed Bezerra da Silva, Lea Assed Bezerra da Silva, Karla Carpio Horta, Fabio Lourenço Romano, Paulo Nelson-Filho, Erika Calvano Küchler

“…There was no difference between genders (P = 0.27) nor mean age (P = 0.16). The most prevalent skeletal malocclusion was Class I (63.11%), followed by Class II (25.94%), and Class III (10.95%). …”
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Uncertainty-driven active learning in a deep semi-supervised framework for WCE image classification by Prabhanantha Kumar Muruganantham, Senthil Murugan Balakrishnan

“…To reduce model uncertainty, batch acquisition selects the most informative samples from an unlabelled data pool based on minimum redundancy and maximum predictive entropy. …”
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Is anybody ‘Learning’ from deaths? Sequential content and reflexive thematic analysis of national statutory reporting within the NHS in England 2017–2020 by Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, S Ramani Moonesinghe, Zoe Brummell, Dorit Braun, Zainab Hussein

“…NHS Secondary Care Trusts (NSCTs) are legally required to publish quantitative and qualitative information relating to deaths due to problems in care within their organisation, including any learning derived from these deaths.Method All LfDs report from 2017 to 2020 were reviewed and evaluated, quantitatively and qualitatively using sequential content and reflexive thematic analysis, through a critical realist lens to understand what we can learn from LfDs reporting and the mechanisms enabling or preventing engagement with the LfDs programme.Results The majority of NSCTs have identified learning, actions and, to a lesser degree, assessed the impact of these actions. The most frequent learning relates to missed/delayed/uncoordinated care and communication/cultural issues. …”
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Changes in the microvasculature with active retinopathy of prematurity as evidenced by OCT angiography by I. G. Trifanenkova, A. V. Tereshchenko, E. V. Erokhina

“…We revealed gross structural and microvascular retinal pathology in children with ROP, which was more pronounced in children with an unfavorable course of the disease. Of these, the most affected were children with a shorter gestational period, i. e , more immature. …”
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