Assessing the location potential for tourism development of traditional villages in Sichuan province, China by Jun Xia, Mingyan Deng, Linfu Zhu

“…Low-potential villages (LPTD ≤ 0.2523) are mostly found in the northern part of northwest Sichuan, the northern part of northeast Sichuan, and the Panxi area, with low economic development levels and weak transportation infrastructure. …”
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Economic burden of systemic sclerosis: systematic review by D. L. Klabukova, V. S. Krysanova, T. N. Ermolaeva, M. V. Davydovskaya, K. A. Kokushkin

“…The cost structure was dominated by direct medical costs for hospitalization and drug therapy and indirect costs were mostly associated with the loss of productivity and early retirement. …”
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Improved mapping of highland bamboo forests using Sentinel-2 time series and machine learning in Google Earth Engine by Dagnew Yebeyen, Binyam Tesfaw Hailu, Worku Zewdie, Temesgen Abera, Gudeta W. Sileshi, Melaku Getachew, Sileshi Nemomissa

“…The highland bamboo coverage (91 km2) in the Andracha district provided valuable insights. Bamboo stands were mostly distributed in the southern and southeastern parts of the district. …”
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Mental Health Providers’ Challenges and Solutions in Prescribing Over Telemedicine: Content Analysis of Semistructured Interviews by Julia Ivanova, Mollie R Cummins, Hiral Soni, Triton Ong, Brian E Bunnell, Esteban López, Brandon M Welch

“…ResultsParticipants were typically male (11/16, 69%), provided care mostly or completely over telemedicine (11/16, 69%), and were psychiatrists (8/16, 50%) or other physician (3/16, 19%). …”
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Carbohydrate Determinants of Chorionic Villi Glycoconjugates of Human Embryos, Lost due to Sporadic and Recurrent Miscarriages by Zastavnyy I., Yashchenko A., Lutsyk A.

“…Approximately 15.0% of pregnancies are interrupted, and mostly (three quarters of cases) in the first trimester. …”
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Measuring mortality due to HIV-associated tuberculosis among adults in South Africa: Comparing verbal autopsy, minimally-invasive autopsy, and research data. by Aaron S Karat, Mpho Tlali, Katherine L Fielding, Salome Charalambous, Violet N Chihota, Gavin J Churchyard, Yasmeen Hanifa, Suzanne Johnson, Kerrigan McCarthy, Neil A Martinson, Tanvier Omar, Kathleen Kahn, Daniel Chandramohan, Alison D Grant

“…Verbal autopsy (VA) is used to estimate cause of death (CoD) patterns but has mostly been validated against a suboptimal gold standard for HIV and TB. …”
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The Analytics of Additional Professional Education for Teachers in Pre-Professional Classes in Moscow Schools by E. Y. Petryaeva, N. S. Ageeva, Yu. I. Sumenkova, M. N. Fedorovskaya

“…Results. 72.8% of teachers of pre-professional classes were involved in professional development programmes, 21.8% of teachers – professional retraining programmes during the period of their work at school. 24% of teachers are continuously engaged in professional development. Mostly engaged in TPD are teachers who work at schools top-rated by “The Ranking of schools’ contribution to the quality education of Moscow students”. …”
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Comparative genomics reveals low levels of inter- and intraspecies diversity in the causal agents of dwarf and common bunt of wheat and hint at conspecificity of Tilletia caries an... by Somayyeh Sedaghatjoo, Bagdevi Mishra, Monika K. Forster, Yvonne Becker, Jens Keilwagen, Berta Killermann, Marco Thines, Petr Karlovsky, Wolfgang Maier

“…Less than 0.1% of the protein-coding genes were species-specific and their function remained mostly unknown. Tilletia controversa had the highest intraspecies genetic variation, followed by T. caries and the lowest in T. laevis. …”
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sST2 levels and 3D speckle tracking as predictors of CAD severity in chronic coronary syndrome by Amr Setouhi, K. Maghraby, Nasser Taha, M. Abdelsayed, Mohammed H. Hassan, Hossam Eldin M. Mahmoud

“…Abstract Background Previous studies on the relation of sST2 with atherosclerotic disease mostly focused on the predictive value of sST2 for heart failure. …”
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Rethinking the Teaching of Law by Richard Johnstone

“…Law teaching was carried out mostly by practitioners, and there were very few fulltime academics. …”
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The accuracy of ultrasonography for detection of enlarged parathyroid glands in patients with different forms of hyperparathyroidism by Stefanović Dara, Petrović Milan, Dugonjić Sanja

“…The total number of patients undergoing ultrasonography prior to surgery was 179 and the number of those subjected to scintigraphy, mostly by the 201Tl/99mTc method, was 112. The patients (52 male, 128 female) were divided into the following four groups: group A – patients with primary (p)HPT (n = 78); group B – patients with secondary (s)HPT (n = 47); group C – patients with tertiary (t)HPT (n = 13); group D – patients with unrecognized (u)HPT, but with anamnestic data implying the disease (n = 42). …”
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Evaluation of Soil Moisture Retrievals from a Portable L-Band Microwave Radiometer by Runze Zhang, Abhi Nayak, Derek Houtz, Adam Watts, Elahe Soltanaghai, Mohamad Alipour

“…By comparing PoLRa-based soil moisture retrievals against the simultaneous moisture values obtained by a handheld capacitance probe, the unbiased root mean square error (ubRMSE) and the Pearson correlation coefficient (R) are mostly below 0.05 m³/m³ and above 0.7 for various algorithms adopted here. …”
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Leukopenia and thrombocytopenia in dengue patients presenting in the emergency department of a tertiary center in Nepal: a cross-sectional study by Bibechan Thapa, Prakriti Lamichhane, Trishna Shrestha, Saral Lamichhane, Shreyasi Karki, Sneha Pradhananga, Kabita Hada Batajoo, Prajwal Pudasaini

“…Symptomatic dengue has a wide clinical spectrum ranging from self-limiting infection to severe manifestations, mostly characterized by plasma leakage with or without hemorrhage. …”
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Evidence of microbiome contribution to the escalation of pyrethroid resistance in the major malaria vectors Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles funestus s.s by Fleuriane Metissa Djondji Kamga, Leon M. Jean Mugenzi, Vanessa Brigitte Ngannang-Fezeu, François Sougal Ngambia Freitas, Calmes Ursain Bouaka Tsakeng, Maurice Marcel Sandeu, Magellan Tchouakui, Charles Sinclair Wondji

“…The abundance of Pseudomonas_1 (Log2FC: 4.42, p = 0.0001) and Burkholderia_1 (Log2FC: 4.95, p = 0.001) bacteria were consistently associated with mosquitoes surviving 1X and 10X the diagnostic concentrations of permethrin, respectively, while Serratia_2 bacteria was mostly associated with insecticide susceptibility. …”
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Clinical, microbiological, and laboratory predictors of on- and off-label dalbavancin treatment failure by Maria Mazzitelli, Daniele Mengato, Vincenzo Scaglione, Elisabetta Maria Vittoria Giunco, Elena Barzizza, Luigi Salmaso, Francesca Venturini, Annamaria Cattelan

“…Results: Three hundred fifty-one patients were included, mostly men (60.9 %), median age of 64 years (interquartile range [IQR] = 49.5–75.5), 55.3 % receiving dalbavancin in the emergency department/outpatient setting, and 44.7 % for early discharge, in 54.9 % cases as off-label. …”
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AQP4-IgG NMOSD, MOGAD, and double-seronegative NMOSD: is it possible to depict the antibody subtype using magnetic resonance imaging? by Diego Cardoso Fragoso, Luana Michelli Oliveira de Paula Salles, Samira Luisa Apóstolos Pereira, Dagoberto Callegaro, Douglas Kazutoshi Sato, Carolina de Medeiros Rimkus

“…The MOGAD group had less brain involvement (39.2%) than the NMOSD group (p = 0.002), mostly in the subcortical/juxtacortical, the midbrain, the middle cerebellar peduncle, and the cerebellum. …”
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Receptivity-based uterine fibroid surgery: an updated systematic review of the evidence by Onder Celik, Onder Koc, Arzu Yurci, Aynur Ersahin, Nilufer Celik, Fatma Tanilir, Naziye Gurkan, Ramazan Ozyurt, Mustafa Dogan Ozcil, Bulent Duran, Cihat Unlu

“…Data on whether myomectomy restores impaired receptivity are mostly based on clinical observations, and studies evaluating endometrial receptivity before and after myomectomy are very few. …”
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Comparison of three-bag and single-bag protocols in rapid drug desensitization with chemotherapeutic and biological agents by Ozcan Gul, MD, Makbule Seda Bayrak Durmaz, MD, Selma Yalcın, MD, Aslı Bostanoglu Karacin, MD, Sevim Bavbek, MD

“…The initial severity was mostly grade 2 (n:84,54.9%) or grade 3 (n:50,32.7%). …”
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Temporospatial Variation, Chemical Composition, and Source Resolution of PM2.5 in the Southeastern Taiwan Island by Chung-Shin Yuan, Jun-Hao Ceng, Po-Hsuan Yen, Kuan-Chen Chiang, Yu-Lun Tseng, Kwok-Wai Wong, Ming-Shiou Jeng

“…Trajectory simulation indicated that high PM2.5 concentrations were mostly originated from North and Central China, Japan islands, and Korea Peninsula. …”
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Association between short video exposure and axial length in preschool children: a cross-sectional study by Chenshu LI, Senlin LIN, Sha LUO, Hao CHEN, Yi SUN, Hong JIANG, Yingnan JIA

“…ConclusionsPreschool children are exposed to short videos, mostly children′s programs, non-educational content, and rapidly changing content. …”
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