Prevalence of Partial Edentulism and Awareness to Restore the Same among the Patients Visiting a Tertiary Dental Care Centre in Ambala, Haryana, India: A Cross-sectional Study by Satvika Prasad, Sandeep Garg

“…The major reason for tooth loss was caries, followed by caries coupled with periodontal problems. Most of the partially edentulous patients were not using any prosthesis and the major reasons for this were a lack of awareness, the cost of treatment, or the patients not feeling any requirement for a prosthesis. …”
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Prehabilitation before pancreatic surgery in the Netherlands: insights from a nationwide survey among pancreatic surgeons by Lis S. M. Hoeijmakers, Heleen Driessens, Carlijn I. Buis, Steven W. M. Olde Damink, Joost M. Klaase, Marcel den Dulk

“…Prehabilitation programs included multiple domains, whereby physical fitness and nutrition were most often included and mental resilience was the least often included domain. …”
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Prevalence and spatio-demographic variability of nutrition-related health issues in Kiribati by Christopher D. Golden, Jessica Zamborain-Mason, Katherine L. Seto, Jessica A. Gephart, Jacob G. Eurich, Whitney Friedman, Heather M. Kelahan, Helen Murdoch, Kaaro Neeti, Michael K. Sharp, Eretii Timeon, Rosemary Tekoaua, Aritita Tekaieti, Julien Ayroles

“…Geographic analysis showed that total cholesterol and diabetes varied most across islands, while obesity and other markers varied more at the household level. …”
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Motivations and Barriers to Implementing Produce Food Safety Practices by Gregory Astill, D. Adeline Yeh, Donna Clements, Gretchen Wall, Suzanne Thornsbury, Elizabeth Newbold, Travis Minor, Christopher Callahan, Elizabeth A. Bihn

“…Time and financial constraints were the most commonly reported barriers across all food safety practices, with the impact varying depending on the specific practice. …”
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CO44 | First interlaboratory validation workshop of immunofluorescence microscopy on the peripheral blood smear for recognizing patients with inherited platelet disorders

“…Seven out of seven Laboratories correctly predicted the diagnosis of MYH9-related thrombocytopenia, Glanzmann thrombasthenia, and GFI1B-related thrombocytopenia; 6/7 of Bernard-Soulier syndrome, delta-storage pool disorder, and TUBB1-related thrombocytopenia; 5/7 of GATA1-related thrombocytopenia. Moreover, most of the participating groups correctly recognized the healthy controls, which only in five cases were wrongly reported as possible pathological samples. …”
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Introduction, establishment, and distribution of Aedes aegypti and dengue in a temperate capital of Brazil: a retrospective surveillance-based studyResearch in context by Danielle Andreza da Cruz Ferreira, Laís Picinini Freitas, Rachel Lowe, Getúlio Dornelles Souza, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara, Raquel Martins Lana

“…DENV-1 was the dominant serotype and most cases occurred among people aged 20–59. Clusters of vectors and dengue cases were more frequent during summer and autumn, but a few were also identified during winter. …”
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Morphometric characteristics of the relief and assessment of erosional hazards of the Kalaus River basin, Russia, based on digital modelling by E. G. Mishvelov, A. I Kornienko, N. O. Guseynova, E. E. Tikhonov, E. N. Pavlenko

“…Based on the calculated raster of the integral energy index of the relief, 3 categories of erosional hazard are identified. Most of the basin of the Kalaus River (58.4 %) is characterised by a low erosion hazard, another 39.0 % of the territory presents an average erosion hazard, and the remaining 2.9 % belongs to territories with a strong erosion hazard. …”
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Thermal, Mechanical, Morphological, and Piezoresistive Properties of Poly(ethylene-co-methacrylic acid) (EMAA) with Carbon Nanotubes and Expanded Graphite by Francesca Aliberti, Luigi Vertuccio, Raffaele Longo, Andrea Sorrentino, Roberto Pantani, Liberata Guadagno, Marialuigia Raimondo

“…Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) demonstrated that both fillers enhance the Young’s and storage moduli, as well as the glass transition temperature, with a greater improvement for the bidimensional nanofiller, most likely due to the cumulative effect of more extensive EG-matrix interactions. …”
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The association between neonatal mortality and ventilator association pneumonia by Mai El-Sayad Abd El-Hamid, Marwa Fekry Hassan, Mohamed Zaeim Hafez, Mohamed E. EL-Refaey, Wael A. Khattab, Khaled Saleh Ali Elhamaky, Ahmed F. Abdel Ghany, Shymaa Sobhy Menshawy Khalifa

“…The multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that the hospital stays, length of total parenteral nutrition (TPN), intubation duration, reintubation, asphyxia, and surfactant taken were the most variables strongly associated with VAP (p < 0.05). …”
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Assessing the Impact of Technological Factors on the Stability of Liposomes the Photosensitizer Phthalocyanine Series by T. A. Timofeeva, M. V. Dmitrieva, L. L. Nikolaeva, O. L. Orlova, N. A. Oborotova, A. P. Polozkova, I. I. Krasnyuk

“…The conditions of the most effective hydration with the formation of a stable dispersion of multilayer liposomes of thiosens and the optimal method of their grinding have been determined. …”
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Pedestrian Crossing Direction Prediction at Intersections for Pedestrian Safety by Younggun Kim, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Keechoo Choi, Zubayer Islam, Dongdong Wang, Shaoyan Zhai

“…Pedestrians are among the most vulnerable road users, with significant risks arising at intersections due to potential conflicts with vehicular traffic. …”
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Parkinson disease detection based on in-air dynamics feature extraction and selection using machine learning by Jungpil Shin, Abu Saleh Musa Miah, Koki Hirooka, Md. Al Mehedi Hasan, Md. Maniruzzaman

“…To further optimize the feature set, we applied the Sequential Forward Floating Selection method to select the most relevant features, reducing dimensionality and computational complexity. …”
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Treatment for substance abuse in the 21st century: A South African perspective by Madhubala I. Kasiram, Anwar Jeewa

“…Results: Despite tradition dictating a fairly rigid programme, most of the centres' staff and patients requested attention to the full biopsychosocial self of the patient, instead of being unidimensional such as paying more attention to one aspect at the expense of another such as to the physical as in the case of the disease model. …”
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The Need and Possibility of Bilingual Teaching of Computer Science in Universities of the Republic of Tuva by Dolana O. Kuular

“…The results of the study allowed us to determine the most preferable format for presenting the content of educational bilingual resources in synchronous and “inverted” form. …”
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FOODTECH AND THE DIGITALIZATION OF PUBLIC CATERING IN RUSSIA by V. M. Tiunov

“…It is established that in Russia, FoodTech is primarily represented by food delivery services from restaurants, cafes, etc.since this segment is currently the most popular and popular in the world. However, despite this, other areas of FoodTech are also actively developing, for example: a food pre-order system (Take-Away) or food delivery (Online Grocery), as well as various analytical platforms that provide a wide cross-section of guest behavioral Analytics data, such as BigData. …”
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Community organizing and public health: a rapid review by Carolina Jimenez, Jonathan C. Heller

“…Topics varied, with environmental health and justice being the most common. Three quantitative articles investigated social capital. …”
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Role of collateral circulation in the recovery of left ventricular function after recanalization of chronic coronary total occlusion by A. G. Badoyan, D. A. Khelimsky, A. A. Baranov, N. R. Obedinskaya, T. A. Bergen, V. Yu. Usov, S. N. Manukyan, O. V. Krestyaninov

“…The mean baseline LVEF according to echocardiography was 38,80±6,72%. The most common target vessel was the right coronary artery (n=17, 85%), followed by the circumflex and anterior descending arteries — 1 (5%) and 2 (10%) patients, respectively. …”
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Brodalumab for Plaque Psoriasis in the Canadian Real-World Setting: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of up to 4 Years by Veronique Gaudet, Irina Turchin, Charles W. Lynde, Virginie Kelly, Dusan Sajic, Shazia Hassan, Belinda Yap, Maxime Barakat, Vimal H. Prajapati

“…Abstract Introduction Psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, affects approximately one million Canadians, with plaque psoriasis (PsO) being the most common subtype. While brodalumab has shown efficacy and safety in phase III clinical trials, Canadian real-world evidence remains limited. …”
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Assessing the Health and Economic Outcomes of a 9-Valent HPV Vaccination Program in the United Kingdom by Kwame Owusu-Edusei, Cody Palmer, Olga Ovcinnikova, Giampiero Favato, Vincent Daniels

“…The estimated incremental cost-effectiveness ratios from the sensitivity analyses remained <£28000/QALY over a wide range of parameter inputs and demonstrated that disease utilities, discount rate, and vaccine efficacy were the 3 most influential parameters. # Discussion Consistent with other published studies, the results from this study found that the 9vHPV vaccine prevented a substantial number of cases when compared with the 4vHPV vaccine and was highly cost-effective…”
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Life on the edge: mineral incrustations colonized by fungal communities in the sulfur fumarole on Sierra Negra volcano (Galápagos Archipelago) by Maria Landolfi, Raphael Tiziani, Sahra Riviere, Fabio Trevisan, Mariagioia Petraretti, Heinke Jäger, Stefano Cesco, Martin H. Gerzabek, Katharina Keiblinger, Franz Zehetner, Federica Villa, Tanja Mimmo, Luigimaria Borruso

“…A strong correlation was found between beta diversity and most measured chemical parameters (Mg, S, Fe, Na, Al, Mn, Zn, K, P, Cu). …”
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