COVID-19 Viral Pneumonia Complicated with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Descriptive Study by Hoda Salah Darwish, Mohamed Yasser Habash, Waleed Yasser Habash

“…In patients with confirmed COVID-19, we should maintain a high suspicion for its thromboembolic complications such as acute pulmonary embolism that was mainly diagnosed at the end of 3rd week from symptom onset. We suggest that whenever a CT evaluation of the parenchymal involvement of COVID-19 pneumonia is performed, a simultaneous evaluation of the pulmonary arteries is also essential in order to identify early signs of associated pulmonary embolism.…”
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Socio-Demographic and Lifestyle Factors Influencing Adherence to AntiHypertensive Treatment in a Rural Area of Ludhiana, India by Sangeeta Girdhar, ,Mahesh Satija, Daljit Kaur, .Anurag Chaudhary

“…The patients who took medication for less than 80% of week (?5days) were considered as non adherent. …”
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Shaping Treatment Expectation to Optimize Efficacy of Interleukin 17A Antagonist Secukinumab in Psoriasis Patients by Hölsken S, Krefting F, Mühlhaus S, Bese D, Schedlowski M, Sondermann W

“…We evaluated skin symptoms using the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI), the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), perceived itch, mood and plasma IL-17A levels at baseline and at 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks post intervention.Results: The study included N = 120 patients (average age = 45.78 years, 34% female). …”
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Physical activity, fatigue severity, and health-related quality of life of community-dwelling stroke survivors: a cross-sectional study by Marufat Oluyemisi Odetunde, Ayomide Felix Makinde, Olamide Mary Jimoh, Chidozie Emmanuel Mbada, Faatihah Niyi-Odumosu, Francis Fatoye

“…Respondents’ mean scores on SPAQ, FSS, and SS-QoL scales are 1867.47 ± 1817.93 MET min/week, 31.94 ± 11.29, and 156.47 ± 26.62, respectively. …”
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Digital libraries and World Wide Web sites and page persistence. by Wallace Koehler

“…Over time a Web collection erodes. Based on a 120-week longitudinal study of a sample of Web documents, it appears that the half-life of a Web page is somewhat less than two years and the half-life of a Web site is somewhat more than two years. …”
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Using peer narrative support to promote return to work for cancer survivors: a protocol study of action research by Wenqian Que, Xiaoyun Hu, Tingting Wu, Haiyin Zhang, Yue Shi, Jingyi Zhao, Xiaoqin Su, Benxin Kuai, Yujie Guo

“…(ii) Intervention: Firstly, two rounds of training actions will be carried out for 8 weeks. Second, after the peers have passed the training assessment, cancer survivors will be recruited to carry out two rounds of peer narrative support for six months. …”
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Pour une théorie de la réception du discours grammatical by Jean-Rémi Lapaire

“…Reception was tested in the last week. Results suggest that instant access to abstract metalinguistic concepts was indeed provided but that the response remains unequal and gain uncertain.…”
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Impact of pulmonary yoga module on lung capacity of COVID-19 adult survivors by Adarsh Tomar, Sudhanshu Verma

“…The simple random sampling technique applied for the selection procedure and expulsion standard is 10%. OUTCOME: After 8 weeks of yoga intervention (selected yogic practice) on day 60th, posttest data were taken and assessed on different significance levels (α). …”
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The effect of rootstocks on morphological, physiological, and gene expression characters of citrus seedlings grown under drought condition by Nirmala Friyanti Devy, Siti Subandiyah, Sri Widyaningsih, Hardiyanto Hardiyanto, Farida Yulianti, Dita Agisimanto, Agus Sugiyatno, Mutia Dwiastuti

“…'Manis Pacitan'  (MP) budded onto 'Japansche citroen' (JC), 'Rough Lemon' (RL), 'Salam' (S), 'Volkameriana' (V), and 'Cleopatra Mandarin' (C) rootstocks, subjected to six-week drought-stress conditions, were examined under a shade house. …”
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Subcutaneous Fat Obesity in a High Body Mass Index Donor Is Not a Contraindication to Living Donor Hepatectomy by Hirak Pahari, Amey Sonavane, Amruth Raj, Anup Kumar Agrawal, Ambreen Sawant, Deepak Kumar Gupta, Amit Gharat, Vikram Raut

“…The donor was discharged on POD-6 and recipient was discharged on POD-15. At 3 weeks of follow-up, the donor’s wound is clean and well-healed, and she is already back to doing her daily life activities without any pain with normal laboratory parameters. …”
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HELLO: a protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial to enhance interpersonal relationships and team cohesion among ICU healthcare professionals by Elie Azoulay, Nancy Kentish Barnes, Sheila Nainan Myatra, Maria-Cruz Martin Delgado, Yaseen Arabi, Carole Boulanger, Giovanni Mistraletti, Maria Theodorakopoulou, Vernon Van Heerden, José-Artur Paiva, Oktay Demirkýran, Gabriel Heras La Calle, Abdulrahman Al Fares, Gaston Burghi, Guy Francois, Anita Barth, Jan De Waele, Samir Jaber, Michael Darmon, Maurizio Cecconi

“…Outcomes will be based on HCP reports collected within four weeks before and after the intervention. Discussion This is the first large trial of healthcare communication, social, and positive psychology intervention among ICU-HCPs. …”
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THE PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION OF ECT TREATMENTS IN FINLAND – RESULTS FROM A NATIONAL SURVEY by SAANA KARTTUNEN, LAURI VIRTANEN, ANU HOLM, NIKO SEPPÄLÄ, PETRI SUMIA, ERIKA JÄÄSKELÄINEN, KAIJA JÄRVENTAUSTA

“…In 91% of the units, catatonia patients were able to start ECT within a week, whereas for non-acute outpatients with treatment-resistant depression, the waiting time in 57% of the units was 1-3 months, and in one unit over one year. …”
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Comparing Rotational Stability of Clareon and Eyhance Toric IOLs in a Real-World Setting by Connell B, LaHood B

“…IOL stability, uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), and refractive astigmatism were assessed at 6– 24 hours (P1) and 3 weeks to 6 months (P2) post-operatively. IOL rotational measurements were recorded at each interval.Results: The study included 187 patients (median age: 74 for Clareon, 79 for Eyhance, p = 0.004). …”
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Biofloc technology significantly reshapes water microbiome and improves survival rates in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) by Jiho Yang, Hyunjun Choi, Jun Seong Park, Yehyeon Cha, Ju-Ae Hwang, Seung-Yoon Oh

“…In this study, we observed the survival and growth rates of eels treated with BFT over 8 weeks and monitored changes in the gut and water microbiome using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing (metabarcoding) and quantitative PCR. …”
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Role of emotional disorders, personality features and disorders of intraceptive sensation in development of somatic symptoms at irritable bowel syndrome by Ye. A. Poluektova, A. A. Kurbatova, G. Ye. Rupchev, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Number of days of feeling sick for the last year, number of medical encounters for the same time, intensity of abdominal pain according to VAS, frequency of bowel movements per day (number of defecations per day at IBS-D and number of defecations per week at IBS-C) were taken into account in correlation to disease severity and severity of anxiety and depression according to respective scales, to personality features of patients, and also to pattern and volume of individual dictionary for description of internal somatic sensations. …”
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Sex differences in murine MASH induced by a fructose-palmitate-cholesterol-enriched diet by Lakshmi Arivazhagan, Sofie Delbare, Robin A. Wilson, Michaele B. Manigrasso, Boyan Zhou, Henry H. Ruiz, Kaamashri Mangar, Ryoko Higa, Emily Brown, Huilin Li, Michael J. Garabedian, Ravichandran Ramasamy, Kathryn J. Moore, Edward A. Fisher, Neil D. Theise, Ann Marie Schmidt

“…Methods: Female and male C57BL/6J mice were fed a fructose-palmitate-cholesterol (FPC)-NASH diet vs. standard chow for 16 weeks (n = 40 mice). At sacrifice, plasma and liver were retrieved, the latter for single-nucleus RNA sequencing. …”
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The protective effects of Levilactobacillus brevis FZU0713 on lipid metabolism and intestinal microbiota in hyperlipidemic rats by Xiaoyun Fan, Qing Zhang, Weiling Guo, Qi Wu, Jinpeng Hu, Wenjian Cheng, Xucong Lü, Pingfan Rao, Li Ni, Youting Chen, Lijiao Chen

“…Histopathological result also indicated that dietary intervention of L. brevis FZU0713 could reduce the accumulation of lipid droplets in liver induced by 8 weeks HFD feeding. Furthermore, L. brevis FZU0713 intervention significantly increased the fecal levels of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs, including acetate, propionate, butyrate, isobutyrate, valerate and isovalerate) in HFD-fed rats, which may be closely related to the changes of intestinal microbial composition and metabolic function. …”
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Effects of intermittent theta burst stimulation on cognitive and swallowing function in patients with MCI and dysphagia risk: a randomized controlled trial by Jie Wang, Mengqing Zhang, Xiaomei Wei, Cheng Yang, Meng Dai, Zulin Dou, Yonghui Wang

“…All assessments were completed at baseline and two weeks after treatment. Participants received 10 sessions of daily robotic navigated iTBS. …”
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Rehabilitation Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine Hot Pressing on Female Patients with Stress Urinary Incontinence by HUANG Huirong, LIU Qinyu, YU Zhenling, WU Cuijuan, XUE Jialu, QIU Zhiqin, YU Mengxia

“…Both groups were treated for 4 weeks. The leakage of urine (1-hour pad test) and Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI-6) score before and after treatment and the Incontinence Quality of Life Questionnaire (I-QOL) scores before and after treatment and 1 month follow-up were evaluated.Results1) The urine leakage of 1-hour pad test in both groups after treatment was less than before treatment, and the difference was statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Dietary β-Mannanase Affects the Growth, Antioxidant, and Immunes Responses of African Catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and Its Challenge Against Aeromonas hydrophila Infection by Ibrahim Adeshina, Bilal Ahamad Paray, Eijaz Ahmed Bhat, Shahid Sherzada, Olaolu O. Fawole, Dalhatu J. Bawa, Thais Pereira da Cruz, Lateef O. Tiamiyu

“…Five isonitrogenous diets were prepared to have 400 g/kg crude protein and supplemented with β-mannanase at 0, 1500, 3000, 4500, or 6000 thermostable endo, 1,4-β-mannanase units (TMUs)/kg diet and fed to 300 juveniles of the African catfish, C. gariepinus (mean weight 12.1 ± 0.1 g) for 12 weeks. Then, 10 fish from each tank received an intraperitoneal injection of 0.1 mL of A. hydrophila (5.0 × 105 CFU/mL) and observed for 14 days. …”
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