Concomitant exposure to benzodiazepines during pembrolizumab-based therapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: a propensity-score matched analysis of monitoring agency data by Fabrizio Nelli, Enzo Maria Ruggeri, Antonella Virtuoso, Diana Giannarelli, Armando Raso, Federica Natoni, Gloria Pessina, Daniele Remotti, Mario Giovanni Chilelli, Carlo Signorelli, Agnese Fabbri

“…Results: During the time frame from April 2018 to May 2023, we enrolled 258 patients, 156 (60.5%) and 102 (39.5%) of whom received pembrolizumab alone or the combination regimen, respectively. …”
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Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Poverty and Religion in Iran: A Comparative Study within the Country by Mohammadreza Taleban

“…Given the diversity of followers of major world religions like Islam whose class compositions encompass a wide range of social strata, we could frame a research question: To what extent are poverty and religion related within Iranian society? …”
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Coinfection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and polyomavirus in a patient with coronavirus disease 2019 detected by enrichment next-generation sequencing: a case... by Gunadi, Esensi Tarian Geometri, Pramana Adhityo, Ali Zainal Abidin, Marcellus, Dyah Ayu Puspitarani, Fadila Dyah Trie Utami, Kristy Iskandar, Hendra Wibawa, Mohamad Saifudin Hakim

“…Her nasopharyngeal swab and real-time polymerase chain reaction were positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 nucleocapsid and open reading frame genes, with cycle threshold values of 32.33 and 33.74, respectively. …”
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Prácticas clínicas para el manejo de la bacteriuria asintomática preoperatoria en cirugía endourológica de litiasis urinaria by Johana M. Guachetá-Bomba, Carlos H. Abonía-Velasco, Martha C. Valderrama-Ríos, Wilfredo Donoso-Donoso, Andrés F. Puentes-Bernal, Juan P. Álzate-Granados, David A. Castañeda-Millán

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Geospatial Access to Emergency Obstetric Surgery in Indonesia: Is Travel Time for Access Too Long? by Brahmana Askandar Tjokroprawiro, Hanif Ardiansyah Sulistya, Farizal Rizky Muharram, Renata Alya Ulhaq, Alifina Izza, Budi Prasetyo, Khoirunnisa Novitasari, Budi Wiweko, Pandu Hanindito Habibie, Arya Ananda Indrajaya Lukmana, Muhammad Muhibuddin Hilmy Asari

“…In this study, we aimed to quantify the percentage of Indonesian women of reproductive age (WRA) who can access a hospital with emergency obstetric and gynecological services within this time frame. In addition, we aimed to identify the underserved populations. …”
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N‐terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide reference values in community‐dwelling older adults by Ulrike Braisch, Wolfgang Koenig, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Michael Denkinger, Nele Friedrich, Stephan B. Felix, Till Ittermann, Marcus Dörr, Dhayana Dallmeier

“…Our results attempt to provide a frame for the further investigation of age‐specific NT‐proBNP cut‐offs in older adults. …”
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Registro colombiano de clínicas de anticoagulación (RECCANT) y el uso de agentes reversores (RECCANT-AR): justificación y diseño by Sebastián Seni-Molina, Arturo D. Mora, Juliana Gutiérrez-Poss, Maribel Ñáñez, Juan D. Victoria- Salcedo, Julio Díez-Sepúlveda, Dora I. Molina de Salazar, Ana C. Montenegro, Kenny M. Gálvez, Gilberto A. Castillo, Róbinson Sánchez, Hoover O. León-Giraldo, Juan E. Gómez-Mesa

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Human motion capture data recovery based on non-convex low-rank priors of temporal difference(非凸时序差分低秩约束的人体运动捕获数据恢复算法) by 胡文玉(HU Wenyu), 彭绍婷(PENG Shaoting), 郭震宇(GUO Zhenyu), 黄慧英(HUANG Huiying)

“…The existing low-rank matrix completion based methods that usually exploit the low-rank property underlying in human motion data matrix. However, as the frame number increases, the low-rank property may not be satisfied. …”
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Impact of endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidases 1 (ERAP1) and 2 (ERAP2) on neutrophil cellular functions by Irma Saulle, Irma Saulle, Fiona Limanaqi, Micaela Garziano, Micaela Garziano, Maria Luisa Murno, Valentina Artusa, Valentina Artusa, Sergio Strizzi, Matteo Giovarelli, Carsten Schulte, Jacopo Aiello, Mario Clerici, Mario Clerici, Claudia Vanetti, Mara Biasin

“…IntroductionEndoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidases 1 (ERAP1) and 2 (ERAP2) modulate a plethora of physiological processes for the maintenance of homeostasis in different cellular subsets at both intra and extracellular level.Materials and methodsIn this frame, the extracellular supplementation of recombinant human (rh) ERAP1 and ERAP2 (300 ng/ml) was used to mimic the effect of stressor-induced secretion of ERAPs on neutrophils isolated from 5 healthy subjects. …”
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Determination of the physicochemical and microbiological quality of buffalo milk in the south of lake Maracaibo by Luis Álvarez, Alexis Zambrano, Datty Rosales-Zambrano

“…The microbiological quality indicators indicate that the processes for obtaining milk must be improved and framed in practice that guarantee the safety of raw milk. …”
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BRICS expansion in the news coverage of member countries: a political economy perspective by Fedaa Mohamed Abdelaziz Abdeldayem, Sarah Francis Wadie Kswat

“…The current study analyzes the national interests, economic implications of media frames, leaders’ statements and geopolitical contexts in light of the coverage of the newspapers under study and the BRICS' inclusion of new members from a political economy perspective. …”
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Evaluating the effects of seed oils on lipid profile, inflammatory and oxidative markers, and glycemic control of diabetic and dyslipidemic patients: a systematic review of clinica... by Lucas Fornari Laurindo, Lucas Fornari Laurindo, Lucas Fornari Laurindo, Lívia Fornari Laurindo, Victória Dogani Rodrigues, Jéssica da Silva Camarinha Oliveira, Beatriz Leme Boaro, Adriano Cressoni Araújo, Adriano Cressoni Araújo, Elen Landgraf Guiguer, Elen Landgraf Guiguer, Elen Landgraf Guiguer, Claudia Rucco Penteado Detregiachi, Claudia Rucco Penteado Detregiachi, Virgínia Maria Cavallari Strozze Catharin, Virgínia Maria Cavallari Strozze Catharin, Eduardo Federighi Baisi Chagas, Eduardo Federighi Baisi Chagas, Vitor Cavallari Strozze Catharin, Vitor Cavallari Strozze Catharin, Rosa Direito, Sandra Maria Barbalho, Sandra Maria Barbalho, Sandra Maria Barbalho, Sandra Maria Barbalho

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Expression Analysis and SNP Mining of the Parkin Co-Regulated Gene (PACRG) and parkin in Penaeus vannamei Against White Spot Syndrome Virus by Qian XUE, Xupeng LI, Yang LI, Sheng LUAN, Kun LUO, Jie KONG, Qun XING, Xianhong MENG

“…Our findings illustrated that the complete open reading frame (ORF) sequence of PACRG was 600 bp, encoded 199 amino acids, and was predicted to contain the ParcG structural domain. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of uroflowmetry parameters to predict infravesical obstruction by José Gaona, Daniel Romero, Pablo Robles, Diego Bravo, Raúl Rueda, Jairo Ortiz, Daniel Sánchez, César González, Fabio González, Angélica Rueda, Sebastián Ortiz, Carlos Camargo

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Research on formant estimation algorithm for high order optimal LPC root value screening by Hua LONG, Shumeng SU

“…And the end detection is isolated to do the high-order LP analysis of the spoken frame under the constraint of digital resonance model. …”
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Doctors taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies is common and not substantially reduced by an educational intervention: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial in Pakistan by Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Johanna Hanefeld, Mishal Khan, Charles Opondo, Sameen Siddiqi, Virginia Wiseman, Iqbal Azam, Wafa Aftab, Sadia Shakoor, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Rumina Hasan, Zafar Mirza, Muhammad Naveed Noor, Sabeen Sharif Khan, Nina van der Mark, Afshan Khurshid Isani, Ahson Q Siddiqi, Faisal Ziauddin, Faiza Bhutto, Natasha Ali, Robyna Irshad Khan, Syed Ahmed Raza Kazmi, Zainab Hasan

“…We developed a novel method using data collectors posing as pharmaceutical company sales representatives to evaluate private doctors’ engagement in incentive-linked prescribing and the impact of a multifaceted educational intervention on reducing this practice in Karachi, Pakistan.Methods We made a sampling frame of all doctors running for-profit, primary-care clinics and randomly allocated participants to control and intervention groups (1:1). …”
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Lightweight Daylily Grading and Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv10 by JIN Xuemeng, LIANG Xiyin, DENG Pengfei

“…The model's parameters, computational volume, and size were 2.45 M, 6.2 GFLOPs, and 5.0 M, respectively, with a frame rate of 156 FPS. Compared to the benchmark model, YOLOv10-AD improved mAP by 5.7% and FPS by 25.8%, while reducing the number of parameters, computational volume, and model size by 9.3%, 24.4%, and 9.1%, respectively. …”
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Understanding the Broad-line Region of Active Galactic Nuclei with Photoionization. I. The Moderate-accretion Regime by Qiaoya Wu, Yue Shen, Hengxiao Guo, Scott F. Anderson, W. N. Brandt, Catherine J. Grier, Patrick B. Hall, Luis C. Ho, Yasaman Homayouni, Keith Horne, Jennifer I-Hsiu Li, Donald P. Schneider

“…We compare theoretical predictions with observations of a sample of 67 z  ≲ 0.5 reverberation-mapped AGNs with rest-frame optical and UV spectra in the moderate-accretion regime (Eddington ratio λ _Edd  ≡  L / L _Edd  < 0.5). …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…This cross-gendering of the racial imaginary, introjecting a male vision of racial collectivity and history through a female’s frame of reference, though not exactly a form of cross-dressing, can be usefully analyzed as such. …”
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