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Expression of concern: Protein solubility, digestibility and fractionation after germination of sorghum varieties
Explainable machine learning reveals diverse yield-determining factors among Thai rice farmer cohorts: Implications for targeted agricultural support
Rice yield prediction and optimization remain crucial challenges in Thailand’s agricultural sector. This study presents an explainable machine learning framework for predicting farm-level rice yields...
Editorial Note: Regulation of Vapor Pressure Deficit by Greenhouse Micro-Fog Systems Improved Growth and Productivity of Tomato via Enhancing Photosynthesis during Summer Season
Effects of local heat on metabolic health, frailty risk, and exercise adaptations in pre-diabetic older adults: Protocol for the Heat and Exercise in Aging as Therapy (HEAT) clinical trial
Introduction Glycemic dysregulation is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and contributes to skeletal muscle (SKM) loss and frailty risk, especially in older adults. Glycemic cont...
Expression of Concern: Analysis of antidiabetic, antiulcer and analgesic potential of traditional ethnomedicinal plant Emex spinosa (L.) Campd. from Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Sensing nature in the city: The role of sight and sound in restorative tropical urban green spaces
Rapid urbanization has increased disconnection from nature, especially in cities. While research on restorative environments has largely focused on non-tropical regions, little is known about the rest...
Editorial Note: Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica) Accretion Ice contains a diverse set of sequences from aquatic, marine and sediment-inhabiting Bacteria and Eukarya
Revisiting the role of structural connectivity-based parcellation in thalamic nuclei segmentation: Benchmarking against recent state-of-the-art methods
Leveraging diffusion tractography, connectivity-based parcellation (CBP) is one of the oldest methods for thalamic nuclei segmentation. The goal of this work was to reassess CBP using higher spatial r...
From global to local: Developing a context-specific BeSD-HPV tool through cultural and linguistic adaptation in Pakistan
Objectives A key challenge in preventing cervical cancer is the low uptake of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Evidence indicates...
The safety window of blood magnesium in pulmonary complications of non-pulmonary sepsis: A U-shaped risk and prognostic analysis based on MIMIC-IV
Pulmonary complications in non-pulmonary sepsis (PC-NPS) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the intensive care unit. Early prevention and monitoring are paramount since the prevention...
The effects of morning priming exercise on afternoon physical and cognitive performance in female field hockey players
Objective Hockey players concurrently experience physical and cognitive fatigue during competition, yet these are critical for successful performance. Prior...
Parental acceptability of newborn screening expansion in the genomic era: A nationwide French survey informed by the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability (SeDeN-p3)
Background Newborn screening (NBS) has progressively expanded through technological innovations, from tandem mass spectrometry enabling expanded NBS (eNBS) to the prospect of genom...
Advancements in fire-related toxic gas detection and prophylactic strategies: A focus on cyanide concentration analysis and antidote efficacy in controlled smoke inhalation models
Fire smoke inhalation represents a major cause of acute mortality in fire incidents, with hydrogen cyanide being a critical contributor to rapid systemic toxicity. This study aimed to establish a cont...
Burnout among Syrian medical residents: A cross-sectional study using the burnout assessment tool (BAT)
Introduction Burnout syndrome, described by Herbert Freudenberger in 1974, is a psychological condition caused by chronic workplace stress, particularly in healthcare. It is charac...
Modeling the drivers of trip satisfaction among Texas coastal anglers using creel survey data
Angler satisfaction can be a complicated concept to explore, because angler perceptions are driven by a wide range of factors that interact in complex ways. Additionally, methods that quantify angler...
Association between deployment and Gulf War Illness and adverse COVID outcomes in a nationwide cohort of 1990–1991 Gulf Era war veterans in the VA’s Million Veteran Program
Background U.S. military veterans deployed to the Persian Gulf to serve in the 1990–1991 Gulf War (GWVs) have expressed concerns about potential increased risk of experiencing adve...
Retraction: Health risk assessment of exposure to chlorpyrifos in pregnant women using deterministic and probabilistic approaches
Association between neighborhood disadvantage and chronic hepatitis B in the central Puget Sound region of Washington, 2018 to 2023
Background Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB) disproportionately affects immigrant and socioeconomically marginalized populations in the United States. Neighborhood-level metrics such as th...
Kidney dysfunction is associated with mortality, adverse CT-based muscle metrics, and functional decline in surgically treated liposarcomas of the extremities and trunk
Background Liposarcomas (LS) of the extremities and trunk are aggressive soft-tissue sarcomas and surgical resection combined with multimodal therapy represents the cornerstone of...
Toward a fully wireless endovascular neural interface: Evaluating power transfer efficacy
Background Endovascular neural interfaces (ENIs) offer a minimally invasive approach for neural stimulation and recording without the need for open brain surgery. However, current...
Co-design of a model for learning conversations about ongoing patient care between medical supervisors and trainees in the rural generalist settings: A research protocol
Introduction In rural generalist clinical settings, medical trainees routinely assess patients and discuss their findings with supervisors to plan ongoing care. These interactions...
SARS-CoV-2 infection in female sex workers from Nairobi, Kenya early in the COVID-19 pandemic: Seroincidence and behavioural associations
While COVID-19 mortality was relatively low in many Sub-Saharan African countries during the first wave of the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 transmission was extensive. We hypothesized that female sex workers...
Dialogic reading at age 2 is linked to frontal activation related to executive function at age 5: An fNIRS study
This study investigates the relationship between children’s dialogic reading (DR) experiences with parents at age 2 and their frontal neural responses related to executive function (EF) at age 5. To a...
Complete mitochondrial genome and microsatellite marker development of the Antarctic scallop (Adamussium colbecki) for its population genetics analysis
Adamussium colbecki is an ecologically important species (class Bivalvia) endemic to the Southern Ocean, but genomic resource for this species has remained yet limited. In this stu...
Development and validation of the TexCoMP model: A nonlinear framework for optimising slip-resistant walkway coatings in diverse environments
Background Slip-related accidents remain a significant safety concern in public walkways, healthcare facilities, and industrial environments, particularly under contaminated surfac...