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Make your own laboratory: A comparative perspective on the logistics and dynamics of DIY biology spaces and communities
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) biology, also known as biohacking or community biology, is a grassroots movement where people conduct biological experiments outside formal institutions. DIY biologists set up the...
DNA methylation orchestrates secondary metabolite biosynthesis and transport in Papaver somniferum
Background Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) is a major source of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs), including pharmaceutically important compounds such as morphine and noscapine. While the enzymatic...
Retraction: Green transition in manufacturing: Dynamics and simulation
Retraction: A comparative study of the policy response to COVID-19 in the ASEAN region: A dynamic simulated ARDL approach
Retraction: Can low-carbon pilot policies improve the efficiency of urban carbon emissions?——A quasi-natural experiment based on 282 prefecture-level cities across China
Psychometric properties and qualitative evaluation of a Swedish translation of the New Sexual Satisfaction Scale–Short (NSSS-S)
Objectives Sexual satisfaction is a crucial part of sexual health and is positively related to well-being and quality of life. However, there are at present no composite measures of sexual satisfactio...
Facilitators and barriers to engaging in expressive writing among health and social care professionals
Healthcare workers in the UK report high levels of burnout and poor wellbeing, and interventions are urgently needed to address this issue. Expressive writing, whereby individuals write about emotiona...
Clinical and quality of life improvement after bilastine treatment among patients with autoimmune chronic spontaneous urticaria
Background This study aimed to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of bilastine in type IIb autoimmune CSU (type IIb aiCSU) patients over an 8-week period, as well as to identify factors predicting tr...
Interaction of coexposure to inorganic arsenic and manganese: Tight junction injury of the blood–brain barrier and the relationship between oxidative stress and inflammatory cytokines in glial cells
Coexposure to inorganic arsenic (iAs) and manganese (Mn) may exacerbate cognitive dysfunction caused by iAs alone. In this study, we investigated the cytotoxicity of coexposure to iAs and Mn in glial...
Connection between hypoallergenic food and dyslipidemia in dogs: A nutritional myth?
The limited education in nutrition contributes to the spread of the “nutritionism” phenomenon, with unfounded concerns about certain diets, such as commercial hypoallergenic ones, and their supposed r...
Developing and validating modular surveys for vector-borne diseases: A study protocol
Vector-borne diseases are an increasing threat to human health and well-being in the United States. Understanding public perception and practices to reduce vector abundance and vector-human contact ca...
Curative treatment incorporating subjective decisions on age and frailty is not beneficial for older patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma
The curative surgical treatment of older patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) is often personalized by incorporating subjective decisions on age and frailty. We aimed to determine...
Retraction: Anthropological responses to environmental challenges in SAARC nations: A comparative analysis
Village health work in the primary healthcare of Zimbabwe: Health workers’ perspectives
Migration and poor performance of healthcare workers in Zimbabwe hinder primary healthcare delivery. This has compelled the country to exploit the potential of village health workers in primary health...
Community volunteer participation and its determinants during respiratory infectious disease outbreaks in China: A cross-sectional study across multiple provinces
Background Community volunteering plays a crucial role in strengthening public health emergency response, particularly during respiratory infectious disease outbreaks. However, limited research has ex...
STIL-TA: A new model of traffic flow forecasting based on spatiotemporal interactive learning and temporal attention
Accurate traffic flow forecasting plays a critical role in alleviating urban road congestion. Despite the success of existing models (e.g., graph-based or attention-based methods), three key limitatio...
Retraction: Intimate but not intimate: The perils of workplace romance in fostering knowledge sabotage
Retraction: Digital transformation, industrial structure change, and economic growth motivation: An empirical analysis based on manufacturing industry in Yangtze River Delta
Retraction: Corporate social responsibility stimulus on environmental problems: Spatial threshold model analysis
Disparities in chronic kidney disease burden estimates: From different sources, definitions, and equations
Introduction The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides updated epidemiological descriptions of chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet the discrepancies between its estimates and those from other so...
Dynamic of competitive Lotka-Volterra model for tumor-host systems under constant or periodic perturbation: Implications for the therapy of cancer
In this paper, the tumor-host interaction is modeled using a Lotka-Volterra framework. The critical parameters that define the possible dynamical regimes are identified through linear stability analys...
Retraction: The analysis and solution for intercity travel behaviors during holidays in the post-epidemic era based on big data
Lower cancer incidence three years after COVID-19 infection in a large veteran population
Background The role of COVID-19 infection in cancer incidence risk is not known. COVID-19 infection may lead to increased cancer risk, as seen with other viruses, or to decreased risk due to the activ...
Exploring the consistency, quality and challenges in manual and automated coding of free-text diagnoses from hospital outpatient letters
Clinical coding is the process of extracting key information contained within clinical free-text and representing this information using standardised clinical terminologies. In doing so, unstructured...
Regional variation in overweight and associations with regional profiles using a Japanese national open-source database
The objectives of this study were to describe regional variation in overweight and to investigate factors associated with overweight at the secondary medical area (SMA) level, accounting for regional...