Karine Brudey, Jeffrey Driscoll, Leen Rigouts, Wolfgang M. Prodinger et al.
BACKGROUND: The Direct Repeat locus of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) is a member of the CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) sequences family. Spoligotyping is the widely used PCR-based reverse-hybridization blotting technique that assays the genetic dive...
Sarah K. Wise, Cecelia Damask, Lauren T. Roland, Charles S. Ebert et al.
BACKGROUND: In the 5 years that have passed since the publication of the 2018 International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Allergic Rhinitis (ICAR-Allergic Rhinitis 2018), the literature has expanded substantially. The ICAR-Allergic Rhinitis 2023 update presents 144 individual topics ...
David P. Schmitt, Lidia Alcalay, Melissa Allensworth, Jüri Allïk et al.
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model ...
Mariafe Calingacion, Alice G. Laborte, Andrew Nelson, Adoracion P. Resurreccion et al.
With the ever-increasing global demand for high quality rice in both local production regions and with Western consumers, we have a strong desire to understand better the importance of the different traits that make up the quality of the rice grain and obtain a full picture of rice quality demograph...
Lisa M Force, Jonathan M Kocarnik, Miranda L May, Kayleigh Bhangdia et al.
Background Cancer is a leading cause of death globally. Accurate cancer burden information is crucial for policy planning, but many countries lack up-to-date cancer surveillance data. To inform global cancer-control efforts, we used the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GB...
A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Mengzhen Liu, Victoria E. Jackson, Daniel R. Barnes et al.
Abstract Smoking is a major heritable and modifiable risk factor for many diseases, including cancer, common respiratory disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Fourteen genetic loci have previously been associated with smoking behaviour-related traits. We tested up to 235,116 single nucleotide varia...
Nandini Sreenivasan, A. Li, Miriam L. Shiferaw, Cuc H. Tran et al.
BACKGROUND: Rabies is a neglected zoonotic disease with a global burden of approximately 59,000 human deaths a year. Once clinical symptoms appear, rabies is almost invariably fatal; however, with timely and appropriate post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) consisting of wound washing, vaccine, and in som...
Peter S. Staats, Shawn M. Stinson, Roland R. Lee
(Staats) Director, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine.(Stinson) Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine.(Lee) Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology.Received from the Departments of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, and Radiology, ...
Madhav Joshi, SungYong Lee, Roger Mac Ginty
AbstractThis article assesses the extent to which the liberal peace (the dominant form of internationally supported peacemaking) actually deserves the sobriquet 'liberal peace'. In recent years, an intense debate emerged on this question as critics of the critique of the liberal peace have sought to...
Mokhlasur Rahman, Geert Huys, Inger Kühn, Motiur Rahman et al.
In order to investigate the influence of a duckweed aquaculture based hospital sewage water recycling plant on the prevalence and dissemination of antibiotic resistance, we made use of an existing collection of 1,315 Aeromonas isolates that were previously typed by the biochemical fingerprinting PhP...
Marco Solmi, Trevor Thompson, Andrés Estradé, Agorastos Agorastos et al.
Background The Collaborative Outcome study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times (COH-FIT; www.coh-fit.com) is an anonymous and global online survey measuring health and functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to test concurrently the validity of COH-FIT items ...
Marco Solmi, Trevor Thompson, Andrés Estradé, Agorastos Agorastos et al.
, penalized cubic splines, linear regression, correlation analyses were conducted. Analyzing 121,066/142,364 initiated surveys, WHO-5/P-score worsened intra-pandemic by 11.1±21.1/13.2±17.9 points (effect size d=0.50/0.60) (comparable results in representative/weighted non-probability samples). Perso...
Cynthia Bin Eng Chee, Kyi-Win KhinMar, Li-H. Sng, Roland Jureen et al.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major public health challenge, with an estimated 480 000 new cases emerging globally each year [1]. Treatment success rates using the 20-month conventional World Health Organization (WHO) regimen have been low, being about 52% in 2013 [1]. Observational...
Marco Solmi, Trevor Thompson, Samuele Cortese, Andrés Estradé et al.
There is no multi-country/multi-language study testing a-priori multivariable associations between non-modifiable/modifiable factors and validated wellbeing/multidimensional mental health outcomes before/during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, studies during COVID-19 pandemic generally do not report...
Marco Solmi, Trevor Thompson, Samuele Cortese, Andrés Estradé et al.
OBJECTIVE: To identify the COVID-19 pandemic impact on well-being/mental health, coping strategies, and risk factors in adolescents worldwide. METHOD: , penalized cubic splines, linear regression, and correlation analyses were conducted. RESULTS: Analyzing 8,115 of 8,762 initiated surveys (represent...
Agorastos Agorastos, Trevor Thompson, Marco Solmi, Samuele Cortese et al.
-score changes were significantly associated with female gender, school closure, and pre-existing physical and mental conditions, with cumulative effects. The five most frequently endorsed coping strategies were family contact (85.2 %), friends (67.3 %), outdoor play (54.0 %), pet interaction (51.5 ...
Ya‐Ping Lin, Hung‐Wei Chen, Chih‐Cheng Chien, Yu-Han Lien et al.
The breeding of mungbean, a crucial Asian legume, has been hampered by the lack of genomic resources. The International Mungbean Improvement Network (IMIN) aims to ensure global access to diverse germplasms and genomic resources. Using 780 worldwide wild and cultivated accessions, we report this spe...
Liangzhuo Chen
This study investigates the narrative transformation of the core visual symbol—the pearl earring—across Johannes Vermeer’s iconic painting Girl with a Pearl Earring and its transmedial adaptation (Peter Webber’s film based on Tracy Chevalier’s novel). By integrating Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual gr...
Soman N. Abraham, David Artis, Zayed Attia, Tatsuhiko Azegami et al.
A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Mengzhen Liu, Victoria E. Jackson, Daniel R. Barnes et al.
Abstract Smoking is a major heritable and modifiable risk factor for many diseases, including cancer, common respiratory disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Fourteen genetic loci have previously been associated with smoking behaviour-related traits. We tested up to 235,116 single nucleotide varia...