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• Reproducibility of knee extensor and flexor contraction velocity in healthy men and women assessed using tensiomyography: A study protocol.

  Authors:Georg Langen, Christine Lohr, Olaf Ueberschär, and Michael BehringerFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20226,371 words Report 1420LTensiomyography measures the radial displacement of a muscle during an electrically evoked twitch contraction. The rate of muscle displacement is increasingly reported to assess contractile properties. Several formulas...

• Mean platelet volume and mean platelet volume to platelet count ratio as predictors of severity and mortality in sepsis.

  Authors:Jorge Luis Vélez-Páez, Pedro Legua, Pablo Vélez-Páez, Estefanía Irigoyen, Henry Andrade, Andrea Jara, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20224,650 words Report 1380LIntroduction Sepsis is a public health problem due to its high prevalence and mortality. Mean platelet volume (MPV), a biomarker reported in routine blood counts, has been investigated and shows promise for determining...

• Serum miR-34a-5p and miR-199a-3p as new biomarkers of neonatal sepsis.

  Authors:Omayma O. Abdelaleem, Shereen Rashad Mohammed, Hassan S. El Sayed, Sherin Khamis Hussein, Doaa Y. Ali, Mostafa Y. Abdelwahed, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20225,124 words Report 1500LBackground Neonatal sepsis is a serious condition. Recent clinical studies have indicated that microRNAs (miRNAs) are key players in the pathogenesis of sepsis, which could be used as biomarkers for this condition....

• Heavy metal pollution and associated health risk assessment of urban dust in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

  Authors:Abdulaziz G. Alghamdi, Mohamed H. EL-Saeid, Abdulhakim J. Alzahrani, and Hesham M. IbrahimFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20225,471 words Report 1420LDepending on their particle size and concentration, heavy metals in urban dust pose a health hazard to humans. This study investigated the total concentration, health risk, integrated pollution load index (IPI), and...

• Gender sensitivity and stereotypes in medical university students: An Italian cross-sectional study.

  Authors:Fabrizio Bert, Edoardo Boietti, Stefano Rousset, Erika Pompili, Eleonora Franzini Tibaldeo, Marta Gea, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20224,171 words Report 1380LGender medicine is crucial to reduce health inequalities. Knowledge about students' attitudes and beliefs regarding men, women and gender is important to improve gender medicine courses. The aim of this study is to...

• Pricing and assembly rate decisions for a prefabricated construction supply chain under subsidy policies.

  Authors:Wen Jiang and Xian QiFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20229,042 words Report 1340LPrefabricated construction has attracted worldwide concern and promotion due to its environmental friendliness, high quality, and high efficiency. In China, the application of prefabricated construction still lags due to...

• The lower airways microbiome and antimicrobial peptides in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis differ from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

  Authors:Kristel S. Knudsen, Sverre Lehmann, Rune Nielsen, Solveig Tangedal, Ingvild Haaland, Pieter S. Hiemstra, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20225,988 words Report 1490LBackground The lower airways microbiome and host immune response in chronic pulmonary diseases are incompletely understood. We aimed to investigate possible microbiome characteristics and key antimicrobial peptides and...

• Global cervical cancer research: A scientometric density equalizing mapping and socioeconomic analysis.

  Authors:Dörthe Brüggmann, Kathrin Quinkert-Schmolke, Jenny M. Jaque, David Quarcoo, Michael K. Bohlmann, Doris Klingelhöfer, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20227,487 words Report 1460LCervical cancer has caused substantial morbidity and mortality for millions of women over the past decades. While enormous progress has been made in diagnosis, prevention and therapy, the disease is still fatal for many...

• Pandemic-related declines in hospitalization for non-COVID-19-related illness in the United States from January through July 2020.

  Authors:Jennifer L. Nguyen, Michael Benigno, Deepa Malhotra, Farid Khan, Frederick J. Angulo, Jennifer Hammond, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20225,909 words Report 1500LBackground The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has substantially impacted healthcare utilization worldwide. The objective of this retrospective...

• Investigating the incidence and risk factors of hypertension: A multicentre retrospective cohort study in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

  Authors:Umar Yagoub, Nasrin S. Saiyed, Bandar Al Qahtani, Attiya Mohammed Al Zahrani, Yassir Birema, and Ibrahim Al HaririFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20224,845 words Report 1320LBackground Hypertension is a major global health concern affecting approximately 1.13 billion people worldwide, with most of them residing in developing countries. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence...

• Anemia and undernutrition in intestinally parasitized schoolchildren from Gakenke district, Northern Province of Rwanda.

  Authors:María José Irisarri-Gutiérrez, Lucrecia Acosta, Lucy Anne Parker, Rafael Toledo, Fernando Jorge Bornay-Llinares, José Guillermo Esteban, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20225,027 words Report 1460LBackground Rwanda is a sub-Saharan country, where intestinal parasite infections, anemia and undernutrition coexist. The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between intestinal parasite infections and...

• Depressive symptoms in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease are identified by perturbed lipid and lipoprotein metabolism.

  Authors:Daniel E. Radford-Smith, Preya J. Patel, Katharine M. Irvine, Anthony Russell, Dan Siskind, Daniel C. Anthony, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20225,508 words Report 1550LNon-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and depression are common disorders and have bidirectional contributing relationships to metabolic syndrome. We aimed to determine whether a fasting serum signature of recent,...

• Regeneration of duckweed (Lemna turonifera) involves genetic molecular regulation and cyclohexane release.

  Authors:Lin Yang, Jinge Sun, Congyu Yan, Junyi Wu, Yaya Wang, Qiuting Ren, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20225,460 words Report 1300LPlant regeneration is important for vegetative propagation, detoxification and the obtain of transgenic plant. We found that duckweed regeneration could be enhanced by regenerating callus. However, very little is known...

• Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City.

  Authors:Jia Li, Jin-Wei Nie, and Jing YeFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20226,450 words Report 1450LOnline virtual museum tours combine museum authority and an academic approach with the diversity and interactivity of online resources; such tours have become an essential resource for online scientific research and...

• Do empowered women receive better quality antenatal care in Pakistan? An analysis of demographic and health survey data.

  Authors:Muhammad Asim, Waqas Hameed, and Sarah SaleemFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20225,362 words Report 1460LIntroduction Quality antenatal care is a window of opportunity for improving maternal and neonatal outcomes. Numerous studies have shown a positive effect of women empowerment on improved coverage of maternal and...

• Drought prediction based on an improved VMD-OS-QR-ELM model.

  Authors:Yang Liu, Li Hu Wang, Li Bo Yang, and Xue Mei LiuFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20225,107 words Report 1460LTo overcome the low accuracy, poor reliability, and delay in the current drought prediction models, we propose a new extreme learning machine (ELM) based on an improved variational mode decomposition (VMD). The model...

• In search of autophagy biomarkers in breast cancer: Receptor status and drug agnostic transcriptional changes during autophagy flux in cell lines.

  Authors:Francesca Mascia, Ilya Mazo, Wei-Lun Alterovitz, Konstantinos Karagiannis, Wells W. Wu, Rong-Fong Shen, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20226,880 words Report 1530LAutophagy drives drug resistance and drug-induced cancer cell cytotoxicity. Targeting the autophagy process could greatly improve chemotherapy outcomes. The discovery of specific inhibitors or activators has been...

• Association of circulating MR-proADM with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the general population: Results from the KORA F4 cohort study.

  Authors:Christina Gar, Barbara Thorand, Christian Herder, Chaterina Sujana, Margit Heier, Christa Meisinger, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20226,784 words Report 1400LBackground and aim Despite its vasodilatory effect, adrenomedullin and its surrogate mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin (MR-proADM) have been found to be positively associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality....

• Unstructured clinical notes within the 24 hours since admission predict short, mid & long-term mortality in adult ICU patients.

  Authors:Maria Mahbub, Sudarshan Srinivasan, Ioana Danciu, Alina Peluso, Edmon Begoli, Suzanne Tamang, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 202210,205 words Report 1410LMortality prediction for intensive care unit (ICU) patients is crucial for improving outcomes and efficient utilization of resources. Accessibility of electronic health records (EHR) has enabled data-driven predictive...

• Analysis of coding variants in the human FTO gene from the gnomAD database.

  Authors:Mauro Lúcio Ferreira Souza Junior, Jaime Viana de Sousa, and João Farias GuerreiroFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 6, 20223,764 words Report 1650LSingle nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the first intron of the FTO gene reported in 2007 continue to be the known variants with the greatest effect on adiposity in different human populations. Coding variants in the...