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• Establishing laboratory-specific reference intervals for TSH and fT4 by use of the indirect Hoffman method.

  Authors:Sylwia Placzkowska, Malgorzata Terpinska, and Agnieszka PiwowarFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20225,422 words Report 1620LBackground The results of examinations of laboratory parameters are the basis of appropriate medical decisions. The availability of reliable and accurate reference intervals (RIs) for each laboratory parameter is an...

• Assessing the efficacy of an integrated intervention to create demand for fishermen's schistosomiasis and HIV services (FISH) in Mangochi, Malawi: Study protocol for a cluster randomized control trial.

  Authors:Donaldson F. Conserve, Sekeleghe Kayuni, Moses K. Kumwenda, Kathryn L. Dovel, and Augustine Talumba ChokoFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20225,385 words Report 1510LBackground Both HIV and schistosomiasis are major public health problems worldwide with 1.8 million new HIV infections, and up to 110 million untreated schistosomiasis cases globally. Although a causal link has not...

• The association between geriatric treatment and 30-day readmission risk among medical inpatients aged [greater than or equal to]75 years with multimorbidity.

  Authors:Marte Sofie Wang-Hansen, Hege Kersten, JuratÄ SaltytÄ Benth, and Torgeir Bruun WyllerFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20224,330 words Report 1460LBackground Readmission to hospital is frequent among older patients and reported as a post-discharge adverse outcome. The effect of treatment in a geriatric ward for acutely admitted older patients on mortality and...

• Facility and care provider emergency preparedness for neonatal resuscitation in Kano, Nigeria.

  Authors:Fatima Usman, Fatimah I. Tsiga-Ahmed, Mohammed Abdulsalam, Zubaida L. Farouk, Binta W. Jibir, and Muktar H. AliyuFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20225,197 words Report 1490LIntroduction The knowledge, attitude, and practice of emergency neonatal resuscitation are critical requirements in any facility that offers obstetric and neonatal services. This study aims to conduct a needs...

• Associations between infant and maternal characteristics measured at child age 5 months and maternal feeding styles and practices up to child age two years.

  Authors:Christine Helle, Elisabet R. Hillesund, and Nina C. ØverbyFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20229,848 words Report 1480LFacilitating positive feeding practices from infancy may be an important strategy to prevent childhood overweight and obesity. Since the feeding situation early in life constitutes a bidirectional relationship, it is...

• Changing antibiotic prescribing practices in outpatient primary care settings in China: Study protocol for a health information system-based cluster-randomised crossover controlled trial.

  Authors:Yue Chang, Yuanfan Yao, Zhezhe Cui, Guanghong Yang, Duan Li, Lei Wang, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20226,919 words Report 1480LBackground The overuse and abuse of antibiotics is a major risk factor for antibiotic resistance in primary care settings of China. In this study, the effectiveness of an automatically-presented, privacy-protecting,...

• A multi-center, international, randomized, 2-year, parallel-group study to assess the superiority of IVUS-guided PCI versus qualitative angio-guided PCI in unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) disease: Study protocol for OPTIMAL trial.

  Authors:Giovanni Luigi De Maria, Luca Testa, Jose M. de la Torre Hernandez, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Maria Emfietzoglou, Roberto Scarsini, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 202211,195 words Report 1470LBackground Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is used increasingly for revascularization of unprotected left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease. Observational studies and subgroup analyses from clinical trials,...

• Transgenic overexpression of CTRP3 does not prevent alcohol induced hepatic steatosis in female mice.

  Authors:Kristy L. Thomas, Callie L. Root, and Jonathan M. PetersonFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20225,041 words Report 1400LAlcoholic liver disease (ALD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality from hepatic complications. C1q/TNF-related protein 3 (CTRP3) is an adiponectin paralog and, in male mice, increased levels of...

• Effects of mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss and signal amplification on vocal emotion recognition in middle-aged-older individuals.

  Authors:Mattias Ekberg, Josefine Andin, Stefan Stenfelt, and Örjan DahlströmFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20225,143 words Report 1550LPrevious research has shown deficits in vocal emotion recognition in sub-populations of individuals with hearing loss, making this a high priority research topic. However, previous research has only examined vocal...

• An evaluation of the diagnostic performance characteristics of the Yellow Fever IgM immunochromatographic rapid diagnostic test kit from SD Biosensor in Ghana.

  Authors:Lawrence Henry Ofosu-Appiah, Dodzi Kofi Amelor, Bright Ayensu, Ernest Akyereko, Nafisah Issah Rabiwu, David Opare, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20224,582 words Report 1550LYellow fever is endemic in Ghana and outbreaks occur periodically. The prodromal signs due to Yellow Fever Virus (YFV) infection are non-specific, making clinical signs unreliable as the sole criteria for diagnosis....

• A deep neural network model for multi-view human activity recognition.

  Authors:Prasetia Utama Putra, Keisuke Shima, and Koji ShimataniFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20227,710 words Report 1370LMultiple cameras are used to resolve occlusion problem that often occur in single-view human activity recognition. Based on the success of learning representation with deep neural networks (DNNs), recent works have...

• Reference centiles based on year-to-year changes for a longitudinal evaluation of motor performance in children and adolescents.

  Authors:Sven Wessela, Christof Meigen, Tanja Poulain, Carolin Sobek, Mandy Vogel, Siegfried Möller, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20225,338 words Report 1350LObjectives The aim was to evaluate the longitudinal course of motor skills development in children with a view to improve the understanding of intra-individual variance. Previous publications have been based on...

• Combined application of zinc and iron-lysine and its effects on morpho-physiological traits, antioxidant capacity and chromium uptake in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.).

  Authors:Ihsan Elahi Zaheer, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Hafiza Sana Yousaf, Afifa Malik, Zohaib Abbas, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 202210,229 words Report 1700LEnvironmental contamination of chromium (Cr) has gained substantial consideration worldwide because of its high levels in the water and soil. A pot experiment using oil seed crop (rapeseed (Brassica napus L.)) grown...

• Know your enemy: Application of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy to invasive species control.

  Authors:Claire Anne Holden, John Paul Bailey, Jane Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Martin, Paul Beckett, and Martin McAinshFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20229,043 words Report 1540L

  Extreme weather and globalisation leave our climate vulnerable to invasion by alien species, which have negative impacts on the economy, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Rapid and accurate identification is key...

• MARIDA: A benchmark for Marine Debris detection from Sentinel-2 remote sensing data.

  Authors:Katerina Kikaki, Ioannis Kakogeorgiou, Paraskevi Mikeli, Dionysios E. Raitsos, and Konstantinos KarantzalosFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20228,691 words Report 1510LCurrently, a significant amount of research is focused on detecting Marine Debris and assessing its spectral behaviour via remote sensing, ultimately aiming at new operational monitoring solutions. Here, we introduce a...

• Influence of slope incline on the ejection of two-phase soil splashed material.

  Authors:Michal Beczek, Magdalena Ryzak, Rafal Mazur, Agata Sochan, Cezary Polakowski, and Andrzej BieganowskiFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 202211,396 words Report 1480LSoil splash is the first step in the process of water erosion, where impacting raindrops cause the detachment and transport of soil material. One of the factors that strongly influences the magnitude of soil splash is...

• BITES study: A qualitative analysis among emergency medicine physicians on snake envenomation management practices.

  Authors:Anna Tupetz, Loren K. Barcenas, Ashley J. Phillips, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, and Charles J. GerardoFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20226,580 words Report 1430LIntroduction Antivenom is currently considered standard treatment across the full spectrum of severity for snake envenomation in the United States. Although safe and effective antivenoms exist, their use in clinical...

• COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes: A strong link with the coronavirus spread in the surrounding population, France, March to July 2020.

  Authors:Muriel Rabilloud, Benjamin Riche, Jean François Etard, Mad-Hélénie Elsensohn, Nicolas Voirin, Thomas Bénet, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20224,315 words Report 1420LBackground Worldwide, COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes have often been sudden and massive. The study investigated the role SARS-CoV-2 virus spread in nearby population plays in introducing the disease in nursing...

• Functional MRI-based study of emotional experience in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: Protocol for an observational case-control study-EMOCRISES study.

  Authors:Pierre Fauvé, Louise Tyvaert, Cyril Husson, Emmanuelle Hologne, Xiaoqing Gao, Louis Maillard, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20227,381 words Report 1400LBackground Psychogenic non epileptic seizures (PNES) are a frequent, disabling and costly disorder for which there is no consensual caring. They are considered as a dissociative disorder and they share many common...

• Quantile-specific heritability of plasma fibrinogen concentrations.

  Author:Paul T. WilliamsFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20227,166 words Report 1640LBackground Fibrinogen is a moderately heritable blood protein showing different genetic effects by sex, race, smoking status, pollution exposure, and disease status. These interactions may be explained in part by...