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• Have Bilateral Free Trade Agreements (BFTAs) been beneficial? Lessons learned from 11 U.S. BFTAs between 1992 and 2017.

  Authors:Tareg Ghazi Alghabbabsheh, Saleh Saud AlSaif, Md. Saiful Islam, Tareq Saeed AlShammari, and Ali M. A. MahmoudFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20229,230 words Report 1440LThis study analyzes aggregate data on trade flows to examine the performance of bilateral free trade agreements (BFTAs) between the United States and 11 BFTA nations in a two-dimensional approach. In line with the...

• A Multifunctional Adaptive and Interactive AI system to support people living with stroke, acquired brain or spinal cord injuries: A study protocol.

  Authors:Giovanni Ottoboni, Fabio La Porta, Roberto Piperno, Rabih Chattat, Annalisa Bosco, Patrizia Fattori, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20225,146 words Report 1420LBackground Acquired brain injury and spinal cord injury are leading causes of severe motor disabilities impacting a person's autonomy and social life. Enhancing neurological recovery driven by neurogenesis and neuronal...

• Identifying content to improve risk assessment communications within the Risk Profile: Literature reviews and focus groups with expert and non-expert stakeholders.

  Authors:C. Ellermann, M. McDowell, C. O. Schirren, A.-K. Lindemann, S. Koch, M. Lohmann, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 202210,354 words Report 1580LObjective To improve consumer decision making, the results of risk assessments on food, feed, consumer products or chemicals need to be communicated not only to experts but also to non-expert audiences. The present...

• The conditioned medium from mesenchymal stromal cells pretreated with proinflammatory cytokines promote fibroblasts migration and activation.

  Authors:Chenyang Liu, Chengchun Wang, Fengbo Yang, Yichi Lu, Pan Du, Kai Hu, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20225,599 words Report 1430LHuman dermal fibroblasts (HDFs) play important roles in all stages of wound healing. However, in nonhealing wounds, fibroblasts are prone to aging, resulting in insufficient migration, proliferation and secretion...

• Cost-effectiveness of a structured medication review approach for multimorbid older adults: Within-trial analysis of the OPERAM study.

  Authors:Paola Salari, Cian O'Mahony, Séverine Henrard, Paco Welsing, Arjun Bhadhuri, Nadine Schur, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20227,006 words Report 1430LBackground Inappropriate polypharmacy has been linked with adverse outcomes in older, multimorbid adults. OPERAM is a European cluster-randomized trial aimed at testing the effect of a structured pharmacotherapy...

• Longitudinal associations between sport participation and fat mass with body posture in children: A 5-year follow-up from the Czech ELSPAC study.

  Authors:Mario Kasovic, Lovro Stefan, Pavel Piler, and Martin ZvonarFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20224,823 words Report 1560LThe main purpose of the study was to examine longitudinal associations between sport participation and fat mass with body posture in children. We used data from children recruited in the Czech European Longitudinal Study...

• No association between APOE genotype and lipid lowering with cognitive function in a randomized controlled trial of evolocumab.

  Authors:Laura E. Korthauer, Robert P. Giugliano, Jianping Guo, Marc S. Sabatine, Peter Sever, Anthony Keech, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20224,765 words Report 1530LAPOE encodes a cholesterol transporter, and the [epsilon]4 allele is associated with higher circulating cholesterol levels, ß-amyloid burden, and risk of Alzheimer's disease. Prior studies demonstrated no significant...

• Farmland change and its implications in the Three River Region of Tibet during recent 20 years.

  Authors:Hui Wei and Changhe LuFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20225,827 words Report 1630LFarmland is a key resource for safeguarding the regional food security and social stability, particularly in Tibet where the farmland is very limited due to its high altitude. With quick economic development during...

• Pacemaking function of two simplified cell models.

  Authors:Maxim Ryzhii and Elena RyzhiiFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20229,970 words Report 1630LSimplified nonlinear models of biological cells are widely used in computational electrophysiology. The models reproduce qualitatively many of the characteristics of various organs, such as the heart, brain, and...

• PyMiner: A method for metabolic pathway design based on the uniform similarity of substrate-product pairs and conditional search.

  Authors:Xinfang Song, Mingyu Dong, and Min LiuFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 202210,840 words Report 1550LMetabolic pathway design is an essential step in the course of constructing an efficient microbial cell factory to produce high value-added chemicals. Meanwhile, the computational design of biologically meaningful...

• Modelling of filamentous phage-induced antibiotic tolerance of P. aeruginosa.

  Authors:Maria van Rossem, Sandra Wilks, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Patrick R. Secor, and Giampaolo D'AlessandroFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20225,944 words Report 1500LFilamentous molecules tend to spontaneously assemble into liquid crystalline droplets with a tactoid morphology in environments with high concentration on non-adsorbing molecules. Tactoids of filamentous Pf...

• Antimicrobial resistance trend of bacterial uropathogens at the university of Gondar comprehensive specialized hospital, northwest Ethiopia: A 10 years retrospective study.

  Authors:Desie Kasew, Blen Desalegn, Mihret Aynalem, Sosina Tila, Dureti Diriba, Beimnet Afework, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20225,094 words Report 1440LUrinary tract infection and antimicrobial resistance remains the major problem, with significant health and socioeconomic burden, particularly in developing countries. This infection is commonly caused by Gram-negative...

• Using LSTM and PSO techniques for predicting moisture content of poplar fibers by Impulse-cyclone Drying.

  Authors:Feng Chen, Xun Gao, Xinghua Xia, and Jing XuFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20228,834 words Report 1490LImpulse-cyclone drying (ICD) is a new type of pretreatment method to remove the excess moisture of wood fibers (WFs) with high speed and low energy consumption. However, the process parameters are often determined by the...

• Psychological counseling in the Italian academic context: Expected needs, activities, and target population in a large sample of students.

  Authors:Pasquale Musso, Gabrielle Coppola, Ester Pantaleo, Nicola Amoroso, Caterina Balenzano, Roberto Bellotti, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 202211,127 words Report 1600LUniversity psychological counseling (UPC) is receiving growing attention as a means to promote mental health and academic success among young adults and prevent irregular attendance and dropout. However, thus far, little...

• Association between GnRH analogue use and atopic diseases in patients with prostate cancer: A population-based retrospective cohort study.

  Authors:Sheng-Feng Lin, Hsiu-Chen Lin, Mei-Yu Lee, Joseph Jordan Keller, and Li-Hsuan WangFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20223,796 words Report 1360LPurpose Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues reduce testosterone levels to castration levels in patients with prostate cancer. However, the role of testosterone in atopic diseases has remained undefined. We...

• Performance comparison of structured H [infinity] based looptune and LQR for a 4-DOF robotic manipulator.

  Authors:Arafat Asghar, Muhammad Iqbal, Abdul Khaliq, Saif ur Rehman, and Jamshed IqbalFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20227,796 words Report 1540LWe explore looptune, a MATLAB-based structured H [infinity] synthesis technique in the context of robotics. Position control of a 4 Degree of Freedom (DOF) serial robotic manipulator developed using Simulink is the...

• Outcome of acute bacterial meningitis among children in Kandahar, Afghanistan: A prospective observational cohort study.

  Authors:Bilal Ahmad Rahimi, Niamatullah Ishaq, Ghulam Mohayuddin Mudaser, and Walter R. TaylorFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20223,990 words Report 1500LBackground Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children but there are no published data on the treatment outcomes of ABM in Afghanistan. Methods We conducted a...

• Quantitative analysis of regional distribution of tau pathology with .sup.11C-PBB3-PET in a clinical setting.

  Authors:Elham Yousefzadeh-Nowshahr, Gordon Winter, Peter Bohn, Katharina Kneer, Christine A. F. von Arnim, Markus Otto, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20227,470 words Report 1390LPurpose The recent developments of tau-positron emission tomography (tau-PET) enable in vivo assessment of neuropathological tau aggregates. Among the tau-specific tracers, the application of .sup.11...

• Sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity in Brazilian adolescents: Achievement recommendations and BMI associations through compositional data analysis.

  Authors:Sabrina Fontes Domingues, Cristiano Diniz da Silva, Fernanda Rocha Faria, Helton de Sá Souza, and Paulo Roberto dos Santos AmorimFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20227,606 words Report 1480LPhysical activity, sedentary behavior (SB), and sleep are habitual human behaviors (HHB) which are modifiable throughout the different life phases. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze how the time distribution...

• Experimental swine models for perforator flap dissection in reconstructive microsurgery.

  Authors:Alexandru Nistor, Lucian P. Jiga, Gratian D. Miclaus, Bogdan Hoinoiu, Petru Matusz, and Mihai E. IonacFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 20227,852 words Report 1540LBackground Perforator flaps account for a fraction of reconstructive procedures despite their growing popularity. Specific microsurgical skills are required for successful harvesting of perforator flaps, which are...