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• A mixed-methods approach to understand university students' perceived impact of returning to class during COVID-19 on their mental and general health.

  Authors:Qinglan Ding, Mark Daniel Ward, Nancy Edwards, Emily Anna Wu, Susan Kersey, and Marjorie FunkFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20237,657 words Report 1560LPurpose This study investigated the prevalence and risk factors of mental and general health symptoms among university students attending in-person and online classes during COVID-19. We also explored their experiences...

• Trends of cleft surgeries and predictors of late primary surgery among children with cleft lip and palate at the University College Hospital, Nigeria: A retrospective cohort study.

  Authors:Afieharo Igbibia Michael, Gbenga Olorunfemi, Adeola Olusanya, and Odunayo OluwatosinFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20236,462 words Report 1420LBackground Cleft of the lip and palate is the most common craniofacial birth defect with a worldwide incidence of one in 700 live births. Early surgical repairs are aimed at improving appearance, speech, hearing,...

• Importance of feeding status evaluation in older patients undergoing hemodialysis.

  Authors:Satoko Notomi, Mineaki Kitamura, Noriko Horita, Kosei Yamaguchi, Takashi Harada, Tomoya Nishino, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20235,052 words Report 1300LOlder hospitalized patients undergoing hemodialysis are increasingly experiencing malnutrition caused by dysphagia. However, only a few studies have focused on this problem. We used the Kuchikara Taberu Balance Chart...

• Gene silencing for invasive paper wasp management: Synthesized dsRNA can modify gene expression but did not affect mortality.

  Authors:Mariana Bulgarella, James W. Baty, Rose McGruddy, and Philip J. LesterFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20239,360 words Report 1490LInvasive paper wasps such as Polistes dominula are a major pest and problem for biodiversity around the globe. Safe and highly targeted methods for the control of these and other social wasp populations are needed. We...

• lncRNA-disease association prediction based on the weight matrix and projection score.

  Authors:Bo Wang, Chao Zhang, Xiao-xin Du, Xiao-dong Zheng, and Jing-you LiFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20236,504 words Report 1440LWith the development of medical science, long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), originally considered as a noise gene, has been found to participate in a variety of biological activities. Several recent studies have shown the...

• Colorectal cancer screening in Semarang, Indonesia: A multicenter primary health care based study.

  Authors:Hery Djagat Purnomo, Cecilia Oktaria Permatadewi, Agung Prasetyo, Didik Indiarso, Hesti Triwahyu Hutami, Dik Puspasari, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20234,915 words Report 1300LColorectal cancer (CRC) is a major public health problem in Indonesia. It ranks among the top four cancers with high mortality rates. CRC screening is expected to improve early diagnosis that can reduce mortality and...

• Twenty-seven ZAD-ZNF genes of Drosophila melanogaster are orthologous to the embryo polarity determining mosquito gene cucoid.

  Authors:Muzi Li, Koray Kasan, Zinnia Saha, Yoseop Yoon, and Urs Schmidt-OttFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20237,415 words Report 1500LThe C2H2 zinc finger gene cucoid establishes anterior-posterior (AP) polarity in the early embryo of culicine mosquitoes. This gene is unrelated to genes that establish embryo polarity in other fly species (Diptera),...

• Validation of Sepsis-3 using survival analysis and clinical evaluation of quick SOFA, SIRS, and burn-specific SIRS for sepsis in burn patients with suspected infection.

  Authors:Jaechul Yoon, Dohern Kym, Jun Hur, Yong Suk Cho, Wook Chun, and Dogeon YoonFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20234,053 words Report 1420LPurpose Sepsis-3 is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by dysregulated host responses to infection; and defined using the Sepsis-3 criteria, introduced in 2016, however, the criteria need to be validated in...

• Psychometric properties of the Social Support Scale (SSS) in two Aboriginal samples.

  Authors:Pedro Henrique Ribeiro Santiago, Lisa Gaye Smithers, Rachel Roberts, and Lisa JamiesonFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20239,020 words Report 1510LIn Australia, despite social support increasingly being reported as playing an important role in influencing health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, measures of social support have not yet been...

• Investigating water movements around a shallow shipwreck in Big Tub Harbour of Lake Huron: Implications for managing and preserving underwater shipwrecks.

  Authors:Bryan Flood, Lakshika Girihagama, Mathew G. Wells, Reza Valipour, Patricia Semcesen, and Scott ParkerFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 202311,326 words Report 1650LThe Sweepstakes, in Fathom Five National Marine Park, is Ontario's most iconic shipwreck with over 100,000 visitors each summer. Continued exposure to water currents has directly and indirectly affected the integrity of...

• Vestibular contribution to path integration deficits in 'at-genetic-risk' for Alzheimer's disease.

  Authors:Gillian Coughlan, William Plumb, Peter Zhukovsky, Min Hane Aung, and Michael HornbergerFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20234,684 words Report 1510LPath integration changes may precede a clinical presentation of Alzheimer's disease by several years. Studies to date have focused on how spatial cell changes affect path integration in preclinical AD. However,...

• Confidence intervals and sample size planning for optimal cutpoints.

  Authors:Christian Thiele and Gerrit HirschfeldFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20235,616 words Report 1550LVarious methods are available to determine optimal cutpoints for diagnostic measures. Unfortunately, many authors fail to report the precision at which these optimal cutpoints are being estimated and use sample sizes...

• MMKE: Multi-trial vector-based monkey king evolution algorithm and its applications for engineering optimization problems.

  Authors:Mohammad H. Nadimi-Shahraki, Shokooh Taghian, Hoda Zamani, Seyedali Mirjalili, and Mohamed Abd ElazizFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 202313,811 words Report 1510LMonkey king evolution (MKE) is a population-based differential evolutionary algorithm in which the single evolution strategy and the control parameter affect the convergence and the balance between exploration and...

• Weighted power Maxwell distribution: Statistical inference and COVID-19 applications.

  Authors:Muqrin A. Almuqrin, Salemah A. Almutlak, Ahmed M. Gemeay, Ehab M. Almetwally, Kadir Karakaya, Nicholas Makumi, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20236,315 words Report 1720LDuring the course of this research, we came up with a brand new distribution that is superior; we then presented and analysed the mathematical properties of this distribution; finally, we assessed its fuzzy reliability...

• Evaluating accurate and efficient sampling strategies designed to measure social behavior and brush use in drylot housed cattle.

  Authors:Claudia Carolina Lozada, Rachel M. Park, and Courtney L. DaigleFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20234,125 words Report 1530LEfficient sampling strategies expedite behavioral data collection. While multiple studies have evaluated sampling strategies for core behaviors in cattle, few have focused on social interactions. To identify sampling...

• Game bird carcasses are less persistent than raptor carcasses, but can predict raptor persistence dynamics.

  Authors:Eric Hallingstad, Daniel Riser-Espinoza, Samantha Brown, Paul Rabie, Jeanette Haddock, and Karl KosciuchFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 202313,760 words Report 1670LResearchers conduct post-construction fatality monitoring (PCFM) to determine a wind energy facility's direct impacts on wildlife. Results of PCFM can be used to evaluate compliance with permitted take, potentially...

• Prevalence of scabies and associated factors among children aged 5-14 years in Meta Robi District, Ethiopia.

  Authors:Gemechu Ararsa, Emiru Merdassa, Tesfaye Shibiru, and Werku EtafaFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20235,605 words Report 1420LBackground Scabies is a public health problem that affects children and elders predominantly. Its burden is higher in resource-poor settings, and scabies has a significant impact on the long-term health of children. In...

• MYB and ELF3 differentially modulate labor-inducing gene expression in myometrial cells.

  Authors:Virlana M. Shchuka, Nawrah Khader, Anna Dorogin, Oksana Shynlova, and Jennifer A. MitchellFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20237,922 words Report 1570LSpontaneous uterine contractions are initiated when smooth muscle cells (SMCs) within the uterine muscle, or myometrium, transition from a functionally dormant to an actively contractile phenotype at the end of the...

• Usability and acceptance of a mobile health wallet for pregnancy-related healthcare: A mixed methods study on stakeholders' perceptions in central Madagascar.

  Authors:Etienne Lacroze, Anna Frühauf, Kim Nordmann, Zavaniarivo Rampanjato, Nadine Muller, Jan-Walter De Neve, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20238,412 words Report 1330LBackground Several sub-Saharan African countries use digital financial services to improve health financing, especially for maternal and child health. In cooperation with the Malagasy Ministry of Health, the NGO...

• Comparison of the size of bilateral testis in children with unilateral non-communicating hydrocele and its correlation with age.

  Authors:Peiqiang Li, Fuyun Liu, and Yan HuangFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 20232,300 words Report 1140LBackground Opinions on the optimal age for surgical management of hydroceles in young boys are not uniform. Scrotal ultrasonography can be used to diagnose hydroceles and measure testicular size. A comparison of...