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• Performing moderate to severe activity is safe and tolerable for healthy youth while wearing a cloth facemask.

  Authors:Felipe Miguel Marticorena, Gabriel Castanho Barreto, Natália Mendes Guardieiro, Gabriel Perri Esteves, Tamires Nunes Oliveira, Luana Farias de Oliveira, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20233,743 words Report 1420LObjective To investigate if a cloth facemask could affect physiological and perceptual responses to exercise at distinct exercise intensities in healthy young individuals. Methods Nine participants (sex,...

• Improving provider-initiated testing for HIV and other STI in the primary care setting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Results from a multifaceted, educational intervention programme.

  Authors:Saskia Bogers, Maarten Schim van der Loeff, Anders Boyd, Nynke van Dijk, Suzanne Geerlings, and Jan van BergenFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20237,630 words Report 1550LBackground In the Netherlands, general practitioners (GPs) play a key role in HIV testing. However, the proportion of people diagnosed with late-stage HIV remains high, and opportunities for earlier diagnosis are being...

• Prevalence and associated factors of delayed sputum smear conversion in patients treated for smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis: A retrospective follow up study in Sabah, Malaysia.

  Authors:Linghui Amanda Khor, Ulfa Nur Izzati A. Wahid, Lee Lee Ling, Sarah Michael S. Liansim, Jush'n Oon, Mahendran Naidu Balakrishnan, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20236,219 words Report 1530LIntroduction Tuberculosis remains a major health problem globally and in Malaysia, particularly in the state of Sabah. Delayed sputum conversion is associated with treatment failure, drug-resistant tuberculosis and...

• Xylem vessel type and structure influence the water transport characteristics of Panax notoginseng.

  Authors:Tianyu Xu, Zonglei Li, Sanlin Bao, Yanru Su, Zhouming Su, Shuteng Zhi, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20235,455 words Report 1570LPanax notoginseng plays a very important role in medicinal and economic value. The restriction imposed by the hydraulic pathway is considered to be the main limitation on the optimal growth state of Panax notoginseng....

• Comparing the structure-function relationship between the visual fields measured with variational Bayes linear regression and SITA standard.

  Authors:Ryo Asaoka, Hiroshi Murata, Yuri Fujino, Shuichiro Aoki, Kazunori Hirasawa, and Nobuyuki ShojiFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20234,173 words Report 1470LPurpose We recently constructed an algorithm to measure visual field (VF) using the variational Bayes linear regression (VBLR). This algorithm enabled a faster VF measurement than the Swedish interactive thresholding...

• Multi-trophic occupancy modeling connects temporal dynamics of woodpeckers and beetle sign following fire.

  Authors:Morgan W. Tingley, Graham A. Montgomery, Robert L. Wilkerson, Daniel R. Cluck, Sarah C. Sawyer, and Rodney B. SiegelFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20236,228 words Report 1790LIn conifer forests of western North America, wildlife populations can change rapidly in the decade following wildfire as trees die and animals respond to concomitant resource pulses that occur across multiple trophic...

• Differences in infection and prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among older adults in Columbus, Ohio.

  Authors:Ethan Morgan, Christina Dyar, and Brian A. FeinsteinFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20234,809 words Report 1530LIntroduction In the United States, rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have increased year after year for the past six consecutive years. Even so, the majority of research has focused on younger populations...

• Identification and functional analysis of protein secreted by Alternaria solani.

  Authors:Chen Wang, Jinhui Wang, Dai Zhang, Jianing Cheng, Jiehua Zhu, and Zhihui YangFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20236,976 words Report 1410LEarly blight, caused by the necrotrophic fungus Alternaria solani, is an important foliar disease that causes major yield losses of potato. Effector proteins secreted by pathogens to host cells can inhibit host immune...

• The fear-increasing and fear-decreasing effects of a pilot policy to reduce fear of crime.

  Authors:José Miguel Benavente and Daniel GoyaFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20237,052 words Report 1480LFear of crime has been rising persistently in Chile, even in periods where actual crime rates have decreased, making the perception of crime an important policy issue. This paper presents the results of the impact...

• Come together: A unified description of the escalator capacity.

  Authors:Christoph Gnendiger, Mohcine Chraibi, and Antoine TordeuxFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20237,727 words Report 1580LWe investigate a variety of aspects related to the simulation of passenger dynamics on escalators, mainly focusing on the discrepancy between the 'theoretical' and the 'practical' capacity that is observed for these...

• Alcohol, tobacco and drug use among adults experiencing homelessness in Accra, Ghana: A cross-sectional study of risk levels and associated factors.

  Authors:Benedict Osei Asibey, Brahmaputra Marjadi, and Elizabeth ConroyFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20238,622 words Report 1450LBackground Substance use contributes to poor health and increases the risk of mortality in the homeless population. This study assessed the prevalence and risk levels of substance use and associated factors among...

• Untangling the systematic dilemma behind the roughskin spurdog Cirrhigaleus asper (Merrett, 1973) (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes), with phylogeny of Squalidae and a key to Cirrhigaleus species.

  Authors:Sarah Viana and Karla D. A. SoaresFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 202329,781 words Report 1290LCirrhigaleus comprises a small genus of rare barbel-bearing dogfish sharks with distributions in limited regions of all oceans. Generic validity and taxonomic status of some species are upon controversies by...

• Integrating technologies provides insight into the subsurface foraging behaviour of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) feeding on walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) in Juan de Fuca Strait, Canada.

  Authors:Rhonda Reidy, Stéphane Gauthier, Thomas Doniol-Valcroze, Matthew A. Lemay, Rute B. G. Clemente-Carvalho, Laura L. E. Cowen, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20238,962 words Report 1640LSubsurface foraging is an important proportion of the activity budget of rorqual whales, yet information on their behaviour underwater remains challenging to obtain. Rorquals are assumed to feed throughout the water...

• Effects of five years conservation tillage for hedging against drought, stabilizing maize yield, and improving soil environment in the drylands of northern China.

  Authors:Zizheng Deng, Mingjing Huang, Wuping Zhang, Guofang Wang, Xuefang Huang, Gaimei Liang, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20237,607 words Report 1550LContinuous tillage cultivation positioning trials can provide the basis for maintaining soil health, improving resource utilization efficiency and crop productivity, and achieving sustainable agricultural development. In...

• Sparse representation learning derives biological features with explicit gene weights from the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas.

  Authors:Mohammad Abbasi, Connor R. Sanderford, Narendiran Raghu, Mirjeta Pasha, and Benjamin B. BartelleFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20237,875 words Report 1630LUnsupervised learning methods are commonly used to detect features within transcriptomic data and ultimately derive meaningful representations of biology. Contributions of individual genes to any feature however becomes...

• Development and external validation of machine learning algorithms for postnatal gestational age estimation using clinical data and metabolomic markers.

  Authors:Steven Hawken, Robin Ducharme, Malia S. Q. Murphy, Brieanne Olibris, A. Brianne Bota, Lindsay A. Wilson, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20236,454 words Report 1720LBackground Accurate estimates of gestational age (GA) at birth are important for preterm birth surveillance but can be challenging to obtain in low income countries. Our objective was to develop machine learning models...

• Comparison between passive knee kinematics during surgery and active knee kinematics during walking: A preliminary study.

  Authors:Xavier Gasparutto, Alice Bonnefoy-Mazure, Michael Attias, Raphaël Dumas, Stéphane Armand, and Hermès MiozzariFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20235,007 words Report 1530LRecovery of function is among a patient's main expectations when undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, normal gait knee function is not always completely restored, which can affect patient satisfaction and...

• Morpho-radiological and brain endocast analysis in the study of Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna (HFI): A combined approach.

  Authors:Elena Varotto, Francesco Pio Cafarelli, Francesca Maglietta, Cícero Moraes, Pietrantonio Ricci, and Francesco Maria GalassiFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20234,924 words Report 1580LThe purpose of this study is to anatomically evaluate the impact on the patient intra vitam of an endocranial condition on a late 20.sup.th century skull housed in the Section of Legal Medicine of the University of...

• Dealing with mixed and non-normative traffic. An agent-based simulation with the GAMA platform.

  Authors:Arnaud Saval, Duc Pham Minh, Kevin Chapuis, Pierrick Tranouez, Clément Caron, Éric Daudé, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 202310,244 words Report 1460LContinuous improvement in computing power allowed for an increase of the scales micro-traffic models can be used at. Among them, agent-based frameworks are now appropriate for studying ordinary traffic conditions at...

• Association of the rs2111234, rs3135499, rs8057341 polymorphisms in the NOD2 gene with leprosy: A case-control study in the Norte de Santander, Colombia population.

  Authors:Mónica Alexandra Bustos, Luz Dary Castañeda-Castañeda, Carmen Rosa Acosta, Diana García, Diana Patricia Bohada, Raúl Rodríguez, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 20235,684 words Report 1410LBackground Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The development of leprosy involves several factors, including the causative agent, the individual host's immune response,...