Paper List

Rui Xiong, Zhongjun Tang, Xingtao Zhou, Shengtao Liu

Purpose To evaluate the long-term outcomes of anterior segment parameters following implantable collamer lens (ICL V4c) implantation in highly myopic patients. Setting A tertiary specialized eye hospi...

Ana Luiza Favarão Leão, Milena Franco Silva, Guilherme Stefano Goulardins, Alexandre Augusto de Paula da Silva, Yi Wang, Maryse Rios-Hernandez, Alessandro Lunelli, Paulo Nascimento Neto, Alex Antônio Florindo, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis

Climate change impacts and health inequities intersect sharply in Brazil’s social housing, where housing location, design, and governance shape residents’ exposure to environmental hazards and everyda...

Ibrahim Sharhan, Wafa M. Al‑Madhagi, Ahmed M. Sabati, Ammar AL-Farga

Objective: To develop and validate a simple, precise, and stability-indicating reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (RP-HPLC) method for the simultaneous determination of metronidazo...

Sara Pastore, Emiliano Grimaldi

Educators are increasingly asked to design digital literacy experiences. Yet most attempts, we argue, suffer from limitations imposed by a deterministic – either social or technological – perspective,...

Lara Freitas Matos Costa, Heloísa Cristina Barbosa de Santana, Agostinho de Sousa Machado Júnior, Juliana Felipe da Silva Souza, Rúbia Rayanne Souto Braz, Maria das Graças Rodrigues de Araujo, Marcelo Renato Guerino

Background Dyspareunia is characterized by pain occurring before, during, or after sexual intercourse and has a multifactorial etiology involving biological, hormonal, and psychosocial factors. It can...

Mustapha Aliyu Muhammad, Bless-me Ajani, Hopelyn A. Mooney, Qian Huang

Background: Youth obesity remains a major public health concern in the United States, with high burdens in the Southeastern region. Tennessee consistently reports elevated youth obesity rates, yet the...

Xuan Gao, Robin Lengton, Jenny A. Visser, James McLaren, Naveed Sattar, Dilys J. Freeman, Mariëtte R. Boon, Jason M.R. Gill

Purpose Adipocyte glucocorticoid (GC) signalling influences lipid storage and insulin sensitivity, and South Asians develop insulin resistance at lower BMI than White Europeans. We tested whether earl...

Jaya Bharti, Shyam Mishra, Sandeep Verma

Rapid socio-cultural transformations, including urbanization, migration, and the restructuring of joint family systems, have significantly altered traditional models of elderly care in India. Old age ...

Precious Ike Richard, William H Baltosser, Philip H Williams, William Reed Green, Qingfang He

Aetokthonos hydrillicola is an epiphytic cyanobacterium found on the abaxial leaf surfaces of aquatic weeds. This species of cyanobacterium is responsible for aetokthonotoxin (AETX), which is biosynth...

Shakiba Kazemian, Sana Tamim, Peter Neasham, Samiah Kanwar, Kevin Zhong, Kelly Chenoweth, Andrea Perkins, Miria Criado, Paul Walz, Chengming Wang, Nidia Trovao, Constantinos Kyriakis

Canine Influenza Virus H3N2, initially of avian origin, emerged in Asia around 2005–2007 and subsequently spread globally, reaching the United States in 2015. Despite initial containment efforts, H3N2...