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Rocahepevirus ratti: An underrecognised cause of acute hepatitis

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World Journal of Hepatology 2024年第8期16卷 1084-1090页

作者： george S Gherlan Department of Infectious Diseases “Carol Davila”University of Medicine and PharmacyBucharest 050474Romania

Zoonoses are responsible for many of all emerging infectious diseases as well as for those already *** ratti is a rat-originated virus related to the hepatitis E virus(Paslahepevirus balayani)but highly divergent genetically from this,with a high cross-species infection potential and zoonotic *** can infect humans,leading to acute hepatitis,and is primarily transmitted through the consumption of contaminated *** ratti was first discovered in Germany in *** first human case was described in 2017 in Hong Kong in an immune-compromised *** first case of chronic infection with Rocahep-evirus ratti was described in 2023.A meta-analysis based on 38 studies published between 2000 and 2023 identified 21 cases in humans described up to this date and 489 infections in different *** awareness regarding this virus is essential,as there are probably many cases that remain undiagnosed,and the virus even has the ability to produce chronic infections in selected patients.

关键词： Hepatitis Rocahepevirus ratti Rats Zoonoses Hepeviridae Liver

Adaptive Random Effects/Coefficients Modeling

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Open Journal of Statistics 2024年第2期14卷 179-206页

作者： george J. Knafl School of Nursing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill USA

Adaptive fractional polynomial modeling of general correlated outcomes is formulated to address nonlinearity in means, variances/dispersions, and correlations. Means and variances/dispersions are modeled using generalized linear models in fixed effects/coefficients. Correlations are modeled using random effects/coefficients. Nonlinearity is addressed using power transforms of primary (untransformed) predictors. Parameter estimation is based on extended linear mixed modeling generalizing both generalized estimating equations and linear mixed modeling. Models are evaluated using likelihood cross-validation (LCV) scores and are generated adaptively using a heuristic search controlled by LCV scores. Cases covered include linear, Poisson, logistic, exponential, and discrete regression of correlated continuous, count/rate, dichotomous, positive continuous, and discrete numeric outcomes treated as normally, Poisson, Bernoulli, exponentially, and discrete numerically distributed, respectively. Example analyses are also generated for these five cases to compare adaptive random effects/coefficients modeling of correlated outcomes to previously developed adaptive modeling based on directly specified covariance structures. Adaptive random effects/coefficients modeling substantially outperforms direct covariance modeling in the linear, exponential, and discrete regression example analyses. It generates equivalent results in the logistic regression example analyses and it is substantially outperformed in the Poisson regression case. Random effects/coefficients modeling of correlated outcomes can provide substantial improvements in model selection compared to directly specified covariance modeling. However, directly specified covariance modeling can generate competitive or substantially better results in some cases while usually requiring less computation time.

关键词： Adaptive Regression Correlated Outcomes Extended Linear Mixed Modeling Fractional Polynomials Likelihood Cross-Validation Random Effects/Coefficients

An Analysis of Specific Categories of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities for Children of Participants of the Air Force Health Study

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Open Journal of Epidemiology 2024年第2期14卷 312-330页

作者： george J. Knafl School of Nursing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC USA

Background: The Air Force Health Study collected reproductive outcomes for live-born children of male Air Force veterans of the Vietnam War. Methods: Dioxin values for participants were obtained from blood samples. Analyses were conducted of occurrence of 16 specific categories of birth defects and developmental disabilities. Children were categorized as conceived before and after the start of participants’ Vietnam War service. Children conceived before the start of Vietnam War service were treated as being conceived when their fathers had unquantifiable dioxin values. Children conceived after the start of Vietnam War service for participants with missing dioxin values were excluded from primary analyses, but were used to assess the impact of their exclusion on conclusions. Correlation between values for specific categories for multiple children fathered by the same participant was accounted for. The dose-response relationship was treated as a step function increasing for dioxin values larger than adaptively identified individual thresholds changing with the specific category. Results: For 15 of 16 specific categories, the probability of occurrence increased substantially for a sufficiently high dioxin level above identified thresholds. Exclusion of children due to missing dioxin likely did not affect these results. Conclusions: Results supported the conclusion of substantial adverse effects on a wide variety of specific categories of birth defects and developmental disabilities due to sufficiently high exposures to dioxin, a toxic contaminant of Agent Orange used for herbicide spraying in the Vietnam War. Results may hold more generally, but might also have been affected by a variety of limitations.

关键词： Agent Orange Air Force Health Study Birth Defects Developmental Disabilities Dioxin Dose-Response Relationship Vietnam War

Boron-containing compounds as labels,drugs,and theranostic agents for diabetes and its complications

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World Journal of Diabetes 2024年第6期15卷 1060-1069页

作者： Marvin A Soriano-Ursúa R Ivan Cordova-Chávez Eunice D Farfan-García george Kabalka Department of Physiology Escuela Superior de MedicinaInstituto Politécnico NacionalCiudad de México 11340Mexico Department of Physiology Instituto Politécnico NacionalMexico City 11340Mexico Department of Biochemistry Instituto Politécnico NacionalMexico City 11340Mexico Department of Chemistry The University of TennesseeKnoxvilleTN 37996United States

Diabetes is a disease with a high global *** strategies have failed to limit the advancement and impact of the *** early diagnosis and treatment will require the development of new *** this sense,boroncontaining compounds have been reported as agents with the ability to reduce glycemia and *** have also been used for labeling and measuring carbohydrates and other molecules linked to the initial stages of diabetes and its *** addition,certain boron compounds bind to molecules related to diabetes development and their biological activity in the regulation of elevated ***,it should be noted that some boron compounds appear to exert beneficial effects on diabetes complications such as accelerating wound healing while ameliorating pain in diabetic patients.

关键词： Boron Carbohydrates Metabolism Diabetes Boronodipyrromethene

Hydrodynamic Simulation of the Pagasitikos Gulf, Greece

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Computational Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering 2024年第1期13卷 58-85页

作者： george Bousbouras Panagiotis Angelidis Division of Hydraulics Department of Civil Engineering School of Engineering Democritus University of Thrace Kimmeria Campus Xanthi Greece

Semi-enclosed sea basins have difficulty in recharging their waters due to limited communication with larger water bodies, with understandable consequences for their environmental status. This paper aims at the computational simulation of the hydrodynamic characteristics of the waters of the Pagasitikos Gulf (Greece), which has limited communication and water exchange with the Aegean Sea and is subject to intense environmental pressures The Estuary, Lake & Coastal Ocean 3d hydrodynamic Model (ELCOM 2.2) combined with its later version Aquatic Ecosystem Model-3d (AEM3D) were used for the simulation. The simulation included the topography of the area, the bay’s bottom geometry, atmospheric loadings, tides, the influence of the Coriolis force and boundary conditions. The hydrodynamic behaviour of the bay, water circulation, velocities at the surface and in depth, water recharge and residence time throughout the bay, density variation and other factors were examined to determine the impact of all these on the aquatic ecosystem.

关键词： Hydrodynamic Simulation Semi-Enclosed Sea Basins Pagasitikos Gulf Greece

Current Circulation and Water Renewal Time in the Enclosed Marine Area of Pagasitikos Basin, Greece

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Computational Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering 2024年第3期13卷 113-132页

作者： george Bousbouras Panagiotis Angelidis Division of Hydraulics Department of Civil Engineering School of Engineering Democritus University of Thrace Kimmeria Greece

Greece boasts an impressive closed coastline stretching across 13,676 km, making it the largest in the Mediterranean basin and one of the largest in the world. Given the significant human activities that take place in coastal areas, understanding the behavior of the sea environment becomes crucial. In this study, we delve into the generation and movement of marine currents as well as the retention time and water age within the waters of Pagasitikos Sea inlet, Greece, through numerical simulation of hydrodynamic characteristics. The main examined points of the understudy region are the area of the port of Volos, the Trikeri channel where the ingress and egress of water from the Gulf takes place and the exchange of seawater through circulation of the Pagasitikos Gulf with the North Evian Gulf. In order to evaluate the results, they were compared with real field measurements and with simulation on a laboratory dummy of the same area. The computational simulation was performed with the ELCOM 2.2 numerical modeling tool and the AEM3D latest version and the main factors simulated are the tide, the consequence that Coriolis force, boundary conditions, the topography and bottom geometry of the bay and the actual meteorological conditions of a whole year.

关键词： Fluid Dynamics Simulation Current Circulation Pagasitikos Basin ELCOM

Reliability of the K-Force Muscle Controller Dynamometer on Eccentric and Isometric Hip Adduction Strength

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Open Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation 2024年第3期12卷 224-235页

作者： Christos Pippas Antonis Emmanouilidis Stefanos Karanasios george Koumantakis george Gioftsos Department of Physiotherapy University of West Attica Athens Greece

Hip adduction strength tests are commonly used in clinical practice to provide an accurate diagnosis of groin injuries. Athletes with reduced adductor muscle strength are at risk of developing groin injuries. Our study aimed to evaluate the relative and absolute test-retest reliability of the side-lying eccentric hip adduction strength test and the long-lever adduction squeeze test using the K-Force hand-held dynamometer. Twenty physically active male individuals with a mean age (±SD) of 30.7 (±7.3) years were included. Both tests presented excellent test-retest reliability (Intraclass Correlation Coefficient: 0.77 - 0.95). The best and mean scores of the eccentric and isometric tests presented the smallest test-retest variation (MDC%: 12.8 - 14.9 and MDC%: 14.6 - 18.7, respectively). Our study showed that the K-Force dynamometer has excellent reliability for assessing hip adduction strength in two different testing positions. We suggest the best and mean of three repetitions for clinical practice as they present the lowest variability. Further research evaluating its clinimetric properties in different populations and gender is recommended.

关键词： Adductor Groin Strength Testing Dynamometer Reliability

Thermochemical co-conversion of biomass-plastic waste to biochar:a review

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Green Chemical Engineering 2024年第1期5卷 31-49页

作者： Adewale george Adeniyi Kingsley O.Iwuozor Ebuka Chizitere Emenike Oluwaseun J.Ajala Samuel Ogunniyi Kabir B.Muritala Department of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Engineering and TechnologyUniversity of IlorinIlorinP.M.B.1515Nigeria Department of Chemical Engineering Landmark UniversityOmu-AranKwara StateP.M.B.1001Nigeria Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry Nnamdi Azikiwe UniversityAwkaP.M.B.5025Nigeria Department of Chemistry Federal University of TechnologyBosso CampusMinnaNiger StateP.M.B.65Nigeria

Biomass and plastics are two of the most common municipal solid wastes globally that have continuously placed a burden on the *** is therefore important that they are properly *** coconversion offers a valuable opportunity to recycle biomass and plastics simultaneously into biochar,which reduces the time and cost of recycling them individually while producing a material with a wide range of *** study is a review of published literature that discusses the thermochemical co-processing of biomass and plastic wastes into *** was observed that co-pyrolysis and co-hydrothermal carbonization are the most commonly utilized technologies for this *** characteristics of different biomass and plastics that have been thermochemically converted into biochar were *** properties of the resulting biochar are affected by the feedstock composition,pre-treatment and blending ratio,the reactor’s configuration,reaction temperature,and the presence of a *** studies found that treating the feedstocks separately resulted in a lower yield of biochar than processing them *** biochar created by this procedure has been used as a soil additive and as an adsorbent for water *** perspectives and suggestions,such as the necessity for some technical advancement,biochar’s economic benefits,improved government participation,and raised social awareness,were also *** factors have the potential to propel this field of study to great horizons.

关键词： Biomass Co-pyrolysis Plastic Thermochemical process Valorization

Feeding behavior and hormoligosis associated with imidacloprid resistance in Asian citrus psyllid,Diaphorina citri

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Insect Science 2024年第4期31卷 1211-1221页

作者： Xue Dong Chen Justin george Lauren M.Diepenbrock Hunter Gossett Guoping Liu Jawwad A.Qureshi Lukasz L.Stelinski Entomology and Nematology Department University of FloridaCitrus Research and Education CenterLake AlfredFloridaUSA Southern Insect Management Research Unit USDA-ARSStonevilleMississippiUSA Entomology and Nematology Department University of FloridaSouthwest Florida Research and Education CenterImmokaleeFloridaUSA

Imidacloprid is a neonicotinoid insecticide used for managing the Asian citrus psyllid,Diaphorina citri Kuwayama,which serves as vector of phytopathogens causing citrus ***,development of resistance to neonicotinoids among populations of *** has coincided with occasional control failures in the *** objectives of this research were to(1)survey current levels of imidacloprid resistance in Florida citrus;(2)compare feeding behavior between imidacloprid-resistant and susceptible *** using electrical penetration graph recordings,and(3)investigate the possible amplification of insecticide hormoligosis associated with *** surveys confirmed that the susceptibility of *** populations to imidacloprid has decreased in commercial Florida citrus groves compared with a laboratory-susceptible *** 12 generations of selection,resistance to imidacloprid increased by 438 fold compared with the susceptible ***-susceptible *** feeding on citrus exhibited significantly more bouts associated with intercellular pathway(C),phloem penetration(D),phloem salivation(E1),and nonprobing(Np)activities than imidacloprid-resistant ***,there were no differences observed in the frequency or duration of phloem ingestion or xylem feeding between susceptible and resistant *** was no statistical difference in fecundity between resistant and susceptible ***,the fecundity of imidacloprid-susceptible female *** treated with a sublethal concentration of imidacloprid(LC_(25))increased significantly compared with controls,while such hormoligosis was less pronounced among imidacloprid-resistant *** results suggest that imidacloprid-resistant psyllids may cease feeding sooner than susceptible counterparts following sublethal exposure to this insecticide,indicative of a behavioral resistance mechanism.

关键词： artificial selection electrical penetration graph feeding behavior hormoligosis insecticide resistance sublethal exposure