Intergenerational differences in smoking among West Indian, Haitian, Latin American, and African blacks in the United States by Tod G. Hamilton, Tiffany L. Green

“…Specifically, we investigate these differences among all black immigrants and then provide separate analyses for individuals with ancestry from the English-speaking Caribbean (West Indies), Haiti, Latin America, and Africa—the primary sending regions of black immigrants to the United States. …”
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Hepatitis B Virus Research in South Africa by Mohube B. Maepa, Abdullah Ely, Anna Kramvis, Kristie Bloom, Kubendran Naidoo, Omphile E. Simani, Tongai G. Maponga, Patrick Arbuthnot

“…In South Africa (SA), over 1.9 million people are chronically infected with HBV, and 70% of all Black chronic carriers are infected with HBV subgenotype A1. …”
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Local networks : theory and applications by Möbius, Markus M. (Markus Michael), 1971-

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Guanosine and Deoxyinosine Structural Analogs Extracted from Chick Early Amniotic Fluid Promote Cutaneous Wound Healing by Mashaal Ahmad, Jia Yu, Sha Cheng, Zara Ahmad Khan, Yan Luo, Heng Luo

“…For this, we randomly divided C57BL/6 (all black, male, 5 weeks old) mice into groups. The wound model was established through excising the skin of mice and treated the wounds with different fractions of guanosine and deoxyinosine continuously for 8–10 day intervals. …”
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Symptomatic gallstones and HIV in black South African women: Changing trends of gallstone disease? by Suman Mewa Kinoo, Savania Nagiah, Anil Chuturgoon, Bhugwan Singh

“…Method: A case series study was conducted of all black South African women undergoing cholecystectomy for gallstone disease over a 1-year period at King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban, South Africa. …”
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Understanding of black salve toxicity by multi-compound cytotoxicity assays by Andrew Croaker, Arie Davis, Anthony Carroll, Lei Liu, Stephen P. Myers

“…Results Sanguinarine was the most cytotoxic compound tested with a 24-hour IC50 of 2.1 μM against the A375 Melanoma cell line and 3.14 μM against the A431 SCC cell line. All black salve constituents showed greater cytotoxicity against the two skin cancer cell lines tested than the skin cancer therapeutic 5-Fluouracil with 24 hours of compound exposure. …”
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Glycemic Responses, Glycemic Index, and Glycemic Load Values of Some Street Foods Prepared from Plantain (Musa spp., AAB Genome) in Côte d’Ivoire by Camille Adam Kouamé, Nestor Kouakou Kouassi, Jacko Rhedoor Abodo, Kingsley Kwadwo Asare Pereko, Maria Cristina Casiraghi, Denis Yao N’dri, Georges N’guessan Amani

“…GI values were 44 for Klaclo (with Ameletiha variety at all black stage), 39 for Aloco (with Agnrin variety at full yellow stage), 39 for Aloco (with Agnrin variety at full yellow with black spots stage); 45 for Chips (with Ameletiha variety at green stage) and 89 for Banane braisée (with Afoto variety at light green stage). …”
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Rising food insecurity and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency food assistance in Michigan by Dorceta Taylor, Te’yah Wright, Ian Ortiz, Alison Surdoval, Ember McCoy, Sorroco Daupan

“…Forty percent of directors in all-Black-run organizations, 23.5% of those in multira­cial-led organizations, and 22.6% of the directors in all-White-led organizations criticized government responses to the pandemic. …”
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Racial disparities negatively impact outcomes in early‐onset colorectal cancer independent of socioeconomic status by Suneel D. Kamath, Nataly Torrejon, Wei Wei, Katherine Tullio, Kanika G. Nair, David Liska, Smitha S. Krishnamurthi, Alok A. Khorana

“…Early‐onset CRC patients were more likely to be Black (15.1% vs. 11.3%) or Hispanic (8.6% vs. 4.6%) and to present with stage 4 disease (24.9% vs. 17.0%), p < 0.0001 for all. Black patients had the worst median OS (58.3 months) compared to White (67.0 months), Hispanic (91.6 months), or Asian (104.9 months) patients, p < 0.0001. …”
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The inheritance of phenotype character on chickens (Gallus g allus domesticus, Linnaeus 1758)derived from crosses between backross first generation chickens(BC1) by Daryono, Budi Setiadi, Muamar, Arif

“…The beak all colors are yellow, while the legs are all black color grayish. All forms was single comb and red. …”
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Associations of Obesity With Incident Hospitalization Related to Peripheral Artery Disease and Critical Limb Ischemia in the ARIC Study by Caitlin W. Hicks, Chao Yang, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Aaron R. Folsom, Gerardo Heiss, James H. Black, Elizabeth Selvin, Kunihiro Matsushita

“…Methods and Results All black and white ARIC participants without prevalent PAD at baseline (1987–1989) were included. …”
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Understanding In Vivo Mastication Behaviour and In Vitro Starch and Protein Digestibility of Pulsed Electric Field-Treated Black Beans after Cooking by Marbie Alpos, Sze Ying Leong, Veronica Liesaputra, Candace E. Martin, Indrawati Oey

“…This study found two distinct groups of chewers—fast and slow chewers who masticated all black bean beans, on average, for <25 and >29 s, respectively, to achieve a bolus ready for swallowing. …”
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Weed Pressure, Yield, and Adhesion of Soil-biodegradable Mulches with Pie Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) by Huan Zhang, Lisa Wasko DeVetter, Edward Scheenstra, Carol Miles

“…Overall, these findings demonstrate that all black plastic and paper BDMs remained intact throughout the growing season and controlled weeds as well as black PE mulch, while clear BDM had higher weed pressure because it degraded during the growing season. …”
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USSTRIDE program is associated with competitive Black and Latino student applicants to medical school by Kendall M. Campbell, Thesla Berne-Anderson, Aihua Wang, Guy Dormeus, José E. Rodríguez

“…Methods: The academic performance (GPAs and MCAT scores) and acceptance and matriculation rate data on all Black and Latino Florida State University applicants to any medical school from 2008 to 2012 were collected from the AIS/AMCAS database and separated into two comparison groups (USSTRIDE vs. …”
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Interpretable machine learning for predicting pathologic complete response in patients treated with chemoradiation therapy for rectal adenocarcinoma by Du Wang, Sang Ho Lee, Huaizhi Geng, Haoyu Zhong, John Plastaras, Andrzej Wojcieszynski, Richard Caruana, Ying Xiao

“…The performance of EBM in predicting pCR on the test dataset was evaluated using ROC AUC and compared with that of three state-of-the-art black-box models: extreme gradient boosting (XGB), random forest (RF) and support vector machine (SVM). The predictions of all black-box models were interpreted using Shapley additive explanations.ResultsThe best input feature categories were CP+DVH+S+R_L1+R_L2 for all models, from which Boruta-selected features enabled the EBM, XGB, RF, and SVM models to attain the AUCs of 0.820, 0.828, 0.828, and 0.774, respectively. …”
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HIV Care Engagement Is Not Associated with COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy during the Initial Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Black Cisgender Sexual Minority Men and Transgender... by Dustin T. Duncan, Su Hyun Park, Yen-Tyng Chen, Brett Dolotina, Wilder R. Worrall, Hillary Hanson, Mainza Durrell, Gustavo Arruda Franco, Stephen S. Morse, John A. Schneider

“…It is therefore essential that COVID-19 vaccine promotion interventions focus on all Black sexual and gender minorities regardless of HIV care engagement and COVID-19 vaccine uptake is likely related to factors other than engagement in HIV status neutral care.…”
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The puzzling mitochondrial phylogeography of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens), the commercially most important insect protein species by Gunilla Ståhls, Rudolf Meier, Christoph Sandrock, Martin Hauser, Ljiljana Šašić Zorić, Elina Laiho, Andrea Aracil, Jovana Doderović, Rozane Badenhorst, Phira Unadirekkul, Nur Arina Binte Mohd Adom, Leo Wein, Cameron Richards, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Santos Rojo, Sanja Veselić, Tuure Parviainen

“…Despite varying extensively in morphology, it is widely assumed that all black soldier flies belong to the same species, Hermetia illucens. …”
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Interventions Incorporating Therapeutic Alliance to Improve Medication Adherence in Black Patients with Diabetes, Hypertension and Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review by Desta R, Blumrosen C, Laferriere HE, Saluja A, Bruce MA, Elasy TA, Griffith DM, Norris KC, Cavanaugh KL, Umeukeje EM

“…Narrative synthesis was done.Results: Eleven intervention studies met the study criteria and eight of those studies had all-Black samples. Medication adherence outcome measures were heterogenous. …”
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Afirmação da identidade étnico-racial em crianças quilombolas e não quilombolas by Andrea dos Santos Doria, Dalila Xavier de França, Marcus Eugênio Oliveira Lima

“…The children listened to a fairy tale whose protagonists were all black and then participated in the same interview as in Study 1. …”
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Tangani putaran ganas komersial by Shafie, Rohami

“…SAYA cukup tersentuh selepas menonton video menge­nai seorang pemain ragbi All Blacks, Sonny Bill Williams yang menjadi viral di Internet. …”
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