Applying artificial intelligence in healthcare: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic by Balasubramanian, Sreejith, Shukla, Vinaya, Islam, Nazrul, Upadhyay, Arvind, Duong, Linh

“…The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in global healthcare systems and highlighted the need for innovative, technology-driven solutions like Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, previous research on the topic has been limited and fragmented, leading to an incomplete understanding of the ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of its application, as well as its associated benefits and challenges. …”
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Environmental antimicrobial resistance: implications for food safety and public health by Ifedinezi, Onyinye Victoria, Nnaji, Nnabueze Darlington, Anumudu, Christian Kosisochukwu, Ekwueme, Chiemerie Theresa, Uhegwu, Chijioke Christopher, Ihenetu, Francis Chukwuebuka, Obioha, Promiselynda Ijeoma, Simon, Blessing Oteta, Ezechukwu, Precious Somtochukwu, Onyeaka, Helen

“…Some crucial strategies discussed include developing antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs, encouraging targeted narrow-spectrum antibiotic use, and emphasizing the significance of strict regulatory frameworks and surveillance systems, like the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) and the Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) classification. …”
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Road pothole detection from smartphone sensor data using improved LSTM by Singh, Prabhat, Kamal, Ahmed E., Bansal, Abhay, Kumar, Sunil

“…Therefore, several automatic road monitoring approaches have been proposed to monitor the road surface and detect road abnormalities like potholes. However, low accuracy in detecting the pothole in low-light conditions is taken as the main problem in this work. …”
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Comparative evaluation of spatiotemporal methods for effective dengue cluster detection with a case study of national surveillance data in Thailand by Rotejanaprasert, C, Chinpong, K, Lawson, AB, Maude, RJ

“…Traditional methods such as Getis Ord and Moran’s I showed poorer performance, while other scanning-based approaches like spatial SaTScan exhibited limitations in positive predictive value and tended to identify large clusters due to the inflexibility of its scanning window shape. …”

Voice EHR: introducing multimodal audio data for health by Anibal, J, Huth, H, Li, M, Hazen, L, Daoud, V, Ebedes, D, Lam, YM, Nguyen, H, Hong, PV, Kleinman, M, Ost, S, Jackson, C, Sprabery, L, Elangovan, C, Krishnaiah, B, Akst, L, Lina, I, Elyazar, I, Ekawati, L, Jansen, S, Nduwayezu, R, Garcia, C, Plum, J, Brenner, J, Clifton, D

“…Large language models (LLMs) were used to compare transcribed Voice EHR data with data (from the same patients) collected through conventional techniques like multiple choice questions. Information contained in the Voice EHR samples was consistently rated as equally or more relevant to a health evaluation. …”

Order among chaos: High throughput MYCroplanters can distinguish interacting drivers of host infection in a highly stochastic system by Chen, MY, Fulton, LM, Huang, I, Liman, A, Hossain, SS, Hamilton, CD, Song, S, Geissmann, Q, King, KC, Haney, CH

“…Our results demonstrate that high-throughput tools like MYCroplanters can isolate interacting drivers of host susceptibility to disease. …”

The prevention and management of chronic kidney disease among patients with metabolic syndrome by Zhu, D, Judge, PK, Wanner, C, Haynes, R, Herrington, WG

“…For patients with type 2 diabetes and albuminuric CKD, the non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist finerenone and the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist semaglutide also confer cardiorenal benefits, with semaglutide additionally effective at reducing weight. …”

The impact of founder personalities on startup success by McCarthy, PX, Gong, X, Braesemann, F, Stephany, F, Rizoiu, M, Kern, ML

“…Startups are a vital source of innovation, yet the most innovative are also the least likely to survive. The probability of success of startups has been shown to relate to several firm-level factors such as industry, location and the economy of the day. …”

Numeric metrics for capturing variations in flow fields: an improvement towards a robust comparison of vector fields by Nowruzi, M, Baker, S, Leach, F, Fang, X

“…To address this, improved metrics like the Weighted Relevance Index (WRI), the Weighted Magnitude Index (WMI), and their amalgamated Combined Magnitude And Relevance Index (CMRI), have been introduced in the literature. …”

Laser scribed proton exchange membranes for enhanced fuel cell performance and stability by Chen, J, Lu, X, Wang, L, Du, W, Guo, H, Rimmer, M, Zhai, H, Liu, Y, Shearing, PR, Haigh, SJ, Holmes, SM, Miller, TS

“…This study presents an innovative approach to enhance HT-PEMFC performance through membrane modification using picosecond laser scribing, which optimises the three-phase interface by forming a graphene-like structure that mitigates PA leaching. Our results demonstrate that laser-induced modification of PA-doped membranes, particularly on the cathode side, significantly enhances the performance and durability of HT-PEMFCs, achieving a peak power density of 817.2 mW cm⁻² after accelerated stress testing, representing a notable 58.2% increase compared to untreated membranes. …”

New Silurian aculiferan fossils reveal complex early history of Mollusca by Sutton, MD, Sigwart, JD, Briggs, DEG, Gueriau, P, King, A, Siveter, DJ, Siveter, DJ

“…The few completely preserved aculiferan or aculiferan-like fossils from the early Palaeozoic12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18–19 have been largely regarded as transitional forms that inform questions of character polarity between the extant polyplacophoran and aplacophoran body forms20, 21. …”

(Re)wilding London: fabric, politics, and aesthetics by Turnbull, J, Fry, T, Lorimer, J

“…Of late, however, there has been a shift, with growing enthusiasm amongst metropolitan authorities, civil society, and citizens in major cities like London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne, as well as smaller cities around the world. …”

Enhanced simulation of atmospheric blocking in a high-resolution earth system model: projected changes and implications for extreme weather events by Gao, Y, Guo, X, Lu, J, Woollings, T, Chen, D, Guo, X, Wu, L

“…This increase in summer blocking could exacerbate summer heatwaves in a warming climate, making severe heatwaves, like those observed recently, more common in the future.…”

MISE: meta-knowledge inheritance for social media-based stressor estimation by Wang, X, Feng, L, Zhang, H, Cao, L, Zeng, K, Li, Q, Ding, Y, Dai, Y, Clifton, D

“…While the majority of the work focuses on classifying stress states and stress categories, this study introduce a new task aimed at estimating more specific stressors (like exam, writing paper, etc.) through users’ posts on social media. …”

Professionals’ views on providing personalized recurrence risks for de novo mutations: implications for genetic counseling by Kay, A, Wells, J, Hallowell, N, Goriely, A

“…When an apparent de novo (new) genetic change has been identified as the cause of a serious genetic condition in a child, many couples would like to know the risk of this happening again in a future pregnancy. …”

Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia by Lombardo, U, Hilbert, L, Bentley, M, Bronk Ramsey, C, Dudgeon, Gaitan-Roca, A, Iriarte, J, Mejía Ramón, AG, Quezada, S, Raczka, M, Watling,JG, Neves, E, Mayle, F

“…Our results have implications for how we conceive agricultural systems in Amazonia, and show an example of a Neolithic-like, grain-based agrarian economy in the Amazon.…”

Looking deep at people: towards understanding and generating humans in images with deep learning by de Bem, RA

“…A significant effort has been devoted to these tasks by the research community along the last decades, greatly motivated by a large number of potential applications, like surveillance, human-machine interaction, action and behaviour recognition, motion capture, video reenactment, and computer graphics animation. …”

Screening for pathogenic neuronal autoantibodies in serum and CSF of patients with first-episode psychosis by Theorell, J, Ramberger, M, Harrison, R, Mgbachi, V, Jacobson, L, Waters, P, Erhardt, S, Sellgren, CM, Cervenka, S, Piehl, F, Irani, SR

“…These identified 3/71 (4%) patient sera with weak binding to either contactin-associated protein-like 2, the NMDAR or glycine receptor versus no binding from 48 control samples (p = 0.28, Fisher's test). …”

Communication in the workplace: request mitigations in Instant Messaging (IM) among native Malay speakers by Petani Mohd Noor, Marlyna Maros, Kesumawati Abu Bakar, Normalis Amzah

“…However, achieving both simultaneously can be challenging, particularly when dealing with face-threatening acts like making requests. Requests can infringe on someone’s freedom of action, potentially leading to face threats, necessitating facework strategies for restoration. …”
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Understanding solar PV through the MinUS-C module grounded in the ADDIE instructional model by Muhamad Kamarul Azman Sulaiman, Lilia Halim, Nurazidawati Mohamad Arsad, Ruhizan Mohamad Yasin

“…The findings underscore the potential of integrating digital tools like the MinUS-C Module into science curricula to advance sustainable development goals, equipping students with critical skills and awareness for future energy transitions.…”
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