The impact of psoriatic arthritis on quality of life: a systematic review by James, L, Hailey, L, Suribhatia, R, McGagh, D, Amarnani, R, Bundy, C, Kirtley, S, O'Sullivan, D, Steinkoenig, I, White, J, Vivekanantham, A, Coates, LC

“…The severity of pain and/or fatigue is directly linked to decreased HRQoL. Importantly, those who fail to achieve minimal disease activity face challenges in work productivity and employment status.…”

Clinical outcomes of patients with unsuccessful mechanical thrombectomy versus best medical management of medium vessel occlusion stroke in the middle cerebral artery territory by Faizy, TD, Yedavalli, V, Salim, HA, Lakhani, DA, Musmar, B, Adeeb, N, Essibayi, MA, Daraghma, M, El Naamani, K, Henninger, N, Sundararajan, SH, Kuhn, AL, Khalife, J, Ghozy, S, Scarcia, L, Yeo, LL, Tan, BY, Regenhardt, RW, Heit, JJ, Cancelliere, NM, Rouchaud, A, Fiehler, J, Sheth, SA, Puri, AS, Dmytriw, AA

“…Conclusion: Unsuccessful MT for MeVO was linked to worse outcomes than best MM. These findings highlight the risks of prolonged attempts and emphasize the importance of efficient procedural decision-making to reduce complications and improve patient outcomes.…”

Personalised modelling of geographic movements in depression by Palmius, N

“…</p> <p>A new technique is therefore presented that finds groups of individuals that have similar regression models linking their geolocation-derived features with their self-reported depression levels. …”

Mosquito-borne diseases in urban East African Community region: a scoping review of urban typology research and mosquito genera overlap, 2000-2024 by Joseph, NK, Mumo, E, Morlighem, C, Macharia, PM, Snow, RW, Linard, C

“…Intricate co-occurrence patterns among Aedes, Culex and Anopheles genera linked to habitat preference and climatic conditions (temperature and precipitation) were observed. …”

Synthetic post-translational protein modification as a switch for activity by Faulkner, SC

“…Dha chemistry was once again employed to install O- and N-linked GlcNAc mimics in the complement determining region (CDR) of a nanobody cAbLys3, with the aim of reversibly blocking its antigen binding capacity. …”

Subretinal timrepigene emparvovec in adult men with choroideremia: a randomized phase 3 trial by MacLaren, RE, Fischer, MD, Gow, JA, Lam, BL, Sankila, E-MK, Girach, A, Panda, S, Yoon, D, Zhao, G, Pennesi, ME

“…<p>Choroideremia is a rare, X-linked retinal degeneration resulting in progressive vision loss. …”

Self-harm-related mental imagery: a content analysis study of imagery reported by young people referred to mental health services by Susi, K, Stewart, A, Knowles Bevis, R, Hawton, K

“…Self-harm exposure and the origins of self-harm-related imagery, such as the links with past self-harm and social media, as well as potential imagery-based interventions for self-harm, require further evaluation. …”

Understanding the molecular mechanism of ion and amino acid transport in neurons by Baroniņa, A

“…EAAT3 malfunction is linked to several neurological diseases and disorders, making it a therapeutic target. …”

Distinct Circle of Willis anatomical configurations in healthy preterm born adults: a 3D time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography study by Greggio, J, Malamateniou, C, Baruteau, KP, Reyes-Aldasoro, CC, Huckstep, OJ, Francis, JM, Williamson, W, Leeson, P, Lewandowski, AJ, Lapidaire, W

“…Conclusions: Preterm birth is linked to a distinct vascular phenotype of CoW in adults born preterm, with a higher likelihood of a CoW configuration with hypoplastic segments but a lower likelihood of absent segments. …”

Evaluation of naturally occurring IgG anti-Vi antibody titers as predictors and correlates of typhoid fever in Dhaka, Bangladesh by Khanam, F, Rickett, NY, Ahmmed, F, Islam, MT, Mbae, CK, Im, J, Aziz, AB, Ongadi, B, Chowdhury, F, Khan, AI, Akter, A, Firoj, MG, Rahman, SIA, Haile, K, Park, SE, Mwebia, MB, Mwangi, M, Ngugi, B, Behute, MG, Kering, K, Agampodi, S, Kanungo, S, Liu, X, Pollard, AJ

“…Plasma IgG anti-Vi antibodies were measured using a standard enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in random serosurveys of a population that had not previously received typhoid vaccination. …”

Anti-ageing properties of edible bird's nest ascertained by in vitro and in vivo studies in animal model by Hou, Zhiping

“…Hormonal imbalance during menopausal stage has been linked to increased risks of the fatal diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and breast cancer. …”
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Genome-wide transcriptome profiling reveals molecular response pathways of Trichoderma harzianum in response to salt stress by Yang, Qihong, Mao, Zhenchuan, Hao, Yali, Zheng, Shijie, Zhao, Jianlong, Li, Yan, Yang, Yuhong, Xie, Bingyan, Ling, Jian, Li, Yanlin

“…GO enrichment analysis showed that the T2-treatment DEGs were highly enriched in detoxification (p < 0.001), while the T4 DEGs were mainly enriched in cell components, mostly in cellular detoxification, cell surface, and cell wall. …”
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Study on the regulation of focal adesions and cortical actin by matrix nanotopography in 3D environment by Han, Jingjing, Lin, Keng-Hui, Chew, Lock Yue

“…With current studies on this topic being performed mainly in 2D platforms, the question on how nanotopography can influence cell bahaviors in 3D environments has yet to be addressed. …”
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Impacts on the solidification of water on plate surface for cold energy storage using ice slurry by Liu, Shengchun, Li, Hailong, Song, Mengjie, Dai, Baomin, Sun, Zhili

“…Since the heterogeneous nucleation energy is mainly determined by the substance and the roughness, while not by the surface material, it is important to increase the roughness in order to reduce subcooling and save energy, especially for copper and aluminum.…”
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Linear A and Minoan : some new old questions by Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco

“…The aim of this paper is to provide a synthetic outline of the attempts so far produced by scholars in trying to decipher Linear A, an undeciphered Aegean writing system (dating back to the European Bronze Age), highlighting some still unanswered epistemological questions. Linear A documents (mainly clay tablets) come (predominantly) from the Mediterranean island of Crete and transcribe Minoan, an unknown language. …”
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Examining derivatives of quinacridone, diketopyrrolopyrrole and indigo as the visible-light organic photocatalysts for metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization by Jia, Tao, Huang, Shuo, Bohra, Hassan, Wang, Mingfeng

“…To date the majority of reported organic photocatalysts for ATRP mainly absorb light in the UV region. Here we examined three organic chromophores, quinacridone, diketopyrrolopyrrole and indigo, as visible-light-absorbing organic photocatalysts for controllable polymerization of a series of methacrylates monomers via a scheme of light-mediated ATRP. …”
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Online matching with its applications to ridesharing by Wang, Hao

“…It brings new inspirations and challenges to the area of online matching and its generations because of different scenarios of ridesharing. In this thesis, we mainly focus on two specific ridesharing scenarios: ride hitch and ridesourcing, and develop two novel online matching models to characterize these problems. …”
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An artificial neural network model for multi-flexoelectric actuation of plates by Fan, Mu, Yu, Pengcheng, Xiao, Zhongmin

“…Case studies showed that the flexoelectricity induced stress mainly concentrate near the probe, the size and shape of the flexoelectric patch have limited effect on the actuation, hence, only the actuator positions were choosing as the input of the ANN model. …”
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The Portevin-Le Chatelier effect of Cu-2.0Be alloy during hot compression by Zhu, Daibo, Wu, Na, Liu, Yang, Liu, Xiaojin, Jiang, Chaohua, Jiang, Yanbin, Zhao, Hongyun, Cui, Shuhui, Xie, Guilan

“…The serration mechanism is mainly affected by the interaction between the velocity of solute atom diffusion and movable dislocations. …”
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Accelerating sparse matrix operations on FPGAs with on/off-chip memories by Li, Shiqing

“…Especially, well-organized on-chip memories can buffer reusable data and mitigate the off-chip memory bandwidth requirement. In this thesis, we mainly target sparse-matrix dense-vector multiplication (SpMV), Sparse-matrix sparse-matrix multiplication (SpMM), and sparse Long short-term memory (SpLSTM). …”
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