Longitudinal significance of six-minute walk test in patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: an observational study by Atsuho Morita, Kazuma Yagi, Takanori Asakura, Ho Namkoong, Yasunori Sato, Takunori Ogawa, Tatsuya Kusumoto, Shoji Suzuki, Hiromu Tanaka, Ho Lee, Satoshi Okamori, Shuhei Azekawa, Kensuke Nakagawara, Masanori Kaji, Genta Nagao, Yohei Funatsu, Yoshifumi Kimizuka, Hirofumi Kamata, Tomoyasu Nishimura, Makoto Ishii, Koichi Fukunaga, Naoki Hasegawa

“…Abstract Background The long-term exercise tolerance changes in patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) are of great interest because of its chronic course. …”
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Medium-term mortality after hip fractures and COVID-19: A prospective multi-centre UK study by Gareth Chan, Ashish Narang, Arash Aframian, Zaid Ali, Joseph Bridgeman, Alastair Carr, Laura Chapman, Henry Goodier, Catrin Morgan, Chang Park, Sarah Sexton, Kapil Sugand, Thomas Walton, Michael Wilson, Ajay Belgaumkar, Kieran Gallagher, Koushik Ghosh, Charles Gibbons, Joshua Jacob, Andrew Keightley, Zuhair Nawaz, Khaled Sarraf, Christopher Wakeling, William Kieffer, Benedict Rogers

“…Methods: A multi-centre prospective study across 10 hospitals treating 8% of the annual burden of hip fractures in England between 1st March and 30th April, 2020 was performed. Patients whose surgical treatment was payable through the National Health Service Best Practice Tariff mechanism for “fragility hip fractures” were included in the study. …”
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NH₃ spatiotemporal variability over Paris, Mexico City, and Toronto, and its link to PM_2.5 during pollution events by C. Viatte, R. Abeed, S. Yamanouchi, S. Yamanouchi, W. C. Porter, S. Safieddine, M. Van Damme, M. Van Damme, L. Clarisse, B. Herrera, B. Herrera, M. Grutter, P.-F. Coheur, K. Strong, C. Clerbaux, C. Clerbaux

“…The variety of the NH<span class="inline-formula">₃</span> sources (industry and agricultural) and the weaker temperature seasonal cycle in southern North America induce a lower correlation factor (<span class="inline-formula"><i>r</i>²=0.5</span>). The three regions are subject to long-range transport of NH<span class="inline-formula">₃</span>, as shown using HYSPLIT cluster back trajectories. …”
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Evaluation of DSSAT-CROPGRO-Canola Model to Simulate Growth and Yield of Two Canola (Brassica napus L.) Cultivars in Karaj by Gelareh Goodarzi, Ahmad GHanbari, Saeid Soufizadeh, Hamid Jabbari, Ali Eskandari

“…Based on the long-term model simulation of cultivars in different planting dates, it is recommended to plant spring canola up to 11 March in this region.ConclusionThe results of this study showed that the DSSAT-CROPGRO-Canola model had reliably good performance under different management and environmental conditions. …”
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Mitchell (Mitch) Mirkin (1962?2022) Acting Director, VA Research Communications

“…Mitch Mirkin, acting director of Communications for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development, died suddenly at the age of 59, on March 18, 2022. Mirkin spent more than 21 years working for VA Research Communications. …”
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Effect of Collagen Crosslinkers on Dentin Bond Strength of Adhesive Systems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Louis Hardan, Umer Daood, Rim Bourgi, Carlos Enrique Cuevas-Suárez, Walter Devoto, Maciej Zarow, Natalia Jakubowicz, Juan Eliezer Zamarripa-Calderón, Mateusz Radwanski, Giovana Orsini, Monika Lukomska-Szymanska

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Prevalence and Epidemiology of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus from 2014 to 2021 in Hebei Province by TIAN Meiling, MA Guojuan, DU Liyan, XIAO Yuange, ZHANG Sai, ZHANG Cui, TANG Zengjun

“…Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the common pregnancy complications, which not only increases the maternal risk of short-term and long-term complications such as maternal preeclampsia and type 2 diabetes, but also the incidence rates of fetal malformation, macrosomia, etc. …”
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First assessment of underwater sound levels in the Northern Adriatic Sea at the basin scale by Antonio Petrizzo, Andrea Barbanti, Giulia Barfucci, Mauro Bastianini, Ilaria Biagiotti, Sofia Bosi, Michele Centurelli, Robert Chavanne, Antonio Codarin, Ilaria Costantini, Marinela Cukrov Car, Vlado Dadić, Francesco M. Falcieri, Raffaela Falkner, Giulio Farella, Mario Felli, Christian Ferrarin, Thomas Folegot, Roger Gallou, Daphnie Galvez, Michol Ghezzo, Aleksandra Kruss, Iole Leonori, Stefano Menegon, Hrvoje Mihanović, Stipe Muslim, Alice Pari, Sauro Pari, Marta Picciulin, Grgur Pleslić, Marko Radulović, Nikolina Rako-Gospić, Davide Sabbatini, Giulia Soldano, Jarosław Tęgowski, Tihana Vučur-Blazinić, Predrag Vukadin, Jakub Zdroik, Fantina Madricardo

“…To bridge this knowledge gap, the SOUNDSCAPE project ran a basin-scale, cross-national, long-term underwater monitoring in the Northern Adriatic Sea. …”
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Ensemble analysis and forecast of ecosystem indicators in the North Atlantic using ocean colour observations and prior statistics from a stochastic NEMO–PISCES simulator by M. Popov, J.-M. Brankart, A. Capet, A. Capet, E. Cosme, P. Brasseur

“…An example application is provided, which covers a limited time period in a limited subregion of the North Atlantic (between 31 and 21<span class="inline-formula">^∘</span> W, between 44 and 50.5<span class="inline-formula">^∘</span> N, between 15 March and 15 June 2019, at a <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M3" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><mn mathvariant="normal">1</mn><mo>/</mo><mn mathvariant="normal">4</mn></mrow></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20pt" height="14pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="b5e3e9140aa7b06ea772efeaf94fa8b6"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="os-20-155-2024-ie00001.svg" width="20pt" height="14pt" src="os-20-155-2024-ie00001.png"/></svg:svg></span></span><span class="inline-formula">^∘</span> and a 1 d resolution). …”
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Airborne limb-imaging measurements of temperature, HNO₃, O₃, ClONO₂, H₂O and CFC-12 during the Arctic winter 2015/2016: characterization... by S. Johansson, W. Woiwode, M. Höpfner, F. Friedl-Vallon, A. Kleinert, E. Kretschmer, T. Latzko, J. Orphal, P. Preusse, J. Ungermann, M. L. Santee, T. Jurkat-Witschas, A. Marsing, C. Voigt, A. Giez, M. Krämer, C. Rolf, A. Zahn, A. Engel, B.-M. Sinnhuber, H. Oelhaf

“…The estimated total (random and systematic) 1<i>σ</i> errors are in the range of 1 to 2&thinsp;K for temperature and 10&thinsp;% to 20&thinsp;% relative error for the discussed trace gases. …”
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Research and management challenges following soil and landscape decontamination at the onset of the reopening of the Difficult-to-Return Zone, Fukushima (Japan) by O. Evrard, T. Chalaux-Clergue, P.-A. Chaboche, P.-A. Chaboche, Y. Wakiyama, Y. Thiry

“…The central objective was not to expose local inhabitants to radioactive doses exceeding 1 mSv yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span> in addition to the natural levels. …”
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Response of Eichhornia crassipes (Pontederiaceae) to water level fluctuations in two lakes with different connectivity in the Paraná River floodplain by Juan José Neiff, Sylvina Lorena Casco, Alicia Poi de Neiff

“…Samples were taken between March 1997 and December 2001 on 13 different hydrologic conditions during prolonged hydrologic connection and prolonged hydrologic isolation. …”
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Ventricular Fibrillation Recurrences in Successfully Shocked Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests by Daniela Aschieri, Federico Guerra, Valentina Pelizzoni, Enrico Paolini, Giulia Stronati, Luca Moderato, Giulia Losi, Paolo Compagnucci, Michela Coccia, Michela Casella, Antonio Dello Russo, Gust H. Bardy, Alessandro Capucci

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Insights from linking police domestic abuse data and health data in South Wales, UK: a linked routine data analysis using decision tree classification by Natasha Kennedy, PhD, Tint Lwin Win, MSc, Amrita Bandyopadhyay, MSc, Jonathan Kennedy, EngD, Benjamin Rowe, BSc, Cynthia McNerney, BBus, Julie Evans, MSc, Karen Hughes, ProfPhD, Mark A Bellis, ProfDSc, Angela Jones, MPH, Karen Harrington, MSc, Simon Moore, ProfPhD, Sinead Brophy, ProfPhD

“…Summary: Background: Exposure to domestic abuse can lead to long-term negative impacts on the victim's physical and psychological wellbeing. …”
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Evaluation of Soil Management Effect on Crop Productivity and Vegetation Indices Accuracy in Mediterranean Cereal-Based Cropping Systems by Roberto Orsini, Marco Fiorentini, Stefano Zenobi

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The Incidence of Adjacent Segment Degeneration after the Use of a Versatile Dynamic Hybrid Stabilization Device in Lumbar Stenosis: Results of a 5–8-Year Follow-up by Mauro Dobran, Davide Nasi, Domenico Paolo Esposito, Maurizio Gladi, Massimo Scerrati, Maurizio Iacoangeli

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Study on biofilm formation ability of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in surveillance of nosocomial infection (多重耐药鲍曼不动杆菌生物被膜形成能力在医院感染监测中的研究)... by LI Kaixuan (李凯旋), DI Youhua (狄友华), ZHOU YANG (周杨), WANG XING (王幸), CHEN LEI (陈蕾), YAN Ruina (严蕊娜)

“…Methods The multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from the Microbiology Room of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Medical College from March 2018 to March 2020 was collected, and the strains were identified and tested by the automatic bacterial identification instrument VITEK-2 identification and drug sensitivity analysis system. …”
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Piłsudski and parliament by Polonsky, A, Antony Polonsky

“…</p> <p>This constitution, adopted in March 1921, worked badly from the start. One hundred and thirty years of partition had created very different political traditions among those who had lived under either Austrian, Prussian or Russian rule. …”

Primary care professionals providing non-urgent care in hospital emergency departments. by Khangura, J, Flodgren, G, Perera, R, Rowe, B, Shepperd, S

“…BACKGROUND: In many countries emergency departments (EDs) are facing an increase in demand for services, long-waits and severe crowding. One response to mitigate overcrowding has been to provide primary care services alongside or within hospital EDs for patients with non-urgent problems. …”

Ablação histeroscópica do endométrio: resultados após seguimento clínico de 5 anos Results of hysteroscopic endometrial ablation after five-year follow-up by Winny Hirome Takahashi, Reginaldo Guedes Coelho Lopes, Daniella de Batista Depes, Hosana Karinne de Marathaoan Souza Martins e Castello Branco

“…RESULTS: A total of 114 patients underwent endometrial ablation between March 1999 and April 2004. The median follow-up was 82 months. …”
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