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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nurzatil Sharleeza Mat Jalaluddin, Abdulah Al-Hadi Ahmad Fuaad, Rofina Yasmin Othman
Banana is a premier fruit crop in many parts of the world especially Southeast Asia. The demand for banana has contributed to significant national income to primary banana producers in the SEA region such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. However, the widely traded banana industry is plagued by numerous threats including pests and diseases, post-harvest issues and extreme climate vulnerability. To address these challenges, new breeding techniques such as gene editing have been explored for breeding programs to develop improved banana varieties...
April 10, 2024: Transgenic Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kelly Dixon
OBJECTIVE: The pathway from experiencing sexual assault to successful prosecution of sexual assault cases is plagued by complicated and myriad factors, resulting in suboptimal outcomes for both survivors and judicial systems. In particular, disturbance of posttraumatic memory recall under stressful circumstances can negatively impact the veracity of survivor testimony. METHOD: This brief report integrates empirical findings from studies of trauma memory disturbance, and more specifically the impacts of glucocorticoid activation in sexual assault memory, contextualizing through the lens of implications for sexual assault litigation...
March 21, 2024: Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Subhash Chandra Parija, Abhijit Poddar
Parasitic diseases, including malaria, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis, continue to plague populations worldwide, particularly in resource-limited settings and disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. It has limited the use of conventional health-care delivery and disease control approaches and necessitated exploring innovative strategies. In this direction, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool with immense promise in parasitic disease control, offering the potential for enhanced diagnostics, precision drug discovery, predictive modeling, and personalized treatment...
2024: Tropical Parasitology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
John C Alverdy, Ann Polcari, Andrew Benjamin
Post-injury infection continues to plague trauma and emergency surgery patients fortunate enough to survive the initial injury. Rapid response systems, massive transfusion protocols, the development of level 1 trauma centers, etc., have improved the outcome for millions of patients worldwide. Yet despite this excellent initial care, patients still remain vulnerable to post-injury infections that can result in organ failure, prolonged critical illness and even death. While risk factors have been identified (degree of injury, blood loss, time to definitive care, immunocompromise, etc...
March 4, 2024: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Adrienne Lester King, Cristi Bell-Huff, Collins Airhihenbuwa, Susan Ogletree, Christa Wright
The prevalence and pervasive nature of emerging chemicals of concern has created widespread environmental injustice apprehensions in vulnerable communities. To alleviate and address these concerns, identifying, engaging, and training a diverse environmental health research workforce will be critical and necessary steps to combat and prevent the consequences of environmental injustice. While there is obvious need to enhance diversity in environmental health research, this process is hampered by facets of systemic racism that reduce access to educational resources needed to build interest and knowledge in students and teachers...
February 22, 2024: Advances in Physiology Education
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Arlette Campbell White, Oliver Charles Campbell White
According to Transparency International, of the US$7.5 trillion spent globally on health each year, US$500 billion is lost to corruption.1 This article deals with the topic of corruption in the health sector in sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on how it affects persons living with HIV and their families. It begins with a definition of corruption and outlines the types of activities, people and institutions that fall within that definition in the context of HIV/AIDS. Examples are provided of what happens in practice and the types of persons (in terms of their societal roles) who yield to corruption, and how and why they commit it...
December 2023: African Journal of AIDS Research: AJAR
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Florence Huber, Célia Basurko, Margot Oberlis, Leslie Alcouffe, Cyril Rousseau, Katell Le Poulain, Adriana Gonzalez, Lindsay Osei, Karl Kpossou, Nicolas Vignier, Claire Boceno, Solène Wiedner-Papin
In 2020, food shortages occurred at the beginning of the confinement period that was supposed to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. In French Guiana, where a major part of the population lives under the poverty line, health workers voiced major concerns. Alongside massive food aid distributions, a first transversal study was carried out in August 2020 targeting poor neighborhoods in Cayenne. The results were particularly worrying. More than 80% of households had been suffering from hunger during that month, with a median decrease of 46% in revenue...
December 11, 2023: Santé Publique: Revue Multidisciplinaire Pour la Recherche et L'action
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jin Yang, Ashley A Huggins, Delin Sun, C Lexi Baird, Courtney C Haswell, Jessie L Frijling, Miranda Olff, Mirjam van Zuiden, Saskia B J Koch, Laura Nawijn, Dick J Veltman, Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Xi Zhu, Yuval Neria, Anna R Hudson, Sven C Mueller, Justin T Baker, Lauren A M Lebois, Milissa L Kaufman, Rongfeng Qi, Guang Ming Lu, Pavel Říha, Ivan Rektor, Emily L Dennis, Christopher R K Ching, Sophia I Thomopoulos, Lauren E Salminen, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M Thompson, Dan J Stein, Sheri M Koopowitz, Jonathan C Ipser, Soraya Seedat, Stefan du Plessis, Leigh L van den Heuvel, Li Wang, Ye Zhu, Gen Li, Anika Sierk, Antje Manthey, Henrik Walter, Judith K Daniels, Christian Schmahl, Julia I Herzog, Israel Liberzon, Anthony King, Mike Angstadt, Nicholas D Davenport, Scott R Sponheim, Seth G Disner, Thomas Straube, David Hofmann, Daniel W Grupe, Jack B Nitschke, Richard J Davidson, Christine L Larson, Terri A deRoon-Cassini, Jennifer U Blackford, Bunmi O Olatunji, Evan M Gordon, Geoffrey May, Steven M Nelson, Chadi G Abdallah, Ifat Levy, Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, John H Krystal, Rajendra A Morey, Aristeidis Sotiras
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with lower cortical thickness (CT) in prefrontal, cingulate, and insular cortices in diverse trauma-affected samples. However, some studies have failed to detect differences between PTSD patients and healthy controls or reported that PTSD is associated with greater CT. Using data-driven dimensionality reduction, we sought to conduct a well-powered study to identify vulnerable networks without regard to neuroanatomic boundaries. Moreover, this approach enabled us to avoid the excessive burden of multiple comparison correction that plagues vertex-wise methods...
November 28, 2023: Neuropsychopharmacology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jean-Francois Landre
Challenges in the delivery of high-quality patient centric care in Canada is plagued by staff and medical supplies shortages and spiking burnout rates leading to closures of more than a thousand emergency rooms in 2023. A literature review was conducted to examine the crisis preparedness and responsiveness of healthcare establishments in Ukraine in a warfare context, with the intent of exacting recommendations to respond to shortages in Canadian hospitals. Utilizing queries on distinct databases, more than 17,500 entries were found, narrowed, and selected for review...
November 6, 2023: Healthcare Management Forum
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xueyu Lian, Zhijin Ju, Lin Li, Yuyang Yi, Junhua Zhou, Ziang Chen, Yu Zhao, Zhengnan Tian, Yiwen Su, Zaikun Xue, Xiaopeng Chen, Yifan Ding, Xinyong Tao, Jingyu Sun
Potassium metal battery is an appealing candidate for future energy storage. However, its application is plagued by the notorious dendrite proliferation at the anode side, which entails the formation of vulnerable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and non-uniform potassium deposition on the current collector. Here we report a dual-modification design of aluminum current collector to render dendrite-free potassium anodes with favorable reversibility. We achieve to modulate the electronic structure of the designed current collector and accordingly attain an SEI architecture with robust inorganic-rich constituents, which is evidenced by detailed cryo-EM inspection and X-ray depth profiling...
November 2, 2023: Advanced Materials
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Emanuele Caroppo, Martina Sapienza, Marianna Mazza, Alessandra Sannella, Rossana Cecchi, Giuseppe Marano, Toshikazu Kondo, Carmela Calabrese, Pietro De Lellis
A shared definition of femicide would help to distinguish it from the murder of a woman and understand its root causes favoring prevention. We conducted a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to assess how (and if) femicide cases were related to mental disorders. Articles papers that explicitly define or discuss femicides or articles that, albeit not expressly mention femicides, thoroughly compare generic homicides and homicides with female victims. We analyse 3546 articles were retrieved from the databases, and 75 studies fulfilled the eligibility criteria and were included in the SLR...
October 7, 2023: Legal Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joline E Brandenburg, Billie A Schultz, Cara C Prideaux, Sherilyn W Driscoll
Depression, suicidal ideation, burnout, and moral injury are on the rise among physicians. Depression and suicidal ideation are mental health disorders that result from multiple interacting factors including biological vulnerabilities and acute stressors. Medical treatment for depression and suicidal ideation is critical to interrupt the potentially deadly progression to suicide that occurs when one's ability to find hope and other solutions is clouded by despair. Yet, stigma and perceived stigma of seeking treatment for mental health disorders still plagues medical providers...
September 12, 2023: Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sitraka Rakotosamimanana, François Taglioni, Masiarivony Ravaoarimanga, Minoarisoa Esther Rajerison, Fanjasoa Rakotomanana
BACKGROUND: Human plague cases are reported annually in the central highland regions of Madagascar, where the disease is endemic. The socioenvironmental characteristics and lifestyles of the populations of the central highland localities could be linked to this endemicity. The aim of this study was to determine socioenvironmental determinants that may be associated with plague risk and explain this variation in epidemiological contexts. METHODS: The current study was based on the distribution of plague cases between 2006 and 2015 that occurred in localities of districts positioned in the central highlands...
September 6, 2023: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emilia R Franklin, Piers D Mitchell, John Robb
OBJECTIVES: This study explores the paleoepidemiology of the Black Death (1348-52 AD) mass graves from Hereford, England, via osteological analysis. Hereford plague mortality is evaluated in the local context of the medieval city and examined alongside other Black Death burials. METHODS: The Hereford Cathedral site includes mass graves relating to the Black Death and a 12th-16th century parish cemetery. In total, 177 adult skeletons were analyzed macroscopically: 73 from the mass graves and 104 from the parish cemetery...
August 31, 2023: American journal of biological anthropology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fu Wen, Longhui Lu, Chaojia Nie, Zhongxiang Sun, Ronghao Liu, Wenjiang Huang, Huichun Ye
O. decorus asiaticus is a major grasshopper species that harms the development of agriculture on the Mongolian Plateau. Therefore, it is important to enhance the monitoring of O. decorus asiaticus . In this study, the spatiotemporal variation in the habitat suitability for O. decorus asiaticus on the Mongolian Plateau was assessed using maximum entropy (Maxent) modeling along with multi-source remote sensing data (meteorology, vegetation, soil, and topography). The predictions of the Maxent model were accurate (AUC = 0...
May 24, 2023: Insects
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REVIEW
Madison G Walton, Isabella Cubillejo, Dhrubajyoti Nag, Jeffrey H Withey
The aquatic bacterium Vibrio cholerae is the etiological agent of the diarrheal disease cholera, which has plagued the world for centuries. This pathogen has been the subject of studies in a vast array of fields, from molecular biology to animal models for virulence activity to epidemiological disease transmission modeling. V. cholerae genetics and the activity of virulence genes determine the pathogenic potential of different strains, as well as provide a model for genomic evolution in the natural environment...
2023: Frontiers in Microbiology
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Motahareh Zeinivand, Masoomeh Sharifi, Gholamhossein Hassanshahi, Seyed Ershad Nedaei
The clinical state of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been considered a pandemic disease (COVID-19) that is rapidly spreading worldwide. Despite all global efforts, the only treatment for COVID-19 is supportive care and there has been no efficient treatment to fight this plague. It is confirmed that patients with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disorder and diabetes; are more vulnerable to COVID-19. In the severe type of COVID-19, laboratory findings showed a remarkably enhanced C-reactive protein, IL-6 serum, Iron, and ferritin, which suggest an inflammatory response...
2023: International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics
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Yair Kasirer, Michael Kaplan, Cathy Hammerman
Kernicterus is the potential toxic sequela of extreme neonatal hyperbilirubinemia resulting from the passage of excess free, unconjugated bilirubin across the blood-brain barrier, irreversibly and selectively damaging vulnerable target brain cells including the basal ganglia, the cerebellum, and the auditory system. Kernicterus continues to plague the modern world. Not only does it continue to be uncontrolled in developing countries with underdeveloped medical systems, and health organizations rendered ineffective by the ravages of war, but it also remains prevalent in industrialized countries...
June 1, 2023: NeoReviews
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Karla B Horton
PURPOSE: Parental incarceration is a traumatic experience that affects both the parent and their family. It is also a traumatic childhood and adolescent event that plagues students who may already be vulnerable and oppressed. The current study examines parental incarceration and associated factors. METHODS: African American students ( N = 139) from a Texas Independent School District were assessed to determine associations between parental incarceration and socioeconomic status (free/reduced lunch), educational outcomes (being retained in a grade and/or special education placement) school exclusion (suspension and/or expulsion), and juvenile justice involvement (receipt of a criminal ticket in school, ticket in the community, and/or student arrest, and possible interactional effects...
June 2023: Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kilan C Ashad-Bishop, Mayra Cruz, Zinzi D Bailey, Erin K Kobetz
Despite significant progress in the early detection, treatment, and survivorship of cancer in recent decades, cancer disparities continue to plague segments of the US population. Many of these cancer disparities, especially those among historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups and those with lower socioeconomic resources, are caused and perpetuated by social and structural barriers to health. These social and structural barriers, which operate beyond the framework of cancer control, also systematically increase vulnerability to and decrease adaptive capacity for the deleterious effects of anthropogenic climate change...
April 20, 2023: Cancer
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