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PLoS One 2022 27;17(6):e0270295. Epub 2022 Jun 27.

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

This paper develops a regional dataset of change at 381 settlements for Lycia-Pamphylia in southwest Anatolia (Turkey) from volume 8 of the Tabula Imperii Byzantini-a compilation of historical toponyms and archaeological evidence. This region is rich in archaeological remains and high-quality paleo-climatic and -environmental archives. Our archaeological synthesis enables direct comparison of these datasets to discuss current hypotheses of climate impacts on historical societies. Read More

Patterns (N Y) 2022 Jun 27;3(6):100495. Epub 2022 May 27.

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, USA.

Daily weather reconstructions (called "reanalyses") can help improve our understanding of meteorology and long-term climate changes. Adding undigitized historical weather observations to the datasets that underpin reanalyses is desirable; however, time requirements to capture those data from a range of archives is usually limited. Southern Weather Discovery is a citizen science data rescue project that recovered tabulated handwritten meteorological observations from ship log books and land-based stations spanning New Zealand, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica. Read More

J Oral Biol Craniofac Res 2022 Sep-Oct;12(5):500-504. Epub 2022 Jun 15.

Department of Oral Medicine and Periodontology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Knowledge of morphology of the maxillary arch is important in many spacialities of dentistry. This retrospective cross-sectional study was performed using 109 randomly selected maxillary CBCT images of patients in the age range of 18-60 from the archives in Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. EzDent software was used for measurements. Read More

Sci Total Environ 2022 Jun 23:156943. Epub 2022 Jun 23.

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Unité Mixte de Recherche 8212 (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Atmospheric nuclear tests (1945-1980) have led to radioactive fallout across the globe. French tests in Polynesia (1966-1974) may influence the signature of fallout in South America in addition to those conducted by USA and former USSR until 1963 in the Northern hemisphere. Here, we compiled the Pu/Pu atom ratios reported for soils of South America and conducted additional measurements to examine their latitudinal distributions across this continent. Read More

Arch Biochem Biophys 2022 Jun 22:109295. Epub 2022 Jun 22.

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address:

Geobiology 2022 Jun 24. Epub 2022 Jun 24.

School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.

Nitrogen isotopes and abundances in sedimentary rocks have become an important tool for reconstructing biogeochemical cycles in ancient ecosystems. There are two archives of nitrogen in the rock record, namely kerogen-bound amines and silicate-bound ammonium, and it is well documented that the isotopic ratios of these two archives can be offset from one another. This offset has been observed to increase with metamorphic grade, suggesting that it may be related to the bonding environment in differing nitrogen host phases and associated equilibrium isotope fractionation. Read More

Sensors (Basel) 2022 Jun 16;22(12). Epub 2022 Jun 16.

Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.

The deployment of sensors is the first issue encountered when microclimate monitoring is planned in spaces devoted to the conservation of artworks. Sometimes, the first decision regarding the position of sensors may not be suitable for characterising the microclimate close to climate-sensitive artworks or should be revised in light of new circumstances. This paper fits into this context by proposing a rational approach for a posteriori deployment of microclimate sensors in museums where long-term temperature and relative humidity observations were available (here, the Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark). Read More

Cancers (Basel) 2022 Jun 13;14(12). Epub 2022 Jun 13.

Medical Cell Biophysics Group, Techmed Center, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.

After a CellSearch-processed circulating tumor cell (CTC) sample is imaged, a segmentation algorithm selects nucleic acid positive (DAPI+), cytokeratin-phycoerythrin expressing (CK-PE+) events for further review by an operator. Failures in this segmentation can result in missed CTCs. The CellSearch segmentation algorithm was not designed to handle samples with high cell density, such as diagnostic leukapheresis (DLA) samples. Read More

Sci Rep 2022 Jun 23;12(1):10684. Epub 2022 Jun 23.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

In order to expand the output of solar power systems for efficient integration into the national grid, solar energy resource assessment at site is required. A major impediment however, is the widespread scarcity of radiometric measurements, which can be augmented by satellite observation. This paper assessed the suitability of satellite-based solar radiation resource retrieved from the NASA-POWER archives at [Formula: see text] spatial resolution over Ghana-West Africa, to develop a long-term source reference. Read More

Am J Nurs 2022 Jul;122(7):56-58

Editor's note: From its first issue in 1900 through to the present day, AJN has unparalleled archives detailing nurses' work and lives over more than a century. These articles not only chronicle nursing's growth as a profession within the context of the events of the day, but also reveal prevailing societal attitudes about women, health care, and human rights. Today's nursing school curricula rarely include nursing's history, but it's a history worth knowing. Read More

Front Glob Womens Health 2022 6;3:801092. Epub 2022 Jun 6.

Department of Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Preterm birth is a global epidemic and a leading cause of neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. We evaluated the prevalence and risk factors of preterm birth among women attending the labor ward for delivery at a tertiary hospital in Ghana. This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among a cohort of 209 pregnant women admitted to the labor ward of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). Read More

Arch Sci (Dordr) 2022 Jun 13:1-16. Epub 2022 Jun 13.

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA.

Cloud-based productivity, collaboration, and storage tools offer increased opportunities for collaboration and potential cost-savings over locally hosted solutions and have seen widespread adoption throughout industry, government, and academia over the last decade. While these tools benefit organizations, IT departments, and day-to-day-users, they present unique challenges for records managers and archivists. As a review of the relevant literature demonstrates, issues surrounding cloud computing are not limited to the technology-although the implementation and technological issues are numerous-but also include organization management, human behavior, regulation, and records management, making the process of archiving digital information in this day and age all the more difficult. Read More

Arch Sci (Dordr) 2022 Jun 17:1-26. Epub 2022 Jun 17.

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology is now a mature machine learning tool, becoming integrated in the digitisation processes of libraries and archives, speeding up the transcription of primary sources and facilitating full text searching and analysis of historic texts at scale. However, research into how HTR is changing our information environment is scant. This paper presents a systematic literature review regarding how researchers are using one particular HTR platform, Transkribus, to indicate the domains where HTR is applied, the approach taken, and how the technology is understood. Read More

Comput Intell Neurosci 2022 7;2022:9328566. Epub 2022 Jun 7.

Human Resources Business Consulting Department, Kunlun Digital Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing 100007, China.

In order to improve the effect of personnel archives information management under the background of Industry 4.0, this paper conducts in-depth research on retrieval technology. Aiming at the shortcomings and deficiencies of the existing sorting methods, this paper introduces the basic principle of information retrieval, the retrieval process, and retrieval model and proposes a relevance ranking algorithm based on the user vector calculation method and the record vector calculation method. Read More

J Cancer 2022 6;13(8):2457-2471. Epub 2022 May 6.

Institute of Surgical Pathology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Background: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) represents an aggressive carcinoma with a dismal prognosis. For resection specimens, histopathological prognosticators are limited to standard AJCC parameters. Tumor budding (TB), a quantitative leviable parameter for tumor cell separation and infiltration is a promising prognostic factor for several cancers. Read More

Sci Rep 2022 Jun 16;12(1):10136. Epub 2022 Jun 16.

Centre for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 560 046, India.

Peninsular India hosts the initial rain-down of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) after which winds travel further east inwards into Asia. Stalagmite oxygen isotope composition from this region, such as those from Belum Cave, preserve the vital signals of the past ISM variability. These archives experience a single wet season with a single dominant moisture source annually. Read More

Arch Biochem Biophys 2022 Jun 13:109300. Epub 2022 Jun 13.

Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Center for Cardiovascular Research, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address:

Arch Biochem Biophys 2022 Jun 14;727:109319. Epub 2022 Jun 14.

Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Center for Cardiovascular Research, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 835 South Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address:

In 1964 Michael Bárány and colleagues published a paper ((M. Bárány, E. Gaetjens, K. Read More

Anal Methods 2022 Jun 16. Epub 2022 Jun 16.

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.

Organosulfates (OSs) derived from the oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) in the presence of anthropogenic sulfate aerosols are the important tracers of secondary organic aerosols (SOAs). In order to better understand the concentration of pinene-nitrooxy organosulfates (pNOSs) in Nanjing, a sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography-electron spray ionization spectrum/mass spectrum (HPLC-ESI-MS/MS) to determine pNOSs in PM has been developed and validated in this study. Firstly, Hypersil Gold C (Thermo Scientific, San Jose, USA) was selected to separate pinene-derived nitrooxy organosulfates (pNOSs) based on their polarity. Read More

Sci Rep 2022 Jun 15;12(1):9933. Epub 2022 Jun 15.

Fondazione Museo Delle Antichità Egizie Di Torino, Torino, Italy.

The combined acquisition of 3D ultrasonic tomography and radar scans is growing for cultural heritage diagnostics. Both methods proved to be efficient in the detection and location of fractures and weaknesses within the investigated artefacts. Although the two techniques are widely applied together, an integrated approach for data interpretation is still missing. Read More

Tob Control 2022 Jun 15. Epub 2022 Jun 15.

Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA.

Background: British American Tobacco (BAT) released an industry-first human rights report in 2020, which extolled the efforts and objectives of the tobacco industry giant for promoting human rights. How BAT came to brand itself as a human rights champion, being a leader in an industry long accused of enabling human rights violations from leaf-to-stub including profiting from a product which inherently violates the right to health, is unknown. Exploring BAT's evolution through reviewing its materials and Tobacco Industry Documents could shed light on their development and what it means in the tobacco control and human rights context. Read More

Biol Lett 2022 Jun 15;18(6):20220091. Epub 2022 Jun 15.

Trier University, Trier, Germany.

Environmental DNA analysis (eDNA) has revolutionized the field of biomonitoring in the past years. Various sources have been shown to contain eDNA of diverse organisms, for example, water, soil, gut content and plant surfaces. Here we show that dried plant material is a highly promising source for arthropod community eDNA. Read More

Curr Cancer Drug Targets 2022 Jun 13. Epub 2022 Jun 13.

Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University, Roma.

Background: The outcome of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients in chronic phase has changed after the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). The life expectancy is actually similar to that of the general population. Although outstanding results achieved, about 20-30% of patients failed to achieve molecular milestones or experience a severe toxicity and need to switch to a second line. Read More

PLoS One 2022 14;17(6):e0269782. Epub 2022 Jun 14.

Dental Research Center, School of Dentistry, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.

Background And Aim: Dental treatments have been limited to emergency care in many countries worldwide due to the global rapid spread of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Fear of contracting the disease in dental clinics has also altered the pattern of dental visits and self-medication. The present study compared self-medication with antibiotics (SMA) and the pattern of dental visits before and after the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic in a referral dental clinic in the north of Iran. Read More

PeerJ 2022 8;10:e13567. Epub 2022 Jun 8.

College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China.

The herbaceous perennial legume is an invasive weed in many tropical and subtropical regions and a serious problem for farmers since it is difficult to eliminate from crop field by hand. Moreover, it has water impermeable seeds, , physical dormancy (PY), which could persist in the soil seed bank for a long period of time, thus making it a big challenge to control. The aims of this study were to test the effect of various laboratory methods on breaking PY in seeds of , to identify the site(s) of water entry into seeds of and compare results of dormancy-breaking methods for seeds of with those of 36 other species of reported in the literature. Read More

BDJ Open 2022 Jun 13;8(1):15. Epub 2022 Jun 13.

Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, North Khorasan University of Medical Science, Bojnord, North Khorasan, Iran.

Introduction: Molar-incisor hypomineralization is a developmental defect of enamel with clinical features vary from demarcated opacities to severe tissue breakdown which calls for considerable preventive and interceptive measures. The aim of this article was to systematically review the literature on the prevalence of MIH in Iran and highlight the condition in Iranian children.

Materials And Methods: A systematic search of literature was conducted in Scopus, Pubmed, Ovid, Embase, Web of Science, and Google-Scholar as well as national Iranian database and digital archives of dental schools from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2021 for published and unpublished studies. Read More

J Long Term Eff Med Implants 2022 ;32(2):45-50

Department of Implantology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai 77, India.

This study aimed to perform a cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) analysis in the Chennai population to check for the prevalence of the canalis sinuosus and its terminal branches in the site of endosseous implant placement in the alveolar ridge of the anterior maxilla. A retrospective analysis was conducted in Saveetha Dental College, Chennai. One hundred (50 male and 50 female) CBCT images that included the maxilla of patients aged 18-65 years were selected at random from the archives of the Oral Implantology Department, which were taken in the period from December 1, 2019 to November 30, 2020. Read More

J Long Term Eff Med Implants 2022 ;32(2):7-16

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

This study determined the influential factors in buccal and lingual plate perforation around dental implants using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). In this retrospective, cross-sectional study, CBCT scans of dental implants taken for purposes not related to this study from 2017 to 2018 were retrieved from the archives of a private dental clinic. Demographic information, implant site, length, diameter, shape, and angulation, buccal and lingual plate thickness, buccolingual diameter of bone, and presence of crestal bone resorption were all assessed on CBCT scans. Read More

Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars 2022 06;50(4):237-238

Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology.

Cancer Control 2022 Jan-Dec;29:10732748221102780

Department of Digestive Surgery, 60652Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Finland.

Objective: The follow-up of the increasing number of cancer survivors threatens to overload the health care system. While short message system (SMS)-based communication is widely used in other areas of the health care system, there are no studies of its appliance in cancer surveillance. The aim of the current study was to analyze the acceptability, convenience and impact of a novel mobile phone messaging -based system (Mobile-CEA) on health personnel contacts in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) during 2 years of follow-up. Read More