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Prevalence and occupational exposure to zoonotic diseases in high-risk populations in the Free State Province, South Africa 4:24

Prevalence and occupational exposure to zoonotic diseases in high-risk populations in the Free State Province, South Africa

Cornelius G. van der Westhuizen, Felicity Jane Burt, Nina van Heerden, Willie van Zyl, Tonia Anthonissen, Jolly Musoke

The animals people depend on for food and income can also carry infections across the boundary between farms and homes. In South Africa, that boundary looked quiet for one disease, but not for all of them.

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A hybrid register and questionnaire study of Covid-19 and post-acute sick leave in Denmark 3:46

A hybrid register and questionnaire study of Covid-19 and post-acute sick leave in Denmark

Elisabeth O’Regan, Ingrid Bech Svalgaard, Anna Irene Vedel Sørensen, Lampros Spiliopoulos, Peter Bager, Nete Munk Nielsen, Jørgen Vinsløv Hansen, Anders Koch, Steen Ethelberg, Anders Peter Hviid

Covid can end as an emergency and still leave a mark on ordinary working life. In Denmark, people who had the infection were more likely to spend a substantial stretch of time away from work afterward.

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Views of German mental health professionals on the use of digital mental health interventions for eating disorders: a qualitative interview study 3:10

Views of German mental health professionals on the use of digital mental health interventions for eating disorders: a qualitative interview study

Gwendolyn Mayer, Diana Lemmer, Ina Michelsen, Pauline Schrader, Hans‐Christoph Friederich, Stéphanie Bauer

Digital tools could make eating-disorder support easier to reach, but the professionals in this study did not see an app replacing therapy. They saw something more careful: digital help working alongside a human relationship.

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Phylogenetic diversity and distribution patterns of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms in marine environments 3:30

Phylogenetic diversity and distribution patterns of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms in marine environments

Silvia Pajares, María del Carmen Pelayo

The ocean’s nitrogen balance depends on tiny ammonia-eaters, but scientists have found that many of these workers live in places we have barely sampled, and they are not all built for the same jobs.

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Wearable derived cardiovascular responses to stressors in free-living conditions 4:25

Wearable derived cardiovascular responses to stressors in free-living conditions

David M. Presby, Summer R. Jasinski, Emily R. Capodilupo

Stress does not necessarily end when the stressful moment ends. A wearable may be able to see the body remain changed long after a hard run or a tense period of work.

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Effect of printing parameters on extrusion-based additive manufacturing using highly filled CuSn12 filament 3:33

Effect of printing parameters on extrusion-based additive manufacturing using highly filled CuSn12 filament

Beatrice Aruanno, Alessandro Paoli, Armando Viviano Razionale, Francesco Tamburrino

Metal parts are usually made with costly, energy-hungry machines. This study asks whether a desktop three-dimensional printer, using a metal-filled plastic filament, can make bronze parts strong enough for real engineering work.

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Part of the Family: Children’s Experiences with Their Companion Animals in the Context of Domestic Violence and Abuse 3:37

Part of the Family: Children’s Experiences with Their Companion Animals in the Context of Domestic Violence and Abuse

Jane Callaghan, Lisa Fellin, Stavroula Mavrou, Joanne H. Alexander, Vasiliki Deligianni-Kouimtzi, Maria Papathanassiou, Judith Sixsmith

For a child living with domestic abuse, a pet may be more than a beloved animal. It may be a source of comfort, safety, and the feeling of being heard, while also becoming part of the danger.

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Application of SMILES-based molecular generative model in new drug design 4:39

Application of SMILES-based molecular generative model in new drug design

Weiya Kong, Yuejuan Hu, Jiao Zhang, Qiaoyin Tan

Finding a new medicine can demand enormous effort and resources. This paper explores whether a machine that reads molecular strings can create promising new drug structures instead of searching only through existing ones.

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Asteroseismic Inversions for Internal Sound Speed Profiles of Main-sequence Stars with Radiative Cores 4:22

Asteroseismic Inversions for Internal Sound Speed Profiles of Main-sequence Stars with Radiative Cores

Lynn Buchele, Earl P. Bellinger, S. Hekker, Sarbani Basu, Warrick H. Ball, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

Stars ring like bells, and those faint vibrations let scientists look deep inside them. The surprise is that even our best pictures of stellar interiors can still be wrong at the core.

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Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students 3:54

Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students

Jia Qu, Kai Lin, Yuning Wu, Ivan Y. Sun

Imagine living with a threat that feels frightening, yet still seems unlikely to happen to you. Among Chinese university students, fear of cyber fraud was common, while expecting to be defrauded was not.

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Modelling the historical distribution of schistosomiasis-transmitting snails in South Africa using ecological niche models 3:59

Modelling the historical distribution of schistosomiasis-transmitting snails in South Africa using ecological niche models

Nisa Ayob, Roelof Petrus Burger, Monray D. Belelie, Ncobile Nkosi, Henno Havenga, Lizaan de Necker, Dirk Cilliers

A disease carried by freshwater snails can move when the weather moves. By tracing where the snails could live, researchers mapped places in South Africa where infection may already be hiding, and where it could spread next.

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