A natural language processing pipeline for identifying pediatric long COVID symptoms and functional impacts in freeform clinical notes: a RECOVER study.

Objective: To develop a natural language processing (NLP) pipeline for unstructured electronic health record (EHR) data to identify symptoms and functional impacts associated with Long COVID in children.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed 48 287 outpatient progress notes from 10 618 pediatric patients from 12 institutions. We evaluated notes obtained 28 to 179 days after a COVID-19 diagnosis or positive test.

Provision of pest alerts is associated with better farm performance in Africa.

Background: Crop pests cause substantial crop yield and economic losses, food insecurity, and negative impacts on human health and environment globally. Timely provision of pest risk alerts - that is, the optimum time to intervene against key pests before invasion or establishment - to smallholder farmers on pest management could improve farm performance. However, there is little quantitative evidence testing this hypothesis.

Comparative Analysis of Vaginal Inflammatory Cytokines Among HPV-Positive and HPV-Negative Women in Manila, Philippines.

Problem: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is considered the necessary cause of cervical cancer. Studies showed that disruption of the inflammatory milieu in the cervicovaginal mucosa can promote the persistence of HPV, which can result in cervical carcinogenesis. This study determined sociodemographic factors and vaginal inflammatory cytokines associated with HPV infection in Manila, Philippines.

The revised risk analysis index outperforms the 5-factor modified frailty index in predicting postoperative morbidity after pilon fracture fixation.

Background: Pilon fractures often result from high energy mechanisms resulting in long-term morbidity and postoperative complications. While there is extensive literature investigating frailty scales as tools for preoperative risk stratification in orthopedic surgery, there is no literature regarding their use in fixation of pilon fractures. The objective of this study was to compare the predictive ability and discriminative accuracy of the Revised Risk Analysis Index (RAI-rev) and the 5-Item Modified Frailty (mFI-5) in 30-day postoperative outcomes following surgical fixation of pilon fractures.

Developmental shifts in testosterone levels are associated with alterations in the neural oscillatory dynamics serving selective attention.

The transition from childhood into adolescence is associated with marked increases in testosterone, a sex hormone that has been linked with significant changes in brain structure and function. However, the majority of the extant literature on sex hormone effects has focused on structural brain development, with far fewer studies examining changes in the neural dynamics serving higher-order cognitive function and behavioral improvements with development. Herein, we investigated whether the neural oscillatory dynamics serving selective attention were sensitive to testosterone levels as a marker of development in a sample of 87 participants aged 6-13 years old.