Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Latin America: the Latin American Registry, 2021.

Research Question: What are the trends and impact of new technologies on the effectiveness and safety of assisted reproductive technology (ART) performed in Latin America during 2021?

Design: This was a retrospective collection of cycle-based multinational data obtained from ART procedures performed by 204 accredited institutions in 16 countries.

Results: In total 127,351 initiated cycles resulted in 20,032 deliveries and 22,708 births. ART utilization showed great variability, from 623.

Association between health literacy and behaviors among shift workers: an observational cross-sectional study with mediation analysis.

Objectives: Previous research has indicated that shift workers exhibit fewer healthy behaviors than those working regular daytime hours. Although health literacy influences health behaviors, studies comparing health literacy levels between shift and fixed-day workers and investigating whether differences in health behaviors between these 2 groups are mediated by health literacy are lacking.

Methods: This cross-sectional study used a self-administered questionnaire in a large-scale manufacturing company.

Association between health literacy and behaviors among shift workers: an observational cross-sectional study with mediation analysis.

Objectives: Previous research has indicated that shift workers exhibit fewer healthy behaviors than those working regular daytime hours. Although health literacy influences health behaviors, studies comparing health literacy levels between shift and fixed-day workers and investigating whether differences in health behaviors between these 2 groups are mediated by health literacy are lacking.

Methods: This cross-sectional study used a self-administered questionnaire in a large-scale manufacturing company.

Toward optimal inline respiratory motion correction for in vivo cardiac diffusion tensor MRI using symmetric and inverse-consistent deformable image registration.

Purpose: This study aims to develop a free-breathing cardiac DTI method with fast and robust motion correction.

Methods: Two proposed image registration-based motion correction (MOCO) strategies, MOCO and MOCO, were applied to diffusion-weighted images acquired with M2 diffusion gradients under free-breathing. The effectiveness of MOCO was assessed by tracking epicardium pixel positions across image frames.

Effect of the ratio of water to rice on the molecular dynamics of cooked rice starch during retrogradation: Implications for amorphous structure in gelatinized state.

The ratio of water to rice during gelatinization affects starch retrogradation in cooked rice; a high ratio is more inhibitory to retrogradation. The structural state of the crystalline phase and also of the amorphous phase can be clarified by an indicator of molecular dynamics. In this study, we used quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) to investigate the effect of the ratio of water to rice on the molecular dynamics of cooked rice starch during retrogradation.