Relationship Between Criminal and Status Offense Behaviors, Substance Use, and HIV Risk Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Cape Town, South Africa.

This study aimed to examine the relationship between externalizing behaviors, substance use, and sexual risk among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Cape Town, South Africa, who experience social disadvantage characterized by poverty and school dropout. We analyzed baseline data from 500 AGYW in a cluster-randomized trial who had dropped out of school. Multivariate logistic regression models explored associations between self-reported criminal behaviors and other status offenses, heavy episodic drinking, polydrug use, and condomless sex.

Artificial intelligence based assessment of minimally invasive surgical skills using standardised objective metrics - A narrative review.

Introduction: Many studies display significant heterogeneity in the reliability of artificial intelligence (AI) assessment of minimally invasive surgical (MIS) skills. Our objective is to investigate whether AI systems utilising standardised objective metrics (SOMs) as the basis of skill assessment can provide a clearer understanding of the current state of such technology.

Methods: We systematically searched Medline, Embase, Scopus, CENTRAL and Web of Science from March 2023 to September 2023.

Clinical, legal and ethical implications of coercion and compulsory treatment in eating disorders: do rapid review findings identify clear answers or more muddy waters?

Introduction: This Rapid Review (RR) aimed to assess the current literature over the past decade to determine the prevailing evidence regarding compulsory treatment* in eating disorders (ED). It is hoped that the review will help inform a consensus opinion as to whether this course of action confers significant clinical benefit, and importantly, to whom it should apply. The review also explores alternative options to involuntary care.

Tumor suppressor miR-317 and lncRNA Peony are expressed from a polycistronic non-coding RNA locus that regulates germline differentiation and testis morphology.

This research focuses on investigating the impact of non-coding RNAs on stem cell biology and differentiation processes. We found that plays a role in germline stem cell progeny differentiation. and its neighbor, the lncRNA , originate and are co-expressed from a singular polycistronic non-coding RNA locus.