Data-Driven Assessment of Adolescents' Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objective: Adolescents' mental health was severely compromised during the COVID-19 pandemic. Longitudinal real-world studies on changes in the mental health of adolescents during the later phase of the pandemic are limited. We aimed to quantify the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents' mental health outcomes based on electronic health records.

Long covid outcomes at one year after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection: nationwide cohort study.

Objectives: To determine the clinical sequelae of long covid for a year after infection in patients with mild disease and to evaluate its association with age, sex, SARS-CoV-2 variants, and vaccination status.

Design: Retrospective nationwide cohort study.

Setting: Electronic medical records from an Israeli nationwide healthcare organisation.

Immediate side effects of Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine: A nationwide survey of vaccinated people in Israel, December 2020 to March 2021.

BackgroundCOVID-19 vaccine safety is of major interest worldwide, since there is no prior experience with it. Israel was one of the first countries to widely use the Comirnaty vaccine.AimWe aimed to assess the vaccine's short-term side effects directly from a large population and to predict influencing factors for self-reporting side effects.

Reactogenicity of a third BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine among immunocompromised individuals and seniors - A nationwide survey.

Background: Since July 13, 2021, a third SARS-CoV-2 vaccine BNT162b2 was approved in Israel to immunocompromised and seniors 60 years of age or older. We aimed to evaluate vaccine's reactogenicity.

Methods: A retrospective cohort, using electronic surveys sent to booster vaccine recipients, during July 20-August 10, 2021.

Development and efficacy of a computerized decision support system for osteoporosis management in the community.

Unlabelled: Computerized alerts for primary care physicians, provided during visits of patients who met treatment guidelines based on their electronic medical records, are an efficient method to raise awareness to many otherwise missed cases, especially after fracture.

Purpose: Measure the efficacy of an automated real-time alert which was developed to assist osteoporosis management in the community.

Methods: The study population included treatment naïve patients with T-score ≤ - 2.

Can commercial low-cost sensor platforms contribute to air quality monitoring and exposure estimates?

The emergence of low-cost, user-friendly and very compact air pollution platforms enable observations at high spatial resolution in near-real-time and provide new opportunities to simultaneously enhance existing monitoring systems, as well as engage citizens in active environmental monitoring. This provides a whole new set of capabilities in the assessment of human exposure to air pollution. However, the data generated by these platforms are often of questionable quality.

An evaluation tool kit of air quality micro-sensing units.

Recent developments in sensory and communication technologies have made the development of portable air-quality (AQ) micro-sensing units (MSUs) feasible. These MSUs allow AQ measurements in many new applications, such as ambulatory exposure analyses and citizen science. Typically, the performance of these devices is assessed using the mean error or correlation coefficients with respect to a laboratory equipment.

High Prevalence of Diverse Insertion Sequences within the rRNA Operons of Mycoplasma bovis.

Unlabelled: Insertion sequences (ISs) are widespread in the genome of Mycoplasma bovis strain PG45, but no ISs were identified within its two tandemly positioned rRNA operons (rrn1 and rrn2). However, characterization of the rrn locus in 70 M. bovis isolates revealed the presence of ISs related to the ISMbov1 (IS30 family) and ISMbov4 (IS4 family) isomers in 35 isolates.

The effect of ego-motion on environmental monitoring.

Air pollution has a proven impact on public health. Currently, pollutant levels are obtained by high-priced, sizeable, stationary Air Quality Monitoring (AQM) stations. Recent developments in sensory and communication technologies have made relatively low-cost, micro-sensing units (MSUs) feasible.

On the feasibility of measuring urban air pollution by wireless distributed sensor networks.

Accurate evaluation of air pollution on human-wellbeing requires high-resolution measurements. Standard air quality monitoring stations provide accurate pollution levels but due to their sparse distribution they cannot capture the highly resolved spatial variations within cities. Similarly, dedicated field campaigns can use tens of measurement devices and obtain highly dense spatial coverage but normally deployment has been limited to short periods of no more than few weeks.

Acquired resistance to the 16-membered macrolides tylosin and tilmicosin by Mycoplasma bovis.

The molecular mechanism of acquired resistance to the 16-membered macrolides tylosin (Ty) and tilmicosin (Tm) was investigated in Mycoplasma bovis field isolates. Sequence analysis of domains II and V of the two 23S rRNA alleles and ribosomal proteins L4 and L22 was performed on 54 M. bovis isolates showing different minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC).