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  • A patient with moderately severe acute pancreatitis and several serious complications was found to have multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).
  • The treatment included intravenous immune globulin, corticosteroids, antibiotics, systemic anticoagulation, and drainage of fluid, which resulted in a good response.
  • This case underscores the diverse symptoms of MIS-C and the need for healthcare providers to be vigilant about rare and severe cases that don't improve with standard treatments.
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Background: Although mental health issues among Indonesian adolescents are of growing concern, a psychometrically valid measure of affect in Indonesia to inform related research and prevention and treatment efforts does not exist.

Methods: The present study's aim was to culturally adapt and validate the widely used Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children (PANAS-C) among Indonesian adolescents. The original 30-item PANAS-C in English underwent forward and back translations to Bahasa Indonesia (the national language of Indonesia) followed by cognitive interviews with private and public school students ages 12-15 (n = 18).

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Purpose: With increasing pneumococcal penicillin resistance, physicians treat pneumococcal infections with high-dose amoxicillin (80-90 mg/kg/d). High-dose amoxicillin approaches adult doses which makes clinicians reluctant to exceed "adult doses." This study examines the disparity of amoxicillin dosing between the ages of children.

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Importance: Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare but aggressive skin cancer. Quantifying the contribution of major potentially modifiable risk factors to the burden of MCC may inform prevention efforts.

Objective: To estimate the population attributable fraction of MCC cases in the US that were attributable to major immunosuppressing conditions (eg, HIV, solid organ transplant, chronic lymphocytic leukemia [CLL]), ambient UV radiation [UVR] exposure, and Merkel cell polyomavirus [MCPyV]).

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The purpose of this study is to describe the development and initial validation of a survey focused on problematic situations involving e-cigarette use by rural Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) youths. A 5-phase approach to test development and validation was used. In Phase 1 (Item Generation), survey items were created from a series of focus groups with middle school youths on Hawai'i Island ( = 69).

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In this paper, we propose a global modelling for vector field approximation from a given finite set of vectors (corresponding to the wind velocity field or marine currents). In the modelling, we propose using the minimization on a Hilbert space of an energy functional that includes a fidelity criterion to the data and a smoothing term. We discretize the continuous problem using a finite elements method.

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Measurement-based care (MBC), the use of routine assessment to guide clinical decision-making, has the potential to significantly enhance the quality of mental health services for youth by improving the detection and prevention of harm. Concerns exist, however, that widespread efforts to implement MBC may have a negative impact on youth mental health care. We explore both perspectives by describing how MBC can be leveraged as a tool to detect and prevent harmful treatment in youth and how misapplication of MBC also has the potential to cause harm.

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Globally, protected areas associated with sacred sites and cemeteries are an emerging area of research. However, they are biased toward terrestrial systems. In Fiji, funerary protected areas (FPAs) in freshwater and marine systems are culturally protected by Indigenous Fijians following the burial of a loved one on clan land.

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Inter- and intraspecific responses of coral colonies to thermal anomalies on Palmyra Atoll, central Pacific.

PLoS One

November 2024

Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.

Long-term monitoring of individual coral colonies is important for understanding variability between and within species over time in the context of thermal stress. Here, we analyze an 11-year time series of permanent benthic photoquadrats taken on Palmyra Atoll, central Pacific, from 2009 to 2019 to track the growth (i.e.

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The explosive growth of individuals identifying as multiracial in the U.S. population has motivated significant interest in multiracial face perception.

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This qualitative study explored how Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) responded to anti-Asian racism during COVID-19. Participants (n = 459; M = 26.4 years; 77.

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Allelopathic effects of sorghum/sorghum-sudangrass hybrids against .

Plant Dis

November 2024

University of Hawaii, Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, 3050 Maile Way #310, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96822;

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  • * Various SSgH varieties were tested for their ability to suppress the nematode R. reniformis and to measure their dhurrin levels over a 3-month period.
  • * Results showed that certain SSgH varieties, especially 'NX-D-61' and 'Latte', had high dhurrin concentrations and effective nematode suppression, suggesting these can be useful in agricultural pest management if used as cover crops for up to
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Bottom-Feeders Eat Their Fiber: Ingestion of Anthropogenic Microdebris by Antarctic Deep-Sea Invertebrates Depends on Feeding Ecology.

Environ Sci Technol

December 2024

Departamento de Oceanografia Biológica, Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo (IO-USP), São Paulo 05508-120, Brazil.

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  • Anthropogenic debris has been found in Antarctica for over 40 years, breaking down into microdebris that can reach the seafloor and be ingested by marine species.
  • Research analyzed benthic specimens from 1986 to 2016, discovering microdebris in the gut content of 13 out of 15 species studied, with particularly high ingestion rates in sea cucumbers and brittle stars.
  • The study identifies the first occurrence of microplastics in Southern Ocean deep-sea invertebrates, raising concerns about pollution even in remote, isolated regions like Antarctica.
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  • The conservation community is focusing on recovering species at risk of extinction, particularly in Maui, by implementing climate-resilient recovery plans for 36 native plant species.
  • A tailored spatial conservation prioritization (SCP) approach was developed, emphasizing transparency, flexibility, and expert engagement, consisting of generating multiple prioritization solutions and selecting the best based on expert-agreed criteria.
  • This method reduced the necessary conservation area by 36% while still ensuring high-quality habitats for species, proving more effective than existing tools like prioritizr by enhancing local recovery planning efforts.
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  • Triple-negative inflammatory breast cancer (TN-IBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer, and its specific genetic and immune characteristics are not well understood.
  • This study conducted extensive genomic analyses of TN-IBC tumors from a phase II clinical trial, comparing them to stage III triple-negative non-inflammatory breast cancer (TN-non-IBC) samples.
  • Key findings revealed that TN-IBC tumors have unique features, such as a lower mutation load and the presence of immune components that may hinder chemotherapy response, indicating a need for further research to identify potential biomarkers and treatment targets.
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Cephalopods play a central ecological role across all oceans and realms. However, under the current climate crisis, their physiology and behaviour are impacted, and we are beginning to comprehend the effects of environmental stressors at a molecular level. Here, we study the Hawaiian bobtail squid (), known for its specific binary symbiosis with the bioluminescent bacterium acquired post-hatching.

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Elementary reaction mechanisms constitute a fundamental infrastructure for chemical processes as a whole. However, while these mechanisms are well understood for second-period elements, involving those of the third period and beyond can introduce unorthodox reactivity. Combining crossed molecular beam experiments with electronic structure calculations and molecular dynamics simulations, we provide compelling evidence on an exotic insertion of an unsaturated sigma doublet radical into a silicon-hydrogen bond as observed in the barrierless gas-phase reaction of the D1-ethynyl radical (CD) with silane (SiH).

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The prospective associations of fetal growth-related pregnancy complications with subsequent breastfeeding duration and markers of human milk production.

Am J Clin Nutr

November 2024

School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia; Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A∗STAR), Singapore; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Electronic address:

Background: The development of the breast for lactation occurs throughout pregnancy. It is unknown whether pregnancy complications resulting in poor fetal growth can affect breastfeeding (BF) success.

Objectives: We examined whether fetal growth-related pregnancy complications were associated with earlier BF cessation and changes in the concentrations of human milk biomarkers of low milk production.

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The contribution of tropical long-term studies to mycology.

IMA Fungus

November 2024

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47901, USA.

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  • Fungi represent the most diverse kingdom of eukaryotic organisms, yet our understanding is hindered by a bias in data collection primarily from non-tropical regions.
  • Long-term studies (LTS) are critical for fully understanding fungal diversity, especially in tropical areas where such research is scarce.
  • This paper highlights the impact of tropical LTS, using ongoing research in the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana, and discusses the lack of information on tropical fungi in public databases compared to other organisms.
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Dark carbon fixation is a common process in the water column of stratified boreal lakes.

Sci Total Environ

January 2025

Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. (SKB), Solna, Sweden.

CO fixation (i.e. primary production) is a key function of all ecosystems, providing the carbon and energy that fuel the entire food web.

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Isolate-anchored comparisons reveal evolutionary and functional differentiation across SAR86 marine bacteria.

ISME J

January 2024

Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Kāne'ohe, Hawai'i 96744, United States.

SAR86 is one of the most abundant groups of bacteria in the global surface ocean. However, since its discovery over 30 years ago, it has remained recalcitrant to isolation and many details regarding this group are still unknown. Here, we report the cellular characteristics from the first SAR86 isolate brought into culture, Magnimaribacter mokuoloeensis strain HIMB1674, and use its closed genome in concert with over 700 environmental genomes to assess the phylogenomic and functional characteristics of this order-level lineage of marine Gammaproteobacteria.

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We present the discovery and characterization of a new multi-planetary system around the Sun-like star K2-360 (EPIC 201595106). K2-360 was first identified in K2 photometry as the host of an ultra-short-period (USP) planet candidate with a period of 0.88 d.

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Purpose: Gastric cancer (GC) incidence rates show notable differences by racial/ethnic groups in the US. We sought to determine whether stratification by race/ethnicity would reveal unique risk factors for development of non-cardia gastric cancer (NCGC) for US population.

Methods: Analysis included 1,112 incident cases of NCGC and 190,883 controls from the Multiethnic Cohort Study, a prospective US cohort study that recruited individuals living in Hawaii and California, aged 45-75 years from 5 races/ethnicities.

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