Suprasternal aortic arch echocardioscopy as a potential tool in detection and follow-up of mobile thrombi in patients with ischemic stroke by Inhar Esnaola Barriola, Elena Escriche Gorospe, Paula Miguel Navas, Elisa Martínez Campos, María Molina Goicoechea, Ferran Capell Pascual, Adrián Jiménez Delgado, Roberto Muñoz Arrondo

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Prilling as an Effective Tool for Manufacturing Submicrometric and Nanometric PLGA Particles for Controlled Drug Delivery to Wounds: Stability and Curcumin Release by Chiara De Soricellis, Chiara Amante, Paola Russo, Rita Patrizia Aquino, Pasquale Del Gaudio

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RETRACTED: Career anchors and value orientations as tools for evaluating soft skills of technical university students in the context of digital socialization by Kuren Sergey, Beluzhenko Olga, Demyanov Alexey, Dontsov Nikolay, Kosenko Evgeny

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Development and validation of a novel bleeding risk prediction tool for aspirin users with a low body mass index by Lu Yifang, Lei Wanlin, Wang Maofeng

“…This tool enables the stratification of low BMI patients based on their anticipated bleeding risk.…”
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A new RP-HPLC method as an auxiliary tool for optimization of sample preparation procedures for tracing of PPCPs of different hydrophilicities by Portillo-Castillo Omar J., Castro-Ríos Rocío, Chávez-Montes Abelardo, González-Horta Azucena, Cavazos-Rocha Norma, De Torres Noemí Waksman, Garza-Tapia Marsela

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DIVERSION PRACTICES IN JUVENILE TRAFFIC CRIME INVESTIGATIONS AS A SOCIAL ENGINEERING TOOL: A CASE IN NORTH MALUKU, INDONESIA by Syawal Abdulajid, Anshar Anshar, Ahmad Mufti, Suwito Suwito

“…This paper reviewed the practice of diversion in resolving traffic offenses by minors in North Maluku, aiming to assess its effectiveness and explore its role as a tool of social engineering. The research employed a doctrinal legal research model with a juridical-normative approach. …”
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New Tool to Screen Financial Viability of Alternative Public–Private Partnership Structures for Delivery of Electric Vehicle-Charging Infrastructure by Patrick DeCorla-Souza, Mahir Hossain

“…This paper demonstrates the use of an Excel-based tool called the “Electric Vehicle-Charging Infrastructure Financial Analysis Spreadsheet Tool”, or “EVCI-FAST”, developed to analyze public–private partnership approaches to deliver publicly accessible EV-charging infrastructure that would not be commercially viable without a government subsidy. …”
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Magnetic Vestibular Stimulation (MVS). A research tool with possible implementation in rehabilitation of stroke-affected athletes – a review by Monika Olszanecka, Tomasz Olszanecki, Anna Hanslik, Agata Białek, Agnieszka Walczak, Magdalena Mendak

“…Conclusions: MVS is a novel tool with many possibilities in e.g. vestibular research. …”
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Atherogenic Index of Plasma (AIP) a Tool to Assess Changes in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Post Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy by Eman Al Shawaf, Ebaa Al-Ozairi, Fahad Al-Asfar, Anwar Mohammad, Shaima Al-Beloushi, Sriraman Devarajan, Fahd Al-Mulla, Jehad Abubaker, Hossein Arefanian

“…Here, we use AIP as a tool to evaluate the improvement in CVD risk post-LSG in morbid-obese people who had no history of CVD. …”
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Influence of increasing chromium content on additively manufactured tool steels: Microstructural and mechanical evolution before and after heat treatment by Nicole Ofner, Sabine Carmen Bodner, Peter Kunnas, Atacan Asci, Kevin Kutleša, Andreas Stark, Philipp Höbenreich, Christin Aumayr, Liang Wu, Christoph Turk, Jozef Keckes, Michael Meindlhumer

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Careful take-off by the EQ-5D-5L tool in lung cancer: fly little one, fly! by Kurt G Tournoy

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Healthy Kai (Food) Checker Web-Based Tool to Support Healthy Food Policy Implementation: Development and Usability Study by Magda Rosin, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Elaine Umali, Sally Mackay

“…ResultsA new digital tool, Healthy Kai (Food) Checker—a searchable database of packaged food and drink products that classifies items according to the Policy’s nutritional criteria—was identified as a key tool to support Policy implementation. …”
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Thermal management and biocompatibility in dry machining: An experimental study of ZrO2-based cutting tool for bone machining by Phanindra Addepalli, Worapong Sawangsri, Saiful Anwar Che Ghani

Subjects: “…Bio ceramic tool…”
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In-silico tool based on Boolean networks and meshless simulations for prediction of reaction and transport mechanisms in the systemic administration of chemotherapeutic drugs. by Fabián Mauricio Vélez Salazar, Iván David Patiño

“…Using in-house computational tools, this work focuses on investigating how the combination of the electric field magnitude (E), bloodstream velocity (λinl) and pharmaco-kinetic profile (PK) impacts the reaction and transport mechanisms of drug (RTMs) arising in electro-chemotherapeutic treatments. …”
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Chlorophyll a Fluorescence as a Tool in Evaluating the Effects of ABA Content and Ethylene Inhibitors on Quality of Flowering Potted Bougainvillea by Antonio Ferrante, Alice Trivellini, Eva Borghesi, Paolo Vernieri

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Estimation of the probability of failure during operation of a prefabricated cutting tool with replaceable polyhedral plates by nonparametric statistics methods by K. V. Syzrantseva, N. A. Vasilega

Subjects: “…prefabricated cutting tool…”
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Head-mounted camera as a debriefing tool for surgical simulation-based training: a randomized controlled study in Senegal by Abdourahmane Ndong, Adja C. Diallo, Armaun D. Rouhi, Diago A. Dia, Sebastian Leon, Cheikhou Dieng, Mohamed L. Diao, Jacques N. Tendeng, Noel N. Williams, Mamadou Cissé, Kristoffel R. Dumon, Ibrahima Konaté

“…Abstract Introduction Video feedback, particularly with a head-mounted camera, has previously been described as a useful debriefing tool in well-funded health systems but has never been performed in a low-resource environment. …”
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Development and validation of a tool for advising primiparous women during early labour: study protocol for the GebStart Study by Mechthild M Gross, Susanne Grylka-Baeschlin, Antonia N Mueller, Jessica Pehlke-Milde

“…Internal consistency of the tool will be assessed using Cronbach’s alpha and convergent validity computing correlations of items of the tool with the German versions of the Childbirth Self-Efficacy Inventory and the Cambridge-Worry Scale. …”
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Effect of Spindle Speed, Feedrate, Tool Geometry, and Polyester & Vinylester Blends on Surface Roughness and Surface Hardness Alteration of the Hole by Adam Malik, Exel Athoriq, Muhammad Hafiz, Hairul Abral

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Wear Inducing Phase Transformation of Plasma Transfer Arc Coated Tools during Friction Stir Welding with Al Alloy by Kuan-Jen Chen, Fei-Yi Hung, Truan-Sheng Lui, Yong-Ren Shih

“…The friction stir welding process (friction stir welding/processing, FSW/FSP) has wear problems related to stirring tools. In this study, the plasma transfer arc (PTA) method was used with stellite 1 powders (Co-based) to coat on the head of a SKD61 stirring tool (SKD61-ST1) in order to investigate the wear performance and phase transformation of SKD61-ST1 after FSW. …”
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