Comparison of Different Ultrasound Protocols in Patients with Inflammatory Polyneuropathies with Practical Insights by Evelina Grusauskiene, Agne Smigelskyte, Erisela Qerama, Daiva Rastenyte

“…When the adjusted EAN/PNS protocol was applied, the detection rate rose to 100%, with a sensitivity of 100%. Both the adjusted BUS/NUP and UPSS protocols demonstrated a specificity of 90% in diagnosing CIDP. …”
Get full text

Evaluation of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure by a Formula and Its Role in the Pathogenesis of Glaucoma by Laura Landi, Federica Casciaro, Serena Telani, Carlo E. Traverso, Alon Harris, Alice C. Verticchio Vercellin, Lauren Saint, Michele Iester

“…Weight and height were measured to calculate body mass index (BMI), along with blood pressure, heart rate, visual acuity, and IOP. Biometrics exam, corneal pachymetry, peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness, and macular thickness were assessed. …”
Get full text

Vegetation Quality Assessment of the Shaanxi Section of the Yellow River Basin Based on NDVI and Rain-Use Efficiency by Zhao Liu, Danyue Wang, Lei Han, Hongliang Kang, Xinxin Cao

“…The results show the following: (1) The precipitation in the study area showed a spatial distribution pattern of more in the south and less in the north, in which Yulin City had the lowest precipitation overall, but it was an area with significant increasing precipitation. (2) The NDVI value of the Shaanxi section of the Yellow River Basin showed an overall upward trend from 2000 to 2019, with a growth rate of 0.327/10a. …”
Get full text

P-14 DETECTION OF CIRRHOSIS DUE TO ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY IN ADULTS: PHENOTYPE STUDY IN COSTA RICA by Fernanda Vásquez Carit, Francisco Hevia Urrutia, Jorge Vargas Madrigal, Mildred Jiménez Hernández, Natassia Camacho Matamoros, Danny Alvarado Romero, Jorge Herrera Corrales

“…Conclusions: A1AT quantification has a 20% false-negative rate, so phenotype testing is recommended when there is suspicion. …”
Get full text

Experimental study on nonlinear hygroscopic and strength behavior of mudstone under coupled temperature and humidity conditions for underground engineering by Weisheng Zhao, Lijun Han, Shuai Yan, Wei He

“…The results indicated that the equilibrium water content (EWC) exhibited a three-stage growth pattern with increasing humidity: rapid growth (0‒20% RH), slow growth (20‒60% RH), and accelerated growth (60‒100% RH), whereas it decreased with increasing temperature, although the rate of decrease slowed progressively. …”
Get full text

Elderly patients undergoing laparoscopic radical cystectomy benefit from dynamic D-dimer measurement in combination with vascular ultrasonography: reduction of VTE risk and improve... by Wenbo Gao, Haihong Ye, Yangkai Xu

“…The incidence of VTE event, major postoperative complications, major bleeding rate, and evaluation of activities of daily living within 30 days postoperatively were compared.ResultsThe preoperative and intraoperative parameters were similar between the two groups. …”
Get full text

Improved productivity of seawater desalination systems through humidification–dehumidification process integrated with renewable and fogging technologies in a lowest cost by Ibrahim Nabil, Mohamed M. Khairat Dawood, Tamer M. Mansour, Ali I. Shehata, Abdalla M. Abdalla

“…An experimental study investigated how operational factors like the mass flow rate ratio, feed water temperature, feed water salinity, cooling water temperature, and nozzle orifice diameter affected the salinity of the produced water, freshwater productivity, and GOR. …”
Get full text

Anthropogenic Drivers of Small-Island Effects in Urban Remnant Woody Plants by Di Kong, Kai Wang, Lin Dong, Jinming Yang, Zhiwen Gao, Hong Liang

“…The positive relationship between species richness and area is a fundamental principle in ecology. However, this pattern deviates on small islands, where species richness either changes independently of area or increases at a slower rate—a phenomenon known as the Small-Island Effect (SIE). …”
Get full text

Pneumothorax in a patient with pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2: A case report by Novković Ljiljana, Čekerevac Ivan

“…Immediately, nasal oxygen therapy with a flow rate of 8 L/min, with chloroquine phosphate, antibiotics, and symptomatic treatment, was initiated. …”
Get full text

Impact of Caspase3/GSDME-Mediated Pyroptosis on Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Clinical Prognosis Across Multiple Cancers by Huang Y, Liu J, Lin C, Zhu Q, Wu L

“…Its uncontrolled growth pattern and metastasis characteristics are the fundamental reasons for the high mortality rate of cancer and its current incurability. …”
Get full text

Enhanced antibacterial and catalytic potential of L-Aspartic acid capped silver nanoparticles by Biswaprakash Sarangi, Shashikanta Behera, Sridhar Parida, Soumyaranjan Senapati, Niranjan Tripathy, Sneha Prabha Mishra

“…Furthermore, the as-synthesized Ag NPs demonstrated excellent catalytic reduction abilities against MB, MO, and 4-NP pollutants in the presence of sodium borohydride, achieving rate constants of 2.267 × 10−1, 1.331 × 10−1, and 1.828 × 10−1 min−1, respectively. …”
Get full text

Evaluation of the combined effect of aripiprazole and sertraline in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescents by Fatemeh Assarian, Reza Safaei, Fatemeh Sadat Ghoreishi, Habibollah Rahimi

“…Repeated measures ANOVA revealed a significant reduction in total Y-BOCS scores in both groups (P<0.001, F=193.53). Additionally, the rate of score reduction over time was greater in the intervention group (aripiprazole + sertraline) (P<0.001, F=37.92). …”
Get full text

Spinal Surgery During COVID-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia by Faisal Konbaz, Taif Alqahtani, Nada Alharthi, Mohammad Baraja, Nazish Masud, Sami Aleissa, Fahad Alhelal, Majed Abalkhail

“…Postoperative complications were found in 11% of the patients. The readmission rate within 30 days, unplanned return to OR and ICU admission were 19%, 13%, and 11%, respectively. …”
Get full text

IMPAIRED REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF THE mTOR SIGNALING PATHWAY IN OSTEOARTHROSIS by Elena Vasilyevna Chetina, E A Bratygina, E M Zaitseva, E P Sharapova, A L Alekseyeva, N V Demin, S A Makarov

“…Objective: to study the pattern of impaired regulatory mechanisms of the mammalian target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling pathway, by monitoring gene expression in the blood of patients with osteoarthrosis (OA) at different stages of the disease. …”
Get full text

Etiology, antibiotic susceptibility and prognostic factors of pediatric community-acquired sepsis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Abel Abera Negash, Daniel Asrat, Workeabeba Abebe, Tewodros Hailemariam, Andualem Wubete, Abraham Aseffa, Mario Vaneechoutte

“…We sought to determine the etiology, role of Streptococcus pneumoniae, antibiotic susceptibility pattern, and prognostic factors in children with CAS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. …”
Get full text

Ice and snow thickness of the IGAN Glacier in the Polar Urals from ground-based radio-echo sounding 2019 and 2021 by I. I. Lavrentiev, G. A. Nosenko, A. F. Glazovsky, A. N. Shein, M. N. Ivanov, Ya. K. Leopold

“…The glacier has lost about 3.2 × 106 m3 of ice per last decade, if the rate of loss continues, it may disappear in 40–50 years. …”
Get full text

Nonlinear association between AST/ALT ratio and 28-day all-cause mortality following ICU admission in critically ill cirrhotic patients: a retrospective cohort study by Zhigang Xu, Baohong Xu

“…Results The study involved 2,090 critically ill liver cirrhosis patients, averaging 59.1 years old, with 65% male and a 28-day post-ICU admission mortality rate of 29%. The AST/ALT ratio was linked to mortality risk (adjusted odds ratio (OR) 1.1, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.0–1.2; p = 0.015), showing a nonlinear pattern with a critical point at 3.6. …”
Get full text

Spatiotemporal distribution and ecological factors of disease burden in Inner Mongolia’s working age population with brucellosis from 2015 to 2020 by Lei Yu, Huiqiu Zheng, Yanling Wang, Xinyan Wang, Xuemei Wang

“…Combined with our ecological influencing factors, we can take prevention and control measures in advance for the working-age population in areas with a fast rising rate of the disease burden of brucellosis.…”
Get full text

Thirty years of global warming potential evolution for the Italian dairy cow sector measured by two different metrics by Marco Berton, Giovanni Bittante, Enrico Sturaro, Luigi Gallo

“…When considering the short lifetime of CH4 (GWP*), the rate of increase in the same years was quite lower, with a flat pattern in the last 5 years. …”
Get full text

On the Performance of a Miniaturized Reactive Loaded Monopole Antenna for Ex Vivo Catheter Applications by Debarati Ganguly, Jogesh Chandra Dash, Debdeep Sarkar

“…Further, the in-phantom Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) values for both antennas are evaluated using simulation and verified with the measured SAR values such as 22 W/kg and 19.6 W/kg for Design1 and 2 respectively, using an in-house experimental setup. …”
Get full text