Performance estimation of a steam-turbine driven multistage compressor system by Aleksa Miladinović, Jasna Stajić – Trošić, Mirjana Kijevčanin, Vladimir Stijepović, Sabla Y. Alnouri, Mirko Stijepović

“…As such, the method's effectiveness was demonstrated with model efficiencies closely matching design values within 2–10 % deviation for most stages, and highlighting areas for improvement where deviations reached up to 37 % in later stages.…”
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Comparison of Wear between Nylon-bristled Toothbrushes and Bamboo Toothbrushes with Plant-based Bio-bristles after Toothbrushing in Children between 8 and 11 Years of Age: An <i>Ex... by Somya Goel, Tanvi Saraf, Kirti Buva

“…Background: Toothbrushing is the most widespread method of oral hygiene maintenance at a personal level. …”
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A systematic assessment of phylogenomic approaches for microbial species tree reconstruction by Weiner, Samson, Feng, Yutian, Gogarten, J. Peter, Bansal, Mukul S.

“…A key challenge in microbial phylogenomics is that microbial gene families are often affected by extensive horizontal gene transfer (HGT). As a result, most existing methods for microbial phylogenomics can only make use of a small subset of the gene families present in the microbial genomes under consideration, potentially biasing their results and affecting their accuracy. …”
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SERUM FETUIN-A LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS by E. V. Papichev, B. V. Zavodovsky, L. E. Sivordova, Yu. R. Akhverdyan, Yu. V. Polyakova

“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the second most common rheumatic disease. In recent decades, there has been an active search for and study of biologically active substances involved in the pathogenesis of RA, which can serve as a starting point in designing new drugs for targeted therapy of this disease. …”
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Outcomes After Patellofemoral Arthroplasty With the Arthrex iBalance—A Third Generation Implant by Elizabeth C. Bond, MB, ChB, FRACS, Emily K. Reinke, PhD, Christian Zirbes, BS, Emily Poehlein, MB, Cynthia L. Green, PhD, Richard M. Danilkowicz, MD, Annunziato Amendola, MD

“…Additional procedures were required in 17 knees (24.3%), in most cases to improve patella tracking. Conclusions: This study is, to our knowledge, the first to examine outcomes of the iBalance PFA system. …”
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Climatic impacts on mortality in pre-industrial Sweden by T. T. Chen, T. T. Chen, R. Edvinsson, K. Modig, H. W. Linderholm, F. C. Ljungqvist, F. C. Ljungqvist, F. C. Ljungqvist

“…The impact of late winter and spring season temperature on mortality was most pronounced for the same year in southern Sweden and during the 19th century but stronger for the following year in central Sweden and during the 18th century. …”
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Preserving patient dignity in critical care units: A qualitative content analysis by Alireza Arman, Shahrzad Ghiyasvandian, Zahra Abbasi Dolatabadi, Meysam Khoshavi, Ali Yavari, Masoumeh Zakerimoghadam

“… Background & Aim: Patient dignity is a fundamental aspect of human rights, particularly when individuals are most vulnerable. Although maintaining patient dignity seemed to be challenging in Critical Care Units due to the complexity of medical procedures and critical condition of patients, a paucity of evidence exists exploring dignity preservation in critical care units as well as its requirements from the patients' perspective. …”
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POSTOPERATIVE INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH URINARY DISEASE by A. Ch. Usupbaev, B. A. Kabaev, A. S. Imankulova, N. Zh. Sadyrbekov, K. S. Cholponbaev, A. A. Usupbaeva

“…Female patients were slightly larger (51.7%), respectively, the average age was 44.9 ± 8.1 years.Results. The most common postoperative infectious complications in urolithiasis was infection in the area of surgical intervention (36,2%), acute urethritis (20,7%), acute pyelonephritis (14.7 per cent), paranephritis (9,5%), acute orhoepididimit (7,8%), acute cystitis (6%), pionephrosis (3,4%), urosepsis (1.7 percent). …”
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Ductile Fracture Prediction in Mg-ZM51M Alloy Using Inverse-Calibrated Damage Models by Thamer Sami Alhalaybeh, Ashiq Iqbal Chowdhury, Hammad Akhtar, Yanshan Lou

“…The DF2016 criterion demonstrated superior predictive accuracy, consistently yielding the most accurate fracture strain predictions and significantly outperforming the Rice–Tracey and DF2014 criteria across the tested stress states. …”
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Production, characterization and evaluation of biochar from pod (Pisum sativum), leaf (Brassica oleracea) and peel (Citrus sinensis) wastes by G. Stella Mary, P. Sugumaran, S. Niveditha, B. Ramalakshmi, P. Ravichandran, S. Seshadri

“…Purpose Biochar has potential as a valuable tool for the agricultural industry with its unique ability to help build soil health, increase physical properties of soil, soil pH, organic carbon content, conserve water and mitigate drought, reduce GHG emission, conserve nutrients, decrease fertilizer requirements, sequester carbon,increase crop productivity and serve as a most preferred habitat for microbes. In this study, three perishable biomass wastes viz. …”
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STUDY OF A TREND IN THE FREQUENCY OF USING MAIN DRUG CLASSES INDICATED FOR THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN 2004 TO 2014: DATA FROM THE CHD PROGNOSI... by S. N. Tolpygina, S. Yu. Martsevich

“…At the same time, the above-mentioned drugs were taken by 15 and 69 % of patients on admission and at discharge, respectively (p &lt; 0.001), by 41 and 35 % after 4 and 7 years (p &lt; 0.01). In 2004 to 2014, most drugs were used at low and moderate doses with a gradual increase in the share of generics. …”
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Predictions of the Chinese Forest Frog (<i>Rana chensinensis</i>) Distribution Pattern Under Climate Change up to 2090s by Ying Fu, Juanjuan Lu, Pinhong Yang, Jie Pi

“…The optimized MaxEnt model generated the best predictions, showing that the current most highly suitable areas are located in Chongqing, Sichuan, and Gansu provinces. …”
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Surgical techniques and outcome assessment of a novel vascularized orthotopic rodent whole eye transplantation model. by Yang Li, Chiaki Komatsu, Lin He, Maxine R Miller, Jila Noori, Yolandi van der Merwe, Leon C Ho, Ian A Rosner, Joshua M Barnett, Kayvon Jabbari, Gadi Wollstein, Richard A Bilonick, Valeria L N Fu, Mario G Solari, An-Jey A Su, Kevin C Chan, Joel S Schuman, Kia M Washington

“…Assessment from clinical examination under anesthesia revealed that segments of native eyes appeared normal throughout the duration of the study, but transplanted eyes presented mild chemosis of the eye lids, mild ciliary flush of the conjunctiva, cornea neovascularization, mild engorgement of the vessels in the iris, and mild opacities in the lens in some animals. Most of these findings improved over time after transplantation. …”
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Developing the data management component of an academic discipline program for an educational management information system by Ju. V. Starichkova, I. E. Rogov, V. S. Tomashevskaya

“…In this connection, an obvious discrepancy arises between the theoretical characteristics of information flows existing in educational organizations and the methods of its collection, processing, storage, analysis, and application used in practice. One of the most important conceptual components of the educational process in higher education institutions is the ADP, which organizes the relationship between various components of the educational process: curriculum, competencies, training areas, learning technologies, and methods for conducting the control check of students’ knowledge. …”
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Estimating the Burden of Illness Related to Genital Warts in Russia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Vera N. Prilepskaya, Mikhail Gomberg, Smita Kothari, Karen Yee, Amit Kulkarni, Suzanne M. Garland, Anna R. Giuliano

“…# Background Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are the etiologic agents of genital warts (GW). HPV is one of the most frequent sexually transmitted viral infections, and nearly 65% of individuals with partners who have GW also develop GW. …”
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H2A.X N-terminal acetylation is a newly identified NAA40-mediated modification that is responsive to UV irradiation by Ariel Klavaris, Costas Koufaris, Roberta Noberini, Maria Kouma, Christina Demetriadou, Alessandro Ghiringhelli, Nikolas Dietis, Tiziana Bonaldi, Antonis Kirmizis

“…Abstract Background N-terminal acetylation (Nt-Ac), mediated by N-terminal acetyltransferases (NATs) is one of the most abundant protein modifications occurring approximately in 80% of all eukaryotic proteins. …”
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Feasibility Analysis of an Immersive Network Laboratory as a Support Tool for Teaching Practices by Erberson Evangelista Vieira, Francisco Petrônio de A. Medeiros

“…The main goal of the interviews was to understand how teachers use computer and network laboratories, identifying the most-used equipment and content in teaching networks. …”
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Digital Predictors of Youth Psychological Well-being in Real and Virtual Worlds by Galina U. Soldatova, Svetlana V. Chigarkova, Svetlana N. Ilyuhina

“…Digital transformations have significantly changed the everyday life of modern man, which has determined the ever-increasing attention of society and researchers to the role of digital technologies in the psychological well-being of an individual, various groups, and entire generations, primarily young people — the most active Internet users. Objectives. The paper examines the role of access to technology, user activity, attitudes towards technology, digital competence, self-management of digital tools and resilience in life satisfaction in the virtual and real worlds among young people. …”
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The Problem of Assessing the Extent of Somatic Comorbidity in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder: Metabolic Syndrome, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Type II... by V. E. Makeenko, D. S. Shumskaia, A. O. Kibitov

“…Metabolic syndrome (MS), cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), and type II diabetes (T2D) are the most common comorbidities, causing significant impairment and contributing to mortality rates. …”
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The Impact of Childhood Abuse on the Development of Early Maladaptive Schemas and the Expression of Violence in Adolescents by Cornelia Rada, Alexandra-Elena Neagu, Valentina Marinescu, Anda-Anca Rodideal, Robert-Andrei Lunga

“…The schemas that proved to be the most relevant for the violence factor were those of Punitiveness (PU: 0.89) and Mistrust/Abuse (MA: 0.77), followed by the schemas of Emotional Inhibition (EI: 0.68), Unrelenting Standards/Hypercriticalness (US: 0.63), and Entitlement/Grandiosity (ET: 0.58). …”
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