A biomechanical study of locking spongious screws and failure rates are higher than expected in plate fixation by Fatih Parmaksizoglu, Onur Cetin, Sinan Kilic, Yener Ince

“…Abstract Locking plates have a rapidly growing process especially in the past decades and results are satisfactory especially in the osteoporotic bones compared to non-locking compression plates. …”
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The dynamics of organ donation in Palestine: legal, religious, and socioeconomic perspectives in a complex political and economic landscape by Muayad K. Hattab, Belal M. Rahhal, Fayez Mahamid, Noor O. Adas, Rana Dawas, Nidal Jaradat, Hamzeh Al Zabadi, Iyad Ali, Jamal Kielani, Ali Musleh, Ghassan Khaled

“…BackgroundOrgan donation in Palestine is influenced by a unique blend of legal, religious, and socioeconomic factors compounded by the region’s political and economic instability. …”
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Patient satisfaction toward doctor communication in medical clinics: a study from northern Sri Lanka by Shanjeeban Ponnuthurai, Suganthan Navaneethakrishnan, Rajeshkannan Nadarajah

“… A good medical practice involves good communication between the patient and the doctor. …”
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Endometriosis Surgery during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Brazilian Single Institution Experience by Claudio Peixoto Crispi, Claudio Peixoto Crispi, Eduardo de Almeida Nogueira, Pietro Cardoso Balthar, Camilla Gabriely Souza Guerra, Marlon de Freitas Fonseca

“…It is feasible to safely perform elective endometriosis surgery in selected cases during a pandemic.…”
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Digital breakthrough: will public administration be smart enough in a digital state and how smart are the elite and citizens by L. A. Vasilenko

“…The digital society is considered as a superintelligent society of a hybrid type, corresponding to the sixth technological order, in which the transgression of virtual relations into the real socio-cultural world is carried out, the hybrid collective mind is accumulated and intelligently used. …”
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A Construction of Multisender Authentication Codes with Sequential Model from Symplectic Geometry over Finite Fields by Shangdi Chen, Chunli Yang

“…Multisender authentication codes allow a group of senders to construct an authenticated message for a receiver such that the receiver can verify authenticity of the received message. …”
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Deployment of Municipal Solid Wastes as a Substitute Growing Medium Component in Marigold and Basil Seedlings Production by Nikos Tzortzakis, Sofia Gouma, Costas Paterakis, Thrassyvoulos Manios

“…However, Chlorophyll a and total carotenoids content increased as MSWC content increased for marigold. …”
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Design, Construction, and Installation of a Drainage Lysimeter for Use on Sandy, Well-Drained Soils under Turfgrass by Jovana Radovanovic, Eban Z. Bean, Alexander J. Reisinger

“…This 6-page publication presents the materials, construction, installation, and management of a specific drainage lysimeter design in a step-by-step format. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Multiple Active Components from Bushen Pills and Application in a Pharmacokinetic Study in Rats by Houli Li, Benjie Wang, Guiyan Yuan, Xiaoyan Liu, Jing Huang, Lilong Xiong, Di Zhang, Weiyi Feng, Ruichen Guo

“…Bushen Pills (BSPs), as a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), is widely used in clinic to enrich Yang, nourish Yin, stem essence, and strengthen kidneys. …”
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Administration of a Probiotic Mixture Ameliorates Cisplatin-Induced Mucositis and Pica by Regulating 5-HT in Rats by Yuanhang Wu, Jianlin Wu, Zhikun Lin, Qian Wang, Ying Li, Aman Wang, Xiu Shan, Jiwei Liu

“…Previous research has demonstrated that a probiotic mixture (Bifidobacterium brevis, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, and Streptococcus thermophilus) can ameliorate chemotherapy-induced mucositis and dysbiosis in rats, but the underlying mechanism has not been completely elucidated. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…We contrast an early industrializing town, with a typical proletarian sub-culture of tile bakers and a significant middle class (Woerden in the province of South-Holland) to an agrarian community (the village of Akersloot and surrounding area in the province of North-Holland). …”
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Natural compounds may contribute in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection: a narrative review by Maria Eleonora Bizzoca, Stefania Leuci, Michele Davide Mignogna, Eleonora Lo Muzio, Vito Carlo Alberto Caponio, Lorenzo Lo Muzio

“…Coronavirus disease 2019 is a contagious disease characterized by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. …”
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Towards a truly multimodal pain regimen: putting locoregional analgesia in the acute care surgeon’s toolkit by Alexander Coomey Schwed

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A New Transfer Learning Ensemble Model with New Training Methods for Gear Wear Particle Recognition by Chunhua Zhao, zhangwen Lin, Jinling Tan, Hengxing Hu, Qian Li

“…Firstly, the wear particles are diagnosed and classified by connecting a new joint loss function and two pretrained models VGG19 and GoogLeNet. …”
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A comprehensive high pure momentum equity timing framework using the Kalman filter and ARIMA forecasting by Tsumbedzo Mashamba, Modisane Seitshiro, Isaac Takaidza

“…The pursuit of higher returns has led to a growing interest in factor timing as a strategy to enhance portfolio returns. …”
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A conceptual framework of implementing lean communication for building back better in the post-disaster housing reconstruction by Lalan Helny, Suraji Akhmad, Ophiyandri Taufika, Hidayat Benny

“…In the aftermath of disasters, effective communication plays a pivotal role in facilitating efficient and sustainable housing reconstruction efforts. …”
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Telemedicine in home enteral nutrition: a structured survey exploring acceptability, preferences and experiences among patients by Ya Ma, Xuemei Li, Qian You, Wen Hu, Zhiyong Rao, Yanru Deng, Yiyao Zhang, Lei Shi

“…For face-to-face clinic visit patients, prefer to face-to-face communication was the main reason why not choose HENST. Conclusions HENST is a economic beneficial visit model, with high satisfaction. …”
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Creatine and pregnancy outcomes, a prospective cohort study in low-risk pregnant women: study protocol by Deborah L De Guingand, Stacey J Ellery, Miranda L Davies-Tuck, Hayley Dickinson

“…A recent retrospective study conducted in a cohort of 287 pregnant women determined that maternal excreted levels of creatine may be associated with fetal growth. …”
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Identification of a pathogenic founder variant in the WFS1 gene that causes Wolfram syndrome in the Druze population by Inbal Halabi, Inbal Halabi, Yardena Tenenbaum-Rakover, Yardena Tenenbaum-Rakover, Lena Sagi-Dain, Lena Sagi-Dain, Lena Sagi-Dain, Ilana Koren, Ilana Koren, Ilana Koren

“…One patient was treated with a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist with a good response.ConclusionsThis is the first report of a founder pathogenic variant in the WFS1 gene in the Druze population in Israel. …”
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Demonstration of two qubit entangling gates in a 2D ring resonator based coupler architecture by Anirban Bhattacharjee, Panya Jain, Jay Deshmukh, Srijita Das, Madhavi Chand, Meghan P. Patankar, R. Vijay

“…Abstract We report entangling two-qubit experiments implemented in a novel ring resonator architecture in 2D planar geometry. …”
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