Dexmedetomidine versus Dexamethasone as an Adjuvant to Ropivacaine in Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in Infraumbilical Surgeries for Postoperative Analgesia: A Randomised Clinical Study by Anupama Kumari, Aarjvi Patel, Payal Berawala, Sara Mary Thomas

“…The Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) block is a regional analgesic technique that blocks the nerves supplying the anterolateral abdominal wall (T7-L1). …”
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Analysis on the Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Urban Expansion and the Complex Driving Mechanism: Taking the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration as a Case by Luo Liu, Jianmei Liu, Zhenjie Liu, Xuliang Xu, Binwu Wang

“…Rapid urbanization on a global scale leads to a number of issues such as arable land occupation and ecological degradation. …”
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Increased serum ferritin is associated with severity of orbital disease in COVID-19–associated rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis: A quantitative analysis by Shashi Tanwar, Nibha Mishra, Prachi Sharma, Apjit Kaur

“…Pearson correlation analysis showed a positive correlation between serum ferritin and severity of disease (P = 0.0007). …”
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Cognitive-Enhancing Effect of a Hydroethanolic Extract of Crinum macowanii against Memory Impairment Induced by Aluminum Chloride in BALB/c Mice by Mohammed S. Jilani, Dexter Tagwireyi, Louis L. Gadaga, Charles C. Maponga, Cosmas Mutsimhu

“…Crinum macowanii is a bulbous plant indigenous to many parts of Southern Africa. …”
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The association between gestational selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) treatment and newborn thyroid screen: a large-scale cohort study by Orian Raviv, Yael Lebenthal, Michal Yackobovitch-Gavan, Eyal Cohen-Sela, Shlomo Almashanu, Ronella Marom, Jacky Herzlich, Liran Hiersch, Avivit Brener

“…A multivariable forward linear regression model revealed that SSRI treatment during pregnancy was not a significant contributor to TT4 levels (p = 0.497). …”
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Early Morphokinetic Monitoring of Embryos after Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection with Fresh Ejaculate Sperm in Nonmosaic Klinefelter Syndrome: A Different Presentation by Ali Sami Gurbuz, Ahmet Salvarci, Necati Ozcimen, Ayse Gul Zamani

“…The nonmosaic 47, XXY karyotype was confirmed on a skin biopsy chromosomal analysis. Using only ejaculate motile sperms, 11 oocytes underwent ICSI and were placed rapidly in a time lapse (Embryoscope ©) with a specific culture dish. …”
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A Stochastic Programming Approach for Scheduling Extra Metro Trains to Serve Passengers from Uncertain Delayed High-Speed Railway Trains by Sihui Long, Lingyun Meng, Xiaojie Luan, Alessio Trivella, Jianrui Miao, Francesco Corman

“…We formulate this problem as a two-stage stochastic program with recourse and use an epsilon-constrained method to find a set of nondominated solutions. …”
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“I would like to use it more effectively…” nursing student’s experiences with NANDA-I nursing terminology: a qualitative descriptive study by Turgay Yalcinkaya, Erkan Ünsal, Ayşegül Dönmez, Sebnem Cinar Yucel

“…Abstract Background Standardized nursing terminologies play a crucial role in describing and documenting nursing care. …”
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A narrativa entre aspas de Bernardo Carvalho: legitimação e paratopia em um estudo de Onze: uma história by Paulo César Silva de Oliveira

“…The connections between local and global; author policies and text policies; as well as the place held by the Brazilian fiction in the contemporary scenario will be investigated inside Bernardo Carvalho’s textual machine, aiming at establishing limits and reaches of his writings regarding a modernity constituted by displacements, border crossings, and the dilution of political, geographical and fictional frontiers.…”
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How effective is the addition of specific exercise therapy for patients after anterior cruciate ligament surgery? A systematic review and meta-analysis by Hao Zhou, Jia Qian, Yu-Mei Xing, Long Cui, Yi-Feng Bu

“…Any dispute was discussed by a third researcher.ResultsCompared with conventional therapy, exercise therapy significantly reduced pain scores (mean difference: −0.53, 95% CI: −0.82 to −0.24, and p < 0.001) and improved muscle strength (flexion: 13.76 and extension: 12.46) and knee function (effect size: 2.06 and p = 0.001). …”
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Comparison of dietary habits before and after the COVID-19 restrictions in a population of children aged 7-14 participating in the PICTURE study by Alicja Basiak-Rasała, Katarzyna Połtyn-Zaradna, Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Dagmara Gaweł-Dąbrowska, Katarzyna Kiliś-Pstrusińska, Katarzyna Zatońska, Tomasz Zatoński

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INVESTIGATION OF THE ANHARMONIC CORRELATION EFFECTS BY DEBYE MODEL IN X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTRA–APPLICATION TO A TWO-COMPONENT ALLOY by Nguyễn Bá Đức, Vũ Quang Thọ, Trịnh Phi Hiệp, Nguyễn Văn Nghĩa, Phạm Thị Minh Hạnh, Vũ Thị Thanh Hà

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Italian and French prints in the Dominican library in Różanystok: A contribution to the study of the dissemination of books in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries by Katarzyna Zimnoch

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A Novel Molecularly Imprinted Polymer for the Selective Removal of Chlorophyll from Heavily Pigmented Green Plant Extracts prior to Instrumental Analysis by Bareki Shima Batlokwa, Janes Mokgadi, Ronald Majors, Charlotta Turner, Nelson Torto

“…A novel molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) powder designed for the selective removal of interfering chlorophyll pigment from heavily pigmented green plant extracts during pesticide residue analysis or analysis for bioactives in natural product research is reported. …”
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Staff education compared with active real-time waste segregation to reduce the environmental impact of hip and knee arthroplasty: a multicentre study by Rohan Prakash, Ahmed Nasser, Akshat Sharma, Deborah Eastwood, Mike Reed, Yuvraj Agrawal

“…Each category was weighed at the end of each case using a digital weighing scale. At Site A (a tertiary orthopaedic hospital), pre-intervention data were collected for 16 total knee arthroplasy (TKA) and 15 total hip arthroplasty (THA) cases. …”
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Global well-posedness of 2D incompressible Navier–Stokes–Darcy flow in a type of generalized time-dependent porosity media by Linlin Tan, Bianru Cheng

“…This study investigates the global well-posedness of a coupled Navier–Stokes–Darcy model incorporating the Beavers–Joseph–Saffman–Jones interface boundary condition in two-dimensional Euclidean space. …”
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Risk Factors Analysis of Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reactions Caused by Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy Drugs for Oncology and Establishment of a Prediction Model by Zimin Zhang, Mingyang Zhu, Weiwei Jiang

“…This retrospective study included 1052 patients, divided into train set, test set, and external validation set. As a data‐driven study, a total of 76 variables were collected. …”
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Deciphering the multifaceted mechanism of Shuang Huang Lian in treating upper respiratory tract infections: A metabolomics-based network pharmacology approach by Gang Xu, Akshay Suresh Patil, Ruhan Wei, Dan Liu, Aimin Zhou, Yan Xu

“…Background and purpose: Shuang Huang Lian (SHL), a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula consisting of extracts from Lonicerae japonicae flos, Forsythiae fructus, and Scutellariae radix, is widely recognized for its efficacy in treating upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). …”
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Total factor productivity and firm size in the German energy industry: evidence from a symbolic transfer entropy panel causality test by Claudiu Tiberiu Albulescu, Ahdi Noomen Ajmi, Serban Miclea, Lavinia- Maria Cernescu

“…This paper applied a symbolic transfer entropy panel causality test, to investigate the non-parametric Granger-type causality between total factor productivity (TFP) and firm size. …”
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Adapting self-measured blood pressure monitoring to reduce health disparities (ASPIRE): a pilot hybrid effectiveness‑implementation study protocol by Rasha Khatib, Nicole Glowacki, Iridian Guzman, Maureen Shields, Joseph Chase, Melanie Gordon

“…Methods This pilot hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted at a primary care clinic in South Side Chicago, serving a diverse patient population. …”
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