International Organizations: the Main Factors of Emergence and Development by L. S. Voronkov

“…Given the involvement of the overwhelming majority of modern sovereign states and tens of thousands of civil society organizations in activity of numerical IIGOs and INGOs, none of the existing centers of world power can afford to trample down and to subordinate activities of all these international organizations. The development of IIGOs and INGOs makes any attempts to create a unipolar system of contemporary international relations impossible.…”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE LEVEL OF SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK OF THE 400/220/110/20 kV MINTIA POWER SUBSTATION by Nicolae Daniel FÎȚĂ, Mila Ilieva OBRETENOVA, Adina TĂTAR, Florin MURESAN – GRECU, Gheorghe Eugen SAFTA, Mihai SCHIOPU

“…The development of theory and applications in the field of systems security has provided a scientific basis and useful tools for the work of preventing professional risks. All methods designed to achieve system security have been taken over and adapted to determine with their help the possibilities of protecting the safety and health of workers. …”
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Detection of OqxAB Efflux Pumps, a Multidrug-Resistant Agent in Bacterial Infection in Patients Referring to Teaching Hospitals in Ahvaz, Southwest of Iran by Mojtaba Moosavian, Mahtab Khoshkholgh Sima, Nazanin Ahmad Khosravi, Effat Abbasi Montazeri

“…The antimicrobial susceptibility test showed that all isolates (100%) were susceptible to imipenem, while the maximum resistance to piperacillin, ceftriaxone, and cefotaxime were 69%, 55%, and 55%, respectively. …”
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Research Progress on Responsiveness of Activities of Daily Living Scales of Patients with Stroke by XUE Kaiwen, LIU Xiangxiang, ZHANG Zeyu, WANG Yulong

“…For subacute stroke patients, BI, FIM and mRS Scales all showed good responsiveness, but due to the simple evaluation content, BI scale had a "ceiling" effect and its responsiveness was lower than mRS scale. …”
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Parkinson’s Disease Prevalence and Proximity to Agricultural Cultivated Fields by Maayan Yitshak Sade, Yair Zlotnik, Itai Kloog, Victor Novack, Chava Peretz, Gal Ifergane

“…We aimed to estimate the prevalence and incidence of PD and to examine possible geographical clustering and associations with agricultural exposures. We screened all “Clalit” Health Services members in the Negev (70% of the population) between the years 2000 and 2012. …”
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Exploring the inequalities experienced by health and care workforce and their bases - A scoping review protocol. by Roomi Aziz, Anuj Kapilashrami, Reza Majdzadeh

“…PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL and SCOPUS will be used to identify relevant literature. All types of published study designs in English language will be included if they discuss any inequality experienced by any category of health and care workers. …”
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Potential of Eisenia fetida (Redworm) for the conversion of three varieties of organic waste by Kishor Maharjan, Prakrit Noppradit, Kuaanan Techato

“…In mixed food waste composting, the total number was increased by 3.06 times, and mature worms were increased by 0.21times in MFW-ES. However, all worms died in vegetable waste due to high pH and moisture. …”
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Neuronal Plasticity Associated with Burn Injury and Its Relevance for Perception and Management of Pain in Burn Patients by Terence J Coderre, Manon Choinière

“…The physiological responses to burn injury involve many different mediators and mechanisms, all of which contribute to pain perception and development of neuronal plasticity underlying short and long term changes in pain sensitivity. …”
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Evidence-based practice models and frameworks in the healthcare setting: a scoping review by Jarrod Dusin, Andrea Melanson, Lisa Mische-Lawson

“…The English language EBP models and frameworks included in the review all included the five main steps of EBP. Excluded were models and frameworks focused on one domain or strategy (eg, frameworks focused on applying findings).Results Of the 20 097 articles found by our search, 19 models and frameworks met our inclusion criteria. …”
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Music and Rhymes as Mechanisms for ECCE Learners’ Socio-emotional Intelligence Development by Avosuahi Deborah Arasomwan, Glynnis Daries

“…Future research can explore the impact of music on children’s socio-emotional development in different contexts and investigate the effectiveness of music-based interventions in supporting children’s all-around development.…”
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Concentration of viruses and electron microscopy by I. D. Petrova, B. N. Zaitsev, O. S. Taranov

“…Nearly all lethal viral outbreaks in the past two decades were caused by newly emerging viruses. …”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cell–Sourced Exosomes as Potentially Novel Remedies for Severe Dry Eye Disease by Carl Randall Harrell, Valentin Djonov, Ana Volarevic, Aleksandar Arsenijevic, Vladislav Volarevic

“…The majority of MSC-sourced bioactive factors are contained within MSC-derived exosomes (MSC-Exos), nano-sized extracellular vesicles which, due to their nanosize dimension and lipid envelope, easily by pass all biological barriers in the body and deliver their cargo directly into the target immune cells. …”
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Bone Densitometric Analysis using Cone Beam Computed Tomography (Cone Beam CT) and Computed Tomography (CT): Establishing the Correlation between Predicted and Actual Values by Rashmit Kumar, Kurian Punnoose, Meenakumari Chikkanna, Srikanth Gunturu, Mosa Mohammad Alrifai, Abdulghani Saeed Al Zahrani, J. Suresh Babu, C. Swarnalatha, Abhishek Singh Nayyar

“…Results: Pearson’s correlation between the gray density values for different combinations of point(s)/group(s) as derived on CT and cone beam CT images revealed the results to be statistically significant for each of the imaging methods used, individually and when compared in between the two methods, in all the cases (P < 0.001) when analyzed at 5% level of significance. …”
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Research Progress on Risk Assessment and Management and Control of Dike Engineering Danger by JIANG Shuihua, CHEN Yingxia, XIONG Wei, LI Yuwei, CHANG Zhilu, LI Jinhui, LI Wenhuan

“…Therefore, risk assessment, as well as management and control of dike engineering danger have been given great importance all over the world. However, the uncertain factors such as dike material properties, earthquakes, and extremely heavy rainfall in dike engineering systems are not quantitatively characterized insufficiently, and the understanding of occurrence environments where dike engineering danger exists is not clear. …”
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Effectiveness of autologous growth factor concentrates combined with topical minoxidil in patients of androgenic alopecia by Lavanya Maripati, Pranitha Raireddy, Subhash Reddy Dudhipala, B. Raghavendra Rao

“…Results: Global macroscopic photographs showed a significant improvement in hair growth post-GFC therapy in all 22 patients. GAIS suggested that GFC treatments were effective in treating AGA, and the majority of patients were satisfied with their improvement. …”
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Invasive Treatment of Lower Limb Varicose Veins - Comparison of Treatment Methods by Ewa Piekarska, Krzysztof Dobrzeniecki, Remigiusz Luter

“…Brief description of the state of knowledge: Numerous methods for treating lower limb varicose veins are available. Among all treatment options, minimally invasive procedures using laser technology, steam, or radiofrequency waves are the most common. …”
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Effect of intraoperative fluid volume on postoperative pulmonary complications in thoracic surgeries: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Shreya Das Adhikari, Nitin Gupta, Mukund Gupta, Savan K. Nagesh, Souvik Chaudhuri, Rakesh Garg

“…The primary objective of this study was to compare the amount of intraoperative intravenous fluid (IVF) infused between those who developed postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) and those who did not. Methods: All studies comparing PPCs in intraoperative restrictive versus liberal fluid therapies were included. …”
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IN VITRO EVALUATION OF THE RESISTANCE OF THREE DIFFERENT POST SYSTEMS AGAINST FUNCTIONAL FORCES by Mustafa Kocacıklı

“…FRC Postec was the second, and Cosmopost had the lowest strength values. However, all the systems provided adequate resistance against forces that could occur in the mouth, hence it was concluded that they can be utilized clinically. …”
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Comparison of Repeated Fluid-Air Exchange and Passive Drainage for Removing Residual Emulsified Silicone Oil Droplets by Jian Yu, Yuan Zong, Ye Tan, Chunhui Jiang, Gezhi Xu

“…The decrease in the number of droplets was statistically significant for larger droplets (>4 µm) with PD and for all droplet sizes with FA exchange. The decrease in the number of SO droplets of <4 μm was significantly greater with FA exchange than with PD. …”
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Postoperative complications and long-term outcomes after total and subtotal thyroidectomy: a retrospective study by Sobhan Javidi, Sepehr Sadrizadeh, Ali Sadrizadeh, Shokoufeh Bonakdaran, Lida Jarahi

“…The highest number of thyroidectomy surgeries was found in 2013 and in all years the majority of thyroidectomy surgeries were performed on women. …”
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