Low power laser radiation treatment in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis by Yety Isabel Rosado Fernández, Edel Alejandro Fonte Vigo, Gilberto Salas Contreras, Nancy Díaz Canedo, Maricelys de la Caridad Hernández Cabeza, Gloria Barroso de Mazarredo

“…The lesions were located mainly on the lip. 97.83% of the patients reported remission of the lesion on the fifth day of treatment. …”
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Association of physical activity with sleep health: A systematic review by Andrea Wendt, Thaynã Ramos Flores, Inácio Crochemore Mohnsam Silva, Fernando César Wehrmeister

“…Data extraction was performed using the following items: year, author, country, population, age group, sample size, study design, sleep measurement/definition, physical activity measurement/definition, adjustment and main results. A total of 57 studies were selected, which markedly used heterogeneous instruments to measure physical activity and sleep. …”
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Strong turbulent flow in the subauroral region in the Antarctic can deteriorate satellite-based navigation signals by D. S. Kotova, A. A. Sinevich, A. A. Chernyshov, D. V. Chugunin, Y. Jin, W. J. Miloch

“…The PJ/SAID is a fast westward ion drift and is one of the main signatures of a geomagnetic disturbance in the subauroral ionosphere at the altitudes of the F-layer, when the geomagnetic AE index reaches more than 500 nT. …”
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Depression, Anxiety, and Stress In The Time of COVID-19 Pandemic In Kurdistan Region, Iraq by Niaz mustafa kamal, Nasih Othman

“…Through an online survey using DASS-21 to measure depression, anxiety, and stress data of 548 adult participants were collected during April 2020 and analyzed.  The sample was mainly from Sulaimani (89%), mean age was 37.9 (SD 13.5) and male/female ratio was 1. …”
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Foreign Policy Orientation and Electoral Behavior: Analyzing Opinion Polls in Belarus, Georgia, and Kazakhstan by I. Yu. Okunev, M. N. Shestakova

“…The study captures a snapshot of public sentiment in these countries on the eve of this wave of transformation it is based on a series of largescale opinion polls in Belarus, Georgia and Kazakhstan, conducted immediately after the last elections to the lower houses of the parliaments of these countries in the pre-crisis era. The main research question of the sociological study was to identify demographic and geographical patterns in determining the attitude of voters toward the prospects for relations with Russia. …”
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Manajemen kepala Madrasah Ibtidaiyah dalam menumbuhkan pendidikan karakter religius pada era digital by Murni Yanto

“…The principal of State Islamic Elementary School 1 in Dusun Curup, Rejang Lebong Regency is the main sample in this study, the data collection technique uses the interview method, observation and documentation, the data analysis of the research results uses the reduction technique, triangulation and the conclusion of the research data. …”
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Mental Health of Pediatric Patients Convalescent from COVID-19 in Cienfuegos by Yanara Calzada Urquiola, Laura Magda López Angulo, María Felicia Casanova González

“…Anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder and sleep disorder were the main mental disorders diagnosed.<br /> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> the mental health of the child and youth population of a group of patient’s convalescents from COVID-19 has been affected, however, not all psychological responses can be classified as illnesses, because the majority are normal reactions to a situation abnormal.…”
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Factors influencing the adoption of appropriate electronic waste recycling practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical literature review by Benjamin MWALUGENI, Jacob KIHILA, Alphonce KYESSI

“… The main focus of this paper is to provide a thorough examination of the factors influencing the adoption of appropriate e-waste recycling practices in Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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4D foetal cardiac ultrasound image detection based on deep learning with weakly supervised localisation for rapid diagnosis of evolving hypoplastic left heart syndrome by Gang Wang, Weisheng Li, Mingliang Zhou, Haobo Zhu, Guang Yang, Choon Hwai Yap

“…The experiments extensively compare the authors’ network with other state‐of‐the‐art methods on a 4D human foetal cardiac ultrasound image dataset and show two main benefits: (1) it achieved superior average accuracy of 99.37% on three categories of foetal ultrasound images from different cases; (2) it demonstrates visually fine detection performance with weakly supervised localisation. …”
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Cell Differentiation Trajectory Predicts Prognosis and Immunotherapeutic Response in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma by Jin Xu, Xi Chen, Yinyu Chen, Qiushuang Wang, Yingliang Jin, Huashuo Zhao

“…Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the main type of malignancy in kidney related to glucose metabolism. …”
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Compared to Fishmeal, Dietary Soybean Meal Improves the Reproductive Performance of Female Yellow Catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco) Broodstock by Zheng Chen, Shuzhan Fei, Cui Liu, Yuanhui Duan, Haokun Liu, Dong Han, Junyan Jin, Yunxia Yang, Xiaoming Zhu, Shouqi Xie

“…To investigate the effects of different dietary protein sources on the reproductive performance of female broodstock, yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco) were fed with three experimental diets using fishmeal (FM), soybean meal (SBM), and rapeseed meal (RSM) as main protein sources, respectively. Females (initial weight: 64.56±0.45 g) were distributed into 9 net cages for feeding trial. …”
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ROUNDS Studies: Relation of OUtcomes with Nutrition Despite Severity—Round One: Ultrasound Muscle Measurements in Critically Ill Adult Patients by Carlos Alfredo Galindo Martín, Reyna del Carmen Ubeda Zelaya, Enrique Monares Zepeda, Octavio Augusto Lescas Méndez

“…Rectus femoris and vastus intermedius thicknesses were measured by B-mode ultrasound in adult patients at admission, along with demographic characteristics, illness severity, comorbidities, biochemical variables, treatments, and in-hospital mortality as main outcomes. Analysis was made comparing survivors versus nonsurvivors and finally using binary logistic regression with mortality as dependent variable. …”
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Use of a Sendai virus-based vector for effcient transduction of pinniped fbroblasts by V. R. Beklemisheva, A. G. Menzorov

“…We compared a lentiviral vector which integrates into the genome and a Sendai virus­based vector, CytoTune EmGFP Sendai Fluorescence Reporter. The main advantage of Sendai virus­based vectors is that they do not integrate into the genome. …”
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Safety assessment of the process NGR LSP used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials by EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials (FCM), Claude Lambré, Riccardo Crebelli, Maria deSilva, Koni Grob, Maria Rosaria Milana, Marja Pronk, Gilles Rivière, Mario Ščetar, Georgios Theodoridis, Els Van Hoeck, Nadia Waegeneers, Vincent Dudler, Constantine Papaspyrides, Maria deFátima Tavares Poças, Daniele Comandella, Alexandros Lioupis, Evgenia Lampi

“…The input is hot washed and dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) flakes mainly originating from collected post‐consumer PET containers, with no more than 5% PET from non‐food consumer applications. …”
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Distribution of Phenolic Acids and Antioxidant Activities of Different Bran Fractions from Three Pigmented Wheat Varieties by Jinli Zhang, Yan Ding, Haizhou Dong, Hanxue Hou, Xiansheng Zhang

“…Phenolic acid profiles and antioxidant activities of outer bran, coarse bran, and shorts from blue, black, and purple wheat were analyzed. Phenolic acids were mainly in the bound form in pigmented wheat bran fractions. …”
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Studies on the reduction of organic load from palm oil mill effluent (POME) by bacterial strains by Jeremiah David Bala, Japareng Lalung, Norli Ismail

“…Introduction Palm oil mill effluent (POME) contains large quantities of organic matter in the form of total suspended solids (TSS), volatile suspended solids (VSS), total solids (TS), oil and grease (O & G) that increase biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of POME if left untreated. The main aim of the present study was to investigate the ability of bacterial strains either pure (individually) or mixed (combinations), to degrade and metabolize organic load from palm oil mill effluent. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of Offshore Natural Gas Hydrate Dissociation by Depressurization in Marine Sediments by Xinfu Liu, Chunhua Liu, Jianjun Wu

“…The stable period of natural gas production enhances, and the water flow rate reduces with the increase of bottom-hole pressure in production wellbores. The main reason is the slow offshore NGH dissociation under the low producing pressure and the restriction of heat conductivity under the low temperature.…”
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Evaluation of Undrained Bearing Capacities of Wide-Shallow Bucket Foundation with Honeycomb Bulkheads in Clay by Qingshan Wang, Xun Han, Yunfei Guan, Yongyong Cao, Wenxuan Li

“…As a new type of offshore wind foundation, the wide-shallow bucket foundation with honeycomb bulkheads mainly bears vertical, horizontal, and moment loads. …”
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Information Flow between Global Equities and Cryptocurrencies: A VMD-Based Entropy Evaluating Shocks from COVID-19 Pandemic by Emmanuel Asafo-Adjei, Peterson Owusu Junior, Anokye M. Adam

“…Notwithstanding, throughout the study samples, we mainly find a negative significant information flow from global equities to cryptocurrencies. …”
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Carvacrol Essential Oil as a Neuroprotective Agent: A Review of the Study Designs and Recent Advances by Fahad Khan Tareen, Laura Catenacci, Sara Perteghella, Milena Sorrenti, Maria Cristina Bonferoni

“…This review highlights the therapeutic potential of one such monoterpene phenolic EO, carvacrol (CV), that has the potential to be used as a main therapeutic intervention for neurodegenerative disorders. …”
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