Radioactivity concentration of 14C in the air of 14C urea breath test rooms and the resulting internal dose to medical staff by Bei Yu, Fei Chen, Jing Cao, Dingxin Long

“…Results: The radioactivity concentrations of 14C in air of the breath-test rooms in hospitals and physical examination institutions range from 1.35 to 18.41 Bq/m3. …”
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Environmental conditions in commercial restaurants of a public university by Marlene Azevedo Magalhães Monteiro, Cynthia Graciane Carvalho Ramos, Rita de Cássia Ribeiro, Maria Aparecida Vieira Teixeira Garcia

“…Employees classified their work as physically hard (47.1%, n = 28), and 33.3% (n = 20) reported that the environmental working conditions causes fatigue and/or irritation and 86.2% (n = 525) indicate insufficient space to move. …”
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Human-Terrestrial Wildlife Conflict in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review by Getahun Shanko, Bekele Tona

“…In the management case, the use of traditional protection techniques such as fencing, guarding, and physical barriers was reported. About 178 keywords’ analysis revealed a focus on “coexistence,” “mitigation,” and “food security.” …”
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Sexual Quality of Life in Women with Breast Cancer by Lovorka Brajkovic, Petra Sladic, Vanja Kopilaš

“…For women with breast cancer, sexual quality of life is one of the most disrupted aspects of life often associated with long-term physical and emotional difficulties. The main goal of this paper is to systematically review the literature to determine the level of sexual quality of life in women with breast cancer considering the individual and combined impact of grade, progression of the disease, type of treatment, body image, degree of depression, and anxiety, self-esteem, and social partner support and to determine whether the perception of the body, level of self-esteem and the presence of depressive and anxiety symptoms differ regarding different types of treatment or the level of partners' social support. …”
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Prospects of Implementing Inclusive Education in TVET Colleges in OR Tambo Inland District, South Africa by Thanduxolo Albert Nomtshongwana, Andrea Mqondiso Buka

“…It is recommended that investments should be made in both the physical infrastructure and the human infrastructure to ensure that people with disabilities have access to quality education and training. …”
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MSF: An Efficient Mobile Phone Sensing Framework by Giuseppe Cardone, Andrea Cirri, Antonio Corradi, Luca Foschini, Dario Maio

“…Recent evolutions in smartphones, today provided with several sensors, have the strong processing capabilities needed to extract from raw sensed data sensor meaningful high-level views of the physical context around the user. A new promising research area called mobile sensing promotes completely decentralized sensing based on smartphone capabilities only. …”
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H-Matrix Accelerated Direct Matrix Solver for Maxwell’s Equations Using the Chebyshev-Based Nyström Boundary Integral Equation Method by Jin Hu, Emrah Sever, Omid Babazadeh, Ian Jeffrey, Vladimir Okhmatovski, Constantine Sideris

“…The efficacy of this approach is demonstrated through extensive numerical results, showcasing its robustness to problems that are electrically large, near physical resonances, or that have large dielectric permittivities. …”
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A Fetus with Imperforate Anus Developing Pulmonary Hypoplasia Triggered by Transient Urethral Obstruction by Masatake Toshimitsu, Takayuki Iriyama, Seisuke Sayama, Kan Suzuki, Satsuki Kakiuchi, Mari Ichinose, Takahiro Seyama, Kenbun Sone, Keiichi Kumasawa, Takeshi Nagamatsu, Tomoyuki Fujii, Yutaka Osuga

“…Prenatal and postnatal findings strongly suggested that the meconium in the colon might have passed into the urethra in the penis, resulting in the physical blockage of urine outflow to the amniotic space which leads urine flow from the bladder to the colon through the fistula, which resulted in subsequent oligohydramnios and bowel dilation. …”
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Recurrent Falls in Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review by Natalie E. Allen, Allison K. Schwarzel, Colleen G. Canning

“…Factors associated with recurrent falls include: a positive fall history, increased disease severity and duration, increased motor impairment, treatment with dopamine agonists, increased levodopa dosage, cognitive impairment, fear of falling, freezing of gait, impaired mobility and reduced physical activity. The wide range in the frequency of recurrent falls experienced by people with PD suggests that it would be beneficial to classify recurrent fallers into sub-groups based on fall frequency. …”
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Effect of Pore-Scale Mineral Spatial Heterogeneity on Chemically Induced Alterations of Fractured Rock: A Lattice Boltzmann Study by Hossein Fazeli, Ravi Patel, Helge Hellevang

“…Existence of minerals with different reactivities and along with their spatial distribution can affect the fracture geometry evolution and correspondingly its physical and hydrodynamic properties such as porosity and permeability. …”
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Chronic Osteoporotic Pain in Mice: Cutaneous and Deep Musculoskeletal Pain Are Partially Independent of Bone Resorption and Differentially Sensitive to Pharmacological Intervention... by Miyako Suzuki, Magali Millecamps, Lina Naso, Seiji Ohtori, Chisato Mori, Laura S. Stone

“…We investigated the behavioral signs of cutaneous and deep musculoskeletal pain and physical function; time-dependent changes in bone mineral density (BMD) and the emergence of the behavioral phenotype; and the effects of pharmacological interventions having different mechanisms of action (chronic intraperitoneal administration of pamidronate [0.25 mg/kg, 5x/week for 5 weeks] versus acute treatment with intraperitoneal morphine [10 mg/kg] and pregabalin [100 mg/kg]) in a mouse model of ovariectomized or sham-operated mice 6 months following surgery. …”
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Development of a psychological frailty index: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study by Jinlong Zhao, Justina Yat Wa Liu, Justina Yat Wa Liu, Daniel Fernández, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Stefanos Tyrovolas

“…The study assessed the applicability of the PFI to adverse health outcomes as a secondary aim.ResultsFactor analysis of the 15-item PFI extracted four factors of psychological frailty (psychological distress, cognitive decline, physical vulnerability, and memory decline). The PFI demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.764) and criterion validity (rho = 0.806). …”
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Stress Induced Cardiomyopathy with Midventricular Ballooning: A Rare Variant by Muhammad Umer Siddiqui, Michael C. Desiderio, Nicholas Ricculli, Arthur Rusovici

“…Stress cardiomyopathy (SCM) also referred to as the “broken heart syndrome” is a condition in which intense emotional or physical stress can cause fulminant and reversible cardiac muscle weakness. …”
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The impact of employee performance and community participation on solid waste management effectiveness in Bukittinggi City, Indonesia by Fajriatul Rahmi Annisa, Lanin Dasman, Pranata Mulya Nico

“…Com- munity participation, especially through idea contribution, physical involvement, and en- vironmental awareness, significantly enhances recycling rates and waste reduction. …”
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Shannon Entropy Computations in Navier–Stokes Flow Problems Using the Stochastic Finite Volume Method by Marcin Kamiński, Rafał Leszek Ossowski

“…The main aim of this study is to achieve the numerical solution for the Navier–Stokes equations for incompressible, non-turbulent, and subsonic fluid flows with some Gaussian physical uncertainties. The higher-order stochastic finite volume method (SFVM), implemented according to the iterative generalized stochastic perturbation technique and the Monte Carlo scheme, are engaged for this purpose. …”
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Experiences of Students with Disabilities Enrolling in Higher Education: A Qualitative Study in the United Arab Emirates [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Fatma Refaat Ahmed, Richard Mottershead, Nabeel Al Yateem, Syed Azizur Rahman, Ahmad Rajeh Saifan, Shahd Mohammed Elabed, Vidya Seshan, Alounoud Mohamed Al Marzouqi, Mini Sara Abraham, Heba Hesham Hijazi, Janisha Kavumpurath, Jacqueline Maria Dias, Ahmed Mahmoud Sallam, Muhammad Arsyad Subu

“…We recommend modifying the physical, social, and educational environments to support the education of students with disabilities. …”
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A Review of the Hydrochemistry of a Deep Sedimentary Aquifer and Its Consequences for Geothermal Operation: Klaipeda, Lithuania by Maren Brehme, Kerstin Nowak, David Banks, Sigitas Petrauskas, Robertas Valickas, Klaus Bauer, Neil Burnside, Adrian Boyce

“…Initially, precipitation of crystalline gypsum led to a program of rehabilitation and the introduction of sodium polyphosphonate dosing of the abstracted brine, which has prevented visible gypsum precipitation but has failed to halt the injectivity decline. While physical or bacteriological causes of clogging are plausible, evidence suggests that chemical causes cannot be excluded. …”
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Severe Presentation of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) Infection in a Previously Healthy Toddler by Eiman Al Boloushi, Abdulla Al Amri, Ghassan Ghatasheh, Huda Al Dhanhani

“…A previously healthy 19-month-old girl presented with a fever and two-day history of progressive right leg swelling and redness. Her physical examination revealed significant induration and swelling of her right lower leg but no obvious signs of abscess formation. …”
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Internationally Adopted Children from Non-European Countries: General Development during the First Two Years in the Adoptive Family by Monica Dalen, Steinar Theie

“…At time of adoption they show more nonphysically challenging behaviour while after two years their physically challenging behaviour has increased.…”
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Delaware Inland Bays and Market Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Quality for Consumption by Gulnihal Ozbay, Lathadevi Karuna Chintapenta, Talaysha Lingham, Stephen Lumor, Jung-lim Lee, Bettina Taylor, Shobha Sriharan, Samuel Besong

“…Since oysters are consumed raw, disease causing organisms, environmental contaminants, toxins, chemicals, and even physical hazards such as soils and metals retained in the oysters can enter through feeding. …”
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