The Persistent Ionospheric Responses Over Japan After the Impact of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake by Min‐Yang Chou, Iurii Cherniak, Charles C.H. Lin, N.M. Pedatella

“…The ionospheric irregularities initially developed over the Hokkaido region following the interference of gravity waves at ~8:45 UT. …”
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Self-administration of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone with an Electronic Device: Clinical, Economic and Management Benefits of Objective Adherence Monitoring by Zuleika Saz-Parkinson, Maria Del Sol Granados Alonso, Carmen Bouza, José Luis Poveda Andrés, José María Amate

“…**Patients and Methods:** A literature review was conducted in PubMed up to 31JUL2013, including the following search terms: “growth hormone deficiency”, “human-recombinant growth hormone” and “treatment adherence”. …”
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Death of a 29-Year-Old Male from Undifferentiated Sepsis by Kathryn A. Trebuss, Samantha Buttemer, Jeffrey S. Wilkinson, Josie Xu, John P. Rossiter, Kieran M. Moore

“…The authors report a case involving a 29-year-old male patient who died following 16 days of treatment for undifferentiated sepsis and who was found on autopsy to have widespread disseminated tuberculosis. …”
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FRAMEWORK FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF HOUSING CO-OPERATIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA by Kobus VAN WYK, Richard JIMOH

“… The current difficulties in obtaining credit for housing, following the global economic crisis, show that private individual home-ownership is not effective enough in addressing the housing needs of the low and middle income groups. …”
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Response to Radioiodine Therapy for Thyrotoxicosis: Disparate Outcomes for an Indigenous Population by Jade A. U. Tamatea, John V. Conaglen, Marianne S. Elston

“…Cure rates following radioiodine were lower for indigenes independent of factors known to affect radioiodine outcome. …”
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The Mediating Role of Dysfunctional Coping in the Relationship between Beliefs about the Disease and the Level of Depression in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Michal Ziarko, Ewa Mojs, Bartosz Piasecki, Wlodzimierz Samborski

“…The problem that needs to be addressed is the following: which mental processes lead to increased levels of depression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis? …”
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The Role of University Teachers in the Assistance to International Students by O. P. Marinenko

“…This article presents the results of the study directed by the following research questions: whether university teachers are involved in assisting international students, what strategies they prioritize, and what categories of teachers are more focused on providing assistance. …”
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A Qualitative Investigation of Athletes’ Views on Clean Sport by Beatričė Hoppen, Saulius Šukys

“…Analysis of interview data allowed to distinguish the following three broad themes related to athletes’ views on doping education and recommendations for improving it. …”
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Cortical and Subcortical Contributions to Neuroplasticity after Repetitive Transspinal Stimulation in Humans by Lynda M. Murray, Md. Anamul Islam, Maria Knikou

“…Additionally, the soleus H-reflex and ankle TEP depression following transspinal and group Ia afferent conditioning stimulation was potentiated at intervals when both responses interacted at the spinal cord and nerve axons. …”
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Healing progression of tail docking and ear tag wounds in lambs by Jocelyn M. Woods, Sarah J. J. Adcock

“…Our objectives were to: (1) describe wound healing following tail docking and ear tagging, and (2) compare healing of ear wounds in docked and undocked lambs. …”
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Psychosis in a 15-Year-Old Female with Herpes Simplex Encephalitis in a Background of Mannose-Binding Lecithin Deficiency by Kenneth Asogwa, Kwame Buabeng, Amarjit Kaur

“…Of note in this case report is psychotic disorder that occurred following reactivation of herpes simplex infection in a background of mannose-binding lecithin (MBL) deficiency, childhood EBV infection, and severe psychosocial stress. …”
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Incidence of Fractures after Cardiac and Lung Transplantation: A Single Center Experience by Aileen Hariman, Charles Alex, Alain Heroux, Pauline Camacho

“…Fracture rates up to 35% have been previously reported following heart and lung transplantations. Our institutional pretransplant protocols include DXA scans, vitamin D screening, and appropriate antiresorptive therapy. …”
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Comparative analysis of European bat lyssavirus 1 pathogenicity in the mouse model. by Elisa Eggerbauer, Florian Pfaff, Stefan Finke, Dirk Höper, Martin Beer, Thomas C Mettenleiter, Tobias Nolden, Jens-Peter Teifke, Thomas Müller, Conrad M Freuling

“…Significant differences in survival following i.m. inoculation with low doses as well as i.n. inoculation were observed. …”
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Dogmatic and Political-Legal Justification for the Protection of Positive Interest in the Recovery of Damages in Case of Breach of Contract by R. V. Makarova

“…Following L. Fuller and W. Perdue, the author tries to find a philosophical, historical and utilitarian justification for a positive interest in recovering damages due to a breached contract and, using comparative and historical methods of scientific analysis, comes to the following conclusions. …”
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Financing Moroccan SMES: Analysis of the influencing factors and the crucial role of the government guarantee scheme by Oussouadi Kamal, Cherkaoui Kenza

“…Following careful collection and analysis of the data, a number of results were drawn. …”
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Clinical and Histological Comparison of Platelet-Rich Fibrin with Periodontal Dressing and Non-Eugenol Periodontal Dressing Alone on the Depigmented Gingival Epithelium by Km Sarika Gupta, Amit Wadhawan, Prashant Tyagi, Ankita Khare

“…This procedure was performed in the intercanine region of the maxillary or mandibular arch for all participants. PRF was processed following the standardized procedure outlined by Choukroun. …”
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Immune System in the Brain: A Modulatory Role on Dendritic Spine Morphophysiology? by Oscar Kurt Bitzer-Quintero, Ignacio González-Burgos

“…By modulating synaptogenesis, microglia are most specifically involved in restoring neuronal connectivity following injury. These cells release immune mediators, such as cytokines, that modulate synaptic transmission and that alter the morphology of dendritic spines during the inflammatory process following injury. …”
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ntPET: A New Application of PET Imaging for Characterizing the Kinetics of Endogenous Neurotransmitter Release by Evan D. Morris, Karmen K. Yoder, Chunzhi Wang, Marc D. Normandin, Qi-Huang Zheng, Bruce Mock, F. Muzic Raymond, Janice C. Froehlich

“…Finally, we applied the ntPET method to small-animal imaging data in order to produce the first noninvasive assay of the time-varying release of dopamine in the rat striatum following alcohol.…”
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Obliteration of Intercondylar Notch Mimicking Flexion-Extension Gap Imbalance in a Cruciate Retaining Total Knee Arthroplasty by Harun Resit Gungor, Esat Kiter, Semih Akkaya, Nusret Ok, Cagdas Yorukoglu

“…Following total knee arthroplasty (TKA), the most frequent cause of extension deficit and limitation of range of motion in early postoperative period is related to improper tensioning of soft tissues and failure to balance extension and flexion gaps. …”
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Calibration of Low-cost Gas Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring by Dimitris Margaritis, Christos Keramydas, Ioannis Papachristos, Dimitra Lambropoulou

“…The devices exhibited favorable performance in following the pattern of the station’s reference time series in a 10-min average resolution. …”
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