Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Surgical Grafts in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries: A Letter to the Editor by Ebrahim Piri, AmirAli Jafarnezhadgero, Anders Stålman

“…Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries are among the most common sports and orthopedic injuries, significantly affecting an individual's physical performance. …”
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An Audit of Pain Management Following Pediatric Day Surgery at British Columbia Children’s Hospital by Serena Shum, Joanne Lim, Trish Page, Elizabeth Lamb, Jennifer Gow, J Mark Ansermino, Gillian Lauder

“…Although good pain control was commonly achieved after surgery, improvements may be possible by increasing the use of multimodal analgesia, providing standardized written discharge instructions and using surgery-specific pediatric analgesia guidelines.…”
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Improving the reproducibility in geoscientific papers: lessons learned from a Hackathon in climate science by Alejandro Coca-Castro, Anne Fouilloux, Ricardo Barros Lourenço, Andrew McDonald, Yuhan Rao, J. Scott Hosking

“…The competition aimed at (1) identifying common hurdles to reproduce computational climate science; and (2) creating interactive reproducible publications for selected papers of the Environmental Data Science journal. …”
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Mitral Valve Surgery in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Mahnoosh Foroughi, Manouchehr Hekmat, Mohsen Ghorbani, Hamid Ghaderi, Masoud Majidi, Mahmood Beheshti

“…Valvular heart disease is the common cardiac manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with a tendency for mitral valve regurgitation. …”
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What drives the profitability of banking sectors in the European Union? The machine learning approach by Bernardelli Michał, Korzeb Zbigniew, Niedziółka Paweł

“…However, there are variables common to all banking sectors. These include cost efficiency and default risk. …”
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Surgical methods of treatment of extrasphincter and transsphincteric fistulas of the rectum (literature review) by I. S. Bogormistrov, S. A. Frolov, A. M. Kuzminov, A. S. Borodkin, V. Yu. Korolik, Sh. T. Minbayev

“…Now highly effective methods with application of various implants to eliminate tissue defect and improve regeneration are presented in the literature more and more commonly. Application of collagenic implants allows to decrease traumatization of sphincter fibres and thus to reduce to minimum risk of anal sphincter incompetence.Conclusion. …”
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Antenatal Sonographic Diagnosis of Pharyngeal Teratoma: Our Experience of a Rare Case with Review of the Literature by M. Varras, Ch. Akrivis, Ch. Plis, G. Tsoukalos

“…Teratomas are the most common tumors. They are usually localized in the sacrococcygeal area, while the pharyngeal localization is very rare. …”
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Gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. A case report by Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Jesús Iván Gonzalez Batista, Nelia Maria Quintana Garcia

“…It was decided to publish this article because of the few cases of gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma and especially type III that are commonly presented and also because the diagnosis is, unlike this case, usually made at an advanced stage of the disease…”
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Review of Methods for Detection Helicobacter pylori in Kazakhstan by Lavrinenko Alyona, Seisenbekova Aizhan, Turemuratova Aidana, Shkreba Alexey, Yukhnevich Yekaterina

“…Although the prevalence of H. pylori infection has decreased among adults, it is still very common. Approximately 90% of gastric adenocarcinomas are associated with H. pylori infection. …”
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Fan and Pad Greenhouse Evaporative Cooling Systems by Jonathan A. Watson, Celina Gómez, Ray A. Bucklin, J. D. Leary, Dennis B. McConnell

“…Evaporative cooling is the most common method for reducing the temperature inside a greenhouse, but it has limitations in our hot, humid climate. …”
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Allgrove syndrome in endocrinology: Difficulties of diagnosis and treatment features. Case report by Uliana V. Buyvalenko, Anna R. Levshina, Anna K. Eremkina, Kseniya A. Komshilova, Nadezhda M. Platonova

“…Neurological dysfunction from the involvement of central or autonomic nervous systems is also common with Allgrove syndrome observed during the adolescent period. …”
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Incidental Detection of a Rare Pediatric High-Grade Fibrosarcoma in a Post-traumatic Setting: The Conundrum of Intra-Abdominal Hematoma versus Neoplasia by Kamand Khalaj, Nikoo Fattahi, Allen C. Omo-Ogboi, Jaiyeola O. Thomas-Ogunniyi, Olanrewaju A. Ogunleye, Ashish Khanal, Larry A. Kramer

“…Infantile fibrosarcoma (IF) is a rare malignant fibroblastic tumor that affects infants and young children, occurring most commonly in the extremities. Here, we present a 14-year-old patient with an abdominal mass incidentally detected after a blunt injury to the abdomen. …”
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Management of Musculoskeletal Manifestations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Tejas Sheth, C. S. Pitchumoni, Kiron M. Das

“…Musculoskeletal manifestations are the most common extraintestinal manifestations in inflammatory bowel diseases. …”
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Redsharc: A Programming Model and On-Chip Network for Multi-Core Systems on a Programmable Chip by William V. Kritikos, Andrew G. Schmidt, Ron Sass, Erik K. Anderson, Matthew French

“…This paper documents the API, describes the common infrastructure, and quantifies the performance of a complete implementation. …”
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Solitary Peripheral Osteoma of the Angle of the Mandible by Kapil Kshirsagar, Kalyani Bhate, Vivek Pawar, S. N. SanthoshKumar, Supriya Kheur, Shrikant Dusane

“…Peripheral osteoma arises from the periosteum and is commonly a unilateral, pedunculated mushroom-like mass. …”
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Solutions to No-Wait Flow Shop Scheduling Problem Using the Flower Pollination Algorithm Based on the Hormone Modulation Mechanism by Chiwen Qu, Yanming Fu, Zhongjun Yi, Jun Tan

“…A variable neighborhood search strategy based on dynamic self-adaptive variable work piece blocks is constructed to improve the local search quality. Three common benchmark instances are applied to test the proposed algorithm. …”
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Local Thrombolysis for Successful Treatment of Acute Stroke in an Adolescent with Cardiac Myxoma by Natig Gassanov, Amir M. Nia, Kristina M. Dahlem, Stefan Ederer, Inga Wedemeyer, Evren Caglayan, Erland Erdmann, Fikret Er

“…Intracardiac myxomas are the most common benign cardiac tumors in adults. They are a rare source of cardiogenic embolisms and sudden death, especially in young patients. …”
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Clinical Effects of Topical Tacrolimus on Fox-Fordyce Disease by Hilal Kaya Erdoğan, Işıl Bulur, Zeliha Kaya

“…It is characterized by dome-shaped, firm, discrete, skin-colored, and monomorphic perifollicular papules. The most common sites of involvement are axillae and anogenital and periareolar regions which are rich in apocrine sweat glands. …”
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First Report of the Stapled Mesh Stoma Reinforcement Technique in a Urologic Context by Dwayne Tun Soong Chang, Isaac Andrew Thyer, John Oliver Larkin, Marina Helen Wallace, Dickon Hayne

“…Parastomal hernia is a common complication of ileal conduit formation. Mesh repair of parastomal hernia has lower rate of recurrence than nonmesh techniques but can be time-consuming to perform. …”
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Study on Decision Process and Strategy Choice Behavior under Multimode Choice by Huanmei Qin, Hongzhi Guan, Hai Yan

“…It is concluded that car travelers who will switch to choosing park and ride need more decision time to compare it with the existing modes (car, bus and subway) and tend to mainly use compensatory decision strategies in the decision process. The most commonly used decision strategy for travelers is the combined strategy under the multimode choice scenario. …”
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