Severity and Control Levels of Bronchial Asthma in the Pediatric Population of Yamanigüey. Moa by Alexander Torres Molina, Yamila Loforte Columbié

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> Bronchial asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood. It is clinically and epidemiologically stratified according to its degree of severity and we argue for its classification according to control levels.…”
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Liquid Self-Balancing Device Effects on Flexible Rotor Stability by Leonardo Urbiola-Soto, Marcelo Lopez-Parra

“…LeBlanc for passive balancing of turbine rotors. Although of common use in many types or rotating machines nowadays, little information is available on the unbalance response and stability characteristics of this device. …”
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Fibromyalgia: Presentation and Management with a Focus on Pharmacological Treatment by Janice E Sumpton, Dwight E Moulin

“…Fibromyalgia is most common in women, but it also involves men and children. …”
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Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma with WWTR1-CAMTA1 Fusion in the Parotid Gland Presenting as Bell’s Palsy by Landon J. Kunzelman, Shweta Agarwal, Nathan Boyd, Cory J. Broehm

“…Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a rare tumor of endothelial differentiation most commonly arising in soft tissue, liver, and lung, following a variable clinical course. …”
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Natural Plant Extracts as Acid-Base Indicator and Determination of Their pKa Value by N. Kapilraj, S. Keerthanan, M. Sithambaresan

“…Commonly used indicators for acid-base titrations are synthetic, and this work was focused to identify the eco-friendly natural indicators and to determine their pKa values. …”
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Exploration of Heterogeneous FPGA Architectures by Umer Farooq, Husain Parvez, Habib Mehrez, Zied Marrakchi

“…Mesh-based heterogeneous FPGAs are commonly used in industry and academia due to their area, speed, and power benefits over their homogeneous counterparts. …”
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Myxomatous degeneration of aortic valve causing severe aortic regurgitation. A rare case report by Rakesh Kumar Kodakkandla, Venkata Sreedatta Sarraju, Nagesh Ayalasomayajula

“…Although aortic valve regurgitation is a common disease, myxomatous degeneration of isolated aortic valve leading to aortic regurgitation is rare. …”
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Pore-Scale Simulation of Water Flooding Using Volume of Fluid Method by Chuanqing Huang, Jiaosheng Zhang, Xuejiao Lu, Li Jihong, Yingsong Huang, Lijie Liu, Yajie Su, Jianguang Bai

“…Water flooding is a commonly used method in oilfield development, and the water flooding process is essentially the process of oil-water movement in porous media. …”
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Surgical and Pathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Children and Adolescents by Davor Dzepina

“…Patients with papillary carcinoma present with more advanced stage, larger primary tumor, and more commonly present with palpable thyroid and/or neck node. …”
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Public health challenges – the diet, nutritional status, and health of the Polish population by Anna Harton

“…An unhealthy lifestyle often results in excess body weight, which is becoming more common across different age groups, including young children. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Opinion Natural Reversal Dynamics with Opinion Leader Based on HK Bounded Confidence Model by Renbin Xiao, Tongyang Yu, Jundong Hou

“…Opinion natural reversals are important and common phenomena in network management. It is a naturally emerging process of opinions characterized by interactions between individuals and the evolution of attitudes themselves. …”
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Drug Treatment of Patients with Liver Cirrhosis in a Tertiary Hospital in Northern Ghana: Does It Comply with Recommended Guidelines? by Baba Sulemana Mohammed, Matthew Aidoo

“…A total of 152 liver cirrhotic patients were included in this study. Common etiologies for liver cirrhosis were chronic hepatitis B 80 (52.6%) and chronic hepatitis C 30 (19.7%); about 12.5% of etiologies were unknown. …”
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An Interlayer Link Prediction Method Based on Edge-Weighted Embedding by Hefei Hu, Sirui Zhang, Yanan Wang

“…Most existing interlayer link prediction studies use embedding methods, which represent nodes in a common representation space by learning mapping functions. …”
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Banking Crises: Identification Problems and Resolution by O. I. Larina

“…Banking crises have many common characteristics, but often their course is different. …”
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Low Resolution Limits and Inaccurate Algorithms Decrease Significantly the Value of Late Loss in Current Drug-Eluting Stent Trials by Johannes B. Dahm, Frank van Buuren

“…Late loss as one of the most commonly accepted parameters to highlight efficacy of the various devices has shown high correlation to clinical parameters but, surprisingly, has no impact on the evaluation of the remaining amount of restenostic tissue. …”
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Les Enjeux ekphrastiques de la montagne à l’époque romantique by Michel Morel

“…A paradigmatic change in values occurs at the time, the sense of discrepancy of which allows one to become aware of what is inevitably hidden by the common run of things. Indeed, a unified thematic prevails, clearly evinced in four extracts selected from contemporary works: a) The Prelude (Wordsworth); b) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Mrs Radcliffe); c) Waverley (Scott); d) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley). …”
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Hip Resurfacing. An Experience in Livingstone Hospital, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. From January 2004 to January 2006. by Pedro Gonzalo González González, Edgar Antezana Bilbao, Tamara Elizabeth Morales Perez

“…</strong> Out of 30 patients operated 22 were males 73,3% the age group more affected was 46-55, 53,3%, the most common cause affecting the hip was the primary osteoarthritis in 17 patients 56,7% and the survivorship of the prosthesis 12 moths after surgery was 100%. …”
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Tea in cardiovascular health and disease: a critical appraisal of the evidence by Klaus W. Lange

“…However, since tea is globally one of the most commonly consumed beverages, even small beneficial effects in humans may shift the population distribution of CVD risk, with major implications for public health. …”
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Incidental Findings of Asymptomatic Fungal Infection by Nisha Manila, Madhu Nair, Hui Liang

“…Fungal sinusitis of the paranasal sinuses is a rare infection in healthy individuals but is relatively common in immunocompromised patients. It is often misdiagnosed and frequently a severe disease, as a few forms of it are linked with a higher mortality rate. …”
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The Quality of Ranking during Simulated Pairwise Judgments for Examined Approximation Procedures by Paul Thaddeus Kazibudzki

“…Research results argue that a genuine, commonly applied approximation procedure for a pairwise comparison matrix may deteriorate the quality of priority ratios estimation. …”
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