Chronic Pain in Children: A Look at the Referral Process to a Pediatric Pain Clinic by Giovanni Cucchiaro, Jennifer Schwartz, Alec Hutchason, Beatriz Ornelas

“…The most common reasons for failure to improve were no compliance with the recommended treatments and poorly controlled major mood disorder. The time to refer children with chronic pain for specialized care could be extremely long causing significant social and psychological consequence.…”
Get full text

Heavy Metal Content and Health Risk Assessment of Some Selected Medicinal Plants from Obuasi, a Mining Town in Ghana by Flora Amerley Amarh, Eric Selorm Agorku, Ray Bright Voegborlo, Gerheart Winfred Ashong, Enoch Nii Klu Nortey, Napoleon Jackson Mensah

“…Results obtained from hazard indices such as the hazard quotient and carcinogenic risk show that the medicinal plants are not likely to cause cancer if they are consumed over a prolonged period of time.…”
Get full text

Patterns of Language Maintenance Among Algerian-Arabic Speakers in France by Flih Zahia

“…For a very long time, France’s language policy has considered French as the only language of the republic, ignoring any other languages spoken across the country. …”
Get full text

Hybrid genetic algorithm to minimize scheduling cost with unequal and job dependent earliness tardiness cost by Prasad Bari, Prasad Karande, Vaidehi Bag

“…The proposed improvement seeks to achieve convergence in less time to search for an optimal solution. Although the GA has been implemented very successfully on many different types of optimization problems, it has been learnt that the algorithm has a search ability difficulty that makes computations NP-hard for types of optimization problems, such as permutation-based optimization problems. …”
Get full text

Dividend Versus Investment – Cash Flow Allocation by Elżbieta Bukalska, Anna Maziarczyk, Kinga Ociesa

“…Dividends and investment might be a tool to mitigate managerial decisions and at the same time a tool to send a positive signal to the investor about the present and future good financial situation. …”
Get full text

Retracted: Application of Migration Image Registration Algorithm Based on Improved SURF in Remote Sensing Image Mosaic by Tian Zhang, Rui Zhao, Zhongsheng Chen

“…This algorithm is a kind of image registration algorithm with short time and high precision, which can meet the registration requirements of remote sensing image stitching.…”
Get full text

In Vitro models of leukemia development: the role of very small leukemic stem-like cells in the cellular transformation cascade by Jan Jakub Lica, Jan Jakub Lica, Joanna Jakóbkiewicz-Banecka, Andrzej Hellmann

“…In continuously growing cell lines, for the first time, our team’s follow-up research on leukemia, lung cancer, and healthy embryonic kidney cells revealed stages that resembles very small precursor stem cells. …”
Get full text

Disease and Dis-Ease amid Covid-19 by Nomzamo Gondwe

“…Unfortunately, the rapid spread and imposing nature of this virus has not provided countries with enough time and space to reflect on the far-reaching consequences that arise from poor public policy measures as well as disease control measures by their respective health systems. …”
Get full text

Variability of selected physico-chemical parameters of water in the Słupsko reservoir by Katarzyna Moraczewska-Majkut, Agata Jaroń, Ewa Łobos-Moysa, Witold Karol Nocoń

“…The Słupsko reservoir plays only a marginal role as a "preliminary sedimentation tank" for the Pławniowice reservoir. The short time of water retention does not allow the removal of nutrients from it. …”
Get full text

A Symmetrical Leech-Inspired Soft Crawling Robot Based on Gesture Control by Jiabiao Li, Ruiheng Liu, Tianyu Zhang, Jianbin Liu

“…For accurate and real-time gesture recognition, we propose a threshold-based method for static gestures and a backpropagation (BP) neural network model for dynamic gestures. …”
Get full text

Dynamics of Positive Frequency Dependent Selection Triggers Selection for Silence by I. Hashem, V. De Buck, J. Van Impe

“…In this paper, by applying a solution concept from evolutionary game theory, we hypothesize that the process of emergence of such alleles triggers selection for silence, where the emergence of alleles that can stay unexpressed for a period of time will be favored by selection forces. We illustrate our hypothesis using a mathematical model of a population of single locus diploid organisms with two alleles where a single mutant of an allele that experiences positive frequency dependent selection appears in a population where the other allele is a dominant. …”
Get full text

Hot Tub Lung Mimicking Classic Acute and Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: Two Case Reports by Geetika Verma, Frances Jamieson, Pamela Chedore, David Hwang, Scott Boerner, William R Geddie, Kenneth R Chapman, Theodore K Marras

“…Two cases of hot tub lung in Ontario, which presented at very different time points in their disease course, are reported; one patient presented more fulminantly with a clinical picture resembling subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and the other presented with chronic disease. …”
Get full text

上海动物园流浪猫弓形虫感染情况调查 by 朱九超 1 虞坚颐 2 白艺兰 1 周立晨 2 孙泉云 1 赵洪进 1

“…为调查和了解上海动物园园区内动物的弓形虫（Toxoplasma gondii）感染情况，防范园区野生动物弓形虫病，采用Realtime PCR法和ELISA方法分别对采集自园区内流浪猫的103份全血样本和95份血清样本开展弓形虫核酸和血清抗体检测。…”
Get full text

Representation of medieval climate fluctuations in Central Asia in the toponymic system: Historical and geographical data by Kulyash Kaimuldinova, Shakhislam Laiskhanov, Duman Aliaskarov, Rakhat Tobajanov, Zhulduz Nizamatdinova

“…The research methodology and results can be used in the future on a wider scale for other regions or in historical-geographical studies related to certain time periods.…”
Get full text

Laboratory Study on Core Fracturing Simulations for Wellbore Strengthening by Biao Ma, Xiaolin Pu, Zhengguo Zhao, Hao Wang, Wenxin Dong

“…The lost circulation in a formation is one of the most complicated problems that have existed in drilling engineering for a long time. The key to solving the loss of drilling fluid circulation is to improve the pressure-bearing capacity of the formation. …”
Get full text

Free versus pedicled flaps for reconstruction of head and neck cancer defects: a systematic review by Fanny Gabrysz-Forget, Paul Tabet, Akram Rahal, Eric Bissada, Apostolos Christopoulos, Tareck Ayad

“…FF are associated with a longer operative time, a higher cost and a higher incidence of postoperative revisions compared to PF. …”
Get full text

From Healing the Whole Person: An Argument for Therapeutic Touch as a Complement to Traditional Medical Practice by Marlene B. Huff, Kimberly K. McClanahan, Hatim A. Omar

“…Since TT has not yet been scientifically proven as per Western standards, leaders of the health care community are likely wary of lending support to TT at this time. If TT can be found to be a scientifically sound therapeutic technique, then it will be more readily accepted in the health care community. …”
Get full text

Metal foaming by powder metallurgy process: investigation of different parameters on the foaming efficiency by Ioannis Papantoniou, Helena Kyriakopoulou, Dimitrios Pantelis, Dimitrios Manolakos

“…During the foaming stage, for each set of parameters the porosity-time (Pf-t) diagrams were created and the foaming efficiency was calculated (η=Pfmax). …”
Get full text

State of the digital age: modeling of institutional transformations by D. V. Shelokov

“…Its specificity lies not only in the formalization of knowledge about social structures and processes, but also in the reflection of controlled and spontaneous processes, the awareness of the necessary actions and the will to carry them out in the interacting subjects – actors and building by them of a logically related model of behavior. At the same time, a feature of cognition is the maximum approximation of the formed image to a real process or phenomenon. …”
Get full text

A local algorithm to approximate the global clustering of streams generated in ubiquitous sensor networks by Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, João Araújo, João Gama, Luís Lopes

“…L2GClust performs local clustering of the sources based on the moving average of each node’s data over time: the moving average is approximated using memory-less statistics; clustering is based on the furthest-point algorithm applied to the centroids computed by the node’s direct neighbors. …”
Get full text