Colposcopy Value in Young Child-bearing Women: Is New Recommendations Necessary? by Fahimeh Sabet, Avishan Aminizad, Fariba Behnamfar, Tajossadat Allameh, Seyedeh Ghazal Shahrokh, Rostami Koushan, Amirmohammad Taravati, Leila Mousavi Seresht

“…Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study has been executed on 100 under 30-year-old women who have undergone genotyping. …”
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Acute effect of resistance, aerobic and combined exercise circuits on blood pressure of hypertensive women by Elizabeth Carpio Rivera, Andrea Solera Herrera

“…Nine trained persons (aged 53.22 ± 4.67 years), hypertensive but medicated with enalapril, participated in four training treatments, each carried out on different days under a randomized repeated measures design: (1) A: aerobic training condition (steps training); (2) R: resistance training condition (machine training) (3) AR: aerobic and resistance training condition (alternating aerobic and resistance training every 30 seconds) (4) C: control condition (30 minutes resting). …”
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An Improved Sporulation Method for Producing Asexual Zoospores of Pythium aphanidermatum on Culture Medium by Yu Jin Kim, Seung Hyo Baek, Elena Volynchikova, Mee Kyung Sang, Ki Deok Kim

“…Applying the same temperature (30 °C) and all incubation periods to other isolates (CCp03, CCp04, CCp05, HSv10, and KACC 40156) also resulted in higher numbers of zoospores regardless of incubation times compared with that under the control condition (25 °C and 2 days). …”
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Effects of In-Situ Drying–Wetting Cycles on the Stress-Dependent Water Retention Behavior of Intact Loess by X. M. Li, S. J. Di, L. Shi, Y. Zhang, P. Huang, Q. Y. Mu

“…The hysteresis of the specimen from 5.0 m is about 82% and 77% larger than that of the specimens from 1.0 and 3.0 m, respectively. This is because the specimen from 5.0 m has some large-size pores (i.e., >400 μm), which were not found in specimens from 1.0 and 3.0 m. …”
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Research on Fermentation Technology for a Dendrobium officinale Leaf–Sweet Potato Koji Compound Beverage by Zhenlin Zhang, Zhichao Yin, Yanhong Wang, Xingtang Fang, Xi Chen, Chunlei Zhang, Qingqing Xue, Weiwei Cheng, Meihua Hu, Yixuan Zhu, Yin Yao

“…The results indicated that a D. officinale leaf extract of 30%, sweet potato koji concentration of 30%, fermentation time of 5 days, and temperature of 30°C were optimal for beverage formation. …”
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Evaluation of Preoperative CA15-3 Level and its Relationship with Clinico-Pathological Characteristics in Primary Breast Cancer Patients by Braihan Hamdi Hameed, Izzat Abdulsatar Al-Rayahi, Salwa S. Muhsin

“…Preoperative CA15-3 levels were assessed by ELISA technique in 60 Iraqi women with breast tumor (30 with primary breast cancer and 30 with benign breast tumor) before surgery and treatment, as well as 30 healthy controls. …”
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Transverse strength of railway tracks: part 1. Planning and experimental setup by Antonio De Iorio, Marzio Grasso, Francesco Penta, Giovanni Pio Pucillo, Paolo Pinto, Stefano Rossi, Mario Testa, Giuseppe Farneti

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Transcatheter mitral valve replacement to treat rheumatic mitral stenosis: a case series by Ping Jin, Hong Guo, Yu Mao, Mengen Zhai, Yang Liu, Jian Yang

“…After the preprocedural comprehensive evaluations, the surgeons planned to use the Prizvalve (a novel balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve system which is now under the clinical registration study) for TMVR. …”
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Assessment of the Effect of Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia Crassipes) Organic Manure on the Growth and Development of Amaranthus Plant Species (Amaranthus Hybridus) In Ndorwa Sub-Coun... by Bagambe, Emmanuel

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Physical Activity Participation Levels and Contribution to the Wellbeing of Students of Ndorwa Secondary School in Kabale Municipality. by Mabuye, Safi

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Barriers to Compliance with Library Standards in Ugandan Universities by Odong, Patrick, Magara, Elisam, Nabutto, Clement Lutaaya

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Factors Contributing to Utilisation of Insecticide Treated Mosquito Bed Nets Among the Households of Kayonza Subcounty, Kanungu District. by Baguma, Bosco

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The evaluation of the predictors of left ventricular systolic function improvement in patients with severe aortic stenosis after aortic valve replacement by N.V. Ponych, O.J. Zharinov, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…The median LVEF in patients with AS and systolic dysfunction after AVR increased from 29 to 43 %. Under proper selection of patients with AS and reduced LVEF for surgery more than 30 % improvement of LVEF may be expected at early postoperative period. …”
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Modified National Early Warning Scores (MNEWS) for Predicting the Outcomes of Suspected Sepsis Patients; A Prospective Cohort Study by Nipon Diskumpon, Busabong Ularnkul, Winchana Srivilaithon, Pariwat Phungoen, Kiattichai Daorattanachai

“…The AUROC of MNEWS in predicting 30-day mortality was 0.82 (95% CI: 0.79–0.85). MNEWS ≥ 18 had the highest accuracy for 30-day mortality prediction with 76.1% sensitivity, 75% specificity, positive LR of 3.13, and AUROC of 0.76 (95% CI: 0.73–0.79). …”
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Risk Factors and Timing of Additional Surgery after Noncurative ESD for Early Gastric Cancer by Kaipeng Duan, Dongbao Li, Dongtao Shi, Jie Pei, Jiayu Ren, Weikang Li, Anqi Dong, Tao Chen, Jin Zhou

“…Furthermore, the perioperative safety and radical tumor performance of early surgery (≤30 days, n = 11), delayed surgery (>30 days, n = 11) after ESD, and upfront surgery (n = 59) were compared. …”
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Seasonal variation of air quality index and assessment by S.D. Kumar, A. Dash

“…During the study period 2015-16, out of the eight stations most comes under moderately polluted category especially in winter season followed by summer season. …”
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Short-Term Response of Soil Organic Carbon Indices to Different Farming Strategies and Crop Rotation Systems in a Semiarid Warm Region by Aram Gorooei, Amir Aynehband, Dominik Behrend, Sabine J. Seidel, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Afrasyab Rahnama, Thomas Gaiser

“…The highest (1.26) and lowest (1.06) CPIs were observed for SOF_30% CR and SIF_no-CR, respectively. The magnitude of the CMI values followed the order SOF_30% CR (121) > IOF_15% CR (107) ≥ SIF_no-CR (106). …”
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Effects of water-table depth on seed quality as β-glucan content in waxy and non-waxy naked barley grains by Satoko Yasumoto, Yohei Kawasaki, Hidetoshi Mochizuki, Yuta Shimizu, Satoshi Kawakita

“…During ripening, the β-glucan content in both waxy and non-waxy cultivars increased sharply from the 20th to the 30th days after anthesis. In waxy-type cultivar ‘Fukumifiber’, β-glucan further accumulated from the 30th to the 50th days after anthesis, but the accumulation was suppressed as the water-table depth shallowed. …”
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Static Output-Feedback Path-Tracking Controller Tolerant to Steering Actuator Faults for Distributed Driven Electric Vehicles by Miguel Meléndez-Useros, Fernando Viadero-Monasterio, Manuel Jiménez-Salas, María Jesús López-Boada

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Suitability of Sand as Improvement to Mechanical Properties of Laterite Soil for Road Subbase. by Tumusiime, Darious

“…Test results showed that an optimal sand content of 40% by dry weight was found to achieve the desired CBR of 30% for G30 material, surpassing the requirements for subbase material. …”
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