Anterior and posterior tibial anesthetic block in diabetic foot surgery. by José Julio Ojeda González, Evangelina Dávila Cabo, Remberto González Enoa, Obdulio Rodríguez García

“…<strong>Objective</strong>: to check the usefulness of the anterior and posterior blockade of the tibia for the surgery of the diabetic foot.…”
Get full text

Systematic Review of Primary Hyperparathyroidism in India: The Past, Present, and the Future Trends by P. V. Pradeep, B. Jayashree, Anjali Mishra, S. K. Mishra

“…We suggest that dedicated efforts are needed to pick up asymptomatic disease in India by methods like incorporating calcium estimation in the routine health check-up programs.…”
Get full text

OCT-Precoding Combined with LDPC-Coding Scheme for 128 QAM MB-OFDM UWBoF System by Changqing Xiang, Xi Yang, Xiaojun Zhu, Qiong He, Renmin Zhang, Zhiyang Xiang

“…In this paper, we proposed a coding scheme based on orthogonal cyclic transpose (OCT) precoding combined with low-density parity check (LDPC) code to improve the transmission performance of 128-quadrature amplitude modulation multiband orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing ultrawide band over fiber (128 QAM MB-OFDM UWBoF) system. …”
Get full text

Competitive interactions for food resources between invasive Ponto-Caspian gobies and their native competitors in the context of global warming by Piotr Kłosiński, Jarosław Kobak, Tomasz Kakareko

“…Inland freshwaters are particularly vulnerable to the intensification of such phenomena due to the accumulation of invaders, including thermophilic species that may benefit from warming. We intended to check whether an elevated summer temperature (25 vs. 17 °C) affects the abilities of the Ponto-Caspian gobies to compete for food. …”
Get full text

Evaluation of the Drought Situation Using Remote Sensing Technology, an Applied Study on a Part of North Wasit Governorate in Iraq by A. J. Dakhil, E. K. Hussain and F. F. Aziz

“…Implementing soil and water conservation measures, such as the establishment of percolation basins, contour bunds, and check dams, can also enhance drought management.…”
Get full text

Partial Differential Equations-Based Segmentation for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning by Frédéric Gibou, Doron Levy, Carlos Cárdenas, Pingyu Liu, Arthur Boyer

“…This information, which is given in terms of a three-dimensional wireframe representation of the organ,serves as an initial guess for the segmentation algorithm. We check the performance of the new algorithm on eight datasets of three different organs: rectum, bladder, and kidney. …”
Get full text

Quest and designing of organic molecular frameworks for efficient hole transport materials by Priya Singh, Aditya Kumar, Ajeet Singh

“…Further, molecular electrostatic potential analysis and density of states are used to identify the various charge locations in molecules. To check the viability of our designed HTMs, we have taken 9:PC61BM complex for better understanding the charge transfer between the hole transport materials with well-known electron acceptor material.…”
Get full text

Bifurcation of a Fractional-Order Delayed Malware Propagation Model in Social Networks by Changjin Xu, Maoxin Liao, Peiluan Li

“…The study shows that the delay and the fractional order have important effect on the stability and Hopf bifurcation of considered system. To check the correctness of theoretical analyses, we carry out some computer simulations. …”
Get full text

Identifying Factors Affecting the Competitiveness of Urban Tourism Purposes (Case Study: Ardabil City) by Abbas Minai, Rahim Heydari Chianeh, Shahrivar Rustai

“…It was a simple accident. In order to check the validity of the questionnaire, the validity of the questionnaire was confirmed in two stages of face and face validity through the opinion of professors and experts, and divergent validity was confirmed by calculating the extracted mean variance index (AVE). …”
Get full text

Application of Bioinformatics Tools for the Prediction of Helper MicroRNAs for Improvement of Oncolytic Virus Efficacy by Nasrin Rastegarvand, Hoorieh Soleimanjahi, Ehsan Arefian, Mahmoud Reza Pourkarim

“…So, the main aim of this bioinformatic study is to check which microRNA is able to target some reovirus inhibitory proteins. …”
Get full text

Dynamic Behavior of Supported Structures from Free-Free Modal Tests Using Structural Dynamic Modification by G. Ismael, M. López-Aenlle, F. Pelayo, A. Fernández-Canteli

“…An accurate methodology to check the serviceability of the structure in the factory, previously to the transportation and final assembly, will diminish significantly the costs of validation of its dynamic behavior. …”
Get full text

Are Koreans Prepared for the Rapid Increase of the Single-Household Elderly? Life Satisfaction and Depression of the Single-Household Elderly in Korea by Mi-Ra Won, Yun-Jung Choi

“…The geriatric depression scale and the satisfaction with life scale were used to check the level of depression and life satisfaction of the participants. …”
Get full text

Cryptanalysis of Novel Image Encryption Scheme Based on Multiple Chaotic Substitution Boxes by Ammar S. Alanazi, Noor Munir, Majid Khan, Muhammad Asif, Iqtadar Hussain

“…The retrieved data is passed through some statistical analysis such as correlation, histogram, and entropy to check the correctness of recovered data.…”
Get full text

Description of a new Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) (Ixodida: Argasidae) tick species from Pakistan by Abid Ali, Mehran Khan, Muhammad Numan, Abdulaziz Alouffi, Mashal M. Almutairi, Ronel Pienaar, Minique H. de Castro, Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Ben J. Mans, Ala Tabor

“…Adults and late-instar nymphs of the new species display a dorsoventral groove, small cheeks not covering the capitulum, 5 small even humps on tarsus I and a transverse postanal groove intersecting the median postanal groove perpendicularly. …”
Get full text

Tracing the trajectories of energy intensity, environmental tax revenues, and environmental neutrality in major European economies by Fayyaz Ahmad, Nabila Abid, Junaid Aftab, Aamir Javed

“…The study employs advanced econometric techniques to perform the preliminary checks, and GMM-PVR is used as the main study model. …”
Get full text

Fabrication of composite ceramic polymeric membranes for agricultural wastewater treatment by Neamatalla M. Azzam, Sahar S. Ali, Gehad G. Mohamed, Mohamed M. Omar, Shereen K. Amin

“…The raw materials and prepared CCM were subjected to characterization and applied to treat agricultural wastewater from the Kitchener drain in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt. The results showed that the CCM (M2) (membrane sintered at 1000 °C/30 min soaking time and modified with PA6) had a higher pure water permeability of 558.5 L h−1 m−2 than the membrane (M4) (membrane sintered at 1100 °C/180 min soaking time and modified with PA6). …”
Get full text

Customizing the optical, electronic and transport attributes of lead-free hybrid FASnBr3 perovskites triggered by spin-orbit coupling and strains by Nusrat Jahan, Farah B.H. Pritu, Md Rasidul Islam, Budrun Neher, M Mahbubur Rahman, Farid Ahmed

Get full text

Assessing Mean Change in Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness on Optical Coherence Tomography in Glaucoma Patients after Trabeculectomy by Khizir Hayat, Muhammad Younis Tahir, Muhammad Ajmal Chaudhary, Adeel Ahmad Siddiqui, Sadia Haneef

Get full text

Women's perception of risks of adverse fetal pregnancy outcomes: a large-scale multinational survey by Irene Petersen, Hedvig Nordeng, Angela Lupattelli, Rachel L McCrea

“…Objective To determine pregnant women and new mothers’ perception of risks in pregnancy.Design, settings and participants This was a large-scale multinational survey including 9113 pregnant women and new mothers from 18 countries in Europe, North America and Australia.Main outcomes Risk perception scores (0–10) for harmful effects to the fetus were derived for: (1) medicines (over-the-counter medicine and prescribed medicine), (2) food substances (eggs and blue veined cheese), (3) herbal substances (ginger and cranberries) (4) alcohol and tobacco, and (5) thalidomide.Results Overall, 80% (6453/8131) of women perceived the risk of giving birth to a child with a birth defect to be ≤5 of 100 births. …”
Get full text

Maillard reaction products in plant-based dairy alternatives and their release during simulated gastrointestinal digestion by Kira Bieck, Franziska Ebert, Tilman Grune, Jana Raupbach

“…Free glycation compounds were abundant in yogurt and cheese, but not milk alternatives. During simulated gastrointestinal digestion, CML and MG-H1 were released either as modified amino acid or in peptide-bound form, respectively. …”
Get full text