A CASE REPORT: UNILATERAL COMPLETE CLEFT LIP RECONSTRUCTION USING THE MODIFICATION MILLARD TECHNIQUE by Theodora Ratih Labdagati Iswara, Muhammad Aulia Ul Hakim

“…Conclusion: The modified Millard technique can be considered as a viable option for treating unilateral cleft lip due to its ability to create a balanced Cupid's bow, maintain appropriate lip height and width, and achieve satisfactory aesthetic results in the nasal area without vermillion notching.…”
Get full text

The formulated microbicide RC-101 was safe and antivirally active following intravaginal application in pigtailed macaques. by Alexander M Cole, Dorothy L Patton, Lisa C Rohan, Amy L Cole, Yvonne Cosgrove-Sweeney, Nicole A Rogers, Deena Ratner, Alexandra B Sassi, Carol Lackman-Smith, Patrick Tarwater, Bharat Ramratnam, Piotr Ruchala, Robert I Lehrer, Alan J Waring, Phalguni Gupta

“…Herein, film-formulated RC-101 was assessed for its antiviral activity in vitro, safety in vivo, retention in the cervix and vagina, and ability to remain active against HIV-1 and SHIV after intravaginal application in macaques.…”
Get full text

Microbiological And Physicochemical Analyses Of Oil Contaminated Soil From Major Motor Mechanic Workshops In Benin City Metropolis,Edo State, Nigeria by FO Ekhaise, J Nkwelle

“…The ability of microorganisms to utilize used oil in contaminated soil from some selected major mechanic workshops in Benin City metropolis as sole source of carbon and energy was studied. …”
Get full text

Ensemble learning based sustainable approach to rebuilding metal structures prediction by Tetiana Vlasenko, Taras Hutsol, Vitaliy Vlasovets, Szymon Glowacki, Tomasz Nurek, Iryna Horetska, Savelii Kukharets, Yuriy Firman, Olexandra Bilovod

“…The innovation of the development lies in the ability to provide an automated tool to support informed decision-making for the reuse of building steel for construction site professionals. …”
Get full text

On the nature of a large anticlinal fold in the Upper Kama salt deposit, its geomechanical and gas-geochemical zonality by I.I. Chaikovskiy, O.V. Ivanov, I.L. Pan’kov, E.P. Chirkova

“…It turned out to be consistent with their migration ability. The high value of the C2H6/i-C4H10 index suggests that a part of the hydrocarbon gases could have been generated in situ from the organic matter of salts during the fold catagenesis. …”
Get full text

Isolation and Antifungal Susceptibility of Candida spp. from Pediatric Patients in Kurdistan of Iraq by Mohammed Salah Bahi, Khattab Ahmed Mustafa Shekhany

“…Candida species are considered the most common opportunistic human fungal pathogen due to the presence of various virulence factors, including its ability to form a biofilm that aids in oral candidiasis. …”
Get full text

Prevalence and Intensity of Intestinal Helminth Infections in Preschool Pupils in Lugari Subcounty, Kakamega County, Kenya by Daniel Kevin Werunga, Elizabeth Nanjala Omukunda, Jackson Cheruiyot Korir

“…Intestinal helminths cause anaemia, malnutrition, indigestion disorders, retarded growth, and low mental abilities in pupils. About 1.5 billion are infected globally. …”
Get full text

Learning from experience: does providing end-of-life care support for relatives boost personal end-of-life health literacy? by Clément Meier, Maud Wieczorek, Sarah Vilpert, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Ralf J. Jox, Jürgen Maurer

“…Method We used data from 1,548 respondents in Switzerland to Wave 8 (2019/2020) of the Survey on Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe. Their ability to understand medical jargon, find information, communicate, and make decisions about end-of-life care options was measured with the validated Subjective End-of-Life Health Literacy Scale. …”
Get full text

Outcomes of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 at the University Teaching Hospital of Butare in Rwanda and validation of the Universal Vital Assessment (UVA) mortality risk score. by Dona Fabiola Gashame, Kwame A Akuamoah Boateng, Jean Damascene Twagirumukiza, Jean de Dieu Mahoro, Christopher C Moore, Theogene Twagirumugabe

“…Accordingly, we aimed to determine 1) outcomes of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Rwanda, and 2) the ability of the Universal Vital Assessment (UVA) score to predict mortality in patients with COVID-19 compared to sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) and quick (qSOFA) scores. …”
Get full text

A hybrid algorithm based on improved sine cosine algorithm and population incremental learning and its application to economic load dispatch in power systems by Aoshuang Ye, Yichao Li, Dong Xu, Zhiwei Wu, Guohua Chen, Junjie Tang, Zhiyuan Zhu

“…However, its strong local search ability and rotational invariance often lead to convergence at local optima. …”
Get full text

NK-92 cells activated by IL-2 inhibit the progression of endometriosis in vitro by Jun Yao, Li-jiao Zhang, Zhe Zhou, Mao-fang Hua

“…The viability, apoptosis, invasion, and migration ability of EESCs co-cultured with NK-92 cells at different ratios were evaluated. …”
Get full text

Barlow Twins deep neural network for advanced 1D drug–target interaction prediction by Maximilian G. Schuh, Davide Boldini, Annkathrin I. Bohne, Stephan A. Sieber

“…By comparing co-crystal structures, we find that BarlowDTI effectively exploits catalytically active and stabilising residues, highlighting the model’s ability to generalise from one-dimensional input data. …”
Get full text

Genome sequence and evaluation of safety and probiotic potential of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei LC86 and Lacticaseibacillus casei LC89 by Ting Chen, Yunjiao Zhao, Yunjiao Zhao, Yixuan Fan, Yao Dong, Zhonghui Gai

“…We tested various properties of the two strains, included tolerance, cell adhesion, hemolytic activity, catalase activity, gelatin hydrolysis, arginine hydrolysis ability, bile salt hydrolysis capacity, mucin degradation, bioamine, D-/L-lactic acid production and antibiotic susceptibility, to confirm the safety of LC86 and LC89 both in vitro and in vivo. …”
Get full text

Downregulation of VRK1 Inhibits Progression of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma through DNA Damage by Ning Du, Boxiang Zhang, Yunfeng Zhang

“…After transfection of VRK1 shRNA in both LUSC cells, cell activity decreased (P<0.001), migration ability started to be inhibited (P<0.001), the ratio of G0/G1 phase cells increased (P<0.001), and apoptosis rate increased (P<0.001). …”
Get full text

Using Information Extraction to Normalize the Training Data for Automatic Radiology Report Generation by Yuxiang Liao, Haishan Xiang, Hantao Liu, Irena Spasic

“…Using the new scheme, we manually annotated a total of 550 MIMIC-CXR reports for model training and evaluation and 50 CheXpert reports for evaluating the model&#x2019;s generalization ability. We developed a joint entity and relation model and proposed a novel auxiliary component to enhance the model performance by interpreting token-level information. …”
Get full text

Experience of nurse-guided root cause analysis after a sentinel event: a qualitative study by Li-Li Huang, Yan-Hong Jiang, Ju-Hong Yang, Wei-Wen Hong, Hai-Fei Chen, Wei-Wei Hu

“…The main themes were: (1) success in a demanding field requires exceptional skills and abilities (having comprehensive knowledge, empowering capabilities, demonstrating interest and engagement), (2) building strong interpersonal relationships between guides and team leaders (selecting mature and experienced team leaders, building trust and cooperation with team leaders, exerting the guiding role of team leaders in projects), (3) tailored communication strategies in nursing for effective leadership and safety enhancement (navigating complex hierarchies through tailored communication, fostering collaboration through targeted communication strategies, empowering teams through clear and adapted communication) (4) investing effort and overcoming obstacles are key to successful nursing-guided project implementation (investing time and effort in project implementation, addressing obstacles during project advancement). …”
Get full text

The Prognostic Value of Echocardiographic Wall Motion Score Index in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Michael L. Savage, Karen Hay, Bonita Anderson, Gregory Scalia, Darryl Burstow, Dale Murdoch, Isuru Ranasinghe, Owen Christopher Raffel

“…When used as the only classifier for predicting 12-month mortality, the discriminatory ability of WMSI (area under the curve (AUC): 0.77; 95% CI: 0.68–0.84) was significantly better than LVEF (AUC: 0.71; 95% CI: 0.61–0.79; p=0.034). …”
Get full text

First-principles calculations to investigate thermoelectric, thermophysical, and optical properties of RNi₄P₁₂ (R = Sm, Eu) rare-earth metal skutterudites by Poorva Nayak, Dinesh C. Gupta

“…Elastic parameters are estimated using the Voigt-Reuss-Hill approximation, with elastic stability crucial for practical applications, characterized by brittleness indicating the compounds’ ability to deform without fracturing under stress. …”
Get full text

Physiological and biochemical features of fig cultivars (<I>Ficus carica</I> L.) from the collection of the Nikita Botanical Gardens by E. L. Shishkina, E. V. Dunaevskaya, R. A. Pilkevich, N. Yu. Marchuk

“…‘Sabrutsiya Rozovaya’, a potentially adaptable cultivar with resistance to hydrothermal stress, was identified for its increased water-retaining capacities and high reparative ability of leaf tissues. It is recommended for use in the breeding for drought resistance and for establishment of large-scale plantations in arid regions.…”
Get full text

“Gleaning a lot from the history and physical exam,” and “reasonably confident without imaging”: a qualitative study of primary care clinicians' management of patients with low bac... by Lynn Haslam-Larmer, Kathleen E. Norman, Andrea M. Patey, Isabella M. Thomas, Michael E. Green, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Jill A. Hayden, Jan Hartvigsen, Noah M. Ivers, Hazel Jenkins, Simon D. French

“…Many clinicians across disciplines expressed the following themes: (1) imaging may result in an incidental finding or otherwise cause harm to patients, and drive up health system costs (TDF domain Beliefs about consequences); (2) clinicians were confident in their abilities to diagnose, to explain to patients the rationale for not recommending imaging, and to respond to their needs (domains Beliefs about capabilities; Skills). …”
Get full text