Donor site morbidity following radial forearm free flap reconstruction with split thickness skin grafts using negative pressure wound therapy by Jessica M. Clark, Shannon Rychlik, Jeffrey Harris, Hadi Seikaly, Vincent L. Biron, Daniel A. O’Connell

“…Flexion at seven days was improved in NPD group (P = 0.031); however, all other strength and range of motion outcomes were similar between groups. There were no differences in rates of graft complications, scar aesthetics, or sensation. …”
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Thermal Effect Monitoring System of Dry-Type Smoothing Reactor by Jingen Hu, Minglei Shi, Chenhua Jiao, Guichi Zhu

“…Experimental results show that using the calculation method considering the characteristics of harmonic loss, the maximum error between the calculated value and the experimental value is 9.1%, the average error is 4.34%, and the temperature rise distribution law is in good agreement. …”
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Understanding Volunteer Management in 4-H by Bryan D. Terry, Rick Godke, Bill Heltemes, Lori Wiggins

“…Terry, Rick Godke, Bill Heltemes, and Lori Wiggins that has been published by the UF 4-H and Youth Development Program, October 2010. 4H 6.3/4H301: Understanding Volunteer Management in 4-H (ufl.edu) …”
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Data-Driven Method for Passenger Path Choice Inference in Congested Subway Network by Guanghui Su, Bingfeng Si, Fang Zhao, He Li

“…Finally, a case study with Beijing Subway data is applied to verify the effectiveness of the model presented in this study. …”
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An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Heuristic for the Electric Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows and Recharging Strategies by Ya-ru Duan, Yong-shi Hu, Peng Wu

“…Numerical experiments for benchmark instances generated based on the Greater Toronto Area and Ontario in Canada are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed model and ALNS. …”
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Young People's Joint Leisure Activities in Traditional Karelian Culture: Norms and Social Practice by Valentina Mironova, Julia Litvin

“…The authors come to the conclusion that in Karelian culture there is a specific age-group framework for adolescence, as well as gender-related differences between male and female behavioural patterns. The paper shows that girls had to undertake more varied tasks than boys as, on the one hand, they were to play socially prescribed roles and follow moral obligations, remaining modest and, on the other hand, had to be active in order to get married and give birth to children.…”
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Hubungan Pengetahuan Ibu Pasangan Usia Subur dengan Penggunaan Kontrasepsi IUD di Nagari Andalas Baruh Bukit Kecamatan Sungayang Kabupaten Tanah Datar by Iis Rahayu, Mohamad Reza, Elly Usman

“…Kontrasepsi adalah cara untuk mengukur jumlah dan jarak anak yang diinginkan. Metode kontrasepsi bekerja dengan dasar mencegah sperma laki-laki mencapai dan membuahi sel telur wanita (fertilisasi), atau mencegah telur yang sudah dibuahi untuk berimplantasi (melekat) dan berkembang dalam rahim. …”
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The Utility of Point of Care Test for Soluble ST2 in Predicting Adverse Cardiac Events during Acute Care of ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Anggoro Budi Hartopo, Indah Sukmasari, Ira Puspitawati

“…The incidence of adverse cardiac events between groups was analyzed. A p value < 0.05 was statistically significant. …”
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Birth of Catastrophe and Strange Attractors through Generalized Hopf Bifurcations in Covid-19 Transmission Mathematical Model by Yuvita Andriani Kusumadewi, Azimatus Nur Safitri, Aulia Nurmalitasari, Triyanto Triyanto, Laila Fitriana, Yudi Ari Adi, Ario Wiraya

“…Coronavirus can be transmitted through the things that people carry or the things where it sticks to after being spread by the sufferer. Instead, various preventive measures have been carried out. …”
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Removal of HCl from a gas phase by MgO under atmospheric conditions by Michiko Kitagawa, Hiromi Matsuhashi, Masanori Kidera, Kazuya Takahashi, Takahiro Kondo

“…No correlation was observed between the surface area and the amount of HCl removed. …”
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Conduct Symptoms and Emotion Recognition in Adolescent Boys with Externalization Problems by Nikoletta Aspan, Peter Vida, Julia Gadoros, Jozsef Halasz

“…The aim of the present study was to assess the relation between the recognition of emotions and conduct symptoms in adolescent boys with externalization problems. …”
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The incidence and characteristics of acute respiratory infection (ARI) after the earthquake in West Pasaman and Pasaman Districts, West Sumatra Province in 2022 by Isnaini, Fitry Yani Finny, Dianne Jurnalis Yusri, Mariko Rinang

“…There was no significant relationship between the location of natural disasters and fever or cough in ARI patients (>0.05). …”
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Safety of vancomycin-loaded cement spacers for treating gram-positive periprosthetic joint infections in two-stage resection arthroplasty among patients with renal insufficiency by Yu-Chih Lin, Chih-Hsiang Chang, Chih-Chien Hu, Yung-Chieh Liang, Pang-Hsin Hsieh, Sheng-Hsun Lee, Sheng-Hsuan Lin

“…RI patients displayed higher peak blood vancomycin levels (1.23–5.43 mg/L) but remained below toxicity thresholds. The infection-free interval, aseptic revision rates, and bacterial profiles specific to gram-positive species showed no significant differences between the groups. …”
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Surgically Removed Intrapulmonary Shotgun Pellet without Traumatic Hemopneumothorax by Soo Young Yoon, Young Hoon Sul

“…When treating firearms injuries, knowledge of the proper management is important because these injuries have high morbidity and mortality. …”
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Thickness Effect on F8T2/C60 Bilayer Photovoltaic Devices by Natasha A. D. Yamamoto, Andreia G. Macedo, Lucimara S. Roman

“…The current-voltage characteristics of the bilayer devices follow the Mott-Gurney law of SCLC. For the best performing device we measured 2.1% of power conversion efficiency.…”
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Numerically evaluate performance of top surface erodible embankment in Bangladesh by Md. Foisal Haque, Muzahidul Islam, Swarnali Akhter, Emon Das

“…The erodible depths have been measured from the field investigation at Jumarbari-Saghata road embankment at Gaibandha in Bangladesh. …”
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Maximum-Power Stirling-like Heat Engine with a Harmonically Confined Brownian Particle by Irene Prieto-Rodríguez, Antonio Prados, Carlos A. Plata

“…Historically, only gases and liquids have been used as working substances, but the technical advances achieved in recent decades allow for expanding the experimental possibilities and designing engines operating with a single particle. …”
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Inertial-relaxed splitting for composite monotone inclusions by Oré, Ernesto, Mahey, Philippe, Ocaña, Eladio

“…In a similar spirit of the extension of the proximal point method developed by Alves et al. [2], we propose in this work an Inertial-Relaxed primal-dual splitting method to address the problem of decomposing the minimization of the sum of three convex functions, one of them being smooth, and considering a general coupling subspace. …”
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Obligacje przychodowe jako narzędzie zwiększające zdolności inwestycyjne gmin wiejskich w Polsce by Barbara Hadryjańska, Jacek Mrowicki

“…Z punktu widzenia oceny ryzyka inwestycyjnego obligacje przychodowe, podobnie jak i ogólnie obligacje komunalne, są zaliczane do najbardziej bezpiecznych papierów wartościowych, co wynika z publicznoprawnego statusu jednostki samorządowej. …”
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Clinical and Economic Outcomes in Low-risk Pulmonary Embolism Patients Treated with Rivaroxaban versus Standard of Care by W. Frank Peacock, Craig I. Coleman, Phil Wells, Gregory J. Fermann, Li Wang, Onur Baser, Jeff Schein, Concetta Crivera

“…# Study Design Adult patients with continuous health plan enrollment for ≥12 months pre- and 3 months post-inpatient PE diagnosis (index date=discharge date) between October 1, 2011- June 30, 2015 and an anticoagulant claim during the index hospitalization were included…”
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