Characteristics of pediatric patients with febrile convulsions admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Alanoud A. Abuhaimed, Nawaf A. Alghamdi, Ghadah I. Alhussin, Ghadah S. Alduhaimi, Fatmah Othman, Duaa M. Baarmah, Hamad A. Alkhalaf

“…BACKGROUND: Febrile convulsions (FCs) are the most common type of seizures in children. They usually occur between the ages of 6 months and 5 years and affect 2%–5% of children worldwide. …”
Get full text

Estimating the met need for emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services in three payams of Torit County, South Sudan: a facility-based, retrospective cross-sectional study by Pontius Bayo, Imose Itua, Suzie Paul Francis, Kofi Boateng, Elijo Omoro Tahir, Abdulmumini Usman

“…The met need was highest (88%) for Nyong Payam, an urban area, compared with the other two rural payams, and 98.8% of the complications were treated from the hospital, while no complications were treated from three PHCCs. The most common obstetric complications were abortions (45.7%), prolonged obstructed labour (23.2%) and haemorrhage (16.5%). …”
Get full text

Pooled safety analysis of two phase 3 studies investigating trifluridine/tipiracil plus bevacizumab in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer by Julien Taieb, Marwan Fakih, Gabor Liposits, Gerald W. Prager, Eric Van Cutsem, Fortunato Ciardiello, Nadia Amellal, Elizabeth Calleja, Mei Liu, Lucas Roby, Josep Tabernero, Thierry André

“…Treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) in SOLSTICE and SUNLIGHT were graded per Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events versions 4.03 and 5.0, respectively. …”
Get full text

Factors associated with mortality in thoracic trauma patients in Cameroon by Odette Dzemo Kibu, Georges Nguefack-Tsague, Sithombo Maqungo, Serge Ngekeng, Fanny Nadia Dissak Delon, Darwin Touko, Rasheedat Oke, Cindy Umoh, Roland Mfondoum, Sabrinah Ariane Christie, Catherine Juillard, Alain Chichom-Mefire

“…Background: Thoracic trauma is the third most common cause of death after abdominal injury and head trauma in polytrauma patients. …”
Get full text

Phylogeny and taxonomy of Nigroporus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) with four new species from Asia and Oceania by Xiang-Lin Li, Yu-Cheng Dai, Zhan-Bo Liu, Yu-Han Jiang, Hong-Gao Liu, Yuan Yuan

“…Murrill, first described from North America, was considered to be a common species in China. The existence of a species complex is confirmed through a phylogenetic analysis of samples examined. …”
Get full text

Sample Size and Statistical Power Calculation in Genetic Association Studies by Eun Pyo Hong, Ji Wan Park

“…We found that a much lower sample size was required with a strong effect size, common SNP, and increased LD. In addition, studying a common disease in a case-control study of a 1:4 case-control ratio is one way to achieve higher statistical power. …”
Get full text

Clinical characteristics and associated factors of pediatric acute necrotizing encephalopathy: a retrospective study by Huiling Zhang, Yilong Wang, Qianyun Ding, Xuekun Li, Sheng Ye

“…The fatal group displayed lower Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores and severe complications. …”
Get full text

Lithological and geochemical characterization of ‘adinole’ artefacts from cave deposits in southwest Wales: A material of choice during the late Middle to Upper Palaeolithic by Richard Bevins, Elizabeth A. Walker, Nick Pearce, Duncan Pirrie, Rob Ixer, Ian Saunders, Matthew Power

“…Some artefacts appear to cluster on geochemical plots, such as a group of eight artefacts from Hoyle’s Mouth Cave which share petrological characteristics and appear to have come from a common source. In other cases, however, certain artefacts with similar chemistries have dissimilar petrological characteristics and are not from a common source. …”
Get full text

Human Rights and Investment Arbitration – Fields of Interaction by Magdalena Michalska-Guzik

“…At first glance, these two branches of public international law remain completely unrelated and do not have any significant features in common. However, it appears that despite this distinction, there is an interaction between investment arbitration and human rights, which implies a number of significant legal problems. …”
Get full text

Cancer Loyalty Card Study (CLOCS): protocol for an observational case–control study focusing on the patient interval in ovarian cancer diagnosis by Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Sudha Sundar, Yasemin Hirst, Hannah R Brewer, James M Flanagan

“…Introduction Ovarian cancer is the eighth most common cancer in women worldwide, and about 1 in 5 women with ovarian cancer do not receive treatment, because they are too unwell by the time they are diagnosed. …”
Get full text

Scholarly impact of the dissertation requirement for postgraduate medical education and factors affecting transformation into publication: A bibliometric analysis of 2434 dissertat... by İbrahim Ulaş Özturan, İbrahim Sarbay

“…Of these, 864 (35.5%) were published and 474 (54%) were published in WOS-indexed journals. The most common area of research was trauma (n = 150, 17%), and the most common journal was the American Journal of EM (n = 74, 8%). …”
Get full text

EU-TIRADS-Based Omission of Fine-Needle Aspiration and Cytology from Thyroid Nodules Overlooks a Substantial Number of Follicular Thyroid Cancers by Tamas Solymosi, Laszlo Hegedüs, Miklos Bodor, Endre V. Nagy

“…EU-TIRADS-defined suspicious US features are less common in FTC than in PTC and MTC. Therefore, a substantial number of FTCs in the 10–20 mm range escape surgery.…”
Get full text

Gastrointestinal transit time of radiopaque ingested foreign bodies in children: experience of two paediatric tertiary centres by Chen Xiang Ang, Win Kai Mun, Marion Margaret Aw, Diana Lin, Shu-Ling Chong, Lin Yin Ong, Shireen Anne Nah

“…Introduction: Foreign body (FB) ingestion is a common paediatric emergency. While guidelines exist for urgent intervention, less is known of the natural progress of FBs passing through the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). …”
Get full text

Montelukast Use and Patterns of Ambulatory Care among Asian versus Non-Asian Adult Patients with Asthma and/or Allergic Rhinitis in the United States by Joseph Vasey, Shalini Bagga, Huan Huang, Tongsheng Wang, David Thompson

“…Mild-to-moderate persistent asthma has been widely treated with inhaled corticosteroids, while allergic rhinitis is commonly treated with antihistamines, nasal corticosteroids, anticholinergics, and other allergy specific medications. …”
Get full text

Atrial Fibrillation and Long QT Syndrome Presenting in a 12-Year-Old Girl by Jonathan W. Knoche, Kate M. Orland, Craig T. January, Kathleen R. Maginot

“…Mutations in KCNQ1 are the most common cause of LQTS. Although rare, mutations in KCNQ1 also can cause familial AF. …”
Get full text

A MODEL FOR DETERMINING THE SAFETY LEVEL OF OCCUPATIONAL WORK USING ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS: A REVIEW by T. A. YUSUF, O. M. SANUSI, H. O. ADEYEMI

“… Frequency Rate (FRR), Fatality Rate (FAR) and Severity Rate (SR) are common parameters used in communicating the research output of occupational accidental injuries. …”
Get full text

Smart Approach for Botnet Detection Based on Network Traffic Analysis by Alaa Obeidat, Rola Yaqbeh

“…Today, botnets are the most common threat on the Internet and are used as the main attack vector against individuals and businesses. …”
Get full text

A Rare Case of Metastatic Choriocarcinoma of Lung Origin by Parth Rali, Jianwu Xie, Grishma Rali, Mayur Rali, Jan Silverman, Khalid Malik

“…Choriocarcinoma is part of the spectrum of gestational trophoblastic disease that occurs in women of reproductive age. Although the most common metastatic site of choriocarcinoma is the lung, primary pulmonary choriocarcinoma is rare. …”
Get full text

GEDUNG KOMUNITAS SASTRA FIKSI KREATIF DI MAKASSAR DENGAN PENDEKATAN ARSITEKTURE KUBISME by Silmi Sulthan, Irma Rahayu, Mutmainnah Mutmainnah

“…Planning and designing are aimed to the creative literary fiction community building in Makassar with Cubism architecture approach, this design is limited to a few problems such as the problem of architectural, location and footprint, the prospect physical design of the building, the need for space (layout), structure, materials, and equipment building so that, it can indicate the identity of what its contain, while the methods are literature studies, comparative studies, (Form obtained by comparing studies on similar projects or who have in common with creative literary fiction community building). …”
Get full text

Antimony Resistance in Leishmania, Focusing on Experimental Research by Fakhri Jeddi, Renaud Piarroux, Charles Mary

“…In this paper, we reviewed the studies carried out on antimonial resistance in Leishmania. Several common limitations of these works are presented before prevalent approaches to evidence antimonial resistance are related. …”
Get full text