Aortic stenosis post-COVID-19: a mathematical model on waiting lists and mortality by Chris P Gale, Jonathan Weir-McCall, James H F Rudd, Mamas Mamas, Ramesh Nadarajah, Ben Gibbison, Louise Sun, Christian Philip Stickels, Houyuan Jiang, Kieran J Sharkey, Nick Holliman, Sara Lombardo, Lars Schewe, Matteo Sommacal, Katherine Cheema, Feryal Erhun

“…Objectives To provide estimates for how different treatment pathways for the management of severe aortic stenosis (AS) may affect National Health Service (NHS) England waiting list duration and associated mortality.Design We constructed a mathematical model of the excess waiting list and found the closed-form analytic solution to that model. From published data, we calculated estimates for how the strategies listed under Interventions may affect the time to clear the backlog of patients waiting for treatment and the associated waiting list mortality.Setting The NHS in England.Participants Estimated patients with AS in England.Interventions (1) Increasing the capacity for the treatment of severe AS, (2) converting proportions of cases from surgery to transcatheter aortic valve implantation and (3) a combination of these two.Results In a capacitated system, clearing the backlog by returning to pre-COVID-19 capacity is not possible. …”
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Species and Termite Attack Intensity on Pine Trees in Nagari Talang Babungo, Solok District, West Sumatra Province by Desyanti Desyanti, Fauzan Fauzan, Zulhilda Yenti

“…The species and attack intensity of termites on pine trees in the protected forest of Nagari Talang Babungo, Solok District, West Sumatra Province, is unknown. …”
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Numerical Study of Hall Thruster Plume and Sputtering Erosion by Li Yan, Ping-Yang Wang, Yang-Hua Ou, Xiao-Lu Kang

“…For low-energy heavy-ion sputtering in Hall thruster plume, the Matsunami formula for the normal incidence sputtering yield and the Yamamura angular dependence of sputtering yield are used. …”
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Does Black theology have a role to play in the democratic South Africa? by R. T. H. Dolamo

“…The struggle against apartheid was aimed mainly at attaining national political liberation so much so that other forms of freedom, albeit implied and included indirectly in the liberation agenda, were not regarded as immediate priorities. …”
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"In saeculo et ex saeculo". Characteristics of the secular institutes by Andrea  Michl

“… Secular institutes are a form of consecrated life that only came into being in the last century and therefore do not have a long history. …”
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The effect of carprofen administration on conception rate after artificial insemination on heifers with prolonged in breeding age by Fatma Satılmış, Hasan Alkan, Ömer Faruk Yeşilkaya, Muhammed Furkan Çiftçi, Hüseyin Erdem

“…<b>Aim:</b> The aim of this study was to determined the effect of carprofen administration on conception rate after artificial insemination on heifers with prolonged in breeding age<p> <b>Materials and Methods: </b>Animal material of the study formed; at the age of 18 months and over, 156 head Simental and Brown breed heifers with body condition score of 3,50, was'nt obtained pregnancy although it was inseminated >3 times before. …”
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Posibilidades y limitaciones de la educación intercultural en contexto mapuche. by Segundo Quintriqueo M

“…Estas racionalidades generan una distancia epistemológica en la definición de contenidos y finalidades educativas para la formación de persona en contexto de relaciones interétnicas e interculturales. …”
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Fixing Device for a Planar Object by Incorporating Jamming Transition Phenomenon and a Suction Unit by Akira Bekku, Yoshikazu Nakajima

“…Subsequently, we evaluated the performance of the device. The suction force was 166-N when the proposed device was affixed to a curved target. …”
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Review of the II International Congress on the History of Turkic Statehood “The statehood of the Turkic peoples in the Chingisid era” by Umbetov N.A.

“…Special attention was given to key issues concerning the history of the Ulus of Jochi, its role in the formation of Turkic states, as well as the processes of Islamization and Turkification. …”
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Reconnaissance auditive intergroupe chez les mâles de singes hurleurs noirs (Alouatta pigra) sauvages by Margarita Briseño‑Jaramillo, Alejandro Medina Estrada, Alban Lemasson

“…Comme attendu, les individus ont présenté des réactions plus fortes pendant les situations incohérentes (vitesse d’approche, réponse vocale, comportements de marquage territorial). …”
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Study on physical clogging process and practical application of horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland by Shuqun Dai, Ruida Wang, Jiawei Lin, Guoyi Zhang, Zhonggou Chen, Lei Li, Qintian Shi

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Mechanical characteristics and load-bearing effect of roadway anchorage composite carrier by Wensong Xu, Yaoyuan Zhang, Chao Wang, Xinwen Wu, Jibin Zhou

“…Specifically, the study examines the influence of supporting parameters, including bolt length, bolt diameter, bolt spacing, preload force, and roadway width, on both the effective formation and the thickness of the anchorage composite carrier. …”
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Tanatopolítica y control social : la violencia como dinamizador del orden y la limpieza social en Bucaramanga, Colombia (1988-1998) by Álvaro Acevedo Tarazona, Andrés Correa Lugos

“…Faced with this situation, alternatives were implemented to exercise social control, such as states of exception and other non-legal forms of repression, which were mainly exercised by informal actors who, with the support of the Military Forces, administered the ways of dying at their will. and to kill. …”
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Legal Principles of Procedural Activity and Interaction of Employees of Operative Divisions at Execution of Instructions of Interrogators, Investigators, Prosecutors in Regard to C... by O. O. Yukhno

“…Special attention has been paid to the study of the peculiarities of forms of interaction and its subjects in criminal proceedings, as well as the existing legislative and practical issues concerning the compliance with operative deadlines of police orders of interrogators, investigators and prosecutors and has suggested the ways to solve them in practice and, in particular, at the legislative level. …”
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Dynamical System Analysis of a Lassa Fever Model with Varying Socioeconomic Classes by Ifeanyi Sunday Onah, Obiora Cornelius Collins

“…It poses a serious health challenge around the world today, especially in West African countries like Ghana, Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. In this work, we formulate a multiple-patch Lassa fever model, where each patch denotes a socioeconomic class (SEC). …”
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Metropolitan Regions: Challenges for Sustainability and Governance of Periurban Areas in Brazil. by Prof. Dr. Martin Coy, Dr. Simone Sandholz, Dr. Tobias Töpfer, Dr. Frank Zirkl

“…Especially the most populous Brazilian metropolitan areas have to deal with peri-urban development challenges like the lack of infrastructure and public security or new forms of fragmentation that come along with social and ecological problems. …”
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Application of Fuzzy Hierarchy Analysis method to identify factors on the professional development of newly graduated teachers from Farhangian University by Nader Habibzadeh, Ebrahim Salehiomran, Saeed Ghiyasinoshan

“…Professional development is a process for deepening the teacher's awareness, skills and attitude; done formally or informally, which is one of the effects of the economic and social cooperation development organization. …”
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Memestampitas: identificaciones, imágenes y retóricas de materialidades sagradas en Facebook (periodo 2023-2024) by Daniela Nava Le Favi, María Laura Ledesma

“…En este trabajo interesa pensar en memes-estampitas como productos comunicacionales que forman parte de la cultura material religiosa, es decir, actos concatenados de producción-distribución-consumo de un complejo paisaje visual y lingüístico de bienes sagrados simbólicos y materiales que expresan y configuran las formas de vida, los ritos, las mitologías y las jerarquías simbólicas concernientes a lo sagrado. …”
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Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Commitment and Climate with Public Health (Case Study: Physical Education Teachers in Kermanshah Province) by Mohammad Saeid Kiani, Leila Nazari

“…Four questionnaires of demographic characteristics were used to measure the variables: the Mir and Allen questionnaire (1996), the questionnaire (OCDQ-RS), and the Goldberg and Hiller questionnaire (2012). Formal and content validity was confirmed by opinion polls from related professors, and the reliability of the questionnaires was reported to be 0.79, 0.87, and 0.79 using Cronbach's alpha. …”
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Las agriculturas alternativas en el contexto del agronegocio. Experiencias en la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina by Tomás Palmisano

“…Además su inserción en tramas sociales amplias revela nuevas formas de conexión de lo rural y lo urbano, como es el caso de la diversificación de los canales de comercialización.…”
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