Efficacy of Prophylactic Phenylephrine in Prevention of Hypotension in Parturient Undergoing Spinal Caesarean Section by Muhammad Salman Maqbool

“…Statistical software(version.3.1.9.2) with (prob of 0.80, critical 2 value 15.08), was employed and sample size calculated to be 200 cases i.e. groups-I (injection phenylephrine 100µgm) and group-II (placebo) divided by lottery method into 100 each given at spinal neuraxial block. …”
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Maternal Role in Adolescent Mothers with Infants by Belkis Sánchez Martínez, Daniela Lizeth Luna Rodríguez, Nairovys Gómez Martínez

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to identify the information that adolescent mothers of infants have about breastfeeding. <br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out. …”
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Transforming physical education: online learning trough sport modification and mini-games by Yuni Astuti, Oyatra Utama Warda, Rizki Almauli, Rosmawati Rosmawati, Bayu Haryanto, Erianti Erianti

“…The results of this study are expected to contribute to the development of physical learning methods that are more flexible and accessible to various groups, especially in the growing digital era. …”
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Social Confrontation with Menstruation: A Feminist Ethnography of Menstrual Experience among Female Instagram Users by Rana Mohammad Taghinejad Esfahani, Majid Movahed, Halimeh Enayat, Aliyar Ahmadi

“…However, social media provided a platform for women to challenge these power structures and share their experiences.   Materials & MethodsThis research employed feminist ethnography, utilizing Charmaz Grounded Theory for data analysis. …”
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Understanding the performance improvement mechanism of Ti/steel clad plates fabricated by double-layered hot rolling by Yue Wu, Renhao Wu, Haiming Zhang, Tao Wang, Qingxue Huang, Hyoung Seop Kim

“…The results show that the DA method achieved higher bonding strength with a single rolling pass than the SA method with two passes, indicating a more efficient bonding process. …”
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Kinetic Study of Commercial Tabletop Sweeteners Using Thermal Analysis by Naienne da Silva Santana, Sergio Neves Monteiro, Tatiana Carestiato da Silva, Michelle Gonçalves Mothé

“…The kinetic parameters were calculated using the ASTM E-698 method, indicating that the xylitol sample required the lowest energy to initiate the decomposition process. …”
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Pore structure characterization of porous building material by X-ray computed tomography (XCT) and X-ray microscopy (XRM) by Chengnan Shi, Jeroen Soete, Hans Janssen

“…Additionally, scanning the same sample with a finer voxel size naturally captures more details, and allows the pore network extraction algorithm to better preserve pore structure. …”
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Chaotic moving video quality enhancement based on deep in-loop filtering by Tong Tang, Yi Yang, Dapeng Wu, Ruyan Wang, Zhidu Li

“…Meanwhile, under close bit rate consumption, the proposed method could reconstruct more texture information, thereby significantly reducing the blocking artifacts and improving the visual quality.…”
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Self-Compassion and Mindfulness Therapies on Affection Control of Poor Parenting Adolescents by Zahra EffatDoost Sani, Mohammad Reza Zarbakhsh Bahri, Alireza Homayuni

“…They were selected and categorized in three groups (two experimental and one control) through purposeful sampling method. One experimental group received self-compassion therapy and the other experimental group received mindfulness therapy through training protocol for 8 sessions, while the control group did not get any treatment. …”
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Learning Gaussian graphical models from correlated data by Zeyuan Song, Zeyuan Song, Sophia Gunn, Stefano Monti, Stefano Monti, Gina M. Peloso, Ching-Ti Liu, Kathryn Lunetta, Paola Sebastiani, Paola Sebastiani, Paola Sebastiani

“…The advantage of using partial correlation is to show the relation between two variables after “adjusting” for the effects of other variables and leads to more parsimonious and interpretable models. There are well established procedures to build GGMs from a sample of independent and identical distributed observations. …”
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The Results of the Study of the Relationship between Viscosity and Mechanical Strength of Bleached Hardwood Kraft Pulp by Tatiana A. Koroleva, Vasily V. Medvedev, Yuri V. Pomelov

“…High values of mechanical strength characteristics have been detected for industrial samples of bleached hardwood kraft pulp with a viscosity of more than 800 ml/g. …”
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Quantification of Gardnerella vaginalis, Atopobium vaginae and Lactobacillus spp. in bacterial vaginosis by Nedzib Numanovic, Snezana Ribis, Jelena Cukic, Dane Nenadic, Aleksandar Zivanovic, Predrag Sazdanovic, Violeta Ninkovic, Dejan Baskic

“…Conclusions: According to the results of our study real-time PCR analysis was more sensitive in diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis than Amsel’s method, as well as it represented fine tool in making a difference between microbial entities in healthy and bacterial vaginosis samples. …”
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Vermicomposted corn waste in the organic cultivation of cherry tomato seedlings and its effects on the soil-plant system by Jos ́e Matheus de Oliveira, Jefferson Campos Silva, Andreza Jayane Nunes de Siqueira, Ramom Rachide Nunes

“…Results: In general, plants that grew in a substrate containing vermicompost developed more when compared to the sample control (19.2-22.0 vs 15 cm). …”
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Targeted ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay for the quantification of medium-chain phosphatidylcholines in platelets of coronary artery dis... by Tamara Janker, Adrian Brun, Adrian Sievers-Engler, Kristina Dittrich, Meinrad Gawaz, Michael Lämmerhofer

“…Furthermore, an organic solvent and fatty acyl carbon number-corrected response factor approach gave also accuracies within acceptance limits of bioanalytical validation guidelines and has more generic applicability. Compared to the previous untargeted RPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS/MS method, the optimized targeted UHPLC-QTrap-MS/MS assay showed increased sensitivity and selectivity for the detection of medium-chain PCs in platelet samples of CAD (LOQs in the range of 0.5–5 nmol/L). …”
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Fast and Efficient Lunar Finite Element Gravity Model by Giaky Nguyen, Ahmad Bani Younes, Ahmed Atallah

“…In this paper, the finite element method (FEM) is integrated with orthogonal polynomial approximation in high-dimensional spaces to innovatively model the Moon’s surface gravity anomaly. …”
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Characterization of <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> Isolated from Bovine Mastitis in Northern Jiangsu Province and Correlation to Drug Resistance and Biofilm Formability by Yicai Huang, Pengqiang Chen, Hainan Cao, Zheng Zhou, Tianle Xu

“…It was also found that there were significantly more <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> in the biofilm state than in the planktonic state and that strains with strong biofilm-forming abilities were more resistant to antimicrobials.…”
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Features of micro- and ultrastructure of low-fat butter and its low-fat analogues by E. V. Topnikova, E. N. Pirogova, Yu. V. Nikitina, T. A. Pavlova

“…In the first case, the sample was prepared by crushing the sample, in the second one — by the method of ultrafast freeze-fracture and etching. …”
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Investigating the influence of soil organic carbon on pore structure within aggregates by Jingjing Liu, Yu Tian, Chiara Pasut, Mark Farrell, Shenggao Lu

“…In Cambisols, SOC removal was associated with more pronounced shifts in pore morphology, whereas Ultisols showed more heterogeneous responses, likely due to differing mineralogical properties. …”
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Occurrence Characteristics of Early Rice Heat Disaster in Jiangxi Province by Yang Jianying, Huo Zhiguo, Wang Peijuan, Wu Dingrong

“…Therefore, maximum temperature, disaster and phenological data on rice in Jiangxi are integrated to construct the historical early rice heat samples from 1981 to 2016. Nine sets of rice heat samples are built in the context of combinations of different hot weather duration (3-5 d, 6-8 d and more than 8 d) and heat levels (light, moderate and severe). …”
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Next Generation Aqueous Two‐Phase System for Gentle, Effective, and Timely Extracellular Vesicle Isolation and Transcriptomic Analysis by Boyang Su, Morteza Jeyhani, Gobi Thillainadesan, Minzhi Sheng, Reese Wunsche, Thamara Dayarathna, Kristin Cimolai, Hanyi Weng, Katarzyna J. Jerzak, Stanley K. Liu, Scott S. H. Tsai, Hon S. Leong

“…Transcriptomic analysis of EVs isolated using the next‐gen ATPS revealed a strong overlap in microRNA (miRNA), circular RNA (circRNA) and small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) profiles with EV donor cells, as well as EVs isolated by UC and the exoRNeasy kit, while detecting a superior number of circRNAs compared to the kit in human samples. Overall, this next‐gen ATPS method stands out as a rapid and highly effective approach to isolate high‐quality EVs in high yield, ensuring optimal extraction and analysis of EV‐encapsulated nucleic acids.…”
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