Autorefraction, Retinoscopy, Javal’s Rule, and Grosvenor’s Modified Javal’s Rule: The Best Predictor of Refractive Astigmatism by Kofi Asiedu, Samuel Kyei, Emmanuel Ekow Ampiah

“…The study showed that autorefraction and Javal’s rule may provide a starting point for subjective refraction cylinder power determination but only retinoscopy may satisfactorily replace subjective refraction total astigmatism when subjective refraction is not applicable.…”
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International and domestic experience of intellectual property legal protection on the Internet and separate methods of police crimes detection in this area by V. A. Korshenko, M. V. Mordvyntsev, D. V. Pashniev

“…The history of the development of international legislation and the conclusion of international treaties regarding the protection of intellectual property, starting with the Berne Convention on the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, was considered. …”
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Further Developments of Bessel Functions via Conformable Calculus with Applications by Mahmoud Abul-Ez, Mohra Zayed, Ali Youssef

“…This paper is primarily devoted to the study of developing two aspects. The starting point is to present a fractional Laplace transform via conformable fractional-order Bessel functions (CFBFs). …”
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Case report: Successful treatment of a thallium sulfate intoxication in a dog with use of Prussian blue by Fergal M. McDermott, Anne A. Kan, Claudine C. Hunault, Joris H. Robben, Dylan W. de Lange, Marieke A. Dijkman

“…This case emphasizes the importance of a timely diagnosis and the early start of targeted therapy using Prussian blue, in the management of thallium intoxication in veterinary patients.…”
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Modeling the Used Vehicle Market Share in the Electric Vehicle Transition by Boucar Diouf

“…The adoption of a new technology is well described by an S-curve. It starts with a slow initial introduction, faster growth, and a final low-pace stage that corresponds to saturation. …”
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Modern tendencies of functioning of nongovernmental pension funds in the system of obligatory pension insurance by Gulnara Fatkhlislamova

“…The participation of non-state pension funds in the compulsory pension insurance system has led to their emergence as the largest insurer, so starting from 2016, the NPF, as a large institutional investor, began to concentrate more than half of all pension savings funds transferred to management. …”
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Overtourism: The Impact of Tourism on Madeira’s Social and Economic Environment by Piotr Majdak, Jakub Mosz, António Manuel Martins de Almeida

“… The main goal of the analyses presented in the article is to identify the phenomena and consequences concomitant with the phenomenon of overtourism in the economic (with particular emphasis on energy) and social dimensions, regarding the Portuguese island of Madeira. The starting point for considerations includes a review of the issues that define the theoretical framework of “excessive tourism”, as well as a discussion of the most important determinants of the socio-economic development of Madeira. …”
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Leveraging Next-Generation Sequencing Application from Identity to Purity Profiling of Nucleic Acid-Based Products by Rucha Wadapurkar, Swarda Deo, Renuka Khanzode, Ajay Singh

“…Perhaps NGS adaptation under cGMP compliance needs to be deliberated with the regulatory bodies, especially focusing on the methods qualification and validation part, starting from the sample collection, NGS library preparation, NGS run, and its data analysis pipeline.…”
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Immunological Approaches and Different Strategies for Vaccine Development Against SARS-COV-2 by Muhammed Babakir-Mina

“…On the base on immune response detected in recovered patients, scientists have started to develop the vaccines. Moreover, there are different strategies that used by researchers and pharmacological companies to develop vaccines including attenuated or killed viruses, RNA of a spike protein, and vector expressing a particular protein of the virus. …”
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Autophagy: A New Avenue and Biochemical Mechanisms to Mitigate the Climate Change by Muhammad Abubakkar Azmat, Malaika Zaheer, Muhammad Shaban, Saman Arshad, Muhammad Hasan, Alyan Ashraf, Muhammad Naeem, Aftab Ahmad, Nayla Munawar

“…Autophagy is a preserved process in eukaryotes that allows large material degeneration and nutrient recovery via vacuoles or lysosomes in cytoplasm. Autophagy starts from the moment of induction during the formation of a phagophore. …”
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Potensi Ikan Barbir (Pethia conchonius) dan Lemon (Labidochromis caeruleus) Jantan dan Betina sebagai Predator Biologis Larva Nyamuk Aedes aegypti by Hebert Adrianto, Etha Rambung, Natalia Christiani

“…One aquarium contains one liter of water, one fish, and 25 larvae of Ae. aegypti. Fish testing starts in the afternoon at 15.00 WIB. Observation the predation time of the fish until the fish eat all the larvae. …”
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Comment on “Neutrino interaction with matter in a noninertial frame” by R. R. S. Oliveira

“…So, using Studenikin’s paper [19] as a starting point (as well as others in the literature), we write one of the equations from Dvornikov’s paper [1] in a matrix form. …”
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Can incentives improve antipsychotic adherence in major mental illness? A mixed-methods systematic review by Nathan Hodson, Ivo Vlaev, Madiha Majid, Swaran Preet Singh

“…Searches on 13 January 2021 (no start date) found papers on incentives for antipsychotics. …”
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4d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 from 6d D-type N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = (1, 0) by Jin Chen, Babak Haghighat, Shuwei Liu, Marcus Sperling

“…Our approach is two-fold. We start by compactifying the 6d SCFT on a Riemann surface and compute the central charges of the resulting 4d theory by integrating the 6d anomaly polynomial over the Riemann surface. …”
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Analysis and Simulation of Thermodynamic Diagrams of Convective and Destructive Storms in Mountainous Regions (Case Study: Meshkinshahr City) by Dariush Yarahmadi, Jamid Mirhashemi, Habib Ariantabar

“…These properties caused the formation of a hidden instability or potential during the hours prior to the start of precipitation, which, during the precipitation, was interchanged with the dynamic system and thermal convection, the instability of the potential turned into actual and caused the occurrence of flooding and destructive precipitation.…”
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Therapeutic Effect of Zataria Multiflora Essential Oil on Burn Wound Infected by Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Maryam Zare, Elahe Sattarinezhad, Ali Karimi Akhormeh, Maryam Motevasel, Marzieh Ashrafmansouri, Maral Mokhtari, Omid Koohi Hosseinabadi, Aida Iraji, Azar Purkhosrow

“…On the days 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th after the start of treatments, the surfaces of the wounds were measured and some samples were collected for histopathological evaluations. …”
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Factsheet: West Sea Crisis In Korea by John McGlynn, Nan Kim

“…The North, which several times asked the South to cancel the exercise prior to its start, and then called for a halt to the exercise when shells landed closer and closer to the North Korean coastline , responded with direct shelling of the island. …”
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Intussusception in the Setting of an Ulcerative Colitis Flare by Varag Abed, Alexis Faber, Cristina Jageka, Ryan Goleniak, Raef Fadel

“…She presented to our gastroenterology clinic two weeks after the beginning of her flare and was started on prednisone 40 mg daily. This did not improve her symptoms, and she presented to the ED two weeks later. …”
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Effects of neurocognitive intervention in older adults. A systematic review by Elizabeth Jiménez Puig, Zoylen Fernández Fleites, Yunier Broche Pérez, Daniela Beatriz Vázquez Martínez

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> a descriptive study was carried out, which consisted of a systematic review of the scientific literature on the subject; and started from the search in the databases: PubMed, PsycInfo, Scielo, Cochrane and EBSCO, from August to December 2018. …”
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Development of MAILI 21 (Lectora inspire 21 interactive learning media) to improve student learning outcomes in elementary schools by Novina Fitri Astuti, Susilo Tri Widodo

“…This research uses the Borg and Gall model which is limited to stage eight. Starting with data collection, planning, product design, expert validation of products, product revision, product trials, product usage trials and final product revision. …”
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