Effectiveness of skull X-RAY to determine cochlear implant insertion depth by Vinay Fernandes, Yiqiao Wang, Robert Yeung, Sean Symons, Vincent Lin

“…Comparing X-RAY views, Caldwell (29 degrees) had less variation than Towne (59 degrees) for standard deviation of paired differences. …”
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Florida Carpon Desmodium by Martin B. Adjei, Albert E. Kretschmer, Jr.

“… Florida carpon desmodium (Figure 1), Desmodium heterocarpon, is among the few perennial summer-growing, grazing-tolerant, herbaceous pasture legumes available to Florida cattle producers. …”
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Pressure Modification or Barrier Issues during Polymer Flooding Enhanced Oil Recovery by Wang Dongmei, Shane Namie, Randall Seright

“…If the polymer bank is too large or too viscous during a polymer flood, the pressure drops from the injection well to the polymer front may act as a pressure modification or barrier by usurping most of the downstream driving force for oil displacement. …”
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The Influence of Kinesio Taping on the Effects of Physiotherapy in Patients after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy by Marcin Krajczy, Katarzyna Bogacz, Jacek Luniewski, Jan Szczegielniak

“…The objective of this work was to assess the influence of Kinesio Taping (KT) on pain level and the increase in effort tolerance in patients after CHL. The research included 63 patients after CHL. …”
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Espace urbain et gentrification aux États-Unis, évolution des interprétations by Laurence Gervais-Linon

“…Industrial neighborhoods that turned into slums then ghettos with the changing of the American economy and the post Second World War urban sprawl are today encountering "revitalization," "urban renewal" and "gentrification."…”
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Advances in antiviral strategies targeting mosquito-borne viruses: cellular, viral, and immune-related approaches by Ayyaz Khan, Zakirullah, Shahid Wahab, Seong-Tshool Hong

“…., Dengue, Zika, West Nile, Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis), transmitted predominantly by Aedes and Culex mosquitoes; Togaviridae, which consists of the genus Alphavirus (e.g., Chikungunya, Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis viruses), also transmitted by Aedes and Culex; Bunyaviridae (recently reorganized), containing viruses like Rift Valley Fever and Oropouche virus, transmitted by mosquitoes and sometimes sandflies; and Reoviridae, which includes the genus Orbivirus (e.g., West Nile and Bluetongue viruses), primarily affecting animals and transmitted by mosquitoes and sandflies. …”
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Making room for alternative African epistemologies in Ethiopian higher education by Meskerem Lechissa Debele

“…While this is necessary to a certain extent, the need to make sure that graduates have a well-balanced regional and international outlook that goes beyond too immediate priorities of market forces should be well kept in mind by higher education program developers and curriculum designers. …”
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On the Weighted Mixed Almost Unbiased Ridge Estimator in Stochastic Restricted Linear Regression by Chaolin Liu, Hu Yang, Jibo Wu

“…We introduce the weighted mixed almost unbiased ridge estimator (WMAURE) based on the weighted mixed estimator (WME) (Trenkler and Toutenburg 1990) and the almost unbiased ridge estimator (AURE) (Akdeniz and Erol 2003) in linear regression model. …”
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Does interprofessional simulation increase self-efficacy: a comparative study by Peter Jaye, Gabriel Reedy, Alastair Ross, Colm Watters, Nicola J Morgan, Rhodri Handslip

“…Integrating simulation and interprofessional education can provide benefits to individual learners.Setting The intervention took place in a high-fidelity simulation facility located on the campus of a large urban hospital. …”
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Revisión de literatura sobre mejora continua en MIPYMEs iberoamericanas by Carmen Patricia Jiménez Terrazas, Germán Víctor Manuel Argueta López, Beatriz Margarita Espinoza Granados

“…El 43% de las investigaciones son cualitativas y usan los métodos de caso de estudio y entrevistas, y un 43% son de enfoque cuantitativo y utilizan mé - todos de encuesta y cuestionario. La población más estudiada fueron las empresas, con 42.8%, y el país donde más se han realizado este tipo de investigaciones es España, con 35.7%. …”
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Effect of exogenous human chorionic gonadotropin on ovulation in mice by S. Ya. Amstislavsky, S. V. Ranneva, D. S. Ragaeva, E. A. Chuyko, A. M. Popkova, E. Yu. Brusentsev

“…No significant differences were found in the total number of ovulated oocytes or in the number of immature (without a polar body) ovulated oocytes; nor were there differences between the groups in the number of oocytes with a developing polar body. …”
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Comparison of phenotypic and genetic traits of ESBL-producing UPEC strains causing recurrent or single episode UTI in postmenopausal women by Michelle Kalu, Peter Jorth, Annie Wong-Beringer

“…Virulence factors such as type 1 fimbriae adhesin FimH, the outer membrane protease OmpT, and the secreted pore-forming toxin α-hemolysin (HlyA) have been shown to support the formation of intracellular bacterial communities (IBCs) within bladder epithelial cells (BECs), facilitating persistence. …”
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The Effect of STEM Applications on the Scientific Creativity of 9th-Grade Students by Seyide Eroglu, Oktay Bektas

“…The Scientific Creativity Test was used as a data collection tool. Quantitative data were analyzed using the independent samples t-test through the package program SPSS 22. …”
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Indexing of Journals and Indices of Publications by Biju Vasudevan, Manas Chatterjee, Vishal Sharma, Ravinder Sahdev

“…Journal indexes are indicators toward the quality of a journal. Authors, researchers, and the audience need some criteria to judge which literature they need to read or which journal they need to send their article to. …”
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Duchowość osób konsekrowanych w świetle adhortacji Jana Pawła II Vita consecrata by Jerzy Wiesław Gogola

“…Ponieważ jest to także zewnętrzny przejaw ducha, istotna jest tożsamość osoby, która powinna egzystować w sposób „godny powołania”, a przez to dawać świadectwo zbawczej obecności Boga w dzisiejszym świecie w sposób niemal bezwiedny. …”
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加强与削弱并用型工字形柱弱轴连接节点滞回性能分析 by 刘明明, 徐静伟

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Optimising (re-)irradiation for locally recurrent head and neck cancer: impact of dose-escalation, salvage surgery, PEG tube and biomarkers on oncological outcomes—a single centre... by Julia Katharina Schleifenbaum, Janis Morgenthaler, Shachi Jenny Sharma, Jens Peter Klußmann, Philipp Linde, Simone Wegen, Johannes Rosenbrock, Christian Baues, Emmanouil Fokas, Richard Khor, Sweet Ping Ng, Simone Marnitz, Maike Trommer

“…Overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS) and toxicities according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v5.0 were assessed. …”
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Community-Based Study of Abortion Complications and Care Sought by Rural Tribal Women of an Extremely Low Resource Setting by Shakuntala Chhabra, Akanksha Suman

“…In villages of Melghat 2 of the total 6 sought health facility care, however, no one reported to specialists despite complications. …”
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Shedding light on DNA methylation and its clinical implications: the impact of long-read-based nanopore technology by Alexandra Chera, Mircea Stancu-Cretu, Nicolae Radu Zabet, Octavian Bucur

“…Interestingly, nanopore sequencing can also extract epigenetic status of the nucleotides (including both 5-Methylcytosine and 5-hydroxyMethylcytosine), and a large variety of bioinformatic tools have been developed for improving its detection properties. …”
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Exploring a high-level programming model for the NWP domain using ECMWF microphysics schemes by S. Ubbiali, C. Kühnlein, C. Schär, L. Schlemmer, T. C. Schulthess, T. C. Schulthess, M. Staneker, H. Wernli

“…<p>We explore the domain-specific Python library GT4Py (GridTools for Python) for implementing a representative physical parametrization scheme and the related tangent-linear and adjoint algorithms from the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) of ECMWF. …”
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