Current trends of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA): choosing between robotic-assisted and conventional surgeries and timing of procedures by Kelvin S. C. Cheung, Kai Chun Augustine Chan, Amy Cheung, Ping Keung Chan, Michelle Hilda Luk, Kwong Yuen Chiu, Henry Fu

“…Abstract Background With robotic advancements in UKA technology, we sought to explore if robotic-assisted UKA could translate to clinical benefits such as reduced hospital stays and lowered emergency readmissions. Also, current utilization trends of UKA and choice of procedure timing (unilateral [uUKA] vs. one-staged bilateral UKA [biUKA]) could be explored. …”
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Czy pojawienie się technologii informacyjno-komunikacyjnych w klasie szkolnej oznacza zmianę praktyk nauczania i uczenia się? by Lucyna Kopciewicz

“…The analysis resulted in three distinct sets of emergent teaching and learning practices and a series of conflicts and tensions teachers experience in their everyday tablet-mediated teaching practices. …”
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The Kramers escape rate of phase transitions for the 6-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet AdS black hole with triple phases by Chen Ma, Pan-Pan Zhang, Bin Wu, Zhen-Ming Xu

“…One is the temperature at which the medium black hole state emerges, and the other is the temperature at which the small black hole state annihilates. …”
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Clinical and Pathogenetic Parallels of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Gallstone Disease by Aleksey O. Bueverov

“…In recent years, convincing data has emerged concerning the role of cholecystectomy in the NAFLD progression, which may be connected with the development of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, as well as with the disruption of the endocrine balance and the signal function of bile acids.Conclusion. …”
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Safe Handling of Food and Water in a Hurricane or Related Disaster by Ronald H. Schmidt, Keith L. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich, Amarat Simonne, Douglas L. Archer

“…Recommendations have also been included from additional up-to-date sources such as the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DOACS), Florida Department of Health (DOH), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and American Red Cross. …”
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Advancing Multiple Myeloma Immunotherapy: A Review of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell and Bispecific T-Cell Engagers Cell Therapies in Revolutionizing Treatment by Rahul Navab, Pragyat Futela, Verkha Kumari, Jayesh Valecha, Ramansh Bandhu Gupta, Rohit Jain

“…Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and Bispecific T-cell engagers (BiTEs) are emerging immunotherapies showing promise in MM treatment. …”
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Fecaloma causing small bowel obstruction in the absence of risk factors: a case report by Youssef Ahmad, Umer Siddiqui, Ayman Ahmed, Aiswarya Sudheer, Tejaswi Chetla, Inayat Shergill, Fadi Souleiman

“…Abstract Background Small bowel obstruction is a common surgical emergency typically caused by adhesions, hernias, and malignancies. …”
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Options of conservative treatment at acute adhesive smallintestinal obstruction by S. G. Shapovalyants, S. Ye. Larichev, M. Ye. Timofeyev, I. V. Babkova, Z. A. Zhemukhova, O. I. Seryogina

“…The study group included 516 patients with obturation form of ASIAO without indications for emergency surgery, who underwent conservative treatment. …”
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Von Ungestörten Naturprozessen, Totem Holz und Angestammten Natur-Kultur-Ordnungen. Anmerkungen zur Kultur der „Neuen Wildnis“ by Harald Stahl

“…The idea that primeval forest or wildlife could re-emerge in areas made up of cultural landscapes was formulated by the Prussian educator and politician Wilhelm Wetekamp, and has increasingly become popular in recent decades. …”
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A comprehensive review of metasurface-assisted direction-of-arrival estimation by Huang Min, Li Ruichen, Zou Yijun, Zheng Bin, Qian Chao, Jin Hui, Chen Hongsheng

“…In this study, the latest progress and trends in this emerging field are reviewed, and their potential value is assessed. …”
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Relative entropy formulation of thermalization process in a Schwarzschild spacetime by Si-Wei Han, Zhichun Ouyang, Zhiyao Hu, Jun Feng

“…We show that the exotic position-dependent behaviors of the QRE emerge corresponding to different choices of black hole vacua (i.e., the Boulware, Hartle-Hawking, and Unruh vacua). …”
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Spontaneous splenic rupture associated with Q fever and portal hypertension: A case report by Cecil Mustafiz, Cecil Mustafiz, Deloshaan Subhaharan, Deloshaan Subhaharan, Daniel Chorley, Tariq Masood

“…The patient was a man in his late 30 s who presented with severe abdominal pain, vomiting and hypovolemic shock who required emergency splenectomy due to unstable splenic hemorrhage. …”
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BOARD INDEPENDENCE, AUDIT QUALITY AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AMONG LISTED NON-FINANCIAL COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Mohammed Ahmed, Mohammed Yabagi Ibrahim

“…The analysis of the data was conducted using multiple regression analysis, utilising a sample of 160 observations from Nigeria, an emerging market spanning from 2014 to 2023. Our results demonstrate that board independence does not mitigate real earnings management. …”
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A bibliometric and thematic analysis of the reputation-performance relationship within the triple bottom line framework by Francisca Castilla-Polo, María Isabel Sánchez-Hernández

“…Four main research domains were identified: (1) the financial domain, emphasizing financial performance and featuring prominent foundational works; (2) corporate social responsibility and sustainable practices, a well-established area focusing on social performance; (3) the emerging environmental domain; and (4) the strategic vision domain, which addresses microeconomic topics such as knowledge management and competitive advantage. …”
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NIGERIAN CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT: A BALANCE OF ACTIVITY IN POLITICAL TERRAIN by ADEBAYO OLUWASEGUN BOLARINWA, ADEKOYA SAMUEL OLAMIDE, ADEDIRAN IDOWU SEGUN

“…Much more specifically, the act of leadership in a democratic society like Nigeria is one that is actively deducted from the political participation and involvement of people, since politicians eventually emerges as leaders of the people in the country just like it is obtainable in other countries. …”
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Environmental risk assessment of concrete construction projects in developing countries based on Analytical Hierarchy Process method by Saman Solaimanian

“…By integrating expert judgment and stakeholder input through pairwise comparisons, the AHP analysis identified air pollution (39%), specifically dust generation, as the most critical risk, followed by water pollution (27.4%), resource depletion (12.5%), solid waste generation (16.3%), and habitat destruction (4.8%). Dust suppression emerged as the most effective mitigation strategy for air pollution. …”
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Glucoraphanin conversion into sulforaphane and related compounds by gut microbiota by Tetiana R. Dmytriv, Tetiana R. Dmytriv, Oleh Lushchak, Oleh Lushchak, Volodymyr I. Lushchak, Volodymyr I. Lushchak

“…Since the latter do not have enzymes possessing myrosinase-like activity, glucoraphanin can be metabolized by the gut microbiota, to sulforaphane, sulforaphane-nitrile, glucoerucin, erucin, and erucin-nitrile. Emerging evidence suggests that variations in gut microbiota composition significantly influence the efficiency and outcome of glucoraphanin metabolism, while sulforaphane itself may reciprocally modulate gut microbiota composition and functionality. …”
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Tissue shear as a cue for aligning planar polarity in the developing Drosophila wing by Su Ee Tan, David Strutt

“…Mechanical forces exerted during tissue morphogenesis are emerging as crucial tissue-level directional cues, yet the mechanisms by which they regulate planar polarity are poorly understood. …”
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Recommendations for Control and Mitigation of Laurel Wilt and Ambrosia Beetle Vectors in Commercial Avocado Groves in Florida by Jonathan Henry Crane, Daniel Carrillo, Edward A. Evans, Romina Gazis, Bruce A Schaffer, Fredy H Ballen Orozco, Jeff Wasielewski

“…This has been corrected to read that they need a Section 18 Emergency Exemption label. …”
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Use of Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Study by Barbara Lewis MBA, Chris Cochran PhD, Erika Marquez PhD, MPH, Neeraj Bhandari PhD, Jennifer Pharr PhD, Soumya Upadhyay PhD, Stowe Shoemaker PhD

“…With the aim of fostering patient-centered care, Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) have emerged as a way for hospitals to garner input for initiatives and programs from patients and patients’ families who have used the hospitals’ services. …”
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