Dengue virus infection among renal transplant recipients in Singapore: a 15-year, single-centre retrospective review by Sophie Seine Xuan Tan, Quan Yao Ho, Sobhana Thangaraju, Thuan Tong Tan, Terence Kee, Shimin Jasmine Chung

“…Methods: We conducted a 15-year retrospective review of dengue in renal transplant patients treated at Singapore General Hospital between January 2005 and October 2019. …”
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Contradicciones de la Amazonía en el Brasil: Una nueva perspectiva by Creucí Maria Caetano, Diego Geraldo Caetano Nunes

“…Tal presión, puede ser caracterizada como sigue: i) la deforestación creciente, con la tala ilegal de árboles nativas y las quemas, con consecuentes cambios en el uso del suelo tropical; por lo general, indebidamente manejado con implementación de monocultivos y técnicas inadecuadas para estos tipos de suelos; ii) la invasión a tierras indígenas y áreas de unidades de conservación, poniendo en riesgo el patrimonio sociocultural y la sociobiodiversidad; además, compromete también el patrimonio genético, del cual, un número expresivo de especies no son todavía conocidos y que podrían contrarrestar adversidades relacionadas con el cambio climático. …”
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Development of a novel wireless telemetric brain stimulator for behavioral studies in rodents by V. Milner Paul, Jijo Francis, Smriti Menon, Loitongbam Surajkumar Singh, Adarsh V. Parekkattil, Shuma Adhikari

“…Although continuing advances in the field have made significant breakthroughs, most brain simulators remain too expensive for general clinical applications We developed a user friendly, cost effective, multi-channel wireless brain stimulator that delivers output with high precision. …”
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Ferroelectricity in van der Waals multilayers via interfacial polarization engineering by Xiaokai Chen, Xiaoyu Xuan, Wanlin Guo, Zhuhua Zhang

“…Abstract We report a general mechanism for building ferroelectricity in prevailing van der Waals (vdW) multilayers via interfacial engineering. …”
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Analysis of Water and Sediment Variation Characteristics in Jingjiang River Reach before and after Operation of Three Gorges Reservoir Based on GAM by DING Jiawei, PENG Yuming, CHEN Yanfei, SHEN Jian, HUANG Liemin

“…In order to explore the different water and sediment variation characteristics in Jingjiang River reach before and after the operation of the Three Gorges Reservoir, the Mann-Kendall trend test method and rescaled range (R/S) analysis method were used to analyze and predict the variation trend of water and sediment in Jingjiang River reach, and the generalized additive model (GAM) was constructed to quantitatively analyze the influence of water and sediment outflows from the Three Gorges Reservoir on the Jingjiang River reach. …”
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Side Effects of Steroidal And Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on The Oral Cavity. by Shayma Ghazi, Khalid Yasin Rasul, Aras Khidhir Hamad, Aso Abdulkhaliq Khidhir, Lozan Khalil Ahmed

“…It is important to consider that drugs in general may cause oral side effects at different doses, dosage forms and durations of use and may have a variety of clinical presentation. …”
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Rare forms of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: hereditary lysosomal acid lipase deficiency by M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin, M. S. Zharkova, T. P. Nekrasova, G. I. Ayusheva, R. V. Maslennikov

“…Aim of review. To acquaint general practitioners with a rarely diagnosed disease - the hereditary deficiency of lysosomal acid lipase (DLAL) which can develop under the «mask» non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). …”
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Understanding cervical cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV), and HPV vaccine acceptance in college-going students: Institutional-based cross-sectional study from Bihar State by Ekta Krishna, Shreyas Kumar Patil, Santosh Kumar Nirala, Bijaya Nanda Naik, Vijay Kumar, Chanda Mani Singh, Vijay Kumar

“…This study further highlighted nonmedical students, which also represents the general population has very less knowledge about HPV and the HPV vaccine. …”
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Dinámicas de cambio del suelo forestal onubense a partir de la cartografía forestal de Manuel Martín Bolaños (1941–1951) by Alfonso Miguel Doctor Cabrera

“…Su conclusión más relevante, en este sentido, es que, aunque hubo casos de sustitución de arbolado autóctono (Quercus) por las repoblaciones, éste ocupó en general terrenos forestales desarbolados. Mención aparte merece el caso de los Baldíos de Niebla, cuya labranza era un recurso para los jornaleros pobres en años de escasez, que fueron intensamente repoblados, con el conflicto que ello introdujo y que dio lugar a la producción de incendios intencionados. …”
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Design of strategies for the process of digitalisation and technological modernisation in social services organisations. by Aleix Morilla-Luchena, Teresa Gómez-Rasco, Rocío Muñoz Moreno, Octavio Vázquez-Aguado

“…Las conclusiones permiten identificar un marco general para el diseño de estrategias que faciliten la transición tecnológica en las organizaciones de servicios sociales, asegurando que las innovaciones tecnológicas no solo mejoren los procesos laborales, sino que también incrementen la calidad de vida de las/os profesionales de las organizaciones. …”
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Effects of Pimobendan on Prolonging Time to Rehospitalization or Frequency of Rehospitalization in Patients with Heart Failure: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using a Medical Adminis... by Kazuhisa Kodama, Tatsunori Murata, Naoki Dohi, Masaaki Nakano, Toshiaki Yokoi, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Koichi Nakao

“…In addition, the influence of pimobendan on general heart failure patients must be examined.…”
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Medicolegal aspects of medical malpractice claims following aesthetic interventions in Cairo, Egypt by Ghada Abdelwahed Rawash, Neveen Adel Ibrahim, Islam Mostafa Farrag, Somaya Youssef Mostafa

“…Aesthetic malpractice is more frequent in private hospitals than in general hospitals, frequently necessitating further treatment due to complications.…”
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The Microbial Activity in PM2.5 in Indoor Air: As an Index of Air Quality Level by Hanlin Chen, Rui Du, Weishan Ren, Sujian Zhang, Pengrui Du, Yongtao Zhang

“…Additionally, the microbial activity in a room varied according to the room’s ventilation (or lack thereof), suggesting a strong association between these parameters. In general, when the air quality was excellent, 20 minutes of ventilation achieved the optimal air exchange, but this duration should be reduced during polluted conditions. …”
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Atención de enfermería en paciente posquirúrgico mediato de craneotomía evacuatoria by Jeannette Mercedes Acosta-Núñez, María José Vásquez-Guerrero, Catherine Dayenara Chávez-Coronado, Erick Alexander Super-Cholota

“…Presentación del caso:  paciente masculino de 74 años nacido y residente de Pelileo el familiar del paciente refiere que desde hace 1 mes presenta síndrome vertiginoso (mareo, náuseas) presuntamente debido a múltiples caídas desde su propia altura, desde hace 8 días presenta disartria y disminución en la fuerza del hemicuerpo derecho, deterioro de la memoria por lo que acude a Hospital General Docente Ambato. …”
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Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment by Dania Albini, Emma Ransome, Alex J. Dumbrell, Samraat Pawar, Eoin J. O’Gorman, Thomas P. Smith, Thomas Bell, Michelle C. Jackson, Guy Woodward

“…While substantial empirical evidence has accumulated in recent years on such changes, we still lack general insights due to a limited coverage of warming scenarios that span spatial and temporal scales of relevance to natural systems. …”
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Altitude, geological substrate, and dynamics of Natura 2000 habitat types in Cretan low-vegetation pastures by Frederic Bendali, Michel Godron

“…We conducted a frequency analysis to find vegetation groups (VGs) and relevés groups (RGs) using the same matrix species × relevés. We present a general table where the RG are defined by their habitat code and class values of altitudinal and geological substrates. …”
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Acceptance and affordability of malaria vaccines: issues relating to hesitancy and willingness to pay amongst Nigerian parents of under-five children by Obi Peter Adigwe, Godspower Onavbavba

“…Those who attained only primary and secondary levels of education were significantly more likely to reject the malaria vaccine because they were against vaccines in general (AOR = 6.63; 95% CI = 1.33 – 39.25; p = 0.021). …”
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International Experience of Innovative Development of the Forest Industry in the Post-War Period and Its Adaptation for Ukraine by Petrashchuk Mykola V.

“…However, despite the urgent problems that harrow both our country in general and the forest industry in particular, the State was able to adapt to the realities of wartime, and the forest industry continues to be profitable for the country and does not stop fulfilling its regular tasks.…”
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Ordenación territorial supramunicipal de tipo bottom-up y top-down en España: el caso valenciano by Joan Carles Membrado Tena, Joaquín Martín Cubas, Ghaleb Fansa, Jorge Hermosilla Pla

“…La escasa eficiencia que ha mostrado, en general, la institución provincial como entidad local, y la necesidad de crear una organización territorial autonómica propia y eficiente, ha llevado a las comunidades autónomas a implementar otro tipo de entes locales supramunicipales, tanto de tipo top-down (comarcas, áreas funcionales, áreas metropolitanas) como, sobre todo, de tipo bottom-up (mancomunidades, consorcios). …”
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Decoding the physics of observed actions in the human brain by Moritz F Wurm, Doruk Yiğit Erigüç

“…The high level of abstraction revealed by cross-decoding suggests a general neural code supporting mechanical reasoning about how entities interact with, and have effects on, each other.…”
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