Modified trapezius transfer technique for restoration of shoulder abduction in brachial plexus injury by Singh Arun, Karki Durga

“…<b> Results:</b> All patients had improved functions and were satisfied with the outcome. The average increase in active abduction of shoulder was from 13.7 degrees (0 to 35 degrees) preoperatively to 116 degrees (45 to 180 degrees) postoperatively and of shoulder flexion from 24.3 degrees (15 to 30 degrees) to 107 degrees (90 to 180 degrees). …”
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Breaking Coal Lock-In: Unravelling the Policy Hurdles to Decarbonising Indonesia’s Energy Sector by Hansen Sukma Kartika, Ali Muhyidin

“…The Indonesian government has ratified the 2015 Paris Agreement, thereby committing itself to a climate commitment to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2060 and to keep the Earth's temperature rise within 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average. …”
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Downscaling of Soil Moisture Map using Sentinel Radar Satellite Images and Distribution Analysis in the West of Iran by Seyed Hossein Mirmosavi, kohzad Raispour, Muhammad Kamangar

“…Using the soil moisture layer backup (SVM) vector machine classification method, a small scale was obtained and a map with high resolution power was obtained. …”
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Power Plants Based on a Steam Drive with a Working Body Closed Circulation by V. A. Mayorov, V. F. Shcherbakov

“…They revealed dependencies: the radiator heating time from 30 degrees Celsius (ambient temperature) to 100 degrees (maximum operating temperature) at different powers of the heating source (3; 4; 5 kilowatts); density and average density of steam in the radiator from temperature; the steam engine power and the freon steam consumption from the pressure of 0-3.97 megapascals.…”
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Neurovascular Heterodigital Island Flap for Digital Pulp Defect Reconstruction: 58 Case Series by Muhsin Dursun

“…The average age of the patients was 26 years (20 - 56 years). …”
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Dealing With Heterogeneous Information in Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making Problems: A Comprehensive Design Framework by Matheus Pereira Liborio, Petr Ekel, Marcos Flavio Silveira Vasconcelos D'Angelo, Luis Martinez, Witold Pedrycz

“…The research innovation and originality lie in developing five new approaches and methods to overcome the identified gaps and limitations. …”
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Clinical course and approaches to therapy in kidney transplant recipients with the novel COVID-19 disease by O. N. Kotenko, L. Yu. Artyukhina, N. F. Frolova, E. S. Stolyarevich

“…Their average age was 49.7 ± 9.2 years (22 to 70 years). …”
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Optical coherence tomography in the diagnosis of glaucomatous optical neuropathy in children with primary congenital glaucoma by L. A. Katargina, N. N. Arestova, E. N. Demchenko, A. Yu. Panova, A. A. Sorokin

“…Purpose: to analyze morphometric, clinical and functional manifestations of glaucomatous optical neuropathy in congenital childhood glaucoma (CG).Material and methods. We examined 103 children (163 eyes) with (CG), including 54 children (86 eyes) with primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) aged 1 month to 17 years. …”
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Intrathecal baclofen therapy in patients with spastic paraplegia: retrospective evaluation of pretreatment drugs, test dosage, dose increments and final therapy by Stephan Kurz, Linda Maria Marth, Christoph-Heinrich Hoffmann, Jonas Hermann Maria Kummerant, Frederik Wilhelm Schneckmann

“…Research question: What degree of severity, type and duration of pretreatment indicated ITB? …”
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The Lived Experience of Women Regarding Family-Centric Roles in the Southern Neighbourhoods of Tehran by Fatemeh Farhadi babadi, Mehrdad Navabakhsh, Talieh Khademian

“…The interviews lasted an average of 45 minutes each and were conducted over a period of 6 months. …”
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Impact of contact tracing on COVID-19 mortality: An impact evaluation using surveillance data from Colombia. by Andres I Vecino-Ortiz, Juliana Villanueva Congote, Silvana Zapata Bedoya, Zulma M Cucunuba

“…Both the proportion of cases identified through contact tracing and the daily number of COVID-19 deaths are smoothed using 7-day moving averages. Models control for the prevalence of active cases, second-degree polynomials, and mobility indices. …”
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A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of tear substitutes for the treatment of dry eye syndrome by V. V. Dmitriev, I. A. Minenko, L. M. Balashova, T. Y. Shilova, T. V. Dmitrieva

“…Objective: to assess the effectiveness of tear substitutes in patients suffering from dry eye syndrome (DES). Material and methods. 100 patients with an established diagnosis of mild to moderate DES, averagely aged 42.0 ± 2.1, were divided into three groups: group 1 involving 33 patients (54 eyes, 13 men and 20 women) aged 42.7 ± 2.13 with mild DES, who were treated by low viscosity eye drops, group 2 involving 33 patients (56 eyes, 13 men and 20 women) aged 41.4 ± 2.07 with moderate DES, who were treated by moderate viscosity eye drops and group 3 involving 34 patients (52 eyes, 14 men and 20 women) aged 41.9 ± 2.1 with moderate DES, who were treated by high viscosity eye drops. …”
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Early Diagnosis of Critical Postperfusion Circulatory Disorders by L. A. Krichevsky, V. Yu Rybakov, O. G Guseva, A. Yu Lyamin, I. E Kharlamova, A. I. Magilevets

“…The left ventricular ejection fraction averaged 48±0.04%. The parameters of central hemodynamics and oxygen balance were recorded when the sternum was brought together. …”
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Impact of a Developmental Care Training Course on the Knowledge and Satisfaction of Health Care Professionals in Neonatal Units: A Multicenter Study by Rocío Mosqueda-Peña, David Lora-Pablos, Abraham Pavón-Muñoz, Noelia Ureta-Velasco, María Teresa Moral-Pumarega, Carmen Rosa Pallás-Alonso

“…The relationship between course satisfaction and knowledge acquisition was also studied. Methods: This was an observational multicenter study conducted in 20 neonatal units in Madrid. …”
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Development and validation of a predictive model for hospital mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia admitted to the intensive care unit by Xuefeng Song, Qiang Zhang, Zhijiang Qi, Bo Liu

“…In both cohorts, calibration and decision curve analyses showed that the nomogram had good calibration degree, discriminative ability, and clinical benefits. …”
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Calibration between a panoramic LiDAR and a limited field-of-view depth camera by Weijie Tang, Bin Wang, Longxiang Huang, Xu Yang, Qian Zhang, Sulei Zhu, Yan Ma

“…Experimental results on simulation and real-world data demonstrate that the proposed methods in all three scenarios achieve precise calibration, maintaining average rotation and translation calibration errors within 2 degrees and 0.05 meters respectively for a $$360^{\circ }$$ 360 ∘ linear LiDAR and a depth camera with a field of view of $$100^{\circ }$$ 100 ∘ vertically and $$70^{\circ }$$ 70 ∘ degrees horizontally.…”
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Detecting the Spatiotemporal Relationship of Vegetation Changes with Climatic Elements in Mazandaran Province by Mohadeseh Ghanbari Motlagh, Behzad Amraei

“…Mapping was prepared based on the 17-yearly average monthly EVI and LST parameters extracted from the MODIS satellite. …”
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Some Generalized Dependent Aggregation Operators with Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Information and Their Application to Exploitation Investment Evaluation by Xiao-wen Qi, Chang-yong Liang, Junling Zhang

“…In order to relieve influence of unfair arguments, a Gaussian distribution-based argument-dependent weighting method and a hybrid support-function-based argument-dependent weighting method are devised by, respectively, measuring support degrees of arguments indirectly and directly, based on which the Gaussian generalized interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging operator (Gaussian-GIIFOWA) and geometric operator (Gaussian-GIIFOWG), the power generalized interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (P-GIIFOWA) operator and geometric (P-GIIFOWA) operator are proposed to generalize a wide range of aggregation operators for decision makers to flexibly choose in decision modelling. …”
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Effects of UV-B radiation on the photosystem performance and fruit quality of strawberry in greenhouse by CHEN Yanrong, DING Shanming, LIU Zhen, SHI Huimei, XIAO Wei, CHEN Xiude, LI Ling, LI Dongmei

“…Improving the photosynthetic performance of strawberry leaves, assimilates synthesis and sugar accumulation in fruit through improved light quality regulation facilities may become a possibility. [Methods] In this study, Xuelixiang strawberries cultivated in a solar greenhouse were used as test materials. …”
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Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in the Bryansk Region by Yu. N. Yurchenko, A. N. Yurchenko, I. V. Smagina

“…Objective: to study the clinical and epidemiological features of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the Bryansk Region.Patients and methods. Information about 180 (31.0%) of 590 MS patients registered in the Bryansk Region with a valid diagnosis of MS according to the 2005 McDonald criteria was analyzed. …”
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