Association of liver biopsy pathology on outcome of patients undergoing heart transplantation by Lauren S. Eichenwald, MD, Raffi Karagozian, MD, Adam J. Eichenwald, PhD, John Morrissey, MD MBA, Saurav Kini, MD, Ariella Stein, MSCIS-HI, Amanda R. Vest, MBBS MPH

“…Background: Patients with advanced heart failure needing heart transplant commonly suffer liver dysfunction. …”
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Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran berbasis Website Berdasarkan Gaya Belajar dan Prinsip Universal Design of Learning (UDL) untuk Mata Pelajaran Desain Grafis Percetakan di SMK Negeri... by Yafie Arbian Cipto, Admaja Dwi Herlambang, Faizatul Amalia

“… Pengembangan ini dilatar belakangi dengan seiring perkembangan zaman teknologi informasi dalam pendidikan semakin berkembang pesat. …”
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Universal relations and bounds for fluctuations in quasistatic small heat engines by Kosuke Ito, Guo-Hua Xu, Chao Jiang, Édgar Roldán, Raúl A. Rica-Alarcón, Ignacio A. Martínez, Gentaro Watanabe

“…Here, we generalize Carnot’s result for reversible cycles to arbitrary order moment of the work and heat fluctuations. …”
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OVERVIEW OF WORKING OF STRILING ENGINES by SUNNY NARAYAN, VIKAS GUPTA

“…Many of these engines are very complex and need high levels of technological advances for smooth operations. …”
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Temporal trends in guideline-recommended medical therapy after an acute heart failure decompensation event: an observational analysis from Generator Heart Failure DataMart by Antonio Gasbarrini, Giuseppe Patti, Filippo Crea, Giovanni Scambia, Domenico D'Amario, Vincenzo Valentini, Gianluigi Savarese, Alfredo Cesario, Jacopo Lenkowicz, Stefano Patarnello, Renzo Laborante, Agni Delvinioti, Andrada Mihaela Tudor, Chiara Iacomini, Antonio Iaconelli, Donato Antonio Paglianiti, Mattia Galli, Daniele Rodolico, Attilio Restivo, Giuseppe Ciliberti, Gaetano Rizzo, Emiliano Bianchini, Matteo Busti, Luca Sensini

“…Objectives To evaluate the trend of prescription of the four foundational therapies, and their impact on 30-day urgent re-admissions and all-cause death in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) following an acute decompensation event.Design Retrospective.Setting One tertiary referral centre.Participants 999 consecutively patients admitted with a primary diagnosis of HFrEF between January 2020 and June 2023 were identified through a validated, high‐performance technology infrastructure based on artificial intelligence. …”
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Process evaluation of Project Daire: a food environment intervention that impacted food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits of primary school children by Naomi Anderson, Sarah F. Brennan, Fiona Lavelle, Sarah E. Moore, Dilara Olgacher, Amy Junkin, Moira Dean, Michelle C. McKinley, Patrick McCole, Ruth F. Hunter, Laura Dunne, Niamh E. O’Connell, Chris T. Elliott, Danielle McCarthy, Jayne V. Woodside

“…Abstract Background Project DAIRE was a randomised-controlled, factorial design trial which aimed to improve children’s health-related quality of life, wellbeing, food knowledge and dietary habits via two multi-component interventions: Nourish and Engage. …”
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OPTIMIZATION OF THE MICROELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEMS THROUGH MICROCHANNEL TECHNOLOGY by SARDER SHAMIR SHAKHER, KWADWO OSEI BONSU

“…Hence, the structural design is as equally important as the material components. …”
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Mathematical model for heat transfer in variable thickness fins for rocket engines by Volodymyr Sliusariev, Valerii Bucharskyi

“…Design / Methodology / Approach. The study employs theoretical research methods. …”
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Wound-healing activity of solvent fractions and antiinflammatory activity of crude extract and solvent fractions of Acokanthera schimperi Schweinf (Apocynaceae) leaves in mice mode... by Workineh Woldeselassie Hammeso, Tesfaye Yimer, Getnet Tadege, Wakuma Wakene Jifar, Dejen Nureye

“…Study design: The experimental study design was conducted to evaluate wound healing and the anti-inflammatory properties of the A. schimperi leaf 80 % methanol extract and its fractions in mice. …”
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“I Desire to Have an HIV‐Free Baby”: Pregnant and Breastfeeding Mothers’ Perceptions of Viral Load Testing and Suppression in HIV Care in Southwestern Uganda. by Kabami, Jane, Akatukwasa, Cecilia, Kabageni, Stella, Nangendo, Joanita, Byamukama, Ambrose, Atwiine, Fredrick, Mftumukiza, Valence, Tamu, Munezero John Bosco, Arinaitwe, Elizabeth, Mutabazi, Andrew, Ssebutinde, Peter, Musoke, Phillipa, Kamya, Moses R., Katahoire, Anne R.

“…Methods This was a qualitative sub-study embedded in a cluster-randomized trial (NCT04122144) designed to improve viral load outcomes among pregnant and breastfeeding mothers living with HIV in four level III/IV health facilities in Southwestern Uganda. …”
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Shipwreck Architecture by Simon Weir, Sara Rich

“…Shipwreck Architecture draws a connection between cosmotechnics, surrealism, and object-oriented ontology using an architectural design framework as a departure point. An academic introduction will connect the tragic aspects of Yuk Hui’s cosmotechnics, to the tragic pairings created by figurative surrealists Rene Magritte and Salvador Dalí, to the ontographic project of shipwreck hauntography. …”
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Evaluation of the Nutrition Heart Program Through the Four Elements of Community Empowerment Approach by Rika Satyadewi, Galuh Mega Kurnia, Arina Mufida Ersanti, Corie Indria Prasasti

“…Background: The Nutrition Heart Program is a community empowerment initiative implemented to enhance the weight of toddlers based on local food capabilities. …”
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Patient–specific hemodynamic modeling to optimize LVAD speed and right heart health by Mustafa M. Ahmed, Holly Grant, Jasmine Martinez, Joshua Thomas, Mohammad Al-Ani, Alex Parker, Juan Vilaro, Juan Aranda, Venkat Keshav Chivukula

“…Background: Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) speed optimization and right heart failure post device implantation are major clinical challenges. …”
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Sustained slow-release TGF-β3 in a three-dimensional-printed titanium microporous scaffold composite system promotes ligament-to-bone healing by Liwei Zhu, Yuzhe Liu, Yifu Sun, Zhenjia Che, Youbin Li, Tengyue Liu, Xudong Li, Chengzhe Yang, Lanfeng Huang

“…The treatment of tendon/ligament-to-bone injury is a long-standing research challenge in orthopedics and bone tissue engineering. Orderly healing of the fibrocartilage layer and mineralized bone layer is crucial for treating tendon-bone interface injuries. …”
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Assessment of Reductions in Emission-driven Air Pollution during the Beijing Olympic Games, Shanghai World Expo, Guangzhou Asian Games and Wuhan COVID-19 Lockdown by Ying Li, Haoxiang Xu

“…Abstract Quantifying and comparing the effectiveness of different emission control strategies can provide insights for policy design and air quality management. In our previous work, we developed a wind-pollution decomposition (WPD) method that provides a robust tool to quantify meteorology-driven and emission-driven impacts on changes in air quality. …”
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Advancing global herbal medicine: Enhancing herb quality through innovative strategies explored in Hong Kong - An international hub by Hiu-Lam Ngai, Pang-Chui Shaw

“…Background: The Hong Kong Department of Health has been inspecting numerous medicinal herbs circulating in the market every year. Herbs have been identified recurrently to have problems such as over-limit aflatoxins and toxic alkaloids, and the distributors had to recall the problematic herbs. …”
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EFFECTS OF GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS ON ENTROPY GENERATION IN FIRE-TUBE STEAM BOILER’S HEAT EXCHANGER by OLUMUYIWA LASODE, JOSEPH OYEKALE, IDEHAI OHIJEAGBON, JOHN OLADEJI

“… This paper presents a parametric study on fire-tube steam boilers’ heat exchanging unit using Entropy Generation Minimization (EGM) technique. …”
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Performance optimization of Maisotsenko cycle heat exchangers: A three-dimensional parametric analysis by Seyed Esmail Razavi, Tohid Adibi, Mohanad Naji Halool Abohned, Shams Forruque Ahmed, Hammad Alotaibi

“…The efficiency of the heat exchanger ranged between 0.54 and 0.73, underscoring the importance of optimizing design parameters for different operating conditions. …”
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Relationship between weather parameters and risk of exertional heat injuries during military training by Beng Hoong Poon, Alexander Wilhelm Gorny, Kaiyuan Zheng, Wee Kiong Cheong

“…Introduction: The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) collaborated with the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) to study the relationship between weather parameters and the incidents of exertional heat injury (EHI) to mitigate the risk of EHI in a practical manner. …”
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ClimaWATCH: A new interactive tool for community heat-health vulnerability assessments by Aparna Keshaviah, Dheeya Rizmie, Huihua Lu, Mike Rudacille, Eric Morris, Colleen Psomas, Farid Qamar, Xindi C. Hu

“…Case presentation: Leveraging a case-crossover study design, the tool clarifies how heat-related excess healthcare utilization and spending varies by geography, year, diagnosis, subpopulation, and care setting. …”
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