Design and Simulation of a Rowing Machine by Matovu Samson

“…The simulation results indicated that the proposed system/machine is safe under different loadings and the proposed machine will operate with good performance.…”
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Kigezi Mountain Mosaic by Ian, Cantwell

“…Plans changed and a website was mooted where I would have infinite space. Seven months later I had a reasonable text concerning everything I had learnt in the meantime…”
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Promoted Catalytic Properties of Acetone over Cerium-Modified Mullite Catalyst YMn2O5 by Xiaotian Mu, Wenhuan Wang, Kai Zhang, Honglei Ding, Weiguo Pan

“…Experimental results confirm that Y0.9Ce0.1Mn2O5 had optimum acetone oxidation activity, completely achieving 100% acetone conversion at 120°C under the reaction conditions of acetone concentration = 1000 ppm, 20 vol% O2/N2 and WHSV = 36000 mL g−1 h−1. …”
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of ICU Medical Staff toward Nutrition Care and its Impact on Patient Recovery in Taiz, Yemen by Haitham T. S. Mohammed, Lamia A. S. Ali, Malak Anwar Saif, Nada Khalid Al-Adeemy, Noha Kamel Al-Nadhary, Raghad Sameer Saif, Shaima Kamel Al-Nadhary, Yomna Mukarram Al-Dobai, Nur Mufida Wulan Sari

“…Medical staff attitude had no significant correlation. medical staff knowledge/attitude had a significant relationship with Gander and place of work (p-value=0.025 and p-value=0.055, respectively). medical staff practice had a significant relationship with education level and job title (p-value=0.029 and p-value=0.018, respectively). medical staff knowledge and attitude/practice had a significant relationship with Gander (p-value=0.024). …”
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Evaluation of Nausea and Vomiting Severity in Pregnancies Conceived Through Assisted Reproduction by Ozge Senem Yucel Cicek, Merve Demir

“…STUDY DESİGN: A total of 101 pregnant women between 8+0-14+6 weeks of gestation were enrolled in this case-control study. Of these women, 53 had pregnancies conceived via assisted reproductive technologies (study group) and 48 had pregnancies conceived naturally (control group). …”
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Relationship between renal ultrasonographic, CD4 cell count and proteinuria findings in HIV infected adult patients in Jos, Nigeria by P. M., Gwom, D., Atsukwei, E. D., Eze, E. O., Igoh, E. A., Gabkwe, M. D., Adams, K. M., Rabiu, I., Ezekiel

“…Twenty-four (4.8%) of the patients had abnormal renal sonographic findings while 480 (95.2%) had normal findings. …”
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Habit-induced oral lesions in different occupations: A comparative study among people between geographical different places of West Bengal by Tathagata Bhattacharjee, Kasturi Mukherjee, Kailash C. Dash, Somnath Gangopadhyay

“…Results: The people in armed forces had cancer-causing habits most, and managers had cancer-causing habits least. …”
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The Clinical and Radiological Outcome of Bovine Hydroxyapatite (Bio Hydrox) as Bone Graft by Arifin, Ferdiansyah Mahyudin, Mouli Edward

“…Results: Of the 56 patients who underwent surgery with BHA, most (80.36%) had excellent outcomes, 12.5% had good outcomes, 3.57% had fair outcomes, and 3.57% had poor outcomes. …”
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Association Between Walking Speed and Urinary Incontinence in the Older Women. Which Patients Should be Referred to Geriatricians? by Volkan Atmis, Basak Guler

“…Two hundred and fifty-eight (66.32%) had hypertension, 122 (31.36%) had diabetes mellitus, 51 (13.11%) had asthma/Chronic obstructive lung disease, 49 (12.59%) had coronary artery disease and 9 (2.31%) had cerebrovascular disease. …”
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Phase 1 study of novel anti-platelet agent to overcome pharmacogenomic limitations of clopidogrel by Anil Pareek, Nitin Chandurkar, Vivek Raut, Kumar Naidu

“…Each study period lasted 6 days including administration of loading and maintenance doses of AT-10 (40 mg/10 mg) or clopidogrel (300 mg/75 mg). …”
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Torque visuomotor feedback training versus standard eccentric exercise for the management of patellar tendinopathy: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by David Evans, Francesco Negro, Michail Arvanitidis, Eduardo Martinez-Valdes, Ragul Selvamoorthy, Patricio Pincheira

“…Introduction Patellar tendinopathy (PT) rehabilitation programmes frequently incorporate eccentric exercise (EE), where participants have limited control over the range of motion, speed, force production and load. Newly developed training protocols that employ visual feedback with specialised devices offer controlled management of loads, speeds and forces across the full range of motion, potentially providing greater benefits.Objective This protocol outlines a randomised controlled trial designed to compare the effects of a visuomotor torque feedback (TF) protocol with a traditional EE protocol on the rehabilitation of PT over a 6-week period. …”
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Influence of diglyme and cumene additives upon emission and combustion behaviour of diverse biodiesel fuelled diesel engine by Swarup Kumar Nayak, Dinesh Babu Munuswamy, Ganesan Subbiah, Mallireddy Naresh, Yuvarajan Devarajan

“…Experiments were conducted on a single-cylinder, 4-stroke, water-cooled, direct injection diesel engine operating at a constant speed of 1500 rpm and injection timing of 21ºbTDC under varying load conditions (0–5.02 kW). DG (5 % vol./vol.) was used as a cetane improver, while CU (5 % vol.…”
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Assessing the Effects of Tourism Revenue Sharing to the Improved Livelihood to the Neighboring Communities of Bwindi: A Case Study of Uhoma Sector. by Mutungyirehi, Dan

“…The findings revealed that 81.9% of the respondents stated that they had benefited from revenue sharing scheme, while 18.1 % of the respondents stated that they had not benefited from revenue sharing. …”
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Comparison of different models to describe the lactation curve of Holstein cows in a small-scale dairy system by Luis Javier Montiel-Olguín, Felipe de Jesús Ruiz-López, Sergio Gómez-Rosales, Germinal Jorge Cantó-Alarcón, Eliab Estrada-Cortés, Héctor Raymundo Vera-Ávila

“…Regarding accuracy, the Sikka and Gaines models had the lowest RMSPE and %RMSPE. When classified by production level, the Gaines model had the best fit. …”
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Dairy calves provided with environmental enrichment are more active, playful and have fewer feeding interruptions by Francesca Occhiuto, Jorge A. Vázquez-Diosdado, Matthew Thomas, Emma R. Gayner, Andrew J. King, Jasmeet Kaler

“…Using a mixed-effects linear model we showed that when brushes were present calves had significantly higher activity, fed slower, had fewer interruptions in their meals and spent less time around the feeder, suggesting reduced competition. …”
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Comparison of the safety and efficacy between minimally invasive cardiac surgery and median sternotomy in a low-risk mixed Asian population in Singapore by Zhi Xian Ong, Duoduo Wu, Haidong Luo, Guohao Chang, Faizus Sazzad, Jai Ajitchandra Sule, Peggy Hu, Theo Kofidis

“…We analysed 4063 patients who had undergone MS and 390 patients who had undergone MICS between January 2009 and February 2020. …”
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A Comparative study of osteoarthritic knee patients between urban and rural areas in knee severity and quality of life by Areerat Siripongpan, Bura Sindhupakorn

“…Residential areas had no impact on QoL but healthcare providers should explain the treatment plan. …”
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Awareness of medical students about standard isolation precautions In Sulaimani City by Bushra M. Ali, Saman A. Mohammed, Balen Tayb Abdullah, Osama Muhammed, Mutasam Fabian, Muhammed Rauf

“…Majority of medical students had accepted knowledge (67 %), their attitude was positive (70 %), and had low practice (35 %). …”
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Long-term efficacy and safety of alemtuzumab in participants with highly active MS: TOPAZ clinical trial and interim analysis of TREAT-MS real-world study by Tjalf Ziemssen, Ann D. Bass, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Sara Eichau, Stephan Richter, Frank Hoffmann, Nicole M. Armstrong, Magdalena Chirieac, Janete Cunha-Santos, Barry A. Singer

“…Results: More participants from CARE-MS I (28%) and II (24%) met primary HAD criteria than TREAT-MS (~14%). Mean ARR for alemtuzumab-treated HAD participants was significantly reduced in CARE-MS I and II (0.14 and 0.15, respectively, Years 3–13) and in TREAT-MS (0.24, > 2 years). …”
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Phosphorus transitions driven by cyclone biparjoy linked middle east North Africa (MENA) and Indian Thar Desert dust storm pathways in Asia’s largest grassland by Rupak Dey, Seema B. Sharma, Mahesh G. Thakkar, Ranjit Kumar Sarangi, Abhiroop Chowdhury, Aliya Naz

“…The pre-cyclone, post-cyclone and 20 DAC (days after cyclone) had AP values of 15.15, 22.54 and 24.06, respectively. …”
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