Academic Articles & Research Papers

Complex Abdominal Wall Hernias: Structured Use of Adjuvant Therapies

PurposeRepairing complex abdominal wall hernias is challenging, often requiring component separation techniques (CST) for tension-free closure. Adjuvant therapies, such as botulinum toxin type A (BTA), preoperative progressive pneumoperiton...

A Predictive Model Based on the Gut Microbiota Improves the Diagnostic Effect in Patients With Cholangiocarcinoma

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a malignant hepatic tumor with a poor prognosis, which needs early diagnosis urgently. The gut microbiota has been shown to play a crucial role in the progression of liver cancer. Here, we explored a gut microbio...

EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF INCLISIRAN BY BASELINE BODY MASS INDEX: A POST HOC POOLED ANALYSIS OF THE ORION-9, ORION-10 AND ORION-11 PHASE III RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS

Therapeutic Area: ASCVD/CVD Risk Factors Background: Excessive bodyweight, often associated with dyslipidemia, may affect the pharmacology of drugs. Inclisiran, a small interfering RNA targeting PCSK9 hepatic mRNA, is an effective LDL-C low...

Transitioning to a Hyperledger Fabric Quantum-Resistant Classical Hybrid Public Key Infrastructure

This research has two parts; the first is to identify enterprise Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) blockchain cybersecurity vulnerabilities, threats, and legal obligations in a Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) world. HLF is a permissioned blockchain ...

Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - EMNLP '08

Welcome to the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing! The conference is organized under the auspices of SIGDAT, the ACL Special Interest Group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to natural language...

Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning

This volume, which is also available online from http://www.machinelearning.org, contains the papers accepted for presentation at ICML-2005, the 22nd lnternational Conference on Machine Learning, which was held at the University of Bonn in ...

Astrophysics Source Code Library

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL), founded in 1999, is a free on-line registry for source codes of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists. The library is housed on the discussion forum for Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) ...

Analysis of Temporary Employment Company Business Environment

The relevance of the research. The emergence of temporary employment as an atypical form of work organization has become a relevant topic in the research of human resource management processes. Researchers analyze temporary employment not o...

Building integrated renewable energy

About one-third of the primary energy in the world is consumed by buildings. A large amount of CO 2 emission due to building energy consumption has threatened the sustainable development of the world. Improvement on the building energy perf...

Cryo-CMOS for quantum computing

Cryogenic CMOS, or cryo-CMOS circuits and systems, are emerging in VLSI design for many applications, in primis quantum computing. Fault-tolerant quantum bits (qubits) in surface code configurations, one of the most accepted implementations...

Submicroscopic malaria parasite carriage and hemoglobin levels among outpatients attending the laboratories of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

Independent association of general and central adiposity with risk of gallstone disease: observational and genetic analyses

BackgroundGeneral obesity is a well-established risk factor for gallstone disease (GSD), but whether central obesity contributes additional independent risk remains controversial. We aimed to comprehensively clarify the effect of body fat d...

Living standard and access to tetanus toxoid immunization among women in Bangladesh

Abstract Background Although Bangladesh has an impressive track record in the reduction of maternal and child mortality, tetanus, a dreadful disease, impedes the way to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in this respect. Sufficient ...

Interplay of physical activity, self-rated health, and life satisfaction among large-bodied adolescents in Europe and North America: analysis using clustered binary mixed effects logit modelling

Abstract Background There is a dearth of studies focused on the impact of self-rated health on life satisfaction among large-bodied adolescents, as well as the moderating role of physical activity in this relationship. Large-bodied adolesce...

Impact of COVID-19 health precautions on asymptomatic Streptococcus pyogenes carriage in palestinian children: a pre- and post-pandemic study

Abstract Background Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus, GAS) is a significant pathogen that causes diverse infections, ranging from pharyngitis to severe invasive diseases. Asymptomatic carriage in children is pivotal for transmi...

A retrospective study of oral and maxillofacial pathology lesions diagnosed at the Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University

Nada A Alhindi, Amal M Sindi, Nada O Binmadi, Wael Y Elias Oral Diagnostic Science Department, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Background: Oral and maxillofacial lesions (OMFL) comprise a broad spectrum...

Improving Muscle Function Through a Multimodal Behavioural Intervention for Knee Osteoarthritis and Obesity: The POMELO Trial

ABSTRACT Background Treatments aimed at improving physical function and body composition, including reducing fat mass (FM) and increasing muscle mass, may benefit individuals with advanced knee osteoarthritis (OA) and obesity. We investigat...

Background-Suppressed Infrared Photothermal Microscopy at Low Temperature.

A Study on Instructional Humor: How Much Humor Is Used in Presentations?

Humor is applied in pedagogy to create a positive learning environment. Recent research focuses on the theories, effects, individual differences, and qualitative aspects of humor for instruction. However, there is a lack of studies focusing...

Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - EMNLP '06

We are delighted to introduce the proceedings of the 11th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, organized under the auspices of SIGDAT, the ACL Special Interest Group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches...