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Background Rotavirus diarrhea is often referred as “winter diarrheal disease” as it causes nearly 50% of the pediatric hospitalizations during winter season. This study was done with the objective of bringing out the epidemiological nexus of rotavirus cases with different seasonal parameters like maximum, minimum temperature, humidity, and average…[Lees meer]

Recently, there has been a burgeoning interest in the utilization of customized bariatric stents (CBS) for management of sleeve gastrectomy leak (SGL). We aimed to conduct a proportion meta-analysis to evaluate the cumulative efficacy and safety of these new stents and to compare them with the conventional esophageal stents (CES).

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Oral PARP inhibitors (PARPi) have dramatically changed the treatment landscape for patients with advanced ovarian cancer. However, a subset of patients discontinue PARPi due to treatment-related fatigue. The current study sought to explore patients’ lived experiences with fatigue on PARPi.

We conducted individual semi-structured interviews…[Lees meer]

festyle intervention that would be most sustainable.Wastewater emerging from the industries containing organic pollutants is a severe threat to humans’ health and aquatic life. Therefore, the degradation of highly poisonous organic dye pollutants is necessary to ensure public health and environmental protection. To tackle this problem,…[Lees meer]

In this article, we develop a robust sliding-mode nonlinear predictive controller for brain-controlled robots with enhanced performance, safety, and robustness. First, the kinematics and dynamics of a mobile robot are built. After that, the proposed controller is developed by cascading a predictive controller and a smooth sliding-mode controller.…[Lees meer]

The COVID-19 pandemic led to drastically altered working practices. During the UK lockdown, a questionnaire was distributed to water professionals to understand their experiences and perceptions of organisational response. Findings were evaluated on the measures of mitigation, adaptation, coping and learning. Employees’ perceived there were…[Lees meer]

The incidence of postoperative complications (POC) in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) who undergo intestinal resection is high. The literature provides conflicting data about the risk factors for POC, especially regarding preoperative immunosuppressive medications. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of anti-tumor necrosis…[Lees meer]

Therefore, an effective handling of failure requires management to use appropriate interventions targeted at the challenges faced by that particular pattern of failure in the age of different firms.Purpose Painful metastatic bone involvement is common in advanced stages of many cancers. Between available radionuclides for bone pain palliation, no…[Lees meer]