English major students' satisfaction with ELSA Speak in English pronunciation courses.

Clear and accurate pronunciation plays an essential role in communicating effectively and significantly affects English learners' proficiency. ELSA Speak has been used in some schools due to its benefits to help learners improve English pronunciation. However, to optimize the application, a better understanding of EFL learners' satisfaction with ELSA Speak is essential.

Primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the liver: a case report.

Introduction And Importance: Primary gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the liver are exceedingly rare entities, presenting diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. The authors present a case of a 64-year-old male with a primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) of the liver, emphasizing the importance of comprehensive diagnostic evaluation and multidisciplinary management in such uncommon cases.

Case Presentation: The patient presented with persistent hypochondriac pain, leading to the discovery of a hepatic mass.

Overcome intraoperative difficulties of ALPPS procedure: a single-center outcomes and technical experience.

Backgrounds/aims: Recently, the ALPPS (Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy) has become widely known to achieve hepatic resection by rapid future liver remnant hypertrophy, but it comes with intraoperative difficulties, followed by increased complications. This study aimed to report the outcomes of an oncology center in a low-income and middle-income country with ALPPS in patients with liver tumors and its technical variants, which were invented to overcome intraoperative difficulties of the ALPPS procedure.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients undergoing ALPPS from September 2022 to December 2023 was performed.

Additional hepatic artery embolization after liver venous deprivation for right hepatectomy: A case report.

Post hepatectomy Liver Failure (PHLF is a fatal complication, especially after major liver resection. Insufficient remnant liver volume is a common cause of postoperative liver failure. Many strategies have been applied to induce the remnant liver hypertrophy: Portal vein embolization (PVE), PVE combined with hepatic vein embolization (LVD), two staged liver resection, Associated liver partition with portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS).

Surgical management for hepatocellular carcinoma with concurrent portal vein tumour thrombus and bile duct tumour thrombus: a case report.

Introduction: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) associated with concurrent portal vein tumour thrombus (PVTT) and bile duct tumour thrombus (BDTT) is sporadic and presents a puzzle to management with miserable prognostic.

Case Presentation: The authors reported a case of HCC in the right liver with PVTT involving the right portal vein and BDTT developing in the common bile duct, detected in a 43-year-old man. The patient was admitted to our hospital with abdominal pain in the right hypochondrium and obstructive jaundice.

English as a foreign language students' acceptance of Google Classroom in writing classes: A case study in Vietnam.

Google Classroom is a virtual education platform created by Google that allows both instructors and learners to actively participate in educational environments inside and outside of the classroom in an innovative way. This research aims to determine how university students perceived the adoption of Google Classroom in writing classes. This research was a convergent parallel mix-methods approach in which data were gathered through a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire and semi-structured interviews.

Prognostic values of serum lactate-to-bicarbonate ratio and lactate for predicting 28-day in-hospital mortality in children with dengue shock syndrome.

This study aimed to assess the clinical utility of blood lactate-to-bicarbonate (L/B) ratio, as a prognostic factor for 28-day in-hospital mortality in children with dengue shock syndrome (DSS), admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). This single-center retrospective study was conducted at a tertiary children hospital in southern Vietnam from 2013 to mid-2022. Prognostic models for DSS mortality were developed, using a predefined set of covariates in the first 24 hours of PICU admission.

Extrahepatic biliary tract tuberculosis: A case report and literature review.

Introduction: Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease that often has a latent period after the initial infection. Tuberculosis most often affects the lungs but it can also affect other parts of the body. Vietnam is in pandemic area of tuberculosis.

A cross-sectional study of sleep disturbance among middle-aged cancer patients at Vietnam National Cancer Hospital.

Aim: Sleep disorders are common in cancer patients and have negative consequences for patient well-being and treatment outcomes. This study aimed to investigate sleep quality and related factors in Vietnamese middle-aged cancer patients.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 246 middle-aged in-patient cancer patients at Vietnam National Cancer Hospital (VNCH) from 1/2021 to 7/2021.

Multiple HAPS-based space-air-ground network with FSO communication: a performance analysis.

Due to the fact that the existing generation of wireless communication cannot possibly keep up with the current traffic explosion and emerging applications, research and development on next-generation (i.e., sixth generation, 6G) wireless technologies is being carried out worldwide.

Ensuring Continuity of Tuberculosis Care during Social Distancing through Integrated Active Case Finding at COVID-19 Vaccination Events in Vietnam: A Cohort Study.

COVID-19 significantly disrupted tuberculosis (TB) services in Vietnam. In response, the National TB Program (NTP) integrated TB screening using mobile chest X-rays into COVID-19 vaccination events. This prospective cohort study evaluated the integrated model's yield, treatment outcomes, and costs.

Associations of obesity and dengue-associated mortality, acute liver failure and mechanical ventilation in children with dengue shock syndrome.

Dengue-associated complications, including dengue shock syndrome, severe respiratory distress, and pediatric acute liver failure (PALF), are associated with high mortality rates in patients with dengue. There is increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity among children worldwide. Obesity may activate inflammatory mediators, leading to increased capillary permeability and plasma leakage in patients with dengue.

The long-run effects of financial development on income inequality: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific countries.

Income inequality is a vexing developmental challenge for governments and policymakers as it impedes social transformation and economic growth and development. Meanwhile, promoting financial development is generally regarded as an effective way to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth. This study examines the long-run effects of financial development, economic growth, and their combined effects on income inequality for 12 Asia-Pacific countries from 1990 to 2021.

Escalating Catalytic Activity for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on MoSe@Graphene Functionalization.

Developing highly efficient and durable hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts is crucial for addressing the energy and environmental challenges. Among the 2D-layered chalcogenides, MoSe possesses superior features for HER catalysis. The attractions and high surface energy, however, stack the MoSe layers, resulting in a loss of edge active catalytic sites.

Menstrual and Reproductive Factors in Association With Breast Cancer Risk in Vietnamese Women: A Case-Control Study.

Objectives: Though menstrual and reproductive factors have been associated with the risk of breast cancer in many populations, very few studies have been conducted among Vietnamese women. This study aimed to assess the association between menstrual and reproductive factors and the risk of breast cancer in Vietnamese women.

Methods: A retrospective case-control study of 490 breast cancer cases and 468 controls was conducted in Northern Vietnam.

Chemotherapy-Induced Toxicities and Their Associations with Clinical and Non-Clinical Factors among Breast Cancer Patients in Vietnam.

Understanding the burden and factors related to chemotherapy-induced toxicity is important in treatment planning for breast cancer patients. We conducted a prospective study among 396 newly diagnosed and chemotherapy-treated breast cancer patients recruited in two major cancer hospitals in northern Vietnam. Toxicities were captured through medical chart reviews and patient self-reports and graded using NCI CTCAE classification.

Genome-Guided Investigation Provides New Insights into Secondary Metabolites of SX6 from .

Whole-genome sequencing and genome mining are recently considered an efficient approach to shine more light on the underlying secondary metabolites of . The present study unearths the biosynthetic potential of endophytic SX6 as a promising source of biologically active substances and plant-derived compounds for the first time. Out of 38 isolates associated with (L.

Expanded ACE2 dependencies of diverse SARS-like coronavirus receptor binding domains.

Viral spillover from animal reservoirs can trigger public health crises and cripple the world economy. Knowing which viruses are primed for zoonotic transmission can focus surveillance efforts and mitigation strategies for future pandemics. Successful engagement of receptor protein orthologs is necessary during cross-species transmission.

Life cycle assessment of paper mill wastewater: a case study in Viet Nam.

Although in a critical position in the economy, the paper industry releases a lot of wastewater that requires adequate treatment for sustainable development. This study presents an application of Life cycle assessment (LCA) with the ReCiPe tool on the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) of a paper factory in Vietnam to evaluate the environmental effect of the individual techniques in WWTP, especially the internal circulation (IC) reactor, a pioneer and practical anaerobic technology. Both Midpoint and Endpoint categories results demonstrated that chemical use and electricity consumption mainly contributed to the environmental impact in the WWTP.

Delay in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in Vietnam.

Background: Delays in diagnosis and treatment from first noticeable breast cancer symptoms are associated with poor outcomes. Understanding the reasons and barriers for patients' delay in seeking medical care is critical to mitigating the problem.

Methods: In-person surveys were conducted among 462 women, aged 18-79, with incident breast cancer cases, recruited from two cancer hospitals in North Vietnam.

Role of Immunotherapy in Pulmonary Angiosarcoma: A Case Report.

Pulmonary angiosarcoma is a rare clinical entity with a poor prognosis and no established therapeutic strategies. We present the first case to our knowledge of metastatic pulmonary angiosarcoma, treated with checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy, and have an excellent response. Until now, patient has been treated with immunotherapy for 1 year, and his disease is stable and well-tolerated.

Using the SNAP-Tag technology to easily measure and demonstrate apoptotic changes in cancer and blood cells with different dyes.

In vitro and ex vivo development of novel therapeutic agents requires reliable and accurate analyses of the cell conditions they were preclinical tested for, such as apoptosis. The detection of apoptotic cells by annexin V (AV) coupled to fluorophores has often shown limitations in the choice of the dye due to interference with other fluorescent-labeled cell markers. The SNAP-tag technology is an easy, rapid and versatile method for functionalization of proteins and was therefore used for labeling AV with various fluorophores.