Knowledge and attitude toward total knee arthroplasty among senior medical students in comparison to public population in Saudi Arabia: cross-sectional study.

Background: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is currently considered one of the most common and successful orthopaedic procedures. It plays an essential role in the long-term treatment of osteoarthritis and enhances the patient's quality of life. Very little is known about public and medical students' perceptions of this procedure.

Association of ABO Blood Groups and Obesity in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus in King Abdulaziz University Hospital.

Background: Differences in the blood, resulting from the presence or absence of antigens corresponding to specific blood types, have indirect implications for susceptibility to diseases. The aim of this study was to examine the association between the ABO type and obesity in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional observational study that was conducted at King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Prevalence and Characteristics of Knee Osteoarthritis Among the General Public in Saudi Arabia.

Background Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic and progressive knee joint condition that is influenced by multiple factors. This research aims to examine the prevalence and characteristics of knee OA among the general public in Saudi Arabia. Methodology This cross-sectional online survey was conducted in September 2023 in Saudi Arabia.

Assessing Adherence to Royal College of Surgeons Guidelines: A Closed-Loop Audit of Operation Notes in a Tertiary Healthcare Unit.

Introduction Accurate, comprehensive, and legible operation notes are essential for maintaining patient records, supporting healthcare professionals, and facilitating research. The study focused on adherence to Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) guidelines established in 2008. Despite the guidelines, poor documentation practices have been reported globally.

From Recurrent Pain to a Life-Threatening Condition: A Case Report of Left Paraduodenal Hernia.

Paraduodenal hernia (PDH) is the most frequent type of congenital hernia, especially on the left side. Although acute intestinal obstruction due to internal hernias is rare, it can be life-threatening if not detected and treated promptly. Here, we present the case of a 36-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with an acute intestinal obstruction that had been developing for three days.

A Comprehensive Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Scheme With Secure Authentication and Aggregation for Internet of Medical Things.

Data mining, integration, and utilization are the inevitable trend of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) in the context of Big Data. With the increasing demand for data privacy, federated learning has emerged as a new paradigm, which enables distributed joint training of medical data sources without leaving the private domain. However, federated learning is suffering from security threats as the shared local model will reveal original datasets.

Hash-MAC-DSDV: Mutual Authentication for Intelligent IoT-Based Cyber-Physical Systems.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) connected in the form of Internet of Things (IoT) are vulnerable to various security threats, due to the infrastructure-less deployment of IoT devices. Device-to-Device (D2D) authentication of these networks ensures the integrity, authenticity, and confidentiality of information in the deployed area. The literature suggests different approaches to address security issues in CPS technologies.

Entropy Generation and Thermal Analysis on MHD Second-Grade Fluid with Variable Thermophysical Properties over a Stratified Permeable Surface of Paraboloid Revolution.

Stratification is used in a wide range of energy storage fields, including solar thermal energy systems. This paper investigates entropy optimization and the effects of heat production, magnetic field, and various fluid parameters on the flow of second-grade fluid through unstratified and stably stratified paraboloids of revolution. In the heat transfer equation, stratification, linear thermal radiation, and Joule dissipation have all been explored.

LightIoT: Lightweight and secure communication for energy-efficient IoT in health informatics.

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a key enabler of health informatics. IoT-enabled devices are used for in-hospital and in-home patient monitoring to collect and transfer biomedical data pertaining to blood pressure, electrocardiography (ECG), blood sugar levels, body temperature, etc. Among these devices, wearables have found their presence in a wide range of healthcare applications.

Security and Blockchain Convergence with Internet of Multimedia Things: Current Trends, Research Challenges and Future Directions.

The Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) orchestration enables the integration of systems, software, cloud, and smart sensors into a single platform. The IoMT deals with scalar as well as multimedia data. In these networks, sensor-embedded devices and their data face numerous challenges when it comes to security.

Entropy optimization and heat transfer analysis in MHD Williamson nanofluid flow over a vertical Riga plate with nonlinear thermal radiation.

The entropy generation for a reactive Williamson nanofluid flow past a vertical Riga system is the subject of this article. The effects of MHD, thermophoresis, nonlinear heat radiation and varying heat conductivity are modeled into the heat equation in the established model. Suitable similarity transformations are examined to bring down the partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations.

An AI-enabled lightweight data fusion and load optimization approach for Internet of Things.

In the densely populated Internet of Things (IoT) applications, sensing range of the nodes might overlap frequently. In these applications, the nodes gather highly correlated and redundant data in their vicinity. Processing these data depletes the energy of nodes and their upstream transmission towards remote datacentres, in the fog infrastructure, may result in an unbalanced load at the network gateways and edge servers.

A Secured and Intelligent Communication Scheme for IIoT-enabled Pervasive Edge Computing.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) ensures reliable and efficient data exchanges among the industrial processes using Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the cyber-physical systems. In the IIoT ecosystem, devices of industrial applications communicate with each other with little human intervention. They need to act intelligently to safeguard the data confidentiality and devices' authenticity.

A Lightweight Mutual Authentication and Privacy-preservation Scheme for Intelligent Wearable Devices in Industrial-CPS.

Industry 5.0 is the digitalization, automation and data exchange of industrial processes that involve artificial intelligence, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (I-CPS). In healthcare, I-CPS enables the intelligent wearable devices to gather data from the real-world and transmit to the virtual world for decision-making.

Intelligent Intraoperative Haptic-AR Navigation for COVID-19 Lung Biopsy Using Deep Hybrid Model.

A novel intelligent navigation technique for accurate image-guided COVID-19 lung biopsy is addressed, which systematically combines augmented reality (AR), customized haptic-enabled surgical tools, and deep neural network to achieve customized surgical navigation. Clinic data from 341 COVID-19 positive patients, with 1598 negative control group, have collected for the model synergy and evaluation. Biomechanics force data from the experiment are applied a WPD-CNN-LSTM (WCL) to learn a new patient-specific COVID-19 surgical model, and the ResNet was employed for the intraoperative force classification.

A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that aims to enable the interconnection of a large number of smart devices and heterogeneous networks. Ad hoc networks play an important role in the designing of IoT-enabled platforms due to their efficient, flexible, low-cost and dynamic infrastructures. These networks utilize the available resources efficiently to maintain the Quality of Service (QoS) in a multi-hop communication.

iACP-GAEnsC: Evolutionary genetic algorithm based ensemble classification of anticancer peptides by utilizing hybrid feature space.

Cancer is a fatal disease, responsible for one-quarter of all deaths in developed countries. Traditional anticancer therapies such as, chemotherapy and radiation, are highly expensive, susceptible to errors and ineffective techniques. These conventional techniques induce severe side-effects on human cells.

Prognostic significance of cell surface phenotype in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Context: To find out the phenotypic character of lymphoblasts of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients in our study cohort and their possible effect on the prognosis.

Aims: To investigate the phenotype in ALL in our demographic population and to prognosticate various upfront current protocols employed in our hospital.

Settings And Design: The study spanned over a period of 4 years with retrospective and prospective data of January 2008 through December 2011.

Role of low dose cytarabine in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia: An experience.

Purpose: To highlight the acceptable results seen after use of low dose cytarabine in elderly patients of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with comorbidities.

Materials And Methods: This was a prospective study carried on 30 newly diagnosed patients of AML over 60 years of age who were unfit for standard treatment regimens. We did not use azacytidine and decitabine in our patients because these therapeutic modalities being extremely costly and our patient affordability being poor.

Antiemetic role of thalidomide in a rat model of cisplatin-induced emesis.

The efficacy of thalidomide to attenuate cisplatin-induced emesis was evaluated in a rat model. Four groups were utilized: control group (peritoneal injection and gastric lavage with normal saline), cisplatin group (peritoneal injection of cisplatin at 10 mg/kg and gastric lavage with normal saline), thalidomide group (cisplatin as above and gastric lavage with thalidomide at 10 mg/kg), and granisetron group (positive control for antiemetic effects; cisplatin given as above and gastric lavage done with granisetron at 0.5 mg/kg).

Polydopamine spheres as active templates for convenient synthesis of various nanostructures.

In this work, monodisperse polydopamine (PDA) spheres with tunable diameters have been synthesized through a facile and low cost method using a deionized water and alcohol mixed solvent. The PDA spheres possess surface functional groups (-OH, -NH(2)), exhibiting an extraordinary versatile active nature. It is demonstrated that the PDA spheres could serve as an active template for the convenient synthesis of various nanostructures, e.

Development of nanomaterials for SALDI-MS analysis in forensics.

Within the last decade, the escalation of research output in the field of nanotechnology has spurred the development of new nanomaterials for use as assisting agents in surface assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (SALDI-MS). Specifically modified nanomaterials, coupled with mass spectrometry, have improved the detection sensitivity, specificity, flexibility and reproducibility of SALDI-MS analysis. The technological advancement of LDI-MS has in turn, propelled the use of the analytical technique in the field of forensics.

Mesoporous carbon incorporated metal oxide nanomaterials as supercapacitor electrodes.

Supercapacitors have attracted huge attention in recent years as they have the potential to satisfy the demand of both huge energy and power density in many advanced technologies. However, poor conductivity and cycling stability remains to be the major challenge for its widespread application. Various strategies have been developed for meeting the ever-increasing energy and power demands in supercapacitors.