The effect of anesthesia methods on the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in patients undergoing forearm surgery: A monocentric and retrospective study.

Surgical trauma can induce systemic inflammation. The selected anesthesia method may modulate the inflammatory response and surgical results in the inflammatory process that occurs during surgical trauma. In this retrospective study, we aimed to compare the anti-inflammatory effects of general anesthesia and peripheral nerve block (infraclavicular block).

Kinetics of chemical and color changes in wheat and water during atmospheric cooking as affected by the acidity, hardness, and iron content of water.

Color changes in wheat and cooking water, which affect the quality of bulgur and wastewater, are important. Understanding the impacts of cooking water acidity, hardness, and iron content is significant for producing bright-yellow colored bulgur and determining the possible negative effects of cooking water on the environment. Thereby, the gelatinization degree and color (L*, a*, b*, and yellowness index) of wheat cooked with waters at different pH (3, 5, 7, 9, and 11), hardness (soft, hard, and very hard), and iron content (0, 1, and 2 mg/L) were determined every 10 min of cooking.

Assessment of iron content of cooking water on bulgur by determining chemical, mineral, colour, textural and thermal characteristics.

Background: Bulgur, a whole wheat product, has attracted attention in the world in recent years because of its wide usage possibility in different meals. The basic ingredients in bulgur production are wheat and water. The influence of water composition on bulgur quality has not been investigated.

Further study of eccentricity based indices for benzenoid hourglass network.

Topological Indices are the mathematical estimate related to atomic graph that corresponds biological structure with several real properties and chemical activities. These indices are invariant of graph under graph isomorphism. If top() and top() denotes topological index and respectively then approximately equal which implies that top() = top().

Investigation of optical soliton solutions for the perturbed Gerdjikov-Ivanov equation with full-nonlinearity.

We have discussed the perturbed Gerdjikov-Ivanov (pGI) equation describing optical pulse propagation (PP) with perturbation effects, which has various applications in optical fibers, especially in photonic crystal fibers. According to our literature review, we have discovered new and original soliton types using the Sardar sub-equation and the modified Kudryashov methods, which have not been applied to this model before. We obtained dark, bright, periodic-singular and periodic-M-shaped soliton solutions, respectively.

Obtaining the soliton solutions of local M-fractional magneto-electro-elastic media.

In this research paper, the generalized projective Riccati equations method (GPREM) is applied successfully to procure the soliton solutions of the local M-fractional longitudinal wave equation (LWE) arising in mathematical physics with dispersion caused by the transverse Poisson's effect in a magneto-electro-elastic circular rod (MEECR). Applying a wave transformation to the local M-fractional LWE, the equation can be turned into a set of algebraic equations. Solving the algebraic equation system, we procure the soliton solutions of the local M-fractional LWE.

New Fractional Modelling, Analysis and Control of the Three Coupled Multiscale Non-Linear Buffering System.

This study aims to investigate the complicated dynamical buffering system using fractional operators which is not been investigated yet. We consider a new fractional mathematical model in the frame of fractional-order differential equations. In the proposed fractional-order model, we apply the Caputo-Fabrizio fractional operator with an exponential kernel.

Thanatechnology and the Living Dead: New Concepts in Digital Transformation and Human-Computer Interaction.

In a digital society, shall we be the authors of our own experience, not only during our lifetime but also after we die? We ask this question because dying and bereavement have become even harder, and much less private, in the digital age. New big data-driven digital industries and technologies are on the rise, with promises of interactive 3D avatars and storage of digital memories of the deceased, so they can continue to exist online as the "living dead" in a digital afterlife. Famous rock and roll icons like Roy Orbison, Frank Zappa, Ronnie James Dio, and Amy Winehouse have famously been turned into holograms that can once again give "live" performances on the touring circuit, often pulling in large audiences.

COVID-19 Digital Health Innovation Policy: A Portal to Alternative Futures in the Making.

"The pandemic is a portal." In the words of the novelist scholar Arundhati Roy, the COVID-19 pandemic is not merely an epic calamity. It has opened up a new space, a portal, to rethink everything, for example, in how we live, work, produce scientific knowledge, provide health care, and relate to others, be they humans or nonhuman animals in planetary ecosystems.

Digging Deeper into Precision/Personalized Medicine: Cracking the Sugar Code, the Third Alphabet of Life, and Sociomateriality of the Cell.

Precision/personalized medicine is a hot topic in health care. Often presented with the motto "the right drug, for the right patient, at the right dose, and the right time," precision medicine is a theory for rational therapeutics as well as practice to individualize health interventions (e.g.

Is Space the New Frontier for Omics? Mars-Omics, Planetary Science, and the Next-Generation Technology Futurists.

Omics technologies are key to research and innovation in human health, food and nutrition, drugs, agriculture, and ecology research. Yet, the actual scope of applications is much broader. One emerging possibility is planetary science driven in part by current debates on and possibilities for travel to Mars.

Horizon Scanning: How Will Metabolomics Applications Transform Food Science, Bioengineering, and Medical Innovation in the Current Era of Foodomics?

Food and engineering sciences have tended to neglect the importance of human nutrition sciences and clinical study of new molecules discovered by food engineering community, and vice versa. Yet, the value of systems thinking and use of omics technologies in food engineering are rapidly emerging. Foodomics is a new concept and practice to bring about "precision nutrition" and integrative bioengineering studies of food composition, quality, and safety, and applications to improve health of humans, animals, and other living organisms on the planet.

Development and characterization of couscous-like product using bulgur flour as by-product.

Couscous is produced traditionally by agglomeration of semolina with water. The aims of this study were: to produce couscous-like product by substitution of semolina with bulgur by-product (undersize bulgur); to find optimum quantity of bulgur flour and processing conditions. In order to determine the optimum processing parameters and recipes; 0, 25 and 50% of bulgur containing couscous-like samples were prepared.

GEOMETRIC, VOLUMETRIC, COLOUR AND FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES OF SELECTED SPECIES OF TURKEY.

Background: seeds are promite to dietary and healthy oils because they contain essential fatty acids. seeds frequently produce mucilage on soaking, and this mucilage is used for the treatment of eye diseases in eastern countries. species studied for medicine, food and cosmetics, have the potential to be used in the various fields.

Improving the color of bulgur: new industrial applications of tempering and UV/sun-light treatments.

Color (CIE b*; yellowness) is an important parameter for bulgur quality. Color of bulgur is mainly due to natural pigments (carotenoids) that are present at different levels in wheat. In order to increase the customer acceptability, the producers try to obtain yellowish color in bulgur.

Translating biotechnology to knowledge-based innovation, peace, and development? Deploy a Science Peace Corps--an open letter to world leaders.

Scholarship knows no geographical boundaries. This science diplomacy and biotechnology journalism article introduces an original concept and policy petition to innovate the global translational science, a Science Peace Corps. Service at the new Corps could entail volunteer work for a minimum of 6 weeks, and up to a maximum of 2 years, for translational research in any region of the world to build capacity manifestly for development and peace, instead of the narrow bench-to-bedside model of life science translation.

Approximate solution of time-fractional advection-dispersion equation via fractional variational iteration method.

This paper aims to obtain the approximate solution of time-fractional advection-dispersion equation (FADE) involving Jumarie's modification of Riemann-Liouville derivative by the fractional variational iteration method (FVIM). FVIM provides an analytical approximate solution in the form of a convergent series. Some examples are given and the results indicate that the FVIM is of high accuracy, more efficient, and more convenient for solving time FADEs.

Effect of soaking and ultrasound treatments on texture of chickpea.

Effect of soaking time (20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 180, 200, 220, 240, 260, 280, 300, 320, 340, 360, 380, 400, 420, 440, 460, 480 and 500 min) and temperature (20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 87, 92 and 97°C) together with ultrasound application (25 kHz 100 W and 25 kHz 300 W) on texture of chickpea was investigated. Soaking time, temperature, application of ultrasounds and power of ultrasounds had significant effect (P < 0.05) on texture of chickpea.

Colour and textural attributes of sucuk during ripening.

The sensory (flavour, colour, and ease of cutting scores), colour (Hunter L, a, b, YI, total colour difference, hue angle, chroma, and browning index values) and textural (hardness, adhesiveness, springiness, cohesiveness, gumminess, chewiness, and resilience) attributes of sucuk were followed during the ripening period. Colour scores increased (P<0.05) from score 4 to 6 during the first 3 days of the ripening period and then decreased (P<0.

Application of computer algebra-techniques to metabolic control analysis.

For practical purposes the calculation of rate constants is not particularly valuable, since their physical significance is not clear. Of greater practical use are metabolic control coefficients and elasticities. Given the definition of the flux control coefficients C(E)(J), concentration control coefficient C(E)(X) and elasticity epsilon (X)(v(1)).