Authentication of glass beads from Cultural Heritage: An interdisciplinary and multi-analytical approach.

Analysis of glass-based artworks is important for authentication purposes. In recent years, there have been rapid advancements and improvements in the characterization of glass objects using different analytical approaches. The present study presents an interdisciplinary and multi-analytical authentication approach that provides useful tools and markers to unmask possible imitations, counterfeiting, and forgeries in Cultural Heritage glass beads by comparing the composition of historical and modern glass beads.

Efficacy of Afoxolaner (NexGard®) in the treatment of furuncular myiasis caused by Dermatobia hominis fly (Diptera: Cuterebridae) in naturally infested dogs.

Furuncular myiasis due to Dermatobia hominis is the second most common skin diseases in dogs that live in tropical climates in Central and South America, causing discomfort and injuring in the connective tissue of the affected dog. Therefore, the objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Afoxolaner (Nexgard®) in the treatment of canine furuncular myiasis. Twenty-five dogs naturally infested with D.

Effect of 0.2% carbomer ophthalmic ointment on eye discomfort after general anesthesia: A non-randomized cohort study.

Background And Objective: Eye lesions during surgery are rare. Its common causes include direct trauma, chemical damage, and corneal exposure. Eye discomfort may present after surgery in the absence of structural damage.

Giant Gastroduodenal Duplication Cyst with Juxta-Pancreatic Communication: A rare intraoperative finding.

Enteric duplication cysts are rare congenital malformations with a low incidence and there are only a few reports in the literature. Their clinical presentation varies according to the location and the type of duplication. Their overall prognosis is good if early surgical intervention is provided.

Visualizing physiological parameters in cells and tissues using genetically encoded indicators for metabolites.

The study of metabolism is undergoing a renaissance. Since the year 2002, over 50 genetically-encoded fluorescent indicators (GEFIs) have been introduced, capable of monitoring metabolites with high spatial/temporal resolution using fluorescence microscopy. Indicators are fusion proteins that change their fluorescence upon binding a specific metabolite.

CFD study of the water production in mature heavy oil fields with horizontal wells.

Excessive water production in mature heavy oil fields causes incremental costs, energy consumption, and inefficiency. Understanding multiphase flows near the wellbore is an alternative to improve production efficiency. Therefore, this study conducts a series of numerical experiments based on the full set of the Navier-Stokes equations in 3D to simulate multiphase flows in porous media for heavy oil production horizontal wells.

Experimental and computational advances on the study of Viscous Fingering: An umbrella review.

During the production of heavy oil reservoirs, the movement of the fluids, namely oil and water, significantly affects the production rates. This movement is influenced by the mobility ratio and directly affects variables such as The , production costs, and recovery factor (RF). Moreover, Viscous Fingering, a phenomenon that describes the fluid movement through porous media, has been identified as the root cause of high-water production rates.

SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater as an early warning indicator for COVID-19 pandemic. Madrid region case study.

COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing for more than a year and has changed priorities and boosted some WBE studies. The aim of this work is to contributed to our knowledge sharing the methodology developed for SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater of Madrid region of over six million and a half inhabitants, where the sewer system is a combined system. At first, a pilot test in a small metropolitan area was carried out in order to define the criteria for the selection of the sampling points to be applied to the entire region.

Carbonic anhydrase IX and hypoxia-inducible factor 1 attenuate cardiac dysfunction after myocardial infarction.

Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Prognosis and mortality rate are directly related to infarct size and post-infarction pathological heart remodeling, which can lead to heart failure. Hypoxic MI-affected areas increase the expression of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF-1), inducing infarct size reduction and improving cardiac function.

Comparison between five coprological methods for the diagnosis of cysts in fecal samples from pigs.

Background And Aim: is a protozoan that can infect humans and non-human primates, being the domestic pigs the animals most affected by this parasite. This study aimed to compare the performance of five coprological methods for diagnosis of cysts in fecal samples from pigs.

Materials And Methods: From September to December 2019, 558 fecal samples were collected from the rectum of backyard pigs in the Bucaramanga metropolitan area, Colombia.

Similar incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients with rheumatic diseases with and without hydroxychloroquine therapy.

Background: Hydroxychloroquine is not efficacious as post-exposure prophylaxis against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It is not known whether as pre-exposure prophylaxis it may prevent COVID-19.

Objective: To compare the incidence of COVID-19 in Spanish patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases treated with and without hydroxychloroquine.

Simulations with Australian dragon lizards suggest movement-based signal effectiveness is dependent on display structure and environmental conditions.

Habitat-specific characteristics can affect signal transmission such that different habitats dictate the optimal signal. One way to examine how the environment influences signals is by comparing changes in signal effectiveness in different habitats. Examinations of signal effectiveness between different habitats has helped to explain signal divergence/convergence between populations and species using acoustic and colour signals.

High rate of major drug-drug interactions of lopinavir-ritonavir for COVID-19 treatment.

The impact of drug-drug interactions (DDI) between ritonavir-boosted lopinavir (LPV-r) to treat patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and commonly used drugs in clinical practice is not well-known. Thus, we evaluated the rate and severity of DDI between LPV-r for COVID-19 treatment and concomitant medications. This was a cross-sectional study including all individuals diagnosed of SARS-CoV-2 infection treated with LPV-r and attended at a single center in Southern Spain (March 1st to April 30th, 2020).

How Do Induced Affective States Bias Emotional Contagion to Faces? A Three-Dimensional Model.

Affective states can propagate in a group of people and influence their ability to judge others' affective states. In the present paper, we present a simple mathematical model to describe this process in a three-dimensional affective space. We obtained data from 67 participants randomly assigned to two experimental groups.

Blood concentrations of p,p'-DDE and PCBs in harriers breeding in Spain and Kazakhstan.

Organochlorine compounds (OC) are of interest in current biomonitoring studies because of their well-known persistence, accumulation capacity and the adverse effects they caused in the past. P,p'-DDE has been shown to cause severe reproductive failures and population declines in birds of prey. However, there are knowledge gaps regarding OC exposure for some species (e.

Postanesthesia evaluation of emotional and psychological satisfaction in a Hispanic population.

Background: Patient satisfaction has a positive impact on clinical care. Different strategies, such as questionnaires, have been developed to evaluate and improve patient satisfaction. A validated pediatric anesthesia questionnaire previously showed the importance of perioperative care built upon a relationship of trust between healthcare providers and children and parents, and a comfortable environment in which satisfactory answers are provided.

Molecular diagnosis and genotype analysis of Giardia duodenalis in asymptomatic children from a rural area in central Colombia.

Giardiasis is a parasitic infection that affects around 200 million people worldwide. This parasite presents a remarkable genetic variability observed in 8 genetic clusters named as 'assemblages' (A-H). These assemblages are host restricted and could be zoonotic where A and B infect humans and animals around the globe.

Cardiac hypertrophy reduction in SHR by specific silencing of myocardial Na(+)/H(+) exchanger.

We examined the effect of specific and local silencing of sodium/hydrogen exchanger isoform 1 (NHE1) with a small hairpin RNA delivered by lentivirus (L-shNHE1) in the cardiac left ventricle (LV) wall of spontaneously hypertensive rats, to reduce cardiac hypertrophy. Thirty days after the lentivirus was injected, NHE1 protein expression was reduced 53.3 ± 3% in the LV of the L-shNHE1 compared with the control group injected with L-shSCR (NHE1 scrambled sequence), without affecting its expression in other organs, such as liver and lung.

[Differentiation of Entamoeba histolytica from Entamoeba dispar using Gal/GalNAc-lectin and polymerase chain reaction].

Background: Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar are morphologically identical. However, the former is highly pathogenic and the latter is not.

Aim: To differentiate Entamoeba histolytica from Entamoeba dispar through ELISA and PCR techniques in Colombian isolates from feces.

[Primary-care prevention activities in outpatients suffering from diabetic foot care].

Objective: Determining the prevalence of prevention activities regarding diabetic foot recommended by doctors and carried out by out-patients attending general medicine self-care foot control and describing food habits.

Methods: This was a descriptive and cross-sectional studywhich was carried out in two health-care institutions in Bogotá, from March to October 2008, by weightedconveniencesampling of 307 diabetic patients, aged over 18 years.

Results: Some patients had a background of foot ulcers (13.

Inequalities in prescription of hydrochlorothiazide for diabetic hypertensive patients in Colombia.

Objective: Evaluating differences in the suitable prescription of thiazides in hypertense patients, according to affiliation regime.

Materials And Methods: This was an analytical cross-sectional study. The database from a previous study was used regarding two groups of hypertense patients (subsidised regime and contributory regime) who had attended out-patient consultation between 01-09-2007 and 29-02-2008.

[History of the Entamoeba histolytica protozoan].

This article presents a history of Entamoeba histolytica spanning since the remote times when it was not even recognized as a cause of human disease to the recent molecular advances. Feder Losch (1875) in Saint Petersburg, found amoebae in fecal samples but only regarded them as responsible for maintaining the inflammatory process, not as a cause of dysentery. Fritz Schaudinn (1903) established the differentiation between Entamoeba histolytica and Endamoeba coli, Schaudinn decided to call it E.

[A diagnostic approach to hepatic abscess].

Background: The non invasive diagnosis of amebic liver abscess allows the use of empirical therapy without the requirement of invasive diagnostic procedures.

Aim: To determine the discriminatory capacity of clinical, laboratory and ultrasound studies for the etiological diagnosis of liver abscess.

Patients And Methods: Sixty one patients were initially included in this prospective study, but 12 did not comply with the inclusion criteria.