This article presents an overview of an mpox epidemiological situation in the most affected regions-Africa, Americas, and Europe-tailoring fractal interpolation for pre-processing the mpox cases. This keen analysis has highlighted the irregular and fractal patterns in the trend of mpox transmission. During the current scenario of public health emergency of international concern due to an mpox outbreak, an additional significance of this article is the interpretation of mpox spread in light of multifractality.
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February 2024
The investigation of worldwide climate change is a noticeable exploration topic in the field of sciences. Outflow of greenhouse gases in the environment is the main reason behind the worldwide environmental change. Greenhouse gases retain heat from the sun and prompt the earth to become more sultry, resulting in global warming.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are generally ventilated in either 45° head elevation or prone position as they are associated with decreased incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia and mortality, respectively. But in patients with poor lung compliance and super-added diaphragmatic weakness/dysfunction, generating a minimum amount of adequate tidal volume (TV) would be very difficult in propped up/supine/prone position, leading to worsening hypoxia and CO retention. We noticed a sustained increase in TV for patients with poor lung compliance (Cs <15 mL/cm HO) and diaphragmatic dysfunction (bilateral diaphragmatic excursion <1 cm, on spontaneous breaths) when the patients are switched to Trendelenburg position with the same ventilator settings.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndothelial rejection has been described following both m-RNA and vector-based vaccines for COVID-19. There is one case report of a stromal rejection described following influenza vaccination. We report a case of stromal rejection following vector-based COVID-19 vaccination, which might be the first case reported so far.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn many species, the offspring of related parents suffer reduced reproductive success, a phenomenon known as inbreeding depression. In humans, the importance of this effect has remained unclear, partly because reproduction between close relatives is both rare and frequently associated with confounding social factors. Here, using genomic inbreeding coefficients (F) for >1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhite Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) is one of the most important causative agents of Penaeid shrimps diseases that incur heavy losses to the shrimp aquaculture. It has severe impact on the sustainability and the production of Penaeus monodon. Hence, the present study focussed on the investigation of Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate/biosurfactant as immunostimulants against WSSV infected shrimps.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOsteosarcoma (OS), a common malignant tumour of the long bones, is rarely seen in the craniofacial region (5-8%). Though it's aetiology is unknown, previous radiotherapy, Pagets disease, Retinoblastoma and benign bone lesions such as fibrous dysplasia are considered as predisposing factors. It is seen commonly in adults between the third and fourth decades of life, in the Gnathic location mandible.
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March 2011
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signal molecule in many types of cells and tissues. Efficiently balanced NO production was noted to play an important role in the healing of burns. Inducible nitric oxygen synthase (iNOS) is responsible for the discontinuous synthesis of high amounts of NO.
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