Olfactory Dysfunction in Allergic Rhinitis.

Olfactory dysfunction (OD) can have serious consequences as it hinders individuals from detecting important warning signals like smoke, spoiled food, and gas leaks. This can significantly impact their nutritional status, eating satisfaction, and overall quality of life. Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a common disease that greatly affects the quality of life and can lead to a decrease, distortion, or complete loss of olfactory ability.

The potential roles and mechanisms of Chitinase-3-like-1 in the pathogenesis of type 2-biased airway diseases.

The immune modulation in the epithelium is a protective feature of the epithelial function in the mucosal airways. Dysfunction of the epithelium can lead to chronic allergic airway inflammatory diseases, such as chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), allergic rhinitis (AR), and allergic asthma. Chitinase-3-like-1 (CHI3L1) is a key modulator in the epithelium against irritants, pathogens, and allergens and is involved in cancers, autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders, and other chronic diseases.

[Effect of three mixing methods on air bubbles and solidification state of alginate impression materials].

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of full-automatic mixing machine method, clockwise manual mixing and combined eight-shaped manual mixing on air bubble content, flowability, temperature, working time and setting time of alginate impression materials.

Methods: With the same condition, alginate impression materials were mixed by three different methods. The number of bubbles, area, flowability, temperature, working time and setting time were evaluated with SPSS 24.

Clinical characteristics, surgical management, and prognostic factors for supratentorial hemangioblastoma: A retrospective study.

Background: Supratentorial hemangioblastoma is an extremely rare neoplasm. The aim of this study is to delineate the clinical features among cystic and solid supratentorial hemangioblastoma patients and evaluate the risk factors for progression-free survival (PFS).

Methods: We conducted a literature search in PubMed for histopathologically identified supratentorial hemangioblastoma between 1947 and 2021 and extracted and collected the clinical features of patients treated at our own institute.

Removing BaP from soil by biochar prepared with medicago and corn straw using batch and solid-phase extraction method.

Low-cost materials with a highly efficient adsorption capability prepared from corn straw and medicago (abbreviated to CB and MB), which can effectively remove benzo()pyrene (BaP) from contaminated soil, were prepared at a temperature of 350 °C under limited-oxygen conditions. The appearance traits, contents of C, H, N and functional group types of CB and MB were obtained by SEM, elemental analysis and FT-IR. Through the batch method, it was found that the adsorption of BaP by CB and MB was in accordance with pseudo-secondary kinetics because the correlation coefficients are 0.

What is the Impact of Bisphenol A on Sperm Function and Related Signaling Pathways: A Mini-review?

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an organic synthetic compound that is ubiquitously present in daily life. It is a typical environmental endocrine disruptor that affects the functions of endogenous hormones. There is a significant negative correlation between BPA and male reproduction.

Threshold-Based Widespread Event Detection.

Widespread event detection is a fundamental network function that has many important applications in cybersecurity, traffic engineering, and distributed data mining. This paper introduces a new probabilistic threshold-based event detection problem, which is to find all events that appear in any -out-of- monitors with probabilistic guarantee on false positives, where is the total number of monitors and the threshold (≤ ) is a positive integer parameter that can be arbitrarily set, according to specific application requirements. We develop an efficient threshold filter solution and its improved versions, which combine Bloom filters, counting Bloom filter, threshold filter and compressed filters in a series of encoding and filtering steps, providing tradeoff between detection accuracy and communication overhead.

Achieving Strong Privacy in Online Survey.

Thanks to the proliferation of Internet access and modern digital and mobile devices, online survey has been flourishing into data collection of marketing, social, financial and medical studies. However, traditional data collection methods in online survey suffer from serious privacy issues. Existing privacy protection techniques are not adequate for online survey for lack of strong privacy.

Formation of Hybrid Perovskite Tin Iodide Single Crystals by Top-Seeded Solution Growth.

Hybrid perovskites have generated a great deal of interest because of their potential in photovoltaic applications. However, the toxicity of lead means that there is interest in finding a nontoxic substitute. Bulk single crystals of both cubic CH3NH3 SnI3 and CH(NH2)2 SnI3 were obtained by using the top-seeded solution growth method under an ambient atmosphere.