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The antidepressant medications that are currently prescribed to patients suffering from major depressive disorder have limitations and as a result there is an urgent need to increase the options that are available . A number of studies have found that natural polyphenols have neuroprotective properties and there is evi...
The phenolic compounds 222 from OliveNet. were screened for their ability to target proteins implicated in depression. Novel candidate phenolics for monoamine oxidase A MAO A were hydroxytyrosol 4 glucoside and salidroside. Hydroxytyrosol rhamnoside and a derivative of oleuropeindial were shown to bind with relatively ...
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Growth hormone binding proteins are soluble proteins that play an important role in the modulation of signaling pathways pertaining to growth hormones . GHBPs are selective and bind non covalently with growth hormones but their functions are still not fully understood . Identification and characterization of GHBPs are ...
Application of representation transfer learning. Enhanced prediction accuracy for GHBPs. Compressed and informative representation of the input data. Comparison of different types of feature representation.
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The statin drug Simvastatin is a HMG CoA reductase inhibitor that has been widely used to lower blood lipid . However the drug is clinically observed to reposition a significant suppressing potency on glioblastoma by unexpectedly targeting diverse kinase pathways involved in GBM tumorigensis . Here an inverse screening...
An inverse screening protocol is described to discover unexpected kinase targets from glioblastoma druggable kinome. The binding behavior of Simvastatin to the kinome is profiled systematically. an integrative computational approach. Simvastatin shows low affinity to the well established GBM target of PI3K Akt mTOR pat...
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As the mechanism of interaction between nicotinic receptors with nicotine analogs is not yet fully understood information at molecular level obtained from computational calculations is needed . In this sense this work is a computational study of eight nicotine analogs all with pyrrolidine ring modifications over a nico...
Geometrical and structural characterization of a new set of eight nicotine analogs is provided. Geometrical conformational analysis over nicotine analogs proved to be a mandatory method for new neuroprotective drug discovery. Two nicotine analogs A3 and A8 are proposed as potential PD neuroprotective agents.
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Alzheimers disease is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that affects over 47 million people worldwide and is the most common form of dementia . There is a vast body of literature demonstrating that the disease is caused by an accumulation of toxic extracellular amyloid peptides and intracellular neurofibrillary ...
The phenolics from the OliveNet Library were utilised in molecular modelling studies of Alzheimers disease. Molecular docking studies were performed against the major pathogenic proteins amyloid A and tau. Key binding sites were identified using molecular docking highlighting the hairpin turn of the A. and A. peptides....
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Hereditary Transthyretin associated amyloidosis is an autosomal dominant protein folding disorder with adult onset caused by mutation of transthyretin . TTR is characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid leading to loss of autonomy and finally death . More than 100 distinct mutations in TTR
Hereditary Transthyretin associated amyloidosis ATTR caused by mutations in transthyretin TTR . More than 100 distinct mutations in TTR protein are reported. Pathogenic effect of TTR mutant remain unanswered in structural level. Mutational effect in TTR concerning stability functionality and aggregation propensity were...
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Genomic sequence data are not only massive but also increasing rapidly every day therefore it is essential to compress such data for sharing . Though there are some specific compressors they lack interoperability . In this study a SAMtools bgzip variant named 7bgzf has been developed incorporating several compression a...
A suite of DEFLATE algorithms called 7bgzf was developed. Wide range of options to compress sequence data while preserving interoperability. Direct htslib integration viable by replacing bgzf compress via LD PRELOAD scheme. VCF conversion of bcftools into BCF varied in compression ratio and speed.
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Tuberculosis continues to be a serious global health threat with the emergence of multidrug resistant tuberculosis and extremely drug resistant tuberculosis . There is an urgent need to discover new drugs to deal with the advent of drug resistant TB variants . This study aims to find new
CYP121 plays an essential role in targeting multidrug resistant MDR and extensively drug resistant XDR TB bacteria. Forty eight pharmacophore screening were possessed where sixteen constituents were found as new antituberculosis potential. Medicinal plants including. and. are great sources to have good antituberculosis...
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Mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 is an emerging target for the treatment of cancer . AG 221 is the first mIDH2 inhibitor approved by the FDA for acute myeloid leukemia treatment but its acquired resistance has recently been observed necessitating the development of new inhibitor . In this study a multi step virtual sc...
A multi step virtual screening protocol was performed to discover novel mutant IDH2 inhibitors. A receptor ligand interaction based pharmacophore IBP model was created to conduct the preliminary screening. The hits with high selectivity against wild type IDH2 were obtained according to the docking result. Induced fit d...
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In this study the network pharmacological methods were used to predict the target of active components of Chaihu Lizhong Tang in the treatment of non alcoholic fatty liver disease . The active components of CHLZT their targets and NAFLD related targets were screened by multiple databases and the potential targets of CH...
Network pharmacology was employed to clarify the mechanism of the efficacy of Chaihu Lizhong Tang CHLZT in the treatment of non alcoholic fatty liver disease NAFLD . Five hub genes were screened out for Chaihu Lizhong Tang CHLZT in the treatment of non alcoholic fatty liver disease NAFLD . CHLZT treated NAFLD mainly in...
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Tissue softening accompanies the ripening of many fruits and initiates the processes of irreversible deterioration . Expansins are plant cell wall proteins that have been proposed to disrupt hydrogen bonds within the cell wall polymer matrix . Several authors have shown that
Strawberry fruit showed a short postharvest life and a high softening rate. is used as a molecular marker of softening in strawberry fruit. Domain 1 showed a highly conserved barrel fold. Domain 2 showed a antiparallel sandwich fold. A better interaction with cellulose than with XGs was showed.
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Acquired resistance is a major obstacle to the therapeutic efficacy of gefitinib in non small cell lung cancer . Current knowledge about the role of long non coding RNAs in this phenomenon is insufficient . In this study we searched RNA sequencing data for lncRNAs associated with acquired resistance to gefitinib in NSC...
Using RNA sequencing data to found lncRNAs and mRNA associated with acquired resistance to gefitinib in NSCLC. 39 lncRNAs and 121 mRNAs showed a consistent direction of dysregulation in both gefitinib resistant NSCLC cell line pairs. LncRNA mRNA network shows that several dysregulated lncRNAs are associated with the Hi...
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Dengue is a mosquito borne viral infection caused by Dengue virus and is an emerging concern in public health affecting billions of people worldwide annually with no effective drugs available till now . Immunogenic and highly conserved properties of Non Structural Protein 5 in DENV makes it a potent marker to identify ...
Protein protein interaction of NS5 STAT2 complex playing major role in signaling mechanism for Dengue infection. The binding mode and potential interaction of NS5 STAT2 complex have been identified from the protein protein docking studies. The MTase domain of NS5 protein have been targeted to prevent the host recogniti...
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Proteins are the most essential macromolecules needed for the normal flow of life . Essential proteins play a key role to control other proteins in an interaction network for the growth and understanding of the molecular mechanism of cellular life . Though there are many computational algorithms for essential drug disc...
We propose MMA that is a combined approach of climb watch jump and somersault sub processes to predict essential proteins of a PPIN. ECV and ECC approaches are predicted for directed weighted and undirected network respectively in climb sub process. CDS is introduced to obtain highly connected and reliable proteins. Se...
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Circular RNAs a large group of small endogenous noncoding RNA molecules have been proved to modulate protein coding genes in the human genome . In recent years many experimental studies have demonstrated that circRNAs are dysregulated in a number of diseases and they can serve as biomarkers for disease diagnosis and pr...
Random walk with restart can get the global relationship information from circRNA circRNA similarity network. Gaussian Interaction Profile Kernel similarity is not suitable for circRNA circRNA similarity calculation. Integrating global information in Logistic Regression can improve the prediction performance.
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A voltage gated potassium channel encoded by the human ether go go related gene regulates cardiac action potential and it is involved in cardiotoxicity with compounds that inhibit its activity . Therefore the screening of hERG channel blockers is a mandatory step in the drug discovery process . The screening of hERG bl...
The first self attention based interpretable deep neural network model for predicting hERG blockers is proposed. The various datasets ranging from public databases to publicly available private datasets are collected to train and test the model. The proposed model not only shows better performance compared to other rel...
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Cancer is in general not a result of an abnormality of a single gene but a consequence of changes in many genes it is therefore of great importance to understand the roles of different oncogenic and tumor suppressor pathways in tumorigenesis . In recent years there have been many computational models developed to study...
We develop a new approach to testing pathway dynamics over cancer progression. The proposed method is based on a novel graph based multivariate test. We found several KEGG pathways that contribute to ovarian cancer progression.
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Currently Alzheimer s disease is a devastating neurological disorder that mainly affects the elderly . The treatment of AD has as main objective to increase the levels of ACh in the synaptic cleft by inhibiting the cholinesterase enzymes which are responsible for the degradation of ACh . Twenty one synthesized coumarin...
Synthesized coumarins and neoflavanones derivatives as potential inhibitors of Acetylcholinesterase. The coumarin. presented a good inhibition of. AChE. The coumarin. showed good results for oral bioavailability and permeability according to the rule of five by Lipinski. MD simulations enhanced our understanding about ...
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Solving the protein folding problem is one of the grand challenges still open in computational biophysics . Globular proteins are believed to evolve from initial configurations through folding pathways connecting several thermodynamically accessible states in a free energy landscape until reaching its minimum inhabited...
A parallel canonical ensemble MD using a CG model running in a master slave CPU GPU architecture. Analysis of the impact of different protein sizes in the performance of the proposed approach. A dataset of spatiotemporal pathways of protein folding suitable for the study of the PFP. A biological analysis was accomplish...
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Exogenous microRNAs enter the human body through food and their effects on metabolic processes can be considerable . It is important to determine which miRNAs from plants affect the expression of human genes and the extent of their influence . The binding sites of 738 The characteristics of the binding of 46 single osa...
A highly complementary interaction of single and family osa miRNAs with mRNAs of human genes was shown. The nucleotides of the binding sites of many osa miRNAs in mRNA of the target genes are conservative compared to the flanking nucleotides. Most osa miRNAs can affect target mRNA human genes involved in the developmen...
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P ATPase are a large protein family of integral membrane playing an important role in plant growth development and stress . P ATPase genes family have been identified and characterized in several model plants such as cotton grapes tobacco rice rubber plant and Arabidopsis . However still lack of comprehensive study of ...
Identified and characterized P ATPase genes in pear and divided into 4 subfamilies according to phylogenetic analysis. We analyzed the gene structure chromosomal location and microsynteny analysis in pear. Transcriptome data showed that P ATPase gene might play an important role in lignin biosynthesis during fruit deve...
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The scientific world tends to turn to natural products such as medicinal and aromatic plants because of the inadequacy of commercially available synthetic drugs as antibiotics or anticancer and their adverse effects on healthy tissues . One of these plants is
Plants are precious sources of bioactive compounds. Vicenin 2 and 3. p coumaroyl 5. caffeoylquinic acid were the main identified compounds in leaf and both root and stem extracts respectively. had promising antibacterial and anticancer activities. may have exhibited its anticancer effect against the HeLa cell line by i...
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Although molecular dynamics encompasses several applications studies focusing on biomolecular systems are central issues of this research area . Such simulations require the generation of trajectory files which provide a path for the analysis and interpretation of results with biological significance . However although...
New PyMOL plugin for trajectory analysis of Molecular Dynamics simulations. User friendly Graphical Interface. 14 analysis tools. Specific analyzes for protein simulations.
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The present work undertakes the structural and electronic properties of 3 thiophene acetic acid monomer and dimer . DFT calculations were performed using B3LYP functional in combination with the aug cc pVTZ basis set . The optimized structural parameters were found to be in a good agreement with experimental molecular ...
The optimized was computed using DFT method. DFT and TDDFT calculations have been incorporated for detailed analysis. The intermolecular interactions were analyzed by AIM NBO RDG and Hirshfeld surfaces. Inhibitor activity of 3 TAA with human MOA A and B is analyzed via molecular docking.
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Canonical transient receptor potential 5 which belongs to the subfamily of transient receptor potential channels is a non selective cation channel mainly expressed in the central nervous system and shows more restricted expression in the periphery . TRPC5 plays a crucial role in human physiology and pathology for insta...
Ligand based virtual screening LBVS and structure based virtual screening SBVS methods was used to identify potential TRPC5 inhibitors. LBVS was based on a combination of HipHop pharmacophore and HypoGen pharmacophore. SBVS was based on generating homology model and subsequent molecular docking studies. Seven compounds...
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We report ligand field molecular mechanics density functional theory and semi empirical studies on the binding of Cu to GlyHisLys peptide . Following exhaustive conformational searching using molecular mechanics we show that relative energy and geometry of conformations are in good agreement between GFN
Conformational searching of Cu complex with GHK reveal limited flexibility. DFT single point and optimisation data re order conformational ensemble. GFN2 XTB method reproduces DFT energy and geometry. Speed of GFN2 XTB allows molecular dynamics and metal binding site search.
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In patients with depression the use of 5 HT reuptake inhibitors can improve the condition . Machine learning methods can be used in ligand based activity prediction processes . In order to predict SERT inhibitors the SERT inhibitor data from the ChEMBL database was screened and pre processed . Then 4 machine learning m...
The use of 5 HT reuptake inhibitors can improve the condition of depression. SERT inhibitor data from ChEMBL and DrugBank databases are collected and screened. 16 inhibitor classification prediction models are established. 3 different ensemble learning models are established and VOT CLF3 performs best. We find 12 molec...
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Structural optimization molecular docking analysis electronic and vibrational properties have been investigated for the 1 benzofuran 2 carboxylic acid and 1 benzofuran 3 carboxylic acid using DFT B3LYP 6 311 G level of theory . The theoretical parameters have a very good consistency with the experimental ones . The wea...
DFT calculation of 2BF and 3BF acids were carried out using B3LYP 6 311 G d p method. The non covalent interactions were investigated by Hirshfeld surface analysis. Atom in molecule AIM and independent gradient model IGM were performed. NBO MEP and HOMO LUMO were analyzed. Molecular docking calculation reveals the anti...
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Structure based molecular designs play a critical role in the context of next generation drug development . Besides their fundamental scientific aspects the findings established in this approach have significant implications in the expansions of target based therapies and vaccines . Interleukin 18 also known as interfe...
Interleukin 18 IL 18 is a pro inflammatory cytokine. Receptor IL 18 binding initiates cell signaling pathways. Conformational changes of the ligand protein upon receptor binding are described.
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The genomic duplication study is fundamental to understand the process of evolution . In evolutionary molecular biology many approaches focus on discovering the occurrences of gene duplications and multiple gene duplication episodes and their locations in the Tree of Life . To reconstruct such episodes one can cluster ...
Genomic duplication inference from a set of rooted gene trees and a species tree. Model of scenarios preserving the minimal number of single gene duplications. Polynomial time algorithm to compute Maximal Path MP score of duplication clusters. A correspondence between algorithms for computing. and minimum episodes ME s...
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Qiang Huo Sheng Shi decoction a classic traditional Chinese herbal formula which has been reported to be effective in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis . However the concurrent targeting mechanism of how the aforementioned formula is valid in the two distinct diseases OA and RA which represents the homotherapy fo...
A new method was established through network pharmacology which combined two disease with one formula to explain the theory of homotherapy for heteropathy in TCM. The network was verified by molecular docking and the active components and significant targets of QHSSD were screened. This study revealed that the treatmen...
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Genetic variations are important drivers of carcinogenesis . It is extremely important to identify molecular distinctions between patients of the same disease for effective cancer treatment . This study aims to understand cellular and molecular differences between hepatocellular carcinoma patients carrying TP53 or CTNN...
TP53 and CTNNB1 are the top two most frequently mutated genes in HCC patients and are well known drivers of tumorigenesis. TP53 CTNNB1 mutations occur almost mutually exclusively. Mutational status of TP53 CTNNB1 dictates significantly different gene expression signatures and chromatin states. As well as different prog...
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Hypoxia inducible factor 1 is the oxygen sensitive subunit of HIF1 transcription factor . Its variations is associated with several diseases including different type of cancer cardiovascular diseases and liver and kidney failure . Despite all the investigations carried out on the single nucleotide polymorphisms of
gene sequence changes can influence its expression and probably be associated with different kinds of diseases such as many types of cancers. There are many uncharacterized nonsynonymous SNPs in. gene that may have a potentially damaging effect on the protein function. Computational analysis and in silico tools are con...
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Influenza is a type of acute disease characterized by strong contagiousness and short incubation period which have posed a large potential threat to public health . Traditional Chinese Medicine advocates to the aim of combating complex diseases from a holistic view which has shown effectiveness in anti influenza . Howe...
Systems pharmacology could solve complex pharmacological problems. Qingjie Fanggan prescription fight influenza by multi component target pathway mode. The components of Qingjie Fanggan prescription have good docking activity with ERKs.
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The present study describes the antibacterial activity of several new derivatives of tacrine or cyclopentaquinoline bound to either 6 hydrazinenicotinic acid or 4 fluorobenzoic acid through an aliphatic chain against methicillin resistant staphylococcal strains . All derivatives showed antibacterial activity against al...
Antibacterial activity of several new derivatives of tacrine. Tested methicillin resistant staphylococci. Quantitative structure activity relationship analysis. Relationships between biological activity and the structural parameters. Select descriptors as independent variables for multiple linear regression models.
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Mycotic keratitis is a fungal infection of corneal epithelium . It is more common in tropical and subtropical countries and is one of the leading causes of blindness . Many of the antifungal drugs have been less effective in treating this condition and certain drugs which are efficient and yet limited in use due to its...
Mycotic keratitis is a vision threatening disease that are resistant to most of the available antifungal drugs. Ophthalmic adaptive inhibitors are yet to be probed for mycotic keratitis caused by. Thiamine thiazole synthase THI4 is the most potential host non specific target of. 2 1 hydroxyethyl 1 3 thiazole 4 carboxam...
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 causes an illness known as COVID 19 which has been declared a global pandemic with over 2 million confirmed cases and 137 000 deaths in 185 countries and regions at the time of writing over a quarter of these cases being in the United States . In the absence of a vacc...
The SARS CoV 2 main protease M. is an important target against COVID 19. Peptidomimetic ketoamides represent prototypical inhibitors of the SARS CoV 2 M. We confirmed the high affinity of the ketoamide 13b inhibitor to SARS CoV 2 M. MD simulations highlight ketoamide 13b stability in M. compared to amoxicillin. The ket...
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In this research we have implemented two dimensional quantitative structure activity relationship modeling using two different datasets namely acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase enzyme inhibitors . A third dataset has been derived based on their selectivity and used for the development of partial least squa...
QSAR models for the dual inhibition of AChE and BuChE enzymes are developed. The models reveal important structural features for the dual inhibition of cholinesterase enzymes. Ring size CH2 groups secondary aromatic amines and aromatic ketones contribute to the AChE inhibition. Distances between nitrogens X C X X and R...
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Alkaptonuria is an ultra rare disease caused by mutations in homogentisate 1 2 dioxygenase enzyme characterized by the loss of enzymatic activity and the accumulation of its substrate homogentisic acid in different tissues leading to ochronosis and organ degeneration . Although the pathological effects of HGD mutations...
By use of Implicit Ligand Sampling approach routes for dioxygen to the active site of homogentisate 1 2 dioxygenase were delineated. Along the dioxygen route the E401Q variant responsible for the rare disease Alkaptonuria disrupts the gas diffusion path. The diffusion of dioxygen is mediated by a transient pocket sugge...
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Development in two dimensional drug delivery materials have quickly translated into biological and pharmacological fields . In this present work pristine graphene and hexagonal boron nitride sheets are explored as a drug carrier for cytarabine and clofarabine anti cancer drugs using density functional theory . The obta...
The PG and h BN sheets are used as a drug carriers. The PG sheet has more interaction energy with CYT and CLF drug than h BN sheet. Adsorption energies of CYT and CLF on PG are 24.29kcal mol 23.31kcal mol. Results shows PG sheet has therapeutic potential as a drug delivery vehicle.
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Anatomical subsites always harbor specific biological features in carcinogenesis . The divergent prognosis of proximal gastric cancer and distal gastric cancer has been reported . The current study aimed to comprehensively interpret anatomic subsite specic genomic profiles which may improve the effectiveness of persona...
PGC exerts poorer survival outcome than DGC based on the SEER database. Specific genetic features for PGC and DGC was depicted. Serine protease and ion channel activity conttribute to PGC poor prognosis. Alcohol retinol and lipoprotein metabolism are the features for DGC malignancy.
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Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas does not generate sufficient insulin or the body can not effectively utilize the produced insulin . If it remains unidentified and untreated then it could be very deadliest . One can lead a healthy life with proper treatment if the presence of diabetes can be ...
Automation of diabetes detection using Convolutional LSTM. Diabetes can be detected accurately from clinical data. Convolutional LSTM based robust model achieved 97.26 classification accuracy. Feature selection affects performance of the developed model.
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The global emergency caused by COVID 19 makes the discovery of drugs capable of inhibiting SARS CoV 2 a priority to reduce the mortality and morbidity of this disease . Repurposing approved drugs can provide therapeutic alternatives that promise rapid and ample coverage because they have a documented safety record as w...
The main protease of SARS CoV 2 has a highly flexible active site. Drug repurposing is a treatment opportunity in the current COVID 19 pandemic. Nine drugs merit testing as inhibitors of the SARS CoV 2 main protease.
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This study assesses the extent to which a firm s external environment shapes the cross functional interactions between procurement and engineering utilizing an embedded multiple case study methodology . In summary we found that high environmental ambiguity discourages procurement engineering mutual understanding . High...
High ambiguity discourages procurement engineering mutual understanding. High uncertainty moderate ambiguity fosters mutual understanding and collaboration. Purchasers report higher performance benefits from collaboration than engineers. Longer tenured purchasers perceive higher value collaborating with engineering. Lo...
S1478409218301468
Purchasing and Supply Management has been subjected to a number of examinations all concluding that PSM is not an academic discipline as it lacks its own theories and common themes of research . It is perceived by many as an applied social science and field of research applying theories from other disciplines . But to ...
PSM has emerged as an important contributor to organizational success in conjunction with operations marketing and logistics. Due to its multidisciplinary nature and frequent change in reporting relationships PSM has not established a clear identity. PSM has not been a net contributor to development of theory. PSM theo...
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In sustainable supply chain management buyers may use intermediaries to bridge exchanges with suppliers when knowledge of suitable sustainability practices is weak and in need of facilitation . Understanding how supply chain intermediaries perform this role and what happens when intermediation is no longer needed is im...
Investigates the role of supply chain intermediary organisations in sustainable supply chains. Provides insights into the transient nature of the supply chain intermediary position. Case evidence of supply chain intermediaries. How intermediaries help to establish a sustainable supply chain.
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The competitive advantage purchasing provides has been debated for decades . For a novel perspective we derive a theoretical framework grounded in the knowledge based view in order to examine how purchasing knowledge and purchasing integration impact cost and strategic performance . The derived hypotheses are tested ba...
Purchasing knowledge as major antecedent of purchasing performance. Support of knowledge based advantages that are amplified by purchasing integration. Strategic purchasing performance leads to positive savings performance. Extensive data base of real contracted savings. Evaluation of purchasing according to the intern...
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Supply chain flexibility has become an important competitive weapon for companies in the current dynamic environment . This paper explores the influence of ambidexterity on supply chain flexibility and theorizes the moderating effect of information technology competence on that relationship . Whereas prior research foc...
Supply chain ambidexterity positively affects supply chain flexibility. The relationship between ambidexterity and supply chain flexibility is amplified when information technology competence is high. ROT is adequate for understanding the complementariety of ambidexterity and IT competence on developing SCF. The study ...
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Integrating lean green and resilient strategies into Supply Chain decisions is a key success factor for transformation toward sustainability . These strategies are increasingly common in the SC although their implementation and results are not the same across different SC levels . In spite of this earlier studies have ...
A novel multilevel analysis of the aerospace manufacturing supply chain is developed. The ISM method has been adapted for multilevel supply chain analysis. Green practices only cause high impact on the environmental dimension in tier 2 and 3. Lean and resilience cause a lower impact on the economic dimension in tier 2 ...
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Opportunistic behavior is a well known reason for the failure of collaborative buyer supplier relationships . Despite the numerous studies on opportunism in buyer supplier relationships the individual level is largely understudied . We explore opportunistic behavior of purchasing professionals in strategic supplier rel...
We investigated buyer opportunism in strategic supplier relationships at the individual level. The study is the first to use the Critical Incident Technique for exploring opportunistic buyer behavior. We identified specific configurations of triggers manifestations and consequences of buyer opportunism. Buyer opportuni...
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The principal aim of this study is to provide theory and testing to elucidate the role of decision maker s decision process and speed during the global sourcing decision making process . In order to achieve this goal we examine the behavior of a sample of 202 decision makers belonging to Italian SMEs in the manufacturi...
This study examines the role of decision maker s decision process and speed during the global sourcing decision making process GSDP . We describe evidences from a quantitative study that was conducted using 202 decision makers belonging to Italian SMEs. We identify a link between speed and performance of the selected s...
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Purchasing and Supply Management decisions such as make or buy or vendor selections are highly dependent on the cooperation of several functions in decision making teams in order to make more holistic and effective decisions . However members of cross functional PSM teams often also pursue diverse goals rooted in funct...
Politics are a major challenge to cross functional teams. Emerging PSM team politics studies are at risk taking isolated perspectives. Cross disciplinary systematic literature review of 91 politics contributions. Elaboration of results in light of several established scholarly PSM debates. Derivation of epistemological...
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The Internet of Things is transforming how industries operate . It impacts on firms supply networks business processes and business models . This article describes how the IoT influences the Purchasing and Supply Management function . Our findings based on interviews and workshop with more than 200 senior European purc...
PSM has opportunities to support the development of their firm s IoT solutions. The IoT supports the development of a more capable and efficient PSM organisation. The development of the IoT reveals tensions at the forefront of PSM activities. Managing tensions is a valuable research avenue for future PSM research. Diff...
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Although green supplier integration has received widespread attention how it impacts various types of firm performance remains unclear . Based on social capital theory this study explores the influence of green supplier integration on three dimensions of social capital accumulation which further affect economic and env...
Green supplier integration significantly affects social capital accumulation. Relational capital accumulation mediates the impact of green supplier integration on economic and environmental performance. Structural capital accumulation mediates the impact of green supplier integration on economic and environmental perfo...
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This study builds on liabilities of newness theory and moral disengagement theory to investigate deceptive behavior in buyersupplier negotiations that involve new ventures . Using two purchasing negotiation experiments it contrasts how negotiators treat employees of new ventures mature firms and firms of unknown age . ...
Combines advances research on supply management entrepreneurship and psychology. A scenario based approach mimics an online buyersupplier negotiation. Findings show suppliers to assume buyers in new ventures as relatively inexperienced. In B2B negotiations new ventures are more likely to be deceived than mature firms.
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This study focuses on the design and implementation of a performance measurement system for industrial collaboration . This article provides insights from two case studies of industrial collaboration . The research aims to study the crucial characteristics of PMS design and implementation in industrial collaboration in...
Focus is on the design and implementation of a PMS for industrial collaboration. Collaboration with multiple tiers beyond the buyer supplier dyad is considered. PMS design and implementation need a relationship beyond the buyer supplier dyad. PMS requires a rigorous coordination of processes and integrations of ICT sys...
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Each year public procurement officials in the United States spend trillions of dollars to purchase goods and services for public use . The volume of public procurement spending compels public administration and supply chain management scholars to examine these procurement practices . Based on a unique dataset composed ...
Explores institutional factors affecting state level public procurement in the U.S. Identifies important contract performance metrics for public procurement. Proposes research agenda for studying state level public procurement.
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The purpose of this research is to define the actor roles and collaborative practices that are central to service specification co development in relation to the pre tender phase of public procurement . We propose a new model of meaningful stakeholder involvement in the context of public service specification as a tria...
A triadic model of meaningful stakeholder involvement to specify public services. Triadic setting involves buyers service providers and internal customers. Co development of the pre tender phase of public procurement. Cooperative roles and practices that are suitable for complex service procurement. Focus on value crea...
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The understanding of the behavioral and cognitive factors that affect organizations performance has attracted increasing attention of scholars and practitioners . Based on the literature of psychological empowerment at the individual and the team levels this study develops the concept of supplier empowerment in the con...
An empirical study based upon empowerment theory at both the individual and the team levels and extends the empowerment concept to the purchasing and supply management context. From supplier s perspective the research model investigates the role of supplier empowerment as a cognitive concept in mediating the relationsh...
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This paper facilitates an in depth view of the transformation needed for the transition from traditional to sustainable supply chain management by delineating its elemental aspects . Taking an organizational unit of analysis perspective this conceptual review seeks to characterize the fundamental nature of complexities...
A conceptual review of the transformation from traditional to sustainable SCM. Consideration of operational complexities inherent in sustainable SCM. Emphasis on organizational efforts and mechanisms for the transformation. Propositions pertaining to the SSCM Force field and Differential Efforts in sustainable SCM.
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High efficiency is one of the important goals of public procurement however research on PP efficiency is still not sufficient especially in the context of developing countries . With a focus on the purchasing phase this study measures three aspects of procurement efficiency of public authorities price time and intellec...
One of the pioneer studies on public procurement efficiency. Measuring the public procurement efficiency in three aspects. Examined and explored what factors are related to procurement efficiency. Explored the impact by Green Public Procurement GPP . Introduced the procedure of public procurement with Chinese character...
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In the realm of manufacturing location decisions reshoring has increasingly attracted the attention of practitioners policy makers and scholars . While many articles have analysed the drivers of reshoring decisions the decision making and implementation process still lacks empirical analyses . This paper addresses this...
Insights on how reshoring happens from a behavioural perspective. Different levels of complexity affect reshoring decision making. High complexity is connected with flexible processes. The reshoring decision making is intuitive in case of high complexity. An anchoring effect influence the reshoring decision making.
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Drawing on prior research the value of scenario planning as a methodology for researching the future of purchasing and supply management is explored . Using three criteria of research quality rigour originality and significance it is shown how developing scenarios and analysing their implications present new important ...
Reviews approaches to research the future of purchasing supply management. Highlights scenario planning and prescience oriented research. Makes the case for developing scenarios in PSM research. Evaluates the potential of scenario based research on the future of PSM rigour originality significance .
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This research is about a Delphi study that was conducted in the context of the development of a competence model for sustainable purchasing and supply management . Based on the findings of a systematic literature review it addresses the research gap in this area with the aim to foster the integration of sustainability ...
Specific sustainable purchasing and supply management SPSM competences are needed to implement sustainability. A Delphi study with 16 experts was conducted applying the critical incident technique CIT . The findings confirm competences in the clusters cognition oriented social oriented functional oriented and meta orie...
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In the last decades supply chains have increasingly transcended national boundaries developing into global supply chains . Along with the many opportunities arising from international sourcing and the extended commercial presence over the world the management of a globally dispersed supply chain is highly complex . A k...
The paper provides a methodology to evaluate the geographical configuration of a firm s supply and retail networks. Measures of. and. based on a nonparametric kernel density are developed. The validity of the proposed metrics is illustrated by means of both illustrative examples and real world cases. The proposed metho...
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This paper offers a systematic literature review on the fit among context supply chain integration and performance based on the analysis of 116 articles published in 28 peer reviewed journals . By using Venkatraman s model which distinguishes fit into different forms to frame previous literature and Hakansson s interac...
The systematic literature review examines fit among context SCI and performance. Venkatraman s 1989 fit model is used to classify previous literature. Contextual variables are classified using IMP interaction model. The most explored and under explored contextual variables are identified. Promising implications for bot...
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This paper investigates how companies can manage tensions between exploitative and exploratory innovation by developing an ambidextrous purchasing function . We identify four types of ambidexterity and discuss how these can be combined to complement each other . We present an in depth case study of a large firm which h...
Purchasing ambidexterity is a concept investigating how purchasing can balance explorative and exploitative activities in innovation. Purchasing ambidexterity is a combination of 4 types of ambidexterity structural sequential contextual and managerial . Contextual and managerial ambidexterity support structural and seq...
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This study investigates the impact of individual risk aversion on replenishment decisions in a multi echelon supply chain and explores whether this impact is affected by experiential learning . The methodology applied is that of observational studies while the multi echelon supply chain is modeled through the classical...
This study investigates whether individual risk aversion determines a deviation from optimal performance in the management of supply and inventory. It also analyses the impact of experiential learning on this sub optimality and if it tends to vanish or is rather exacerbated when buyers or material planners gain job exp...
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Sepsis is a life threatening condition requiring prompt recognition and aggressive multidisciplinary treatment . This treatment consists of but is not limited to cardiovascular support via fluids and vasoactive medications plus systemic broad spectrum antibiotics . This article reviews the guidelines as well as support...
This article reviews and fully summarizes up to date information including primary literature and guidelines regarding the multidisciplinary care and treatment necessary for severely ill septic pediatric patients.
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The lymphatic system is a poorly understood and historically under recognized component of the overall circulatory system . Lymphatic vessels have been difficult to study given their small size relative to arteries and veins . Consequently for centuries little was known about the complex anatomy and physiology of the l...
Thoracic duct embolization for chylothorax reinvigorated interest in lymphatic imaging. MR lymphangiography allows for imaging of lymphatic anatomy and flow. Lymphatic interventions are evolving rapidly and becoming more widely applied.
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Arteriovenous fistula is a relatively common complication of renal biopsy reported in 3 14 of patients after renal biopsy while being a sequela of other insults such as infection lithotripsy or partial nephrectomy . Without emergent nephron sparing subselective embolization potentially life threatening hemorrhage may r...
This article will discuss an interesting case of an AVF after a renal biopsy and its management by visceral angiography and coiling. Renal biopsies are very common procedures that are performed throughout the world we detail common complications such as AVF hematomas pseudoaneurysms and so forth. The article touches on...
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The counting process is designed to prevent retained foreign bodies while providing optimal perioperative patient safety . Intraoperative distractions are prevalent and potentially contribute to patient safety risks . Counting is an important preventative measure that is a human process prone to error especially in thi...
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and description of surgical count interruptions. Used an observational design that has been shown to be reliable in capturing interruptions and distractions. The wound count had highest interruption level with counts being completely halted. Future research should focus on...
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Visceral artery pseudoaneurysms are a relatively uncommon complication of chronic pancreatitis . They arise secondary to compromise of the adjacent vasculature by enzymatic autodigestion . It is important to treat these lesions in a timely fashion given the risk of rupture . Historically these pseudoaneurysms were prim...
Percutaneous trans organ treatment of pancreatic pseudoaneurysms across organs is used in otherwise technically or anatomically limited case. It is important to be mindful of organ structure adjacent anatomy and needle gauge when performing these procedures. Nurses should be familiar with possible post procedural compl...
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Interruptions are considered a natural and necessary part of the caring culture at hospitals . However some interruptions may affect the concentration of health care professionals when performing a task . Research has shown that interruptions probably contribute to errors . There is no research on the radiographic pers...
Interruption to be interrupted or blocked from performing a work task. Both objects technologies and persons can cause interruptions. There are different consequences of interruptions. Some interruptions are ill timed interruptions. Interruptions affected the quality of CT scans.
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Occupational radiation exposure is a hazard inherent to the nursing profession . Concerns may be heightened among personnel who are pregnant or of childbearing age given the known teratogenic and carcinogenic effects of ionizing radiation . It is important to use standard protective measures in accordance with regulato...
Current data suggest that occupational exposure does not pose a significant increased risk to the fetus of pregnant staff. Outcomes among occupationally exposed women are indistinguishable from those among unexposed women. Pregnancy can be integrated safely and successfully into an interventional radiology nursing care...
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Transition described as the passage between life phases is a universal concept in nursing . Transitions are often accompanied by emotional turmoil as individuals struggle to redefine themselves and adjust and adapt to new life circumstances . Nurses experience transition when they leave a current role to follow new car...
Extraordinary advances in radiology nursing have improved diagnosis and treatment of patients. While on the other hand the advancement requires a unique set of competencies required of radiology nurses. Transitioning into radiology nursing can leave even experienced nurses feeling anxious and stressed. Unfortunately th...
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Acutely ill patients receive many treatments some of which can cause serious reactions . It is not unusual for a critically ill patient to receive blood products and low osmolar nonionic iodine based contrast material in close proximity to one another . If the patient appears to develop a reaction during the administra...
Patients can receive blood transfusions and iodinated contrast at the same time. Both blood transfusions and iodinated contrast can cause a wide range of reactions. Differences similarities between blood transfusion and iodinated contrast reactions. Timely recognition of reactions enables evaluation and initiation of t...
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This study was conducted to evaluate awareness and knowledge regarding the risk of the ionizing radiation and exposure doses and the suitable techniques for radiation protection among health care professionals in Tabuk City Saudi Arabia and to identify areas that require further training and education . A total of 196 ...
To evaluate awareness and knowledge regarding the risk of the ionizing radiation and safe doses and the suitable techniques for radiation protection. 71.8 of the respondents correctly believed that x ray radiation doses used for diagnostic imaging examinations might increase the risk of patients developing cancer in th...
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The purpose of this study was to examine preference for radial or femoral access for visceral arterial interventions among nursing staff responsible for postprocedural care at a single institution . In September 2018 100 surveys were sent to nurses in the Cardiac and Interventional Radiology Recovery Unit 48 of whom co...
Forty eight nurses were surveyed across the cardiac and interventional radiology recovery units on their preferences for access site for interventional procedures. Nurses prefer radial over femoral access when caring for patients independent of their years of experience on the basis that it has fewer complications allo...
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UPMC Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh has made many changes in practice and processes to impact patient satisfaction in our radiology department . The primary aim of this article is to show changes made related to the preparation and care of outpatients to this department focusing on sedation phone calls staff impact ...
Staff led patient scheduling ideas. Changes in practice and processes to impact patient satisfaction in our radiology department. Minimizing the delay of sedation and anesthesia scan start times. The scheduling success group has made positive changes to aspects of scheduling and patient experiences. Changes in protocol...
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The purpose of this article is to increase awareness of the usefulness of transcranial Doppler ultrasound as a noninvasive neuromonitor and bedside ultrasound in pediatric patients who have experienced a penetrative traumatic brain injury as a result of a firearm . To date the use of TCD is not standard of care in pedi...
Transcranial Doppler TCD ultrasound is a noninvasive safe nonionizing neuromonitor of cerebral circulation. TCD can detect vascular abnormalities after traumatic brain injury TBI . TCD detected abnormalities can provide insight into a patient s clinical course.
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Interventional procedures benefit palliative care team patients in a variety of different ways providing a means to manage a wide array of debilitating symptoms . The interprofessional collaboration of palliative care and interventional radiology is imperative for the successful management of chronically ill patients i...
A team approach to symptom management in chronically ill patients improves outcomes. Interventional radiology procedures benefit patients choosing palliative care. A wide variety of interventional radiology procedures can be used to provide care for the palliative and hospice patients.
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The radiography profession in Sweden is young but has been rapidly changing over the recent years . The developing profession has led to radiographers facing various challenges related to responsibility for both the technical equipment and patient care in the periradiographic process . Further education is urgent to ke...
The course in reporting led to greater personal work satisfaction. The course in reporting increased professional knowledge and hence professional recognition. The course in reporting led to a greater contribution to the clinical work.
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The optimal method of assessing and reducing preprocedural patient anxiety remains uncertain in radiologic procedures . Previous research suggests that the role of radiology nurses is critical to optimally address preprocedural anxiety but the preferences of radiology nurses remain understudied . A questionnaire was ad...
Radiology nurses acknowledge the importance of preprocedural anxiety. Most radiology nurses assessed their patients preprocedural anxiety levels. Nurses supported patient education and other methods to reduce patient anxiety. Nurses held themselves most responsible to reduce patient anxiety in radiology.
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Cerebrospinal fluid leaks due to spinal procedures are commonly reported and can result in a condition known as intracranial hypotension . In rare cases this can lead to a life threatening situation if not properly diagnosed and treated . This case study discusses a rapidly decompensating patient that was found to have...
Postdural puncture headaches PDPHs are an inherent risk of spinal interventions. PDPHs are associated with a cerebral spinal fluid CSF leak and may result in neurological deterioration of a patient. Epidural blood patching has shown to be effective in treating PDPH CSF leaks.
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Women aged between 40 and 74 years are called to do mammography screening in Sweden with the aim of early detection of breast cancer which is the most common type of cancer in women . Women with dense breast tissue are more likely to develop breast cancer and mammography is not an optimal diagnostic method for them bec...
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women and offering screening programs has shown to reduce mortality. Mammography is a safe and cost effective diagnostic method for early detection of possible cancer changes. For women with high tissue density in the breast mammography is not always the optimal screen...
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Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is a form of intracranial hypotension that often lacks uniformity in its presentation on physical assessment and radiological imaging studies among patients . SIH can be mistaken for a number of other unrelated conditions and because it is also quite rare many health care providers ...
SIH is a form of intracranial hypotension not associated with iatrogenic causes. CSF leaks or CSF venous fistulas lead to CSF hypovolemia in SIH. A classical symptom of SIH includes new onset daily persistent headaches. Epidural blood patching is an effective treatment option for SIH.
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Researchers observed that anesthesiologists were not practicing basic radiation safety precautions during fluoroscopic procedures . Anesthesiologists were not wearing lead aprons thyroid shields or dosimeters during fluoroscopy procedures . Anesthesiologists work in theaters where fluoroscopy procedures are performed ....
Anesthesiologist s knowledge on radiation. Use of dosimeter in a fluoroscopy unit. Training on ionizing radiation. Dosimeter placement during the procedures involving ionizing radiation. Anesthesiologist s suggestions on improving radiation safety.
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Communicating bad news to a patient or family is as much an art and test of will power as anything . The following article outlines considerations and points of emphasis when performing this task . Also is a list of resources and a case example of how to properly handle an unexpected adverse outcome .
Good communication with the patient and the family is an essential part of health care. Adverse outcome of a procedure is not achieving the desired result after performing the procedure. If adverse outcome is to be delivered advanced preparation is essential in transmitting accurate information and in properly setting ...
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There is reported increased utilization of diagnostic imaging worldwide owing to technological advancement and increased diagnostic capability of evolving medical imaging modalities . However there are concerns that the increasing use of radiation for medical imaging is not being properly managed because of substantiat...
Unfavorable policies and workforceleading barrier to effective quality assurance QA implementation in Nigeria. Lack of quality control QC equipment contributed to the derisory QC familiarization and culture. Patient benefitdriven imaging referrals and enhanced regulatory enforcement are effective strategies to improve ...
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Ultrasonography is a valuable tool to guide diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients . This review exposes the available evidence on the use of ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of the patient in shock respiratory failure or cardiac arrest from a nontraumatic etiology . The evidence shows that it is ...
Ultrasonography is a valuable tool to guide diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. Ultrasonography helps to make timely diagnoses guide therapeutic measures avoid unnecessary procedures and continuously reassess patients with critical hemodynamic respiratory and cardiovascular conditions. Ultrasonography t...
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CT colonography also known as virtual colonoscopy is a minimally invasive complementary screening method to optical colonoscopy that is growing in its availability and utilization . As a screening test it is typically performed in outpatient radiology sites . Examinations are monitored by a radiologist trained in its p...
CT colonography CTC is a minimally invasive alternative visual screening method for colon cancer to optical colonoscopy OC . CTC does not require sedation and has a high safety profile with only a minimal risk of perforation lower than that of OC. Detection of colon cancer at an early stage and detection of premalignan...
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Patients undergoing biopsy in interventional radiology often have increased preprocedural anxiety . IR nurses are with these patients throughout their admission and procedure and in a position to find innovative ways to ameliorate this patient anxiety . The aim of this study is to describe and measure the effect of aro...
An anxious patient may be unable to focus during critical times such as the informed consent process. Post test anxiety scores were statistically significantly lower than pretest scores. The difference between study groups aromatherapy versus jojoba oil was not statistically significant. Variability in the success of a...
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Disasters often occur without warning and have the potential to affect large numbers of people . Those in the radiology environment experience unique effects on them their equipment and their ability to provide quality patient care . Lessons can be learned by reviewing events and their impact on imaging departments aro...
Planning for catastrophes affecting imaging departments. Disaster management plans rarely include radiology. 160 million people worldwide are affected by a disaster each year. Lessons can be learned from those who lived through one.
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Urban green spaces provide multiple benefits and public parks in particular have a key role in supporting ecological and social sustainability in cities contributing to human nature interactions . We studied the interrelationships between uses experiences and the environment by adopting a novel concept of urban biocult...
Motivations to use parks cantered around enjoyment of the environment. Structural diversity of parks changed along the city gradient. Structural diversity of parks enhanced diverse uses and enjoyments. More visitors enjoyed nature in parks with high structural diversity.
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Substrate design is important for stormwater retention and plant survival on green roofs . Green roof substrates are mostly inorganic providing long term stability while organic components reduce substrate weight and increase water retention depending on rate and type . Selection of organic components depends on availa...
Substrate design determines green roof stormwater retention and plant survival. Organic wastes may lighten substrates increase water retention and improve sustainability. We evaluated the effects of organic wastes on substrate properties and plant growth. Overall higher rates of organic wastes made substrates lighter a...
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Foresters use diameter at breast height to estimate timber volumes quantify ecosystem services and predict other biometrics that would be difficult to directly measure . But DBH has numerous problems including a range of breast heights and challenges with applying this standard to divergent tree forms . Our study focus...
Urban foresters address the challenge of multi stemmed DBH in a variety of ways. Small statured trees are an increasing proportion of some street tree populations. No multi stemmed DBH measurement method offers markedly superior predictive power. There are substantial advantages to measuring multi stemmed trees below b...
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Despite being one of the largest and fastest growing cities of the world little is known about the urban forest of Karachi . The city consists of eighteen towns . Each town has different socioeconomic status . Therefore the present study investigates 1 the patterns and differences in the diversity and density of street...
Monoculture planting is prevalent. Affluent towns show greater tree density and species richness. Wide Roads reveal higher density and diversity.
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Urban trees composition and diversity are gaining more relevance for academic urban planning and sustainability purposes . Despite their free ecosystem services little is documented on urban trees especially in developing countries such as Nigeria . This study assessed the composition diversity structural characteristi...
Despite their growing relevance in urban areas urban tree species are not evenly distributed in some cities in North western Nigeria. The studied cities are dominated by relatively few tree species with exotic species category having higher stems population. Urban trees composition diversity and growth characteristics ...
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Scenic forests are a basic component of forest parks . Evaluating the beauty of the color of scenic forests is an important consideration in scientific management measures . The Purple Mountain National Forest Park in Nanjing was considered the case study area . Using the autumn scenic forest typical sample survey in 2...
An autumn color scenic beauty evaluation method was identified in forest in urban forest parks in most regions of China. The main impact factors of autumn color scenic beauty in scenic forest were stand factors followed by visual color factors. The distribution pattern of landscape color scenic beauty of scenic forest ...