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Gastrocnemius release is an effective management option for Achilles tendinopathy
PURPOSE: This systematic review aims to summarise the outcomes of gastrocnemius release in the management of Achilles Tendinopathy. METHODS: A systematic review was performed according to PRISMA guidelines. A computer-based...
A hybrid profit and loss sharing model using interest free-debt and equity financing
In this paper two models are contrasted whereby a corporation is seeking to finance the purchase of a merchandise from a supplier through a profit and loss sharing contract. The first mode consist of financing the purchase...
Exploiting Visual Features in Financial Time Series Prediction
The possibility to enhance prediction accuracy for foreign exchange rates was investigated in two ways: first applying an outside the box approach to modeling price graphs by exploiting their visual properties, and secondly...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
A hybrid profit and loss sharing model using interest free-debt and equity financing
In this paper two models are contrasted whereby a corporation is seeking to finance the purchase of a merchandise from a supplier through a profit and loss sharing contract. The first mode consist of financing the purchase...
Handwritten Documents Validation Using Pattern Recognition and Transfer Learning
Handwritten documents in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can come from different sources and usually have different designs, sizes, and subjects (i.e. bills, checks, invoices, etc.). Given these documents were...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Flesch-Kincaid Measure as Proxy of Socio-Economic Status on Twitter
Social media gives researchers an invaluable opportunity to gain insight into different facets of human life. Researchers put a great emphasis on categorizing the socioeconomic status (SES) of individuals to help predict various...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Can Remote Work Be Adopted When Phubbing and Cyber Loafing Behavior Are on the Rise?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work became a prevalent practice for organizations, raising concerns about counterproductive behaviors like phubbing and cyberloafing. This research investigates the dynamics of these...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Entrepreneurial Leadership and Creativity in Projects
This paper aims to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership (EL) and creativity in projects. Additionally, the study also examine the mediating effect of innovative work behavior (IWB) and the moderating...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
A prospective study of risk factors associated with seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in healthcare workers at a large UK teaching hospital.
Daniel J Cooper, Sara Lear, Laura Watson, Ashley Shaw, Mark Ferris, Rainer Doffinger, Rachel Bousfield, Katherine Sharrocks, Michael P Weekes, Ben Warne, Dominic Sparkes, Nick K Jones, Lucy Rivett, Matthew Routledge, Afzal Chaudhry, Katherine Dempsey, Montgomery Matson, Adil Lakha, George Gathercole, Olivia O'Connor, Emily Wilson, Orthi Shahzad, Kieran Toms, Rachel Thompson, Ian Halsall, David Halsall, Sally Houghton, Sofia Papadia, Nathalie Kingston, Kathleen E Stirrups, Barbara Graves, Paul Townsend, Neil Walker, Hannah Stark, CITIID-NIHR BioResource COVID-19 Collaboration, Daniela De Angelis, Shaun Seaman, Gordon Dougan, John R Bradley, M Estée Török, Ian Goodfellow, Stephen Baker
Oct 05, 2022
OBJECTIVES: To describe the risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK healthcare workers (HCWs). METHODS: We conducted a prospective sero-epidemiological study of HCWs at a major UK teaching hospital using a SARS-CoV-2...
A Decision Support System for Diagnostics and Treatment Planning in Traumatic Brain Injury.
Adil Umer, Jussi Mattila, Hilkka Liedes, Juha Koikkalainen, Jyrki Lotjonen, Ari Katila, Janek Frantzen, Virginia Newcombe, Olli Tenovuo, David Menon, Mark van Gils
Sep 20, 2018
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when an external force causes functional or structural alterations in the brain. Clinical characteristics of TBI vary greatly from patient to patient, and a large amount of data is gathered...
Serendipitous Identification of a Covalent Activator of Liver Pyruvate Kinase.
Umberto Maria Battisti, Chunxia Gao, Oscar Nilsson, Fady Akladios, Aleksei Lulla, Agnieszka Bogucka, Amalyn Nain-Perez, Liliana Håversen, Woonghee Kim, Jan Boren, Marko Hyvönen, Mathias Uhlen, Adil Mardinoglu, Morten Grøtli
Nov 09, 2022
Herbal Approach to Control Human Helminthiasis through Immunomodulatory Effect of Indian System of Medicine
This review summarizes human infections caused by endoparasites, including protozoa, nematodes, trematodes, and cestodes, which affect more than 30% of the human population, and medicinal plants of potential use in their...
Published by: IJHS Medical Association
Elevated Plasma Levels of 3-Hydroxyisobutyric Acid Are Associated With Incident Type 2 Diabetes.
Adil Mardinoglu, Silvia Gogg, Luca A Lotta, Alena Stančáková, Annika Nerstedt, Jan Boren, Matthias Blüher, Ele Ferrannini, Claudia Langenberg, Nicholas J Wareham, Markku Laakso, Ulf Smith
Mar 02, 2018
Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) metabolite, 3-Hydroxyisobutyric acid (3-HIB) has been identified as a secreted mediator of endothelial cell fatty acid transport and insulin resistance (IR) using animal models. To identify if...
3-Hydroxyisobutyric acid (3-HIB) Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) Insulin Resistance Insulin Secretion T2D Adipose Tissue Amino Acids Branched-Chain Biological Transport Body Mass Index Diabetes mellitus Type 2 Endothelial Cells Fatty Acids Humans Hydroxybutyrates Incidence Metabolome Microvessels
Genome-wide Association Study for Vitamin D Levels Reveals 69 Independent Loci.
Despoina Manousaki, Ruth Mitchell, Tom Dudding, Simon Haworth, Adil Harroud, Vincenzo Forgetta, Rupal L Shah, Jian'an Luan, Claudia Langenberg, Nicholas J Timpson, J Brent Richards
Jan 14, 2021
We aimed to increase our understanding of the genetic determinants of vitamin D levels by undertaking a large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) of serum 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD). To do so, we used imputed genotypes...
A novel Atg5-shRNA mouse model enables temporal control of Autophagy in vivo.
Liam D Cassidy, Andrew RJ Young, Pedro A Pérez-Mancera, Birgit Nimmervoll, Adil Jaulim, Hung-Chang Chen, Dominick JO McIntyre, Rebecca Brais, Thomas Ricketts, Simon Pacey, Maike de la Roche, Richard J Gilbertson, David C Rubinsztein, Masashi Narita
Feb 14, 2018
Macroautophagy/autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved catabolic pathway whose modulation has been linked to diverse disease states, including age-associated disorders. Conventional and conditional whole-body knockout mouse...
Herbal Approach to Control Human Helminthiasis through Immunomodulatory Effect of Indian System of Medicine
This review summarizes human infections caused by endoparasites, including protozoa, nematodes, trematodes, and cestodes, which affect more than 30% of the human population, and medicinal plants of potential use in their...
Published by: IJHS Medical Association
Usable-Security Assessment of Healthcare Software System Through Fuzzy ANP-TOPSIS Method
Adil Seh, Masood Ahmad, Mohd Nadeem, Abhishek Pandey, Alka Agrawal, Rajeev Kumar, Raees Khan
Oct 01, 2021
To address this research possibility, the present empirical study undertakes the assessment of usable-security of healthcare software system. The attributes considered for the assessment are: four factors at first level;...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Hypoxia and tissue destruction in pulmonary TB.
Moerida Belton, Sara Brilha, Roido Manavaki, Francesco Mauri, Kuldip Nijran, Young T Hong, Neva H Patel, Marcin Dembek, Liku Tezera, Justin Green, Rachel Moores, Franklin Aigbirhio, Adil Al-Nahhas, Tim D Fryer, Paul T Elkington, Jon S Friedland
Jun 03, 2016
Tuberculosis Adult Biopsy Cell Hypoxia Cells Cultured Collagenases Epithelial Cells Female Gene Expression Regulation Humans Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 alpha Subunit Lung MACROPHAGES Male Matrix Metalloproteinase 1 Microscopy Confocal Middle Aged Mycobacterium tuberculosis Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography RNA Messenger Respiratory Mucosa Tuberculosis Pulmonary Up-Regulation Young Adult
Leishmania Genome Dynamics during Environmental Adaptation Reveal Strain-Specific Differences in Gene Copy Number Variation, Karyotype Instability, and Telomeric Amplification.
Giovanni Bussotti, Evi Gouzelou, Mariana Côrtes Boité, Ihcen Kherachi, Zoubir Harrat, Naouel Eddaikra, Jeremy C Mottram, Maria Antoniou, Vasiliki Christodoulou, Aymen Bali, Fatma Z Guerfali, Dhafer Laouini, Maowia Mukhtar, Franck Dumetz, Jean-Claude Dujardin, Despina Smirlis, Pierre Lechat, Pascale Pescher, Adil El Hamouchi, Meryem Lemrani, Carmen Chicharro, Ivonne Pamela Llanes-Acevedo, Laura Botana, Israel Cruz, Javier Moreno, Fakhri Jeddi, Karim Aoun, Aïda Bouratbine, Elisa Cupolillo, Gerald F Späth
Apr 12, 2019
Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania adapt to environmental change through chromosome and gene copy number variations. Only little is known about external or intrinsic factors that govern Leishmania genomic adaptation....
Leishmania Aneuploidy evolution gene copy number variation genomic adaptation telomeric amplification Adaptation Physiological Animals Chromosomes Cricetinae DNA Copy Number Variations Dogs evolution Molecular Gene Amplification Gene Dosage Gene Expression Regulation Genes Protozoan Genetic Fitness Genome Protozoan Genomics High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Humans Karyotype Leishmania donovani Leishmaniasis Visceral Telomere
The impact of trisomy 21 on epidemiology, management, and outcomes of congenital duodenal obstruction
George S. Bethell, Anna-May Long, Marian Knight, Nigel J. Hall, Abigail Jones, Adil Aslam, Alan Mortell, Amanda McCabe, Andrew Ross, Anna Harris, Anne Lawson, Arun Kelay, Aruna Abhyankar, Ashok Rajimwale, Ashwath Bandi, Atif Saeed, Bala Eradi, Baqer Sharif, Brian MacCormack, Caroline Pardy, Catherine Ridd, Ceri Jones, Cezar Nicoara, Chris Driver, Chris Parsons, Chun-Sui Kwok, Clare Rees, Clare Skerritt, Damian Magnie, Dan Aronson, David Marshall, Dawn Deacy, Debasish Banerjee, Diane De Caluwe, Dorothy Kufeji, Eleri Cusick, Elizabeth O’Connor, Georgina Bough, Gergana Racheva, Govind Murthi, Harmit Ghattaura, Hetal Patel, Ian Jones, Ian Sugarman, Ike Njere, Ingo Jester, Jonathan Durell, Joseph Davidson, Keren Sloan, Kevin Cao, Khalid Elmalik, Lee Smith, Leel Nellihela, Lopes, Lucinda Tullie, Lucy Henderson, Madhavi Kakade, Maryam Haneef, Melania Matcovici, Michael Dawrant, Michelle Horridue, Miguel Soares-Oliveira, Miriam Doyle, Mohamed Shalaby, Morven Allan, Oliver Burdell, Paul Charlesworth, Paul Johnson, Rahman Halim, Richard Hill, Riyad Peeraully, Rosie Cresner, Ross Craigie, Samir Gupta, Sandeep Motiwale, Sanja Besarovic, Saravanakumar Paramalingam, Sean Marven, Shailesh Patel, Shazia Sharif, Shehryer Naqvi, Simon Clarke, Simon Kenny, Sofia Eriksson, Susan Payne, Thanos Tyraskis, Thomas Tsang, Tim Bradnock, William Calvert, Yatin Patel
Jun 06, 2020
Abstract: Purpose: Congenital duodenal obstruction (CDO) is associated with trisomy 21 (T21), or Down’s syndrome, in around a third of infants. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of T21 on the epidemiology...