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The Evolution of Cholecystitis: A Global Productivity and Publication Trends: Bibliometric Analysis of Cholecystitis

Objective: There is still no bibliometric study on Cholecystitis, although the literature has an increasing number of global studies. This study aims to analyse the scientific articles published on Cholecystitis between 1980 and 2020 using statistical methods. Material and Methods: Articles on Cholecystitis published between 1980 and 2020 were downloaded using the Web of Science (WoS) database and analysed using statistical and bibliometric methods. Spearman correlation coefficient was used for correlation analyses. Non-linear (exponential model) regression analysis was used to predict the number of publications in the coming years. Keyword network visualisation maps were used to identify trend topics. Results: A total of 5052 publications were found. 3174 (62.8%) of these publications, were articles. The top 2 countries that contributed most to the literature were the USA (788, 24.8%) and Japan (303, 9.5%). The most active top 3 institutions were Teikyo University (n=35), Washington University (35), and Seoul National University (27). The top 3 journals with the highest number of publications were Khirurgiya (n=124), American Surgeon (71), and Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni II Grekova (69). According to the average number of citations per article, the most influential journals were Annals of Surgery (Citation: 87), Radiology (61.6), and Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery (56.9), respectively. Conclusion: This comprehensive study on Cholecystitis, which has increased the number of articles in recent years, presented summary information of 3174 articles. Results can be said that the trend topics in cholecystitis studies in recent years are Tokyo guidelines, C-reactive protein, gallbladder drainage, emergency surgery, emergency cholecystectomy, cystic duct, choledocholithiasis, inflammation, acute cholecystitis, delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage/aspiration. This article may be a useful resource for clinicians and scientists on global outputs of cholecystitis.
Sacral Acupuncture for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) associated with storage, voiding, and post-micturition reduce quality of life and cause mental health problems. In traditional medicine, Baliao points have been empirically used to treat urinary system diseases. In this review, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using sacral acupuncture on Baliao points with sham treatment, other remedies, or other acupoints were retrieved from 8 electronic databases up to June 2021. Sixteen RCTs met the inclusion criteria. The quality of the included studies was assessed using a risk-of-bias (ROB) tool. Most of the evaluation indicators used in the included RCTs showed that sacral acupuncture had a significant therapeutic effect compared with the sham control intervention groups, and other remedies. However, all studies using acupoints (other than the Baliao points) as a control intervention had a “high” ROB and only reported secondary processed information, making it difficult to evaluate the efficacy of sacral acupuncture treatment for LUTS. No serious adverse effects were reported for sacral acupuncture, and only a low number of minor side effects were observed. These results suggest that sacral acupuncture could be considered as an alternative to existing treatments, with the added benefit of low cost. Large-scale, long-term RCTs are required in the future.
The effect of temperature and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on root system development

This thesis describes investigations which aim to increase understanding of the effect of temperature on root system development and longevity. It also considers the role played by an important group of symbiotic fungi which form an association with plant roots known as Arbuscular Mycorrhizae, in influencing plant root demography. Mycorrhizal fungi (Order Glomales) are an important group of soil-borne microorganisms which colonise the roots of most plants. The impact of AMF on the development and architecture of plant root systems is now widely recognised, however, interactions with environmental parameters, important in natural and agricultural systems, have not been fully identified. The production and mortality of roots is an important factor determining nutrient and carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. The first experiment, carried out in soil and utilising in-situ camera techniques, minirhizotrons and image analysis software, establishes that in fact there is a temperature effect on root longevity, with roots living for shorter periods of time at higher temperatures. As this experiment was carried out in unsterile conditions the effect could have been due to a direct effect of temperature on the plant itself or due to other indirect effects such as the mineralisation of nutrients and fluctuating organic and inorganic N concentrations brought about by microbial activity. The remaining experiments utilise a microcosm system which was developed to enable visualisation of the whole root system in situ, whilst allowing definable levels of nutrients to be given to the plant. The system allows temporal and spatial root measurements to be made simultaneously and non-destructively. Results indicate that the altered longevity obtained in experiment one is not solely due to nutritional factors. Temperature has an impact on many aspects of root development including increased branching rates at higher temperatures, resulting in an increase in the number of higher order roots, as well as roots becoming longer and thinner with increasing temperature. These effects are likely to influence root longevity, as higher order roots are likely to survive for less time. AMF also had the effect of altering carbon partitioning, thus, will also have implications. in terms of nutrient cycling. In conclusion, understanding the dynamics of the plant root system is crucial to understanding ecosystem function, as temperature effects are significant, implications of climate change should be considered.
Impact of the Vietnam - EAEU FTA on the trade between Vietnam and Eurasian Economic Union

— This study uses a structural gravity model of trade to examine the impact of the Vietnam - Eurasian Economic Union free trade agreement (FTA Vietnam - EAEU) on exports and imports between Vietnam and its member countries before and after the agreement. The model is tested on a sample of in-dustry-level panel data from 2001 to 2019, the author estimates the fixed-effects model (FEM) in the country - paired with the number of observations obtained is 5,386 observations forming a repeat sample, unbalanced. The paper also performs Pseudo Poisson maximum likelihood estimation (PPML) is also applied to solve the zero trade issue and the presence of heteroskedasticity. The results indicate that the agreement leads to "trade creation", import and export turnover increases compared to before the agreement. The authors propose that the two sides need to boost to produce and export the comparative advantage products in order to seize preferential treatment from the agreement without affecting competition and complementing each other.
Decision Support System for Analyzing Key Performance Indicators in Construction Projects Management

Many factors play a role in the life cycle of construction industry projects, focusing on human resources and relationships as the main axis of business development. Thus, the conflict of interests between the stakeholders in the construction industry projects is a clear and challenging problem. The increased number of stakeholders in the project complicates human relationships and, consequently, increases the possible conflicts. The conflicts may result in claims if not resolved. The success of construction projects and their cost and time management can be affected by the poor management of claims. Therefore, this research aims to take a significant step to improve the efficiency of projects by identifying and ranking the causes of claims and analyzing their effects on key efficiency indicators. Firstly, causes of claim are collected according to experts’ opinions and literature and classified based on key efficiency indicators using the integrated analytic hierarchy process-technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (AHP-TOPSIS) technique. According to findings, delays with a proximity coefficient of 0.728 are the most significant factors in making claims with a great effect on the key efficiency indicators of the construction project. The changes in most construction projects are ranked in second place, followed by acceleration command, extra work, changing workshop conditions, and contractual ambiguities. The present study results may reduce the challenges in managing the construction industry claims and ensure the successful completion of projects . doi: 10.5829/ije.2022. 35.05b. 03
Immunomodulatory Impacts of Bulbs Extracts From Five Allium Species on IFN-γ, IL-4, and IL-17 Cytokines

Background: Nowadays, the impacts of medicinal plants on immune-related diseases are one of the main pharmacological approaches. Thus, here, the modulatory potential of some Allium species on T helper cell cytokines were investigated. Materials and Methods: The different concentrations of aqueous extract of the aged bulbs of five Allium species were prepared. Lymphocytes were then isolated and cultured in the presence of the bulb extracts. The amounts of IFN-γ, IL-4 and IL-17 were assessed using ELISA. Results: The results demonstrated that A. sativum bulbs extract increased IFN-γ production at all concentrations, especially at 0.0001 and 0.01 mg/mL. After treatment with all doses of A. asarense bulbs extract, IFN-γ production by lymphocytes was dropped, and this effect was remarkable at the lowest concentrations (0.0001, 0.001 and 0.005 mg/mL). The bulbs extract of A. asarense enhanced IL-4 production by the treated cells, whereas the bulbs extracts of A. sativum, A. jesdianum, and A. lenkoranicum had inhibitory effects on the production of IL-4. Treatment with the bulbs extracts of A. sativum and A. asarense caused increases in the secretion of IL-17 by the lymphocytes to some extent; however, the cytokine production decreased somewhat after incubation with A. jesdianum bulbs extracts. IFN-γ/ IL-4 ratio was raised after treatment of lymphocytes with A. stipitatum and A. sativum bulbs extracts, while incubation with A. asarense bulbs extracts decreased it. Conclusion: Since the bulbs extracts of the studied Allium species demonstrated immunomodulatory features, with further research, they would be considered as useful candidate for clinical purposes.
Morphometric Analysis of the Human Lower Lumbar Intervertebral Discs and Vertebral Endplates: Experimental Approach and Regression Models

Low back pain (LBP) has been a major socioeconomic problem to the modern society for decades. In industry, one of the most challenging issues in occupational ergonomics and health practices has been the reliable and accurate estimation of risks of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs), particularly work-related low back pain (WRLBP) and injuries which represent a large portion of all Workers’ Compensation (WC) cost. To date, ergonomics evaluation measures developed to pinpoint jobs with elevated risks of WRLBP primarily rely on biomechanical models of the musculoskeletal structures of the human spine to estimate the internal response in terms of muscle induced compressive forces and to characterize the risk associated with the postures and forceful motions. However, morphometric characteristics of the human spine has not yet been thoroughly investigated and incorporated in the development of biomechanical models. In particular, the size of the load-bearing surface (cross-sectional area) of lumbar motion segments has been lacking in the literature, despite the fact that there is strong correlation between the cross-sectional area (CSA) and the ultimate compressive strength. Morphometric data regarding the human spine have been obtained with either direct measurements on cadaveric specimens or using medical imaging techniques, which require strict measurement protocol and incur high cost. In industry, occupational safety and health practitioners would prefer a more cost-effective means to obtain these morphometric data to improve the ergonomic evaluations and risk estimation of WRLBP.
Alteration in long noncoding RNAs in response to oxidative stress and ladostigil in SH-SY5Y cells

Microglia activation causes neuroinflammation, which is a hallmark of neurodegenerative disorders, brain injury, and aging. Ladostigil, a bifunctional reagent with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, reduced microglial activation and enhanced brain functioning in elderly rats. In this study, we studied SH-SY5Y, a human neuroblastoma cell line, and tested viability in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and Sin1 (3-morpholinosydnonimine), which generates reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS). Both stressors caused significant apoptosis and necrotic cell death that was attenuated by ladostigil. Our results from RNA-seq experiments show that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) account for 30% of all transcripts in SH-SY5Y cells treated with Sin1 for 24 hours. Altogether, we identify 94 differently expressed lncRNAs in the presence of Sin1, including MALAT1, a highly expressed lncRNA with anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic functions. Additional activities of Sin-1 upregulated lncRNAs include redox homeostasis (e.g., MIAT, GABPB1-AS1), energy metabolism (HAND2-AS1), and neurodegeneration (e.g., MIAT, GABPB1-AS1, NEAT1). Four lncRNAs implicated as enhancers were significantly upregulated in cells exposed to Sin1 and ladostigil. Finally, we show that H2O2 and Sin1 increased the expression of DJ-1, a redox sensor and modulator of Nrf2 (nuclear factor erythroid 2– related factor 2). Nrf2 (NFE2L2 gene) is a major transcription factor regulating antioxidant genes. In the presence of ladostigil, DJ-1 expression is restored to its baseline. The mechanisms governing SH-SY5Y cell survival and homeostasis are highlighted by the beneficial role of ladostigil in the crosstalk involving Nrf2, antioxidant transcription factor DJ-1, and lncRNAs. Stress-dependent induction of lncRNAs represents an underappreciated regulatory level that contributes to cellular homeostasis and the capacity of SH-SY5Y to cope with oxidative stress.
Novel techniques for the run by run process control of chemical-mechanical polishing

The purpose of this thesis is to explore control schemes for application to the ChemicalMechanical Polishing (CMP) semiconductor fabrication process. Particular emphasis is placed on an Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) controller, a Predictor-Corrector Controller (PCC), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) controllers. These methods are explored with respect to their stability, responsiveness (optimal or otherwise), ability to incorporate practical issues and their applicability to the CMP process. These characteristics are evaluated through simulation and experiments performed on various CMP tools which highlight and demonstrate these principles.
Afr J of Med Phy_Biomed Engrg_& Sc Vol 8_No 1''

Pre-term infant care is an important and very sensitive specialty in medicine. There are increased risk of complications associated with pre-term care and greater are obvious with triplets gestational period of less than 37 weeks. Preterm triplets are predisposes to low weight, respiratory problems, infections and difficulty body temperature sustenance that demand critical nursery care specialized machinery. Conventional designed incubator for triplet infants are rare due to consequences of operation failure, infants’ death and heavy litigation. Triplet baby incubator was designed and constructed to accommodate closed-loop stable thermal environment and control unit with perpex alumaco board of density tensile strenght1200kgm for cabin chambers of perimeter area 120x50x46cm structured with 2mm sliding doors. Two compartments for heat exchange control and electrical components circuitry were at the base. Condiment drawers were partitions immediately beneath chamber mattresses of 2cm thick. The circuits were designed and simulated on proteus 8 and printed on breadboards such that power supply to the entire system is from national grid or 100w, 220v solar cell inverter via 12v ac step-down transformer. Second power regulating circuit has transformer enables voltage regulator 7812 and 7085, bridge diode, 10k resistors and 2200μf capacitor that convert 220v to 12v supply to microcontroller, LCD and DHT11 sensors. Baby chamber maintained 24C as normal room temperature and when enabled for 50mins raised to 37C ±1 at humidity of 75% to 86%.
Performance Analysis of 5G for Low Latency Transmission Based on Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier Technique and Interleave Division Multiple Access

 Abstract — 5G mobile communication system has drawn more and more attention. The 5G system needs to provide three different types of services, including enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB), massive machine-type communication (mMTC), and ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier (UFMC), Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC), and Filtered Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (f-OFDM) are suggested as a well-known candidate waveform for the coming 5G system. Themachine-to-machine (M2M) communications are one of the essential applications in 5G, and it involves exchanging of concise messages with a very short latency. However, in UFMC systems, the subcarriers are grouped into subbands but f-OFDM only one subband covers the entire band. Furthermore, in FBMC, a subband includes only one subcarrier, and the number of subbands is the same as the number of subcarriers. This paper mainly discusses the performance of UFMC with different parameters for the UFMC system. Also, paper shows that UFMC is the best choice outperforming OFDM in any case and FBMC in case of very short packets while performing similarly for long sequences with channel estimation techniques for Interleave Division Multiple Access (IDMA) systems.
ON-BOARD DIAGNOSTIC (OBD-II) BASED CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEM FOR ROAD BOTTLENECKS DETECTION

On road networks, traffic congestion due to road bottlenecks is a major source of inefficiency in terms of time, fuel and labour productivity. Major contributing factors of road bottlenecks range from bad road design, wrong U-turns, unsynchronized traffic signals and narrowing of the road. The objective of this work is to propose an On-Board Diagnostic (OBD-II) based cyber-physical system (CPS) for road bottlenecks identification. Furthermore, to calculate each bottleneck’s cost in terms of fuel consumed, time wastage and CO 2 emissions. The proposed CPS based on Arduino Mega has the capability to sense vehicular sensors parameters (such as speed, RPM, MAF, IAT, AFR) through OBD-II. For data analytics, additional parameters (such as GPS, time) are transmitted to ThingSpeak through Wi-Fi. The proposed solution was field-tested on the same route for five consecutive days with satisfactory results. The two identified bottlenecks in the morning route were responsible for 38% of fuel consumed, 31% of CO 2 emitted and 31% of overall trip time. While the three bottlenecks identified in the evening trips were responsible for 51% of fuel consumed, 50% of CO 2 emitted and 29% of overall trip time. Obtained results can be employed for validation and calibration of traffic mathematical models and traffic simulation software.
Evaluation the Effects of Salicylic Acid and Methyl Jasmonate on the Scent of Purple Coneflower (<i>Echinacea purpurea</i> L. Moench) Flowers

Flowers of many plants emit scents, which are almost always a complex of small volatile organic compounds such as essential oils that they are the ones who give the fragrance of flowers and also have medicinal curative properties. So, the most common topic in the field of plant sciences, has been focused on improving flower’s quality and quantity by application of plant growth regulators (PGRs) to modify growth and flowering patterns. For this purpose, a research was conducted at the research field of agricultural faculty of Zanjan university on purple coneflower during farming years of 2017-2018 and 20182019 by application of salicylic-acid (0 (control), 50, 100 and 150 mM) and methyl-jasmonate (0 (control), 50, 100 and 200 μM). In the first year of experiment, treatments were sprayed on plants (four plants per plot) in two stages (20 days apart). In the second year, they were also sprayed on remaining plants as the first year. The results indicated that the highest percentage of essential oils in the flower heads of purple coneflower was related to treatment of 100 mM salicylic acid and 50 μmol methyl jasmonate in the first year and treatments of 100 mM salicylic acid and 50 and 100 μmol methyl jasmonate in the second year. The highest percentage of total compounds of essential oils in the first year was related to treatment of 50 mM salicylic acid and 50 μmol methyl jasmonate and in the second year was related to treatment of 100 mM salicylic acid and 100 μmol methyl jasmonate. The identified compounds in the essential oils of purple coneflower samples included hydrocarbon monoterpenes, oxygenated monoterpenes, hydrocarbon sesquiterpene, oxygenated sesquiterpenes and other compounds. The highest percentage of total compounds of essential oils in the first year was related to treatment of 50 mM salicylic acid and 50 μmol methyl jasmonate and in the second year was related to treatment of 100 mM salicylic acid and 100 μmol methyl jasmonate. Also, most of compounds increased in the second year compared to the first year.
Literature Review on Omnichannel Retailing

The rapid changes seen in retailing practices and consumer behavior models could be attributed to the extensive number of new technology applications. Therefore, these interesting change mechanisms should be explored from different viewpoints using various methods. This study synthesizes the findings of earlier studies in a literature review and provides some implications for future research and practice regarding retailing evolution, especially focusing on the shift from multichannel to omnichannel retailing. It is found that interdisciplinary research methods have been employed in marketing and electronic/mobile commerce to explore current business and consumer practices. This literature review reveals a time-series consistency between multichannel and omnichannel concepts to offer an integrated viewpoint of the available research insights. More specifically, this study attempts to explore and highlight relevant terminology definitions and concepts to underline the crucial issues in this topic derived from different disciplines and to discuss practical implications for future research.
Terminology Translation Accuracy in Phrase-Based versus Neural MT: An Evaluation for the English-Slovene Language Pair

For specialised texts, the accuracy and consistency of terminology is of primary importance, yet most Machine Translation systems do not employ explicit strategies to ensure term consistency on the level beyond a single sentence. We present a multifaceted evaluation and comparison of a statistical phrase-based versus neural model of Google's translation system for the English-Slovene language pair, which consists of a document-based automatic evaluation with the BLEU and NIST metrics, an automatic evaluation of term translations using an existing termbase as reference, and a human evaluation of 300 sample sentences per MT model and translation direction. Results indicate that while neural MT regularly outperforms phrase-based MT in the overall scores, the accuracy of term translations is better only for the English-Slovene language pair and not in the Slovene-English translations. In the final part of the paper we discuss typical errors encountered in the different MT outputs.