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Surgical Management of Post Burn Hand Deformities
Authors: Kumar Suneel , Akhlaq Faisal , Ali Hyder , Kiran Saba 
Published: July 2020

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of different surgical procedures on post burn contracture of hand.
Methods: A quasi-experimental study design was conducted at the Department of Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Dow University of Health Science, DR. Ruth KM Pfau, Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan from 1st June 2019 to 30th November 2019. Ninety-three participants of burned hand contracture of either gender, aged between 6- 60 years were included in the study. Resurfacing surgery with skin graft and loco-regional flaps were done according to type of contracture with individualization for each patient. All patients were kept under follow up for ninety days to assess efficacy of contracture release for each surgical procedure was noted. SPSS version 23 was used to analyse data.
Results: Full thickness skin graft (FTSG) was performed in 60.2% cases, 17.2% with split thickness skin graft (STSG) and 12.9% with cross finger flaps. About 25% of recurrence was observed in cross finger flaps, whereas no recurrence was seen in Z-plasties and posterior interosseous flap. The significant association was between recurrence and surgical procedures (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Z-plasty followed by FTSG was effective in the management of post burn contractures of hand.
doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.2206
How to cite this:Kumar S, Khan FAA, Ali H, Kiran S. Surgical Management of Post Burn Hand Deformities. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(6):1387-1391. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.2206
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Telemedicine in the COVID-19 Era: A chance to make a better tomorrow
Authors: Khan Uzma Zubair 
Published: July 2020

Telemedicine use is increasing globally and in Pakistan. However, Pakistan faces unique challenges related to socioeconomic, geographic and perhaps political challenges. This is the time for Pakistan to create policies and protocols for ethical and efficient use of telemedicine. The goal of this manuscript is to start a discussion, by encouraging questions, and identifying challenges for healthcare providers.
doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.3112
How to cite this:Khan UZ. Telemedicine in the COVID-19 Era: A chance to make a better tomorrow. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(6):1405-1407. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.3112
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How to get published in a standard peer-reviewed medical journal: Some useful tips for novice authors
Authors: Aziz Anbreen 
Published: July 2020

Young researchers and novice authors face lot of difficulties to document their research work and get it published due to lack of guidance and proper training in the art of scientific writing. This manuscript provides some important information and highlights some useful tips for novice authors which if followed in letter and spirit will minimize the trauma to their manuscripts with increased chances of publication in standard peer reviewed biomedical journals even those with Impact Factor. Other authors will also find it helpful to know the details related to the whole publishing process.
doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.3135
How to cite this:Aziz A. How to get published in a standard peer-reviewed medical journal: Some useful tips for novice authors. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(6):1408-1411. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.3135
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The effect of a multimodality cardiac imaging elective on pre-clinical medical students
Authors: Kusko Rebecca , Iskandir Marina , Haynes Allen , Williams Simon , Shurmur Scott , Ansari Mohammad 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine has developed an immersive Cardiac Imaging and Innovation week for medical students during their preclinical year. A pre- and post-survey administered to participants showed increased knowledge and improved impressions of cardiology. The students ranked the experience as high quality. This project suggests that similar elective experiences could enhance education during the preclinical period of medical education.
Key words: medical education, cardiology, technology, imaging, echocardiography
Vape-associated lung injury in an adolescent
Authors: Wilkerson Hannah , Maniam Ganesh , Dean Ryan , Goldfinger Matthew , Kandaswamy Preetha , Bell Todd 
Published: July 2020

The rise in incidence of e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) and associated deaths has become a growing concern among public health officials. In most cases, the presenting and predominant complaints were respiratory in nature. However, in this case, the chief complaint was gastrointestinal symptoms. A 17-year-old male presented with a two-day history of sore throat, headache, and malaise followed by a one-day history of fever, vomiting, and diarrhea. Additional history revealed that patient was a regular user of THC vape cartridges. Computed tomography (CT) scan of the thorax showed a large right lower lobe consolidation with patchy infiltrates consistent with airspace pneumonia. He was later found to have C. difficile infection on day 3 and was started on metronidazole. After four days of ceftriaxone and supportive treatment, he showed significant improvement and was discharged on hospital day 5 with metronidazole and amoxicillin-clavulanate. In this case, the clinical picture of respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms in the context of the patient’s using e-cigarettes or vaping products should bring EVALI into the differential diagnosis. Furthermore, this case highlights the need for increased public education regarding the dangers of e-cigarettes and vaping, especially with regard to increasing awareness among adolescent populations.
Keywords: vaping; EVALI; lung injury; public health; electronic THC delivery systems
EX MACHINA: A PRISÃO E A REVOLTA DO AUTÔMATO
Authors: Molineti Tavares Jansen Hinkel 
Published: July 2020

Análise fílmica do longa-metragem Ex Machina (direção de Alex Garland, 2015). O artigo se concentra na figura de uma inteligência artificial para desenvolver um estudo sobre as questões de identidade e um conceito de ética transposto à tecnologia dentro de um registro social e filosófico. Estabelece considerações políticas sobre a reformulação de sociedades de controle e vigilância ante a novas possibilidades de organizações da sociedade atual ou de um futuro próximo. O presente texto se baseia na subtração espacial no cinema – a narrativa que ocorre em poucas locações – para, através de uma ficção científica audiovisual, discorrer sobre o controle do indivíduo pela figura do autômato, o robô prisioneiro de seu criador-inventor.
Comparison of RZWQM2 and DNDC Models to Simulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions under Combined Inorganic/Organic Fertilization in a Subsurface-Drained Field
Authors: Jiang Qianjing , Qi Zhiming , Madramootoo Chandra A. , Smith Ward , Abbasi Naeem A. , Zhang Tiequan 
Published: July 2020

HighlightsRZWQM2 was compared with DNDC to predict greenhouse gas emissions.RZWQM2 was applied to simulate the greenhouse gas emissions under manure application.RZWQM2 performed better than DNDC in simulating soil water content and CO2 emissions.Abstract. N management has the potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Process-based models are promising tools for evaluating and developing management practices that may optimize sustainability goals as well as promote crop productivity. In this study, the GHG emission component of the Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM2) was tested under two different types of N management and subsequently compared with the Denitrification-Decomposition (DNDC) model using measured data from a subsurface-drained field with a corn-soybean rotation in southern Ontario, Canada. Field-measured data included N2O and CO2 fluxes, soil temperature, and soil moisture content from a four-year field experiment (2012 to 2015). The experiment was composed of two N treatments: inorganic fertilizer (IF), and inorganic fertilizer combined with solid cattle manure (SCM). Both models were calibrated using the data from IF and validated with SCM. Statistical results indicated that both models predicted well the soil temperature, but RZWQM2 performed better than DNDC in simulating soil water content (SWC) because DNDC lacked a heterogeneous soil profile, had shallow simulation depth, and lacked crop root density functions. Both RZWQM2 and DNDC predicted the cumulative N2O and CO2 emissions within 15% error under all treatments, while the timing of daily CO2 emissions was more accurately predicted by RZWQM2 (RMSE = 0.43 to 0.54) than by DNDC (RMSE = 0.60 to 0.67). Modeling results for N management effects on GHG emissions showed consistency with the field measurements, indicating higher CO2 emissions under SCM than IF, higher N2O emissions under IF in corn years, but lower N2O emissions in soybean years. Overall, RZWQM2 required more experienced and intensive calibration and validation, but it provided more accurate predictions of soil hydrology and better timing of CO2 emissions than DNDC. Keywords: CO2 emission, Corn-soybean rotation, Inorganic fertilization, Manure application, N2O emission, Process-based modeling.
Econometric Modelling on Happiness in Learning Mathematics: The Case of Senior High Students
Authors: Casinillo Leomarich F , Casinillo Emily L. 
Published: July 2020

This study developed econometric models on the students’ happiness in learning mathematics to identify its influencing factors. A complete enumeration of 115 grade 11 students in the Visayas State University were employed as participants. Results showed that about 61% of the students considered themselves as moderately happy in learning. Their expected happiness is approximately the same with their actual happiness, which is one of the significant determinants in the models. STEM students among other strands in senior high school are more likely happy learners. Household income, allowance, and mental health condition show a small influence on their happiness in learning. Students who spend more time in the library, and those living in rural places tend to be happy in learning. Furthermore, physical health condition shows an inverse effect on students’ well-being in learning mathematics, while social relationships and the distance from home to school do not contribute to their happiness.
Abstrak
Penelitian ini mengembangkan model ekonometrik pada kebahagiaan siswa dalam pembelajaran matematika untuk mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor yang memengaruhinya. Data diambil dari 115 mahasiswa kelas 11 di Universitas Negeri Visayas. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa sekitar 61% mahasiswa menilai diri mereka relatif bahagia. Tingkat kebahagiaan yang mereka harapkan relatif sama dengan yang mereka tunjukkan secara aktual dan ini merupakan salah satu model yang signifikan buktinya. Siswa yang mengikuti program STEM dan sejenisnya pada jenjang sekolah menengah atas (SMA) tampak lebih bahagia. Pendapatan di rumah, tunjangan, dan kesehatan mental tampak menunjukkan pengaruh yang tidak seberapa pada kebahagiaan belajar. Sementara itu siswa yang menghabiskan banyak waktu di perpustakaan dan tinggal di perdesaan cenderung bahagia dalam belajar. Lebih lanjut, kondisi kesehatan fisik tampak berbanding terbalik dengan kesejahteraan siswa dalam belajar matematika, sementara itu relasi sosial dan jarak rumah ke sekolah tidak berkontribusi pada kebahagiaan siswa.
Reseña y comentario de: Molina Jiménez, I. (2019). Huelgas democratizadoras. La rebelión estudiantil en el Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (1980-1982).
Authors: Chaves Zamora Randall Andrés 
Published: July 2020

El texto realiza un balance sobre las producciones académicas realizadas por historiadores e historiadoras costarricenses sobre el movimiento estudiantil universitario de Costa Rica con el fin de valorar el aporte al conocimiento del libro Huelgas democratizadoras. La rebelión estudiantil en el Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (1980-1982), del historiador costarricense Iván Molina Jiménez.
Evaluation of Mental Foramen Location – A Review Article
Authors: Jasim Hussein Haleem 
Published: July 2020

Abstract: One of the most vital anatomical structure within the mandible is the mental foramen. The significance of this structure come since it is the anatomical opening of mandibular canal on the mandible bilaterally. The neuro-vascular complex leaving from the foramen has a critical and important role and giving supply to the skin and muscles of the chin, lower lip, the associated gingiva and mucosa following to the lower premolars. Subsequently, the location knowledge of the mental foramen considers an awfully significant for dental specialists to dodge harming this imperative structure via the dental working on this region, as in dental anaesthesia, dental surgery, dental anaesthesia and root canal treatment.
The aim of study: The point of the think about: To assess the site of the mental foramen in relative to the mandibular premolars, depended on the panoramic and CBCT and O.P.G images.
Materials and Methods: The current study involved the previous articles published from 1997 till 2019, with respect to the site of mental foramen in elderly and adult patients, in any case of the gender. All these studies were used on either the panoramic and cone-beam computed tomographic images for visualizing the site of the mental foramen.
Results: Regarding the outcomes of the previous studies included in this review, the statistics appeared that the first common area of mental foramen was beneath the apices of lower second premolars in the percentage of 49.99%, the other second common area of mental foramen was between the apices of the lower first and second premolars in the percentage of 42.30%.
Conclusion: The mental foramen was mostly found beneath the apices of lower first and second premolars and then between the apices of the lower first and second premolars.
The anti deflation bias
Authors: Bagus Philipp 
Published: July 2020

AbstractDeflation is widely feared and opposed. This paper provides arguments to explain the anti-deflationary bias. It is argued that governments favour inflation, that the main deflation theories have influenced negatively the public opinion on deflation, and that rent-seeking behaviour and group formation explains why the opposition to deflationary redistribution is stronger than the opposition to inflationary redistribution. Moreover, psychological concepts, such as anchoring, the endowment effect or the availability heuristic have contributed to the fear of deflation by causing a money illusion and a equalisation of deflation and recession.
What determines the success of economic transition? Constructing regional advantage for Eastern and Western European regions
Authors: Pylak Korneliusz , Wojnicka-Sycz Elżbieta , Sycz Piotr 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to identify the differences in the determinants of successful transition (understood as the creation of a new development path) between the eastern and the western EU Member States between 1994 and 2014 and elaborate assumptions for a strategy of constructing regional advantage for them at the NUTS2 level. We find that the regional transition requires individual approaches to using comparative advantage at the beginning of the process and then competing with specific advantages that can be consciously constructed throughout the process. Therefore, we hypothesise that a successful transition requires constructing regional advantages based on the knowledge-related factors, leading to specialisation in the knowledge-intensive industries. Furthermore, we state that the way of constructing such advantages differs across the regions. All of our hypotheses were confirmed. Both groups of regions had different comparative advantages at the beginning of the period and constructed competitive advantage based on related knowledge-intensive industries, leading to their specialisation. Interestingly, although the process of building regional advantage was similar, the factors used to create it were different, had a different impact on GDP growth and led to a different specialisation.
Tourism and economic growth in Greece: An ARDL bound testing approach in a Kaldorian framework
Authors: Spinthiropoulos Konstantinos , Nikas Christos , Zafeiriou Eleni 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between tourism development and economic growth in Greece, using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)-Bounds testing procedure. The present paper attempts to examine the relevance of the tourism led growth hypothesis according to the Kaldorian theory. The analysis was carried out for the period from 1963 to 2016 and involves the short-run as well as the log-run impact. As a proxy for the output of the tourism sector, its receipts are employed, while as an index for economic growth, the GDP is employed. The empirical results show that the economy of Greece can recover and return to the long-run equilibrium with a speed of adjustment 7.17% per year.
Scores and clusters of Hungarian universities
Authors: Kosztyán Zsolt Tibor , Csányi Vivien Valéria , Telcs András 
Published: July 2020

AbstractWe present an application preference, list-based framework to Hungarian universities, which allows different type of flexible aggregation, and hence, analysis and clustering of application data. A novel mathematical method is developed by which preference lists can be converted into scored rankings. The proposed approach is demonstrated in the case of Hungary covering the period of 2006–2015. Our method reveals that the efforts to leverage the geographical center–periphery differences did not fulfil the expectations of policy makers. Also, it turns out that a student's top preference is very difficult to influence, while recruiters may build their strategy on the information of the first but one choice.
Economic modelling – Beyond isolation and construction. The case of Austrian Business Cycle Theory as presented by Roger Garrison
Authors: Mroz Robert , Hardt Lukasz 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe paper explores the nature of economic models. It is claimed that accounting for it along the isolationism-constructivism line is untenable. A more integrated approach is needed, based on the pragmatist philosophical tradition, focussing rather on the modelling process than on the narrower notion of the model. This argument is backed by a case study: analysis of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT) as presented by Roger Garrison, which, as is argued, does not fully fit either the isolationist or the constructivist account of models. It is primarily shown by revealing the fact that learning about the world by using ABCT is not of deductive nature. Therefore, even in the presence of such a strong realistic methodology as the one in the Austrian economics, models used by its adherents are not necessarily perfect isolations. At the same time, this realistic methodology is not in line with the constructivist approach in model-building. The paper should be understood as an exercise in philosophy of economics, namely as an attempt at better understanding of various aspects of economics (here it is models and specifically ABCT) by taking the perspective offered by philosophy of science.
Analysis of the Turkish Islamic banking sector using CAMEL and Similarity Analysis methods
Authors: Varga József , Bánkuti Gyöngyi , Kovács-Szamosi Rita 
Published: July 2020

AbstractRating the reliability of banks has always been an important practical problem for businesses and the economic policy makers. The best way to do this is the CAMEL analysis. The aim of this paper was to create a bank-rating indicator from the five fields of the CAMEL analysis using two-two indicators for each field for the Turkish Islamic banking system. According to the results of the analysis, we could rank the Turkish Islamic banks. Beside the widespread use of the CAMEL analysis, we applied the Similarity Analysis as a new method. We compared the results from the two methods and came to the conclusion that the CAMEL analysis does not adequately provide a fairly shaded picture about the banks. The Component-based Object Comparison for Objectivity (COCO) method gave us the yearly results in time series form. The comparison of the time series data leads to the problem of deciding about what is more important for us – average, standard deviation or the slope. For handling this problem, we used Analytic Hierarchy Process, which gave weights to these indicators.
Pindaro, Pitica 6,13 Tra Critica Antica E Moderna
Authors: Ruta Alessio 
Published: July 2020

SummaryThis article discusses the verse 13 of Pindar’s sixth Pythian ode. The manuscripts have «χεράδι», but editors generally accept C. D. Beck’s conjecture «χεράδει». The text of the manuscripts is also attested in numerous ancient sources, but «χεράδει» also circulated in antiquity as a varia lectio. The ancient criticism on the Pindaric verse is then examined, taking into consideration the possible reading of Aristarchus of Samothrace (fr. 55 Schironi) and the text of P.Oxy. 5039, which probably had χεράδι.
A TAXONOMIC ANALYSIS PROPOSAL FOR RESEARCH IN DIPLOMATIC INTERPRETING
Authors: GHEORGHIU CATALINA ILIESCU 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThis paper focuses on Diplomatic Interpreting (DI), a speciality often included either in the conference or dialogue interpreting branch, depending on geographic and modal variables. Historically, diplomatic interpreters resorted to bilateral interpreting or mediation, but in the modern day, they oscillate between short and full consecutive, and on occasion simultaneous (presidential press conferences). This diffuse affiliation and the relatively small job market niche – hence its absence from degree syllabi – might be two of the motives why DI has not captured more attention from scholars. One interesting avenue for researchers might be the identification and classification of those aspects DI has in common with other types of interpreting, and what makes it different. In my discussion, I recapitulate DI specificities, encompassing requirements, expectations and devices, among which optimisation (as a strategy to overcome barriers and ensure full communication) is pivotal. As an illustration, I analyse an example of optimisation in the case of Romanian PM Viorica Dăncilă’s political blunder on her first visit to Montenegro. Finally, I advocate the recognition of the specificity of DI and I call for focussed research in this area.