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(1) Background: The empowerment of women contributes to better child health and wellness. This study aimed to examine the association between women’s empowerment and complete vaccination of children, as recommended in the National Expanded Program on...

With the rise of mobile edge computing (MEC), mobile services with the same or similar functions are gradually increasing. Usually, Quality of Service (QoS) has become an indicator to measure high-quality services. In the real MEC service invocation...

Background/Objectives: Freund’s adjuvants induce different immunomodulatory effects, but their underlying molecular mechanisms are unclear. In this study, we investigated whether the immune-stimulating effects of the complete Freund’s adj...

The prevalence of Parkinson’s disease increases a tremendous medical and economic burden to society. Therefore, the effective drugs are urgently required. However, the traditional development of effective drugs is costly and risky. Drug repurpo...

The present study aims to evaluate the antiarthritic activity of diacetylcurcumin (DAC), a synthetic derivative where the free phenolic groups of curcumin are derivatized by acetylation, thereby conferring greater lipophilicity to the parent molecule...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common disorder that can affect any joint in the human body. This study aimed to examine the anti-arthritic properties of high and low doses of grapefruit juice (GFJ), as grapefruit appears to contain anti-inflammatory bioche...

Aristotle’s syllogistic is the first ever deductive system. After centuries, Aristotle’s ideas are still interesting for logicians who develop Aristotle’s work and draw inspiration from his results and even more from his methods. In...

In this paper, we show that the functions x m | β ( m ) ( x ) | are not completely monotonic on ( 0 , ∞ ) for all m ∈ N , where β ( x ) is the Nielsen’s β -function and we...

The aim of this paper is to review the most important properties and applications of the complete hypergroups. We will focus on the reversibility, regularity and reducibility properties, on the class equation and the commutativity degree of the compl...

The prognosis of children with Bell’s palsy remains unclear due to its relatively low incidence, and thus, the small number of patients included in individual studies. To evaluate the prognosis of children with Bell’s palsy and identify the predictiv...

We prove that the function σ(s) defined by β(s)=6s2+12s+53s2(2s+3)−ψ′(s)2−σ(s)2s5,s>0, is strictly increasing with the sharp bounds 0<σ(s)<49120, where β(s) is Nielsen’s beta function a...

The propagator of a gauge boson, like the massless photon or the massive vector bosons W± and Z of the electroweak theory, can be derived in two different ways, namely via Green’s functions (semi-classical approach) or via the vacuum exp...

Let K n be a complete graph on n vertices. Denote by S K n the set of all subgraphs of K n . For each G , H ∈ S K n , the ring sum of G and H is a graph whose vertex set is V ( G ) ∪ V ( H ) and whose edges...

For decades, the U.S. college admissions process has utilized standardized exams as critical indicators of college readiness. With the onset of the COVID pandemic, the majority of 4-year universities implemented the Test-Optional policy to improve co...

Tarski’s first-order axiom system E2 for Euclidean geometry is notable for its completeness and decidability. However, the Pythagorean theorem—either in its modern algebraic form a2+b2=c2 or in Euclid’s Elements—cannot be dire...

A 3-year-old spayed male mixed-breed Labrador presented to the Emergency and Critical Care Unit with lethargy, loss of appetite, vomiting, a recent history of presyncopal episodes, and severe exercise intolerance. On admission, the patient had bradyc...

This paper explores a new class of mappings and presents several fixed-point results for these mappings. We define these mappings by combining well-known mappings in the literature, specifically the large contraction mapping and Chatterjea’s ma...

Vehicle detection is essential for driverless systems. However, the current single sensor detection mode is no longer sufficient in complex and changing traffic environments. Therefore, this paper combines camera and light detection and ranging (LiDA...

In this work, a hypothesis is studied as to whether different DoS attacks affect the parameters of voice and video streams, as well as performance, on three different VoIP platforms. This research is a continuation of a previous work, which studied t...

In this work the complete version of Stirling’s formula, which is composed of the standard terms and an infinite asymptotic series, is used to obtain exact values of the logarithm of the gamma function over all branches of the complex plane. Exact va...

Influenced by the complexity of ocean environmental noise and the time-varying of underwater acoustic channels, feature extraction of underwater acoustic signals has always been a difficult challenge. To solve this dilemma, this paper introduces a hy...

Symmetrical patterns exist in the nature of inequalities, which play a basic role in theoretical and applied mathematics. In several studies, inequalities present accurate approximations of functions based on their symmetry properties. In this paper,...

Our recent study demonstrated that the CC-chemokine ligand 2 (CCL2) present in primary afferent fibers (PAFs) plays an important role in the microglia-dependent neuronal activation associated with zymosan-induced inflammatory pain. The present study...

Inflammatory pain is a worldwide health problem, affecting primarily women. Nonetheless, most research conducted in this field has involved male subjects, and only 10% of the results have been obtained using females. Gold Lotion (GL) is a formulated...

The notions of modular b-metric and modular b-metric space were introduced by Ege and Alaca as natural generalizations of the well-known and featured concepts of modular metric and modular metric space presented and discussed by Chistyakov. In partic...

Both opioids and cannabinoids have well-known antinociceptive effects in different animal models of chronic pain. However, unwanted side effects limit their use. The aim of this study is to evaluate the antinociceptive effect of combining synthetic c...

In 2015 and 2016, two Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) farms in Singapore reported a disease outbreak characterized by lethargic behavior, pronounced inappetence, generalized skin lesions, erosions of the fins and tail, and ultimately high mortality in...

Calotropis procera (commonly known as Swallow wort) is described in the Ayurvedic literature for the treatment of inflammation and arthritic disorders. Therefore, in the present work, the antiarthritic activity of potential fractions of Swallow wort...

The formulation of the transdermal patch with fulvic acid (FA) on an emulsion basis using pluronic Kolliphor® p237 as a permeability enhancer was developed and studied for anti-inflammatory properties. FA was isolated from the peat in the Nizhny...

Lappaconitine (LA) is a C-18 diterpene alkaloid isolated from Aconitum sinomontanum Nakai that has been shown to relieve mild to moderate discomfort. Various researchers have tried to explain the underlying mechanism of LA’s effects on chronic...

Unlike other widely known Aloe species used for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, this species suffers from a lack of sufficient studies on its biological and chemical characters. This is what drove us to perform this work to evaluate the in vivo an...

The effective defense of sparsely populated border islands, surrounded by a multifaceted sea, against enemy infiltration poses a crucial problem in national defense. One possible solution is to deploy multiple unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to form...

Chronic pain is a persistent and debilitating health problem. Although the use of analgesics such as opioids is useful in mitigating pain, their prolonged use is associated with unwanted effects including abuse liability. This study assesses the anti...

This paper proposes a quantum algorithm, named Dicke state quantum search (DSQS), to set qubits in the Dicke state |Dkn⟩ of D states in superposition to locate the target inputs or solutions of specific patterns among 2n unstructured input ins...

Studies performed in a mouse model of chronic inflammatory pain induced by intraplantar injection of complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA) have shown that constitutive activation of the endogenous opioid signaling, besides serving as a mechanism of...

The existing literature offers limited experimental evidence on the role of botulinum neurotoxin type E (BoNT-E) in pain transmission. The present study investigated the antinociceptive effects of subcutaneously administered BoNT-E in chronic orofaci...

Numerous studies have indicated a link between vaccines and the exacerbation of autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, there is no consensus in clinical practice regarding the optimal timing of immunization. Therefore, this...

A large percentage of primary sensory neurons in the trigeminal ganglia (TG) contain neuropeptides such as tachykinins or calcitonin gene-related peptide. Neuropeptides released from the central terminals of primary afferents sensitize the secondary...

(1) Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and edentulism are major public health challenges with shared risk factors and overlapping inflammatory pathways. This study investigates the association between complete tooth loss and CVD. (2) Methods: D...

After the appearance of relation-theoretic contraction principle due to Alam and Imdad, the domain of fixed point theory applied to relational metric spaces has attracted much attention. Existence and uniqueness of fixed/coincidence points satisfying...

In this paper, we prove a unique common coupled fixed point theorem for two pairs of w-compatible mappings in S b -metric spaces. We also furnish an example to support our main result.

Background: Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (HT) is one of the most common autoimmune diseases worldwide, yet little is known about the role of lipid mediators in its pathogenesis. This study investigated whether there is a link between complete blood...

Mirra Alfassa’s influence, power, and authority are essential to the integral yoga according to Aurobindo Ghose, yet most scholars have so far refused to examine their contours. Aurobindo saw her as the incarnation of the divine mother or Mah&#...

In this study, we document the first recorded range extension of the genus Synaphobranchus from the East Mariana Basin in the Western Pacific Ocean. We sequenced the complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of two deep-sea eels (Synaphobranchus brevidorsal...

Nuthatches (genus Sitta; family Sittidae) are a passerine genus with a predominantly Nearctic and Eurasian distribution. To understand the phylogenetic position of Sitta and phylogenetic relations within this genus, we sequenced the complete mitochon...

In discussing the arrival of Buddhism to China, Erik Zürcher describes the meeting of “a jungle of Buddhist metaphysics” with other local philosophies and practices. This period was a transformative encounter with wide-ranging ramifications, includin...

Bacteria in the genus Elizabethkingia have emerged as a cause of life-threatening infections in humans. However, accurate species identification of these pathogens relies on molecular techniques. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of 16S rRNA and comp...

Complex immunosuppressive therapy is prescribed in medical practice to patients with glomerulonephritis to help them overcome symptoms and prevent chronic renal failure. Such an approach requires long-term systemic administration of strong medication...

We solve a question posed by E. Karapinar, F. Khojasteh and Z.D. Mitrović in their paper “A Proposal for Revisiting Banach and Caristi Type Theorems in b-Metric Spaces”. We also characterize the completeness of b-metric spaces with t...

This paper gives the new concepts of quasi ( s , r ) -contractive multi-valued operators and establishes some related fixed point results for such operators. In addition, an application to certain functional equations arising from dynamic prog...