Objectives: Mandibular tori (bilateral, asymptomatic, lingual mandibular protuberances) often remain untreated. When considering surgical resection, understanding the shape, size, and position of the tori at the bone level is crucial. However, collec...
Levee breaches are some of the most common hazards in the world and cause the loss of lives, livelihoods, and property destruction. During the 2010 flood in Pakistan, the most devastating breach occurred at Tori Levee on the right bank of the Indus R...
Branched manifolds that describe strange attractors in R3 can be enclosed in, and are organized by, canonical bounding tori. Tori of genus g are labeled by a symbol sequence, or “periodic orbit”, of period g-1. We show that the number of distinct can...
It is widely believed that, in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), a supermassive black hole with an accretion disk is surrounded by an optically and geometrically thick torus at sub-parsec scale. However, it is not clear how the mass supply is toward the...
The linear Weingarten condition with ellipticity for the mean curvature and the extrinsic Gaussian curvature on a surface in the three-sphere can define a Riemannian metric which is called the elliptic linear Weingarten metric. We established some lo...
Tori are bony growths in the mouth caused by genetic and environmental factors. Oral tori may grow over time and interfere with oral hygiene, speech, mastication, and the application of dentures. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence a...
A symmetry group of a spatial graph Γ in S3 is a finite group consisting of orientation-preserving self-diffeomorphisms of S3 which leave Γ setwise invariant. In this paper, we show that in many cases symmetry groups of Γ which agree on a regular nei...
The main aim of this article is two-fold: (i) to generalize into a multivalued setting the classical Ivanov theorem about the lower estimate of a topological entropy in terms of the asymptotic Nielsen numbers, and (ii) to apply the related inequality...
We review some aspects of accretion disks physics, spacetime photon shell and photon orbits, related to retrograde (counter-rotating) motion in Kerr black hole (BH) spacetimes. In this brief review, we examine the counter-rotating components of the K...
Purpose: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of exostosis in the Mississippi population. Methods: The patient archives of the UMMC School of Dentistry between January 2018 and May 2021 were examined. Patients with exostosis we...
A natural phenomenon in applications is the interaction of quasi-periodic solutions of dynamical systems in a dissipative setting. We study the interactions of two of such ODE systems based on the construction of a nonlinear oscillator with thermosta...
In the 1990s, physicists constructed two one-parameter families of compact oriented embedded minimal surfaces in flat three-tori by using symmetries of space groups, called the rG family and tG family. The present work studies the existence of the tw...
In the current study, distance-based topological invariants, namely the Wiener number and the topological roundness index, were computed for graphenic tori and Klein bottles (named toroidal and Klein bottle fullerenes or polyhexes in the pre-graphene...
This study investigated the psycho-physiological impact of a black belt examination. Older brown-belt judoka (Tori, F = 2, M = 4; age = 75.6 ± 4.5 yrs) and their 2nd–5th Dan black-belt coaches (Uke; M = 6; age = 36.5 ± 10.8 yr) we...
We present a review of the influence of cosmic repulsion and external magnetic fields on accretion disks rotating around rotating black holes and on jets associated with these rotating configurations. We consider both geometrically thin and thick dis...
From disaster prevention to mitigation, drug analysis to drug design, agriculture to food security, IoT to AI, and big data analysis to knowledge or sentiment mining, a high computation power is a prime necessity at present. As such, massively parall...
Background: Each combat sport carries different risks of injury due to the specifics of the sport (including the weight categories and sex) and the fighting techniques used according to different sports regulations. The purpose of this study is to ex...
A class of graphs is defined in which each vertex of a discrete torus is replaced by a Boolean hypercube in such a way that vertices in a fixed subset of each replacement cube are adjacent to corresponding vertices of a neighboring replacement cube....
The aim of this paper is to describe a case of a young. [...]
We present the results of axisymmetric and three-dimensional numerical simulations of the flow around a torus in the low Reynolds number regime [ 10 − 2 ; 3 × 10 3 ] and aspect-ratio 0 < Γ = 2 a / R ≤ 2 (core diamete...
In this work, we show that an n-dimensional sublattice Λ′=mΛ of an n-dimensional lattice Λ induces a G=Zmn tessellation in the flat torus Tβ′=Rn/Λ′, where the group G is isomorphic to the lattice partition Λ/Λ′. As a consequence, we obtain, via this...
Objectives: Torus mandibularis (TM) is a benign bony exostosis on the lingual surface of the mandible, typically developing from the third decade of life with slow progression; its etiology remains unclear. As TM excision causes no functional or aest...
This work addresses the issue of how much cloud cover data obtained using model-interpolation techniques are suitable for determining conditions for the optical observations at a local geophysical observatory. For this purpose, we compared the dynami...
Background: Patients treated with an inhibitor of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTORI) in a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-free immunosuppressive regimen after heart transplantation (HTx) show a higher risk for transplant rejection. We developed...
The life span of dendritic cells (DCs) can become short following induced activation, which is associated with metabolic transition due to the regulation of mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR). The purpose of this study was to investigate the pote...
(1) Background: Neuroendocrine neoplasms of the lung (LNENs, lung carcinoids) are often diagnosed at an advanced stage when they are not surgically curable, and treatment options are limited. One of the approved options for treating inoperable tumors...
BK virus-associated nephropathy (PvAN) increases the risk of graft failure justifying treatment. Conversion to mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors (mTORi) and Human polyclonal immunoglobulins (IVIg) could prevent the risk of PvAN. Our retrospect...
Background: The use of mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors (mTORis) in kidney transplantation increases the risk of donor-specific human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibody formation and rejection. Here, we investigated the long-term consequences o...
Recombination directionality factors (RDFs), or excisionases, are essential players of prophage excisive recombination. Despite the essentially catalytic role of the integrase in both integrative and excisive recombination, RDFs are required to direc...
5 May 2021
Background: Cardiac rhabdomyomas (CRs) are the earliest sign of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Most of them spontaneously regress after birth. However, multiple and/or large tumors may result in heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia. Recently, the a...
Classical immunosuppression based on steroids, calcineurin inhibitors, and mycophenolate results in several unwanted effects and unsatisfactory long-term outcomes in kidney transplantation (KT). New immunosuppressors search for fewer adverse events a...
The advances in transplant immunosuppression have reduced substantially the incidence of kidney graft rejection. In recent years, the focus has moved from preventing rejection to preventing the long-term consequences of long-standing immunosuppressio...
Objective: The aim of the study was to verify the influence of a genetic factor on the etiology of oral bony outgrowths and to determine the prevalence and type of oral bony outgrowths (tori and exostoses) among a group of Lithuanian twins. Material...
We introduce here the concept of completely geometrically integrable self-maps of n-dimensional (n≥2) cells, cylinders and tori. This concept is the extension of the geometric integrability concept previously introduced for the self-maps of a rect...
Currently, the cities in southern region of Chile present extremely high levels of atmospheric pollution. One of the main reasons for that is the adoption of inadequate thermal envelopes, which are not adapted to the buildings’ climatic and environme...
In this study, the inhibitive performance of pyridine-2-thiol added to a corrosive solution was investigated for brass using potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Electrochemical e...
The intergrowth of stable and metastable AgInS2 polymorphs was synthesized using a microwave-assisted synthesis. The samples were synthesized in water and in a deep eutectic solvent (DES) consisting of choline chloride and thiourea. An increase in th...
Ex ante economic analysis can be used to establish the production threshold for a proposed experimental diet to be as profitable as the control treatment. This study reports (1) a pre-experimental economic analysis to estimate the milk production thr...
The acceleration of the global production and consumption of electronic devices and the concerns related to waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) motivated this research. Printed circuit boards (PCB) can be found in almost all types of ele...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) remains a prominent disease state characterized by the recurrent collapse of the upper airway while sleeping. To date, current treatment may include continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), lifestyle changes, behavior...
Prevalence of type 2 diabetes increased from 2.5% of the US population in 1990 to 10.5% in 2018. This creates a major public health problem, due to increases in long-term complications of diabetes, including neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy, skin...
This study proposed an evaluation of enrichment processes of obsolete Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), by means of gravity and electrostatic separation, aiming at the recovery of metals. PCBs are the most important component in electronic devices, havi...
16 August 2022
Sexual violence and substance use are important public health problems among university students. The present study examined rates of sexual violence victimization, perpetration, and substance use among first-year university women. Participants (n =...
Photoacoustic flow cytometry is a method to detect rare analytes in fluids. We developed photoacoustic flow cytometry to detect pathological cells in body fluids, such as circulating tumor cells or bacteria in blood. In order to induce specific optic...
20 February 2023
Currently, approximately 8 million adult Americans use electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) daily, including women of childbearing age. It is known that more than 10% of women smoke during their pregnancy, and recent surveys show that rates of maternal vap...
Endophytes within plants are known to be crucial for plant fitness, and while their presence and functions in many compartments have been studied in depth, the research on seed endophytes is still limited. This work aimed to characterize the seed end...
Influenza represents a major and ongoing public health hazard. Current collaborative efforts are aimed toward creating a universal flu vaccine with the goals of both improving responses to vaccination and increasing the breadth of protection against...
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of our outreach program “The ImportANTs of ANTs” in communicating scientific topics to elementary school children, using ants as example organisms. In this program’s first phase, we focu...
25 January 2023
Purpose: While domestic and family violence against people with disabilities is an ongoing and crucial public health concern, and awareness of the extent of violence against people with disabilities is growing, research on the field is still limited....
Metallic radionuclides conjugated to biological vectors via an appropriate chelator are employed in nuclear medicine for the diagnosis (imaging) and radiotherapy of diseases. For the application of radiolabeled antibodies using positron emission tomo...
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