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At the same time, by positioning themselves as ‘professional academics’ within higher education institutions and demonstrating professionalism, acupuncture educators were able to demonstrate academic and professional ‘credibility’ and therefore distance themselves from the continuous scrutiny over their ‘biomedical fragility’.

Neuraxial…[Read more]

The evaluation of speech outcomes after resection and reconstruction of the oral tongue remains largely unsystematic. A cross-sectional study was performed to analyse the speech outcomes of patients who underwent curative treatment with appropriate reconstruction. Sixty-nine patients were assessed for speech intelligibility and phonetics using a…[Read more]

Patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) are exposed to hyperandrogenism and supraphysiologic glucocorticoids, both can increase risk of metabolic morbidity.

Our aim was to evaluate cardiovascular and metabolic morbidity risk in a longitudinal study of patients with CAH spanning both childhood and adulthood.

Patients with…[Read more]

Gangliosides are glycosphingolipids that contain one or more sialic acid residues. They are found on all vertebrate cells and tissues but are especially abundant in the brain. Expressed primarily on the outer leaflet of the plasma membranes of cells, they modulate the activities of cell surface proteins via lateral association, act as receptors in…[Read more]

Experimental results on real-world data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.This study examines which management methods are the most recent and advanced in managing rejected brine generated from desalination plants. It also provides up-to-date information regarding the most adequate technologies that generate a minimum…[Read more]

lactis group received the probiotic only. For the CCl4 group, CCl4 was administered for 4 weeks. The experimental groups were all compared with the control group and the L. lactis + CCl4 group. Tissue samples were analyzed histologically and biochemically, and the gene expression levels of interleukin (IL)-1, IL-10 and forkhead box protein P3…[Read more]