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Published: 2019-04-30

Postoperative Pain Assessment Methods for Infants and Young Children: A Review

Pain assessment in pediatric postoperative setting has always been challenging, due to the lack of insight about pain mechanisms in newborns, infants and young...

Keywords: Pain assessment; Postoperative period; Behavioral scales; Self-report scales; Physiological scales; Infants; Children

Published: 2019-04-30

Poly-Paraphenylene Terephthalamide: A Life Saving Polymer

The revolutionary discovery of poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide which is commercially known as Kevlar, by Stephanie Kwolek and Herbert Blades in 1965 has posi...

Keywords: Poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide; Polymer; Kevlar; Military; Fiber

Published: 2019-04-30

Pharmacovigilance: Knowledge Attitude and Practice within the Public Health actors in Yaoundé, Cameroon

The drug discovery and development processes is designed to ensure that medicines have the right quality, are safe and efficacious. However, the number of patie...

Keywords: Adverse drug reactions, knowledge, attitude...

Published: 2019-04-29

Biodiversity of Coral Reef Communities in Marginal Environments along the North-Eastern Coast of Trinidad, Southern Caribbean

A survey of the biological diversity of coral and associated reef organisms was conducted for the Salybia and Grande L’Anse reefs along the north-eastern coast...

Keywords: Southern Caribbean; Grande L’Anse Reef; Salybia Reef; Benthic Communities; Marine Biodiversity; Marine Ecology

Gestational Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea is a serious, potentially life threatening condition that is far more common than generally understood. First described in 1965, sleep apnea is a br...

Keywords: Sleep; Apnea; Diagnostic tests; Eclampsia

Resiliency and Doctoral Student Attrition in Counselor Education

Every student’s experience in a doctoral program is unique. However, there are some common factors that contribute to student attrition. Approximately half of a...

Keywords: Counselor education; Doctoral student; Attrition; Resiliency

Pharmaceutical Research-Future Prospects

India is known for its traditional Ayurveda practices. Many scriptures in the country portrait the beneficial aspects of the traditional medicine used over th...

Keywords: Traditional Medicine; Drugs; Diseases

Published: 2019-04-25

Polisaccharides: Concepts and Classification

The polysaccharides are macromolecules that belong to different living beings, whose components are monosaccharaides joined in a biopolymeric chain. Together wi...

Keywords: Polysaccharides can be broadly classified into three groups based on their properties

Published: 2019-04-24

Evaluation of Antidiarrhoeal Potential of Methanolic Root Extract of Cassia Sieberiana Dc. (Fabaceae) In Mice

Introduction: Cassia sieberiana (Fabaceae) is a tropical plant that has been reported to be used in Nigerian traditional medicine for the treatment of general b...

Keywords: Cassia sieberiana; Root; Methanol extract; Castor oil; Diarrhea; Loperamide; Mice; Acute toxicity studies; Phytochemical constituents

Published: 2019-04-24

Evaluation of the Impact of the Consciousness Energy Healing Treatment on Physicochemical and Thermal Properties of Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol)

Vitamin D3 (or cholecalciferol) is a fat-soluble vitamin widely used for the prevention and treatment of vitamin D deficiency disease. The aim of this study was...

Keywords: <p>Cholecalciferol, Biofield Energy; The Trivedi Effect®; Consciousness Energy Healing Treatment; PXRD; PSA; DSC; TGA/DTG</p>

Published: 2019-04-24

Comorbidities of Drug Abuse among Emergency Department Patients

Drug abuse is responsible for more than a million visits to the emergency department (ED) in the United States each year. The objective of this study is to exam...

Keywords: <p>Drug abuse; Overdose; Emergency department; NHAMCS; Alcohol; Depression; HIV; Comorbidity</p>

Published: 2019-04-24

Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Attitudes toward End-of-Life Care: A Cross-sectional Study

Background: End-of -Life care is part of palliative care which involves the care of individuals and their families in their final phases of life. Understanding ...

Keywords: <p>Nursing Students; Attitudes; End of Life care; Jordan</p>

Published: 2019-04-24

Innovative Dressing for Invasive Bloodstream Access Sites

Goal: The goal of our work was to develop a new Nano fiber-based membrane dressing for covering invasive access to the bloodstream sites that would prolong the ...

Keywords: <p>Nano fibers; Vascular access; Dressing materials; Bactericidal effects</p>

Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: From Nerve Blocks to Wireless Neuromodulation

Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) was one of the earliest neuromodulation modalities to be applied clinically soon after the Gateway theory. Prior to PNS, anes...

Keywords: Peripheral nerve stimulation; Nerve blocks; Wireless; Neuromodulation

Determination of the Role of HA, HYAL and HA- Receptor Expression in A Rat Model of Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion

Hyaluronan (HA), a component of the extracellular matrix, has been implicated in regulating angiogenesis and cell proliferation, migration, and signaling. We us...

Keywords: MCAO; rat stroke model; hyaladherins; hyaluronidase1 and 2; RHAMM; CD44

Ti-based Alloys for Biomedical Applications

During the past decades, several works have been reported on the study of nanomaterials due to their potential applications (energy storage, environment, solar ...

Best-Practice Treatment for People with Addiction

Addiction jeopardizes the health and well-being individuals, families, communities, even society itself. Yet there is no consensus within the addiction commun...

Keywords: Knowledge; Service; Competence; Care

Editorial: Pollution, Bioremediation & Biodegradation Journal

Environment plays a vital role in wellbeing of human society. It gives the opportunity to every species to survive and develop at its best. This rule is well un...

Published: 2019-04-22

Inflammation in the Lung Today-Hyperbolic Perceptions of Infection

The question in the title of this letter is not a comparison of terms. The answer to this question is fundamental to substantiate the principles of care and f...

Keywords: Lung Today-Hyperbolic; Acute Pneumonia

Published: 2019-04-19

Silicon Alleviates Alkalinity Stress of Sorghum (Sorghum Bicolor L.) Plants by Improving Plant Water Status, Pigments, Protein, Nucleic Acids and Carbohydrates Contents

Alkalinity is a major constraint for sorghum production in Egypt. Silicon (Si) has been verified to play an important role in enhancing plant resistance to abi...

Keywords: <p>Sorghum; Alkalinity; Silicon; RWC; SWD; Pigments; Protein; DNA; RNA; Polysaccharides</p>

Published: 2019-04-18

Dual (Fluoride and Cyanide) Anion Recognition via BODIPY Receptors

Diverse means of interactions for dual anion recognition is pretty fascinating area of research. From last few decades, polarized free amine fragments, bond bre...

Keywords: Polymerization; Emulsion; Micelles

Published: 2019-04-18

Viologen Polymers and Their Application as Functional Materials

They are an interesting class of dicationic salts that find many applications in modern science and technology including electrochromic devices, molecular machi...

Keywords: polymerization reactions known in polymer chemistry

Published: 2019-04-18

Mineralo-Bone Disorders in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients in Senegal (West Africa)

The chronic kidney disease associated with bone and mineral disorders is a cause of significant morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic renal failure. ...

Keywords: Hyperparathyroidism; Peritoneal dialysis patients; Osteomalacia; Hemodialysis; Mineralo-Bone disorders; PTX

Published: 2019-04-16

The Post-Opioid Era: A Call to Medical Psychologists

The post-opioid era represents the climate that exists within pain management services since opioid analgesics are not considered first line treatment for chro...

Keywords: Post-Opioid Era; Chronic pain

Early Evaluation of The Sick Child

A sick child presents unique challenges to all including the anaesthetist. This is as a result of their different and unique anatomical and physiological feat...

Keywords: Sick Child; Emergency and Anaesthetic Care