Introduced pathogens found on ornamentals, strawberry and trees in Finland over the past 20 years

Selected Developments in Programmable Networking Over the Past 20 Years

Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years

Global mean surface temperature over the past 20 years (1993–2012) rose at a rate of 0.14 ± 0.06 °C per decade (95% confidence interval)1. This rate of warming is significantly slower than that simulated by the climate models participating in Phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). To illustrate this, we considered trends in global mean surface temperature computed from 11...

Then and now: the progress in hepatitis B treatment over the past 20 years.

The ultimate goals of treating chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and hepatic decompensation. Since the advent of effective antiviral drugs that appeared during the past two decades, considerable advances have been made not only in controlling hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, but also in preventing and reducing the incidence of liver cirrhosis and HCC. F...

Relative health performance in BRICS over the past 20 years: the winners and losers.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the health performance of Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--has kept in step with their economic development. METHODS Reductions in age- and sex-specific mortality seen in each BRICS country between 1990 and 2011 were measured. These results were compared with those of the best-performing countries in th...

The prevalence of mouth burning syndrome in people over 20 years of age in Zahedan

Background and  Aims : Burning mouth (BMs) is a chronic burning sensation involving the mucous membrane of the mouth , usually without associated clinical signs and laboratory findings Present study was under taken to determine the prevalence of burning mouth syndrome in people over 20 years old in city of Zahedan and was done in 2019-2020. Materials and Methods: Three hundred and eighty-four i...