Mitigating the July effect

The protective effect of rosemary in mitigating oxidative stress induced by Chlorpyrifos in rat kidney

Introduction: Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphorus insecticide that can produce reactive oxygen species, and oxidative stress in the kidney. On the other hand, rosemary extract is an antioxidant playing a protective role against free radicals. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the oxidative stress in rat kidney due to the exposure to chlorpyrifos and to assess the antioxidant effe...

The “July Effect” on Shoulder Arthroplasty: Are Complication Rates Higher at the Beginning of the Academic Year?

Background: The ”July effect” is a colloquialism asserting an increased rate of errors at the start of the academicyear in teaching hospitals. This retrospective population-based study evaluated for the presence of the July effect inperforming shoulder arthroplasty.Methods: Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample for 2002 through 2011, a total of 178,590 patients undergoingshoulder arthroplasty a...

Mitigating the Effect of Amdahl’s Law on Parallelization

Mitigating the squash effect: sloths breathe easily upside down.

Sloths are mammals renowned for spending a large proportion of time hanging inverted. In this position, the weight of the abdominal contents is expected to act on the lungs and increase the energetic costs of inspiration. Here, we show that three-fingered sloths Bradypus variegatus possess unique fibrinous adhesions that anchor the abdominal organs, particularly the liver and glandular stomach,...

Mitigating the Effect of Noise in Iterative Projection Phase Retrieval

Since the renowned papers [1, 2] by Fienup, many methods of iterative phase retrieval have been devised that address the problem where a two dimensional image is the object of interest and only the magnitude of its Fourier transform is known. Thus the phase of its Fourier transform needs to be estimated to recover the image. Building upon Gerchberg and Saxton’s Error Reduction method [3], Fienu...