To mask or not to mask children to overcome COVID-19

Are Children Less Susceptible To COVID-19? A Case Series

Background The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 [2019-nCoV]) is the origin of several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. According to the reported data, children are less common to be infected by COVID-19. Besides, their mortality rate is almost zero. Case Presentation In this article, we investigated six childr...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

Coded Mask Imagers when to use them – and when not

Coded mask imagers are among a class of high energy astronomical instruments in which spatial or temporal coding, or a combination of the two, allows ‘multiplexing’ of the detection process. In this way many ‘pixels’ of an image can be observed and measured simultaneously. In certain circumstances this gives an advantage in signal to noise ratio, compared with an alternative approach in which e...

Hemodynamic responses to insertion of the laryngeal mask airway versus Combitube

Introduction: One of the most common problems during laryngoscopy involves sympathetic system stimulation and the subsequent hemodynamic changes. It is a key measure to maintain the hemodynamic stability of patients with cardiovascular diseases during induction of anesthesia. This study attempted to compare the hemodynamic effects of laryngeal mask airway and combitube. Methods: This prospec...

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...