The concept of Environmental or Ecologic System Services (ESS) is well established in the technical, social science, and policy literatures, and is useful for assessing economic and/or social values of natural resources, and identifying potential impacts of planned or proposed management decisions. The ESS concept has been applied widely to water resources and aquatic habitats, for example, val...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study is to investigate the role and mechanisms of hydrogen-saturated saline (HSS) in the acute lung injury (ALI) induced by oleic acid (OA) in rats. METHODS Rats were treated with OA (0.1 mL/kg) to induce ALI and then administered with HSS (5 mL/kg) by intravenous (iv) and intraperitoneal (ip) injection, respectively. Three hours after the injection with OA, the...

BACKGROUND The delineation of the behavioral neurobiological mechanisms underlying the heterogeneous pathways for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) is ostensibly imperative for the development of more cost-effective treatments predicated on better understanding of this complex psychopathology. METHODS 1) Forty-eight high anxiety sensitive (HAS) and high sensation seeking (HSS) psychopathology-free...

BACKGROUND Use of treponemal tests to screen for syphilis (caused by Treponema pallidum pallidum) poses challenges with infection status classification, especially in settings where other treponemal infections are endemic. This study aimed to determine the validity of the syphilis surveillance testing strategy implemented since 2004 using two treponemal tests, and estimate the seroprevalence of...

BACKGROUND/AIM The associations between emotional personality, proximity and authenticity in patient-physician communication during breast cancer (BC) consultations are rarely considered together in a prospective study. We, therefore, investigated emotional personality/proximity versus authenticity in patient-physician communication in healthy study subjects (HSS) and in patients with benign br...

INTRODUCTION Description of a continuous hypertonic saline solution (HSS) infusion using a dose-adaptation of natremia in traumatic brain injured (TBI) patients with refractory intracranial hypertension (ICH). METHODS We performed a single-center retrospective study in a surgical intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital. Fifty consecutive TBI patients with refractory ICH treated with contin...

Background: To determine the accuracy of a simple and cost effective haematological scoring system (HSS) in the early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis using blood culture as a gold standard. Methods: In this prospective cross sectional study newborns (n=170) with history of prolonged rupture of membranes, maternal intrapartum fever > 1010 F or clinical signs of sepsis namely; neonatal fever ≥ 1010 ...

This paper presents the harmonic state space (HSS) modeling of a three-phase modular multilevel converter (MMC). MMC is a converter system with a typical multi-frequency response due to its significant harmonics in the arm currents, capacitor voltages, and control signals. These internal harmonic dynamics can have a great influence on the operation characteristics of MMC. However, the conventio...

OBJECTIVE To assess the influence of socioeconomic background on malocclusion prevalence in primary dentition in a population from the Brazilian Amazon. METHODS This cross-sectional study comprised 652 children (males and females) aged between 3 to 6 years old. Subjects were enrolled in private preschools (higher socioeconomic status - HSS, n = 312) or public preschools (lower socioeconomic s...

In this study, polyamide-aluminum foil-polypropylene (PA-Al-PP) composite films with different orientation status of the PP layer were prepared, and their morphology, tensile, peeling and heat seal behavior were studied. The comparative study of tensile and fracture behaviors of single-layer film of PA, Al and PP, as well as the composite films of PA-Al, PP-Al and PA-Al-PP revealed that in PA-A...