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To evaluate the predictive precision of the Dialogue Support, a tool for additional help in shared decision-making before surgery of the degenerative spine.

Data in Swespine (Swedish national quality registry) of patients operated between 2007 and 2019 found the development of prediction algorithms based on logistic regression analyses, where socio-demographic and baseline variables were included. The algorithms were tested in four diagnostic groups lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease and cervical radiculopathy. By random selection, 80% of the study population was used for the prediction of outcome and then tested against the actual outcome of the remaining 20%. Outcome measures were global assessment of pain (GA), and satisfaction with outcome.

Calibration plots demonstrated a high degree of concordance on a group level. On an individual level, ROC curves showed moderate predictive capacity with AUC (area under the curve) values 0.67-0.68 for global assessment and 0.6-0.67 for satisfaction.

The Dialogue Support can serve as an aid to both patient and surgeon when discussing and deciding on surgical treatment of degenerative conditions in the lumbar and cervical spine.

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I.Geminiviruses are plant-infecting, circular single-stranded DNA viruses that have a geminate virion morphology. These viruses infect both cultivated and non-cultivated monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants and have a wide geographical distribution. Nine genera had been established within the family Geminiviridae (Becurtovirus, Begomovirus, Capulavirus, Curtovirus, Eragrovirus, Grablovirus, Mastrevirus, Topocuvirus, and Turncurtovirus) as of 2020. In the last decade, metagenomics approaches have facilitated the discovery and identification of many novel viruses, among them numerous highly divergent geminiviruses. Here, we report the establishment of five new genera in the family Geminiviridae (Citlodavirus, Maldovirus, Mulcrilevirus, Opunvirus, and Topilevirus) to formally classify twelve new, divergent geminiviruses.Renal α2-adrenoceptors have been reported to play a role in the regulation of urinary output, renin secretion, and water and sodium excretion in the kidneys. However, the distribution of α2-adrenoceptor subtypes in the kidneys remains unclear. In this study, we aimed to investigate the localization of α2-adrenoceptor subtypes in rat kidneys using 8-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats. Immunofluorescence imaging revealed that both α2A- and α2B-adrenoceptors were expressed in the basolateral, but not apical, membrane of the epithelial cells of the proximal tubules. We also found that α2A- and α2B-adrenoceptors were not expressed in the glomeruli, collecting ducts, or the descending limb of the loop of Henle and vasa recta. In contrast, α2C-adrenoceptors were found to be localized in the glomeruli and lumen of the cortical and medullary collecting ducts. These results suggest that noradrenaline may act on the basement membrane of the proximal tubules through α2A- and α2B-adrenoceptors. Moreover, noradrenaline may be involved in the regulation of glomerular filtration and proteinuria through the induction of morphological changes in mesangial cells and podocytes via α2C-adrenoceptors. In the collecting ducts, urinary noradrenaline may regulate morphological changes of the microvilli through α2C-adrenoceptors. Our findings provide an immunohistochemical basis for understanding the cellular targets of α2-adrenergic regulation in the kidneys. This may be used to devise therapeutic strategies targeting α2-adrenoceptors.In anaerobic digestion of agro-industrial effluents and livestock wastes, concentrations of ammoniacal nitrogen above 800 mg L-1 are reported to lead to the eutrophication of water bodies. Through the metabolic versatility of microalgae, this nitrogen source can be used and removed, producing carotenoids, phycobiliproteins, polyhydroxyalkanoates, and fatty acids of industrial interest. The challenge of making it feasible is the toxicity of ammoniacal nitrogen to microalgae. Therefore, three strategies were evaluated. The first one was to find species of cyanobacteria with high ammoniacal nitrogen removal efficiency comparing Arthrospira platensis, Synechocystis D202, and Spirulina labyrinthiformis cultivations. The most promising species was cultivated in the second strategy, where cell acclimatization and increasing of the inoculum were evaluated. The cultivation condition that culminated in the best efficiency of ammoniacal nitrogen removal was combined with the third strategy, which consisted of conducting the fed-batch bioprocess. In the batch mode, ammoniacal nitrogen was supplied only once in one fed and was present in high initial concentrations. In fed-batch, multiple feedings with low concentrations of ammoniacal nitrogen were used to decrease the inhibitory effect of ammoniacal nitrogen. Arthrospira platensis showed high potential for ammoniacal nitrogen removal. Using the highest initial cell concentration of Arthrospira platensis cultivated by fed-batch, an increase in the consumption of NH3 to 165.1 ± 1.8 mg L-1 and an ammoniacal nitrogen removal efficiency close to 90% were observed. Under this condition, 180.52 ± 11.67 mg g-1 of phycocyanin was attained. Also, the fed-batch cultivations have the potential to reduce the biomass cost production by 33% in comparison to batch experiments.Several studies have investigated the relationship between tourism, consumption of energy, globalization, and ecological footprint. However, the role of biocapacity alongside tourism development in environmental sustainability is yet to be documented in the extant literature. No doubt, the biocapacity of a country, its level of tourist's arrival, as well as globalization all contribute immensely to ecological footprint. Consequently, this study looks at long-run and causality connections with a special focus on bio-capacity. The study uses the pooled mean group-autoregressive distributed lag model (PMG-ARDL) methodology to test the causality relationship during 2016 international tourists' receipt from world tourism organization data files for 10 tourism destinations. Empirical result based on the panel PMG-ARDL confirms the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for the 10 tourism destinations countries investigated. Furthermore, the panel ARDL estimator was used to estimate the short-run and long-run relationships simultaneously between biocapacity, tourist arrivals, GDP per capita, globalization, and ecological footprints. While the Dumitrescu and Hurlin panel causality test was used to establish causality relationships among the highlighted variables. The trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality suggests that tourist arrival dampens environmental quality. In addition, the study finds that growing biocapacity affects ecological footprints negatively. Furthermore, an increase in tourism-related activities, globalization, and economic production has the potential to damage the quality of the environment. To this end, given the study results, there is a need to pursue green tourism which can reduce environmental degradation and destruction of land caused by multiple tourism-related transportation and construction of tourist facilities respectively in the top ten tourist destination countries.Improving the NOx conversion efficiency and particulate combustion efficiency under cold-start conditions (low-temperature conditions) is still the main challenge faced by catalytic gasoline particulate filter systems (CGPFs). Bromopyruvic purchase In this study, the physical and mathematical models of novel CGPFs are proposed based on the computational fluid dynamics software. Then, the models are validated based on experiments, and the performances of conventional and novel CGPFs are analyzed comparatively. The comparison conclusions indicate that the NOx conversion efficiency of the novel CGPFs increases by 3.2% and the particulate combustion efficiency increases by 2.7% under the same operating condition. Finally, the effects of exhaust flow vf, exhaust oxygen mass fraction Co, exhaust NO mass fraction CNO, and electric heating power Pe on the NOx conversion efficiency and particulate combustion efficiency are investigated. The weights of each influencing parameter on the NOx conversion efficiency and particulate combustion efficiency are explored by orthogonal tests. The conclusions show that the NOx conversion efficiency is increased by 3.6% and the particulate combustion efficiency is increased by 16.7% compared to the initial condition. This study has an important reference value for improving the purification efficiency of vehicle emission under cold-start conditions.This paper deals with the techniques to use plastic waste for co-processing in cement kiln for energy recovery. Plastics, a versatile material and friend to the common man, have now become one of the most serious environmental issues when it is discarded into the environment. The focus of this study is on eco-friendly disposal of plastic waste. Plastic is user-friendly, but because of its incomplete lifecycle, it has become a global issue. It is commonly disposed of by land filling or incinerating the waste, which adds to the pollution load at later stages. The authors' focus is on innovative techniques to use waste plastics in different proportions for the co-processing in cement kiln in order to highlight the energy recovery of the entire plant. It is a good solution to the waste disposal problems that arise due to plastic waste as well as municipal solid waste. The use of plastic waste as an alternative fuel for cement plants is suggested in this paper. The authors also promote this approach and suggest encouraging its calorific value utilization in the cement manufacturing plant. A systematic approach has been presented in this work to mitigate the energy consumption in the cement industries as well as environmental hazards due to plastic and municipal solid waste.Harmful algal blooms frequently occur in various coastal regions worldwide, deteriorating marine ecology and causing huge economic losses. Therefore, developing a potential method for rapid detection of harmful algae species is highly necessitated. In this study, a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method coupled with a lateral flow dipstick (LFD) was developed for detecting the harmful algae Karenia mikimotoi. In this method, the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence of K. mikimotoi was used as the template, and the corresponding specific primers were designed by the online software PrimerExplorer V5. Biotin was labeled on the 5' end of forward inner primer (FIP), and the LAMP reaction was performed under the determined optimal conditions of 63℃ and 60 min. The lowest concentration of K. mikimotoi DNA tested using LAMP was 3.3 × 10-1 pg/μL. Additionally, a 6-FAM-labeled probe was designed and displayed on the LFD after hybridization of the amplified product with the probe. The results demonstrated that LAMP-LFD could be a promising approach for detecting and monitoring harmful algae due to its high sensitivity and specificity.

In this study, we aim to evaluate the efficacy and safety of

AC-DOTATATE targeted alpha therapy in advanced-stage paragangliomas (PGLs).

Nine (6 males and 3 females) consecutive patients with histologically proven PGLs were treated with

Ac-DOTATATE targeted alpha therapy (TAT) and concomitant radiosensitizer, capecitabine, at 8-weekly intervals up to a cumulative activity of ~ 74MBq. The primary endpoint included evaluating therapy response and disease control rate (DCR) using the RECIST 1.1 criteria. Additional secondary endpoints comprised clinical response assessment using EORTC QLQ-H&N35 questionnaire, Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS), Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG), analgesic score (AS), dose alterations of anti-hypertensive drugs (anti-HTN), and the safety and side-effect profile evaluation as per CTCAE criteria version 5.0.

Following

Ac-DOTATATE treatment, morphological response revealed partial response in 50%, stable disease in 37.5%, and disease progression in 12.