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  1. Preoperative diagnosis of uterine sarcoma is very difficult, and currently, its diagnostic accuracy is not satisfactory. It is therefore important to perform surgery and establish the pathological diagnosis if...

    Authors: Tomonori Nagai, Yasushi Takai, Taichi Akahori, Hiroaki Ishida, Tatsuya Hanaoka, Takahiro Uotani, Sho Sato, Shigetaka Matsunaga, Kazunori Baba and Hiroyuki Seki
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:678
  2. The dearth of African giant catfish Heterobranchus bidorsalis seeds poses great threat to its aquaculture and biodiversity, hence detailed knowledge and understanding of its embryology is indispensable for its ar...

    Authors: Wasiu Adekunle Olaniyi and Ofelia Galman Omitogun
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:677
  3. The complexity in shape context method and its simplification is addressed. A novel, but simple approach to design shape context method including Fourier Transform for the object recognition is described. Rele...

    Authors: Radhika Mani Madireddy, Pardha Saradhi Varma Gottumukkala, Potukuchi Dakshina Murthy and Satyanarayana Chittipothula
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:674
  4. The sea cucumber (Holothuria atra) extracts have been evaluated for the presence of bioactive compounds and various biological activities. The methanol extracts showed anti proliferative activities against the He...

    Authors: Devaraj Isaac Dhinakaran and Aaron Premnath Lipton
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:673
  5. Although pedicle or lateral mass screws are usually chosen to fix atlantoaxial (C1-C2) instability, there is an increased risk for vertebral artery (VA) injury when used in patients with bone or arterial anoma...

    Authors: Narihito Nagoshi, Kota Suda, Tomonori Morita, Satoko Matsumoto, Seiji Iimoto, Keigo Yasui, Miki Komatsu, Yosuke Kobayashi, Akio Minami, Yoshiaki Toyama, Morio Matsumoto and Masaya Nakamura
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:672
  6. This study aimed to present the ‘dot-in-circle’ sign, which indicates the typical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonographic (USG) findings for mycetoma involving soft tissue and bone. A total of 8 ...

    Authors: Teeranan Laohawiriyakamol, Pramot Tanutit, Kanet Kanjanapradit, Keerati Hongsakul and Shigeru Ehara
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:671
  7. Thoracic aortic dissection (AD) is one of the most common aortic emergencies. It can be fatal if not promptly diagnosed and treated. Intramural hematoma (IMH) of the aorta is recognized as distinct from classi...

    Authors: Eijun Sueyoshi, Hironori Onitsuka, Hiroki Nagayama, Ichiro Sakamoto and Masataka Uetani
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:670
  8. Hormonal variations during the menstrual cycle (MC) may influence trainability of strength. We investigated the effects of a follicular phase-based strength training (FT) on muscle strength, muscle volume and ...

    Authors: Eunsook Sung, Ahreum Han, Timo Hinrichs, Matthias Vorgerd, Carmen Manchado and Petra Platen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:668
  9. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of single-breath-hold whole-heart MRA with a 3-T system. Ten healthy male volunteers underwent single-breath-hold whole-heart coronary MRA at 3 T. W...

    Authors: Yuji Iyama, Takeshi Nakaura, Masafumi Kidoh, Tetsuya Kawahara, Naritsugu Sakaino, Kazunori Harada, Tomoyuki Okuaki and Yasuyuki Yamashita
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:667
  10. Telescopium telescopium, a marine mollusc collected from Sundarban mangrove, belongs to the largest mollusca phylum in the world and exudes a blue secretion when stimulated mechanically. The blue secretion was fo...

    Authors: Bapi Gorain, Sumon Chakraborty, Murari Mohan Pal, Ratul Sarkar, Samir Kumar Samanta, Sanmoy Karmakar and Tuhinadri Sen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:666
  11. How patients relate to the experience of their illness has a direct impact over their behavior. We aimed to assess illness perception in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) by means of the Brief Illness Per...

    Authors: Dragica P Pesut, Bogdana N Bursuc, Milica V Bulajic, Ivan Solovic, Katarzyna Kruczak, Raquel Duarte, Adriana Sorete-Arbore, Marinela Raileanu, Irina Strambu, Ljudmila Nagorni-Obradovic, Tatjana Adzic, Zorica Lazic, Maria Zlatev-Ionescu, Sorokhaibam Bhagyabati, Irom Ibungo Singh and Govind Narayan Srivastava
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:664
  12. The problems of steady film condensation on a vertical surface embedded in a thin porous medium with anisotropic permeability filled with pure saturated vapour are studied analytically by using the Brinkman-Da...

    Authors: Arthur S O Sanya, Christian Akowanou, Emile A Sanya and Gerard Degan
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:659
  13. Escherichia coli stationary-phase (SP) cells contain relaxed DNA molecules and recover DNA supercoiling once nutrients become available. In these cells, the reactivation of DNA gyrase, which is a DNA topoisomeras...

    Authors: Alejandra Gutiérrez-Estrada, Jesús Ramírez-Santos and María del Carmen Gómez-Eichelmann
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:656
  14. Persistent sub-threshold depressive symptoms are important because almost all patients who experience symptoms for more than 2 years go on to develop major depressive episodes. The National Institute for Healt...

    Authors: Elizabeth Freire, Jill Morrison, Christopher Williams, Mick Cooper, Robert Elliott, Alex McConnachie, Andrew Walker and Deborah Heard
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:654
  15. Our paper addresses the development of the gamification concept with business applications. We report on our survey of customers and managers seeking to participate in gamification on their websites. We examin...

    Authors: Roger Conaway and Mario Cortés Garay
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:653
  16. The aims of the present study were to investigate the changes in the age and in swimming performance of finalists in World Championships (1994–2013) and Olympic Games (1992–2012) competing in all events/races ...

    Authors: Stefan König, Fabio Valeri, Stefanie Wild, Thomas Rosemann, Christoph Alexander Rüst and Beat Knechtle
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:652
  17. The region of Beni-Ilmane (District of M’sila, north-central Algeria) was the site of an earthquake sequence that started on 14 May 2010. This sequence, which lasted several months, was triggered by conjugate ...

    Authors: Issam Abacha, Ivan Koulakov, Fethi Semmane and Abd Karim Yelles-Chaouche
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:650
  18. Soft tissue sarcoma of the hand is rare, and one of the most common histological diagnosis is synovial sarcoma. We report the clinical outcomes of patients with synovial sarcoma of the hand and discuss treatme...

    Authors: Hidetatsu Outani, Kenichiro Hamada, Kazuya Oshima, Susumu Joyama, Norifumi Naka, Nobuhito Araki, Takafumi Ueda and Hideki Yoshikawa
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:649
  19. Studies have indicated that social stigma related to podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis) has a major impact on the psychosocial wellbeing of patients. However, little effort has been made so far ...

    Authors: Abebayehu Tora, Hannah Franklin, Kebede Deribe, Ayalu A Reda and Gail Davey
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:647
  20. Cerebral palsy is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders that affect a person’s ability to move and to maintain balance and posture. People with cerebral palsy have also perception and space orientation defic...

    Authors: Tobias Blumenstein, Hilar Zeitlmann, Ana Alves-Pinto, Varvara Turova and Renée Lampe
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:646
  21. In the present study, semi-purified laccase from Trametes versicolor was applied for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles, and the properties of the produced nanoparticles were characterized. All of the analyses...

    Authors: Nelson Durán, Raphael Cuevas, Livia Cordi, Olga Rubilar and Maria Cristina Diez
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:645
  22. The major objectives of this work are to estimate the hypertension (HT) frequency in the east of Morocco and to study the relationship between HT, type 2 diabetes and obesity. Our sample is composed of 1628 ad...

    Authors: Abderrahim Ziyyat, Noureddine Ramdani, Nour El Houda Bouanani, Jean Vanderpas, Benyounès Hassani, Abdeslam Boutayeb, Mohammed Aziz, Hassane Mekhfi, Mohammed Bnouham and Abdelkhaleq Legssyer
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:644
  23. Several different classifications to characterize estuarine systems have been proposed. In this present paper, one of the most important estuaries in North Africa, the Oued Loukkos (Morocco), forms a case-stud...

    Authors: Mohamed Ali Geawhari, Lloyd Huff, Nadia Mhammdi, Athena Trakadas and Abdellah Ammar
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:643
  24. Trichoderma isolates were collected from varied agro-climatic zones of India and screened for high temperature and salinity tolerance. Among all the isolates tested, T. asperellum, TaDOR673 was highly tolerant to...

    Authors: Sowmya Poosapati, Prasad Durga Ravulapalli, Navaneetha Tippirishetty, Dinesh Kumar Vishwanathaswamy and Sarada Chunduri
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:641
  25. Haemostasis is crucial in thyroid surgery to avoid intraoperative and postoperative complications. In the present study, we evaluated the efficiency and the safety of Harmonic scalpel when compared to conventi...

    Authors: Matteo Angelo Cannizzaro, Salvatore Lo Bianco, Laura Borzì, Andrea Cavallaro and Antonino Buffone
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:639
  26. Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) has long been used to manage lupus nephritis. Despite research on its long-term efficacy, it is still warranted to conduct further investigation regarding its indications, safety an...

    Authors: Zahra Rezaieyazdi, Tahmine Tavakoli, Mohammad Khajehdaluee and Shahram Honarmand
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:638
  27. Based on the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Practice Guidelines for Sedation and Analgesia by Non-Anesthesiologists (ASA-SED), a sedation training course aimed at improving medical safety was developed...

    Authors: Nobuyasu Komasawa, Takuro Sanuki, Shunsuke Fujiwara, Masanori Haba, Ryusuke Ueki, Yoshiroh Kaminoh and Toshiaki Minami
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:637
  28. In recent years, circulating miRNAs have attracted interest as stable, non-invasive biomarkers for various pathological conditions. Here, we investigated their potential to serve as minimally invasive, early d...

    Authors: Khouloud Hamdi, David Goerlitz, Neila Stambouli, Mohammed Islam, Olfa Baroudi, Bilel Neili, Farhat Benayed, Simon Chivi, Christopher Loffredo, Irene A Jillson, Amel Benammar Elgaaied, Jan K Blancato and Raja Marrakchi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:636
  29. Low protein levels of Hsp27 have been reported in atherosclerotic plaques. In addition, human studies have indicated that circulating Hsp27 levels are lower in coronary artery disease patients compared with co...

    Authors: Cao Jin, Victoria L Phillips, Michael JA Williams, Andre M van Rij and Gregory T Jones
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:635
  30. Here we investigate the feasibility of tumor metabolism monitoring in T1c to T3 breast cancer during neoadjuvant chemotherapy by means of phosphorus (31P) magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 7 tesla (T). Five brea...

    Authors: Wybe JM van der Kemp, Bertine L Stehouwer, Peter R Luijten, Maurice AAJ van den Bosch and Dennis WJ Klomp
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:634
  31. An investigation into the mechanism of antihyperlipidemic action of 2-chloromethyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrobenzo(b)thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4(3H)-one (LM-1554) was carried out through docking experiments with six differe...

    Authors: Vijay M Khedkar, Nikhilesh Arya, Evans C Coutinho, Chamanlal J Shishoo and Kishor S Jain
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:628
  32. Infections with Streptococcus spp. were observed in Nile tilapia cultured in net cages in Lake Sentani, Papua, Indonesia. Clinical signs included exophthalmia, erratic swimming, ascites in abdominal cavity, and e...

    Authors: Hilal Anshary, Rio A Kurniawan, Sriwulan Sriwulan, Ramli Ramli and Dolores V Baxa
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2014 3:627