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  1. Developmental and language outcomes at 2 years of age of children who had arterial switch operation (ASO) for transposition of the great arteries 2004–2010 are described.

    Authors: Matt S. Hicks, Reginald S. Sauve, Charlene M. T. Robertson, Ari R. Joffe, Gwen Alton, Dianne Creighton, David B. Ross and Ivan M. Rebeyka
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1681
  2. Climate change scenarios are computed on a large scale, not accounting for local variations presented in historical data and related to human scale. Based on historical records, we validate a baseline (1962–19...

    Authors: R. Orrego, R. Abarca-del-Río, A. Ávila and L. Morales
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1669
  3. Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in coronary artery disease (CAD) with very small vessel diameters remains controversial and challenging. These lesions are usually more diffuse, calcified and tortuous...

    Authors: Muhammad Dzafir Ismail, Wan Azman Wan Ahmad, Matthias Leschke, Matthias Waliszewski, Michael Boxberger, Imran Zainal Abidin and Ahmad Syadi Mahmood Zuhdi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1668
  4. In this article a non-autonomous unified chaotic system with continuous periodic switch between the Chen and Lorenz systems is introduced. Dynamical behaviors of this system are investigated. We consider the i...

    Authors: Behnaz Koocheck Shooshtari, AbdolMohammad Forouzanfar and MohammadReza Molaei
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1667
  5. Cancer cells rapidly acquire resistance leading to treatment failures. In the present study, we have evaluated the cytotoxicity of 17 methanol extracts from 11 Cameroonian medicinal plants against the sensiti...

    Authors: Victor Kuete, Joachim K. Dzotam, Igor K. Voukeng, Aimé G. Fankam and Thomas Efferth
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1666
  6. The global k-means algorithm is an incremental approach to clustering that dynamically adds one cluster center at a time through a deterministic global search procedure from suitable initial positions, and employ...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Wang and Yanping Bai
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1665
  7. Colorectal neoplasm and ischemic heart disease (IHD) share common risk factors. However, clinical guidance about screening or surveillance of colorectal neoplasm in patients with IHD has not been made. The aim...

    Authors: Yoo Jee Hee, Chang Seok Bang, Gwang Ho Baik, In Soo Shin, Ki Tae Suk, Tae Young Park and Dong Joon Kim
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1664
  8. The objective of this work was to determine the influence of the soil substrate on the characteristics and properties of a specific type of honey. As such, we analysed the features of a typical single-flower h...

    Authors: Amelia Virginia González-Porto, Tomás Martín Arroyo and Carmen Bartolomé Esteban
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1663
  9. In this study, we have considered a series system composed of stochastically independent M-component where M is a random variable having the zero truncated modified discrete Lindley distribution. This distribu...

    Authors: Mehmet Yilmaz, Monireh Hameldarbandi and Sibel Acik Kemaloglu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1660
  10. When the inframammary fold (IMF) is excised in mastectomy procedures for oncologic reasons, it must be recreated to restore a natural breast shape. Despite refinements in surgical techniques, postoperative los...

    Authors: Koichi Tomita, Kenji Yano, Akimitsu Nishibayashi, Shien Seike and Ko Hosokawa
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1656
  11. Probiotics are microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer health benefits to the host. A leading pharmaceutical company producing Bacillus coagulans as a probiotic was facing the problem o...

    Authors: Kavita R. Pandey, Chetan Joshi and Babu V. Vakil
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1654
  12. Pragmatics is not about language as such, viewed in isolation, but about words as they are being used. And words are never things, pure objects; words have their history and lives: their story is the story of ...

    Authors: Jacob L. Mey
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1653
  13. The University of Cape Town Karl Storz Head and Neck Surgery Fellowship is the only head and neck surgery fellowship in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article briefly describes this fellowship and outlines the exper...

    Authors: J. J. Fagan, J. Aswani, J. Otiti, V. Mushamba, E. Liyombo, G. Woodson, D. Weed, C. Zender, K. Mannion, J. L. Netterville, R. Wagner and Mark Zafereo
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1652
  14. An outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) that occurred in a Juku in Fengtai District, Beijing, China, in 2015 was monitored by the China Information System for Disease Control and Prevention. Epidem...

    Authors: Jin-Song Li, Xiao-Gen Dong, Meng Qin, Hui-Ru Feng, Jun-Yong Yang, Ruo-Xi Li, Jian-Jun Zhang and Li-Shu Zheng
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1650
  15. EmrAB operon is known for multidrug resistance in bacteria and yet has not been reported related to heavy metal resistance or antibiotics/heavy metal co-resistance. Strain Staphylococcus ...

    Authors: He Zhang, Yantian Ma, Pu Liu and Xiangkai Li
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1648
  16. There is an ongoing discussion how to assess acute mountain sickness (AMS) in real life conditions. Next to more-item scales with a cut off like the Lake Louise Self-Report (LLS), some authors suggested to use...

    Authors: Anika Frühauf, Martin Burtscher, Elena Pocecco, Martin Faulhaber and Martin Kopp
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1646
  17. The present study aims to assess the toxic effect of latex and ethanolic leaf extract of Calotropis procera (C. procera), in comparison to abamectin, on serum biomarkers of function and histological integrity of...

    Authors: Osama M. Ahmed, Hanaa I. Fahim, Magdy W. Boules and Heba Y. Ahmed
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1644
  18. Stemphylium lycopersici is an important pathogen causing leaf spot of tomatoes worldwide. Although much information is available about the pathogen, little is known about dynamics of S. l...

    Authors: Karima Al-Amri, Abdullah M. Al-Sadi, Adel Al-Shihi, Abbas Nasehi, Issa Al-Mahmooli and Mike L. Deadman
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1642
  19. The aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate the microindentation hardness and chemical composition of residual dentin left at the cavity bottom following removal of carious dentin using the Carisolv chemom...

    Authors: Gunseli Katirci and R. Banu Ermis
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1641
  20. Production of range grasses under irrigation has been widely adopted in the arid environments of Kenya as a strategy for seasonal forage supply gap. However, their productivity has only been done under conven...

    Authors: O. K. Koech, R. N. Kinuthia, G. N. Karuku, S. M. Mureithi and R. Wanjogu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1640
  21. Holt–Oram syndrome (HOS) features radial ray hypoplasia, heart defect and cardiac conduction impairment. Ulnar-mammary syndrome (UMS) characterizes congenital defects of the ulnar side of the upper limbs, unde...

    Authors: Katarzyna Iwanicka-Pronicka, Magdalena Socha, Maria Jędrzejowska, Małgorzata Krajewska-Walasek and Aleksander Jamsheer
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1638
  22. In order to investigate the mechanical properties of lime mudstone, conventional triaxial compression tests under different confining pressures (0, 5, 15 and 20 MPa) are performed on lime mudstone samples. The...

    Authors: Junbao Wang, Xinrong Liu, Baoyun Zhao, Zhanping Song and Jinxing Lai
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1634
  23. Slopes are subjected to stress redistributions during underground mining activities, and this may eventually cause deformation or landslide. This paper takes Madaling landslide in Guizhou Province, China as a ...

    Authors: JianJun Zhao, JianGuo Xiao, Min Lee Lee and YunTao Ma
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1633
  24. CpG islands in hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome are potential targets for methylation mediated gene silencing, and may be involved in the pathogenesis of HBV infection. To date, their characteristics in HBV quas...

    Authors: Yuan Xue, Ming-Jie Wang, Su-Yuan Huang, Zhi-Tao Yang, De-Min Yu, Yue Han, Ming-Yu Zhu, Dao Huang, Dong-Hua Zhang, Qi-Ming Gong and Xin-Xin Zhang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1630
  25. The observation, decomposition and record of motion are usually accomplished through artificial means during the process of motion analysis. This method not only has a heavy workload, its efficiency is also ve...

    Authors: Qiannan Jiang, Mingzhou Liu, Xiaoqiao Wang, Maogen Ge and Ling Lin
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1629
  26. Mentha plants containing over 25 species are aromatic perennial herbs. These species have been interested and widely used because of various clinical findings. Many volatile compounds ...

    Authors: Yun Ji Park, Thanislas Bastin Baskar, Sun Kyung Yeo, Mariadhas Valan Arasu, Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi, Soon Sung Lim and Sang Un Park
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1628
  27. In this paper, we first present a new lattice-based PKE scheme on SIS, proving that it achieves CPA-security under DBi-ISIS assumption. Compared to some lattice-based schemes, ours has some advantages and is q...

    Authors: Limin Zhou, Zhengming Hu and Fengju Lv
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1627
  28. Diaphragmatic injuries include wounds and diaphragm ruptures, due to a thoracoabdominal blunt or penetrating traumas. Their incidence ranges between 0.8 and 15 %. The diagnosis is often delayed, despite severa...

    Authors: Ousmane Thiam, Ibrahima Konate, Mohamadou Lamine Gueye, Alpha Omar Toure, Mamadou Seck, Mamadou Cisse, Balla Diop, Elias Said Dirie, Ousmane Ka, Mbaye Thiam, Madieng Dieng, Abdarahmane Dia and Cheikh Tidiane Toure
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1614
  29. Characteristics of flow field and stirring ability of coherent jet with various shrouding CH4 flow rates on the molten bath were studied by combustion experiment and numerical simulation. The axial velocity and t...

    Authors: Fuhai Liu, Dongbai Sun, Rong Zhu, Rongfang Su and Xueyi Wang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1613