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  1. Anorectal malformation (ARM) is a rare congenital disorder of the anus and rectum. In the last 30 years virtually all patients born with ARM have survived and surgeons from adult care may be called to deal wit...

    Authors: P. Midrio, S. Battaglia, E. Urso, M. Castagnetti and P. Gamba
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1623
  2. Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is an uncommon and severe sequela of chronic obstructive lung disease in children that results from an insult to the lower respiratory tract. Few prognostic factors achieved worl...

    Authors: Pei-Qiong Wu, Xing Li, Wen-Hui Jiang, Gen-Quan Yin, Ai-Hua Lei, Qiang Xiao, Jian-Jun Huang, Zhi-Wei Xie and Li Deng
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1622
  3. The Paris Agreement confirmed the global aim to achieve a long-term climate goal, in which the global increase in mean temperature is kept below 2 °C compared to the preindustrial level. We investigated the im...

    Authors: Shinichiro Fujimori, Xuanming Su, Jing-Yu Liu, Tomoko Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Toshihiko Masui and Maho Takimi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1620

    The Erratum to this article has been published in SpringerPlus 2017 5:2118

  4. Heat stress had a negative effect on laying hens’ performance, thus this research was to study the influences of betaine (Bet, 1000 mg/kg betaine), vitamin C (VC, 200 mg/kg ascorbic acid), and vitamin E (VE, 1...

    Authors: Youssef A. Attia, Abd El-Hamid E. Abd El-Hamid, Ahmed A. Abedalla, Marfat A. Berika, Mohammed A. Al-Harthi, Osman Kucuk, Kazim Sahin and Baha M. Abou-Shehema
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1619
  5. P-glycoprotein (P-gp), a well known efflux transporter in the blood brain barrier inhibits the uptake of substrate drugs into brain. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of natural product base...

    Authors: D. Ravikumar Reddy, Amit Khurana, Swarna Bale, Ramu Ravirala, V. Samba Siva Reddy, M. Mohankumar and Chandraiah Godugu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1618
  6. A smoothed representation (based on natural exponential and logarithmic functions) for the canonical piecewise-linear model, is presented. The result is a completely differentiable formulation that exhibits in...

    Authors: Victor M. Jimenez-Fernandez, Maribel Jimenez-Fernandez, Hector Vazquez-Leal, Evodio Muñoz-Aguirre, Hector H. Cerecedo-Nuñez, Uriel A. Filobello-Niño and Francisco J. Castro-Gonzalez
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1612
  7. Tilapia is one of the commercially important fish in Malaysia as well as in other parts of the world. An understanding of monogenean infection dynamics in tilapia fish may assist us in searching for some inte...

    Authors: Shen-Yin Lim, Ai-Lin Ooi and Wey-Lim Wong
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1609
  8. To examine the clinical and neurological outcome of patients who sustained a severe non-penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI) and underwent unilateral decompressive craniectomy (DC) for refractory intracran...

    Authors: Gene A. Grindlinger, David H. Skavdahl, Robert D. Ecker and Matthew R. Sanborn
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1605
  9. This paper presents an integrated and adaptive problem-solving approach to control the on-road air quality by modeling the road infrastructure, managing traffic based on pollution level and generating recommen...

    Authors: Abderrahmane Sadiq, Abdelaziz El Fazziki, Jamal Ouarzazi and Mohamed Sadgal
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1604
  10. This paper presents a novel technique for segmentation of skin lesion in dermoscopic images based on wavelet transform along with morphological operations. The acquired dermoscopic images may include artifact...

    Authors: Shehzad Khalid, Uzma Jamil, Kashif Saleem, M. Usman Akram, Waleed Manzoor, Waqas Ahmed and Amina Sohail
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1603
  11. The purpose of this study is to assess the advantages of modified ilioinguinal approach in combined surgical exposures for displaced acetabular fractures involving two columns management. 73 patients with disp...

    Authors: Peng Wang, Xiaodong Zhu, Peng Xu, Yan Zhang, Lubo Wang, Xiangyan Liu and Weidong Mu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1602
  12. This present study aims to determine trends in the prevalence of H. pylori infections in Southeastern China between 2003 and 2012, and investigate corresponding changes in the prevalence of upper gastrointestinal...

    Authors: Jian-Xia Jiang, Qing Liu, Xin-Yi Mao, Hai-Han Zhang, Guo-Xin Zhang and Shun-Fu Xu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1601
  13. This research article proposes a powerful fractional-order PI controller to mitigate the subsynchronous oscillations in turbine-generator shaft due to subsynchronous resonance (SSR) with flexible AC transmissi...

    Authors: D. Koteswara Raju, Bhimrao S. Umre, Anjali S. Junghare, Mohan P. Thakre, Rambabu Motamarri and Chaitanya Somu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1599
  14. Ileal duplications are encountered infrequently in adults, because symptoms including abdominal pain, intussusception, hemorrhage, and perforation usually present in early childhood. In this report, we present...

    Authors: Yuji Nadatani, Toshio Watanabe, Takashi Sugawa, Shinpei Eguchi, Sunao Shimada, Koji Otani, Hirokazu Yamagami, Tetsuya Tanigawa, Masatsugu Shiba, Kazunari Tominaga, Yasuhiro Fujiwara and Tetsuo Arakawa
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1598
  15. To investigate the nitrification potential of phyllospheric microbes, we incubated throughfall samples collected under the canopies of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) and analyzed the transformation of inor...

    Authors: Keiji Watanabe, Ayato Kohzu, Wataru Suda, Shigeki Yamamura, Takejiro Takamatsu, Akio Takenaka, Masami Kanao Koshikawa, Seiji Hayashi and Mirai Watanabe
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1596
  16. Group scheduling is significant for efficient and cost effective production system. However, there exist setup times between the groups, which require to decrease it by sequencing groups in an efficient way. C...

    Authors: Lei Yue, Zailin Guan, Ullah Saif, Fei Zhang and Hao Wang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1593
  17. Climate change (CC) is an urgent and highly relevant topic that must be integrated into the school curriculum. Literature on CC integration, however, is scarce, let alone literature on integrating climate-sma...

    Authors: Jaime A. Manalo IV, Katherine P. Balmeo, Jayson C. Berto, Fredierick M. Saludez, Jennifer D. Villaflor and Argie M. Pagdanganan
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1592
  18. Kenny has proposed that severe music performance anxiety that is unresponsive to usual treatments such as cognitive-behaviour therapy may be one manifestation of unresolved attachment ruptures in early life. I...

    Authors: Dianna T. Kenny, Stephen Arthey and Allan Abbass
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1591
  19. The process of bid/no-bid decision-making is su bjected to uncertainty and influence of complex criteria. This paper proposed an application of the integration of rough sets (RS) and improved general regressio...

    Authors: Huawang Shi, Hang Yin and Lianyu Wei
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1589
  20. To explore the prevalence of amebiasis in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, in patients in Clinical hospital Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina, region of Herzegovina).

    Authors: Emil Babić, Milenko Bevanda, Mladen Mimica, Maja Karin, Mile Volarić, Ante Bogut, Tatjana Barišić, Danijel Pravdić and Nikica Šutalo
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1586
  21. Recombinant monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against tumor necrosis factor alpha are widely used in the biopharmaceutical therapy of autoimmune diseases. Currently, a large number of drugs based on these antibodi...

    Authors: E. V. Voronina, Y. A. Seregin, N. A. Litvinova, V. I. Shvets and R. R. Shukurov
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1584
  22. Coronary artery fistula (CAF) is a rare cardiac anomaly. Application of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is not fully illustrated in pediatric period. Meanwhile, the treatment strategy of CAF is still a co...

    Authors: Guang Song, Jing Zhang, Weidong Ren, Ying Li and Ke Zhou
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1583
  23. Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM) is rare, cancer-related pulmonary complication leading to hypoxia, pulmonary hypertension, and heart failure. The standard treatment for PTTM is not establishe...

    Authors: Ippei Fukada, Kazuhiro Araki, Kokoro Kobayashi, Tomoko Shibayama, Masaru Hatano, Shunji Takahashi, Takuji Iwase, Shinji Ohno and Yoshinori Ito
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1582
  24. In the existing electroencephalogram (EEG) signals peak classification research, the existing models, such as Dumpala, Acir, Liu, and Dingle peak models, employ different set of features. However, all these m...

    Authors: Asrul Adam, Zuwairie Ibrahim, Norrima Mokhtar, Mohd Ibrahim Shapiai, Marizan Mubin and Ismail Saad
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1580
  25. Although various studies have indicated that high residential density may affect health and psychological outcomes, to our knowledge, there have been no studies regarding the predictive nature of crowded livin...

    Authors: Zhuoli Tao, Gao Wu and Zeyuan Wang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1579
  26. Cellulitis is normally treated without knowledge of the responsible pathogen. Blood cultures are positive in about 2–4 %, and superficial swabs are of no value. Needle aspiration has been proposed with identif...

    Authors: Rein Jan Piso, R. Pop, M. Wieland, I. Griesshammer, M. Urfer, U. Schibli and S. Bassetti
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1578
  27. Immigration policies can cause significant public health consequences, posing detrimental social and health effects for migrants, their families and communities. Migrants often face obstacles to health due to ...

    Authors: Maryellen D. Brisbois, Helena Oliveira Silva, Helder Rocha Pereira and Kristen A. Sethares
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1576
  28. Pseudoaneurysm formation is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication after surgical repair of congenital heart disease. We present a boy with truncus arteriosus communis 14 years after homograft pl...

    Authors: Rouven Kubicki, Brigitte Stiller and Jochen Grohmann
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1575
  29. The aim of this paper is to study the individual and social benefits behind constructing stable R&D networks. We find that the equilibrium outcomes of a stable network are related to the number of competitors....

    Authors: Mohamad Alghamdi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1570
  30. Amiodarone is effective in suppressing arrhythmias in heart failure patients. We investigated the effect of long-term amiodarone administration on myocardial fibrosis and left ventricular (LV) remodeling in a ...

    Authors: Anastasia Zagorianou, Meletios Marougkas, Stavros G. Drakos, Nikolaos Diakos, Panagiotis Konstantopoulos, Despina N. Perrea, Maria Anastasiou-Nana and Konstantinos Malliaras
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1568