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  1. Biofilm provides a bacterial hiding place by forming a physical barrier and causing physiological changes in cells. The elimination of biofilm is the main goal of hygiene. Chemicals that are inhibitory to biof...

    Authors: Youngseok Ham and Tae-Jong Kim
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1526
  2. CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and labeling has emerged as an important tool in biologic research, particularly in regards to potential transgenic and gene therapy applications. Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 plasmids to...

    Authors: John W. Sessions, Craig S. Skousen, Kevin D. Price, Brad W. Hanks, Sandra Hope, Jonathan K. Alder and Brian D. Jensen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1521
  3. Many studies on the significance of knowledge management (KM) in the business world have been performed in recent years. Public sector KM is a research area of growing importance. Findings show that few author...

    Authors: Chia-Nan Chiu and Huei-Huang Chen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1520
  4. Human enteroviruses (EVs) are the major causative agents of aseptic meningitis. In this study, a total of 524 children were admitted to the children Kunming hospital (continental China) f...

    Authors: Yanju Zhu, Xi Zhou, Jiansheng Liu, Longhui Xia, Yue Pan, Junying Chen, Na Luo, Jianzhong Yin and Shaohui Ma
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1515
  5. This study employed the quadratic classification function analysis to examine the influence of farmer’s socio-demographic and varietal characteristics of maize on adoption of improved maize varieties (IMVs) i...

    Authors: Abukari Alhassan, Hussein Salifu and Atinuke O. Adebanji
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1514
  6. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is highly contagious and causes liver diseases. Globally more than 350 million people are chronically infected and among them above 80 % are from developing countries like Bangladesh. R...

    Authors: Modhusudon Shaha, Sheikh Ariful Hoque and Sabita Rezwana Rahman
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1513
  7. In femoral trochanteric fractures, fractures whose fracture lines extend to the basal neck or to the subtrochanteric part have high instability. Area classification can identify such instable fractures. The be...

    Authors: Hiroaki Kijima, Shin Yamada, Natsuo Konishi, Hitoshi Kubota, Hiroshi Tazawa, Takayuki Tani, Norio Suzuki, Keiji Kamo, Yoshihiko Okudera, Ken Sasaki, Tetsuya Kawano, Naohisa Miyakoshi and Yoichi Shimada
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1512
  8. Chrestenson generalized Walsh transform factorizations for parallel processing imbedded implementations on field programmable gate arrays are presented. This general base transform, sometimes referred to as t...

    Authors: Michael J. Corinthios
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1511
  9. Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells are the current industry standard for production of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies at commercial scales. Production optimisation in CHO cells hinges on analytical technolo...

    Authors: Alexander Templar, Douglas Marsh and Darren N. Nesbeth
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1510
  10. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) is a proinflammatory cytokine with an important role in the pathogenesis of several diseases. Its encoding gene is located in the short arm of chromosome 6 in the major hist...

    Authors: Radwa R. El-Tahan, Ahmed M. Ghoneim and Noha El-Mashad
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1508
  11. Scleroderma is a progressive fibrotic disorder of connective tissue which can present multiple anesthetic challenges to anesthetists, especially airway management. Awake intubation with fiberoptic bronchoscope...

    Authors: Fangfan Ye, Gaoyin Kong and Jia Huang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1507
  12. Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by skin fibrofolliculomas, lung cysts, spontaneous pneumothorax and renal cell cancer due to germline folliculin (FLCN) mutations (Menko ...

    Authors: P. C. Johannesma, I. van de Beek, J. W. T. van der Wel, M. A. Paul, A. C. Houweling, M. A. Jonker, J. H. T. M. van Waesberghe, R. Reinhard, Th. M. Starink, R. J. A. van Moorselaar, F. H. Menko and P. E. Postmus
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1506
  13. To determine the effectiveness of reminders compared to no reminders in improving adherence to multiple clinical recommendations measured as the resolution of the clinical condition that motivated the reminder...

    Authors: Leonardo Méndez Boo, Ermengol Coma, Manuel Medina, Eduardo Hermosilla, Manuel Iglesias, Carmen Olmos, Sebastian Calero Muñoz and Johanna Caro Mendivelso
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1505
  14. This paper concerns the solvability of a nonlinear fractional boundary value problem at resonance. By using fixed point theorems we prove that the perturbed problem has a solution, then by some ideas from anal...

    Authors: A. Guezane-Lakoud, R. Khaldi and A. Kılıçman
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1504
  15. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes have distinct geographical distributions and are associated with different clinical courses. HBV genotype G (HBV/G) is extremely rare among Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ...

    Authors: Eisuke Adachi, Masaya Sugiyama, Sayaka Shimizu, Kako Kodama, Tadashi Kikuchi, Michiko Koga, Masashi Mizokami and Tomohiko Koibuchi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1502
  16. Intramuscular fat (intramuscular fat, IMF) is one of the important traits of pork quality. How to reasonably improve the intramuscular fat content is the most focus researchers. Some possible regulation of int...

    Authors: Jingxiang Cui, Wei Chen, Jie Liu, Tao Xu and Yongqing Zeng
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1501
  17. The medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFLL)/lateral patellar retinaculum (LPR) ratio were assessed in knees as a means to detect patellar malalignment. We also aimed to evaluate the prevalence of the various ty...

    Authors: Hülya Kurtul Yildiz and Elif Evrim Ekin
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1500
  18. It is known that chylomicronemia is caused by several pathologies and is classified as primary and secondary chylomicronemia. Since hypertriglycemia is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular dise...

    Authors: Atsushi Obata, Shinji Kamei, Seizo Okauchi, Tomohiko Kimura, Hidenori Hirukawa, Akihito Tanabe, Tomoe Kinoshita, Kenji Kohara, Fuminori Tatsumi, Masashi Shimoda, Shuhei Nakanishi, Tomoatsu Mune, Kohei Kaku and Hideaki Kaneto
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1499
  19. This paper was to assess the risk for cross infection caused by blood-contaminated tampon after dental extraction and whether this risk was reduced after relevant education towards both dentists and patients.

    Authors: Jie Dai, Yong-Ping Zhang, Wen-Min Wang, Xu-Ming Luo, Wen-Jie Zhuo, Wei-Jiang Yang and Ling-Zhi Zhang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1498
  20. The development of high-energy weapons could increase the velocity of projectiles to well over 1000 m/s. The nature of the injuries caused by the ballistic impact of projectiles at velocities much faster than...

    Authors: Jin Chen, Bo Zhang, Wei Chen, Jian-yi Kang, Kui-jun Chen, Ai-min Wang and Jian-min Wang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1497
  21. In this study, we retrospectively investigated case reports with and without midazolam administration via oral, intranasal and rectal before cystometry procedure. We aimed to compare the data to evaluate the e...

    Authors: Sengül Özmert, Feyza Sever and Hüseyin Tuğrul Tiryaki
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1496
  22. To evaluate the security of a symmetric cryptosystem against any quantum attack, the symmetric algorithm must be first implemented on a quantum platform. In this study, a quantum implementation of a classical ...

    Authors: Mishal Almazrooie, Azman Samsudin, Rosni Abdullah and Kussay N. Mutter
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1494
  23. This paper is concerned with the modeling of engineering images by the fractal properties of 6-point binary interpolating scheme. Association between the fractal behavior of the limit curve/surface and the par...

    Authors: Ghulam Mustafa, Mehwish Bari and Saba Jamil
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1493
  24. This study is the first comprehensive investigation of enzyme-producing bacteria isolated from four sludge samples (primary, secondary, press and machine) collected in a Kraft paper mill. Overall, 41 strains e...

    Authors: Manel Ghribi, Fatma Meddeb-Mouelhi and Marc Beauregard
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1492
  25. To investigate if HDL cholesterol (HDL-c) could be a biomarker of the degree of severity according to prognostic prediction scores in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) or the development of clinical complicat...

    Authors: M. Saballs, S. Parra, P. Sahun, J. Pellejà, M. Feliu, C. Vasco, J. Gumà, J. L. Borràs, L. Masana and A. Castro
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1491
  26. Total three Pleurotus species (P. ostreatus, P. sapidus, P. florida) was compared for ligninolytic enzyme production grown with Coralene Golden Yellow, Coralene Navy Blue and Coralene Dark Red azo dyes in liquid ...

    Authors: Prashant D. Kunjadia, Gaurav V. Sanghvi, Anju P. Kunjadia, Pratap N. Mukhopadhyay and Gaurav S. Dave
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1487
  27. Molecular docking is a bioinformatics tool used to study and analyse ligand receptor interactions. This helps in identifying the receptors (molecular targets) for different ligands. Using these technologies, c...

    Authors: Bhavaniamma Vijayakumari, Venkatachalam Sasikala, Singanallur Ramu Radha and Hiranmai Yadav Rameshwar
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1486
  28. To develop a new score system for patients with prostate specific antigen (PSA) ranging from 4 to 20 ng/mL to improve the accuracy of prostate cancer (PCa) detection, and to evaluate it with receiver operatin...

    Authors: Yuxiao Zheng, Yuan Huang, Gong Cheng, Cheng Zhang, Jie Wu, Chao Qin, Lixin Hua and Zengjun Wang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1484
  29. The synthetic oral cleansing and teeth whitening products like mouthwashes exert adverse effects on teeth, gums and mucous membrane of oral cavity and their extensive use is being criticized. Determining the e...

    Authors: Ghulam Zahara Jahangir, Durre Shahwar Ashraf, Idrees Ahmad Nasir, Madeha Sadiq, Sobia Shahzad, Farah Naz, Muhammad Iqbal and Afifa Saeed
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1481
  30. The black-footed tree-rat (Mesembriomys gouldii) and greater stick-nest rat (Leporillus conditor) are near threatened and vulnerable native Australian murids. There is a paucity of health and welfare knowledge fo...

    Authors: Melissa L. Tulk, Hayley J. Stannard and Julie M. Old
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1479
  31. Golden pompano Trachinotus ovatus larvae were kept at 26, 29 and 33 °C for 15 days from 3-day post hatching (DPH) to 18 DPH to test temperature-dependent growth and jaw malformation. The growth, survival, jaw def...

    Authors: Zhenhua Ma, Nan Zhang, Jian G. Qin, Mingjun Fu and Shigui Jiang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1475
  32. VKH disease is a chronic, bilateral, granulomatous panuveitis with potential involvement of neurological, auditory and integumentary systems. On the other hand, APMPPE is believed to be an immune-driven chorio...

    Authors: Bo Li, Ricarda J. Bentham and John R. Gonder
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1471