Abstract Risk prediction models are an important part of assessing operative mortality and postoperative complication rates in current cardiac surgery practice. Furthermore, they guide clinical ...

This issue is about labour organisation, working class struggles and popular protests. 1 It is about the ambivalent role that trade unions play in the organisation of workers and labour struggles as ...

Objective: This study aimed to enhance the current understanding of the epidemiologic characteristics, laboratory diagnostic levels, and changes in pathogenic populations of rabies in China by ...

Mouse double minute 2 (MDM2) is an oncogenic E3 ligase that effectively degrades the tumor suppressor p53. In the past two decades, many MDM2 inhibitors that disrupt MDM2-p53 binding have been ...

Our journal collection, "Airbursts and Cratering Impacts," covers all aspects of impact events on the Earth by comets and asteroids. It is open-access, peer-reviewed, and multidisciplinary, and it ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are widely used in academic personnel decisions as a measure of teaching effectiveness. We show: SET are biased against female instructors by an amount that is ...

Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a chronic autonomic disorder characterized by excessive heart rate elevation upon standing or head-up tilt, in the absence of orthostatic hypotension. This ...

Background: Previous studies have reported the critical roles of tumor cells and the tumor microenvironment in tumor prognosis and immunotherapeutic response. However, how Tenascin-XB (TNXB) ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) acts as both a physical and a biochemical barrier to drug delivery into the normal brain; thus, extensive efforts have been aimed at developing methods to modulate or ...

The Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) score (SS) has significantly improved angiographic risk stratification. By analyzing angiographic ...

In past decades, numerous emerging infectious diseases have markedly affected global health and social-economic development. Consequently, the concept of “disease X” has been developed, and lists of ...

On a global scale, the population aged 65 and over is the fastest growing age group. By the year 2050, one in six people will be aged over 65 years, compared to only one in eleven during 2019. The ...