Avaneesh Singh^*, Manish Kumar Bajpai

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.125, No.3, pp. 991-1031, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.012503 - 15 December 2020

Abstract We have proposed a new mathematical method, the SEIHCRD model, which has an excellent potential to predict the incidence of COVID-19 diseases. Our proposed SEIHCRD model is an extension of the SEIR model. Three-compartments have added death, hospitalized, and critical, which improves the basic understanding of disease spread and results. We have studied COVID-19 cases of six countries, where the impact of this disease in the highest are Brazil, India, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. After estimating model parameters based on available clinical data, the model will propagate and forecast dynamic… More >

Samarjeet Singh Siwal^1,2, Qibo Zhang^1,3,*, Adesh Kumar Saini⁴, Vijay Kumar Thakur^5,6,*

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.8, No.12, pp. 1543-1563, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2020.014597 - 12 November 2020

Abstract Coronaviruses are responsible for a developing budgetary, human and fatality trouble, as the causative factor of infections, for example, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It has been well recognized that SARS-CoV-2 may survive under severe atmosphere circumstances. Hence, efficient containment approaches, for example, sanitizing, are crucial. Commonly, living compounds contribute a substance of chemical heterogeneity, with antiviral movement, and therefore can have efficacy as therapeutic tools toward coronavirus diseases. Here, in this review article, we have described the antimicrobialbased materials, which can be used to inhibit the spreading of the COVID-19. We have More >

Taemin Lee¹, Dongwann Kang², Kyunghyun Yoon¹, Sanghyun Seo^3,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.1, pp. 181-192, 2020, DOI:10.31209/2019.100000139

Abstract As mobile devices have tremendously developed, people can now get sensor data easily. These data are not only physical data such as temperature, humidity, gravity, acceleration, etc. but also human health data such as blood pressure, heart pulse rate, etc. With this information, Internet of Things (IoT) technology has provided many systems to support human health care. Systems for human health care support physical health care like checking blood pressure, pulse rate, etc. However, the demand for physical health care as well as mental health care is increasing. So, a system, which automatically recommends a… More >

G. N. Baltas^{1, *}, F. A. Prieto¹, M. Frantzi², C. R. Garcia-Alonso¹, P. Rodriguez^{1, 3}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1343-1357, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011243 - 30 June 2020

Abstract During the late months of last year, a novel coronavirus was detected in Hubei, China. The virus, since then, has spread all across the globe forcing Word Health Organization (WHO) to declare COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In Spain, the virus started infecting the country slowly until rapid growth of infected people occurred in Madrid, Barcelona and other major cities. The government in an attempt to stop the rapssid spread of the virus and ensure that health system will not reach its capacity, implement strict measures by putting the entire country in quarantine. The duration of… More >

Eun-Joo Choi¹, So Yeon Yoo^2,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.22, No.2, pp. 93-104, 2020, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2020.011059 - 16 June 2020

Abstract Chronic pain has a high prevalence rate and is difficult to treat because it is associated with personality, socio-psychological problems as well as physical pain, and thereby degrades one’s quality of life. This study aimed to determine whether psychosocial factors are associated with quality of life among outpatients with chronic pain. The subjects were selected from patients with chronic pain who were receiving outpatient treatment at the mental health department of a university hospital in Seoul, Korea. The participants were 100 patients and the data were collected using structured questionnaires. Patients’ quality of life More >

Rafi Mazor^1,*, Meital Mazor², Ali E. Dabiri^2,3, Bhavesh Patel², Ghassan S. Kassab²

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 93-99, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.08267

Abstract Cryotherapy, or more commonly known as cold therapy, is the use of low temperatures in medical treatment. The most prominent use of cryotherapy is for cryosurgery where application of very low temperatures is used to ablate diseased tissue (e.g., most commonly in dermatology). Recent research, however, shows that low temperature may modulate collagen fibers beyond the already known effects of extreme cooling on joint pain relieve and inflammation. The goal of this brief review is to outline the known effects of extreme cooling on molecular, fiber and cell physiology and to leverage these properties in… More >

Zenon Pogorelic^1,2, Christopher Neumann², Miro Jukic¹

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 10026-10032, 2019

Abstract Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate demographic and clinical characteristics and outcomes of the treatments of the patients with an unusual presentation of testicular torsion (TT) and to clarify their peculiarities.
Material and methods: From January 1999 until December 2017, the case records of 149 patients who underwent surgery for TT were retrospectively reviewed. Out of that number, 25 patients were identified with unusual presentation of an acute scrotum (14 patients who presented with abdominal pain only, and 11 who presented with testicular torsion in the inguinal canal).
Results: The median age of all children… More >

Haitong Zhao¹, Yi Li¹, Shouhua Luo^1,*

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 265-273, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07381

Abstract The ring artifacts introduced by the defective pixels with non-linear responses in the high-resolution detector, have a great impact on subsequent processing and quantitative analysis of the reconstructed images. In this paper, a multistep method is proposed to suppress the ring artifacts of micro CT images, which firstly locates the positions of the defective pixels in the sinogram, and then corrects the corresponding value in the projections. Since the defective pixels always appear as vertical stripes in the sinogram, a horizontal curve is derived by summing the pixel values along vertical direction, thus the abrupt… More >

Wei Chen^{1, 2}, Tingzhu Sun^{1, 2}, Fangming Bi^{1, 2, *}, Tongfeng Sun^{1, 2}, Chaogang Tang^{1, 2}, Biruk Assefa^{1, 3}

Journal of New Media, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 35-44, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2019.05803

Abstract Image restoration is an image processing technology with great practical value in the field of computer vision. It is a computer technology that estimates the image information of the damaged area according to the residual image information of the damaged image and carries out automatic repair. This article firstly classify and summarize image restoration algorithms, and describe recent advances in the research respectively from three aspects including image restoration based on partial differential equation, based on the texture of image restoration and based on deep learning, then make the brief analysis of digital image restoration More >

Taha A. Abdel-Meguid^1,2, Hisham A. Mosli¹, Hasan Farsi¹, Ahmad Alsayyad¹, Abdulmalik Tayib¹, Moataz Sait¹, Ahmad Abdelsalam^1,3

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 9273-9280, 2018

Abstract Introduction: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intraprostatic injections of onabotulinumtoxinA (onaBoNT-A) to treat refractory chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS).
Materials and methods: Prospective two-group controlled study. Treatment group included adult men with refractory category-III nonbacterial CP/CPPS who underwent transurethral intraprostatic injections of onaBoNT-A (200 U). Control group included comparable patients who underwent cystoscopy only. Primary outcome was the proportion of 6-point responders (≥ 6 points reduction of total score of National Institutes of Health-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index [NIH-CPSI]) at 3 months. Secondary outcomes included proportions of quality of life (QoL) responders (≤ 2 points… More >