by Sanaz Taherzadeh  , Deanna Gray-Miceli  , Ksenia Zukowsky  , Kathy Gray  and Sarah J. Ratcliffe

Received: 01 February 2025;  Published: 26 June 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2502317

Falls are a serious global public health issue affecting individuals of all ages, resulting in serious injuries, fatalities, and extended hospital stays. While knowledge and attitude of healthcare staff toward fall prevention are understood to impact patient safety, less well known are the type and content of fall prevention surveys used to identify nurses’ knowledge of fall prevention. Until now, no study has systematically reviewed the universe of existing tests, surveys, and programs used to assess fall pr [...]

by Giuseppe Cocco  and Stefano Pandolfi

Received: 07 February 2022;  Published: 16 June 2022;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2202200

Syncope is characterized by a transient and rapid loss of consciousness for a short duration, with full spontaneous recovery within minutes. Syncope causes up to 2% of all emergency medical consultations. The incidence of syncope is similar in men and women, is higher in old patients (slightly higher in old women). The prevalence of syncope is up to 23% for the institutionalized elderly. In elderly patients, syncope often presents atypically, such as with falls; these patients might also have difficulty recalling e [...]

by Yasuhiro Kotera  , Jenai Lieu  , Hou Tin Gillian Liu  , Christian Veasey  and Kristian Barnes

Received: 09 January 2024;  Published: 27 June 2024;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2402036

Yozan Uesugi was a Daimyo (feudal lord) who governed an area called Yonezawa in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan from 1767 to 1823. Yonezawa was originally an impoverished provincial government which under his leadership regained a healthy financial status. His leadership style was unique among Daimyos, yet respected and regarded as an ideal by many including President John F. Kennedy. One of the characteristics of Yozan’s leadership was he demonstrated what he expected his people to do, instead of just telling them what [...]

by Amer Belal  , Shawna Lord  , Rohan V. Mehta  and Alfonso Santos

Received: 28 October 2022;  Published: 19 April 2023;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2302182

Cryptococcosis is a common invasive fungal infection in solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) that can be challenging to manage. We discuss a case of disseminated cryptococcosis in a transplant recipient. A 26-year-old woman with a history of ESRD from C1q nephropathy, living-related kidney transplant in early 2012, and allograft nephrectomy in 2015, received a deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT). Induction after the first transplant was anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) and maintenance immunosuppression (IS) in [...]

by Dicky Moch Rizal  , Ika Setyawati  , Arya Adiningrat  , Agus Widiyatmoko  , Supriyatiningsih  and Nandia Septiyorini

Received: 09 October 2023;  Published: 27 February 2024;  doi: 10.21926/obm.genet.2401216

Y chromosome microdeletions (YCMs) are one kind of genetic disorder that contributes to male infertility. This study aims to determine the profile of YCMs in the infertile male population in Indonesia. This cross-sectional study was conducted by identifying YCMs testing data on 49 infertile male patients identified with azoospermia and oligoasthenoteratozoospermia (OAT) based on their sperm analysis, who visited andrology polyclinics in several hospitals in Yogyakarta Province between March 2021 to August 2022. Stu [...]

by Gil Newburn  , Joshua P McGeown  , Eryn E Kwon  , Maryam Tayebi  , Paul Condron  , Taylor Emsden  , Samantha J Holdsworth  , Daniel M Cornfeld  and Graeme M Bydder

Received: 30 June 2023;  Published: 14 December 2023;  doi: 10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2304201

In modelling studies targeted MRI (tMRI) of small increases in the T1 of tissues using divided Subtracted Inversion Recovery (dSIR) sequences show ten or more times the contrast seen with conventional IR sequences. This may be particularly useful in imaging normal appearing white matter where there may be small changes in T1 and/or T2 in disease but these changes may be insufficient to produce useful contrast with conventional T2-weighted spin echo (T2-wSE) and T2-FLuid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (T2-FLAIR) sequ [...]

by M. Lourdes Mourelle  and Leonel Pereira

Received: 26 January 2025;  Published: 17 April 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2502308

The increasing consumer demand for cosmetic products has led to the widespread use of synthetic substances, which are inexpensive and readily available but can sometimes harm the skin and body. Examples include hydroxybenzoic acid esters (parabens) and phthalates, which are considered endocrine disruptors, and synthetic fragrances that may cause irritation or allergies. Consequently, there has been a shift in consumer preferences towards natural cosmetic products. In response to this demand and the expanding market [...]

by Shih-Ang Hsu

Received: 13 December 2020;  Published: 06 July 2021;  doi: 10.21926/jept.2103031

In September 2020 Hurricane Sally affected the north central Gulf of Mexico. Making use of the anemometers data available at 4 oil rigs over the affected region, it is found that, when the atmospheric stability was near-neutral, the gust factor (G) decreases linearly with height from approximately 1.28 at 35m above the sea surface to 1.18 at 160 m. In other words, G decreases linearly at the rate around 8% per 100 m from the typical hub height to beyond common hub height. Based on the linear equation found in this [...]

by Bhagyashree Deshmankar  , Craig E. Eckfeldt  , Graf Oliver  , Aleksandr Lazaryan  and Nelli Bejanyan

Received: 19 July 2020;  Published: 18 September 2020;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2003118

Severe hypercholesterolemia is an uncommon complication of allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Treatment options for hypercholesterolemia due to liver graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) are limited because many antilipidemic medications are known to worsen hepatic functions. We report our experience on a case of a 38-year-old male with Philadelphia chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting with steroid-refractory hepatic and lower gastrointestinal acute GVHD after matched sibling don [...]

by Thales Almeida Barbosa  , Marcelo Costa Flores  and Katia Cecília de Souza Figueiredo

Received: 09 May 2022;  Published: 16 August 2022;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2203030

Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) consist of a polymeric phase and a dispersed solid filler such as zeolites or carbon nanotubes. We prepared symmetric and asymmetric polysulfone-based MMMs containing functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNT-O) for CO2/N2 separation. Maxwell’s model was used to predict the permeabilities of MMMs. The permeability achieved using the model exhibited a good fit of the model in symmetric MMMs, especially for CO2. This can be potentially attributed to the high affinity of th [...]