Open Access Journals: Recent submissions

  • Cardiac Immobilization in Beating Heart Surgery Using Pericardial Bands 
    Sirivella, Srikrishna; Gielchinsky, Isaac (Scientific Research, 2012-06)
    A novel technique of stabilization of the coronary targets with autogenous pericardial bands is described in off pump coronary revascularizations. Pericardial bands are placed across the coronary targets and snared to the ...
  • Long Term Results of Valve Operations in Patients with Diabetes 
    Huddleston, Stephen J.; Goheen, Erin; Opoku-Asare, Isaac; Kokkinos, Peter; Greenberg, Michael D.; Trachiotis, Gregory D. (Scientific Research, 2012-12)
    Diabetes Mellitus (DM) adversely affects survival in patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) surgery. The influence of diabetes on events after valve operations is ...
  • Immune Response after Hepatitis B Vaccination among Egyptian Medical Students in Nile Delta 
    Elmaghlob, Reem; Didamony, Gamal El; Elbahrawy, Ashraf; Abdallah, Abdallah M.; Hemida, Mahmoud H.; Elwassief, Ahmed; Ali, Mohamed S.; Al-Ashker, Ahmed; Mohammad, Abdel-Gawad S.; Morsy, Mohamed H.; Abdelhafeez, Hafez (Scientific Research, 2015-08)
    Background: Early promotion of hepatitis B (HB) vaccination among health care workers is an important component of the HBV infection control. No available data assess immune response of HB vaccination among Egyptian ...
  • Relevant Facts from Aerosol Measles Vaccine Studies 
    Jorge, Fernández de Castro; Garcia-Garcia, M. L.; Diaz-Ortega, Jose L.; Castaneda, Deyanira (Scientific Research, 2016-08)
    Most of the facts regarding measles aerosol vaccination have been quite thoroughly dealt with in the book by S. Plotkin, Mass Vaccination: Global Aspects—Progress and Obstacles (2006 Ed) [1]. However, there are some ...
  • Sustained Effectiveness of a Mandatory Employee Influenza Vaccination Policy at a Cancer Center 
    Mahoney, Martin C.; Kozakiewicz, Janice; Ray, Andrew D. (Scientific Research, 2014-11)
    Objectives: Despite the well-known advantages associated with immunization, it has proven difficult to achieve high levels of influenza vaccination among Health Care Professionals (HCPs). This report describes results ...
  • DNA Vaccines Approach: From Concepts to Applications 
    Pereira, Vanessa Bastos; Zurita-Turk, Meritxell; Saraiva, Tessália D. L.; Castro, Camila P.; Souza, Bianca M.; Agresti, Pamela M.; Lima, Fernanda A.; Pfeiffer, Vanessa N.; Azevedo, Marcela S. P.; Rocha, Clarissa S.; Pontes, Daniela S.; Azevedo, Vasco; Miyoshi, Anderson (Scientific Research, 2014-05)
    DNA vaccines are the third generation vaccines based on purified plasmid preparations containing transgenes that encode antigenic/therapeutic proteins or peptides capable of triggering an immune response against a wide ...
  • Purification of Dengue Virus Particles by One-Step Ceramic Hydroxyapatite Chromatography 
    Kurosawa, Yae; Saito, Maiko; Kobayashi, Shintaro; Okuyama, Tsuneo (Scientific Research, 2012-08)
    Dengue virus type 2 ThNH7/93 retained infectious activity after purification by ceramic hydroxyapatite chromatography. Dengue virus type 2 culture fluid was loaded onto the ceramic hydroxyapatite column and eluted with a ...
  • Perinatal Outcome of Inadvertent Immunization with the Measles-Rubella Vaccine in Pregnant Mexican Women during the Campaign for the Eradication of Congenital Rubella in 2008 
    Jesus, Reyna; Ilse, Herbas; Misael, Gómez; Patricia, Vidal; Vesta, Richardson; Edith, Cruz (Scientific Research, 2011-02)
    Objective: To investigate maternal and neonatal complications resulting from inadvertent immunization against rubella-measles during the first trimester of pregnancy. Methods: A prospective and descriptive study was carried ...
  • Dengue Vaccines: Challenge and Confrontation 
    Perng, Guey C.; Lei, Huan-Yao; Lin, Yee-Shin; Chokephaibulkit, Kulkanya (Scientific Research, 2011-11)
    Dengue has been recognized as one of the most important vector-borne human diseases. The disease is induced by dengue virus infection resulting from the bite of an infected Aedes spp. mosquito after imbibing the tainted ...
  • A Review of Pediatric Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Current Guidelines 
    Sarma, Deeksha; Benedict, Lawrence M.; Moulick, Achintya; Stevens, Randy; Mahan, Vicki (Scientific Research, 2018-04)
    Dyslipidemia is a highly prevalent condition, and includes a collection of diseases that cause increased levels of plasma triglycerides and/or cholestrol, or decreased levels of HDL-C, with a prototypical disease being ...
  • Efficacy of High Dose Tranexamic Acid in Decreasing Bleeding after Cardiac Surgery for Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease in Children Less than Ten Kilo Body Weight 
    Sampathkumar, Saranya V.; Raju, Vijayakumar; Balakrishnan, Soundaravalli; Moorthy, Saigopalakrishnan M.; Arul, Anandhi; Muthuswamy, Kalyana S.; Srinivasan, Muralidharan (Scientific Research, 2018-05)
    Background: To determine the effect of high dose tranexamic acid in decreasing immediate postoperative bleeding in children less than ten kilo body weight after complex cardiac surgery and also to evaluate the safety of ...
  • Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement with Partial Lower Sternotomy 
    Morimoto, Keisuke; Miyasaka, Shigeto; Shiraya, Suguru; Kobayashi, Futoshi (Scientific Research, 2018-06-15)
    Objectives: Due to recent spread of minimally invasive surgery, the demand for minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) is increasing. We investigate the usefulness of minimally invasive aortic valve replacement ...
  • The biological effectiveness of wood modified with linear chain carboxylic acid anhydrides against the subterranean termites Reticulitermes flavipes 
    Papadopoulos, Antonios N.; . Avtzis, Dimitrios N; Avtzis, Nikolaos D. (published online, 2008-06)
    he work described in this paper has demon- strated that chemically modified Corsican pine sapwood with a homologous series of linear chain carboxylic acid anhydrides provided bioprotection against the subterranean termites ...
  • TERMITES: BIOLOGY, PREVENTION, AND CONTROL 
    . Antonelli, Arthur L (washington state university, 2002)
  • TERMITE CONTROL 
    Randall, Carolyn J. (Pesticide Regulation, 2007-04)
  • Temperate forest termites: ecology, biogeography, and ecosystem impacts 
    M A Y N A R D, D A N I E L; C R O W T H E R, T H O M A S W .; K I N G, O S H U A R; W A R R E N, R O B E R T J .; B R A D F O R D, M A R K A . (published online, 2015-03)
    Wood decomposition in temperate forests is dominated by termites, fungi, and some species of ants and beetles. Outside of urban areas, temperate termite ecology is largely unknown, particularly when compared to tropical ...
  • Some New Results on Prime Graphs 
    Vaidya, Samir K.; Prajapati, Udayan M. (Scientific Research, 2012-07)
    We investigate prime labeling for some graphs resulted by identifying any two vertices of some graphs. We also introduce the concept of strongly prime graph and prove that the graphs Cn, Pn, and K1,n are strongly prime ...
  • Rediscovery of Termitoloemus marshalli Baranov (Diptera: Calliphoridae: Bengaliinae), apredator oftermites 
    Singh, Sudhir (published online, 2014-09)
    Termitoloemus marshalli Baranov (Diptera: Calliphoridae: Bengaliinae) was known to the science only through one male holotype and two female paratypes collected from Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh, INDIA) in 1935. Since then ...
  • Decisive Parameters for Backwater Effects Caused by Floating Debris Jams 
    Hartlieb, Arnd (Scientific Research, 2015-12)
    The dimensional analysis of the backwater effect caused by debris jams results in the Froude number of the approach flow in the initial situation prior to debris jam formation and the debris density as decisive parameters. ...
  • Combined Effect of Magnetic Field and Compressibility on Rayleigh Taylor Instability 
    Mitra, Aniruddha; Mandal, Labakanta; Roychoudhury, Rajkumar; Khan, Manoranjan (Scientific Research, 2015-12)
    The nonlinear analysis of the combined effect of magnetic field and compressibility on the growth rate of Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability has been investigated for inviscid two fluid interface. We have considered an ...