Indoor air quality (IAQ) is often overlooked, yet a poorly maintained environment can lead to significant health issues and reduced concentration and productivity...
In an original research, we discovered that engaging in regular physical activity significantly reduces the risk of anxiety and depression symptoms in youth with...
The transition to 6G networks presents unique challenges in ensuring secure, reliable, and energy-efficient communication particularly in the context of IoT applications....
We are pleased to announce that the internationally recognized journal, the Canadian Journal of Urology (CJU), has been officially indexed in EBSCO. This significant milestone enhances the journal’s...
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The evaporation of micrometer and millimeter liquid drops, involving a liquid-to-vapor phase transition accompanied by mass and energy transfer through...
Resource allocation remains a challenging issue in communication networks, and its complexity is continuously increasing with the densification of the...
Accurate medical diagnosis, which involves identifying diseases based on patient symptoms, is often hindered by uncertainties in data interpretation and...
Customer segmentation according to load-shape profiles using smart meter data is an increasingly important application to vital the planning and operation...
Conventional fault diagnosis systems have constrained the automotive industry to damage vehicle maintenance and component longevity critically. Hence,...
Magneto-electro-elastic (MEE) materials are a specific class of advanced smart materials that simultaneously manifest the coupling behavior under electric,...
The emergence of various technologies such as terahertz communications, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), and AI-powered communication services...
As Natural Language Processing (NLP) continues to advance, driven by the emergence of sophisticated large language models such as ChatGPT, there has been...
Time series segmentation has attracted more interests in recent years, which aims to segment time series into different segments, each reflects a state...
The high performance of IoT technology in transportation networks has led to the increasing adoption of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology. The functional...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) represents a significant paradigm shift in network architecture, separating network logic from the underlying forwarding...
Since the 1950s, when the Turing Test was introduced, there has been notable progress in machine language intelligence. Language modeling, crucial for...
Steganography is a technique for hiding secret messages while sending and receiving communications through a cover item. From ancient times to the present,...
Image steganography is one of the prominent technologies in data hiding standards. Steganographic system performance mostly depends on the embedding strategy....
COVID-19 pandemic restrictions limited all social activities to curtail the spread of the virus. The foremost and most prime sector among those affected...
The International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC) datasets are pivotal resources for researchers in machine learning for medical image analysis, especially...
The tumor microenvironment encompasses not only the tumor cells themselves, but also the surrounding fibroblasts, immunological and inflammatory cells,...
Machine vision detection and intelligent recognition are important research areas in computer vision with wide-ranging applications in manufacturing,...
Object detection and tracking in videos has become an increasingly important area of research due to its potential applications in a variety of domains...
With the progress of science and technology, more and more complex engineering structures are serving in extreme environments. In the service life of...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are phospholipid bilayer vesicles released from tumor and non-tumor cells for intercellular communication. EVs contain...
The peridynamics proposed by Silling [1] is a non-local theory of solid mechanics. It redefines the problems by using integral equations rather than partial...
In modern time, experts started to use interdisciplinary properties with the developing of technology and science. Thus, these disciplines provide more...
More than half of the world population is living in cities. It requires extended infrastructure and various services to support the densely concentrated...
Data security is crucial for improving the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of the image content. Maintaining these security factors poses significant challenges, particularly in healthcare, business, and social media sectors, where information security and personal privacy are paramount. The cryptography concept introduces a solution to these challenges. This paper proposes an innovative hybrid image encryption algorithm capable of encrypting several types of images. The technique merges the Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA) and Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithms…
Distributed Quantum Computing (DQC) provides a means for scaling available quantum computation by interconnecting multiple quantum processor units (QPUs). A key challenge in this domain is efficiently allocating logical qubits from quantum circuits to the physical qubits within QPUs, a task known to be NP-hard. Traditional approaches, primarily focused on graph partitioning strategies, have sought to reduce the number of required Bell pairs for executing non-local CNOT operations, a form of gate teleportation. However, these…
Vegetation is crucial to ecosystems, thus, detecting and assessing changes in vegetation cover are receiving increasing attention. In this study, we combine remote sensing data and geographic information systems to assess vegetation cover changes in Da Nang city, Vietnam, between 1988 and 2022. Remote sensing images for the years 1988, 2000, and 2010 were obtained from Landsat 5-TM satellite data, and imagery for 2022 was obtained from Landsat 9-OLI/TIRS satellite data. In each satellite scene,…
Introduction: With the aging population, more females will suffer from pelvic organ prolapse. Both urologists and gynecologists perform sacrocolpopexy, but there is no comparative study analyzing differences in provision of care, outcomes, or patient population. We aimed to elucidate potential differences in demographics, outcomes, and minimally invasive surgery utilization for SCP performed by urology and gynecology. Methods: In our retrospective analysis, sacrocolpopexies were identified using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Project…
Introduction: Non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is a common malignancy worldwide. While Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is standard of care for treatment for most patients with high-risk NMIBC, many will either not respond to BCG initially or will eventually develop BCG-unresponsive disease. A treatment option in BCG-unresponsive disease is nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg (Adstiladrin), a nonreplicating adenoviral vector–based gene therapy approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adults with high-risk BCG-unresponsive NMIBC with…
Introduction: Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP) is a size-independent, endoscopic management option for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). HoLEP offers a distinct advantage for patients who are at high-risk for bleeding whilst preserving prostatic tissue for pathology analysis, unlike photoselective vaporization. Further, HoLEP avoids the need for cystotomy, unlike simple open and robotic prostatectomy, by using intravesical morcellation. We report our experience with the first 1000 HoLEP procedures at our institution. Materials and Methods: We…
Purpose: While the mental health impact of a prostate cancer diagnosis, including low-risk prostate cancer, is well-documented, the effect of pre-existing anxiety and/or depression on adherence to active surveillance protocols in low-risk prostate cancer patients remains unclear. This study assessed the association between prior anxiety and/or depression and active surveillance adherence in men with low-risk prostate cancer. Methods: We conducted a retrospective, multicenter study involving 426 men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer who were recommended…
Introduction: Infections are the most feared complication of transrectal prostate biopsies, along with growing concerns of antibiotic resistance. Our institution transitioned to a transperineal approach without use of perioperative antibiotics or bowel preparations. We aimed to compare the safety outcomes associated with transperineal and transrectal prostate biopsy techniques. Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients who underwent transrectal and transperineal prostate biopsies at our institution from 2019–2022 was performed. Results: We identified 319 patients—174 transrectal…
Urethral catheterization is an important skill to develop as consultations for “difficult catheterization” are common in practice. Developing a broad approach to difficult urethral catheterization is crucial to improve trainee success rates. Strategies and techniques to improve catheterization success are often passed down and shared between trainees without formal documentation or dissemination of techniques. Herein, we present a framework for difficult urethral catheterization based on clinical history and patient examination, while also providing additional techniques
Perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) are a diverse group of mesenchymal neoplasms. While they have been described throughout the genitourinary system, PEComas are quite rare within the bladder. We present the case of a 37-year-old male who presented in clot retention and was found to have a bladder PEComa. Staging images seemingly demonstrated solid tumor confinement to the bladder and pelvis. Intraoperative pathology revealed peritoneal metastasis. The patient underwent a pelvic mass excision and partial
A 14-year-old presented with an asymptomatic left testicular mass after a brief episode of pain. Examination showed a non-tender left testis that was significantly larger than the right. Ultrasound revealed a 4.5-cm avascular mass and an absence of normal testicular parenchyma. Tumor markers were unremarkable. A CT scan demonstrated no lymphadenopathy but identified a prominent left spermatic cord. Due to a suspicion of chronic torsion vs. malignancy, a left radical orchiectomy was performed. Pathology identified
Objectives: To assess outcomes of rectourethral fistula repair utilizing a gracilis flap in a largely radiated cohort. Patients and Methods: We performed a retrospective review of all gracilis interposition flap reconstruction surgeries performed for RUF at a university hospital in South Carolina between January 2010 and June 2023. All repairs utilized a multidisciplinary approach with urology, colorectal, and plastic surgery teams. Post-operatively, patients were maximally drained with foley catheter and suprapubic tube (SPT). Initial voiding cystourethrogram…
The growing population and industrialization have led to significant production in agro-industrial sectors, resulting in large amounts of agro-industrial residues often left untreated, posing potential environmental issues. Therefore, finding effective ways to utilize these bio-based residues is crucial. One promising approach is to use these low- or no-value agro-industrial wastes as raw materials for producing renewable biomaterials, including proteins and peptides. Research has extensively explored peptide extraction using plant and animal-based agro-industrial residue. Due to…
The article presents the results of a study on the possibility of synthesizing biodegradable poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB-co-4HB)] from renewable waste fish oil (WFO) by the Cupriavidus necator B-10646 bacterium. For the first time, waste oil generated during the processing of Sprattus balticus in the production of sprats was used as the main carbon substrate for the synthesis of P(3HB-co-4HB), and ε-caprolactone was used as a precursor instead of the more expensive γ-butyrolactone. Samples of P(3HB-co-4HB) with a 4HB monomer content…
Bionanocomposite film is produced from renewable and biodegradable natural resources. Although elephant foot yam (EFY) starch (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) is a promising polymer for bionanocomposite film, the native hydrophilic properties influence the overall performance characteristics. Incorporating virgin coconut oil (VCO) and monoglyceride as hydrophobic components can improve mechanical properties and reduce permeability while increasing the hydrophobicity of the composite. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of adding VCO and monoglyceride on EFY starch-nanocrystalline film at…
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