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  Applications of Titania Atomic Layer Deposition in the Biomedical Field and Recent Updates Abstract Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is a promising technique to precisely deposit nanometer-thick films on inorganic and organic substrates. ALD is known for the deposition of uniform, conformal, and pinhole-free thin films with a controllable thickness with sequential and self-limiting gaseous reactions on the substrate surface of interest. ALD thin films have a wide range of applications, from semiconductor industries to medical devices. In many studies, ALD thin films are used to modify the biomaterial surface properties for particular biomedical applications. Here, polymethyl methacrylate, titanium-based alloys, and collagen were chosen as substrates for this review; thanks to their biocompatibility, these substrates have several applications in the dental, medical, and biomedical fields. The ALD of Titanium (IV) oxide (TiO2) films has been selected for this review as a biocompatible...

  Chinese Students’ Proneness to Acculturative Stress in a Dual Degree Program Introduction In this article, the acculturative stress issues that Chinese students can encounter in a dual degree program will be presented. The objective is to create awareness of what international students go through during their college years and attempt to address the possible issues. Temporary complications can be encountered by students from other countries who decide to complete a degree in an American school [1]. However, students can work on their areas of strengths and weaknesses to overcome these challenges. This article will suggest ways to manage these difficulties and ways to avoid acculturative stress. As an international student, the propensity to experience situations that are not desirable or pleasant is extremely high. The entire development when two cultures encounter with interaction, participation, adjustment, and struggle is called “acculturation” [2]. Consequently, acculturation...

  A Positive-Confidence based approach to Classifying Imbalanced data: A Case Study on Hepatitis Abstract Mining Imbalanced data is a challenge especially with clinical datasets where it is essential to obtain maximum possible prediction accuracy on the minority (diseased class which is the category of greatest interest) without impacting negatively on predictions on the majority class. A false positive that wrongly signals the presence of disease has as much importance as a false negative diagnosis in such scenarios. Apart from high classification accuracy, models need to be interpretable as well in order to enhance clinician’s confidence in them. We propose a positive confidence-based modelling approach which uses data features to assign a confidence value to each sample that signifies the probability that a given data sample belongs to the positive class. We aim to predict the outcome using the minimum number of data features in order to maximize model interpretability. We use t...

  Cefpodoxime with Antacid, Metal Complexation and Investigation of Antimicrobial Activity, In-Vitro Investigation Abstract Cefpodoxime is utilized to care for infections reasoned by bacteria, containing respiratory infections, skin infections in addition to urinary tract infection. The principal purpose of present follow a line of investigation was to explore in vitro communications of Cefpodoxime with crucial metal salt furthermore antacid to settle on the bioavailability in view of antimicrobial movement of Cefpodoxime following drug metal communications at the pH 7.4. Cefpodoxime is one of the cephalosporin drugs so as to is exercised to treat numerous different sorts of infections originated by bacteria. Since the existence of compelling the ligand may influence bioavailability of metal in blood and tissues, for that reason with the intention of study the handy interaction of the Cefpodoxime with vital elements in attendance in the body. Cefpodoxime has been related with Zn, M...

  Case Report: Measles in a 23-Day-Old Newborn Abstract For many years Measles has been shown to be one of the main reasons for childhood mortality and morbidity, especially in the age group below 1 year old. Although rare, there are reports in the literature that corroborate infections in newborns. This article aimed to evaluate and expose, through a case report, the clinical course of Measles diagnosed in a 23-day-old newborn, in addition to describing, through a bibliographic search, the history of the triple viral vaccine and recommended indications for the use of polyvalent immunoglobulin. It is concluded that Measles is considered rare in newborns, although it is possible to affect them in cases of susceptible mothers, and therefore further studies are needed in favor of clinical knowledge of the disease course in this age group. Keywords:  Vaccine; measles; newborn; Immunoglobulin Introduction Established as a viral disease, highly contagious and acute infectious, Measl...