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Antibiogram Profiles and Disinfectant Effectiveness on Bacterial Isolates in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Although studying bacterial contaminants in intensive care units has become a common topic, it is still being studied because of its importance in preserving the lives of patients and healthcare workers, where there is…

OXIDATIVE STRESS AND MALE INFERTILITY: MECHANISMS, BIOMARKERS, AND THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATIONS: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW

Male infertility accounts for approximately 40-50% of all infertility cases worldwide, with oxidative stress (OS) identified as a pivotal etiological contributor in up to 80% of infertile men. This review examines the m…

Real-time Processing Optimization of Convolutional Neural Network in Edge Computing System

On the edge nodes of Azure Stack Edge, network interfaces often experience packet queuing during peak periods due to congestion and high load. To address this issue, MobileNet was used to analyze network traffic in real…

Impact of Diet on Gum Health in Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study

Periodontal diseases such as gum disease and periodontitis are persistent inflammatory disease processes which are multifactorial including diet. Nutrition's influence over periodontal disorders may result via systemic…

The Dark Side of Acid Suppression: Exploring Mood Changes in Omeprazole treated Mice

Depression is considered as one of the most common major health obstacles in the communities, according to World Health Organization (WHO) about 3.8% of population are suffering from depression. The prevalence of depres…

Clinical and Visual Outcomes of Transepithelial Photorefractive Keratectomy After Myopic Correction in A Private Clinic in Benghazi Using Schwind Amaris

This study aimed to assess the results of correcting myopia with transepithelial photorefractive keratectomy (TransPRK) performed using the Schwind Amaris Machine. A total of 44 eyes have been included in this prospecti…

Dosimetric Evaluation of Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy Breast Cancer Treatment Plans

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting women worldwide. Radiotherapy plays a pivotal role in breast cancer management. This study aims to conduct a comprehensive dosimetric analysis of breast cancer p…

Exogenous hydrogen peroxide alleviates water stress-induced physiological and biochemical changes in durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.)

Water scarcity threatens crops, in particular, durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.), in the world's drought regions. As the water-stress wheat cultivars in the middle east of Algeria are poorly investigated, the present s…

The Black Sea is Green: What Does Ivan Vazov See Beyond the Outlines of Varna and Burgas?

The paper analyzes motives and messages neglected by literary historians in two short travelogues by Bulgarian national poet Ivan Vazov: One of Our Black Sea Pearls (1891) and On the Waves of the Black Sea (1921). The a…

Bulgarian and Georgian Fictional Geographies and Coastscapes as Bridges for a Comparative Black Sea Literature

The article drafts the notions of a spiritual-material landscape and of a coastscape amidst correlative notions like spiritualized material landscape, seascape, geography and cosmography. Against this theoretical contex…

What is the Black Sea for Bulgarians? An Attempt at a Cognitive Definition,

The object of study is the concept of the Black Sea and its aim to explain the mental image Bulgarians have of it. The concept is explored as a cultural concept, which has features not only of a cognitive, but also of a…

Black Sea Visions in the Lyric of Hristo Fotev

The purpose of this article is to interpret the semantic dominants in the lyrics of the Bulgarian writer Hristo Fotev, which deal with the diverse visions of the Black Sea coast, Burgas, the port, the inhabitants, the n…

Poetics of Space in the Novel of Yurii Yanovskyi Master of the Ship

The article is the analysis of the spatial organization of Yurii Yanovskyi's novel Master of the Ship. Using the hermeneutic and comparative-typological method, the author concludes that space dominates in this literary…

The Black Sea in Secondary Use - About Transonymization of Hydronyms

The article is related to my scientific research in the previous stages of studies, i.e. master's studies in Slavic studies in the field of Croatian studies and bachelor's studies in Slavic studies in the field of Bulga…

The Seven-Sieve Technique in the Face of the Latin Script Range Boundary: An Intercomprehension Analysis on Ukrainian-Polish Materia

This article builds upon a previous publication that served as an introduction to the intercomprehension of The Seven Sieves Technique within the Slavic linguistic domain (Hofmański 2020). The present study, as a second…

Waffles "Artek" in Russian Cultural Texts

In this article, the function of the brand name "Artek waffles" in Russian-language texts such as poetry, prose, and songs will be presented. For many years, the product name has been associated with the "Artek myth," t…

"A View of Ineffable Charm…" The Black Sea in the Ukrainian Prose of the Late 19th Century

The article analyses the image of the Black Sea in the prose works of Ukrainian writers of the last two decades of the 19th century. The sea is an important component of their creative biographies and a source of inspir…

The Theme of the Black Sea in the Literary Interpretations of Yevhen Malanyuk

The article interprets artistic images on the theme of the Black Sea in the work of the iconic Ukrainian poet and thinker of the interwar period - Yevhen Malanyuk. Emphasis is placed on the expressiveness of the artisti…

Black Sea as a Political and Cultural Metaphor (Observations on Kristen Ghodsee's The Red Riviera and Sylwia Siedlecka's Golden Dusts),

The article analyzes the image of Black Sea littoral as a cultural and political metaphor for the processes in Bulgaria's communist and post-communist period. Two outside critical perspectives on the recent Bulgarian hi…

The Black Sea Shore as a Space of (Imaginary?) Freedom in Contemporary Bulgarian Cinema

The article analyzes the metaphor of the Black Sea in three contemporary Bulgarian movies - Hunting down small predators (dir. Tsvetodar Markov, 2010), Sneakers (dir. Ivan Vladimirov, Valeri Jordanov, 2011) and The Sink…

Myth of Odessa in the Deconstruction of Boris Khersonskyi

This study is devoted to the consideration of the Odessa myth in its evolution. This myth is literary by its origin. He canonized certain writings which created the stereotypical image of the seaside city and its inhabi…

Traces of the Presence of the Argonauts in the Imaginarium of Slovenian Culture

The myth of the Argonauts, well-known in Greek mythology, has made its mark in the consciousness of the Slovenians as an important element indicating the connection of Slovenian culture with ancient culture. The basis f…

The Landscape in Question…

The Picture of the Black Sea in Polish and in Polish Parliamentary Discourse. A Corpus Analysis

In this article I present the results of corpus and lexicographic analyses of the bigram black sea. I conduct frequency, semantic, emotional and pragmalinguistic analyses of this proper name - Black Sea. I extracted the…

The Image of the Black Sea in Train Names

The article is devoted to the names of passenger trains referring to the Black Sea in Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, the USSR, Ukraine, Georgia and Russia. The author presents an onomastic and cultural analysis of the colle…