PPI (Pupillary Pain Index) as an alternative to the QoR-40 Questionnaire in measuring recovery quality in postoperative patients

Postoperative pain causes several effects greater patient's pain, slower healing, and a higher risk of chronic pain. Several tools can be used to assess or measure postoperative pain such as the Numeric Rating…

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Polluted Waters with Heavy Metals Damaging the Worm Network Tubifex sp.

Heavy metal includes stressors for aquatic organisms. Various physical, chemical, and polluted stressors can cause cellular homeostatic, survival and cells signalling disorders (Afanas’ev, 2010; Rocha et al., 2010). Homeostatic disorders…

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