Category: Midfoot/Forefoot; Hindfoot Introduction/Purpose: Adult acquired flatfoot deformity (AAFD) is a complex and chronic debilitating condition characterized by a decrease in the medial arch height and, in advanced stages, a decrease in the talonavicular coverage angle as the forefoot drifts into pronation and abduction.Operative treatment of s
BackgroundNonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is strongly associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).Lifestyle intervention remains a preferred treatment modality for NAFLD.The glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) receptor agonists and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors have been developed as new glucose-lowering drugs, which can
A composite indicator (CI) is the mathematical aggregation of sub-dimension (local) indicators used to provide an overall score for the multidimensional concept being measured.CIs are widely used to assess the benefits or risks in human endeavors, such as by creating life satisfaction indices or disaster risk indicators.One important aspect of the
The Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius) excavates deep nests in the sandy soils of the Gulf and Atlantic coastal plains.Nest relocations Rear Cinch of over 400 colonies in a north Florida coastal plains pine forest were tracked and mapped from 2010 to 2013.Individual colonies varied from one move in two years to four times a year, averaging
Biological oil weathering facilitated by specialized heterotrophic microbial communities plays a key role in the fate of petroleum hydrocarbon in the ocean.The most common methods of assessing oil biodegradation involve (i) measuring changes in the composition and concentration of oil over time and/or (ii) biological incubations with stable or radi