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The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted global tourism, causing an unprecedented decline in international travel due to restrictions, safety concerns, and economic uncertainty. Government in most countries imposed border closures, quarantine mandates, and flight suspensions in compliance with lockdowns and restricted movement measures to curb the spread of the virus. While the literature demonstrates substantial empirical evidence that reports the effect of the pandemic on the tourism sector, the impact on travel decisions post-pandemic has not been well documented.

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Introduction: Orthodontic forced eruption (OFE) is a non-surgical technique. It helps manage subgingival defects by repo sitioning the tooth coronally. This case report shows how OFE was used with CAD-CAM zirconia restoration for a deep carious lesion in a 40-year-old male patient.

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Tuberculosis is a worldwide health problem and is one of the 10 causes of death caused by a single infectious agent. It main ly affects the economically active population. Currently, there are multidrug-resistant and extended-resistance strains that are difficult to treat. In addition, several factors such as AIDS/HIV, diabetes, cancer and/or arthritis contribute to its persis tence, despite having first- and second-line drugs for its treatment. For this reason, it is necessary to contribute to find or search a new treatment alternatives and medicinal plants are an important source of bioactive compounds to be considered.

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Background: Acral fibromyxoma (AFM) is a rare benign soft tissue tumor which is described as fibromatous and myxoid tumor of skin and soft tissue. Case details: A 40 year old male presented to Dematology outpatient department with swelling over the wrist for one year duration.The swelling was associated with mild pain and it gradually increased in size to reach the present size. Cutaneous examination revealed a 2x2cm mobile,cystic to firm, non-tender swelling over dorsum of right wrist. Based on its location and clinical feature,it was provisionally diagnosed to be ganglion cyst and excision biopsy was done. Histology showed stellate shaped cells in myxoid background with round to oval nuclei having small inconspicious nucleolus

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Necrotizing granulomatous inflammation in swellings which are clinically diagnosed as ganglion cyst is a rare entity due to the non-specific clinical presentation, insidious course, and large number of mimickers at this the particular site.Our patient is a 47 year/female who presented with a swelling over wrist for one year. On examination it was found to be firm, lobulated, mobile swelling, non-tender. USG showed cystic soft tissue swelling with a impression of ganglion cyst. Grossly the swelling was measuring 4x4 cm which was gradually progressive, increasing in size. This case report highlights the rare site of a granulomatous fungal inflammation clinically presenting as a multilocular ganglion cyst

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A nodular subcutaneous swelling at elbow in an elderly patient should raise suspicion of infection or malignancy. A 63 year male patient presented with painful swelling in right elbow which was present for two years. It was insidious in onset and gradually increased to the present size. Clinical examination revealed a 6x5x5cm soft swelling, compressible, non-reducible, tender and overlying skin was pinch able. The uric acid level was 8.3mg/dl which was within normal limit. Patient complained that pain worsened on intake of alcohol and used to subside upon medication. The main clinical differential diagnosis were bursitis and gouty arthritis. On histopathological examination it revealed Gouty arthritis after ruling out granulomatous inflammation, foreign body giant cell reaction.

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With this special issue of JMSN we are pleased to present significant contributions to a fascinating topic in the field of materials nanostructing, which is the anodization of valve metals. By this treatment porous oxides of controlled geometry can be grown on the respective metal surfaces. To date, aluminum (Al) has been used most often, as confirmed in this special issue where nine out of ten contributions deals with its anodization.

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The results are presented of obtaining anodic aluminum oxide with an ordered pore arrangement by employing two anodizing modes - galvanostatic mode and combined (galvanostatic + potentiostatic) mode, at high values of the current density and voltage. Use has been made of an oxalate electrolyte and a complex electrolyte comprising oxalic acid and phosphoric acid. Scanning electron microscopy has been used to investigate the surface morphology of the barrier and porous layers and to determine pore sizes and inter-pore distance.

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Self-organized anodic porous alumina films with hexagonal pore lattice have attracted a considerable attention for biological arrays and confinement of various organic probes dyes in solutions. A molecular structure with axial symmetry in bis-heterocyclic indole chains and conjugate system, such as cyanine fluorophore Cy3 dye, was investigated here with respect to its fluorescence when loaded in the anodic alumina pores.

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Two basic reactions occur during the anodizing of aluminum: 1) the aluminum is consumed and 2) an oxide grows. By accepting this statement as true, the anodizing process can be viewed as a corrosion process, and anodizing can be modeled using the Tafel Equation. Anodizing process parameters of electrolyte chemistry and concentration, temperature, aluminum substrate resistance and current density are presented as they relate to the Tafel Equation and how they impact the anodic aluminum oxide structure and properties. Understanding this relationship is consequent in making anodizing an engineering process, one that enables tuning the structure such that it yields distinct characteristics to fulfill design and application requirements.

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The application of electronic-nose (E-nose) technologies in forensic science is a recent new development following a long history of progress in the development of diverse applications in the related biomedical and pharmaceutical fields. Data from forensic analyses must satisfy the needs and requirements of both the scientific and legal communities. The type of data collected from electronic-nose devices provides a means of identifying specific types of information about the chemical nature of evidentiary objects and samples under investigation using aroma signature profiles of complex gaseous mixtures containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released from manufactured products and parts of the human body. E-nose analyses also provide useful qualitative information about the physicochemical characteristics and metabolic conditions of human subjects without the need for time-consuming analyses to identify all chemical components in human-derived volatile mixtures.

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Carbon nanotube (NT) based electronic vapor sensors were tested against synthetic sweat solutions, consisting of 13 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in saline, in order to probe the device ability to analyze and differentiate vapors derived from complex biological samples.

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The collection of human odor volatiles is of interest to forensic applications as a path to investigate canine scent discriminations in legal investigations. A study using a selected array of previously identified human odor compounds has been conducted to determine the retention and release capabilities of five (5) natural and synthetic fabric types, cotton (mercerized fabric and gauze matrix), polyester, rayon and wool.

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The anodization of aluminum foils having micrometer thickness is a common process and results in hexagonally self-ordered alumina membranes. However, anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes fabricated from nanometer-thin films present new challenges to the anodization process, since aluminum films adheres poorly on supporting substrates and the smoothness of the film is highly related to the kind of substrate.

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Anodisation of pure titanium has been carried out in sulphuric and in phosphoric acid solutions at potentials ranging from 50 to 150V. The SEM and AFM morphological analysis indicates that, within this potential range, oxidation in sulphuric acid solution produces better developed mesoporous oxide layers.

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We investigated a method for preparation of ordered nanopore arrays with the interpore distance of 60 nm by guided self-organization of anodic aluminum oxide with a prepatterned array of pits in the starting Al film.

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The design of an electrochemical reactor for the preparation of self-supported comparatively thin (up to 10 μm) and large area (up to 50 cm2) anodic alumina membranes is described allowing growth of porous alumina at high applied potential (up to 150 V) without burning.

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Vertical Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) nanowire arrays have been synthesized via two-step electroplating method into anodized aluminum oxide template. For deposition of CZTS nanowires, anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) was used as the growth mask for the growth of the nanowires. AAO templates with hole sizes of 70 nm in diameter were used in the experiments.

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Anodic aluminum oxide doped with vanadyl citrate chelate complex anions was formed by a two-step self-organized anodization in 2 wt. % sulfuric acid containing 0.04 M V2O5 and 0.08 M citric acid at voltage range 13-23 V, and at 0 and 15 oC. The combination of two temperatures and at least four voltages (depending on the applied temperature) was applied as the operating conditions of anodization.

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In this paper, we report on the synthesis of BaTiO3 nanowires via the anodic aluminum oxide template method. To fill in the precursors of BaTiO3 into anodic aluminum oxide templates, the vacuum and drop loading method developed in our previous study was used. Ba(CH3COO)2 (barium acetate) and C12H28O4Ti (tetraisopropyl orthotitanate) were used as Ba and Ti sources, respectively. Anodic aluminum oxide membranes with the through-hole diameter of ~200 nm were used as the template for BaTiO3 nanowires.

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