Tubercular splenic abscess is an extremely rare clinical entity particularly among immunocompetent patients. It has been reported in association with immunodeficiency states. We report a case of 34 years old HIV negative male who presented with fever and pain in left hypochondriac region. Computerised Tomographic scan (CT scan) of the abdomen revealedmultiplesplenicabscesseswithabdominallymphadenopathySplenectomywasdone.Pusfromlesionshowedacid fastbacilli.Patientrespondedtostandardantitubercularmedication.

Aparna Deshpande, Rohan Kulkarni. "Splenic Tubercular Abscesses in Immunocompetent Individuals: A Case Series and Review of Literature." Computer Engineering, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 1–4, 2025.

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Yujiao Liang, Jialei Wang, and Mengying. "Investigating the Efficacy of Acupuncture in Chinese Adults with Psoriatic Arthritis: A Prospective Cohort Analysis." Computer Engineering, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 5–9, 2025.

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: Active prosthetic knees (APKs) are widely used in the past decades. However, it is still challenging to make them more natural and controllable because: (1) most existing APKs that use rigid actuators have difficulty obtaining more natural walking; and (2) traditional finite-state impedance control has difficulty adjusting parameters for different motions and users. In this paper, a flexible APK with a compact variable stiffness actuator (VSA) is designed for obtaining more flexible bionic characteristics. The VSA joint is implemented by two motors of different sizes, which connect the knee angle and the joint stiffness. Considering the complexity of prothetic lower limb control due to unknown APK dynamics, as well as strong coupling between biological joints and prosthetic joints, an adaptive robust force/position control method is designed for generating a desired gait trajectory of the prosthesis. It can operate without the explicit model of the system dynamics and multiple tuning parameters of different gaits. The proposed model-free scheme utilizes the time-delay estimation technique, sliding mode control, and fuzzy neural network to realize finite- time convergence and gait trajectory tracking. The virtual prototype of APK was established in ADAMS as a testing platform and compared with two traditional time-delay control schemes. Some demonstrations are illustrated, which show that the proposed method has superior tracking characteristics and stronger robustness under uncertain disturbances within the trajectory error in ±0.5 degrees. The VSA joint can reduce energy consumption by adjusting stiffness appropriately. Furthermore, the feasibility of this method was verified in a human–machine hybrid control model.

Yiting Wang, Liang Chen, Xiaoming Liu, Jianping Li, and Yuchen Zhang. "Adaptive Robust Force Position Control Strategies for Flexible Active Prosthetic Knees Using Gait Trajectory Optimization." Computer Engineering, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 10–31, 2025.

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Thrombotic events in diabetics contribute for almost 65-80% of cardiovascular events. Diabetes affects the platelet, the coagulation factors and fibrinolytic system leading to a state of hypercoagulation and hypofibrinolysis resulting in to thrombosis. Oral drugs commonly used in management of type II diabetes mellitus are antidiabetics like metformin, PPARγ agonist and DPP-4 inhibitor. They rarely produce hypoglycemia. Metformin has been proved to prevent release of mtDNA from arachidonic acid stimulated platelets, reduce membrane damage and mitochondrial ROS production in the platelets. Similarly processes like platelet adhesion, activation and aggregation on collagen coated surfaces which initiate thrombosis are prevented by metformin. PPAR- γ agonists like pioglitazone and rosiglitazone have anti atherogenic effect. They decrease the expression of inflammatory markers and affect the coagulation markers like factor VII: C and inhibit platelet activation. Pioglitazone also reduces the VLDL, triglycerides and increases HDL which further contributes in attenuation of atherosclerosis. DPP-4 inhibitors, which are relatively newer class of antidiabetics, having minimum potential for hypoglycemia induction, due to their novel mechanism of action. Studies have proved that long term use of DPP-4 inhibitors have reduced cardiac mortality by their lipid lowering action, increased release of NO from endothelium and inhibition of TNF- α, PAI-1 and VCAM expression. Increased levels of stromal cell derived factor – 1α helps to maintain endothelial homeostasis and vascular repair. Decreased oxidative stress, inhibition of inflammatory genes like IL6, IL-12, TNF- α provide additional benefit. Destabilization of vasculo-atherosclerotic plaque is prevented by DPP-4 inhibitors. Thus these oral antidiabetics drugs offer many benefits beyond blood glucose control which prevent atherosclerosis, inhibits hypercoagulable state and enhances fibrinolysis which translates into decreased cardiac complications in diabetes.

Rohan K. Bhattacharya, Shruti P. Nair, Shraddha R. Joshi, Aashna S. Kale. "Investigating the Impact of Oral Anti-Diabetic Agents on Hemostasis in Diabetes Mellitus." Computer Engineering, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 32–41, 2025.

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Research has shown that spatial ability is important for success in STEM. Spatial ability is closely linked with mathematical ability, and as mathematics and conceptual understanding underpin the study of physics, an analysis of incoming physics students skill sets could show where improvements are needed in these areas. Affective factors of anxiety are also known to affect performance and confidence in these subjects, hence the reason for including these measures. This study presents an investigation of the relationship between physics conceptual understanding, geometric thought and spatial reasoning abilities as measured by the Force Motion Conceptual Evaluation (FMCE), the Van Hiele Test, and the Purdue Spatial Visualisation Test : Rotations (PSVT:R) respectively. Measures of math and spatial anxiety are also employed. The tests were administered as part of an in-class session to a cohort of 1st year physics students. The analysis shows a significant correlation between physics student’s spatial ability and Van Hiele levels in this cohort of students. Spatial anxiety has a negative correlation with spatial ability, and it was significantly higher for female students compared to the male students. Math anxiety also has a negative correlation with Van Hiele levels, and was also found to be higher for the female cohort. This study could help to improve our understanding of first year students’ abilities and related anxiety levels. This could potentially lead to more effective ways to educate students that fall into the low spatial ability and high anxiety levels, a group over-represented by females. Further research is necessary to make the sample representative.

Aisling Fagan, Ciara O'Connor, Aidan O'Sullivan. "Investigating the Nexus Between Physics Understanding and Spatial Anxiety Among First-Year Students." Computer Engineering, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 42–50, 2025.

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Most deployed optical transport networks are proprietary, behaving as a closed, highly coupled, single-vendor managed domain. Although their control planes and management systems may export high-level and open northbound interfaces (NBI), the internal details and interfaces are not disclosed to the network operator. However, driven by the requirements of telecommunication and datacenter operators and the need to keep costs down while supporting sustained traffic increase, a trend known as disaggregation has steadily emerged during the past years. It involves composing and assembling open and available components, devices and sub- systems into optical infrastructures and networks, combining “best-in-class” devices, tailored to the specific needs of the aforementioned operators. It has been motivated by factors such as an increase in hardware commoditization, a perceived different rate of innovation of the different components, a promised acceleration in service deployment, or the consequent reduction in operational and capacity expenses. In practice, disaggregation brings multiple challenges, depending on the level that applies (e.g., partial or total, down to each of the optical components) and is taking place in stages. It is commonly accepted that disaggregation implies a trade-off between: i) the opportunities due to the new degree of flexibility provided by component migration and upgrades without vendor lock-in and ii) the potential decrease in performance compared to fully integrated systems and the underlying complexity – including interoperability -, critical in full disaggregation scenarios. From the point of view of control and management, disaggregation heavily relies on the adoption of open interfaces exporting hardware programmability. Disaggregated optical networks are an important use case for the adoption or a unified, model-driven development. In this paper, tutorial in nature, we will introduce the main concepts behind Software Defined Networking (SDN) for disaggregated optical networks, presenting reference architectures and industry common practices related to the adoption of a unified, model driven approach. The second part will cover an overview of selected deployment models (e.g., addressing transceiver and OLS disaggregation) as well as the OpenConfig and OpenROADM optical device models and Transport API (TAPI) interfaces, which constitute the main elements of the implemented SDN control plane. Such control plane targets mainly the metro segment, as defined within the EC Metro-Haul and ONF ODTN projects.

Elena García, Juan Sánchez, Ana Moreno, and Luis Gómez. "Disaggregated Optical Network Management with OpenConfig and OpenROADM." Computer Engineering, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 51–61, 2025.

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This inquiry into the concerns currently faced by women in Vietnam notes the transformation of feminist ideas in the country from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The focus of this study is to open a debate on feminist art practice in Vietnam. The existence of feminist art in Vietnam has been denied by one scholar, yet the shortage of published research on the topic leaves little room for a theoretical discussion. The purpose of this article is to conjoin various topics relating to women’s sense of self, observe how they have been represented in contemporary art, and lay a basic groundwork upon which a feminist art history can grow. By unravelling some of the messages on womanhood and female identity in contemporary artworks by women artists, this article proposes that feminist art exists in Vietnam, on the basis that it challenges social norms, critiques the pressures on women imposed by social structures, raises awareness on women’s issues and models alternative modes of thought. Nonetheless, a number of artists do not overtly define their practice as feminist art, even when intentionally creating work with a liberating undercurrent. Research shows that this also happens in other parts of the world, suggesting that feminist art practice is alive and well, although the framework and language used to define it calls for a reappraisal.

Nguyen Thi Thanh Le, Nguyen Van Dinh. "Embodied Dissent: Unpacking the Visual Rhetoric of Feminist Art in Contemporary Vietnam." Computer Engineering, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 62–78, 2025.

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The aim of this in vitro study was to investigate the effect of probiotic and isotonic drinks on chromium (Cr) and nickel (Ni) release from dental archwires. The conventional stainless steel dental archwires were used in this study, with 0.8 cm diameter, and 5 cm long from each sample. Total samples are 54 pieces dental archwires. The samples then divided into two major groups: (1) the probiotic (T1); and (2) isotonic (T2) drinks. Each major group consist three subgroups, such as: for the T1: (1) T1,1: as a negative control group (samples were immersed in saline solution); (2) T1,2: as a positive control group (samples were 1% lactic acid); (3) T1,3: as a treatment group (samples were immersed in normal saline + probiotic drink); and for the T2: (1) T2,1: as a negative control group (samples were immersed in saline solution); (2) T2,2: as a positive control group (samples were immersed in 1% lactic acid); (3) T2,3: as a treatment group (samples were immersed in normal saline + isotonic drink). After the immersion testing, there was a significance difference in Cr and Ni release from dental archwires between the subgroup of treatments from both probiotic and isotonic drinks (Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Mann-Whitney test; P < 0.05). In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that both probiotic and isotonic drinks induced the releasing of Cr and Ni from dental archwires.

Elara V. R. Satria, Ariana D. C. P. Widjaya. "Evaluating the Chemical Impact of Probiotic and Isotonic Beverages on Orthodontic Materials." Computer Engineering, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 79–83, 2025.

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