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Complications such as pressure sores, pulmonary infection, urinary tract infection (UTI), and venous thromboembolism (VTE) are common after spinal cord injury (SCI). These have serious consequences for patients" physical, social, and vocational well-being. Several authoritative organizations have developed guidelines for managing these complications after SCI. We aim to systematically review and a...

To investigate the effect of calcium sodium phosphosilicate (CSPS) in treating dentin hypersensitivity (DH) and to compare this effect to that of a negative (placebo) control. Several databases, including Medline, EMBASE, Web of Science, The Cochrane Library, and the Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, were searched to identify relevant articles published through January 2015; grey literature ...

Key Words: Radiomics, Deep learning, Gastrointestinal cancer, Medical imaging Core Tip: Radiomics, especially deep-learning-based radiomics (DLR), has revolutionized the diagnosis, assessment and prognosis of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. This review provides an analysis and status of DLR in GI cancer and identifies future challenges and recommendations. Citation: Wong PK, Chan IN, Yan HM, Gao S, ...

A novel near ultraviolet (NUV) emitter with a meta-linked donor-acceptor (D-A) structure between triphenylamine (TPA) and phenanthroimidazole (PPI), mTPA-PPI, was designed and synthesized. This molecular design is expected to resolve the conflict between the non-red-shifted emission and the introduction of a charge-transfer (CT) state in the D-A system, aiming at NUV organic light-emitting diodes ...

Two pyrene-imidazole-based structural isomers, axisymmetric syn-PyDTI and centrosymmetric anti-PyDTI, have been easily produced and successfully separated in a one-pot reaction. Crystalline syn-PyDTI exhibited a 2-fold higher quantum efficiency than anti-PyDTI and displayed a much better performance in OLEDs with a ηc.max of 11.4 cd A(-1) (8.8 cd A(-1) for anti-PyDTI), although they possess the sa...

Four wide bandgap host materials, namely, 9-(4-diphenyl(4-(pyridin-3-yl)phenyl)silyl-phenyl)-9H-carbazole (CSmP), 9-(4-diphenyl(4-(pyridin-2-yl)phenyl)silylphenyl)-9H-carbazole (CSoP), 9-(4-diphenyl(4-(pyridin-3-yl)phenyl)silylphenyl)-9H-3,9'-bicarbazole (DCSmP), and 9-(4-(diphenyl(4-(pyridin-2-yl)phenyl)silyl)phenyl)-9H-3,9'-bicarbazole (DCSoP), have developed by incorporation of pyridine with va...

In recent years, studies on the diagnostic accuracy of in-house real-time PCR (hRT-PCR) assay for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) have been reported with unignorable discrepancies. To assess the overall accuracy of the hRT-PCR assay for Mtb diagnosis in different samples for individuals with active pulmonary and extra-pulmonary Mtb infection, a systematic review and meta-analysis...

This review compared the efficacy and acceptability of different delivery formats for cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) in insomnia. We searched five databases for randomized clinical trials that compared one CBT-I delivery format against another format or control conditions for insomnia in adults. We used pairwise meta-analyses and frequentist network meta-analyses with the random...

Protective effects of Dendrobium huoshanense polysaccharide on D gal induced PC12 cells and aging mice, in vitro and in vivo studies. Dendrobium huoshanense C. Z. Tang et S. J. Cheng polysaccharide (DHP) is the essential active ingredient of D.huoshanense and has high medicinal value. A high dose of D galactose (D gal) is commonly utilized in the aging model establishment. In this study, we expl...