Effectiveness and safety of different academic schools of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of obesity: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Obesity is a global epidemic. Since 1975, the global obesity rate has almost tripled. Although many systematic reviews and clinical trials have shown that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) can effectively treat obesity, the effectiveness and safety of different academic schools of TCM in treating obesity have not been systematically evaluated.

Effectiveness and safety of acupuncture combined with hot compress in the treatment of obese adolescents with insulin resistance: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: In recent years, the incidence of obesity patients has become younger and younger, and adolescents are gradually becoming one of the groups with a high incidence of obesity. Although several systematic reviews and clinical trials suggest that acupuncture and warm compresses may be effective in the treatment of obesity, the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture combined with warm compresses in the treatment of obesity insulin resistance (IR) in adolescents have not been systematically reviewed.

Methods: The search language of this study is Chinese and English, and the data of Medline, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Web of Science, China Biomedical Literature Database, Central Controlled Trial Registration Center, and China Scientific Journal Database were searched for this study respectively, from the date of creation of the above data to December 2022.

Numerical demonstration of surface lattice resonance excitation in integrated localized surface plasmon waveguides.

We numerically show that surface lattice resonances (SLR) in periodic localized surface plasmon (LSP) waveguides integrated on a dielectric waveguide can be excited via in-phase evanescent coupling, by incident propagation vector outside the light cone and without any constraint on the structural symmetry. FDTD simulations show that the coupling between wideband LSP resonances and narrowband SLR results in a Fano-like resonance, showing few nanometers large sharp spectral features that may be exploited for achieving new functions for integrated optics and sensing.

Light Scattering in Nanoparticle Doped Transparent Polyimide Substrates.

Here we demonstrate a simple and effective method of fabricating polymeric scattering substrate for flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that require no costly patterning, etching, or molding processes, aspects that are desirable for the commercialization of large-scale lighting panels. Systematic study of the influences of relative index of refraction, particle size, and doping concentration on transmittance and haze of transparent colorless polyimide (cPI) films was carried out. It was found that the reduction of transmittance and haze of the doped films decreases along with the decrease of the difference of refractive index between the particles and polymer matrix, and it could be compensated by the increase of particle size or doping concentration.

Design of metallic nanoparticle gratings for filtering properties in the visible spectrum.

Plasmonic resonances in metallic nanoparticles are exploited to create efficient optical filtering functions. A finite element method is used to model metallic nanoparticle gratings. The accuracy of this method is shown by comparing numerical results with measurements on a two-dimensional grating of gold nanocylinders with an elliptic cross section.