Enhanced anaerobic digestion performance and sludge filterability by membrane microaeration for anaerobic membrane bioreactor application.

Slow dissolution/hydrolysis of insoluble/macromolecular organics and poor sludge filterability restrict the application potential of anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR). Bubble-free membrane microaeration was firstly proposed to overcome these obstacles in this study. The batch anaerobic digestion tests feeding insoluble starch and soluble peptone with and without microaeration showed that microaeration led to a 65.

Novel combined endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery for advanced T2 gastric cancer: Two case reports.

Background: The standard treatment for advanced T2 gastric cancer (GC) is laparoscopic or surgical gastrectomy (either partial or total) and D2 lymphadenectomy. A novel combined endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery (NCELS) has recently been proposed as a better option for T2 GC. Here we describe two case studies demonstrating the efficacy and safety of NCELS.

Role of endoscopic ultrasound in the evaluation of unexplained extrahepatic bile duct dilatation.

Objective: This study was performed to assess the diagnostic performance of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) in patients with extrahepatic bile duct (EBD) dilatation and develop a novel model incorporating EUS-based signature with clinical parameters for distinguishing the malignant dilation of EBD.

Methods: The EUS data and clinical parameters of the patients were collected and analyzed retrospectively. First, we evaluated the diagnostic performance of EUS in detecting the cause of EBD dilatation.

Pharmacokinetics and safety of pegylated recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in children with acute leukaemia.

Aims: This open-label, phase I study evaluated the pharmacokinetics and safety of pegylated recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (PEG-rhG-CSF) for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia in children with acute leukaemia.

Methods: PEG-rhG-CSF was administered as a single 100 mcg/kg (3 mg maximum dose) subcutaneous injection at the end of each chemotherapy period when neutropenia occurred. Blood samples were obtained from patients treated with PEG-rhG-CSF.

Neural decoding based on probabilistic neural network.

Brain-machine interface (BMI) has been developed due to its possibility to cure severe body paralysis. This technology has been used to realize the direct control of prosthetic devices, such as robot arms, computer cursors, and paralyzed muscles. A variety of neural decoding algorithms have been designed to explore relationships between neural activities and movements of the limbs.

[The evolution of related names of Bi syndrome and the theory of etiology and pathogenesis].

In the Traditional Chinese medical literature of ancient times, Bi referred to the pathogenesis, or the symptoms as well as the name of the disease. As the name of a disease, Bi has the different meanings of broad and narrow., joint-running, joint-running wind, white tiger joint-running, gout etc.

[Formation and hemodynamics of pseudoaneurysm after rupture and bleeding of aneurysm: an experiment with dogs].

Objective: To study the process and mechanism of the formation of pseudoaneurysm after the rupture of aneurysm.

Methods: A model of aneurysm (AN) of the left common carotid artery (CCA) was made in 20 dogs. One to 2 weeks after the formation of AN, a localized hematoma connected with the AN was formed as a model of pseudoaneurysm after the rupture of true aneurysm (false aneurysm caused by the ruptured true aneurysm, T + F) was established.

A minimal axiom group for rough set based on quasi-ordering.

Rough set axiomatization is one aspect of rough set study to characterize rough set theory using dependable and minimal axiom groups. Thus, rough set theory can be studied by logic and axiom system methods. The classic rough set theory is based on equivalent relation, but rough set theory based on reflexive and transitive relation (called quasi-ordering) has wide applications in the real world.