Novel Modic grading scoring system and its clinical validation: a preliminary investigation.

Purpose: To propose a novel Modic grading scoring system and explore the relationship between the Modic grading score and disc degeneration, disc herniation, disc height, and clinical symptom scores.

Method: In total, 194 patients were included in the study. The new Modic grading scoring system included four indicators: invaded vertebral height, invaded endplate length, endplate morphology, and grade of endplate defects.

A Dynamic Energy Budget Model for Kuruma Shrimp : Parameterization and Application in Integrated Marine Pond Aquaculture.

Individual growth models can form the basis of population dynamics assessment and ecosystem model construction. In order to provide a basic module for an ecosystem model of an integrated marine aquaculture pond, an individual growth model was constructed for kuruma shrimp () based on dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory. The model was first parameterized based on a covariation method using the Add-my-Pet (AmP) procedure.

Growth performance and ecological services evaluation of razor clams based on dynamic energy budget model.

Bivalve shellfish aquaculture has been proposed to abate eutrophication and increase carbon sink in integrated multi-trophic aquaculture ecosystems. An individual growth model for razor clams Sinonovacula constricta in an integrated aquaculture pond of Portunus trituberculatus- Penaeus japonicus- S. constricta was constructed based on dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory after parameter measurement and model validation.

[Spectrum Research on Rheology of High Rank Coal].

Aiming to discuss the change characteristic of macromolecular structures of high rank coal in different rheological conditions, the high rank undeformed coal from southern Qinshui basin and the coal after variable temperature and variable pressure rheology experiments were investigated and analyzed in detail through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and laser Raman spectra analysis. The result shows that the texture and composition of different types of rheological coals under different temperature and pressure exhibit significant differences. Experiments of variable temperature and pressure of high rank coal (temperature: 300-400 °C, confining pressure: 50-100 MPa, strain: less than 10% and strain rate: 10(-4)-10(-7) · s(-1) will distort their macromolecular structures and recombine the chemistry structures.