Effects of an e-Media-Supported, Exercise-Based Phase II Cardiac Rehabilitation in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background and objective Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery patients undergo cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs postoperatively to improve their course of recovery. The effectiveness of traditional CR programs is hampered by time constraints, financial burdens, transportation issues, and geographic restrictions. The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and technological advances have led to the emergence of home-based CR programs using e-media, thereby improving accessibility.

γ-Ray-Induced Photocatalytic Activity of Bi-Doped PbS toward Organic Dye Removal under Sunlight.

Photocatalysts based on semiconducting chalcogenides due to their adaptable physio-chemical characteristics are attracting attention. In this work, Bi-doped PbS (henceforth PbS:Bi) was prepared using a straightforward chemical precipitation approach, and the influence of γ-irradiation on PbS's photocatalytic ability was investigated. Synthesized samples were confirmed structurally and chemically.

Non-Fermi Liquids from Kinetic Constraints in Tilted Optical Lattices.

We study Fermi-Hubbard models with kinetically constrained dynamics that conserves both total particle number and total center of mass, a situation that arises when interacting fermions are placed in strongly tilted optical lattices. Through a combination of analytics and numerics, we show how the kinetic constraints stabilize an exotic non-Fermi liquid phase described by fermions coupled to a gapless bosonic field, which in several respects mimics a dynamical gauge field. This offers a novel route towards the study of non-Fermi liquid phases in the precision environments afforded by ultracold atom platforms.

Patient Characteristics, Length of Stay, Cost of Care, and Complications in Super-Obese Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty: A National Database Study.

Background: The purpose of this study was to compare postoperative complication rates in super-obese (SO) patients with a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 50 kg/m undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) versus non-super-obese (NSO) patients undergoing THA.

Methods: In this retrospective study using the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database, 1,646 cases of THA in SO (BMI ≥ 50 kg/m) patients were reviewed. We used International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes to assess postoperative variables including length of stay, cost of care (cost of inpatient hospitalization), and medical and surgical complications among SO patients undergoing THA compared to NSO patients before being discharged.