Target detection algorithm for basketball robot based on IBN-YOLOv5s algorithm.

Being able to quickly and accurately detect and recognize target balls is a key task for basketball robots in automated and intelligent sports competitions. This study aims to propose an effective target detection method for basketball robots, which is based on the improved YOLOv5s model and introduces spatial pyramid pooling and instance-batch normalization structure. The study first pre-trained the model and compared the migration training with the random initialization approach.

[Application and outlook of new technologies and equipment in modern manufacturing of traditional Chinese medicine pills].

Since ancient times, traditional Chinese medicine pills have occupied a key position among different dosage forms of traditional Chinese medicine. With the aims of comprehensively improving the overall quality and innovating key technologies in the manufacturing of the pills, this article elaborates on the principles and new technology applications in pulverizing, sterilization, agglomeration, forming, and drying. In addition, modern technologies such as biosensing, image analysis, texture property evaluation, and moisture analysis can comprehensively and accurately characterize the quality of key materials in the manufacturing of traditional Chinese medicine pills, thereby achieving strict control over the quality of raw materials, intermediates, and final products and further monitoring and optimizing the entire production process of pill preparations.

[Mechanisms of changes of active components in Chinese medicinal materials during drying: a review].

Drying is an indispensable processing step for Chinese medicinal materials after harvesting. It often leads to significant changes in the active components of these materials, thus impacting their medicinal values. Understanding the mechanisms behind the changes during the drying process is of great importance for regulating the transformation of key active components.

Short-term outcome of total knee replacement in a patient with hemophilia: A case report and review of literature.

Background: Hemophilia A is a rare inherited bleeding disorder caused by mutations in the factor VIII gene. This clotting factor plays an intrinsic role in the blood coagulation pathway. Patients with hemophilia may develop orthopedic manifestations such as hemarthrosis, but multiple malunion of fractures over the knee is rare and difficult to treat.

Occurrences and Functions of Ly6C and Ly6C Macrophages in Health and Disease.

Macrophages originating from the yolk sac or bone marrow play essential roles in tissue homeostasis and disease. Bone marrow-derived monocytes differentiate into Ly6C and Ly6C macrophages according to the differential expression of the surface marker protein Ly6C. Ly6C and Ly6C cells possess diverse functions and transcriptional profiles and can accelerate the disease process or support tissue repair and reconstruction.

The efficacy of ankle arthroplasty on motor function recovery in patients with orthopedic ankle injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: This study analyzed the effects of ankle arthroplasty on the recovery of motor function in patients with orthopedic ankle injury.

Methods: English databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) examining the effects of ankle arthroplasty, ankle replacement, and joint prosthesis on motor function recovery in patients with orthopedic ankle injury. The outcome indicators included the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) score, the 36-item short form survey (SF-36) score, the Foot and Ankle Ability Measures (FAAM) score, and the visual analog scale (VAS) score.

Mesenchymal stem cells attenuate liver fibrosis by targeting Ly6C macrophages through activating the cytokine-paracrine and apoptotic pathways.

Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy has become a promising treatment for liver fibrosis due to its predominant immunomodulatory performance in hepatic stellate cell inhibition and fibrosis resolution. However, the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying these processes remain limited. In the present study, we provide insights into the functional role of bone marrow-derived MSCs (BM-MSCs) in alleviating liver fibrosis by targeting intrahepatic Ly6C and Ly6C macrophage subsets in a mouse model.

[Application of different surface treatment methods in teeth restoration with nano composite resin].

Purpose: To investigate the effects of different surface treatments and adhesive self-etch functional monomers on the immediate repair bond strength and integrity of the repaired resin composite interface.

Methods: Ninety-eight resin composite blocks made of a nanohybrid resin composite were randomly divided into seven groups, each with 14 blocks, including positive control group: non-conditioned surface, Group A1: Gluma Comfort Bond, Group A2: Gluma Comfort Bond and sandblasting, Group B1: Tokuyama Bond Force IITM adhesive system, Group B2: Tokuyama Bond Force IITM adhesive system and sandblasting, Group C: polishing, and Group D: sandblasting. Resin composite identical to the substrate was applied and the repaired specimens were subjected to shear bond strength (SBS) testing.

[Online moisture detection technology and its application prospect in drying of traditional Chinese medicine].

Drying is one of the most common unit operations in the production of traditional Chinese medicine. The drying process of traditional Chinese medicine materials is accompanied by the dynamic reduction of water content. As a key index to determine the end of the drying process, the moisture content of materials plays an important role in improving drying efficiency and saving energy.

[Effect of nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) in improving stability of essential oils and its application].

Essential oils are easy to cause oxidative damage, chemical transformation or polymerization, and have some intrinsic problems, such as instability, low water solubility and low bioavailability, which restrict their application in the fields of product development. Nanostructured lipid carriers(NLCs) can overcome some of the restrictions of other colloidal carriers, such as emulsions, liposomes, polymer nanoparticles and solid lipid nanoparticles. NLC is an efficient and stable delivery system for bioactive substances.

[Moxibustion Plus Medication Can Relieve Refractory Nausea and Vomiting and Improve Quality of Life of Advanced Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemical Therapy].

Objective: To explore the efficacy of moxibustion combined with medication in the treatment of refractory nausea and vomiting and quality of life (QOL) in advanced cancer patients.

Methods: A total of 266 advanced cancer patients with nausea and vomiting were randomly assigned to Metoclopramide group (M group, ＝70), Metoclopramide plus Haloperidol group (MH group, ＝65), moxibustion ＋ M group (＝63), and moxibustion ＋ MH group (＝68). Moxibustion was applied to bilateral Zusanli (ST 36), and Guanyuan (CV 4), Qihai (CV 6) for 20 min every time, twice a day for 2 weeks.

[Effect and regulation of drying on quality of traditional Chinese medicine pills].

The dry quality of traditional Chinese medicine pills is the hot spot of pills research, because their quality has a crucial effect on the efficacy and development of dosage forms. Through literature research and statistical analysis, we would review the current problems on the drying of traditional Chinese medicine pills in this paper, and surrounding the evaluation system for traditional Chinese medicine pills, analyze the characteristics of common drying equipment and processes as well as their effect on quality of pills, discuss the problems in drying equipment and process as well as quality, and put forward the corresponding strategies, hoping to provide new ideas and new methods for the quality improvement of traditional Chinese medicine pills and quality standards.

Axial perspective to find the largest intraosseous space available for percutaneous screw fixation of fractures of the acetabular anterior column.

Objective: To find the largest screw path in the acetabular anterior column using a novel method of axial perspective and test the clinical feasibility of the anterior column axial view projection.

Methods: 3D models with the inner triangular patches deleted were created from the pelvic CT scan data of 58 normal pelvises. The transparency of each 3D model was downgraded at the axial perspective (the view perpendicular to the cross section of the anterior column axis) so that a translucent area was seen clearly.

Tenuigenin protects dopaminergic neurons from inflammation-mediated damage induced by the lipopolysaccharide.

Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc).

Aims: To study if tenuigenin (TEN), the main active component of Polygala tenuifolia, can protect dopaminergic neurons from inflammation-mediated damage in vivo.

Methods: We observed the effects of TEN on lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced PD model by behavioral analysis, high-performance liquid chromatography, immunohistochemistry and enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay, etc.

Brassinosteroid alleviates phenanthrene and pyrene phytotoxicity by increasing detoxification activity and photosynthesis in tomato.

The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of exogenously applied 24-epibrassinolide (BR) on growth, gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics, lipid peroxidation and antioxidant systems of tomato seedlings grown under different levels (0, 10, 30, 100 and 300μM) of phenanthrene (PHE) and pyrene (PYR) in hydroponics. A concentration-dependent decrease in growth, photosynthetic pigment contents, net photosynthetic rate (Pn), stomatal conductance (Gs), maximal quantum yield of PSII (Fv/Fm), effective quantum yield of PSII (Φ(PSII)), photochemical quenching coefficient (qP) has been observed following PHE and PYR exposure. By contrast, non-photochemical quenching coefficient (NPQ) was increased.