Small needle-knife versus extracorporeal shock wave therapy for the treatment of plantar fasciitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Plantar fasciitis (PF) is the most common cause of chronic heel pain among adults. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) is the recommended in the current guidelines, and the small needle-knife yields acceptable clinical effects for musculoskeletal pain.

Objective: To systematically compare the efficacy of the small needle-knife versus ESWT for the treatment of PF.

TSPTFBS 2.0: trans-species prediction of transcription factor binding sites and identification of their core motifs in plants.

Introduction: An emerging approach using promoter tiling deletion via genome editing is beginning to become popular in plants. Identifying the precise positions of core motifs within plant gene promoter is of great demand but they are still largely unknown. We previously developed TSPTFBS of 265 transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) prediction models, which now cannot meet the above demand of identifying the core motif.

Removal of cadmium using MnO2 loaded D301 resin.

MnO2 loaded weak basic anion exchange resin D301 (Anion exchange resin, macroreticular weak basic styrene) as adsorbent has been prepared and applied to the removal of cadmium. The adsorption characteristics have been investigated with respect to effect of pH, equilibrium isotherms, removal kinetic data, and interference of the coexisting ions. The results indicated that the Cd2+ could be efficiently removed using MnO2 loaded D301 resin in the pH range of 3-8 from aqueous solutions with the co-existence of high concentration of alkali and alkaline-earth metals ions.

[Effects of bromide and ferric ions on formation of tri-halomethanes during disinfection of drinking water by chlorine].

Effects of bromide and ferric ions on the formation and distribution of tri-halomethanes (THMs) have been investigated. As disinfection by-product (DBP) model precursors of natural water, humic acid solutions were used and a series of experiments were conducted. The results showed that bromide in this reaction system not only contributed to the increase of brominated species, but also the total tri-halomethanes.