Purpose Patients who undergo radical surgery for rectal cancer often suffer from low anterior resection syndrome (LARS). Symptoms of this syndrome include frequent bowel movements, gas incontinence, fecal incontinence, fragmentation, and urgency. The aim of this study was to investigate the convergent validity, discriminative validity, and…[Read more]

CAF is a non-linear probabilistic approach allowing uncertainty representation and exact tractability of latent-variable inference in item recommendations. Compared to the agnostic-presumed prior approximation used in existing deep generative recommendation approaches, CAF is more effective in estimating the probabilistic posterior and achieves…[Read more]

We report the significantly enhanced CO oxidation activity of Pd nanoparticles covered with [Zr6O4(OH)4(BDC)6] (UiO-66, BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate). The catalytic activity was much higher than those of Pd and Ru nanoparticles on ZrO2. The origin of the enhancement was suggested to be a change in the CO adsorption properties on Pd…[Read more]