On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization announced the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic due to the rapid growth in the number of cases worldwide. The ability of countries to contain and mitigate interventions is crucial in controlling the exponential spread of the novel virus. Several social distancing and control…[Read more]

This paper explores some applications of a two-moment inequality for the integral of the rth power of a function, where 0 less then r less then 1. The first contribution is an upper bound on the Rényi entropy of a random vector in terms of the two different moments. When one of the moments is the zeroth moment, these bounds recover previous…[Read more]

Results Emergent themes favoured the option for a one-stage SCS procedure. Themes identified include saving time (off work, in hospital, attending appointments), avoiding the worry about having “loose wires” in the two-stage procedure, having only one period of recovery, and saving NHS resources. Participants’ rated preferences show similar…[Read more]

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, and is a major cause of disability and chronic pain in adults. However, there is very limited evidence in the scientific literature to support the effectiveness of extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) in human knee osteoarthritis. This retrospective study aimed to compare the efficacy of ESWT…[Read more]