Objective To evaluate the effects of functional rehabilitation on rheumatoid arthritis patients after the total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Methods Two hundred rheumatoid arthritis patients (259 knees) were enrolled in this study at Arthritis Clinic and Research Center, Peking University People’s Hospital from January 2012 to December 2017. All…[Read more]

Objective Panel-based sequencing is widely used to measure tumor mutational burden (TMB) in clinical trials and is ready to enter routine diagnostics. However, cut-off points to distinguish “TMB-high” from “TMB-low” tumors are not consistent and the clinical implications of TMB in predicting responses to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) in gastric…[Read more]

e., edge-localized modes, in the edge region, consistent with ideal magnetohydrodynamics calculations.An inelastic excitation and cluster-decay experiment ^2H(^16C,^4He+^12Be or ^6He+^10Be)^2H was carried out to investigate the linear-chain clustering structure in neutron-rich ^16C. For the first time, decay paths from the ^16C resonances to…[Read more]

The pursuit of efficient light sources has stimulated continued effort in the search of materials and methods for generating white light emission. In addition to the white light produced by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and fluorescent lamps that involves spectral conversion of high energy to low energy emission, recent studies showed that it was…[Read more]

Finally, unit-wide MRSA screening cultures were obtained upon admission and bimonthly for 6 weeks (October 2, 2017, to November 9, 2017). Screened patients were followed for 12 months for clinical MRSA infection. RESULTS Forty-three (49%) of 88 preintervention patients were started on empiric vancomycin appropriately, compared with 59 (66%) of 90…[Read more]

Intertidal bivalves are periodically exposed in air. It is tempting to speculate that the organisms would temporarily escape from contaminants when they are out of water and thus have lower risks. In this study, we tested this speculation by investigating cadmium (Cd) toxicokinetics in an intertidal mussel, Xenostrobus atratus, under the effects…[Read more]

Further, GTWE inclusion in pork samples (T2 and T3) reduced (p less then 0.05) pH, lipid oxidation and microbial counts, as well as colour loss in meat and bone throughout storage. Chitosan coating with GTWE could be used as an additive for the preservation of pork meat products.The oral cavity of healthy individuals is inhabited by commensals,…[Read more]