The first 200 renal allograft operations performed at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, have been analysed. At the time of writing the fractional graft survivals at one, two, and three years were 53%, 49%, and 39% respectively, and these showed no observable change through the seven years of the programme. On the other hand, the survival of patients undergoing renal transplantation steadily im...

Last summer we officially launched the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, published by BioMedCentral, with the aim of establishing a serious, peer-reviewed, open-access online journal that focuses on the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary fields of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, drawing on approaches and methods from both the social and biological sciences. The...

One of the greatest assets a person can have is a smile that shows beautiful, natural teeth. The restoration of a smile is one of the most appreciated and gratifying services a dentist can render. The positive psychologic effects of improving a patient's smile often contribute to an improved self image and enhanced self esteem. Periodontal attachment loss in the maxillary anterior region can of...

The successful operation of coronary care units resulting in early detection and control of lifethreatening post-infarction arrhythmias has so far produced a gratifying and instructive impact on the management of acute myocardial infarction. The first few hours after an attack are, however, the most critical. Yater et al. (I948) showed that 60 per cent of the deaths from coronary heart disease ...

The chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy is a newly developed adoptive antitumor treatment. Theoretically, CAR-T cells can specifically localize and eliminate tumor cells by interacting with the tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) expressing on tumor cell surface. Current studies demonstrated that various TAAs could act as target antigens for CAR-T cells, for instance, the type III var...

In the original article by Dubowitz et al. (1970) and in the subsequent studies there were few infants ofvery lowweight or gestational age: there were only 3 infants at 32 weeks, one at 31, and 2 at 28 weeks. The line for the lower gestations is an extrapolation of the correlation found nearer term. Singer et al. (1973) added a further 16 scores below 32 weeks. It is therefore gratifying to hav...

Fifty years ago, the management of acute myocardial infarction (MI) consisted of prolonged bed rest and futile observation of electrical and mechanical complications, resulting in 40% mortality (1). Over the ensuing five decades, proactive interventions, including coronary care units, defibrillators, temporary pacemakers, pharmacologic support, and reperfusion therapy, slowly whittled mortality...

This paper sought to determine if the Basic School Mathematics learning experience has any influence on individual when it comes program selection in higher education and career choice. The researcher employed a qualitative approach order obtain detailed information about topic. led adoption of Narrative Paradigm, where one experienced person was interviewed first-hand for analysis. It revealed...

Abstract Building upon fully convolutional networks (FCNs), deep learning-based salient object detection (SOD) methods achieve gratifying performance in many vision tasks, including surface defect detection. However, most existing FCN-based still suffer from the coarse edge predictions. The state-of-the-art employ intricate feature aggregation techniques to refine boundaries, but they are often...

This paper presents the study of time-fractional nonlinear fifth-order Korteweg–de Vries equations by utilizing an adequate novel technique, namely, q-homotopy analysis transform method. The equation has got its importance in magneto-sound propagation plasma, capillary gravity water waves, and motion long waves under influence shallow water. To justify effectiveness pertinence contemplated we t...