OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Xiaozhi decoction (XZD) on posthemorrhoidectomy pain and analgesic medication consumption. METHODS From May 2013 to March 2015, 315 patients who underwent open hemorrhoidectomy in our hospital were enrolled in this study, of whom, 160 patients were randomly assigned to accept sitz bath with warm water after hemorrhoidectomy (con...

PURPOSE Twenty percent of patients with follicular lymphoma (FL) experience progression of disease (POD) within 2 years of initial chemoimmunotherapy. We analyzed data from the National LymphoCare Study to identify whether prognostic FL factors are associated with early POD and whether patients with early POD are at high risk for death. PATIENTS AND METHODS In total, 588 patients with stage 2...

BACKGROUND Management of spine implant infections (SII) are challenging. Explantation of infected spinal hardware can destabilize the spine, but retention can lead to cord compromise and biofilm formation, complicating management. While vancomycin monotherapy is commonly used, in vitro studies have shown reduced efficacy against biofilm compared to combination therapy with rifampin. Using an es...

Nodule CO2 fixation is of pivotal importance for N2 fixation. The process provides malate for bacteroids and oxaloacetate for nitrogen assimilation. The hypothesis of the present paper was that grain legume nodules would adapt to higher plant N demand and more restricted carbon availability at pod formation through increased nodule CO2 fixation and a more efficient N2 fixation. Growth, N2 fixat...

Previous research has focused on the involvement of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cell wall loosening and cell extension in plant vegetative growth, but few studies have investigated ROS functions specifically in plant reproductive organs. In this study, ROS levels and antioxidant enzyme activities were assessed in Pisum sativum and Brassica chinensis pods at five developmental stages. In ju...

PURPOSE To detect localized glaucomatous structural changes using proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) framework with false-positive control that minimizes confirmatory follow-ups, and to compare the results to topographic change analysis (TCA). METHODS We included 167 participants (246 eyes) with ≥4 Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT)-II exams from the Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study...

Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) is used in combination with proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) for model order reduction of the time parameterized acoustic wave equations. We propose a fully discrete IGA-Newmark-POD approximation and we analyze the associated numerical error, which features three components due to spatial discretization by IGA, time discretization with the Newmark scheme, and mo...

In this paper, we present a discussion of the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) as applied to simulation and feedback control of the one dimensional heat equation. We provide two examples of input collections to which the POD process is applied. First, we apply POD directly to the nite element basis of linear B-splines. Next we additionally include time snapshots. We show that although the ...

Two peroxidases (EC. 1.11.1.7), POD I and POD II were purified from the roots of cultivatedRaphanus sativus L. Var. Cicil by one step ion-exchange chromatography after fractionation by acetone. The molecular weight of these enzymes were 43000 and 41000 Daltons and RZ 1.2 and 2.0 for POD I and POD II, respectively. Both enzymes consisted of a single polypeptide chain on SDS-PAGE. The maximum...