Our study examines the impact of the capital prospective payment system (CPPS), implemented by Medicare in 1991, on capital expenditures and cost-e€ective behavior of non-proprietary hospitals. As noted in the paper, we use audited ®nancial statement data for a large national sample of hospitals. Univariate analyses demonstrate a statistically signi®cant decline in capital expenditures in the y...

Objective: We evaluated the relationship between National Institutes of Health-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) and International Index of Erectile Function-5 (IIEF-5) in Chinese men with chronic prostatitis (CP)/ chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). Methods: A large cross-sectional and multicenter survey was conducted from July 2012 to January 2014. Male participants were recruited...

BACKGROUND The secretion of heterologous animal proteins in filamentous fungi is usually limited by bottlenecks in the vesicle-mediated secretory pathway. RESULTS Using the secretion of bovine chymosin in Aspergillus awamori as a model, we found a drastic increase (40 to 80-fold) in cells grown with casein or casein phosphopeptides (CPPs). CPPs are rich in phosphoserine, but phosphoserine its...

Gemcitabine (Gem) is used as a single agent or in combination with other anticancer agents to treat many types of solid tumors. However, it has many limitations such as a short plasma half-life, dose-limiting toxicities and drug resistance. Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are short peptides which may deliver a large variety of cargo molecules into the cancerous cells. The current study was des...

Having control over the chemistry of colloid surfaces has attracted the interest of scientists for many years as they play a critical role in many chemical and life science processes; by chemically modifying the surface or by adding other components one can enhance their stability and performance. Over the past decades, different experimental approaches have been developed with this aim and a v...

Season of birth and hand preference were examined in a sample of 42 (7 males, 35 females) individuals who were identified as schizotypic based on their scores on selected scales of the Chapman Psychosis Proneness Scales (CPPS) and a matched comparison sample of 42 individuals with non-deviant CPPS scores. Presence or absence of schizotypy was analyzed using chi square tests of independence with...

PURPOSE There are few studies about clinical courses following acute bacterial prostatitis (ABP). We evaluated the progression rates of chronic bacterial prostatitis (CBP) and inflammatory chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) after ABP treatment. Also evaluated the characteristics of the patients who developed CBP and inflammatory CPPS after ABP treatment. METHODS Total 437 patients compatible...

BACKGROUND Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a common condition affecting men of all ages. Acupuncture may be an effective treatment option for CP/CPPS, but evidence is limited. We propose to evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture in a rigorously conducted trial. METHODS Ten hospitals will recruit 440 participants with CP/CPPS in China from October 2017 to Decem...

As a result of the growing demand for highly customized and individual products, companies need to enable flexible and intelligent manufacturing. Cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) will act autonomously in the future in an interlinked production and enable such flexibility. However, German mid-sized plant manufacturers rarely use virtual technologies for design and validation in order to ...

BackgroundPharmacists in community drug retail outlets (CDROs) have significant involvement diabetes prevention and management by providing more direct interventions medication education, preventive measures, disease management. This study examined the perceived level of pharmacy professionals (CPPs) at CDROs Northwest Ethiopia.MethodsA multicenter cross-sectional was conducted among CPPs Ethio...