there are occasional reports of using the appendix to replace sections of the ureters, and to our knowledge, only a couple of them were in the left side. we used the appendix as a ureteral substitute in two cases in technically difficult parts, the upper left ureter and the first part of the right ureter. follow-ups of8 years and 6 months in right and left side cases, respectively, are impressi...

BACKGROUND Substituting sugar-free for sugar-sweetened beverages reduces weight gain. This effect may be more pronounced in children with a high body mass index (BMI) because their sensing of kilocalories might be compromised. We investigated the impact of sugar-free versus sugary drinks separately in children with a higher and a lower initial BMI z score, and predicted caloric intakes and degr...

n engl j med 367;25 nejm.org december 20, 2012 2449 migraine and headache were collected separately. Of the 800 patients treated with enzalutamide, 3 (0.4%) were reported to have had a migraine. Headaches were reported in 93 patients treated with enzalutamide (11.6%) and in 22 of the 399 patients treated with placebo (5.5%). In the enzalutamide group, the majority of reports were for grade 1 he...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of the excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption in Berkeley, California, which became the first US jurisdiction to implement such a tax ($0.01/oz) in March 2015. METHODS We used a repeated cross-sectional design to examine changes in pre- to posttax beverage consumption in low-income neighborhoods in Berkeley versus in the comparison cities of...

A new iron-catalysed oxidative amidation of differently substituted benzylic alcohols with mono- and di-substituted amines was developed.

One of the major operations on every sugar farm or estate is the transport of the crop from the field where it is grown to. the point where any further transport is no longer the responsibility of the planter. This point is either the locomotive line, a South African Railways siding or the mill yard.. Being one of the important features of sugar planting, transport has a big influence on the co...

In the era of knowledge economy, patents which were a legal protection means of technology have been transformed into main resource for enterprises to make profits. Based on patent documents analysis and cases analysis, this paper introduced some concepts of enterprises patent strategies and then, combining with development situation of Guangxi sugar industry, explored how to promote improvemen...

Technical men outside of the sugar industry are apt to view the manufacture of sucrose from sugar beets as a most interesting and somewhat complex process. Those of us who are not sugar technologists are frequently astonished at the amount of knowledge that has been developed in that industry, at the smoothness of its operation, at the degree of operational standardizing which has taken place b...