ROBERT CAMPBELL, in honour of whose nmemory this lecture is held, was one of the great pioneers of aseptic surgery. He was the first surgeon to use rubber gloves in the British Isles, and he was responsible for many advances in our craft. He had a particular interest in the surgery of repair, and his appointment at the Children's Hospital gave him nmany opportunities to restore by means of repa...

In order to achieve its 2030 carbon emission peak target, China needs adjust and allocate energy consumption initial allowances for each province in a phased planned manner. Thus, this study applied an improved dynamic undesirable zero-sum-gains slacks-based-measure (ZSG-SBM) model evaluate provincial CO2 reduction scenarios allocation 2015–2019 calculate the optimal values of 2030. The results...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is an effective method to evaluate the relative efficiency of decision-making units (DMUs). In one hand, the DEA models need accurate inputs and outputs data. On the other hand, in many situations, inputs and outputs are volatile and complex so that they are difficult to measure in an accurate way. The conflict leads to the researches of uncertain DEA models. Thi...

Two-stage data envelopment analysis (2-DEA) is commonly used in productive efficiency analysis to estimate the effects of operational conditions and practices on performance. In this method the DEA efficiency estimates are regressed on contextual variables representing the operational conditions. We reexamine the statistical properties of the 2-DEA estimator, and find that it is statistically c...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of dog erythrocyte antigen (DEA 1) in canine population is approximately 40-60%. Often data are limited to a small number of breeds and/or dogs. The aims of this study were to evaluate frequency of DEA 1 in a large population of purebred and mongrel dogs including Italian native breeds and to recognize a possible association between DEA 1 and breed, sex, and genetic an...

Abstract The transcription factor GATA3 expression is essential for T helper-2 (Th2) cells and type 2 innate lymphoid (ILC2s) mediated immune responses. However, most of the studies were done in vitro system, such functions cannot be easily verified vivo because markers identifying Th2 ILC2s depends on GATA3. We have generated a novel reporter mice strain carrying Gata3 ZsG-flallele. This mouse...

Quantifying cartilage contact stress is paramount to understanding hip osteoarthritis. Discrete element analysis (DEA) is a computationally efficient method to estimate cartilage contact stresses. Previous applications of DEA have underestimated cartilage stresses and yielded unrealistic contact patterns because they assumed constant cartilage thickness and/or concentric joint geometry. The stu...

This article computes the energy productivity changes of regions in Japan using total-factor frameworks based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). Since the traditional DEA-Malmquist index cannot analyze changes in single-factor productivity changes under the total-factor framework, we apply a new index proposed by Hu and Chang [2009. Total-factor energy productivity growth of regions in China. ...

Diethanolamine (DEA) is a widely used ingredient in many consumer products and in a number of industrial applications. It has been previously reported that dermal administration of DEA to mice diminished hepatic stores of choline and altered brain development in the fetus. The aim of this study was to use mouse neural precursor cells in vitro to assess the mechanism underlying the effects of DE...