The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety acupotomy for treatment patients with knee osteoarthritis. There were 9 databases searched retrieve randomized controlled trials until August 3, 2019 regarding versus conventional Western medicine, medicine without acupotomy, Korean meta-analysis performed. Of 303 potentially relevant studies retrieved, 43 systematically rev...

Laboratory methods and questionnaires to assess the relative reinforcing value of food (RRV-F) have been developed, but this is the first study to validate an online questionnaire measure of the RRV-F. Participants (281 college students) completed an online survey assessing demographic variables, food preferences, and the RRV-F. A subsample (n=21) also completed a laboratory food choice session...

Ivan Havel remembers when in the late 1970s the Czechoslovakian state police began watching his apartment. For months he had been hosting unofficial science seminars, and the police didn't like it. "It politicized me, says the soft-spoken computer scientist and brother of Czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel. "The police would check the people who came and ask them to identify 'themselves. Th...

Water quantity and quality joint operation is a new mode in the present dams' operation research. It has become a hot topic in governmental efforts toward integrated basin improvement. This paper coupled a water quantity and quality joint operation model (QCmode) and genetic algorithm with Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). Together, these tools were used to explore a reasonable operation o...

riparian vegetation is a component of river system that performs certain basic functions including primary vegetative production, protecting stream banks from erosion, trapping sediments, promoting water quality, wildlife habitat and fisheris, forage for livestock, etc. in this research, spatio-temporal change of vegetation riparian area of aghbolagh-river as an upstream of karoon-river for 65-...

Listeners use lexical knowledge to modify the mapping from acoustics speech sounds, but timecourse of experience that informs lexically guided perceptual learning is unknown. Some data suggest contingent on initial exposure atypical productions, while other reflects only most recent exposure. Here we seek reconcile these findings by assessing type and promote robust lexcially learning. In three...