Abstract Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) comprises a collection of symptoms affecting patients’ defecation after restorative surgery for rectal cancer. The aim this work was to study the incidence and risk factors LARS in China. Rectal cancer patients undergoing total mesorectal excision colorectal anastomosis between May 2012 January 2015 were identified from single center. completed sc...

*Correspondence should be directed to Lars-Erik Cederman ([email protected]). We would like to thank the many individuals who helped assemble the data set on which this article relies. We cannot list all country experts who generously shared their knowledge, but we should like to mention Dennis Avilés, Yuval Feinstein, Dmitry Gorenburg, Wesley Hiers, Lutz Krebs, Patrick Kuhn, Anoop Sarbahi, Jam...

This paper investigates the response of hours worked and real wages to fiscal policy shocks in the U.S. during the post World War II era. We identify these shocks with exogenous changes in military purchases and argue that they lead to a persistent increase in government purchases and tax rates on capital and labor income, and a persistent rise in aggregate hours worked as well as declines in r...

this study aims to evaluate effects of two downscaling methods; change-factor and statistical downscaling on therunoff of the azam-harat river located at yazd province (with an arid climate) of iran, under the a2 emission scenariofor the period of 2010-2039. for this purpose, cgcm3-ar4 model; a rainfall-runoff conceptual model, ihacres; twodownscaling models, change factor and lars-wg were appl...

In this Guest Editorial, Jeremy Niven and Lars Chittka introduce our special issue on the evolution of nervous systems.

PURPOSE The role of synthetic devices in the management of the cruciate ligament-injured knee remains controversial. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the safety and efficacy of synthetic devices in cruciate ligament surgery. METHODS A systematic review of the electronic databases Medline, Embase, and The Cochrane Library (issue 1, 2014) on January 13, 2014, was performed to ide...

Robert M Plenge1–3, Chris Cotsapas1,3, Leela Davies1, Alkes L Price1,4, Paul I W de Bakker1,3,4, Julian Maller1,3, Itsik Pe’er5, Noel P Burtt1, Brendan Blumenstiel1, Matt DeFelice1, Melissa Parkin1, Rachel Barry1, Wendy Winslow1, Claire Healy1, Robert R Graham1,3, Benjamin M Neale1,3,6, Elena Izmailova7, Ronenn Roubenoff 7, Alexander N Parker7, Roberta Glass2, Elizabeth W Karlson2, Nancy Maher2...

Mr. Crockett: Thank you, Don. I propose what we do now is perhaps eat into ten minutes or so of the coffee break, which gives us almost fifteen minutes for observations from the floor. I will try to favor those who have not had a chance to express their views before. With the panel’s permission, I will ask them to reply only if there are very important points so that we have the benefit of as m...