INTRODUCTION Use of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement has been shown to improve the reporting of randomised controlled trials and it is endorsed by leading surgical journals. The CONSORT statement for non-pharmacological treatment (CONSORT-NPT) provides specific items to aid in the reporting of trials of operative intervention. This study compares the reporting...

A long standing open problem in the computational complexity theory is to separate NE from BPP, which is a subclass of NPT(NP) ∩ P/Poly. In this paper, we show that NE 6⊆ NPT(NP ∩ Nonexponentially-Dense-Class), where Nonexponentially-Dense-Class is the class of languages A without exponential density (for each constant c > 0, |A| ≤ 2 c for infinitely many integers n). Our result implies NE 6⊆ N...

Specific nasal provocation testing (NPT) consists of eliciting a response from the nasal mucosa by controlled exposure to allergens. It is indicated in the diagnostic confirmation of allergic rhinitis and when discrepancies arise or difficulties exist in the assessment of a patient's medical history and the results of skin and/or serological tests. The technique is also applied to evaluate sens...

Abstract The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a central element of the global nuclear order, primary goal which to prevent war. But this understanding being threatened by number developments. Frustration about lack disarmament and concerns humanitarian consequences weapons led negotiation on Prohibition Weapons (TPNW). new treaty has further exposed existing fault lines within NPT exac...

Recently [quant-ph/0608250] again created a lot of interest to prove the existence of bound entangled states with negative partial transpose (NPT) in any d × d(d ≥ 3) Hilbert space. However the proof in quant-ph/0608250 is not complete but it shows some interesting properties of the Schmidt rank two states. In this work we are trying to probe the problem in a different angle considering the wor...

Results Median age was 122 months (108 to 143 months) in controls and 142 months (117 to 156 months) in allergic rhinitis group. At the end of the NPT, the mean V5 fall was 5.7% (-8.7% to 4%) in controls and 22.8% (-24% to -20%) in allergic rhinitis group. None of the 15 controls and 88% (15 of 17 patients) of the allergic rhinitis group had a positive Dp NPT. Considering positive NPTs, 23.5% (...

Transient absorption spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful tool to investigate the formation and decay of excited singlet states upon triplet-triplet annihilation, following T-T energy transfer from a selectively excited sensitizer. Thus, upon selective excitation of benzophenone (BZP) by laser flash photolysis (LFP) at λ = 355 nm in the presence of naphthalene (NPT), a negative band centred...

Uptake of DNA in dry and viable embryos of wheat by imbibition in DNA solution was detected by monitoring the transient expression of chimeric genes. Gene expression vectors used in this study contained a neomycin phosphotransferase (NPT) II reporter gene fused to various promoters. Some of the chimeric "neo" genes were shown to yield reproducibly NPT II activity in germinating embryos. This NP...

Multiple patient comorbidities and environmental factors increase the risk of incisional wound complications. The literature suggests that negative pressure therapy (NPT) on clean closed surgical incisions may help reduce the risk of wound infections and other complications. In this case study, NPT was applied in the operating room to clean closed surgical wounds in four high-risk patients (two...