Introduction: The prevalence and risk factors for postoperative incisional hernia (IH) following cytoreductive surgery combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS-HIPEC) remain ...

Sex difference (SD) is widespread in humans, though they share the same genome. Single traits are generally studied to explore such differences in humans. But traits do not occur in isolation and ...

Convolution has a significant impact on many scientific disciplines, ranging from probability theory and harmonic analysis to information theory. Here, we introduce a framework to study quantum ...

Tolerating others' opinions, even if disliked, is a cornerstone of liberal democracy. At the same time, there are limits to political tolerance as tolerating extremists and groups who use violence ...

Objective To investigate whether antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-negative and myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA–positive granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) differ from proteinase-3 ...

To install the development version from Github, please install Rtools for building R packages from sources if you use Windows, then In addition to the vignettes for ...

R-package which allows the user to fit structural equation models based on the summary statistics obtained from genome wide association studies (GWAS). Note that a recent update includes the ability ...

aDepartment of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand bDepartment of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand cEdgar National Centre for Diabetes and ...

Alterations of thyroid function, especially hypothyroidism, are exceptionally common conditions. Studies from several developed countries revealed the prevalence of subclinical and overt ...

† Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China ‡ School of ...