By facilitating multiple independent owners to jointly control a distributed network, blockchain can be used solve the problem of device collaboration in complex networks (e.g., 5G, health care industries) through consensus mechanism. However, state-of-the-art blockchain-based solutions cannot meet demand high transaction rate for those applications, due unavoidable data synchronization cost de...

Halophile proteins can tolerate high salt concentrations. Understanding halophilicity features is the first step toward engineering halostable crops. To this end, we examined protein features contributing to the halo-toleration of halophilic organisms. We compared more than 850 features for halophilic and non-halophilic proteins with various screening, clustering, decision tree, and generalized...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy and safety of alvimopan, 12 mg, administered orally 30 to 90 minutes preoperatively and twice daily postoperatively in conjunction with a standardized accelerated postoperative care pathway for managing postoperative ileus after bowel resection. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS This multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, phase 3 trial enr...

BACKGROUND Postoperative ileus is a major complication of patients undergoing abdominal surgery. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of operative time and the method of surgery on postoperative ileus. METHODS After institutional review board approval, 121 patients were studied in two groups. Group 1 consisted of 86 patients with colorectal cancers and Group 2 included 35 pa...