PURPOSE Studies reporting the treatment of early colorectal cancer (ECC) by endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in elderly patients are lacking in China. The aim was to evaluate the efficacy, safety and overall quality of life of elderly patients with ECC who undergoing ESD. METHODS Three hundred and seventy-nine patients with 401 colorectal lesions entered into our study from March 2013 t...

Based on the concept of education for sustainable development (ESD), both individual mindfulness and resilience play a vital role in developing students’ competences ESD. Across 20 samples, this meta-analysis investigated association between among university student population. The results revealed that (1) two constructs were significantly correlated, with moderate effect (r = 0.465); (2) cult...

The pin-to-pin electrostatic discharge (ESD) stress was one of the most critical ESD events for differential input pads. The pin-to-pin ESD issue for a differential low-noise amplifier (LNA) was studied in this work. A new ESD protection scheme for differential input pads, which was realized with cross-coupled siliconcontrolled rectifier (SCR), was proposed to protect the differential LNA. The ...

Introduction of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has brought about a renaissance in therapeutic endoscopy. For the globalization and universalization of ESD, the number of physicians who can perform ESD has rapidly increased with general ex vivo and in vivo training using animal models and hand-on courses. In this focused review series, world-renowned ESD experts described the published s...

Background and study aims  Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is a widely accepted method for en-bloc resection of dysplastic lesions and early cancer in Asia and Europe. A limiting factor in adoption of ESD in the United States is perceived lack of training opportunities. The aims of this study were to: (1) evaluate ESD experience of attendees at a University-sponsored ESD training course;...

Purpose – Many education for sustainable development (ESD) programs are designed to change attitudes and values toward the natural environment. However, psychological research indicates that several factors in addition to attitude influence behavior, including contextual support, social norms, action difficulty, and habitual behavior. Thus, if attitude change is to translate into altered behavi...

High-resolution rainfall information is of great value, particularly over southeastern South America (SESA) where the observed and projected climate changes pose a substantial threat to socio-economic activities hydrological sector. Consequently, this work focuses on construction an unprecedented multi-model ensemble statistically downscaled (ESD) global models (GCMs) for daily precipitation. D...

Background and study aims Esophageal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is technically difficult because of narrow working spaces and ease of perforation due to the lack of serosa. HybridKnife is a recently developed ESD device that is combined with the high pressure waterjet ERBEJET 2 system to lift mucosa. We hypothesized that this waterjet could make submucosal dissection safer and studi...

The multivariate exponentially weighted moving average (MEWMA) control chart is one of the best statistical control chart that are usually used to detect simultaneous small deviations on the mean of more than one cross-correlated quality characteristics. The economic design of MEWMA control charts involves solving a combinatorial optimization model that is composed of a nonlinear cost function ...