Background: Prevalence of obesity in the world, in both developed and developing countries, is growing rapidly. Bariatric surgery is now accepted as the treatment for morbid obesity. Objective: This study compares laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy's effectiveness (LSG) with the most common bariatric surgery, laparoscopic Roux-en-Y (LRYGB) gastric bypass.   Methods: A systematic review ...

Sternothyroideus myotomy, staphylectomy, and soft palate thermoplasty are effective treatments for Thoroughbred racehorses suffering from the performance-limiting effects of dorsal displacement of the soft palate and offer similar performance outcomes as other surgical procedures.

Over the last decade, anesthesia procedures for low back pain have evolved significantly. Whereas blind epidural steroid injections were formerly the mainstay of procedural treatments, today, interventional pain physicians provide a variety of “minimally invasive,” targeted, and technically sophisticated treatment options for patients suffering with low back pain. As a mark of the increased imp...

Because posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the few psychological conditions that predict suicidal behavior among those who think about suicide, many patients with PTSD present clinically with elevated suicide risk. Expert consensus and practice guidelines recommend against trauma-focused treatments for patients with elevated suicide risk, however. Research aimed at understanding the...

effects of catechin for preventing black spots forming in whiteleg shrimp (litopenaeus vannamei) were evaluated. for processing whole shrimp, catechin was used at a concentration of 0.2 and 0.3 % for 15 minutes. sodium metabisulfite was used at a concentration of 3 % for 10 minutes as control samples. without antioxidant shrimp were used as control samples too. treatments quality was evaluated ...

The goals of this task group are to examine the current high dose-rate (HDR) treatment delivery practices and to prepare a document to assure safe delivery of HDR treatments. The document consists of detailed HDR procedures for design of an HDR brachytherapy program, staffing and training, treatment specific quality assurance, and emergency procedures. The document provides an extensive quality...

The ideas used in experiments today were mostly in place by the first few decades of the 20th century. The procedures of comparing groups, assigning individuals to treatments, and statistically analyzing group comparisons had been developed by 1940. During the 1960s, the types of experimental designs were identified and the strengths (e.g., control over potential threats) of these designs speci...

Review of theoretical models for cost-effectiveness and of procedures currently being used by different levels of decision makers to evaluate the projects or alternatives is the main objective of this article. To come to some conclusion that which theoretical model would be more effective to be applied for allocating the limited resources among different projects. the performance evaluation pro...

Employing a two-by-two factorial design that manipulates whether dictator groups are single or mixed-sex and whether procedures are single or double-blind, we examine gender effects in a standard dictator game. No gender effects were found in any of the experimental treatments for the mean or median levels of giving, or for the propensity to give nothing. However, females chose to give away hal...

A. Introduction B. Storage of Tissues and Preliminary Treatments prior to Extraction C. Extraction of Tissues with Solvents D. Removal of Non-Lipid Contaminants from Extracts E. Artefacts of Extraction Procedures F. Practical Extraction Procedures 1. Some general comments 2. The "Folch" procedure 3. The Bligh and Dyer method 4. Extraction of plant tissues G. Some Special Cases 1. Acyl-coenzyme ...