Aim: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of the traditional Chinese medicine sea buckthorn (SBT) in the treatment of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Method: 94 patients with NAFLD were randomly divided into two groups: 48 cases of patients received oral sea buckthorn 1.5 g (3 times a day) for three months as the treated group, and 46 cases received only the vehicle for thr...

Chest optimization, an evidence-based p rotocolguided multimodal chest physio therapy con sisting of bo dy positioning, sputu m mobilization, bronchodilation, an d lu ng hyperinflation, may be ro utinely adm inistered to venti latordependent patients with low cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI) for i mproving p ulmonary fu nctional o utcomes that facilitate weaning from mechanical ventilation. W...

Simulation-based training (SBT) is gaining popularity as a low-cost and convenient training technique in a vast range of applications. However, for a SBT platform to be fully utilized as an effective training tool, it is essential that feedback on performance is provided automatically in real-time during training. It is the aim of this paper to develop an efficient and effective feedback genera...

Epithelial borderline ovarian tumors (BOT) are distinctive from benign tumors and carcinoma. They occur in younger women more often than carcinoma, and there is some difficulty making correct diagnosis of BOT. Two subtypes of BOT, serous and mucinous borderline tumor have different characteristics and very different clinical behavior. Serous borderline tumor (SBT) with micropapillary pattern sh...

Southern bluefin tuna (SBT) appear to comprise a single stock that is assumed to be both mixed across its distribution and having reproductive adults that are obligate, annual spawners. The putative annual migration cycle of mature SBT consists of dispersed foraging at temperate latitudes with migration to a single spawning ground in the tropical eastern Indian Ocean. Spawning migrations have b...

Background. Automatic tube compensation (ATC) has been developed to overcome the imposed work of breathing due to artificial airways during spontaneous breathing trials (SBTs). Objectives. This study aimed to assess extubation outcome after an SBT (spontaneous breathing trial) with ATC compared with pressure support ventilation (PSV) and to determine the risk factors for extubation failure. Met...

Abstract Age and growth of southern bluefin tuna (SBT, Thunnus maccoyii ) were estimated based on otoliths collected by Korean longline vessels in the Atlantic Indian Oceans from 2015 to 2019. A total 739 specimens used estimate age SBT, with sizes ranging 66 181 cm fork length. It was confirmed that otolith is a suitable aging characteristic for determining SBT age, annuli can be as an annual ...