To compare the differences in access to a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for gender-neutral (appendectomy) vs. gender-specific (hysterectomy) operation rapidly growing biologically female population at Veterans Health Administration (VHA). This is retrospective cohort study of biological veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Project (VASQIP) database who underwent appendectomy or hyst...

In the past, relations of diffusive resistance to stomatal geometry have concerned circular pores or pores that are replaced by equivalent circles of the same area. We calculated the resistance for general shapes that include the realistic slit. The resistance comprises two terms. The first is an outer resistance that depends only on ventilation and leaf geometry and is independent of stomata. ...

BACKGROUND Health care databases provide a widely used source of data for health care research, but their accuracy remains uncertain. We analyzed data from the 1985 National DRG Validation Study, which carefully reabstracted and reassigned ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes from a national sample of 7050 medical records, to determine whether coding accuracy had improved since the Institute ...

Hippophae rhamnoides L. (Elaeagnaceae) is a hardy, deciduous shrub with yellow or orange berries. H. rhamnoides contains a series of chemical compounds including flavonols, sterols, lipids, triterpenoids, etc. H. rhamnoides has been used as a traditional medicine for the treatment of cough, indigestion, and blood stasis in China. Macrophages play major roles in host defense, immunity, and infla...

DURING research on the mandibular foramen, skulls of known age and sex were examined at Saint Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, and the significance of the anatomical measurements is described elsewhere (Harvey and Robb, 1965); but, apart from these results, many aspects were revealed which induced one to get a panorama of the conditions prevailing at that time. It would have been possible,...