Objective To review the literature and systematically evaluate the effectiveness of Chuna (or Tuina) manual therapy (C[T]MT) on pain and function for musculoskeletal disorders. Methods We searched 15 English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean databases using relevant keywords. All randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of C(T)MT for musculoskeletal disorders were considered, and we limited analyses ...

In th i s paper we present a novel improvement to existing schemes for a b r u p t shot change detection. Existing schemes declare a shot change whenever t h e f rame to f rame histogram difference (FFD) value is above a particular threshold. In such a n approach, a high value for t h e threshold results in a small number of false a larms a n d a large number of missed detections while a low va...

New inequalities for the numerical radius of bounded linear operators defined on a complex Hilbert space $${\mathcal {H}}$$ are given. In particular, it is established that if T operator then $$\begin{aligned} w^2(T)\le \min _{0\le \alpha \le 1} \left\| T^*T +(1-\alpha )TT^* \right\| , \end{aligned}$$ where w(T) T. The obtained here non-trivial improvement well-known inequalities. As an applica...

In this paper we describe the first improvement of wire shuffling countermeasure against side-channel attacks described by Ishai, Sahai and Wagner at Crypto 2003. More precisely, show how to get worst case statistical security t probes with running time $${\mathcal O}(t)$$ instead O}(t \log t)$$ ; our construction is also much simpler. Recall that classical masking achieves perfect but O}(t^2)$...

A target of best dissolution improvement of poorly soluble drugs is a necessity for the success of formulation in industry. The present work describes the preparation, optimization, and evaluation of a new spherical agglomeration technique for glimepiride as a model of poorly soluble drugs. It involved the emulsification of a drug solution containing a dispersed carrier that tailors the crystal...

Gerards and Seymour conjectured that every graph with no odd Kt minor is (t − 1)-colorable. This a strengthening of the famous Hadwiger’s Conjecture. Geelen et al. proved $$O(t\sqrt {\log t} )$$ -colorable. Using methods present authors Postle recently developed for coloring graphs minor, we make first improvement on this bound by showing O(t(logt)β)-colorable β > 1/4.