Objective: To better understand the impact of a microscopically positive margin (R1) on
patterns of disease recurrence and survival after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) for pancreatic …

Background: Thick gingival tissue eases manipulation, maintains vascularity, and promotes
wound healing during and after surgery. A few recent case reports correlate greater flap …

Metabolism and ageing are intimately linked. Compared with ad libitum feeding, dietary
restriction consistently extends lifespan and delays age-related diseases in evolutionarily …

… The two investigators (J Yang and YP Wang) who performed the literature search also
independently extracted the data from included studies. Disagreements were resolved with a third …

Blockchain, the foundation of Bitcoin, has received extensive attentions recently. Blockchain
serves as an immutable ledger which allows transactions take place in a decentralized …

Building a voice conversion (VC) system from non-parallel speech corpora is challenging
but highly valuable in real application scenarios. In most situations, the source and the target …

The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) is a legacy programme designed to
map a set of nested fields totalling ∼380 deg 2 . Fields range in size from 0.01 to ∼20 deg …

Objectives: To compare the practicality, reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the timed
up and go (TUG), one‐leg stand (OLS), functional reach (FR), and Tinetti balance (TB) …

The discovery of unconventional superconductivity in (La,Ba) 2 CuO 4 (ref. ) has motivated
the study of compounds with similar crystal and electronic structure, with the aim of finding …

The “metabolic syndrome” (MetS) is a clustering of components that reflect overnutrition,
sedentary lifestyles, and resultant excess adiposity. The MetS includes the clustering of …