This study aimed to identify procedural elements of Japanese acupuncture, describe these elements in detail, and explain them in terms of the key thematic category of treatment principles.Between August 2012 and December 2016, ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in Japan.In total, 38 participants were recruited by chain referral and emergent sampl
Incremental View Maintenance for Deductive Graph Databases Using Generalized Discrimination Networks
Nowadays, graph databases are employed when relationships between entities are in the scope Vanity of database queries to avoid performance-critical join operations of relational databases.Graph queries are used to query and modify graphs stored in graph databases.Graph queries employ graph pattern matching that is NP-complete for subgraph isomorph
Successful penile replantation after macroscopic repair using vein blood-letting therapy
Although penile amputation is a Toys rare injury, it may occur caused by self-mutilation with psychiatric disturbances and sexual need, or due to accidents, iatrogenic injuries or revenge and marriage breakdown.A case of successful penile glans Dust Pans replantation by macroscopic repair using vein blood-letting therapy is presented.This case repo
Meeting report: the ALPHA project: a stakeholder meeting on lupus clinical trial outcome measures and the patient perspective
Drug development Classic Cap in lupus has improved over the past 10 years but still lags behind that of other rheumatic disease areas.Assessment of prospective lupus therapies in clinical trials has proved challenging for reasons that are multifactorial including the heterogeneity of the disease, study design limitations and a lack of validated bio
Effect of Adding Lactic Acid Bacteria to Maize Silage on Nutritive Guality, Fermentation Properties and in Vitro Digestibility
This study aimed to determine the effects of adding lactic acid bacteria to maize silage on the nutritional quality, fermentation properties, and its in vitro organic matter digestion (IVOMD).Pre-fermented juices (PFJ) prepared from different water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) sources at the rate of 5% 151 and commercial homofermentative and heterofe