There is a paucity of economic evidence relating to interventions for peripheral nerve disorders and the aim of this study was to illustrate the application of economic evaluation in this area by making a comparison of the cost-effectiveness of intravenous immunoglobulin and prednisolone...

Background: To assess the economic impact of powered stapler use in video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy for lung cancer in a Chinese tertiary care hospital. Methods: This study identified 388 patients who received VATS lobectomy using the ECHELON powered stapler (n = 296) or the...

Background: To assess the economic impact of powered stapler use in video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy for lung cancer in a Chinese tertiary care hospital. Methods: This study identified 388 patients who received VATS lobectomy using the ECHELON powered stapler (n = 296) or the...

This paper focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS). The MGDS is the overarching strategy for Malawi from fiscal year 2006/07 to 2010/2011. The purpose of the MGDS is to serve as a single reference document for policymakers in...

Предложена управляемая модель, позволяющая исследовать защитные механизмы организма человека. Поставлена оптимизационная задача, описанная системой...

Evaluation on the performance and quality of textile products is very important in textile industry, for example, clustering-based fabric evaluation. Classical clustering methods have some disadvantages, one of which is that the parameters of fabrics are straightly clustered without extracting...

The vertebrate immune system is a wonder of modern evolution. Occasionally, however, correlations within the immune system lead to inappropriate recruitment of pre-existing T-cells against novel viral diseases. We present a random energy theory for the correlations in the naive and memory T-cell...

This article reflects on contributions from medical anthropology to our understanding of the bio-social and bio-political implications of renal transplantation. Taking up the idea of transplantation as a ‘complex’, a vast assemblage of people, places, practices and procedures which intersect...

In this paper we use exact numeration techniques and multispin coding to study the dynamics of a bit-string model proposed to describe the time evolution of B-cell repertoire. Each clone of B-cells and antibodies is characterized by its molecular receptor, associated to a bit-string, and the...

The immune system may be seen as a complex system, characterized using tools developed in the study of such systems, for example, surface roughness and its associated Hurst exponent. We analyze densitometric (Panama blot) profiles of immune reactivity, to classify individuals into groups with...