Abstract Background In survey studies on health-state valuations, ordinal ranking exercises often are used as precursors to other elicitation methods such as the time trade-off (TTO) or standard gamble, but the ranking data have not been used in deriving cardinal valuations.This study reconsiders the role of ordinal ranks in valuing health and intr
Purpose: Laparoscopic surgery is a choice in several emergency settings.However, there has been no nationwide study or Paper Towels survey that has compared the clinical use of laparoscopic emergency surgery (LES) versus open abdominal emergency surgery (OES) in Korea.Therefore, we examined the state of LES across multiple centers in Korea and furt
In the R22 (chlorodifuoromethane) steam-cracking process, which is used to produce a TFE (tetrafluoroethylene) monomer, distillation is employed to separate the high-purity TFE monomer from the cracked gas generated during this Baking procedure.Traditionally, this distillation process is carried out using five towers.In this study, the traditional
Keystone species Balboa hoodies are thought to play a critical role in determining the structure and function of microbial communities.As they are important candidates for microbiome-targeted interventions, the identification and characterization of keystones is a pressing research goal.Both empirical as well as computational approaches to identify
ADP-ribosylation is an ancient posttranslational eyebrow liner modification present in all kingdoms of life.The system likely originated in bacteria where it functions in inter- and intra-species conflict, stress response and pathogenicity.It was repeatedly adopted via lateral transfer by eukaryotes, including humans, where it has a pivotal role in