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Is gap balancing superior to measured resection technique in total knee arthroplasty? A meta-analysis
Authors: He Qiang , Sun Caihong , Ma Jianbing , Guo Jianbing 
Published: January 2020

AbstractBackgroundMeasured resection and gap balancing are two distinct methods for proper femoral component alignment in total knee arthroplasty. Decision-making between the two techniques is controversial. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to compare measured resection and gap balancing with regard to the radiological and clinical benefits, and to examine whether this change the conclusions from previous trails.MethodsA systematic literature search of the medical literature from January 1990 to February 2015 was performed. We selected six randomized controlled trials and five prospective cohort studies comparing gap balancing and measured resection in patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty. Data from included studies were pooled with use of fixed-effects and random-effects models with standard mean differences and risk ratios for continuous and dichotomous variables, respectively. Heterogeneity across studies was assessed with calculation of the I2statistic.ResultsA total of 857 knees from 11 trials were included. Four hundred and forty-one knees were treated with gap balancing and 416 were treated with measured resection. In contrast to previous studies, we found that gap balancing demonstrated better patient-reported outcomes with regard to Knee Society score for pain (WMD 2.75,p = 0.004) and Knee Society score for function (WMD 5.47,p < 0.0001) at two-year follow-up. Gap balancing showed more precise limb alignment in terms of post-operative value of mechanical axis (WMD 0.40°,p = 0.01) and risk of mechanical alignment outliers (RR 0.350,p < 0.0001). However, gap balancing was associated with more joint line elevation (WMD 1.27 mm,p < 0.0001) and longer operative time (WMD 16.18 min,p < 0.0001). No significant difference was observed in rotation of the femoral component (p = 0.07).ConclusionsThe meta-analysis demonstrated that gap balancing was able to achieve more precise coronal alignment with better short-term patient-reported outcomes compared with measured resection. Measured resection was more desirable than gap balancing with regard to restoration of the joint line and operative time. Comparable femoral rotational alignment was observed.
Single blastocyst transfer yields similar pregnancy rates compared with multiple cleavage embryo transfer, with reduced twin rate, in patients with low number of fertilized oocytes
Authors: Smeltzer Stephanie , Acharya Kelly , Truong Tracy , Pieper Carl , Muasher Suheil 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
Background
In patients with low numbers of embryos, there is not yet consensus on whether to extend culture to the blastocyst stage, especially due to the risk that some or all of the embryos will not make it to the blastocyst stage. The objective of our study was to evaluate pregnancy outcomes in patients with a low number of fertilized oocytes (< 4), comparing single blastocyst transfer to one or more cleavage embryo transfer.

Results
We analyzed 6795 cycles from the 2014–2105 Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) registry. All patients were ≤ 38 years old, had less than four fertilized oocytes, and were undergoing first fresh in vitro fertilization (IVF) transfer. Primary outcomes were clinical pregnancy (CP), live birth (LB), and miscarriage rate in both cleavage stage transfer and single blastocyst transfer. A secondary outcome was the rate of twin gestation. The comparison of interest in day of transfer included (1) single blastocyst vs single cleavage and (2) single blastocyst vs multiple cleavage stage. The association between day of transfer and primary outcome was investigated using logistic regression, controlling for the age, race/ethnicity, BMI, smoking, gravidity, parity, infertility diagnoses, and assisted hatching.
Single blastocyst transfer was associated with an increased odds of CP (adjusted OR 2.03) and LB (adjusted OR 1.86) when compared to single cleavage transfer, and no statistically significant association was observed when comparing single blastocyst transfer to multiple cleavage embryo transfer for CP (adjusted OR 0.94) and LB (adjusted OR = 0.88). The odds of having twins among single blastocyst transfer was significantly lower compared to those odds that among multiple cleavage stage transfer (unadjusted OR 0.09).

Conclusions
While pregnancy outcomes are similar between single blastocyst and multiple cleavage embryo transfer, the twin rate is reduced significantly among the single blastocyst transfers in patients with a low number of fertilized oocytes.
An empirical study of the earnings–returns association: an evidence from China’s A-share market
Authors: Alduais Fahd 
Published: January 2020

AbstractThis paper aims to investigate the returns–earnings association in the context of the Chinese capital market. Previously, the investigations brought about disputable outcomes concerning the handiness of models utilizing earnings levels or earnings changes as the informative factors. In this investigation we create theories from the slack structure between stock returns and earnings and perform an empirical test. In an introductory context, this study examines the above relationship applying three models using data from CSMAR database of Chinese listed companies A shares over the sample period of 10 years 2007–2016. The results demonstrated a significant value relevancy of accounting earnings. Specially, in the Chinese stock market the change in the earnings model interprets the stock returns less than earnings level model. Furthermore, the use of cross-sectional accumulated data results in a enormous increase in the explanatory power of earnings for returns yielding more significant earnings response coefficients. The explanatory power of the model that included both variables was (1.17%) that is more than the result of using one explanatory variable in the model implemented for all years and all companies, whether the variable was the earning level (1.03%) or the change in earning (0.75%). The findings recommend that future research should control for the impacts of the temporal increase in market returns before making value relevance inferences from the debilitating association between earnings and returns. The paper contributes to the incomplete framework of research on returns–earnings association as the main driver for the temporal reduction in value relevance of earnings.
Sweating Disorders
Authors: Coon Elizabeth A. , Cheshire William P. 
Published: January 2020

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE OF REVIEW
This article reviews disorders of sweating, including hyperhidrosis and anhidrosis due to central or peripheral autonomic nervous system causes.

RECENT FINDINGS
Disorders of thermoregulation and sweating may manifest with hyperhidrosis or hypohidrosis/anhidrosis. Primary disorders of hyperhidrosis may significantly impact quality of life yet tend to be benign. Many sweating disorders present with compensatory hyperhidrosis due to areas of anhidrosis. Anhidrosis may occur due to either central or peripheral damage to the autonomic nervous system. The thermoregulatory control of sweating involves central pathways from the hypothalamus to the brainstem and then spinal cord as well as projections to peripheral structures, including the sympathetic chain ganglia, peripheral nerves, and eccrine sweat glands. Disruption at any point of this pathway may lead to impaired sweating. Characterization of sweating dysfunction helps localize different autonomic disorders to guide diagnosis and may allow for evaluation of treatment effect.

SUMMARY
Sweating dysfunction manifests in myriad ways, including essential hyperhidrosis, complete anhidrosis with heat intolerance, and compensatory hyperhidrosis due to anhidrosis, and often indicates involvement of underlying central or peripheral autonomic dysfunction.
Skin Biopsy in Evaluation of Autonomic Disorders
Authors: Gibbons Christopher H. , Wang Ningshan , Kim Jee Young , Campagnolo Marta , Freeman Roy 
Published: January 2020

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE OF REVIEW
This article provides an up-to-date assessment of the role of skin biopsy in the evaluation of autonomic disorders. The standard methodology for completing a skin biopsy, the anatomic structures of interest detected within a skin biopsy, and the disease states in which skin biopsies may provide valuable information are reviewed.

RECENT FINDINGS
Several recent advances in the studies of hereditary amyloidosis and the various degenerative synucleinopathies have demonstrated that simple skin biopsies can provide valuable pathologic evidence of neurologic disease. In addition to diagnosis of the underlying disorder, skin biopsies provide a quantitative structural measurement of the associated autonomic damage.

SUMMARY
Skin biopsies are making great inroads into the study of autonomic and peripheral nerve disorders. Complex immunohistochemical staining protocols are challenging to complete, but the rich data derived from these studies in the diagnosis and monitoring of different disease states suggest that the role of skin biopsies in the study of the autonomic nervous system will continue to expand in the years to come.
Autonomic Peripheral Neuropathy
Authors: Freeman Roy 
Published: January 2020

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE OF REVIEW
This article provides a summary of the autonomic neuropathies, including neuropathies associated with diabetes mellitus, neuropathies due to amyloid deposition, immune-mediated autonomic neuropathies (including those associated with a paraneoplastic syndrome), inherited autonomic neuropathies, and toxic autonomic neuropathies. The presenting features, diagnostic investigations, and natural history of these neuropathies are discussed.

RECENT FINDINGS
Recent findings in autonomic peripheral neuropathy include data on the epidemiology and atypical presentations of diabetic autonomic neuropathy, treatment-induced neuropathy of diabetes mellitus, the presentation of immune-mediated neuropathies, and advances in hereditary neuropathy associated with amyloidosis and other hereditary neuropathies.

SUMMARY
Knowledge and recognition of the clinical features of the autonomic neuropathies, combined with appropriate laboratory and electrophysiologic testing, will facilitate accurate diagnosis and management.
Connective Tissue
Authors: Cooppan Vilashini 
Published: January 2020

AbstractThis essay explores the interlinked discourses of memory that put slavery, indenture, colonization, and apartheid into comparison. The term connective tissue, with its connotations of organic and inorganic interweavings (fabrics, bodies and their microstructures, societies and their networks), elaborates memory that is composed through entanglement and expressed through distinctly networked technologies. These technologies include textuality’s semiotic weave (Barthes, Derrida), the nonlinearity of Glissant’s Relation, and the affective intensities, sensory experience, and inherited memory of diasporic identity, here given shape through critical memoir. Connective tissue models an approach to a comparative memory studies animated by entanglement rather than competitive hierarchization of the events of racialized historical violence.
DEVELOPING A LIFELONG RESISTANCE TRAINING PROGRAM
Authors: Kravitz Len R. 
Published: January 2020

Pulled Quotes:
“Humans have evolved and adapted for a wide range of unique physical activities, such as long-distance running and walking in the heat, carrying, digging, and throwing projectiles.”
“Higher levels of exercise intensity are associated with greater improvements in A1c.”
“In boys and girls, resistance training may also lead to a positive attitude by increasing self-esteem and confidence levels.”
“For lifelong progression in resistance training, variation, or a systematic alternation of the program, is needed.”
“Importantly, data now show that youth with low muscular fitness are at increased risk of maintaining a low muscular fitness level into adulthood.”

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CT-pathologic correlation of non-calcified atherosclerotic arterial plaques: a study using carotid endarterectomy specimens
Authors: Higashi Masahiro , Yamada Naoaki , Imakita Satoshi , Yutani Chikao , Ishibashi-Ueda Hatsue , Iihara Koji , Naito Hiroaki 
Published: January 2020

Objective:
Pathologic features of atherosclerotic plaques on CT are not established. We compared CT values among pathologically confirmed plaque constituents and evaluated their ability to distinguish plaque constituents.

Methods:
50 histopathological images of carotid endarterectomy samples from 10 males and 2 females (age 54–74 years, average 65.9 years) were examined. We compared pre-operative CT [pre-contrast (CT-P), early post-contrast phase (CT-E), delayed post-contrast phase (CT-D)] of lipid-rich necrotic core (NC) and fibrous tissue (F) plaque components with pathological images. The ability of features to differentiate plaque components using several discrimination techniques were compared.

Results:
CT values of NC and F were 36 ± 13, 45 ± 11 (mean ± standard deviation, Hounsfield unit, HU), 41 ± 17, 69 ± 18, and 44 ± 16, 70 ± 13 in CT-P (p &lt; 0.01), CT-E (p &lt; 0.0001), and CT-D (p &lt; 0.0001), respectively. The threshold, sensitivity, and accuracy for distinguishing NC from F were 44 HU, 74%, and 68%; 55 HU, 85%, and 85%; and 63 HU, 92%, and 84% in CTP, CT-E, and CT-D, respectively. CT-P had lower accuracy than CT-E and CT-D (both p &lt; 0.05), but CT-E and CT-D were similar. CT-E and CT-D yielded 90 and 91% sensitivity and accuracy, respectively in linear discrimination analysis.

Conclusion:
In both pre- and post-contrast CT, CT values were lower in NC than F. Although values overlapped, using two-phase post-contrast CTs improved discrimination ability.

Advances in knowledge:
Our findings may help to establish computer-aided diagnosis of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques in future.
Good sex matters: Pleasure as a driver of online sex education for young people
Authors: van Clief Lindsay , Anemaat Elianne 
Published: January 2020

Background There are few documented examples of online sex education platforms that make an impact on young people’s sexual health and wellbeing, yet research shows that new media has enormous potential to be harnessed in this way. The same is true for a pleasure-positive approach to sex education curricula and programmes. This research provides empirical evidence from the Love Matters' websites in Mexico, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, and India to highlight the prevalence and importance of talking about pleasure-related topics with young people. Methodology Love Matters is an online sex education platform targeting seven countries and attracting 30 million website visits in 2018. We analysed data through Google Analytics to explore the difference between sex education-focused content and pleasure-focused content and how young people engage with different types of sexual health information on the Love Matters platforms. Results Pleasure-focused content is 1.5 times more popular than sex education-focused content across all platforms. However, education-focused content attracts more organic traffic, suggesting young people purposefully search for sexual health information online. Users generally spend longer on the site engaging with sex education-focused content than pleasure-focused content. Conclusion This research provides empirical evidence from five countries in the Global South to support the notion that young people are actively looking for sexual health information that covers the full scope of sexual experience and pleasure, including – but not limited to – the reduction of health risks. This paper furthers the efforts to adopt a pleasure-positive approach to both online and offline sex education interventions.
Support your staff to flourish
Authors: Lawson Deborah , Moxley Kate , Baston-Pitt Linda 
Published: January 2020

How can staff be fit to support children's well-being if they are not in a healthy mental place themselves? Deborah Lawson introduces this focus on combatting workplace stress by outlining innovative ideas that involve both teams and managers working together to find solutions. Karen Faux talks to trainer and consultant Kate Moxley who works with settings to help them bring out the unique talents of their staff. It is all about embarking on a journey to create sense of shared values and embedding a commitment to well-being in everyday practice. As CEO of PurpleBee Learning, a practice-based online training platform for early years professionals, Linda Baston-Pitt is a passionate advocate for motivated, ambitious staff. She outlines how the skills which underpin these qualities can be taught and developed.
The political culture of non-western fashion identities1
Authors: Craik Jennifer 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
The topic of non-western (or ethnic, exotic, world or fusion) fashion has been gaining traction as a legitimate field of scholarship in recent years. This rich vein of research and practice requires more attention to developing new approaches to analytic frameworks in which to evaluate the state of fashion in non-western contexts and to discuss more seamlessly the convergence and dialectical appropriation of non-western inspirations in western fashion and western inspirations in forging and negotiating non-western fashion identities. One indication of the inadequacies of current analytic frameworks used to understand non-western fashion is the use of oppositions and polarities such as colonial/postcolonial, exotic/indigenous and local/global. This article argues that non-western fashion can only be adequately unpacked and understood if the embedded politics of the cultures in which non-western emanates are recognized, drawing on the history of fashions in China and references to Chinoiserie in Eurocentric fashion.
Fashion as a tool for the reinterpretation of the past: The case of Romanian folk costume as inspiration for designers and consumers
Authors: Creangă Raluca 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
This article examines the ways in which fashion reinterprets the past through clothing. Descriptor of evolution, fashion has played an important role in defining attitudes and emotions throughout time. I aim to deconstruct the so-called ethnic style by analysing the Romanian traditional folk costume and its contemporary adaptations as a fashion piece, but also as a token that stimulates memories, emotions and experiences. Therefore, the deconstruction is based on the relationship between ethnic style and nostalgia, a powerful, reactive emotion that stimulates introspection and encourages creativity in new and innovative ways. The past becomes a constitutive factor for ethnic style – being a source of information and inspiration.
An Evaluation of the New Japanese Bonus–Malus System with No-claim and Claimed Subclasses
Authors: Okura Mahito , Yoshizawa Takuya , Sakaki Motohiro 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the new Japanese Bonus–Malus System (BMS 2012) in automobile insurance, which is an unusual system wherein both no-claim and claimed subclasses exist. To evaluate BMS 2012, we conduct a simulation analysis and compare BMS 2012 with the former Japanese BMS (BMS 2009) in terms of the present value of the total insurance premium that is closely related to the frequency of insurance claims. Based on the comparison, our main conclusion is that BMS 2012 offers more effects to lower the frequency of insurance claims than BMS 2009 does when the policyholders’ classes in BMS are high classes that evaluate as safety drivers, time discount and/or renewal rates are relatively low, and the policyholders’ risk averseness is large.
Final particles in Asia: Establishing an areal feature
Authors: Panov Vladimir 
Published: January 2020

AbstractThis paper presents the results of an areal study of the elements known as(sentence-)final particles(FPs) in the languages of Asia. FPs constitute a crucial part of many languages of the region and are reported in language-particular descriptions under various labels. However, they have not been the subject of large-scale areal studies. In this paper, I discuss the morphosyntactic and functional properties typically exhibited by the FPs of Asian languages and the parameters of their variation. On the basis of a sample of 53 languages and 6 sample functional types of FPs, I explore the areal distribution of FPs of the Asian type. I demonstrate that different FP-isoglosses exhibit different geographical coverage, but the overlap of some of them allows us to speak of a structural phenomenon highly typical of a macroarea which includes East, Southeast, and Northeast Asia.
Mean Combined Relative Grip Strength and Metabolic Syndrome: 2011–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Authors: Churilla James R. , Summerlin Mary , Richardson Michael R. , Boltz Adrian J. 
Published: January 2020

Abstract
Churilla, JR, Summerlin, M, Richardson, MR, and Boltz, AJ. Mean combined relative grip strength and metabolic syndrome: 2011–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. J Strength Cond Res 34(4): 995–1000, 2020—The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among mean combined relative grip strength (MCRGS), the metabolic syndrome (MetS), and the individual MetS criterion using a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults (≥20 years of age). The study sample included subjects from the 2011–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Study (NHANES). Subject MCRGS, using an average of 3 attempts per hand, was measured by a trained examiner using a handgrip dynamometer. All anthropometric, blood pressure, and serum blood measures used to diagnose the MetS were obtained in a Mobile Examination Center using a subsample of NHANES subjects (N = 4,664). Results suggest a favorable inverse dose–response relationship exists across quartiles of increased MCRGS and likelihood of MetS in both men and women (p < 0.0001 for trend). In analyses adjusted for age, race, education, and meeting aerobic physical activity recommendations, when compared with a referent group in the lowest quartile of MCRGS (MCRGS <2.66 kg/body mass index [BMI] in men; MCRGS <1.58 kg/BMI in women), those in the third (MCRGS >3.20–3.77 kg/BMI in men; MCRGS >1.99–2.38 kg/BMI in women) and fourth quartile (MCRGS >3.77 kg/BMI in men; MCRGS >2.38 kg/BMI in women), were significantly less likely to have the MetS, independent of gender (p ≤ 0.05 for all). Similar findings varied according to individual MetS criterion. These findings provide the first data suggesting that increased MCRGS may be inversely related to the MetS or the individual MetS criterion in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults.