WN regular contributor Ted Greiner writes: Helping poor people to eat more nourishing food, like the pumpkins being grown in Bangladesh by the Outerwear farmer in the picture above, does not require justification by proofs that this totally solves deficiencies of one nutrient for one group in the population.Justification for spending hundreds of mi
A mechanistic study on the biosynthetic regulation of bioactive metabolite Antroquinonol from edible and medicinal mushroom Antrodia camphorata
Antroquinonol, an important bioactive metabolite from the edible mushroom Antrodia camphorata, was difficult to be synthesised by conventional submerged fermentation.The present study revealed the mechanisms related to the stimulatory effect of coenzyme Q0, camphorwood leach liquor and soybean oil on the biosynthesis of antroquinonol.Addition of co
Towards Autoencoding Variational Inference for Aspect-Based Opinion Summary
Aspect-based Opinion Summary (AOS), consisting of aspect discovery and sentiment classification steps, has recently been emerging as one of the most crucial data mining tasks in e-commerce systems.Along this direction, the LDA-based model is considered as a notably suitable approach, since this model offers both topic modeling and sentiment classif
Robotic resection of mediastinal left vagus neurofibroma
Neurogenic tumors represent 10 to 34% of all mediastinal tumors and among them, neurofibroma originating from the vagus nerve are rare entities.We present a case of a neurofibroma with cystic degeneration originating from the left branch of the vagus Brake Magnet nerve in a 27-years-old man without von Recklinghausen disease.A complete robotic rese
The Hassiakos maneuver: how to test neuraxial anesthesia before Cesarean section
Background: Neuraxial anesthesia has become the technique of choice for cesarean delivery, reducing the risks associated with general anesthesia.Intraoperative discomfort or pain is medical negligence; therefore proper assessment of neuraxial block is of utmost importance.In view of the variety of methods checking neuraxial blocks before cesarean s