Background: Offering brace for moderately suffering adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients is a recognized intervention to control further curve progression, and the treatment period varies from each patient.Some AIS patients required to wear longer than expected with different clinical reasons.Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of AIS

The paper explores and comments on the theoretical concept of human-machine-teaming in intelligent manufacturing.Industrial production is an important area of work applications and should be developed toward a more anthropocentric Industry 4.0/5.0.Teaming is used a design metaphor for human-centered integration Diodes of workers and complex cyber-p

Toxoplasma gondii has evolved a number of strategies to evade immune responses in its many hosts.Previous genetic mapping of crosses between clonal type 1, 2, and 3 strains of T.gondii, which are prevalent in Europe and North America, identified two rhoptry proteins, ROP5 and ROP18, that function together to block innate immune mechanisms activated

Relationships between language and music have always been lively and dynamic, from their syncretic unity in rituals, to setting text to music, verbal accounts of musical works, musicalization of literature, to abundance of linguistic and literary metaphors in discourse about music.Both language and music unfold in time; both possess a hierarchy of

The corrugated plate dryer (CPD) is an important steam-water separation (SWS) equipment in the steam generator in the secondary loop of nuclear power plants (NPPs).Therefore, it is very important to understand the process and mechanism of liquid film Stacking Kit rupture (LFR) on the wall surface of the CPD.In this paper, for the first time, the pr