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This paper summarized the treatment and nursing experience of a patient with insomnia of disharmony between spleen and stomach type. Based on the routine nursing care, meridian massage combined with five-element music therapy was carried out to improve the sleep quality of the patient. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score (PSQI) decreased after treatment, and the insomnia-related symptoms were relieved。 (本文总结1例脾胃不和型失眠患者的治疗和护理经验。在加强常规护理的基础上, 通过实施经穴推拿联合五音疗法, 有效降低患者匹兹堡睡眠质量指数量表(PSQI)评分, 改善失眠症状。)

To discriminate different fabric frictional sound, a mechanism based on Haar features was established in this study, and an efficient approach was conducted to identify fabric friction sounds by discriminating against the performances of different fiber materials manifested in the mechanism. 4 categories of fabrics were put through a specialized apparatus to collect frictional sound signals. The Haar features on every scale and position of the acquired signal were extracted so as to establish a feature space. For each point in the feature space, a discriminator was built to approve all positive samples of a certain category and deny negative samples as many as possible. All negatives were filter out due to the probability of a single negative sample being allowed by a large number of discriminators is very small. The progressive selection was performed on the discriminators to form a queue so as to bring out a much reduced version of the unordered discriminators with the same discriminability. Results have indicated that the discrimination queue suggested by this study can substantially reduce the number of discriminators involved and meanwhile keep the discriminability of fabric friction sounds invariable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Continuity of care has become an important indicator of the quality of healthcare gradually, however, patients are frequently blocked at the present stage in reality due to insufficient capacity at the next stage. Existing papers on such blocking problem assume that patients just wait in the blocking period, while filed survey in hospital prove that patients accept the service of next stage when they are blocked, and the corresponding service time between neighboring stages is related. Under the consideration of continuity of care, a queuing model and a more effective heuristic on estimating blocking probability are designed. Compared with simulation results and previous approaches, new heuristic is more accurate and stable. In addition, expanded applications of the new heuristic prove it's effectiveness in health care performance evaluation and resource allocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective To detect and analyze two important genes, comE and luxS, in quorum sensing signal pathway from Streptococcus oralis (S.oralis). Methods The total genomic DNA of S.oralis NH521 (a clinically isolated strain) was firstly extracted. The comE and luxS genes were then amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and further sequenced. The obtained sequences were compared with related sequences in GenBank. Results Target bands of both comE and luxS genes were detected by electrophoresis. The obtained gene sequences were similar to the corresponding sequences from another S.oralis strain (luxS, 95.0%; comE, 99.6%); however, comparing to gene sequences of another species Streptococcus mutans, comE was more divergent (12.7%) than luxS gene (74.1%). Conclusion This study successfully amplified and sequenced comE and luxS genes from S.oralis NH521 strain. The luxS gene accumulated more mutations than comE gene did between two S.oralis strains, but comE gene is more divergent than luxS gene between two Streptococcus species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]