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Background Prolonged life expectancy is associated with increased prevalence of chronic diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the different disability trajectories for the top ten leading causes of death in Taiwan . Methods A total of 2,431 participants aged 50–96 in 1996 from the Taiwan longitudinal study on aging (TLSA) who died from 1996 to 2016 were analyzed. Integration of Cause of Death Data and TLSA helped sort out participants who had died from the ten leading causes of death. The level of physical disability was evaluated with the Activities of Daily Living Scale (ADLs), ranging from 0 to 6 points, in 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011. A multilevel model was used to investigate the levels and rates of change in disability development before death. Results The outcome of the research showed that the earliest group to experience physical limitation was individuals living with diabetes. The groups with the highest ADL scores were participants with diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, and hypertension-related diseases. Most groups reach ADL scores ≥ 1 (mild-level) during 4–6 years before death except chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis and injury. Conclusions People who had died from the ten leading causes of death experienced different disability trajectories before death. The trajectory of the participants who had died from diabetes showed a unique pattern with the earliest occurrence and more severe deterioration in terms of development of disabilities. Disability trajectories provide a prediction of survival status for middle-aged and older adults associated with the ten leading causes of death.

Introduction Acute diarrhea is one of the most frequent illnesses in children and causes hospital attendance in developing countries. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the beneficial effect and safety of acupoint herbal patching (AHP) at Shenque (CV8) as an adjunctive therapy for acute diarrhea in children. Methods We searched for published or registered randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in seven databases (from their inception to September 30, 2016) and three clinical trial registries that compared combined therapy of AHP applied at Shenque together with conventional treatments to conventional treatments alone. Data extraction and risk of bias assessment were conducted by two independent reviewers. Stata 12.0 was used for statistical analyses. Results 21 eligible studies involving 3560 children with acute diarrhea were included. All of the RCTs were generally of poor methodological quality. Compared with conventional treatments which included symptomatic treatment (fluid supplementation, nutritional management, adsorbents, probiotics, etc.) and anti-infection therapy (antibiotics or antiviral drugs), AHP at Shenque as adjuvant therapy reduced mean duration of diarrhea (MD = −36.49 h, 95% confidence interval −47.50 to −25.49) and decreased the risk of treatment failure (RR = 0.21, 95% confidence interval 0.17 to 0.27) at 72 h after treatment began without any reports of serious adverse events. Conclusions AHP applied at Shenque (CV8) as an adjunct therapy seemed to be a therapeutic choice in the management of diarrhea in children. However, a robust conclusion could not be drawn. Future clinical trials should be designed more rigorously.

ObjectiveTo observe the protection effect of rhTPO and granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) on brain nerve after hypoxic ischemic brain damage (HIBD) in neonatal rats, exploring new ways for the laboratory basis of treatment for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, and provide for possible.MethodsA total of 120 newborn SD rats aging 7 d were randomly divided into control group, model group, TPO group and G-CSF group, using the method of blockingleft carotid artery to establish HIBD model. The left carotid artery was only seperated rather than blocked in the control group; after modeling, saline injection, rhTPO treatment and G-CSF treatment were adopted in the model group, TPO group and G-CSF group respectively. Then 10 rats of 4 groups were executed at Day 3, 7, 14 after modeling, brain tissue was extracted to observe the brain damage; Immunohistochemical method was used to observe the histopathological changes of brain tissue and changes of nest protein (nestin) expression.ResultsInjured brain mass of model group, TPO group and G-CSF group were significantly higher than that of control group at corresponding time point (P

“Living and working in peace and contentment” is the ideal goals of people since the ancient times, while old community’s renovation is an important aspect of it. This paper firstly analyzes the definition of livable community and the necessity of old community’s renovation，establishing the livable evaluation index system about old community’s renovation, and try to use the BP artificial network to analysis the livability.

Subway is one of the most important public transportations in cities, and its operation security is a very prominent problem. Subway fire is an outstanding issue. The paper begins with the characteristics and reasons of subway, and sets forth the emergency countermeasure and rescue plan of subway fire.

With the development of global urbanization, the development of underground rail traffic network is imperative, and the subway has become a convenient and effective traffic tool to solve people’s trip. While the subway accidents happen constantly, so the subway emergency rescue has become an important event to related departments. This paper firstly analyzes the main types and characteristics of subway emergencies, and concludes some main emergency countermeasures.

With the acceleration of the development progress of industrialization and urbanization, a batch of old industrial relocation areas are playing the irreplaceable role in improving city functions, developing regional economics and integrating & configuring resources after their reconstruction. This paper discusses the function promotion methods of old industrial relocation area and the specific responding strategy of old industrial relocation area’s sustainable development from the angle of service industry development by taking Tiexi District, Shenyang as an example.

With the prosperity of socialist market and the improvement of people's living standard, people began to pay more attention to living environment in their community. Environmental construction in livable community is to satisfy people from all aspects of living, meet all needs of people in the community. Modern property management is a new mode of housing management, which is a pioneer to exploit and use energy; it is closely related to people's living quality. The article is starts with the concepts of environmental construction in livable community and modern property management, and discusses the relationship between them; at the same time put forward the concept of low-carbon energy saving in property management.

This paper analyzes the development evolution of urban ecosystem health of old industrial relocated area on the base of the urban ecosystem health theories and methods. Taking Tie Xi District in Shenyang city as an example, the paper discusses the assessment index system of the urban ecosystem health of old industrial relocated area. Then the paper employs Analytic Hierarchy Process to determine the index weights and takes use of Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method to study the case.

This paper describes the creation of the national environment in Shenyang city in the process model, green city status and created some problems, and analyzed the causes of these problems, finally, to solve the problems of the measures proposed.

BACKGROUND: The safety and health benefits of Tai Chi mind-body exercise has been documented in a large number of clinical studies focused on specific diseases and health conditions. The objective of this systematic review is to more comprehensively summarize the evidence base of clinical studies of Tai Chi for healthcare. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We searched for all types of clinical studies on Tai chi in PubMed, the Cochrane Library and four major Chinese electronic databases from their inception to July 2013. Data were analyzed using SPSS17.0 software. A total of 507 studies published between 1958 and 2013 were identified, including 43 (8.3%) systematic reviews of clinical studies, 255 (50.3%) randomized clinical trials, 90 (17.8%) non-randomized controlled clinical studies, 115 (22.7%) case series and 4 (0.8%) case reports. The top 10 diseases/conditions was hypertension, diabetes, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis or osteopenia, breast cancer, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease, schizophrenia, and depression. Many healthy participants practiced Tai Chi for the purpose of health promotion or preservation. Yang style Tai Chi was the most popular, and Tai Chi was frequently practiced two to three 1-hour sessions per week for 12 weeks. Tai Chi was used alone in more than half of the studies (58.6%), while in other studies Tai Chi was applied in combination with other therapies including medications, health education and other physical therapies. The majority of studies (94.1%) reported positive effects of Tai Chi, 5.1% studies reported uncertain effects and 0.8% studies reported negative effects. No serious adverse events related to Tai Chi were reported. CONCLUSIONS: The quantity and evidence base of clinical studies on Tai Chi is substantial. However, there is a wide variation in Tai Chi intervention studied and the reporting of Tai Chi intervention needs to be improved. Further well-designed and reported studies are recommended to confirm the effects of Tai Chi for the frequently reported diseases/conditions.

This target-oriented management of a university model of performance evaluation has been designed, mainly introduces the overall program management by objective performance evaluation index system for the design and establishment, and performance appraisal feedback. Colleges and universities through the introduction of management by objectives approach to the various colleges and universities to assess the work aimed at the rational use of educational resources improve operating efficiency, improve the assessment mechanism.