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Four species of acanthocephalans are reported from gobies of the genus Rhinogobius in western and central Japan: Acanthocephalus gotoi Van Cleave, 1925 from Rhinogobius similis in the Kamo River (Hiroshima Prefecture) and Rhinogobius sp. OR (=orange type) in the Sōja River (Ehime Prefecture) and the Hiwatashi River (Kōchi Prefecture); Acanthocephalus longiacanthus Katahira and Nagasawa, 2014 from Rhinogobius nagoyae and Rhinogobius sp. OR in the Tenchi River (Hiroshima Prefecture), Rhinogobius fluviatilis in the Kamo River, and Rhinogobius sp. OR in the Sōja and Hiwatashi rivers; Acanthocephalus minor Yamaguti, 1935 from Rhinogobius flumineus in the Aruji River (Hiroshima Prefecture); and Southwellina hispida (Van Cleave, 1925) from Rhinogobius flumineus in the Aruji River and the Shika River (Kyōto Prefecture). All these collections represent new host records for the acanthocephalans. New prefecture records are A. gotoi and A. longiacanthus from Hiroshima and Kochi prefectures, and A. minor and S. hispida from Hiroshima Prefecture. Based on the previous and present papers published between the years 1935 and 2018, 48 nominal and some unidentified species of the parasites have been reported from the Japanese Rhinogobius spp. The nominal species include: 3 species in the Myxozoa (Cnidaria); 1 species in the Monogenea; 16 species in the Trematoda; 4 species in the Cestoda (all Platyhelminthes); 3 species in the Nematoda; 5 species in the Acanthocephala; 15 species in the Bivalvia (Mollusca); and 1 species in the Copepoda (Arthropoda).

Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-asu-10.1177_00031348211023417 for Postoperative Complications Associated With Intra- Versus Extracorporeal Anastomosis for Laparoscopic Right Colectomy by Mitsuru Ishizuka, Norisuke Shibuya, Kazutoshi Takagi, Hiroyuki Hachiya, Kazuma Tago, Takayuki Shimizu, Takatsugu Matsumoto, Taku Aoki and Keiichi Kubota in The American Surgeon

5G offers high flexibility at the radio, transport and core networks to support various services of critical verticals such as connected and automated driving. At the Radio Access Network (RAN), 5G defines a New Radio (NR). 5G NR utilizes different subcarrier spacing, slot durations, modulations and channel coding schemes. This flexibility offers the possibility to support automotive services with different and demanding requirements, such as Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS), cooperative driving, and remote driving. Previous studies showed that 5G NR can be configured to achieve latencies below 2 ms. However, existing studies are generally restricted to scenarios with a limited number of users and unlimited bandwidth. Therefore, it is important to analyze whether 5G NR can effectively support these services as the network scales under limited spectrum allocations. This study advances the current state of the art to demonstrate that the capability of 5G NR RAN to support advanced V2X services depends on the RAN configuration (subcarrier spacing, slot duration and error protection) and network load UMH work was supported in part by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCI), AEI and FEDER funds under Project TEC2017-88612-R, and the Ministry of Universities (IJC2018-036862-I), and the Generalitat Valenciana

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背景：全身性炎症反応は担癌患者における免疫応答を反映し，予後と関連することが報告されている．目的：血清インターロイキン6（IL-6）と臨床背景因子，とりわけ全身炎症性反応との関連について大腸癌患者を対象として検討すること．方法：大腸癌患者20 人の術前IL-6 濃度を測定し，L 群（低IL-6 群，11 人；IL-6＜10 pg/ml）とH 群（高IL-6 群，9 人；IL-6 ≥ 10 pg/ml）の2 群に分けて臨床背景因子との関連について検討した．結果：血清C-reactive protein（CRP）値＞1.0 mg/dl（P＝0.038），血沈；9±7 versus 31±24（mm/ hr , P＝0.031）が2 群間で有意差を認めたが，血小板数・血清アルブミン値・Glasgow Prognostic Score・好中球リンパ比に2 群間で有意差は認めなかった．2 群間の生存曲線による解析は，H 群はL 群に比べて予後不良の傾向を認めたが，統計学的な有意差は認められなかった．結論：高IL-6 血症は大腸癌術前患者における高CRP 値，血沈の亢進といった全身性炎症反応と相関し，予後との関連を示唆するものであった．, Purpose：To investigate the relationship between preoperative serum interleukin-6（IL-6）level and clinical characteristics, including systemic inflammatory response（SIR）related characteristics, in colorectal cancer（CRC）patients undergoing surgery. Patients and methods：Twenty CRC patients who had undergone curative surgery were divided into two groups as follows：Group A（n＝9）；patients with low serum IL-6 level（＜10 pg/ml）and Group B（n＝11）；patients with high serum IL-6 level（≥ 10 pg/ml）. Chi squared test and Mann-Whitney test were performed to compare the clinical characteristics of two groups. Kaplan-Meier analysis and log rank test were used to compare the two groups in relation to overall survival. Results：Among a lot of clinical characteristics, there were significant differences between the two groups in serum C-reactive protein（CRP）level（0.2±0.1 versus 2.9 ±4.9 mg/dl, mean± SD, P＝0.016）and erythrocyte sedimentation rate（ESR）（9±7 versus 31±24 mm/hr, mean ± SD, P＝0.031）. However, there was no significant difference between the two groups in overall survival. Conclusion：There is a close relationship between preoperative serum IL-6 level and SIR related clinical characteristics such as serum CRP level and ESR in CRC patients.