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physical therapy, the difference in the change between the groups was less than expected and the clinical relevance is uncertain.Objectives Nasal peak inspiratory flow (NPIF) is a practical and affordable tool that measures maximum inspiratory flow rate through both nostrils. Although NPIF values for healthy controls and patients appear to differ considerably, a generally expected value for populations with and without nasal obstruction has yet to be established. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the mean NPIF value in populations with and without nasal obstruction. Methods Medline (1946-) and Embase (1947-) were searched until July 1, 2017. A search strategy was used to identify studies that reported NPIF values for defined healthy or disease states. All studies providing original data were included. The study population was defined as having either normal nasal breathing or nasal obstruction. A meta-analysis of the mean data was presented in forest plots, and data were presented as mean (95% confidence interval [CI]). Results The search yielded 1,526 studies, of which 29 were included. The included studies involved 1,634 subjects with normal nasal breathing and 817 subjects with nasal obstruction. The mean NPIF value for populations with normal nasal breathing was 138.4 (95% CI 127.9-148.8) L/min. The mean value for populations with nasal obstruction was 97.5 (95% CI 86.1-108.8) L/min. Conclusions Current evidence confirms a difference between mean NPIF values of populations with and without nasal obstruction. Dubs-IN-1 The mean value of subjects with no nasal obstruction is 138.4 L/min, and the mean value of nasally obstructed populations is 97.5 L/min. Prospective studies adopting a standardized procedure are required to further assess normative NPIF values. Laryngoscope, 2020.Methods have been developed to measure the effectiveness of many roughages, but few evaluations have been conducted with tropical feeds. The objectives of this research were to determine the effectiveness of roughage sources based on bioassay and laboratory methods and identify the biological attributes of the diets that correlate with these methods. Six ruminally cannulated Nellore steers (408 ± 12 kg of BW) were randomly assigned to a 6 × 6 Latin square design within six diets negative control diet (NC) with aNDF as 10% from corn silage (CS); positive control diet (PC) with aNDF as 20% from CS; and four diets containing 10% aNDF from CS and 10% aNDF from each of the following sources sugarcane (SC), sugarcane bagasse (SCB), soybean hulls (SH), or low oil cottonseed hulls (LOCH). Physical effectiveness factor (pef, related to the physical characteristics of aNDF) and effectiveness factor (ef, related to the ruminal pH) were determined based on a linear model approach that uses a bioassay method in which CS aNDF was assumed to be the standard fiber source. Laboratory methods to estimate pef of roughage sources were based on the proportion of DM of roughage retained on a 1.18-mm sieve pef(>1.18 mm) or retained on the 8.0-mm Penn State Particle Separator screen pef(>8.0 mm). The pef calculated by the bioassay method (total chewing time and ruminal mat resistance) for CS, SCB, and SC were higher values (P 0.05). The values of the effectiveness of fiber sources obtained in this research can be used as a guideline for nutritionists aiming to replace roughage sources from tropical regions in beef cattle finishing diets. Under our conditions, the pef using the bioassay method or laboratory methods were not adequate in predicting ruminal pH.Background Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is a major problem in many post- or perimenopausal women. Lipofilling has long been considered to be an effective technique for restoring volume, but the discovery of its trophic proprieties has made it the most widely used method in regenerative medicine. Objectives Microfat and nanofat grafting is a new technique. In this study, we aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of microfat and nanofat grafting for vulvovaginal rejuvenation. Methods Women with GSM and who met the inclusion criteria were enrolled. Women received microfat in the labia majora and nanofat in the vagina; follow-up was conducted 1, 3, 6, 12, and 18 months after treatment. The vaginal health index (VHI) and Female Sexual Distress Scale-Revised (FSDS-R) were used to assess improvement in vulvovaginal atrophy, orgasm, and sexual desire post-treatment. Results Fifty women were included in this study; their average age was 53 years (range, 45-63 years). The VHI score significantly increased at 1 and 3 months after treatment (p less then 0.0001). Moreover, the average FSDS-R score showed a significant improvement at 1- and 3-months post-treatment. This score stabilized from 6 to 12 months but showed further improvement at 18 months. At 6 months post-treatment, for both the scales, data pertaining to 80% of patients appeared normalized. There was a particular benefit noted for dryness and dyspareunia. At 18 months, the results remained stable for all of the patients. No major side-effects were observed. Conclusions There are now many ways to rejuvenate the intimate sphere, but microfat and nanofat grafting seem to offer good results with an autologous procedure. Their use appears promising for genital rejuvenation.Synthetic visual data refers to the data automatically rendered by the mature computer graphic algorithms. With the rapid development of these techniques, we can now collect photo-realistic synthetic images with accurate pixel-level annotations without much effort. However, due to the domain gaps between synthetic data and real data, in terms of not only visual appearance but also label distribution, directly applying models trained on synthetic images to real ones can hardly yield satisfactory performance. Since the collection of accurate labels for real images is very laborious and time-consuming, developing algorithms which can learn from synthetic images is of great significance. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, namely Active Pseudo-Labeling (APL), to reduce the domain gaps between synthetic images and real images. In APL framework, we first predict pseudo-labels for the unlabeled real images in the target domain by actively adapting the style of the real images to source domain. Specifically, the style of real images is adjusted via a novel task guided generative model, and then pseudo-labels are predicted for these actively adapted images.
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