Purpose This study aimed to investigate the use of the percutaneous intervertebral foramen
lens technology for secondary molding of the intervertebral foramen in the treatment of …

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a hepatotropic picornavirus that causes acute liver disease worldwide.
Here, we report on the identification of a novel hepatovirus tentatively named Marmota …

In this work, a series of calcium sulfate whiskers were prepared successfully using carbide
slag as raw material through hydrothermal method. The prepared gypsum observed is …

Salivirus was recently discovered in children with gastroenteritis and in sewage. Though a
causative role for salivirus in childhood gastroenteritis was suggested in the previous study, …

Censored regression models have received a great deal of attention in both the theoretical
and applied statistics literature. Here, we consider a model in which the response variable is …

Bayesian and frequentist methods differ in many aspects, but share some basic optimality
properties. In practice, there are situations in which one of the methods is more preferred by …

In the last two decades, doubly robust estimators (DREs) have been developed for causal
inference on various target parameters derived from different study designs. The approach …

In this study, we describe a novel porcine parechovirus-like virus (tentatively named PLV-CHN)
from healthy piglets in China using 454 high-throughput sequencing. The complete …

We propose and study a class of regression models, in which the mean function is specified
parametrically as in the existing regression methods, but the residual distribution is …

Background Aichi virus (AiV) and Saffold virus (SAFV) have been reported in children with
acute gastroenteritis and respiratory disease worldwide; however, their causative role in acute …