EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE DECOCTION AS AN ADJUVANT TREATMENT FOR DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS

Efficacy and safety of traditional Chinese medicine decoction as an adjuvant treatment for diabetic nephropathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Objective: This study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of traditional Chinese medicine decoction as an adjunctive treatment for diabetic nephropathy in systematic evaluations.Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Embase, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Wanfang databases

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Performance and Surface Integrity of Wire Electrical Discharge Machining of Thin Ti6al4v Plate Using Coated and Uncoated Wires

Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM) is one of the most important production technologies to manufacture very accurate small components and tools on any electrical conductive material.Titanium and its alloys have been widely used in automobile and aerospace industry as well as in medical engineering field.Small components and tools with compl

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Temporal learning analytics to explore traces of self-regulated learning behaviors and their associations with learning performance, cognitive load, and student engagement in an asynchronous online course

Self-regulated learning (SRL) plays a critical role in asynchronous online courses.In recent years, attention has been focused on identifying student subgroups with different patterns of online SRL behaviors and comparing their learning performance.However, there is limited research leveraging traces of SRL behaviors to detect student subgroups and

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