Hermansen Spencer

Public trust is being lamented as the central victim of our new, digital information environment, a notion that is depicted in labeling our society as “posttruth” or “posttrust.” Within this article, we aim to call this deficit view of public trust into question and kindle a more positive outlook in future research. For this, we utilize the Social…[Read more]

Alopecia areata (AA) is a chronic, autoimmune disease of hair loss, which can significantly affect the emotional and psychological well-being of patients. A systematic literature review was conducted to better understand the burden of AA from the patient perspective.

Embase, MEDLINE and Cochrane databases were searched for published…[Read more]

We aim to offer a description of the surgical technique and to review the current state retroperitoneal robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (rRAPN).

Partial nephrectomy is the standard treatment for localized kidney tumours. rRAPN is especially useful for kidney tumours of posterior location. It offers advantages such as direct access to…[Read more]

By observation of extensive experiments, our approach can preserve the intrinsical information of networks more effectively than the state-of-the-art works on a number of benchmark datasets with very different topological characteristics.The distributed optimal position control problem, which aims to cooperatively drive the networked uncertain…[Read more]

Immune intervention by vitamin D supplementation can mitigate the disease burden from asthma and allergy. In conclusion, our review indicates that a sufficient vitamin D status during gestation and early life can lower the susceptibility to develop an allergy in infants although there remains a need for more causal evidence.

This study was to…[Read more]