Objective:To observe the clinical effect of acupuncture in treating cervical spondylosis with different syndrome types.Methods:One hundred and seventeen patients were randomized into the treated group (59 cases),treat...Objective:To observe the clinical effect of acupuncture in treating cervical spondylosis with different syndrome types.Methods:One hundred and seventeen patients were randomized into the treated group (59 cases),treated with normal acupuncture,and the control group(58 cases),treated with sham acupuncture, operated once every other day,9 times in total(in 18 days) as one therapeutic course,and a succeeding 3-month follow-up study was carried out after terminating the therapy.The efficacy of treatment was eva...展开更多
Several fields,such as biological,medical,public health,agricultural sciences,etc.,require circular balanced repeated measurement designs with fewer unequal number of repeated measure-ments than the number of treatmen...Several fields,such as biological,medical,public health,agricultural sciences,etc.,require circular balanced repeated measurement designs with fewer unequal number of repeated measure-ments than the number of treatments.Also,the availability and high cost of experimental subjects in these fields prefer the design in fewer experimental units.However,balancing the carryover effects of the treatments in minimal experimental subjects is one of the problems in this case.In this paper,several new series of minimal circular nearly strongly balanced RMDs in periods of two and three different sizes are constructed.The proposed construction of designs has high efficiency and,therefore,can save the cost of experimentations due to a fewer exper-imental subjects.Most of the designs are very useful because of the unavailability of strongly balanced RMDs for these combinations of parameters.A list of sets of shifts for the construction of minimal circular nearly SBRMDs has also been mentioned in the Appendix.展开更多
基金Supported by the Guangdong Administration of Science and Technology(No.2006B50107006)the Eleventh Five-year Scientific Supported Project by the State Ministry of Science and Technology(No.2006BAI12B04)
文摘Objective:To observe the clinical effect of acupuncture in treating cervical spondylosis with different syndrome types.Methods:One hundred and seventeen patients were randomized into the treated group (59 cases),treated with normal acupuncture,and the control group(58 cases),treated with sham acupuncture, operated once every other day,9 times in total(in 18 days) as one therapeutic course,and a succeeding 3-month follow-up study was carried out after terminating the therapy.The efficacy of treatment was eva...
文摘Several fields,such as biological,medical,public health,agricultural sciences,etc.,require circular balanced repeated measurement designs with fewer unequal number of repeated measure-ments than the number of treatments.Also,the availability and high cost of experimental subjects in these fields prefer the design in fewer experimental units.However,balancing the carryover effects of the treatments in minimal experimental subjects is one of the problems in this case.In this paper,several new series of minimal circular nearly strongly balanced RMDs in periods of two and three different sizes are constructed.The proposed construction of designs has high efficiency and,therefore,can save the cost of experimentations due to a fewer exper-imental subjects.Most of the designs are very useful because of the unavailability of strongly balanced RMDs for these combinations of parameters.A list of sets of shifts for the construction of minimal circular nearly SBRMDs has also been mentioned in the Appendix.
