Urodynamic assessment of bladder storage function after radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer

Background:After radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer,the most common complication is lower urinary tract symptoms.Post-operatively,bladder capacity can alter bladder function for a prolonged period.This study aimed to identify factors affecting bladder storage function.Methods:A multicenter,retrospective cohort study was conducted.Information of patients with stages IA2 to IIB cervical cancer with urodynamic study results were retrospectively collected from nine hospitals between June 2013 and June 2018 according to the inclusion criteria.Demographic,surgical,and oncological data were collected.The univariate and multivariate logistic regression was used to identify clinical factors associated with bladder storage function.Results:Two hundred and three patients with cervical cancer had urodynamic testing post-operatively.Ninety-five(46.8%)patients were diagnosed with stress urinary incontinence(SUI).The incidence of low bladder compliance(LBC)was 23.2%.Twenty-seven(13.3%)patients showed detrusor overactivity(DO).Fifty-seven patients(28.1%)presented with a decreased maximum cystometric capacity(DMCC).The probability of composite bladder storage dysfunction was 68.0%.Multivariate analysis confirmed that laparoscopy represents a protective factor for SUI with an odds ratio of 0.498(P=0.034).Patients who underwent a nerve-sparing procedure were less odds to experience SUI(P=0.014).A significant positive correlation between LBC and DO was observed(P<0.001).A greater length of the resected vagina and chemoradiotherapy were common risk factors for LBC and DO,while radiotherapy exerted a stronger effect than chemotherapy.Additionally,patients who received chemoradiotherapy frequently developed a DMCC.The follow-up time was not correlated with bladder storage function.Conclusion:A nerve-sparing procedure without longer resected vagina is recommended for protecting the bladder storage function.

PROPERTIES OF STORAGE FUNCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS TO NONLINEAR STOCHASTIC H∞ CONTROL

This paper discusses the properties of the storage functions for a class of nonlinear stochastic systems. Some necessary and sufficient conditions for a function to be a storage function are derived. As applications, the finite and infinite horizon nonlinear stochastic H∞ controls for systems with state, control, and external disturbance dependent noise are investigated, which generalize the previous results.

The First Principles Study of Li, Al and Ca Doped Zigzag(7,0) Single Walled Carbon Nanotube

We use the ab initio density functional theory to calculate the band structure, density of states, charge transfer, charge density difference, binding energy and vibration frequency. We can see that the conduction band through the Fermi level include SWNT/H_2/Li, SWNT/H_2/Al and SWNT/H_2/Ca, which shows a kind of metallic character. The charge distribution and contour plots of charge difference density of ion/H_2/SWNT show charge transfer between ion and H_2 molecules rather than between H_2 and H_2. Meanwhile, the interaction between Al, Ca and H_2 is weaker than that of Li. We can also prove that the ion is the primary reason to the increase of adsorption energy of hydrogen molecule in SWNT. Finally, we calculate the vibration frequency and don＇t find any imaginary frequency, which proves that the（7,0） SWNT is more stable.

Effect of metal catalyst on the mechanism of hydrogen spillover in three-dimensional covalent-organic frameworks

Hydrogen spillover mechanism of metal-supported covalent-organic frameworks COF-105 is investigated by means of the density functional theory, and the effects of metal catalysts M_4（Pt_4, Pd_4, and Ni_4） on the whole spillover process are systematically analyzed. These three metal catalysts exhibit several similar phenomena：（i） they prefer to deposit on the tetra（_4-dihydroxyborylphenyl） silane（TBPS） cluster with surface-contacted configuration;（ii） only the H atoms at the bridge site can migrate to 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexahydroxy triphenylene（HHTP） and TBPS surfaces, and the migration process is an endothermic reaction and not stable;（iii） the introduction of M_4 catalyst can greatly reduce the diffusion energy barrier of H atoms, which makes it easier for the H atoms to diffuse on the substrate surface. Differently, all of the H2 molecules spontaneously dissociate into H atoms onto Pt_4 and Pd_4clusters. However, the adsorbed H2 molecules on Ni_4 cluster show two types of adsorption states： one activated state with stretched H–H bond length of 0.88 ？A via the Kubas interaction and five dissociated states with separated hydrogen atoms. Among all the M_4 catalysts, the orders of the binding energy of M_4 deposited on the substrate and average chemisorption energy per H2 molecule are Pt_4〉Ni_4〉Pd_4. On the contrary, the orders of the migration and diffusion barriers of H atoms are Pt_4

Passive robust control for uncertain Hamiltonian systems by using operator theory

In this study,the passivity-based robust control and tracking for Hamiltonian systems with unknown perturbations by using the operator-based robust right coprime factorisation method is concerned.For the system with unknown perturbations,a design scheme is proposed to guarantee the uncertain non-linear systems to be robustly stable while the equivalent non-linear systems is passive,meanwhile the asymptotic tracking property of the plant output is discussed.Moreover,the design scheme can be also used into the general Hamiltonian systems while the simulation is used to further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.