Electroacupuncture vs topical diclofenac sodium gel for patients with hand osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background Hand osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent joint disorder and a great burden to both patients and society.While electroacupuncture (EA) and topical diclofenac sodium gel (DSG) are both currently used to treat OA, no head-to-head study of EA and topical DSG for hand OA exists.Thus, it remains unknown whether one intervention offers

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MOBCA: Multi-Objective Besiege and Conquer Algorithm

The besiege and conquer algorithm has shown excellent performance in single-objective optimization problems.However, there is no literature on the research of the BCA algorithm on multi-objective optimization problems.Therefore, this paper proposes a new multi-objective besiege and conquer algorithm to solve multi-objective optimization problems.Th

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