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Four patterns of second BCCs were identified: anechoic (41%), homogeneously hypoechoic with internal debris (23.5%), pseudosolid (12%), and heterogeneous (23.5%). The majority (70%) showed posterior enhancement. All were situated in their classical location, posterior to the submandibular gland, superficial to the caro... |
CONCLUSION |
As previously suggested by CT and MR imaging findings, sonography reinforces that second BCCs in adults are not simple cysts but have a complex sonographic pattern ranging from a typical anechoic to a pseudosolid appearance.Brother Man's Asceticism |
on 13 june 1951, the front page of Jamaica's Daily Gleaner carried headlines about the brutal murder of a man on Kingston's Palisadoes Road, and the stabbing and rape of his companion, who survived to describe their assailant as "a bearded man". '"Rasta Man' Charged with Palisadoes Murder," blared the front page on the... |
Arts education and special education within public schools have faced similar challenges in the wake of school reform. Services and programming have been reduced, leaving a larger gap in resources and accessibility. Because of loopholes in policy, new reform initiatives such as vouchers and charter schools will continu... |
Seeds of Bauhinia forficata species were submited to biochemical characterization concerning fatty acids analysis, protein fractionization, and hemaglutinanting activity. The seed elementary analysis showed a high protein and lipids contents with 21.24% and 19.45% respectively. The more abundant fatty acid was linoleic... |
ABSTRACT The main emphasis of the paper is on a diagnostic reappraisal of the co-evolution between development policy and forest policy in tropical countries, concentrating on poverty alleviation and the contribution of forest production to livelihoods. The level of livelihood support from forests as well as the appear... |
Radiation-induced polymerization of vinylbenzyltrimethylammonium chloride (VBT) in aqueous solution has been investigated by steady-state and pulse radiolysis techniques. The effects of dose, dose rate, monomer concentration, pH, and ambient conditions on steady state polymerization were investigated. The reactions of ... |
There is evidence that intra- and inter-hemispheric white matter communication, mainly fronto-limbic and callosal connectivity, is impaired in bipolar disorder as reported in several magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion imaging studies. In this review we will discuss diffusion imaging studies that examined white matter in... |
This editorial outlines a research agenda for critical exploration of transnational youth mobilities centred on three concepts: emotions, inequity, and temporality. This agenda offers novel perspectives on the interplay between geographies of social difference and the multiscalar forces governing and being made through... |
Platelet counts and their morphologic parameters in patients with Lyme borreliosis before and after antibiotic therapy (4 weeks of treatment) were estimated. 30 patients aged 17-60, x = 41 were evaluated: 7 with Erythema migrans, 3 patients with neuroborreliosis in the from Lymphocytic meningitis and 20 ones with Lyme ... |
BACKGROUND |
Haemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) should be regarded as complementary methods of renal replacement therapy. Approximately 10-20% of patients on PD are transferred annually to HD due to technique failure. Much smaller proportion of patients changes modality from HD to PD, predominantly due to vascular acce... |
METHODS |
We have analysed retrospectively a cohort of 264 patients treated with PD in a single PD centre during 1994-2006. Patient characteristics, therapy measures and outcome of patients were compared between patients for whom PD was the initial method of renal replacement therapy (group 1, n = 197) and those transferred to P... |
RESULTS |
In patients transferred from HD, significantly less had diabetes (11.9% versus 38.1%, P < 0.0001) and there were also significantly more females (57% versus 42.2%, P < 0.05). Baseline Kt/V was significantly higher in the primary PD therapy group (2.46 +/- 0.57 versus 2.11 +/- 0.48, P < 0.001), due to lower residual ren... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Our data suggest that outcome of patients transferred from HD is similar to that achieved in patients in whom PD is the first choice therapy. Thus, this option should be strongly considered in patients experiencing complications on HD, mainly vascular access problems, heart failure or intradialytic hypotension.Factors ... |
The poor maternal health care service utilization among adolescent women remains an intimidating challenge in Malawi. This study examines the factors associated with the utilization of selected maternal health care services among married adolescent women (aged 15–19 years) using data from the Malawi Demographic and Hea... |
Objective:To determine injured body regions and injury type resulting from snowboarding on aerial and nonaerial terrain park features and the accuracy of ski patrol assessments compared with physician diagnoses. Design:Case series study. Setting:An Alberta terrain park during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons. Patien... |
Abstract Background Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is the most belligerent subtype of BC. Yet, it is considered the best candidate for immunotherapy. As TNBC microenvironment is rich in CD8+ T lymphocytes (CTLs) and Natural Killer cells (NKs), the main key players in BC immune surveillance. During the antitumor i... |
The first endocannabinoid, anandamide, was discovered in 1992. Since then, two other endocannabinoid agonists have been identified, 2-arachidonyl glycerol and, more recently, noladin ether. Here, we report the identification and pharmacological characterization of a novel endocannabinoid, virodhamine, with antagonist p... |
Several membrane oxygenators for use during routine cardiopulmonary bypass have been available over the past ten years. These have included the Lande-Edwards, Travenol Teflo and the Kolobow spiral coil membrane oxygenators. Each has had disadvantages. Poor gas transfer efficiency, the need for a twopump circuit, and co... |
Abstract Gender fluidity makes only rare appearances on North American television, and remains almost completely absent from programming for children. In contrast, transgender characters are making inroads into mainstream North American TV for adults. Still, media depictions of transgender people in the late 1990s and ... |
Objective: To evaluate the quality of three type of literature, clinical randomized controlled trials(RCTs), case-control trials and case series trials, about acupuncture on tension-type headache. Methods: Carried out electronic retrieval on several databases, including CNKI, VIP, Wanfang, PubMed and Embase database, t... |
Judea Pearl introduced Bayesian networks as a representational device in the early 1980s, allowing one to systematically and locally assemble probabilistic beliefs into a coherent whole. While some of these beliefs could be read off directly from the Bayesian network, many were implied by this representation and requir... |
We have studied the He-Si(100) scattering potential by considering the charge densities associated with different tilted dimer model structures. We demonstrate the inadequacy of spherical charge superposition schemes and develop an alternative procedure (modified atomic charge superposition (MACS)) which is calibrated ... |
Stathmin is a microtubule-destabilizing protein ubiquitously expressed in vertebrates and highly expressed in many cancers. In several cell types, stathmin regulates the partitioning of tubulin between unassembled and polymer forms, but the mechanism responsible for partitioning has not been determined. We examined sta... |
Abstract It is common for normative legal theorists, economists and other policy analysts to conduct and communicate their work mainly in maximizing terms. They take the maximization of welfare, for example, or of wealth or utility, to be primary objectives of legislation and public policy. Few if any of these theorist... |
The preparation, characterization and desulphurization of hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)-intercalated montmorillonite (CTAB-MMT) and SiO2Ce-pillared montmorillonite (SiO2Ce-MMT) is described. CTAB-MMT, SiO2Ce-MMT and MMT (the original clay) were examined for their ability to remove thiophene sulphur from nor... |
This article assesses the gravity of the “double burden of malnutrition” across 21 states of India, through a comparative analysis of traditional and Asian population-specific BMI categorizations for overweight and obesity. This study analyzes data on ever-married women (15–49 years) from the National Family Health Sur... |
Taking advantage of parallel processors often entails using concurrent software, where multiple threads work simultaneously. However, concurrent software suffers from a bevy of concurrency-specific errors such as data races and atomicity violations. Dynamic analysis, based on analyzing the sequence of operations (calle... |
Nonetheless, there are situations where a concurrency error does not manifest on a particular trace although it is intuitively clear that the program that produced that particular trace contains a concurrency error. The central research hypothesis explored by this dissertation is that dynamic analysis can discover conc... |
This dissertation introduces a new relation, causally-precedes (CP), that enables precise predictive race detection, with no false positives. A single CP-based race detection run discovers several new races, unexposed by 10 independent runs of a traditional dynamic race detector. To further address dynamic predictive r... |
This dissertation also introduces SIDETRACK, a lightweight dynamic atomicity analysis tool that generalizes from the observed trace to predict additional atomicity violations. Experimental results show that this predictive ability increases the number of atomicity violations detected by SIDETRACK by 40%. |
When developing these tools, it became clear that it was difficult to test them. For example, test programs that contain data races may be non-deterministic. A methodology for deterministic testing for dynamic analysis tools using trace snippets, described in this dissertation, alleviates this difficulty.AGE‐SEX DIFFER... |
Age-sex differences were examined in two multihospital collaborative studies of drug treatment in depression. The 325 patients in study 1 and 555 patients in study 2 were subdivided into four age-sex groups: females under 40; females 40 and over; males under 40; and males 40 and over. The major focus of the statistical... |
This paper presents design considerations and measured results for a two element 8 to 12 GHz horn antenna array for transmit/receive applications requiring high isolation. Circular polarization is achieved by incorporating a five layer meanderline circular polarizer over the aperture of the horn antenna. The measured a... |
Cancer is a dynamic disease, it has been estimated that a new genetic alteration occurs in one out of 10000 tumor cells at each cell division. This leads to an increasing number of genetic aberrations in cancer cells, some of which result in altered gene expression. These changes in gene ex-pression are at least partia... |
Fur color in domestic goats is an important, genetically determined characteristic that is associated with economic value. This study was designed to perform a comprehensive expression profiling of genes expressed in the skin tissues from Laiwu Black goat and Lubei White goat. Comparisons of black and white goat skin t... |
Gene transfer by electroporation was attempted in the normal rat brain. The reporter gene pEGFP-C1 (25 micrograms/5 microliters) was injected into the striatum of young adult rats and various square electrical impulses were applied using a pair of electrodes implanted in the striatum. The brains were removed and sliced... |
Of late, the national and the international politics of Central Europe have been preoccupied with the issue of migration, an issue labelled ‘the refugee crisis’ by the media. This article examines whether the strong anti-immigrant rhetoric which has become common in the countries of the Visegrad Group (CZ, SK, PL, HU) ... |
We study an extension of Merton’s classical portfolio investment – consumption optimization problem (1969–1970) to a particular case of complete discontinuous market, with a single jump. The market consists of a non-risky asset, a ‘standard risky’ asset and a risky asset with discontinuous price dynamics (e.g. a defaul... |
Objective—The region of the 110 kDa regulatory subunit (MYPT1) of smooth muscle myosin phosphatase involved in the regulation of contraction was determined under physiological conditions. Methods and Results—Using HIV Tat protein-mediated protein transduction, the N-terminal fragments of MYPT1 were introduced to the in... |
High-performance low-cost flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) are desirable for applications such as internet of things (IoT) and wearable electronics. Carbon-nanotube (CNT) thin-film transistor (TFT) is a promising candidate for high-performance FHE, because of its high carrier mobility, superior mechanical flexibility,... |
In this paper, the mathematical tools, which are required to solve the axisymmetric Maxwell equations, are presented. An in‐depth study of the problems posed in the meridian half‐plane, numerical algorithms, as well as numerical experiments, based on the implementation of the theory described hereafter, shall be presen... |
hat difference does Jesus of Nazareth make for Christian faith and life? The question directs us to the Jesus who came from Nazareth in Galilee, who preached and healed in the land of Israel during the late twenties or early thirties of the first century, and who was crucified in Jerusalem at the order of the Roman pro... |
In this project designed for high school students, learners make an audio book of a children’s story. They record the narration, add music and sound effects, and mix down the final product. This project demonstrates how a DAW like Ableton Live, and hardware such as Push or Launchpad, can be used for more than making be... |
Purpose: the aim of current study was to assess effect of different superstructure materials on peri-implant periodontal and radiographic parameters at three evaluation periods. Material and Methods: 21 patients with missed lower first molar received delayed dental implant. Patients were divided into three groups to re... |
Abstract Objectives. At aortic declamping after cardioplegic cardiac arrest, the initial rhythm can be broadly classified as ventricular fibrillation (VF) or non-VF. VF can be treated with potassium-induced conversion and direct-current countershock is only applied if potassium treatment fails. We aimed to investigate ... |
The influence of the classroom environment is a very important element because it can influence students' interest in Iban Language subjects in school, especially interest in Iban literature. Fun activities such as using acting techniques in teaching and learning ensera (Iban folklore), able to hone students' talents f... |
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