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We re-analyse the relationship between the x-ray luminosity (LX) and the temperature (T) of groups and clusters of galaxies, based on the largest sample of 40 groups and 188 clusters. We employ the moving median statistics for the data set, along with the proper linear regression. Our newly established LX-T relations f... |
Purpose The incidence of cancer has increased in India with a visible impact on the young population (aged 15–39 years). The present study aims to evaluate psychological distress among Indian adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with solid cancer using the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) distress thermomet... |
Methods The demographic and clinical characteristics of AYAs patients (age 15–39 years) with cancer were recorded. Assessment of psychological distress of patients using the NCCN distress thermometer was performed at three time points over a period of 3 months. Distress thermometer scale and a self-administered questi... |
Results Of the 259 patients, 63% were women and 37% men; the median age was 34 years. In total, 71 (27%) were ≤ 24 years old and 188 (73%) were>24 years old. Bone sarcoma (39%) was common cancer in AYA patients aged ≤ 24 years and breast cancer (21%) in >24 years of age. The distress scores in both the groups were the... |
Conclusion Adolescents and young adults experience some level of distress associated with the cancer diagnosis, effects of the disease, treatment regardless of the stage and various transitions throughout the trajectory of the disease. The distress thermometer is an easy and useful tool for the assessment of psycholog... |
There is growing evidence that the prevalence and the severity of bronchial asthma are rising in the industrialized countries despite a marked increase in the sale of antiasthmatic drugs. Non-diagnosis and undertreatment of patients with asthma may be causative factors. Identification of acute severe asthma by the phys... |
The brain transforms continuous acoustic events into discrete category representations to downsample the speech signal for our perceptual-cognitive systems. Such phonetic categories are highly malleable and heir percepts can change depending on surrounding stimulus context. Previous work suggests these acoustic-phoneti... |
This article considers the acoustic unknown object problem for a shallow ocean with a sloping seabed. The incident waves are sent from point sources along a s raight line parallel to the sea surface, and the corresponding scattered fields are measured from a line above the unknown object. We prove a uniqueness theorem ... |
Abstract This paper considers a fractional modelbased identification method with the objective to determine the aging of a battery cell. The method avoids lumped approximations of the fractional operator. Moreover with this approach it is possible to identify physically motivated battery cell parameters. The basic idea... |
MULTITUDES: IN the early 1990s, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we were together in the streets of Paris, demonstrating against the bombing of Baghdad. International intervention in the Gulf region under the aegis of the United States seemed to open a period of expansion in imperial management of international ... |
An autopsy case of hepatic neuroendocrine carcinoma Is descrlbed. An 84‐year‐old man had a white solid tumor measuring 5 cm In greatest diameter and multiple small nodules In the non‐cirrhotic liver. Microscopically, these lesions were characterized by solid nesting, trabecular, and Insular arrangements of small‐ to me... |
Physiologic and psychologic changes associated with sleep disturbance decrease the ability of a critically ill child to adapt to hospitalization and thus hamper recovery. Research demonstrates that intensive care settings interfere with sleep of adults, but little is known about the impact of these settings on children... |
Abstract The singularity of the other, based on González Rey’s subjectivity, opens up the possibility in Sports Psychology of exploring the topic of the female body configured within the subjective experience of participating in Paralympic high-performance sports. In this way, we can consider sports and body practices ... |
腦電症, the new name of “epilepsy” in the Korean language is very good and worthy of praise, because it reflects the essence of the disease and avoids misconceptions about epilepsy by the traditional culture, thereby helping to reduce social stigmatization of epilepsy in the public. In China, epilepsy was described in “th... |
Crosslinking by etherification of a large excess of bisepoxide with adducts of divalent metal salts of p-aminobenzoic acid and dicarboxylic acid anhydride was investigated. As the divalent metals, Mg and Ca were selected and hexahydrophthalic anhydride was the anhydride used. As the bisepoxide, bisphenol A diglycidyl e... |
Practically all programming languages have some form of control structure or jumping. The more advanced forms of control structure tend to resemble function calls, so much so that they are usually not even described as jumps. Consider for example the library function exit in C. Its use is much like a function, in that ... |
In this paper a new species of fossil ground-beetle, Coptodera elektra n. sp. (Coleoptera: Carabidae) preserved in a piece of Baltic amber (Eocene) is described and the paleobiology of the species is studied. This new species represents the first known fossil record for the genus, as well as the first record of its pre... |
After decades of research, South African women continue to have the highest burden of HIV in the world. The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of marital status on HIV using population and community-level data sources. We included data 13,469 and 5682 South African women who participated to South African HIV... |
Algorithms for eye movement classification are separated into threshold-based and probabilistic methods. While the parameters of static threshold-based algorithms usually need to be chosen for the particular task (task-individual), the probabilistic methods were introduced to meet the challenge of adjusting automatical... |
Purpose High-risk sexual behaviour is a factor affecting the health of sexual minority students, yet few related studies have been completed among Chinese students. This article explores the distribution of sexual minority groups and its association with high-risk sexual behaviours and symptoms of sexually transmitted ... |
PURPOSE |
To evaluate the feasibility of adjuvant docetaxel plus cyclophosphamide(TC)therapy for breast cancer. |
PATIENTS AND METHODS |
A total of 16 patients with intermediate risk-breast cancer were enrolled. TC therapy consisted of four courses of docetaxel 75 mg/m² plus cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m² intravenous administration over three weeks. Every infusion was premedicated with intravenous administration of granisetron 3 mg plus dexamethasone 16 mg,... |
RESULTS |
Due to the allergic reaction, one patient discontinued TC therapy. Fifteen (94%) of the 16 patients completed the scheduled TC therapy. Feasibility was 93.7%. Grade 3/4 toxicity was limited to leucopenia, neutropenia, and febrile neutropenia. No non-hematological serious adverse events were observed. |
CONCLUSION |
Adjuvant TC therapy is a feasible option for breast cancer.A Novel Approach to Extracting Casing Status Features Using Data Mining |
Casing coupling location signals provided by the magnetic localizer in retractors are typically used to ascertain the position of casing couplings in horizontal wells. However, the casing coupling location signal is usually submerged in noise, which will result in the failure of casing coupling detection under the hars... |
The possible role of endogenous sodium pump inhibitors was studied in salt-sensitive rats of Dahl strain which were influenced by high salt intake either in youth (from prepuberty) or only in adulthood. The aim of our study was to search for the relations between the age-dependent blood pressure response to high salt i... |
In this paper, we present a novel approach for automatic visual summarization of a geographic area that exploits user-contributed images and related explicit and implicit metadata collected from popular content-sharing websites. By means of this approach, we search for a limited number of representative but diverse ima... |
It has been observed that a good number of financial organizations often face a number of threats due to credit card fraud that affects consistently to the card holder as well as the organizations. This is one of the fastest‐growing frauds of its kind and the most emerging problems for the institutions to prevent. A nu... |
Rhabdoid tumor predisposition syndrome (RTPS) is defined as the presence of a SMARCB1 or SMARCA4 genetic aberration in a patient with malignant rhabdoid tumor. Patients with RTPS are more likely to present with synchronous or metachronous rhabdoid tumors. Based on the current state of rhabdoid tumor taxonomy, these dia... |
Violence is a growing public health problem worldwide. Nurses increasingly must perform forensic procedures with the responsibility to collect, document, preserve, and store evidence that may be used in the investigation of a violent crime. However, few nurses receive education in forensic evidence collection as part o... |
In the previous works, the real‐time fluid‐character animation could hardly be achieved because of the intensive processing demand on the character's movement and fluid simulation. This paper presents an effective approach to the real‐time generation of the fluid flow driven by the motion of a character in full 3D spac... |
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE |
Classification of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) based on karyotype provides an important tool for therapy selection. There are two standardized criteria for the classification of patients into groups of cytogenetic risk. One of them was established by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the other by the US Southwe... |
PATIENTS AND METHOD |
Chromosomal analysis was performed using standard techniques on bone marrow samples from 146 adult patients between January 1995 and December 2001. Kaplan-Meier and Cox's regression models were used for statistical analysis. |
RESULTS |
Cytogenetic results were obtained in 142 patients. The incidence of a complex karyotype and del(5q) was higher in patients with secondary AML. Classification by cytogenetic risk was performed in 105 treated patients. The classification using both models was identical in 82 patients and different in 23. Results in univa... |
CONCLUSIONS |
There was some relation between secondary AML, advanced age and adverse karyotype. Both classification models have a great prognostic value. In our experience, codification according to MRC criteria appears to be more effective to detect patients at high risk of relapse.HeT DNA: a family of mosaic repeated sequences sp... |
HeT DNA is a complex family of repeated DNA found only in pericentric and telomeric heterochromatin. In contrast to other DNA families that have been specifically associated with heterochromatin, HeT DNA is not principally a family of tandemly repeated elements. Much of the HeT DNA family appears to be a mosaic of seve... |
OBJECTIVE |
This study aimed to determine whether phosphorylation of histone H2AX (γH2AX) is a predictive marker for neoadjuvant chemotherapy patients of cervical cancer. |
MATERIALS AND METHODS |
The sections were divided into three sets. Set 1 consisted of 40 pre-treatment biopsies. Post-treatment tissues includes 38 patients in set 2 and 34 patients in set 3 who received cisplatin concurrent docetaxel treatment for one or two cycles, respectively. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded sections were analyzed after ... |
RESULTS |
The expressions of γH2AX in cervical cancer tissues of post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy decreased to 22.94 ± 14.02% and 23.68 ± 13.55% (one and two cycles treatment, respectively) compared to preneoadjuvant chemotherapy (28.29 ± 15.67%), however there was no significant difference for γH2AX expression between pre- and pos... |
CONCLUSIONS |
As a predictive marker for neoadjuvant chemotherapy of cervical cancer, more extensive research regarding γH2AX expression should be explored.Design of a single layer multiband microstrip square ring antenna |
The characteristics of a compact, slotted microstrip square ring antenna are investigated. It achieves multiband and wideband functionality through the addition of the circular slots in the dielectric and ground plane of the square ring antenna. The antenna is analyzed in the frequency band of 1 – 30 GHz. The antenna e... |
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