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A higher volume of aerobic or combined exercise is achievable and safe during breast cancer chemotherapy and may manage declines in physical functioning and worsening symptoms better than standard volumes.Estimation of fiber orientation by filtered q-ball imaging* |
We proposed a filtered q-ball imaging (fQBI) method for the reconstruction of fiber orientation distribution function (ODF) together with the quantitative comparison to unfiltered QBI. The filter kernel increases the high angular frequency content that is beneficial for the angular resolution in resolving crossing fibe... |
Background: China’s ethics committees alone are unable to meet the growing need for human participant protection. Several scandals in recent years indicate weaknesses in the protection of human participants in China. Objectives: The aim of the study is to summarize the status and problems of human research protection p... |
Job scheduling is a challenging task in grid environments and reducing execution time is one of the most important ways to tackle this problem. Nowadays, society is also more conscious about energy saving, making this fact a really important issue to pursue. In this paper, a new multiobjective algorithm is presented ba... |
Microvascular endothelial cells (HMECs) express both the CXCR1 and the CXCR2, but cell migration is almost entirely mediated by the CXCR2. Similarly, NIH 3T3 cells transfected with the CXCR2 migrated toward IL-8, whereas CXCR1-transfected cells failed to do so. This situation differs from that seen in leukocytes, where... |
Incremental learning allows incorporating new data in a classifier model without full retraining for computational efficiency. In this paper, we present two ways of performing incremental learning on Grassmann manifolds. In a Grassmann kernel learning framework, data are embedded on subspaces and kernels are constructe... |
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of an increase in the saturation of blood oxygen (SaO2) and/or serum glucose on photoreceptor sensitivity in normal subjects and in patients with diabetes mellitus. We monitored cone and rod sensitivity by recording dark-adaptation curves to both green and red test s... |
Many current social and cultural forces discourage father involvement with children. An important, but usually overlooked, positive influence on men and fathering is religion. This article presents some of the findings of the scant social science literature on fathering and religion; discusses the ways that religion en... |
Abstract The influence of neoliberalism on culture and subjectivity is well documented. This paper contributes to understanding of how neoliberal ideology enters into the production of subjectivity. While subject formation takes place in multiple and contradictory ways and across multiple social sites, we focus on the ... |
Tobacco plays a key role in both disease and the economy in Brazil. In 1981 about 135 billion cigarettes were smoked, and cigarette-related diseases far outnumber infections as the leading cause of death. Brazil is the 4th largest world producer and the 2nd largest exporter of tobacco. 2.1% of the total population -- ... |
Budget utilization for improved business contingency planning in service delivery |
Service delivery using geographically distributed delivery locations has emerged as a mature methodology of service delivery. The fragile nature of business environments at the delivery locations has resulted Business Continuity Planning methodology in becoming a key differentiator between service delivery organization... |
Women's inheritance and property rights are essential to an effective response to HIV/AIDS. For women living with HIV, denial of these rights can lead to loss of shelter and livelihood, result in dislocation from their social safety nets and, because of stigma and gender-based discrimination, jeopardize their access to... |
Predicting the degree to which proteins adhere to a polymeric surface is an ongoing challenge in the scientific community to prevent non-specific protein adhesion and drive favourable protein - surface interactions. This work explores the potential of multivariate PLSR modelling in conjunction with Attenuated Total Ref... |
With the increasing prominence of the world’s climate problems, low-carbon development has become the consensus of all countries in the world. The low-carbon transformation of the power system will be one of the best ways for China to achieve the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Firstly, based on the perspect... |
Technology enhanced education has been recently established as a new approach for all stages of education in developing countries, especially in Macedonia. Although computer games are often given little attention we believe that within the vast amount of technologies and instruments used to achieve the needed improveme... |
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In the past few decades Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) has become a highly curable malignant disease, as a result of using modern polychemotherapy and irradiation. Differentiation of active tumor from fibrosis or necrosis within residual radiographic masses represents a problem of interpretation. |
AIMS |
The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the value of FDG-PET for prediction of remission or relapse in HL. |
PATIENTS AND METHODS |
Data of 128 patients, who had residual masses on CT after completion of their planned treatment, have been analyzed. FDG-PET was performed between January 1995 and February 2005. |
RESULTS |
The median duration of the follow-up from PET was 75.5 months (range: 20-180 months). 89 (70%) patients had negative and 39 (30%) patients had positive FDG-PET results. The numbers of true-positive, true-negative, false-positive and false-negative subjects were 29, 83, 10 and 6, respectively. Sensitivity of post-treatm... |
CONCLUSION |
Our results, in accordance with literature, clearly indicate that patients with negative FDG-PET results are unlikely to progress or relapse during a long follow-up. However, false positive uptake is a problem. We have investigated the effect of age, histological subtype, clinical stage and the type of treatment on the... |
The application of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in food preservation presents a promising alternative and offers many benefits, such as reducing the use of chemical preservatives, reducing food losses due to spoilage, and development of health-promoting food supplements. The biological activity of AMPs largely depende... |
We introduce the notion of kinematic controllability for second-order underactuated mechanical systems. For systems satisfying this property, the problem of planning fast collision-free trajectories between zero velocity states can be decoupled into the computationally simpler problems of path planning for a kinematic ... |
Electromechanical properties of skeletal muscle were compared between malignant hyperthermia (MH)‐susceptible and control pigs. These muscle properties were studied both in vivo and in vitro. The in vivo time interval from nerve stimulation to onset of mechanical tension was longer in muscle of pigs susceptible to MH. ... |
Since 2007, shale oil and gas production in the United States has become a significant portion of the global fossil fuel market. The main cause for the increase in production of shale oil and gas in the US is the adoption of new production technologies, namely, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. However, the... |
Background and Purpose— Small-vessel knock is a recently reported Doppler ultrasound finding that has been identified in patients with cerebral ischemia. It has been hypothesized that knock-type signals are linked to the presence of either small-vessel occlusion or wall motion. The aim of this study was to investigate ... |
twentieth centuries (p. 89) and her story pits her own motherhood against the maternalist rhetoric of prison reformers. Pregnant during both sentences, Emily gave birth while imprisoned in 1934 and argued, vehemently but in vain, to be allowed to keep her child with her in prison after birth. McCoy argues that the deni... |
Research interest in massive online and open courses (MOOCs) is rapidly growing, questioning who enrolls, why and how to conceive engagement, and success rates. This study is focused on MOOC-takers behavior obtained from a seven-week MOOC experience on natural risks. Data scraping principles have been used to collect d... |
This thesis presents the first ever results of applying probilistic models to the task of parsing French using the newly available French Le Monde corpus. We start off by describing the annotation scheme of this brand new corpus, and highlight its differences compared to the Penn Treebank. We then use an unlexicalised ... |
P. Sarfati and K. G. White (1991) found that heavy social drinkers were more risk averse than light drinkers in a repeated gambles procedure. Given a theoretical argument that risk aversion corresponds to impulsivity in this context, this result implied that heavy drinkers are more impulsive than light drinkers. The pr... |
We studied the effect of chronic mechanical overloading on the isoenzymic composition of rat cardiac myosin in several experimental models: aortic stenosis (AS), aortic incompetence (AI), aortocaval fistula (ACF), overload of the non-infarcted area after left coronary ligation (INF), and overload of the spontaneously h... |
Current speed-camera alerting systems heavily rely on humans to check the trustworthiness of information sent by their users. Hence, these systems are often either expensive or suffer from drawbacks, such as incomplete information concerning mobile speed cameras. We propose an application called FoxyTag using a computa... |
This paper evaluates the performance of a variant of the local-meta-model CMA-ES (lmm-CMA) in the BBOB 2013 expensive setting. The lmm-CMA is a surrogate variant of the CMA-ES algorithm. Function evaluations are saved by building, with weighted regression, full quadratic meta-models to estimate the candidate solutions'... |
Until the 1980s, the concept of corruption has been generally studied in the fields of sociology, political science and criminal law. Later, As the link between corruption, which was seen as a government failure, and economic performance has become increasingly evident, economists working in the field of public finance... |
Spermatogenesis is dependent primarily on testosterone action on the Sertoli cells, but the molecular mechanisms have not been identified. Attempts to identify testosterone-regulated target genes in Sertoli cells have used microarray analysis of gene expression in mice lacking the androgen receptor (AR) in Sertoli cell... |
As known to us, titanium nitride film formed by ion plating has been applied for decoration and hard coating in industry for years, but there still were many investigations on growing titanium nitride film by ion beam enhanced deposition in the past decade because of its benefit in cold processing and improved adhesion... |
ers advanced topics (such as RSM), or makes use of examples and problems from the new edition, then students will need to have access to the most recent edition. If you are an industrial practitioner with the fourth edition of Design and Analysis of Experiments and Myers and Montgomery (1995), you probably don't need t... |
In the last period, there’s an increasing demand for ”model transformation” techniques (e.g. to support the Model Driven Development proposed by OMG). Tools and techniques for model mapping, model transformation and model merging are developed in several domains (from software engineering to ontology building); however... |
BACKGROUND: Obesity is associated with a higher incidence of colorectal cancer and increased colorectal cancer mortality. Obese women are less likely to undergo breast and cervical cancer screening than nonobese women. It is not known whether obesity is associated with a lower likelihood of colorectal cancer screening.... |
Faces convey much information. Interestingly we humans have a remarkable ability of identifying, extracting, and interpreting this information. Recently automatic facial ageing (AFA) has gained popularity due to its numerous applications which include search for missing people, biometrics, and multimedia. The problem o... |
Nitric oxide (•NO) is a physiological mediator of vasorelaxation constitutively synthesized by endothelial nitric oxide synthase. Because •NO has a short half-life, it is stored by proteins through S-nitrosation reactions. S-nitrosation was recently defined as a post-translational modification of proteins for cellular ... |
Social, legal and health-care changes have created an increasing need for ethical review within end-of-life care. Multiprofessional clinical ethics committees (CECs) are increasingly supporting decision-making in hospitals and hospices. This paper reports findings from an analysis of formal summaries from CEC meetings,... |
Obtaining the effect of regular transverse wave is very significant for it is dangerous for ships to turn in transvers waves. To study ships motion law in regular transverse waves, computer simulation method was used. The simulation were based on ship mathematical model,called MMG(Maneuvering Model Group), and a wavefo... |
Abstrnct Stability is a key problem that means whether a high rate rotor-active magnetic hearings system works reliably or not. Aiming at a hearings system described with nonlinear equations this paper built a linear model according to the system behaviors. Considering realization of control system and behaviors of hig... |
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