... diagnosis Our patient remained disease-free for six months after diagnosis Based on these findings, a diagnosis of Ewing s sarcoma of the calcaneus was made Discussion Ewing s sarcoma isa rare ... spreading, skip metastases, or combined metastatic disease [7,9] The imaging features of local spread of Ewing s sarcoma, involving small bones to adjacent bones, have not been described in the ... Contribution of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of talus skip metastases of Ewing s sarcoma of the calcaneus ina child: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:451 ...
... node invasion Discussion Paget s disease is an eczematous skin change of the nipple that is usually associated with an underlying breast malignancy [1] It may present with erythema, scaling, ... underlying intraductal carcinoma [1] Male breast cancer accounts for less than 1% of all breast cancer and Paget s disease represents 1-3% of all breast malignancies, having a higher incidence in males ... classical Paget cell that is large, ovoid, has pale staining cytoplasm and hyperchromic nuclei [1,2] The pathogenesis of Paget s disease is still a subject of debate with two main hypotheses...
... the surgical specimen and assisted in interpreting our patient 's data ATR assisted in the operation and in analyzing our patient 's data KMA received our patient and assisted in collecting our patient 's ... Dieulafoy in 1897 Macroscopically, AVM comprises a small pea-sized lesion appearing as a mucosal defect with an artery protruding from its base Histologically, a thick-walled arterial vessel is seen ... patient 's data All authors read and approved the final manuscript Author Details 1Department of Surgery, Sulaimanyah Teaching Hospital, Sulaimanyah, Iraq, 2Department of Medicine, Sulaimanyah Teaching...
... view sees language primarily as a means for establishing and maintaining interpersonal relations and for performing social transactions between individuals The target of language learningin this ... textbooks now follow this practice In addition, tasks are often placed into a sequence as part ofa unit of work or study Sequencing isa major issue ina task-based syllabus For Swales (1990), tasks ... introducing learners to texts and tasks containing a wide range of language structures This is particularly true in the early stages of the learning process Task-based approach to syllabus design is much...
... and learningof speaking skills in classrooms 1.3.1 What cultural factors influence on the teaching and the learningof speaking skills in classrooms? Culture and language exist in the same relationship ... during speaking, speakers are responsible for making themselves understandable to listeners through selected and adapted messages based on listeners’ understanding feedback This means that speakers ... and speaking skills in ELT and towards cultural factors in developing speaking skills Also, the current teaching and learningof speaking skills accompanied by cultural challenges in the classroom...
... formal uncertainty analysis in EPA s RIAs Status of EPA Uncertainty Analysis in Recent RIA s EPA s recent RIAs acknowledge the NRC critique of its uncertainty analysis in the RIA discussion of ... Treatment of Uncertainty in EPA s Analysis of Air Pollution Rules: A Status Report Arthur G Fraas Abstract An understanding of the uncertainty in benefit and cost estimates isa critical part of ... decisionmakers and to other interested readers Analysis of benefits for EPA air rules typically requires a complex chain of analyses, including establishing baselines like the demographics and...
... and test data A larger set of Arabic Wikipedia articles, selected on the basis of quality heuristics, serves as unlabeled data for semisupervised learning Our out -of- domain labeled NE data is ... otherwise Algorithm 1: Self-training there is no available labeled training data Yet the available unlabeled data is vast, so we turn to semisupervised learning Here we adapt self-training, a simple ... Wikipedia data varies widely across article domains and is much lower than in- domain performance Precision scores fall between 60% and 72% for all domains, but recall in most cases is far worse Miscellaneous...
... population are highlighted Region East Asia and Pacific China Eastern Europe and Central Asia Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East and North Africa South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Total Total ... uneven across regions Uneven progress across the Bank s regions, but (for the first time) progress in all regions Dramatic progress in East Asia Looking back to the early 198 0s, East Asia was the ... since 1981 we have seen less than half the population of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) living below $1.25 a day 47% lived below this poverty line in 2008, as compared to 51% in 1981 The $1.25 a day...
... disease in Australia, New Zealand, North America and most European countries, but it has a low incidence in Scandinavia, and is extremely rare in the Japanese population, with a prevalence of ... Yabe H, Abe S, Fukunaga M, Terada M, et al.: Guidelines for diagnosis and management of Paget 's disease of bone in Japan J Bone Miner Metab 2006, 24:359-367 Kanis JA: Pathophysiology and treatment ... Yabe H, Abe S, Terada M, Yoh K, et al.: Prevalence and clinical features of Paget 's disease of bone in Japan J Bone Miner Metab 2006, 24:186-190 Takata S, Hashimoto J, Nakatsuka K, Yoshimura...
... forest, as indicator values of the species in the sample did not always allow a clear discrimination between an increase in nitrogen and acidification Thus, the results of the tree-ring analysis are ... 1986 in the Amance Forest This was ascribed to a combination of gradual climatic variations and increasing atmospheric CO concentration An effect of the increasing amounts of available nitrogen in ... 1992) That is the reason why tree-ring analysis has been used for several years to investigate historical changes which occurred in soil chemistry This approach could be of great interest as other...
... manifestations of adaptive mechanisms to avoid unsteadiness and falling during walking In conclusion, the CatWalk-assisted automated gait analysis system revealed that unilateral infusion of 6-OHDA ... locomotion parameter in each group is expressed as mean ± s. e.m for each condition All statistical tests were performed with SPSS statistical software (version 15) Statistical significance was evaluated ... diagonal paws It is used as a measure of inter-paw coordination Step pattern There are a total of six possible step sequence patterns that a rat can use as it places its four paws one after another...
... cysteine proteases involved in the initiation and execution of apoptosis Caspase-3 (apopain, SCA-1, Yama and CPP32) isa member of the apoptosis execution functional group of caspases, and is ... (SD) and statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism (version 5.0, GraphPad Software, Inc., CA, USA) Comparison of groups was performed using repeated measures one-way ANOVA followed ... the pathogenesis ofa variety of degenerative and ischemic human diseases [24] The family of caspases is key mediator of apoptosis An extrinsic pathway involving cell surface death receptors [25]...
... of Qa-2 protein expression was analyzed by FACS Statistical analysis All data are presented as the mean ± SE Statistical differences between groups were determined using a Student 's t test and ... Leader peptide domain 5'-CAACACUCGCAAUAUU-3'(sense) 3'-GUUGUGAGCGACGUUAUAA-5'(antisense) α3 domain 5'-AGGUCUUAUGGUGCUGUCAUU-3'(sense) 3'-UUUCCAGAAUACCACGACAGU5'(antisense) Transmembrane domain ... domain 5'-UGUGAUGAAUAGGAGGUGAUU-3'(sense) 3'-UUACACUACUUAUCCUCCACU5'(antisense) Cytoplasmic membrane domain 5'-UAGAGCUCUGAUAGAUCUCUU-3'(sense) 3'-UUAUCUCGAGACUAUCUAGAG5'(antisense) France, Illkirchcedex),...
... masculinity, it appears that a healthy sexuality is intrinsically linked to a hegemonic masculine sexuality A man who engages in extra-marital sexual relationships and gets an embarrassing disease ... needed to make use of HIV services “My wife was worried and was always asking about my health The swellings were not painful to me at all, so she was always asking what sort of disease it was I told ... particular time and place Whilst hegemonic masculinity is often seen as a process that is both subordinating of women, as well as other forms of masculinities (such as those exhibited by homosexuals),...
... dysmorphism, clinodactyly of the fifth finger and mild learning disability The maternal grandmother was also assessed and was phenotypically normal The proband 's father was not available for assessment, ... hypoplasia of the terminal phalanges, clinodactyly of the fifth fingers, simian creases, left inguinal hernia, cryptorchidism, and severe postnatal growth retardation [11] A third case involving a ... region of chromosome 1p (Figure 2) Parental samples were requested in order to ascertain the origin of this rearrangement A paternal sample was unavailable but FISH analysis of the mother, grandmother...
... treatment planning In fact, it allows a combination of both anatomical and biological co-registered images acquired in the same session, with a dual gain in diagnostic accuracy Staging is crucial in the ... disease response Conclusion This case report shows that FDG-PET/CT could have an important role in the staging of Castleman 's disease and in its evaluation of treatment response No clinical signs ... used in many neoplasms and aggressive malignant lymphomas to characterise metabolically undetermined masses, tumour staging and restaging, treatment response evaluation and radiotherapy treatment...
... bronchial brushings are usually not diagnostic [7,10] MEC is thought to arise from mucous glands in the submucosal layer of respiratory walls [8,11] and is phylogenetically similar to salivary gland ... illness [15,16] As many of the presenting respiratory symptoms have an infective cause, the diagnostic suspicion of carcinoma in this setting is potentially further reduced While adverse outcomes ... digital images References Chang AB: Cough: are children really different to adults? Cough 2005, 1:7 Chang AB: Causes, assessment and measurement inchildrenIn Cough: Causes, Mechanisms and Therapy...
... relationship of accounting students' approach to learning and assessed learning journals (Bisman, 2010); the relationship of accounting students' approach to learning and their perceptions of assessment ... oflearning and approach to learningIn Chapter 5, evidence is discussed about the effectiveness of the five stages of the Assignment (a central part of the intervention of Assessment in this study) ... literature has often adapted specific aspects of the approach to learning literature in isolation from other aspects This research also faces a number of challenges common to interdisciplinary research,...