... urinary bladder: an update based on the Ancona international consultation Virchows Arch 2002, 440:3-11 Althausen AF, Prout GR, Daly JJ: Non-invasive papillary carcinoma of the bladder associated with ... study, Zaak et al concluded that photodynamic diagnosisusing 5-ALA was an efficient diagnostic technique for patients with flat, high-risk urothelial lesions compared with classic WL cystoscopy and ... San Gerardo Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy 2Department of Clinical Pathology, Desio Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy 3Department of Surgery, San Gerardo...
... Page 18 of 19 List of abbreviations ANN: artificial neural networks; CVA: canonical variate analysis; DDBM: datadriven based methods; DRBM: data-reasoning based methods; DTBM: datatransform based ... estimations Machine learning based methods are also abundant in literature It requires large amount of historical data under various fault conditions as training data to form a data mapping mechanism ... under assumption that sample data mean and covariance are equal to their actual values [17] This would leads to requirement of large quantity of real data for ensuring relative accurate statistic...
... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/1/1/45 Evaluation The evaluation of the accuracy of dose calculation was performed by comparison of dose profiles and difference matrices of the calculated and measured doses Evaluation of plan optimization ... spherical targets, even small setup errors in the cranio-caudal direction cause a change in target diameter in the transversal plane This would have added an additional uncertainty in the evaluation ... optimization was performed by means of Dose Volumes Histograms (DVHs) calculated by CC and PB and comparison of dose profiles of the calculated and measured dose matrices DVHs of MC calculated plans...
... disease Taking the crude unweighted average of all studies one arrives at a 5-year case fatality of 58% and a 10-year case fatality of 73% for open (smearpositive) tuberculosis Taking an average ... extra -pulmonary and smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis as most data on the natural history are available for patients who tested sputum smear-positive No reliable prospective data on smear-negative ... pre-chemotherapy era that allow for estimation of CFs and duration of disease of smear-positive tuberculosis Given the limited information available and assuming that a 10-year CF will closely approximate...
... Genetech, San Francisco, CA), anti-TNFa (Humira, Abbott, Abbott Park, IL), anti-IL-1b (clone AB-206-NA, Abcam, Cambridge, MA), anti-IL-6 (clone AB-201-NA, Abcam), anti-GM-CSF (clone BVD2), anti-TGFb ... 3:721-732 Matsusaka T, Fujikawa K, Nishio Y, Mukaida N, Matsushima K, Kishimoto T, Akira S: Transcription factors NF-IL6 and NF-kappa B synergistically activate transcription of the inflammatory cytokines, ... Statistical tests were performed using GraphPad Prism software (La Jolla, CA) witha significance level of 0.05 Graphs and figures were produced using GraphPad Prism, Microsoft Excel, and Adobe...
... study: females and 35 males, median age: 8.1 yr, range; 5-17 yr, African Americans (AA), Asians, 27 Caucasians (W), and mixed races These ASD/non-SPAD children were diagnosed with autism (N=25) ... (Agilent) All slides were scanned by an Agilent Scanner and normalized numerical data were obtained by Agilent Feature extraction software 9.5 Statistical analysis: For comparison of test values ... by ASD/SPAD PBMCs with PHA was also lower than that of non-ASD/SPAD cells (Fig 2 -A) IL-12 production with Con A by ASD/SPAD cells was also lower than that of ASD/non-SPAD controls (Fig 2 -A) Production...
... cases The Mobile, Alabama area has a large shipbuilding industry, and the majority of autopsy cases in our study were referred by a local law firm involved in legal action against these companies ... examination In many cases, the only clinical information provided was the age, sex, cause of death and presence or absence of an antemortem clinical diagnosisof asbestosis by chest radiography ... assessment of statistical significance Results Our search yielded 242 cases with an antemortem chest radiographic diagnosisof asbestosis (age range 38–91, mean = 70.7 years) An additional 31 cases were...
... 2001) H Gacanin, S Takaoka, F Adachi, OFDM combined with TDM using frequency-domain equalization J Commun Netw 9(1), 34–42 (2007) H Gacanin, F Adachi, PAPR advantage of amplitude clipped OFDM/TDM ... normalized by the input signal power with K as a parameter for Eb/N0 = 30 dB (for a low Eb/N0 the achievable capacity is almost the same irrespective of K, and the capacity trade-off as a function ... approximate μk(i) as a zero-mean complexvalued Gaussian process and that μk(i) is uncorrelated with dk(i) Thus, the variance of μk(i) can be computed as (8) It can be seen from (8) that the PAPR of OFDM/...
... plot, and the small black ant, Tapinoma melanocephalum that was abundant on the remaining trees of the plot The Crematogaster ants were nesting on cashew tree branches and the small black ant were ... species of ants Examination of the ant nests the next day showed that almost all the crematogaster ants were dead in their nests, including queen ants, and that the small black ant activity was greatly ... data clearly show that farmers lack extensive knowledge about the insect pests and diseases and their natural enemies Weaver ant status and farmers’ opinion of them Most orchards had weaver ants,...
... species of ants, identification of weaver ant colonies, transplantation of the ants into cashew orchards, and management and maintenance of the weaver ant colonies Under the supervision of Dr Peng, ... pre-flowering and flowering, a total of 70 photos have been obtained for the preparation of cashew IPM posters; of insect pests, 17 of natural enemies, of weaver ant behaviour, 22 of weaver ant colony transplantation ... South Vietnam Vietnamese Project Team Leader Mr La Pham Lan Australian Organisation Charles Darwin University Australian Personnel Dr Keith Christian and Dr Renkang Peng Date commenced February 2006...
... play a very important part in cashew production Table shows that 8% of cashew orchards are managed by women, 70% are jointly managed by men and women and 22% by men The women have had an average ... Vietnam, there are at least 10 major insect pests and three diseases as well as many important species of natural enemies such as parasitoids and beneficial fungi in cashew orchards These data clearly ... knowledge of cashew insect pests and diseases and their natural enemies, and Weaver ant status and farmers’ opinion of them The results are summarised below A total of 212 cashew farmers were...
... identification of weaver ant colonies, transplantation of the ants into cashew orchards, and management and maintenance of the weaver ant colonies Under the supervision of Dr Peng, they have also gained ... Vietnam Vietnamese Project Team Leader Mr La Pham Lan Australian Organisation Charles Darwin University Australian Personnel Prof Keith Christian and Dr Renkang Peng Date commenced February 2006 ... adults) b Detection of early damage symptoms of stem and branch borers on young and old trees c Treatment of early damaged parts on trees a For stem borers, scrape off all the damaged material...
... number of main branches witha weaver ant trail in a tree / the number of the main branches in the tree) x 100 Weaver ants on a tree were treated as “Abundant”, if > 50% of the main branches had ant ... conducted using the locally available soft chemicals using four treatments: developing nuts and apples with thrips were treated with Applaud, D.C Tron oils, Abamectine and water, respectively Data analysis ... Vietnam Vietnamese Project Team Leader Mr La Pham Lan Australian Organisation Charles Darwin University Australian Personnel Prof Keith Christian and Dr Renkang Peng Date commenced February 2006...
... Vietnam Vietnamese Project Team Leader Mr La Pham Lan Australian Organisation Charles Darwin University Australian Personnel Prof Keith Christian and Dr Renkang Peng Date commenced February 2006 ... Telephone: Fax: Email: 61 08 89466708 61 89467199 jenny.carter@cdu.edu.au In Vietnam La Pham Lan Head of Plant Protection Department Organisation Institute of Agricultural Science of South Vietnam Name: ... showed that all the TOT trainees (56 in the first year and 56 in the second year) successfully passed their examinations Each of them was awarded a graduation certificate in the cashew IPM training...
... Vietnam Vietnamese Project Team Leader Mr La Pham Lan Australian Organisation Charles Darwin University Australian Personnel Prof Keith Christian and Dr Renkang Peng Date commenced February 2006 ... efficiency ofusing weaver ants to manage the main pest assemblage and the importance of keeping weaver ant populations high and stable • Part describes the basic bio-ecology of weaver ants and provides ... has been developed A manual “Integrated cashew improvement program using weaver ants as a major component – Manual for ICI program trainers and extension officers in Vietnam” was completed A...
... that cashew trees with abundant crematogaster ants were much less damaged by the most important two pests than trees witha few crametogaster ants or without ants or with black ants This is a ... that cashew trees with abundant crematogaster ants were much less damaged by the most important two pests than trees witha few crametogaster ants or without ants or with black ants This is a ... Because heavy rainfall in the wet season is one of the major factors responsible for the reduction of weaver ant populations and the mortality of young ant colonies, transplantation of weaver ant...
... values of parameters such as the speed of sound c and the array to road distance D Our analysis reveals the impact of the system parameters in the accuracy of the estimate Perhaps the most dramatic ... range D are assumed known Although the actual c and D in a practical implementation will vary around their nominal values, these variations are not expected to be critical With omnidirectional ... [8] Joint estimation of CPA and speed following the ML paradigm, as well as analyses of the effect of uncertainty in the values of c and D, constitute an ongoing line of research and are not pursued...
... five cases displayed dizziness, four cases presented with ataxia and one case had paralysis of upgaze Among the ten patients, six had a KPS score ≥80, indicating a satisfactory quality of life, ... loss, ataxia, paralysis of upgaze Severe staining, VC shift downward posterior cerebral artery branch 5.0 × 5.0 × 4.0 (an average of 4.7) Infratentorial > supratentorial Mild Female/ days 62 years ... combination of both approaches are commonly used Krause’s approach is essentially a midline posterior approach to the pineal region Its main advantage is that this approach located underneath the...
... vascularized fibular grafts: classification and treatment Acta Chir Iugosl 2001, 48:19-23 Liu J, Wang Z, Hu Y, Liang G, Huang Y: Complications of massive allografts after segmental resection of ... is the senior author and was responsible for final proofreading of the article All authors read and approved the final manuscript A drawback to this technique can be the two-stage surgery However, ... Marshak DR: Multilineage potential of adult human mesenchymal stem cells Science 1999, 284:143-147 Bruder SP, Kurth AA, Shea M, Hayes WC, Jaiswal N, Kadiyala S: Bone regeneration by implantation...