... -3.15% The numbers before the contours are the indexes of patients, 1PTV means the PTV in patient1 Figure The transverse views of CT andthe 2nd CBCT The transverse views ofthe reference CT (a) and ... by WH, all other authors helped and finally approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors thank the Drs Lijun Ma and Andrew Huwang for helpful discussions and editing ofthe paper ... ofthe first kVCBCT tothe planning kVCT in targets and normal tissues for the three clinical cases (NK-T lymphoma, NPC and Brain Tumor) The difference of maximal dose in tumor is 0.49% and in...
... the increase inthe amount of HWCs and reached up to 3.3 and 1.7 in silica sand and Andisol, respectively In particular, the effect of HWCs on nitrate retardation in silica sand appeared tobe ... coefficient in Andisol indicates higher values than thatin silica sand This feature reflects thatthe solutes spread larger during the course of transport in Andisol On the other hand, opposite ... leads tothe reduction ofthe possibility that nitrate adsorbs onto the HWCs Furthermore, the solute dispersion in Andisol is larger than thatin silica sand because ofthe difference of physical...
... mAb4E11 therefore constitutes an interesting experimental system to analyze and understand the interactions between antibodiesandthe dengue virus; in particular, the specificity of recognition towards ... exploited the structural and genomic data that are available on antibodiesand their genes, and performed a systematic scanning ofthe CDR3 loops of mAb4E11 by mutagenesis of their residues into alanine ... us to identify the residues of these loops that contributed tothe energetics and kinetics ofthe interaction between mAb4E11 and its antigen It showed thatthe residues of diversity, H-Trp96 and...
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... # of tree nodes in rule Figure 3: Distributions ofthenumberof tree nodes inthe translation rule sets Note thatthe curves of Min-F and C3-F are duplicated when thenumberof tree nodes being ... Scalable inference and training of context-rich syntactic translation models In Proceedings of COLING-ACL, pages 961–968, Sydney Liang Huang and David Chiang 2005 Better k-best parsing In Proceedings ... tended tobe increased because more rules were available during cubepruning Figure shows a comparison of decoding time (seconds per sentence) andthenumberof rules used for translating the test...
... parameters and patterns and range of motion of joint and segmental angles during ground level walking at selfselected and comfortable speeds, with and without theuseof BWS, for individuals ... force as they walked and this can influence walking performance and pattern Third, only the 0% and 30% of BWS were analyzed and participants might take advantage of other percentages of body weight ... joint range of motion, calculated from the difference between the maximum and minimum angles of these joints during each stride cycle; and foot, shank, thigh, and trunk segment range of motion,...
... reduced since mediaeval times as a consequence ofthe abandonment of traditional management, the change of land useto create farmlands and imported tree plantations, or because of a natural transformation ... without the arcs ofthe inner rings, the length of missing radii was calculated as the difference between the bole geometric radius andthe total core length Thenumberof missing rings was then ... thenumberof crossdated rings In partial cores, which contained the arcs ofthe Dendrochronology of oak: the management history 15 inner rings, the length of missing radii was calculated using...
... CT scan revealed thickening inthe duodenum andin both the ascending and descending colon with narrowing ofthe lumen (Figure 2) Biopsy results from both the duodenum and colon were consistent ... or cytoxan, doxorubicin and fluorouracil Initiating tamoxifen was not an option in Case and fulvestrant proved tobean efficacious alternative A recent study demonstrated that fulvestrant was ... opportunity to provide a means to initiate treatment in patients who present with varying degrees of intestinal obstruction This may obviate theuseof chemotherapy while achieving sustained clinical benefit,...
... lacked information regarding thenumberof patients that presented themselves at the outpatient clinics for an ARI andthe total numberof Page 10 of 12 patients seen by physicians during the study ... contributed tothe smaller than anticipated numberof acceptance Nonetheless, it is interesting to note that out ofthe eight FMGs that agreed toan on-site meeting, four immediately accepted the invitation ... director ofthe FMG, and reception staff to sustain and reinforce commitment tothe project The research team provided a biweekly bulletin to keep FMGs and their family physicians informed about the...
... be considered an inflammatory process, and cytokines, such as interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and receptor activator of nuclear factor B ligand (RANKL), are inflammatory or pro-inflammatory ... treatment [8] The “gold standard” to measure root resorption is to sacrifice the tooth and surrounding alveolar bone andto histologically analyze the morphology However, this type of analysis is ... completed using the device during the study period subjects declined to continue using the device for a variety of personal reasons and were not included in this study The mean age ofthe subjects...
... hospital, seven of whom were not evaluable because of death soon after initiation of APC Ofthe 34 remaining patients, nine had major bleeding episodes The clinical characteristics of these 34 patients ... Evaluating theuseof Drotrecogin alfa (activated) in adult severe sepsis Intensive Care Med 2007, 33:517-523 Bertolini G, Rossi C, Anghileri A, Livigni S, Addis A, Poole D: Useof drotrecogin alfa ... Patients with ALD are at increased risk both for severe sepsis and for bleeding These data suggest that they may be at greatly increased risk for bleeding while receiving APC Because such patients were...
... is the total numberof infectors; q m,t x [s-1] is the shedding rate (~microbial load) of infector m at simulation time step tx; i nm,t x [1] is the contact intensity between the infector andthe ... period of one day and basic reproduction numbers R0 = 1.5, 3.0, 4.5, and 6.0 With these assumptions, the contact intensity andthe shedding rate can be Table 2: Time categories and translation into ... about the duration and intensity of a contact between an infector and a susceptible individual The proposed mechanistic model is based on the following underlying assumptions: In principle, one infectious...
... the following: which ofthe incretin agents is most useful inthe critically ill patient; whether these agents shouldbe used in combination with insulin, or as single-agent therapy; and identification ... Albeit preliminary, the present study represents part of a growing interest intheuseof incretins, or incretin mimetics, for the management of hyperglycaemia in hospitalised patients [15] The ... its usein ambulant diabetic patients, ongoing vigilance is warranted These adverse effects include nausea and vomiting (usually transient) [14], as well as modest weight loss that occurs, and...
... structures inthe islands ofthe Aegean Sea, in Syros, Piraeus, Nauplion, and other cities, andthe harbors of Alexandria in Egypt, Fiume, Pola Spalato, Zara on the Adriatic Sea, and Constanta (Romania) ... structures, including the Golden Gate Bridge andthe San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Another portland-pozzolan cement, containing 25% interground calcined pozzolan, was used in 1935 for the construction ... (Saad , Andrade, and Paulon 1982) This natural pozzolan is produced by calcining kaolin clay and grinding it to a fineness of 700 to 900 m2/kg (380 to 490 yd2/lb) Because of this high fineness and...
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... Translation interprets the words and phrases ofthe foreign languages inthe best possible manner The phraseology andthe idiom ofthe target language can best be assimilated inthe process of ... and making them be familiar with the topic before they begin reading Semantic mapping is another pre-reading technique that Carell, Pharis and Liberto (1989, p.651) describe as a useful way to ... ways to guide them in making connections with the text to further their understanding ofthe reading Allowing them the opportunity to break 35 down the text into smaller pieces and focusing their...