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Báo cáo y học: "Qualitative Dosimetric and Radiobiological Evaluation of HighDoseRate Interstitial brachytherapy Implant" doc

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... volume index (EI), the relative dose homogeneity index (DHI), the overdose index (ODI), and the dose non-uniformity ratio (DNR), and are defined as: Coverage Index (CI): The fraction of the target ... Veenendaal, The Netherlands) – D treatment planning system The dose points were placed on the surface of the target volume relative to the active dwell positions All the dose points, in the implant, ... the region which receives a dose in the range of 1.0 to 1.5 times of the reference dose, (3) the region which receives a dose in the range of 1.5 to 2.0 times of the reference dose, and (4) the...
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The Potential of Biofumigants as Alternatives to Methyl Bromide for the Control of Pest Infestation in Grain and Dry Food Products

The Potential of Biofumigants as Alternatives to Methyl Bromide for the Control of Pest Infestation in Grain and Dry Food Products

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... phosphine is a quick and effective tool for the control of stored-product insect pests In view of the scheduled phaseout of methyl bromide under the Montreal protocol, the role of phosphine in grain ... of all oils tested The main component of one of the oils is pulegone The other is not yet identified and it is called SEM76 (Shaaya and Kostyukovsky, 2006) In our study of the mode of action of ... on the rates of sorption of homologous series of ITCs on wheat, we could show that the rate of sorption decreases with increasing molecular weight (Shaaya and Desmarchelier, 1995) In the case of...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Error Sign Feedback as an Alternative to Pilots for the Tracking of FEXT Transfer Functions in Downstream VDSL" pptx

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... perfectly and the remaining interference due to crosstalk might increase around the same power level as the additive noise, thereby decreasing the performance Mathematically, this means that the matrix ... thus on the SNR of the corresponding tone for the different users If we denote by bi the number of bits that could be transmitted on the tone of interest for user i, and by KLMS the number of pilot ... realizations3 of the channel as described above It can be seen that the gain is always decreasing for increasing interference coefficients (or decreasing noise variance) It can also be seen that the gain...
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Behavior of Nitrite Oxidizers in the Nitrification/Denitrification Process for the Treatment of Simulated Coke-Oven Wastewater

Behavior of Nitrite Oxidizers in the Nitrification/Denitrification Process for the Treatment of Simulated Coke-Oven Wastewater

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... -80oC The extraction of DNA was performed with Fast DNA SPIN Kit for Soil (Qbuiogene, USA) according to the instruction by the manufacturer In the preliminary step to nawwor down the species of ... 4oCstored Then, each of the samples were divided into two One of them was for DNA extraction and was washed with TE buffer at pH8.0, and stored at -20oC Another was for FISH analysis and was stored ... was applied, and the condition was optimized In general, the higher concentration of primers can lead to the formation of primer dimers Also, the cost of the chemicals should be minimized if the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The modulation of metal bio-availability as a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: The modulation of metal bio-availability as a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease pptx

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... and, by then delivering the bound metals into the cell, it activates specific protein kinases that induce an increase in the production of Ab-degrading MMPs Neurotoxicity generated by the interaction ... because of an imbalance in the activity of tau kinases and phosphatases [3] One particular tau kinase pertinent to metal dyshomeostasis in AD is glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) GSK3 has recently ... within the physiological ranges that could be expected within the brain The capacity for metals to facilitate this process may therefore be a critical factor in the Ab mediated pathology of the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Re-evaluation of intramolecular long-range electron transfer between tyrosine and tryptophan in lysozymes Evidence for the participation of other residues doc

Báo cáo khoa học: Re-evaluation of intramolecular long-range electron transfer between tyrosine and tryptophan in lysozymes Evidence for the participation of other residues doc

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... order, and the rate constants were obtained by nonlinear least-squares fitting to the absorbance data The numbering of the amino acid residues in each lysozyme protein follows that of the Protein Data ... this hypothesis Based on the firstorder rate constants measured in the model peptide compounds with oligoprolines as spacers and using these results as a ruler for the proteins, the value of 120 ... signal was observed in all peptides containing tyrosine 23 or 53 but not in peptides containing tyrosine 20 alone According to these results, tyrosines 23 and 53 could be involved in the dimerizations...
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Pelvic floor muscle training and adjunctive therapies for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women: a systematic review doc

Pelvic floor muscle training and adjunctive therapies for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women: a systematic review doc

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... specified in the other two studies Vaginal BF was used as a home treatment in three studies [44,45,47], as home and clinic treatment in one study [45] and in the others it was used only at clinic ... What is the evidence for the effectiveness of physical therapy in the clinical setting? Only one study stated specifically that the intervention was performed in a physiotherapy clinic in a primary ... care setting may be effective for the treatment of SUI The other studies in the review were considered for the generalisability of their findings to clinical practice by identifying the patient...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Identifying alemtuzumab as an anti-myeloid cell antiangiogenic therapy for the treatment of ovarian cancer" pdf

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... ascites requiring euthanasia of the animals ID8 cells were grown intraperitoneally inC57BL6 mice Twice-weekly intraperitoneal anti-CD52 therapy was initiated one week after the injection of tumor ... detectable in the presence of heat inactivated Alemtuzumab, 75% of VLC were eliminated in the presence of fresh Alemtuzumab (Figure 3B(1) and 3C) This was associated with a proportionate increase in the ... receive no treatment were maintained at 37C in the ascites fluid throughout the course of the experiment Viability of this control aliquot was then assessed with AnnexinV and 7AAD AnnexinV(-)/PI(-)...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Adaptive robot training for the treatment of incoordination in Multiple Sclerosis" doc

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... Training protocol and study design Top: Phases of the training protocol: Baseline (B1), Robot Training, Baseline (B2), Subject Training, Wash-out The phases in which the robot generates no forces ... compared the primary outcome measures (change in the clinical scores) between the baseline (T0) and the end of the treatment (T3), irrespective of the training mode (treatment) As regards the kinematic ... blocks of trials However, no one did, and in fact the task was well tolerated Furthermore, there was no degradation of performance at the end of the adaptation phase as compared to the final portion...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Influence of the training set on the accuracy of surface EMG classification in dynamic contractions for the control of multifunction prostheses" potx

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... boundary for each class separating it from all the others Including the dynamic portion in the training set increases substantially the number of windows available for each class, and so the unbalance ... as the training set Figure 5(b) shows that the SVM-OVO classifier with WT features determines high performance when including the dynamic portions in the training set An error rate of 6.3% was ... set, training section and classifier The accuracy was evaluated on the testing set on all classes (including the rest class) The classification action was performed if the EMG activity in the current...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Changing patterns in diagnostic strategies and the treatment of blunt injury to solid abdominal organs" docx

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... injury in the absence of hemoperitoneum on FAST can be as high as 29% [11] In a recent study, 13% of the patients with clinical signs of abdominal injury and a negative FAST for intra-abdominal ... possibility of subsequent bleeding out of vascular injuries that were unnoticed owing to vasospasm [54] and the higher rate of minor complications such as infarctions [52] However, the clinical relevance ... and the high mortality rate after operative treatment stimulated the search for alternative treatments, and, in 1990, NOM was introduced as a treatment for liver injury [38] The high success rate...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Double In Situ Approach for the Preparation of Polymer Nanocomposite with Multi-functionality" potx

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... surface temperature to increase more rapidly increasing the ease of ignition Since the LOI measures ease of extinction, which essentially depends on the same physical phenomena as ignition, the ... with the release of BuOH and excess water After this stage, the pressure of the reactor was reduced to less than 100 Pa and maintained for 1.5 h The excess water and BuOH was separated from the ... and 52 mL of BuOH The actual volume of water removed was 184 mL and of BuOH was 50 mL Thus, the extent of the reaction was more than 96% Transmission electron microscope images of the nanocomposite...
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Báo cáo y học: "In vitro model for the analysis of synovial fibroblast-mediated degradation of intact cartilage" pptx

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... Total RNA was then isolated using the RNeasy® Micro kit according to the supplier's instructions including a DNase digestion step Following removal of the SFB (in the case of co-culture), the shock-frozen ... potent inductors of aggrecanase activity in both cases, underlining the key role of these cytokines in proteoglycan depletion On the other hand, the clearly increased aggrecan activity in co-cultures ... TNF-α/IL-1β), in all cases showing a massively reduced optical contrast of the collagen structures in areas near the cartilage surface (Figure 4k1 to k4) Invasion of synovial fibroblasts into the cartilage...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Surgical perspectives from a prospective, nonrandomized, multicenter study of breast conserving surgery and adjuvant electronic brachytherapy for the treatment of breast cancer" pps

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... published guidelines for the screening and selection of patients for Page of 10 APBI [22,23], and these guidelines formed the basis for patient selection in the EBT multicenter study [20] Of the 65 patients ... breast and skin within an area of less than 2.5 cm of the skin surface As seen in Figure 2, this can readily be accomplished by using modifications of the standard oncoplastics incisions Since the ... skin bridge will maintain the distance from the balloon to the skin surface The greater the volume of the balloon, with the attendant compression of adjacent breast tissue, the more fully the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) using irinotecan-loaded beads for the treatment of unresectable metastases to the liver in patients with colorectal cancer: an interim report" pdf

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... loaded dose was administered for the first treatment and 80% of the dose for subsequent treatments Complete occlusion was achieved in 28% of cases, near in 32%, and partial occlusion was achieved in ... risks include liver failure and gastric irritation caused by seepage into the gastrointestinal tract Until now, the effectiveness of this device for the treatment of CRHM has not been examined in ... consisted of vials of DEBIRI loaded with 200 mg of Irinotecan One vial contained beads measuring 300-500 μm and the other contained beads measuring 300-500 μm Zofran was given during the procedure,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Prospective multi-center trial utilizing electronic brachytherapy for the treatment of endometrial cancer" ppsx

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... fractions to the vaginal surface in patients, 5.0 Gy x to the vaginal surface in patient, and 8.0 Gy x to the vaginal surface in patient The mean treatment time was 4.9 minutes The brachytherapy treatment ... given the option of treating with an EBT prescription dose of 6.0 Gy x to the vaginal surface or 8.0 Gy x to the vaginal surface Treatment planning was performed according to the standard of care ... followed for months Treatment The EBT vaginal brachytherapy was successfully delivered for all 48 treatments in the 15 patients In the 10 patients who received EBT alone, the prescription dose was...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The initial experience of electronic brachytherapy for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer" docx

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... recording of treatment planning and treatment data and for the writing and final approval of this manuscript Competing interests AB was compensated by Xoft, Inc., for his role as Principal Investigator ... Radiotherapy of skin carcinomas of the pinna: a study of 115 lesions in 108 patients Int J Dermatol 2005, 44:513-517 Chan S, Dhadda S, Swindell R: Single fraction radiotherapy for small carcinoma of the ... The nominal dwell time (tNominal), the calculated time to deliver the dose to the single dwell position, is calculated using the following factors: (Ďnominal) in Gy/min, based on the AAPM Task Group...
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Báo cáo y học: "P38 MAP kinase inhibitors as potential therapeutics for the treatment of joint degeneration and pain associated with osteoarthritis" ppsx

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... translate the effects observed in these animal models into a clinical benefit in human OA as there are currently no approved disease modifying drugs for the treatment of OA A number of protein kinases ... pain responses in animal models Therefore, the inhibition of proinflammatory cytokines may provide an important therapeutic approach for the treatment of OA Clinical trial data on cytokine inhibitors ... series of kinase modules beginning with the MAPK kinase kinases (MKKKs), which phosphorylate MAPK kinases (MKKs), which ultimately phosphorylate MAP kinases (MAPK) [1] There are MAPK families, the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Aerosolized colistin for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in patients without cystic fibrosis" ppt

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... colistin as monotherapy; she had received intravenous colistin therapy before aerosolized colistin for days and continued to receive the intravenous therapy after the end of aerosolized therapy (for ... agents, as well as the outcome of the infection and of the patient R56 The mean age of the patients was 59.6 years and most of them were male (six out of eight) All patients had been admitted to the ... least two of the following: new onset of purulent sputum, change in the character of sputum, increased respiratory secretions, or increased requirement for suctioning; new onset or worsening of...
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Báo cáo y học: "Aerosolized colistin for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in patients without cystic fibrosi" pdf

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... colistin It is not clear why the more toxic form of colistin was chosen over the better-tolerated colistin sulphamethate Microbiological eradication was attained in four of the five patients for ... contrast, was better tolerated and showed less bronchoconstriction [6] In this issue of Critical Care, Michalopoulos and colleagues [7] describe the use of inhaled colistin in the treatment of nosocomial ... available (in 50% of the patients who received nebulized colistin) Microbiological outcomes for the remaining three patients are unknown In addition, it was not made clear whether the patients...
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