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... was conducted at the Oncological ward of the Fondazione Poliambulanza from March to December 2008 Consecutive patients, not enrolled in clinical trial, mainly with metastatic colon cancer, who ... truthful information In respect to comparative data of subjects with skin clinical problems, our sample of colon cancerpatients showed in general a worse impact on symptoms and functional QoL scales ... Desquamation Rash: Acne/ Acneiform Asymptomatic Discoloration, ridging, pitting Mild or localized Macular or papular eruption, or erythema without associated symptoms Intervention not indicated...
... Nardes, Flávia Fontes, Daniela Gadelha, César Amorim, Joana Dantas, Paloma Cariello and Luisa Toscano; analysis and interpretation of data: Márcio Soares and José R Rocco; drafting of the manuscript: ... care The prognostic scores that are already available not take into consideration multidimensional parameters (ICU organizational and economic aspects in addition to clinical variables) in evaluating ... Amorim, Joana Dantas, Paloma Cariello and Luisa Toscano; administrative, technical or material support: Flávia Nardes, Flávia Fontes, Daniela Gadelha, César Amorim, Joana Dantas, Paloma Cariello and...
... when intercepted to complete the survey. Pedestrians were approached at one of eight locations throughout the study area on both sides of the street in order to avoid any bias associated witha particular destination on Bloor (See Map 6. Pedestrian intercept locations and Table 1. ... BLOOR ANNEX NEIGHBOURHOOD The Bloor Annex neighbourhood is a diverse neighbourhood, witha large student and young professional population. The area also has a strong commercial and entertainment character, ... Jennifer Penney, Director of Research, Clean Air Partnership Support has been provided by a grant from the Toronto Community Foundation. CAP would also like to thank Transport Canada and the City of Toronto for their generous ...
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... (2) bad Clinical examination One trained and calibrated dentist (IK) conducted all clinical examinations in a shaded area with natural daylight as the source of illumination and with an assistant ... Posterior premolar and molar occluding units, POU, were counted basedon existing natural tooth contacts between maxilla Table 2: Classification of the intensity of oral impacts ona performance, ... Northern Thailand Gerodontology 2001, 18(2):102-108 Masalu JR, Astrom AN: Applicability of an abbreviated version of the oral impacts on daily performances (OIDP) scale for use among Tanzanian...
... adapted to suit a New Zealand context The questionnaire was designed to collect data onanumberof areas of service provision, demographics of the pharmacy and pharmacist, levels of activity within ... provided, most services were considered to be at least satisfactory, although around 10% felt that promotional information and printed advice for clients was poor Furthermore, a small proportion ... questions from the postal questionnaire and used to follow up non-responders to the two mailshots by telephone Questionnaires and Participant Information Sheets were mailed to all pharmacies...
... spreading of action potentials to cellular controlof pH and isotonicity in all body fluid compartments and the plasma protein content Optimal function of neurons, skeletal and heart muscle cells is a ... this article as: Kurbel: Donnan effect on chloride ion distribution as a determinant of body fluid composition that allows action potentials to spread via fast sodium channels Theoretical Biology ... B, Parker JC: Activation of ion transport pathways by changes in cell volume Biochim Biophys Acta 199 1, 1071:407-427 London RD, Lipkowitz MS, Sinert RH, Abramson RG: Modulation of ionic permeability...
... Fornæss and Nessim Sibony Construction of P.S.H functions on weakly pseudoconvex domains Duke Math J., 58(3):633–655, 198 9 Ian Graham Boundary behavior of the Carath´eodory and Kobayashi metrics on ... That is the proof of property (v) KOBAYASHI METRIC NEAR A POINT OF INFINITE TYPE 11 The proof of Theorem 2.1 is complete Proof of Theorem 1.2 The proof of Theorem 1.2 follows immediately from ... Remark 3.2 The construction of the plurisubharmonic peak functions ona pseudoconvex domain of finite type in C2 and a convex domain of finite type in Cn has been obtained by J E Fornaess and...
... BIT-Bureau for International Research and Technology Cooperation, internship at the National Science Foundation, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and cooperation with the ... discussion on the relationship between core and external project -based funding at national level Also in the European context, national funding organisations are more and more aware of the issue of ... unique position to act as a moderator and catalyst in this area and to facilitate a discussion to identify a degree of commonality around best practice It should work with the national funding agencies...
... Kimura Y, Torigoe T, Toyota N, Yagihashi A, Hirohashi Y, Asanuma H, Shimozawa K, Okazaki M, Mizushima Y, Nomura N, Sato N, Hirata K: Clinical and immunological evaluation of anti-apoptosis protein, ... survivin monoclonal antibody (upper panel) or mouse anti-β-actin monoclonal antibody AC-15 (lower panel) CTL induction from PBMCs of HLA -A* 2402+ cancerpatients In order to know if HLA -A2 4-restricted ... Cancer 2006, 119: 1717-1722 Tanaka K, Iwamoto S, Gon G, Nohara T, Iwamoto M, Tanigawa N: Expression of survivin and its relationship to loss of apoptosis in breast carcinomas Clin Cancer Res 2000,...
... Leiomyosarcoma Melanoma Ovarian carcinoma Ovarian sarcoma Pancreatic cancer Pharyngeal cancer Plasmocytoma Pleural mesotelioma Prostatic cancer Rectum carcinoma Thymic carcinoma Thyroid carcinoma ... performed an orthogonal principal components analysis (rotation: varimax with Kaiser normalisation) We used the self-regulation questionnaire as a main convergence criterion because it's two dimensional ... 0.71) and partly weak to moderate correlations to the symptom scales of the EORTC as fatigue or loss of appetite (= -0.53 – -0.28), but also partly no correlation at all such as with constipation...
... information and education: a prototype of educational course for professionals (physicians and nurses) has been assembled and tested ona sample of participants (through a residential course approved ... pain [13]; b) drug utilization and appropriateness: an evaluation of the volume and quality of prescriptions of analgesic drugs in a large administrative data base in collaboration with local ... of available therapeutic strategies, and called for a prospective program ofresearch aimed at making available to treating physicians, patients and families valid information about pain management...
... plane estimation Edge region EDT = {Ver, Hor, non} Spatial correlation Edge-pattern region Flat region Bayer color difference plane Region classification Edge direction estimation Full color image ... EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Edge adaptive demosaicking G channel interpolation Bayer CFA samples Bayer color Edge Region directional difference direction classification interpolation ... estimation of 10 EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Table 1: The PSNR comparison of the conventional and proposed methods using the average of the three channels (dB) on the 24 test images...
... the computation scheme in [31] into the SSIM -based reconstruction algorithm, and its nonconvex maximization problem is reformulated as a quasi convex problem Then the optimal solution basedon ... Zoomed portion of Figure 4(d) (e) Zoomed portion of Figure 4(e) (f) Zoomed portion of Figure 4(f) (g) Zoomed portion of Figure 4(g) (h) Zoomed portion of Figure 4(h) (i) Zoomed portion of Figure ... reconstruction performance of each patch, becomes worse, the color discontinuities at the border of the missing areas and that of patches also occurs On the other hand, the proposed method adopts...
... identification of the natural frequency ofa hydrogenerator shaft and the wear fault diagnosis of the intake valve of an internal combustion engine [13] Qi et al employed Laplace wavelet correlation filtering ... section, a method of adaptive parameter identification of Morlet wavelet basedon correlation filtering is presented Using correlation filtering, the parameters of Morlet wavelet 2.1 Morlet Wavelet and ... and Parametric Representation Morlet wavelet is one of the most popular nonorthogonal wavelets, defined in the time domain as a harmonic wave multiplied by a Gaussian time domain window: ψMorlet...
... simulation in which a population of abstract representations of candidate solutions to an optimization problem evolves toward better solutions The evolution usually starts with some randomly ... as the first generation All genes in a generation form a population Each individual in the population is called chromosome, which corresponds to a solution in the optimization problem domain An ... EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Preliminary c0 2.1 Chaos and Its Application in Information Hiding The chaos phenomenon is a deterministic and analogously stochastic process appearing...
... 20-pixel long is applied Although more reliable for comparison, the smoothed signatures lose a considerable amount of information To compensate for missing information, a solution may be to adopt a method ... False acceptance rate Global variations Local variations SVM -based fusion rule 100 Global variations Local variations Svm -based fusion rule (a) 10−1 (b) Figure 7: ROC plots of the local variations, ... global variations on the CASIA database cannot yield enough discriminating information although it provides complementary information for the local variations This originates from the nonuniform...
... Histograms of (a) VMFBE feature on radio broadcast database, (b) Var of SF feature on radio broadcast database, (c) VMFBE feature on BNSI database and (d) Var of SF feature on BNSI database the ... purpose of our analysis a radio broadcast database was built The database contains radio broadcast material collected from several public radio stations The idea was to collect more diverse material ... algorithms were benchmarked ona large dataset, witha classification accuracy of about 95% and a segmentation accuracy of about 97% A computationally-efficient speech/music discriminator for radio...