OBJECTIVE Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is an important tumor marker for non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCTs) that greatly affects diagnosis and the evaluations of therapy and therapeutic policy. However, it is sometimes very difficult to make the distinction between tumors and falsely elevated AFP levels due to benign liver disease. We assessed the usefulness of lectin-reactive alpha-fetoprote...

Models and observations show that the Arctic is experiencing the most rapid changes in global near-surface air temperature. We developed novel EASE-grid Level 3 (L3) land surface temperature (LST) products from Level 2 (L2) AATSR and MODIS data to provide weekly, monthly and annual LST means over the pan-Arctic region at various grid resolutions (1–25 km) for the past decade (2000–2010). In thi...

BACKGROUND This study describes reference data for L3 vertebra and its 3 ossification centers at varying gestational ages. MATERIAL AND METHODS Using CT, digital-image analysis and statistics, the growth of L3 vertebra and its 3 ossification centers in 55 spontaneously aborted human fetuses aged 17-30 weeks was examined. RESULTS Neither sex nor right-left significant differences were found....

BACKGROUNDS Sarcopenia is known to be associated with poor clinical outcome in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). There is no consensus concerning the optimal method to define sarcopenia in DLBCL. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 193 DLBCL patients treated with rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) therapy. Sarcopenia was class...

The aim of this study was to determine whether skeletal muscle depletion predicts the prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that is being treated with sorafenib. We evaluated 40 consecutive HCC patients who received sorafenib treatment. The skeletal muscle cross-sectional area was measured by computed tomography at the third lumbar vertebra (L3), from which the L3 skeletal m...

VANWYK, J.A. 1999. A comparison of the infectivity of cryopreserved versus unfrozen infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus, Trichostrongylus colubriformis and Trichostrongylus axei: Results of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute from 1977 to the present. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research , 66:285289 The infectivity for sheep of cryopreserved infective larvae (L3) of various stra...

Abstract Handover (HO) which can make user equipment (UE) communicate with the eNodeB (evolves NodeB) with the highest signal quality will have bad performance in high-speed railway scenario. In this paper, detailed introduction is made on Layer3 (L3) filtering theory to help solve this problem. HO measurement and HO decision procedure based on L3 filtering are designed and implemented in a dyn...