conclusions the stereotactic brachytherapy for patients with circumscribed and relatively small size tumors appears to be a safe, feasible, and minimally-invasive treatment. results thirteen patients were male and 16 were female, with the median age of 29 years (range, 2.5 – 64 years). the median follow-up was 95 (range, 6 – 240) months. based on pignatti classification, 10 patients were at low...

A novel and generic approach named as "history-oriented envisioning" is proposed to qualitatively envision all the possible and the sound situations focusing on our intended partial behaviors and actions of an objective system. Some basic notations called a "partial history" and a "partial situation" are introduced as the extensions of the conventional history and its situations representing qu...

In this paper we show that, paradoxically, what looks like a “universal improvement” or a “straight-forward improvement” which enables better security and better reliability on a theoretical level, may in fact, within certain operational contexts, introduce new exposures and attacks, resulting in a weaker operational cryptosystem. We demonstrate a number of such dangerous “improvements”. This i...

The recent increase in the notifications of tuberculosis infections has focused the attention of healthcare professionals on reasons for the disease's resurgence. This article describes how directly observed therapy and an enlightened approach to health promotion for groups of people perceived as being at risk, could prevent further increases in incidence.

We discuss the estimation of the asymptotic covariance matrix of semiparametric maximum likelihood estimators by the observed proole information. We show that a discretized version of the second derivative of the proole likelihood function yields consistent estimators of minus the eecient information matrix.

The ability to gather information can affect outcomes in auctions and other games of incomplete information. We investigate situations where agents have a choice about which information, or signals, to observe, and are informed about the signal choices of others. Our models cover common-value games where agents decide whether to coordinate on observed information, and games mixing privateand co...

When agents like mobile robots make observations while carrying out a course of actions, a formalization of the observed information is needed in order to reason about it. When doing so in the situation calculus, a seemingly straightforward approach turns out to be inappropriate since it leads to unintended results and has an unfortunate sensitivity with respect to different forms of successor ...

Abstract This study explored the predictive value of monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) and platelet–lymphocyte (PLR) in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). A retrospective analysis was carried out on 40 ACLF from January 2018 August 2019 our hospital. The patient’s clinical information during hospitalization collected, their survivals were followed for 3 months. MLR PLR values...