In this paper, we present an assessment of near eld communication (NFC) in the context of a payment market. During these past years, we have been witnessing a number of mobile payment trials based on NFC. Early experiences are already quite encouraging and many expect NFC to become a highly efcient and effective technology for mobile payments. The objective of our research is to evaluate in a s...

PURPOSE Active surveillance (AS) is a treatment option for men with very low-risk prostate cancer (PCa); however, favorable outcomes achieved for men in AS are based on cohorts that under-represent African American (AA) men. To explore whether race-based health disparities exist among men with very low-risk PCa, we evaluated oncologic outcomes of AA men with very low-risk PCa who were candidate...

Active surveillance is an increasingly recognized treatment option for men with low-risk prostate cancer. Despite encouraging evidence for oncologic efficacy and reduction in morbidity, several barriers contribute to the underuse of this management strategy. Consistent selection criteria as well as identification and validation of triggers for subsequent intervention are essential. Incorporatio...

The success of the electroweak gauge theory [1] has led to a great revival of Quantum Field Theory. By this, however, many theorists do not mean a theory of quantized interacting fields [2]. One rather derives observable results from the "Green's functions" specified by Feynman's integration over classical fields [3], All problems are thus reduced to the choice of the action, which then is eval...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Active surveillance has become the recommended management strategy for most patients with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa), but whether surveillance criteria can be expanded without compromising oncologic outcomes is a matter of debate. Whereas there is essentially uniform consensus that those with low-risk disease can be safely managed with AS, those with intermediate-risk dise...

We examined the utility of frame-of-reference (FOR) training and behavioral observation training (BOT) for enhancing rating accuracy in a field study involving Canadian military personnel. Participants were randomly assigned to either (a) FOR training, (b) FOR training + BOT, or (c) control training. Participants were assessed on a variety of training program evaluation criteria, including rati...

During the last decades, incidence of prostate cancer has increased at the expense of cases at low-risk of progression. Meanwhile, the concept of active surveillance has gained widespread acceptance in order to decease the risk of overtreatment. Active surveillance is based on a strict patient monitoring to detect potential disease progression and to propose on time a radical differed treatment...

tives have incentives to “oversell” their products. But they also benefit by providing truthful information about their drugs’ benefits. In analyzing the effects of sales and promotion efforts, it is important to consider both the positive and negative aspects of drug marketing. There is a substantial literature in medical journals examining the marketing and promotional efforts of pharmaceutic...

We report the observation of propagating modes of visible and near infrared light in nanoscale coaxial (metal-dielectric-metal) structures, using near-field scanning optical microscopy. Together with numerical calculations, we show that the propagated modes have different nature depending on the excitation wavelength, i.e., plasmonic TE11 and TE21 modes in the near infrared and photonic TE31, T...

OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of reporting in observational studies in dermatology. DATA SOURCES Five dermatology journals-the Archives of Dermatology, the British Journal of Dermatology, the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and Acta Dermato-Venereologica. STUDY SELECTION Cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies published a...