BACKGROUND Low anterior resection (LAR) may result in faecal incontinence. This study aimed to identify risk factors for long-term faecal incontinence after total mesorectal excision (TME) with or without preoperative radiotherapy (PRT). METHODS Between 1996 and 1999, patients with operable rectal cancer were randomized to TME with or without PRT. Eligible patients who underwent LAR were stud...

In accordance with the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee’s (PTAC’s) Processes for Reviewing and Evaluating Proposed Physician-Focused Payment Models and Making Recommendations to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, proposals for Physician-Focused Payment Models (PFPMs) that contain the information requested by PTAC’s Request for Proposals wil...

Preoperative radiation (PRT) significantly reduces local recurrences (LR) in rectal cancer. Identifying patients at risk for LR allows for refinement in patient selection for PRT. We previously demonstrated a PIK3CA mutation prevalence of 7.9% in rectal cancer and a strong association with increased risk of LR in nonirradiated stage I to III rectal cancer patients (5-year risks, 27.8% vs 9.4%; ...

Recent advances in neural rendering indicate immense promise for architectures that learn light transport, allowing efficient of global illumination effects once such methods are trained. The training phase these can be seen as a form pre-computation, which has long standing history Computer Graphics. In particular, Pre-computed Radiance Transfer (PRT) achieves real-time by freezing some variab...

Exercise improves insulin resistance and has beneficial effects in preventing and treating type 2 diabetes. However, aerobic exercise is hindered in many type 2 diabetic patients because of advancing age, obesity, and other comorbid conditions. Weight lifting or progressive resistance training (PRT) offers a safe and effective exercise alternative for these people. PRT promotes favorable energy...

We address the issue of domain adaptation for automatic Personality Recognition from Text (PRT). The PRT task consists in the classification of the personality traits of some authors, given some pieces of text they wrote. The purpose of our work is to improve current approaches to PRT in order to extract personality information from social network sites, which is a really challenging task. We a...

The reactivity of parthenolide (PRT), a natural sesquiterpene lactone from Tanacetum parthenium (Asteraceae), with human serum albumin (HSA) was studied by UHPLC/+ESI-QqTOF MS analysis after tryptic digestion of albumin samples after incubation with this compound. It was found that the single free cysteine residue, C34, of HSA (0.6 mM) reacted readily with PRT when incubated at approximately 13...

The consumption of amino acids and peptides was monitored during growth in milk of proteinase-positive (Prt+) and -negative (Prt-) strains of Lactococcus lactis. The Prt- strains showed monophasic exponential growth, while the Prt+ strains grew in two phases. The first growth phases of the Prt+ and Prt- strains were in same, and no hydrolysis of casein was observed. Also, the levels of consumpt...

The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between the placental retention time (PRT) and the reproductive performance following mating at the foal heat in Thoroughbreds. For this purpose, we interviewed 292 farmers over a period of 3 years with questionnaires evaluating foaling, expulsion of placenta and reproductive performance at the foal heat in 1,432 mares. The obtained data wer...