In a previously reported investigation of 616 women with breast cancer included in a case-control study, we found an association between tumour stage at presentation and breast self examination (BSE) (Mant et al., 1987). Women who had both practised and been taught BSE had more favourably staged tumours than other women. A number of other studies, summarised in the meta-analysis by Hill et al. ...

this paper studies the image of latinos in the united states of americathrough the hollywood films production by the well-known mexican director,alejandrogonz?lez i??rritu. using content analysis of the latinos characters in the threefilms directed by him and in collaboration with screenwriter guillermo arriaga, thepresent paper examines the masculinity frame to see whether the latinos areportr...

This paper responds to the April 29, 1998, Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM) concerning SECY-98-010, "Petition for Envirocare of Utah, Inc., to Possess SNM in Excess of Current Regulatory Limits" (Attachment 1). This SRM directed the staff to review the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) report on post-disposal criticality at the Barnwell, South Carolina, disposal facility and to inform the...

Cystic pneumatosis intestinalis is a rare benign entity, characterized by intramural cysts located mainly in the intestinal wall. The etiology has not yet been elucidated, but generally it is associated with a systemic disease (1-4). Colonic pneumatosis represents about 30% of gastrointestinal cases (1). We present the case of a young girl with anorexia who underwent surgical treatment for cyst...

ARTMAP-FD extends fuzzy A R T M A P t o perform famaliarity discrimination. That is , the network learns to abstain from meaningless guesses on patterns not belonging to a class represented in the training set. ARTMAP-FD can also be applied in conjunction with sequential evidence accumulation. Its performance is illustrated here on simulated radar range profile data .

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