Both of the incidences of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer have increased in recent years, which have attracted extensive attention. Surgical treatment plays an important role on the management of thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Usually patients will have an excellent prognosis after standard surgery, in the meantime, they will suffer from wrongly performed operation,...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to understand any association between differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) and Ile3434Thr XRCC7 gene polymorphism (GenBank accession number: rs7830743). DTC is the most prevalent thyroid neoplasm, which includes papillary and follicular cell carcinoma. XRCC7 gene encodes a protein that functions in non-homologous end joining DNA repair pathway. Non-synonym...

Direct Torque Control of induction motor fed drives has become popular and widely used in industries due to fast and good torque response. Induction motors (IM) are simple in construction and are less sensitive to the motor parameters compared to other vector control methods. A new torque and flux control scheme called the direct torque control (DTC) has been introduced for induction motors. In...

BACKGROUND X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (XRCC1) gene is a DNA repair gene and its non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) may influence DNA repair capacity which has been considered as a modifying risk factor for cancer development. METHODS A case-control study was conducted to investigate impact of three frequently studied polymorphisms (Arg194Trp, Arg280His and Arg3...

This paper presents a study on the application of fuzzy logic theory to control a directdrive dc motor. The design of fuzzy logic controller for speed of a DC motor is presented. Control performance of the fuzzy logic controller is studied by simulation. The simulation results with fuzzy control are compared with those of the conventional controller. 15:30 – Presentation of a Control Law for IM...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the clinicopathologic features, and explore the treatment outcomes of synchronous, or metachronous second primary malignancies (SPM) in conjunction with differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC). METHODS This retrospective study was conducted on 823 DTC patients treated between 2000 and 2012 at 2 tertiary care hospitals (King Fahad Medical City and King Khalid University Hos...

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests have aroused controversy. Critics have argued many of the tests are not backed by scientific evidence, misguide their customers and should be regulated more stringently. Proponents suggest that finding out genetic susceptibilities for diseases could encourage healthier behaviours and makes the results of genetics research available to the public. This pape...

DEP domain containing mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)-interacting protein (DEPTOR), a recently identified mTOR-interacting protein, is a novel candidate oncogene. Previous studies reveal that high DEPTOR expression is required to maintain PI3K and Akt activation and to inhibit apoptosis. However, its significance in differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is not yet known. The present study...

A comparison was made of the incidence of postoperative myalgia (POM) and fasciculations when atracurium (ATR) or d-Tubocurarine (DTC) was given prior to succinylcholine (SDC) for facilitation of tracheal intubation. The subjects were 44 ASA physical status I or II outpatient females undergoing laparoscopy. They were assigned to one of three groups: Group 1 received 0.025 mg/kg ATR; Group 2 rec...

The direct torque control theory has achieved great success in the control of permanent magnet synchronous motor. A Direct Torque Control (DTC) scheme of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) is presented. Based on in-depth analysis of PMSM mathematical model in abc frame and  frame are established and the operation principle of DTC-SVPWM system, the relationships between the torque and f...