The problem of the rectification curves and calculation (for which we shall adopt more geometric term “flattening”) surface a rotating solid generated by curve, once rotation axis has been fixed, were treated John Wallis in two short inter-related tracts on cycloids cissoids 1659. In this work, focus parabola, an ancient reproposed 17th century, solution obtained using particular series that re...

AIM to elucidate the pattern of molecular response assessed by logarithmic reduction in BCR-ABL transcription levels based on Sokal prognostic score in chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients receiving Imatinib treatment. METHODS cross-sectional study was conducted in the Hematologic Outpatient Clinic, Dr. Soetomo Hospital Surabaya in all chronic phase CML patients from June 200...

PURPOSE This study examined how important graduates consider the 15 items of educational outcomes (importance) and how much they feel that they have achieved at graduation (accomplishment), determined whether outcomes varied according to profession, and assessed what graduates' educational needs are. METHODS A questionnaire was given to 85 graduates of Ajou University School of Medicine. The ...

The intention of this research was to define the predictive factors for acute esophagitis (AE) in lung cancer patients treated with concurrent chemotherapy and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy. The data for 72 lung cancer patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy between 2008 and 2010 were prospectively evaluated. Mean lung dose, mean dose of esophagus, volume of esophagus irra...

OBJECTIVE To compare non-parametric tests and procedures of selection in building clinically validated genotypic scores. DESIGN AND PATIENTS In the Jaguar study, 111 patients on a stable antiretroviral regimen experiencing virological failure were randomized in the didanosine (ddI) arm to receive ddI for 4 weeks in addition to their current combination therapy. METHODS The virological respo...

The Wilcoxon rank-sum test is widely used to test the equality of two populations, because it makes fewer distributional assumptions than parametric procedures such as the t-test. However, the Wilcoxon rank-sum test can be used only if data are independent. When data are clustered, tests based on generalized estimating equations (GEEs) that generalize the t-test have been proposed. Here we deve...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Housing programmes in indigenous Australian communities have focused largely on achieving good standards of infrastructure function. The impact of this approach was assessed on three potentially important housing-related influences on child health at the community level: (1) crowding, (2) the functional state of the house infrastructure and (3) the hygienic condition of the h...