BACKGROUND Coinciding with the relatively good and improving prognosis for patients with stage I-III breast cancer, late recurrences, new primary tumours and late side-effects of treatment may occur. We gained insight into prognosis for long-term breast cancer survivors. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data on all 205 827 females aged 15-89 diagnosed with stage I-III breast cancer during 1989-2008 were ...

This paper examines professional associations’ local responses to global demands of accounting standardisation. Our longitudinal study from 1998 2018 analyses how associations the German audit profession engaged in an intense framing contest over adoption external quality controls. Drawing on concept strategic action field and literature framing, we unpack gap between large firms small increasi...

Suppose that the renowned spymaster Alice controls a network of spies who all happen to be deployed in different geographical locations. Let us further assume have managed get their hands on small, albeit incomplete by itself, secret, which actually is just part bigger secret. In this work, we consider following problem: given above situation, it possible for securely transmit these partial sec...

A series of alkene bearing small molecules were electrografted to the surface carbon fibers using in situ generation aryldiazonium salts. These used as an anchoring point for use Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP) a ‘graft from’ approach fiber modification. After modification, evaluation these modified epoxy resin, single fragmentation test, showed significant increases interfacial s...

Two patients with large lesions of the medial temporal lobe were given four tests of semantic knowledge that could only have been acquired after the onset of their amnesia. In contrast to previous studies of postmorbid semantic learning, correct answers could be based on a simple, nonspecific sense of familiarity about single words, faces, or objects. According to recent computational models (f...

BACKGROUND Fear of falling (FOF) and increased gait variability are both independent markers of gait instability. There is a complex interplay between both entities. The purposes of this study were (1) to perform a qualitative analysis of all published studies on FOF-related changes in gait variability through a systematic review, and (2) to quantitatively synthesize FOF-related changes in gait...

This paper examines whether non‐cognitive skills (personality traits and risk attitudes) influence self‐selection into employment the choice between public private sectors and, if so, how they relate to wages in each sector. The methodology combines multinomial logistic regression model patterns of selection with an Oaxaca–Blinder‐type decomposition intersectoral wage gap. I find that personali...

Two simple methods commonly used to detect asymmetry in climate research, composite analysis, and asymmetric linear regression, are discussed compared using mathematical derivation synthetic data. Asymmetric regression is shown provide unbiased estimates only when the respective mean of positive negative events removed from both independent dependent variables (i.e., non-zero y-intercepts). Com...

Wind is the main external force that governs spreading of river plumes in sea. Many previous studies demonstrated direction (especially small plumes) generally coincides with wind direction. At same time, majority are strongly affected by Coriolis force, which also among baseline knowledge about plumes. In this study, we focus on deflection from induced received little attention before. For pur...