background: pulmonary complications of radiation to breast are inevitable, while its incidence and severity are not clear. one of the methods to assess pulmonary complications is spirometry. the influence of radiotherapy on pulmonary function test and the factors affecting it have been assessed in this study. methods: breast cancer patients with stage ii and iii (based on tnm staging), underwen...

I could comment for hours about victims I’ve seen over my 25 years in the Emergency Room (ER) who were battered by those they trusted, about swollen, pulpy, fractured faces; about broken limbs, multiple bruises, stab wounds and gunshot wounds that were meant to maim; about panic, fear, hopelessness and about the deaths of some of the victims. I could comment about the horrific effects on childr...

extended abstract 1. introduction the flow of tourism develops depending on the supply of tourism product. resorts and residential centers are one of the main factors attracting tourists in order to use the tourism product of a region. optimal locating of residential centers, especially in cities and areas which are in the way of passing tourists, has an important role in the visitors’ using of...

Endocannabinoids (eCBs) act as retrograde messengers at inhibitory synapses of the hippocampal CA1 region. Current models place eCB synthesis in the postsynaptic pyramidal cell and the site of eCB action at cannabinoid (CB1) receptors located on presynaptic interneuron terminals. Four responses at the CA1-interneuron synapse are attributed to eCBs; depolarization-induced suppression of inhibiti...

For the past few years Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have made a strong comeback to the scientific community. They are used in a variety of tasks where adaptive computing can enhance process performance. There has been a handful of papers suggesting the use of artificial neural networks in the petroleum industry . These 1-3 papers can be classified into two major categories. First category i...

HomeCirculation: Cardiovascular ImagingVol. 14, No. 4Impaired Right Ventricular Longitudinal Strain Without Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients Who Have Recovered From COVID-19 Free AccessLetterPDF/EPUBAboutView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toFree AccessLetterPDF/EPUBImpaired Vincen...

S hool performan e tables" { an alphabeti al list of se ondary s hools along with aggregates of their pupils' performan e in national test { have been published in Great Britain sin e 1992. inevitably the media have responded by publishing ranked \league tables". Despite on ern over the potentially divisive e e t of su h tables the urrent Labour government has ontinued to publish this informati...

TECHNOLOGY HAS ENABLED RESEARCHERS in unions, trade groups, and professional organizations to shift in focus toward using information and away from collection and distribution. The expansion of the Internet and online database services, combined with powerful computers and software, is behind the shift to primary research (using information) at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Areas o...

Internet-based information sharing among different partners of the value chain enables collaborative business. Beyond, applying ambient technologies provides new opportunities for gathering information ubiquitously from various sources including physical objects, e.g. the movement of goods or cars, and virtual objects, i.e. the information trails created through customer interactions. Granting ...