BACKGROUND To investigate post-treatment changes in serum testosterone in low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients treated with hypofractionated passively scattered proton radiotherapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between April 2008 and October 2011, 228 patients with low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer were enrolled into an institutional review board-approved prospective protocol....

Cortical GABAergic interneurons in mice are largely derived from the subpallium. Work from our laboratory and others over the past five years has demonstrated that a developmental logic in space and time underlies the emergence of specific cortical interneuronal subtypes. Following on from the seminal work of the Rubenstein laboratory, we set out to fate map the output of the subpallial ganglio...

The conventional input-output model has been widely criticised, both justly and unjustly, for its limiting assumptions. One of these assumptions is homogeneity of degree one. This paper explores some approaches to minimise this limitation of traditional input-output analysis by removing the assumption of linear coefficients for the intermediate and household sectors. As is well documented in th...

A highly diverse population of neocortical GABAergic inhibitory interneurons has been implicated in multiple functions in information processing within cortical circuits. The diversity of cortical interneurons is determined during development and primarily depends on their embryonic origins either from the medial (MGE) or the caudal (CGE) ganglionic eminences. Although MGE-derived parvalbumin (...

STUDY OBJECTIVE A prospective study was undertaken to assess the efficacy and toxicity of conformal proton-beam radiotherapy for early-stage, medically inoperable non-small cell lung cancer. DESIGN Eligible patients had clinical stage I to IIIa non-small cell lung cancer and were not candidates for surgical resection for medical reasons or because of patient refusal. Patients with adequate ca...

Abstract Previous research has acknowledged that climate change is likely to expand the wealth gap, and policies may further increase inequality. Nevertheless, little focused on how affect To address this, we employ a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model quantify inequality impacts of Chinese carbon taxes. Our CGE results show tax are influenced by distribution damages, payments, recyclin...

This study assessed the entrained flow co-gasification characteristics of coal and biomass using thermodynamic equilibrium modelling. The model was validated against gasifier data published in literature. gasification performance evaluated under different operating conditions, such as equivalence ratio, temperature, pressure to ratio. It is observed that lower heating value (LHV) cold gas effic...

Abstract Baseline assumptions play a crucial role in conducting consistent quantitative policy assessments for dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models. Two essential factors that influence the determination of baselines are data sources projections and applied calibration methods. We propose general, Bayesian approach can be employed to build baseline any recursive-dynamic CGE model...