the gastric cancer in iran is the fourth in the general population. this study was designed to determine the five-year survival rate of gastric cancer patients, and to assess its associated factors. we analyzed the data using a time-dependent covariates model, and recommend it for analyses of similar data. 281 gastric cancer patients with adenocarcinomatous pathology who had been operated on at...

A Monte Carlo simulation for bioprospecting the endemic New Zealand terrestrial flora for 1 antibiotic drug leads 2 Eric J Buenz 3 Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Correspondence to: 19 20 Eric J Buenz 21 Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology 22 322 Hardy Street 23 Nelson, 7120 24 New Zealand 25 26 Email: Eric.Buenz@nmit...

Edgar Allen identified and outlined the role of female sex hormones [2] and discovered estrogen [3] in the early 1900s in the US. In 1923, Allen, through his research with mice, isolated the primary ovarian hormone [4], later renamed estrogen [3], from ovarian follicles and tested its effect through injections in the uterine tissues of mice. Allen's work on estrogen [3], enabled researchers to ...