The purpose ofthis randomized prospective study was to assess the efficacy of local radiotherapy in prevent¬ ing malignant seeding along invasive diagnostic pro¬ cedures (cytology, needle biopsy, thoracoscopy, or chest tube placement) in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. Forty consecutive patients with histologically proven malignant mesothelioma were enrolled. Twenty patients recei...

With the climbing costs of cotton production, producers must ensure optimal returns on their cotton crops in order to make a profit. The groundwork for a high yielding crop has to start with an accurate and efficient planting system to ensure an optimal stand. However, there are a variety of new systems and techniques to incorporate compared to the conventional system that has been used for so ...

The average effect of two cloud seeding experiments (1957-1960; 1961, 1962, and 1964) over the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, on the 24-hr precipitation at Walnut Gulch, 65 miles away, was an apparent 40% loss of rainfall (P = 0.025) on seeded, as opposed to not-seeded, experimental days. Larger apparent losses, some highly significant, were found for experimental days on which Walnut Gulch...

Introduction. A critical step for the in vitro engineering of a threedimensional tissue is to initially achieve a uniform distribution of cells seeded throughout the entire scaffold. Furthermore, if autologous cells are to be used in a clinical application, cells isolated from a small biopsy must be utilized with maximum efficiency. To overcome limitations associated with the most commonly empl...

Finding a suitable seeding resolution when using superpixel segmentation methods is usually challenging. Different parts of the image contain different levels of clutter, resulting in an either too dense or too coarse segmentation. Since both possible solutions cause problems with respect to subsequent processing, we propose an edge adaptive seeding for superpixel segmentation methods, generati...

Recognizing the labor intensity of current domestic Chinese chive harvesting and need for its mechanized harvesting, a self-propelled electric harvester is designed. The machine composed control system, supporting mechanism, cutting parts, conveying clamping mechanisms, frame, collection system. It can complete feeding, cutting, transmission, binning operations at one time. has width 0.25 m whe...

In traditional Genetic Algorithm, random population seeding technique is simple and efficient however the population may contain poor quality individuals which take long time to converge optimal solution. This motivates to design a population initialization technique with the features of randomness, individual diversity and good quality. In this paper, an initial work has been carried out to de...

This dissertation presents a study of injection seeding in Nd:YLF Q-switched oscillators for the purposes of producing single axial mode output. The objective was to develop a prototype system and determine the limiting factors which dictate successful injection seeding. The laser system consisted of a laser diode pumped monolithic miniature Nd:YLF master oscillator which seeded a conventional ...

Cloned human telomeric DNA can integrate into mammalian chromosomes and seed the formation of new telomeres. This process occurs efficiently in three established human cell lines and in a mouse embryonic stem cell line. The newly seeded telomeres appear to be healed by telomerase. The seeding of new telomeres by cloned telomeric DNA is either undetectable or very inefficient in non-tumourigenic...

Subcutaneous tumor seeding after fine-needle percutaneous biopsy for hepatocellular carcinoma is a rarely seen complication. The authors describe a case of subcutaneous neoplastic seeding in a 70-year-old woman with chronic hepatitis C virus complicated by hepatocellular carcinoma. Ultrasonically guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy was performed in segment II of the liver. The neoplastic seedi...