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Abstract Skin brachytherapy is a successful practice for treating skin cancer patients. Although gamma source like an Iridium-192 (Ir-192) commonly used in the brachytherapy, use of beta Yttrium-90 (Y-90) has also been investigated this purpose. In current study, we simulated dose distribution proposed Y-90 applicator and Ir-192 Leipzig phantom, compared performance each methods three tumors hy...

INTRODUCTION The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1986 was enacted to prevent hospitals from "dumping" or refusing service to patients for financial reasons. The statute prohibits discrimination of emergency department (ED) patients for any reason. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services enforces the statute. The objective of...

Purpose. To assess the effectiveness of Ir-192 interstitial brachytherapy as an adjunct to wide local excision as a functionsaving strategy for soft tissue sarcomas.Subjects and methods. From September 1993 to April 1998, 20 consecutive patients diagnosed with soft tissue sarcomas were treated with a combination of wide local excision and interstitial brachytherapy. In 16 patients brachytherapy...

INTRODUCTION 180 CHEMISTRY OF PETROLEUM BIODEGRADATION . 180 Degradation of Individual Hydrocarbons ...... 180 Degradation of Hydrocarbons Within Petroleum Mixtures ..... 182 TAXONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS OF HYDROCARBON-UTILIZING MICROORGANISMS .............................. ... .. 184 DISTRIBUTION OF HYDROCARBON-UTILIZING MICROORGANISMS ...... 186 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS INFLUENCING BIODEGRADATION OF ...

Introduction 107 1. Holomorphic Jet Bundles 113 2. Chern Classes and Cohomology Groups: The Case of Curves 120 3. Computation of Chern Classes: The Case of Surfaces 139 4. Finsler Geometry of Projectivized Vector Bundles 148 5. Weighted Projective Spaces and Projectivized Jet Bundles 153 6. The Lemma of Logarithmic Derivatives and the Schwarz Lemma 164 7. Surfaces of General Type 173 Acknowledg...

Whole-genome sequencing and cell membrane studies of three clonal Enterococcus faecium strains with daptomycin MICs of 4, 32, and 192 μg/ml were performed, revealing nonsynonymous single nucleotide variants in eight open reading frames, including those predicted to encode a phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent, mannose-specific phosphotransferase system, cardiolipin synthetase, and EzrA. Membrane stud...