Abstract Introduction Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) has been established in down-staging tumours, allowing breast conserving surgery. Additionally, NACT informs treatment decisions guided by tumour response. Pathological complete response (pCR) correlates with disease-free survival. It is known that rates vary according to biological subtype. This retrospective analysis aimed analyse the rate...

A simplified HEp-2 cell adhesion assay was performed with stored Escherichia coli isolates from 761 children with acute diarrhea and 531 matched controls, and the results were evaluated by means of fluorescent actin staining and hybridization with DNA probes. The prevalence rates of localized adherence and aggregative adherence were significantly higher for patients (9.9 and 7.6%, respectively)...

531. Results of a Hepatitis C Virus Screening Program of the 1945-1965 Birth Cohort in a Large Emergency Department in New Jersey Julia Kang Cornett, MD; Vimal Bodiwala, MD; Victor Razuk, BS; Devangi Shukla, BS, MBS and Navaneeth Narayanan, Pharm D, BCPS; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, Rutgers Ernest Mar...

(2008) Notch-deficient skin induces a lethal systemic B-lymphoproliferative disorder by secreting TSLP, a sentinel for epidermal integrity. PLoS Biol 6(5): e123 (2007) Local increase in thymic stromal lymphopoietin induces systemic alterations in B cell development. Nat Immunol 8: 522-531. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, wh...

This chapter consider new methods of component extraction and identification for the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) – an aggregation of environmental variables created as a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability. Principally, the authors propose and illustrate a parametric version of Independent Component Analysis via Copulas (CICA). The CICA procedure yields...

More than 1.5 W of green light at 531 nm is generated by single-pass second harmonic generation in periodically poled MgO:LiNbO3. The pump laser is a high power tapered laser with a distributed Bragg reflector etched in the ridge section of the laser to provide wavelength selectivity. The output power of the single-frequency tapered laser is 9.3 W in continuous wave operation. A conversion effi...

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M. N. V. S. S. Kumar, Nagamani Modalavalasa*, L. Ganesh, K. Satya Prasad and G. Sasibhushana Rao Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Aditya Institute of Technology and Management, Tekkali, Srikakulam Dist. 532 201, India Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada 533 003, India Department of Electronics and C...

What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions Guy Mark Foster To cite this article: Guy Mark Foster (2015) What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions, Journal of Bisexuality, 15:4, 509-531, DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910 To link to this article: http://dx....

2014 We present preliminary measurements of the electrical conductivity of a composite made of small conducting rods in an insulating matrix. It constitutes a model material for studying the effect of anisotropy on percolation as a function of particle length to diameter ratio. We can interpret our results, especially the lowering of threshold respective to isotropic systems, by means of a geom...