background and objective: since the advent of mammography screening, ductal carcinoma in situ (dcis) of the breast has been diagnosed increasingly. in contrast to the situation in invasive breast carcinoma, there are only a few reports on androgen receptor (ar) status in dcis and few reports on estrogen (er) and progesterone (pr) receptors. materials and methods: ar expression was examined in 5...

Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook) is one of the major commercial conifer species in China. The present study concentrated on the assessment of growth, wood property traits, and strobili number in a 12-year grafted clone test of 62 Chinese fir breeding parents, aiming to describe the variation and correlations between these traits and to identify parent clones with the highest p...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that personality traits may influence patient-reported outcomes of breast reconstruction, but the research is limited. We investigated, in a prospective study, whether personality traits predict the achieved body image and quality of life (QoL) after breast reconstruction. METHODS Patients planning to undergo breast reconstruction at a University Hospital were...

BACKGROUND Incomplete or delayed diagnostic resolution of breast abnormalities suspicious for cancer may contribute to poor breast cancer outcomes. We examine system predictors of timely diagnostic resolution in low-income, mostly Latina women with breast abnormalities at two Los Angeles County public hospitals. METHODS We collected medical record data on 1,671 women. The outcome--timely diag...

This study was focused on the effect of wattle trait on body sizes and scrotal dimensions of traditionally reared WAD bucks in the derived savannah environment. Data were collected from 153 bucks ranging from 4 months to 2 years of age and this included, scrotal length, scrotal circumference, body weight, height at withers, body length and chest girth. Parameters for wattle traits included, wat...

this study was aimed to determine abundance and body distribution of prm in laying hens of arak. a total of 1400 laying hens were randomly examined from january to june 2008. of those, 26 (92.86%) layer farms were found to be infested with dermanyssus gallinae (39.3%). there was significant association between prevalence and climatic conditions of the region. the most common predilection site o...

personal authentication and identification as compared to the traditional authentication methods. Biometric templates are vulnerable to variety of attacks due to their inherent nature. When a person's biometric is compromised his identity is lost. In contrast to password, biometric is not revocable. Therefore, providing security to the stored biometric template is very crucial. Crypto biometric...

Privacy Protecting Biometric Authentication Systems As biometrics gains popularity and proliferates into the daily life, there is an increased concern over the loss of privacy and potential misuse of biometric data held in central repositories. The major concerns are about i) the use of biometrics to track people, ii) non-revocability of biometrics (eg. if a fingerprint is compromised it can no...

breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the world. the most important prognostic factor in this cancer is the stage of the tumor. detection of lymph nodes with or without malignancy is essential for determining the stage of the tumor and setting a therapeutic plan. there are different methods for isolating lymph nodes in surgical specimens of breast cancer in the pathology depar...