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4 1 Thematic accuracy as an aspect of adequacy 5 1.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2 Conceptual models of soil spatial variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3 Geometric accuracy, symbols, and boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.4 Types of thematic accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2 What is ‘agreement’ between map ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate interobserver reproducibility of a grading system proposed by Paner et al. for chromophobe renal cell carcinoma. MATERIAL AND METHODS After selecting 23 cases of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma from the Xeral-Cíes Hospital, Meixoeiro Hospital and POVISA Hospital from the last 15 years, an informative meeting on the Paner et al. grading system criteria was held. After, ...

The aim of the study was to validate tissue microarray (TMA) for vulvar cancer by comparing immunohistochemical staining results of triplicate core biopsies on TMA with the results of full section analysis. The study material consisted of slides and selected tissue blocks from 40 patients with vulvar cancer. A TMA was constructed with 3 cores/case. Both the TMA and the slides were stained with ...

BACKGROUND Predicting species' potential geographical range by species distribution models (SDMs) is central to understand their ecological requirements. However, the effects of using different modeling techniques need further investigation. In order to improve the prediction effect, we need to assess the predictive performance and stability of different SDMs. METHODOLOGY We collected the dis...

A functional B cell antigen receptor is thought to regulate antibody gene rearrangement either by stopping further rearrangement (exclusion) or by promoting additional rearrangement (editing). We have developed a new model to study the regulation of antibody gene rearrangement. In this model, we used gene targeting to replace the J kappa region with a functional V kappa-J kappa light chain gene...

Abstract In this paper, we consider the small-convection limit of chemotaxis-Navier–Stokes system with logarithmic sensitivity and logistic-type source $$ \textstyle\begin{cases} n^{\kappa}_{t}+\boldsymbol{u}^{\kappa}\cdot \nabla{n}^{\kappa}= \Delta{n}^{\kappa}-\chi \nabla \cdot ({n^{\kappa}}\nabla \log{c^{\kappa}})+f(n^{\kappa}), &x\in \Omega , t>0, \\ c^{\kappa}_{t}+\boldsymbol{u}^{\ka...