treated tumor (center). The peak pyruvate signal has been scale to 1 and the origin of time (t=0) has been chosen to coincide with the peak of the pyruvate signal. The panel at right shows an axial proton image of the tumor (indicated by the green ellipse) and the location of the surface coil (indicated by the red line). The diagonal line at upper left is a water-filled fiducial marker. Monitor...

A completely automatic face recognition system is presented. The method works on color and gray level images: after having localized the face and the facial features, it determines 16 facial fiducial points, and characterizes them applying a bank of filters which extract the peculiar texture around them (jets). Recognition is realized measuring the similarity between the different jets. The sys...

In this paper, we use the Type Ia supernovae data to constrain the holographic dark energy model proposed by Li. We also apply a cosmic age test to this analysis. We consider in this paper a spatially flat FRW universe with matter component and holographic dark energy component. The fit result shows that the case c < 1 is favored, which implies that the holographic dark energy behaves as a quin...

The paper describes the proper interpretation of the fiducial argument, as given by Fisher in (only) his first papers on the subject. It argues that far from being a quaint, little, isolated idea, this was the first attempt to build a bridge between aleatory probabilities (the only ones used by Neyman) and epistemic probabilities (the only ones used by Bayesians), by implicitly introducing, as ...

The present study examines the uses of the reflexive marker in Lusaamia, a Bantu language of Kenya. In addition to being a true reflexive, the reflexive verbal prefix is also used in indirect reflexive constructions, as a middle voice / stative marker, and also to indicate when an action is being done for no particular purpose (when used in conjunction with a causative marker). I show that unac...

the hla class ii genes of human major histocompatibility complex (mhc) exhibit an extensive degree of genetic polymorphism. this region subdivides into four sub-regions dp, do, dq, and dr. there are five different dr haplotypes that all contain a highly polymorphic allele called hla-drb1. in most recent studies, the association between hla-drb1 and a large number of diseases such as multiple sc...

Background: Metastasis and recurrence of colorectal cancer after treatment is attributed to stem cells. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the expression of stem cell marker CD166 in colorectal cancer by immunohistochemistry and clinicopathologic parameters.Methods: From 2006 to 2012, 121 colectomy specimens of patients with colon cancer that were operated in Babol...

(4/12) of the treatments called useful will be false positives. Of course, the false positive rate rises above 5% as the number of tests of statistical significance performed increases. In this connection, Tannock reported that subgroup analyses were done in 59% of 32 randomized trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine or the Journal of Clinical Oncology, with corrections for mul...