BACKGROUND The use of chemotherapy in advanced cancer patients has increased with the development of novel, high-efficacy anticancer therapeutic agents. In the current study, we analyzed the 10-year trends in patients receiving chemotherapy at the end of life. METHOD We retrospectively reviewed mortality data for advanced cancer patients who died in 2000, 2005, and 2010 at a single institutio...

many factors affect tobacco quit rate. in this study we investigated the abstinence rate after 5 years based on the age of smoking initiation. this pre-post field trial study was conducted on 398 smokers who participated voluntarily in a smoking cessation clinic in 2005. they were followed for 5 years and their success or failure in continuous abstinence was evaluated and recorded in 2010. thre...

The theory of derivatives and integrals of fractional in fractional calculus have found enormousapplications in mathematics, physics and engineering so for that reason we need an efficient and accurate computational method for the solution of fractional differential equations. This paper presents a numerical method for solving a class of linear and nonlinear multi-order fractional differential ...

The MISTRAL beamline is one of the seven phase-I beamlines at the ALBA synchrotron light source (Barcelona, Spain) that will be opened to users at the end of 2010. MISTRAL will be devoted to cryotomography in the water window and multi-keV spectral regions for biological applications. The optics design consists of a plane-grating monochromator that has been implemented using variable-line-spaci...