Abstract Aim Long-term survival after oesophagectomy remains poor, with recurrence a feared common outcome. Prediction tools can identify high-risk patients and optimise treatment decisions based on their prognostic factors. This study developed prediction model to predict long-term time-to-recurrence following surgery for oesophageal cancer. Method Patients undergoing curative from the Europea...

written for a particular gain. Then KGH = −1 so that a) when the amplitude of KGH is 1 or 0 dB and b) phase is 180o then we have the system just become unstable. Both the conditions have to be fulfilled. Hence, if we ask the question: How far is the system from instability ? We get two answers. The gain increment required at the frequency where phase is 180o and the phase increment required at ...

The capability of the dimensions measurement by ten appraisers of ten samples for Charpy Vnotch pendulum impact test was evaluated by Youden plot, analysis of measurement uncertainties, Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), %P/T, Z-score, Mandel’s statistics and ttest. The group of “better” appraisers given by Youden plot was validated by majority of other methods.

In response to my analysis of the Wellstone tragedy (READER WEEKLY, 28 November 2002, pp. 18-19) and related discussion of this event, I have received quite a few emails, many of which have taken strong exception to the very idea that George W. Bush could ever have been involved in something of this kind. My suggestion that Republicans may have been motivated to take Wellstone out, alas, is not...

A graphics package has been developed to display the main chain torsion angles phi, psi (phi, Psi); (Ramachandran angles) in a protein of known structure. In addition, the package calculates the Ramachandran angles at the central residue in the stretch of three amino acids having specified the flanking residue types. The package displays the Ramachandran angles along with a detailed analysis ou...