BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The potential benefits of home enteral nutrition (HEN) and the effects of HEN on quality of life (QOL) after esophagectomy remain unclear. The aim was to investigate the effect of 3 months HEN on health related QOL and nutritional status of esophageal cancer patients who were preoperatively malnourished. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN 142 malnourished (PG-SGA stage B or C)...

We show that time-independent scattering coefficients calculated from the standard extrapolation of Mie theory to the gain regime have physical meaning up to the laser threshold. The theoretical width of a resonance decreases linearly with increasing gain and becomes zero at the laser threshold. We performed experiments on dielectric microspheres with gain, trapped with optical tweezers. The wi...

The optical properties of YAG:Ce phosphor were measured by a double-integrating-sphere system and calculated by Mie theory and Monte Carlo ray tracing to provide precise optical characterizations of YAG:Ce phosphor for white light-emitting diode (LED) packaging design. Measurement results showed that the phosphor presents strong absorption for blue light, high reflection for yellow light, and a...

the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) as applied to detection of a foreign dna in clinical specimens could provide a sensitive instrument for rapid detection of viral dna persisting in tissues of patients suspected of latent infection. human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) dna was found in arterial plaques of patients with atherosclerotic lesions using a pcr assay with nested primer oligonucleotides deriv...

INTRODUCTION XXII European Congress of Medical Informatics (MIe 2009) took place in Sarajevo from August 30th to September 2nd 2009. Assessment of quality of papers presented at MIe 2009 was a process of observation, measurement, comparison and evaluation of the quality of orally presented papers. METHODOLOGY For this study, and for the first time since EFMI founding (1976) and MIE congresses...

Two-dimensional angular optical scattering (TAOS) patterns of droplets composed of a mixture of H2O and D2O are detected in the mid infrared. First, a lens is used in the Abbé sine condition to collect a small solid angle of light, where the scattering pattern matches well numerical simulations based on Mie theory. Next, TAOS patterns from droplets spanning a large (approximately 27pi sr) solid...

A ferrite-dielectric metamaterial composed of dielectric and ferrite cuboids has been investigated by experiments and simulations. By interacting with the electromagnetic wave, the Mie resonance can take place in the dielectric cuboids and the ferromagnetic precession will appear in the ferrite cuboids. The magnetic field distributions show the electric Mie resonance of the dielectric cuboids c...

We describe a novel demonstration of latex immunoagglutination assay in a paper microfluidics format and subsequent Mie scatter detection using the smart phone’s flash and digital camera as optical sensing platform. The background noise was eliminated through careful optimization of Mie scatter parameters: the diameter of latex beads, surfactant concentration, the angle of scatter detection, et...

1Department of Bioregulatory Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan; 2Department of Cell Growth and Cancer Regulation, Ehime University Proteomedicine Research Center, Ehime, Japan; 3Takara Bio Inc Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Shiga, Japan; 4Division of Immunology, Aichi Cancer Center, Aichi, Japan; 5Department of Cancer Vaccine and Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie Un...

1Human Brain Research Center and Departments of 2Neurology and 3Neurosurgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Shogoin, Sakyo, Kyoto, 4Shizuoka Medical Institute of Neurological Disorders, Urushiyama, Shizuoka, 5Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Kawata-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 6Department of Neurosurgery, Mie University School of Medicine, Edobashi, Tsu,...