Twenty-one patients with advanced breast cancer (7 premenopausal and 14 postmenopausal women) were treated with a combination of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and cisplatin (CAP). The median age of the patients was 43 years (range 36-61). This therapy was repeated every 3 weeks. Nine patients (group 1) received CAP as primary therapy for metastatic breast cancer, and twelve patients (group...

Compound action potential (CAP) of spinal cord represents valuable properties of neural fibers including excitability, rate of myelination and membrane integrity. These properties are measured using amplitude, latency and area under curve of CAPs recorded from spinal cord. Here, the isolated spinal cord was set in a double sucrose gap (DSG) chamber and its response to intracellular stimulation ...

Network architectural changes to satisfy all the 5G+ mobile network specifications and requirements are necessary due popularization of streaming cloud applications on omnipresent portable devices. The combination massive installation micro-cell antenna sites with access radio (C-RAN) architecture has recently been nominated as a promising technology for high-capacity fronthaul links, albeit at...

Capsaicin (CAP) excites small sensory neurons, causing pain, neurogenic inflammation, and other visceral reflexes. These effects have been proposed to be the result of CAP activation of a nonselective cation current. It is generally assumed that CAP binds to an extracellular domain of the membrane receptor. However, the exact binding site is not known because of the lipophilic nature of CAP. To...

[1] The polar cap index (PCI) has been shown to be quite useful as an index of the electrodynamic processes within the high-latitude ionosphere. Here we use between 150 and 180 magnetometers to model the high-latitude electrodynamics with the assimilative mapping of ionospheric electrodynamics (AMIE) technique for all of 1997–2001. We compare AMIE calculations of the cross polar cap potential (...

We introduce a “smart” cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap increases or decreases in response to technology or macroeconomic shocks. It relies on the market price of certificates to aggregate the relevant information. In the static setting, Weitzman (1974) shows that a tax is more efficient than a (standard) cap if marginal ...

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) are very sophisticated applications, which have significantly grown in popularity since their early days in the mid́90s. Along with growing numbers of users the requirements on these systems have reached a point where technical problems become a severe risk for the commercial success. Within the CloudCraft project we investigate how Cloud...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Advances in carotid plaque imaging could allow quantification of fibrous cap thickness in vivo. While a cap thickness <65 microm is the accepted definition of rupture-prone plaque in the coronary circulation, the threshold value for carotid plaques is unknown. METHODS We made detailed histological assessments of 526 carotid plaques from consecutive patients undergoing e...