Background: Patients with single primary melanomas have an increased risk of developing subsequent melanomas. Second tumors diagnosed within three months the incident lesion are termed “synchronous”, while “asynchronous” outside this window. Objective: Compare tumor distributions and survival characteristics patients synchronous asynchronous second to Methods: Retrospective cohort study. Data w...

We induced brain edema in 72 rats by injecting 5 microliters of 3.0% wt:vol polyvinyl acetate into the left internal carotid artery, producing permanent embolization in the left cerebral hemisphere, which developed ipsilateral brain edema reproducibly. Edema was assessed 24 hours after embolization by determining the brain water content and the sodium and potassium concentrations. In this model...

In this project, a stereo vision tracking system using webcams is constructed. This system records stereo videos of moving labeled targets and extracts the 3D trajectories of these targets from the recorded videos. It consists of three major steps – stereo video capturing, post processing, and 3D trajectory construction of labeled targets. The final goal of this stereo system is to record human...

The design and measurements of a 200 GHz downconverter in 90 nm standard CMOS are presented. A positive conversion gain of +6.6 dB, a noise figure of 29.9 dB and an output bandwidth of 3 GHz are measured for an LO power of −14.9 dBm. The conversion gain remains within 3 dB for an RF frequency between 186 and 212 GHz. Downconversion of BPSK and QPSK signals is demonstrated with eye diagrams and ...

NIST’s ECC standards create (1) unnecessary losses of sim­ plicity, security, and speed in ECC implementations and (2) unnecessary tensions between simplicity, security, and speed in ECC implementations.

Transl Androl Urol, Vol 3, Suppl 1 September 2014 www.amepc.org/tau © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation with a tunnel underneath the broad ligament. Results: Surgery was performed successfully without conversion to open surgery. No major intraoperative or postoperative complications occurred. The mean postoperative follow-up was 38, 3...

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This study determined the antimicrobial susceptibilities of 186 clinical isolates of Nocardia spp. isolated in Gipuzkoa, northern Spain, between 1998 and 2009. Most isolates were recovered from respiratory samples, Nocardia nova, N. farcinica, N. cyriacigeorgica, N. abscessus, and N. carnea being the species most frequently isolated. Linezolid and amikacin were the only two antimicrobials to wh...