PURPOSE Even though the importance of micrometastases (MMS) and isolated tumor cells (ITC) has been brought up by many physicians, its impact on the prognosis in stage II colorectal cancer is uncertain. In this research, we tried to investigate the clinical features of MMS and ITC and to prove any correlation with prognosis. METHODS The research pool was 124 colorectal cancer patients who und...

Data Integration is the process of combining data residing at different sources with associated local schemas to form a single virtual database with an associated global schema [1, 2]. This is to provide the user with a uniform query interface for multiple independent heterogeneous data sources [3, 4]. There are four main approaches of data integration. They are Global As view (GAV), Local As V...

This research investigates explicitly how Information technology capability (ITC) can be tailored to achieve business sustainability via ambidextrous innovation in a turbulent environment. Moreover, the moderating factor of data-driven culture (DDC) is also being investigated. The model was built on theoretical foundations resource-based view (RBV), dynamic capabilities and existing IT literatu...

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There is a general lack of women in the Science, Engineering and Information technology research fields at all career levels. This is a worldwide phenomenon that seems related to social and cultural stereotypes. The Gender and Science ITC-irst group has investigated whose actions could be proposed to support the female researchers inside ITC-irst in spreading out effective role models and in im...

BACKGROUND Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) and ascites (MA) negatively impact quality of life of palliative patients. Treatment options are limited. This study's purpose is to examine the experience with indwelling tunneled catheters (ITCs) for management of MPE/MA in children with advanced cancer. METHODS Children with MPE/MA who underwent ITC insertion (2007-2012) were retrospectively revi...

This study examined the effects of theoretical constructs from the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and value-belief-norm theory (VBN) on intentions to perform purchase and disposal behaviors that help prevent aquatic invasive species (AIS) spread by organisms-in-trade (OIT) hobbyists. More specifically, the goals of this study were to explore (1) the predictive ability of theoretical construct...

Programming for scalable multi-cores with more focus on locality has increased the interest in message passing models of programming. One of the well known theoretical and practical models of message passing is the actor model. There are a multitude of actor oriented libraries and languages, each of which implement some variant of actor semantics. Among the languages and the libraries based on ...