The current review provides an overview on the palliative, combined, neoadjuvant, bridging, and symptomatic indications of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It is based on an analysis of the current literature and the experience of the authors on the topic. Chemoembolization combines the infusion of chemotherapeutic drugs with particle embol...

Using N-(phosphonomethyl) iminodiacetic acid (H4PMIDA), as a complexing agent, two new complexes, (NH4)La(PMIDA)(H2O)•H2O, 1 and (NH4)Yb(PMIDA), 2 have been synthesized hydrothermally. In both compounds, the metal ions are trapped by a three five-membered chelate rings by the chelating PMIDA anions giving a tricapped trigonal prismatic LaO8N and monocapped trigonal prismatic YbO6N geometries fo...

Social roles structure social institutions like organizations in MultiAgent Systems (MAS). In this paper we describe how to introduce the notion of social role in programming languages. To avoid the commitment to a particular agent model, architecture or language, we decided to extend Java, the most prominent object oriented programming language, by adding social roles. The obtained language al...

A network -based experimental system for Internet traffic pricing is introduced. The system can be applied to the simulations using computer agents as well as to the direct experiments that employ human subjects. The feature of replaying the exogenous traffic patterns obtained from direct experiments allows a close comparison of the performance between the two types of experiments, leading to t...

This paper presents a corpus study of bridging definite descriptions in the french corpus PAROLE. It proposes a typology of bridging relations; describes a system for annotating NPs which allows for a user friendly collection of all relevant information on the bridging definite descriptions occurring in the corpus and discusses the results of the corpus study1.

The author reports a case of an applicant whose myocardial bridging caused myocardial infarction. It had been thought that most instances of bridging were of little clinical significance. However, there have been reports showing that severe bridging of the left anterior descending coronary can produce myocardial ischemia or sudden death.

BACKGROUND While there are proponents of both bone-bridging and non-bone-bridging transtibial amputation techniques, there is a lack of evidence describing functional differences between these two techniques. The goal of the present investigation was to objectively compare the techniques of bone-bridging and non-bone-bridging with respect to limb socket displacement during physiologic loading. ...

Zr1-xSnxO2 reinforced alumina-mullite refractory was manufactured by slip cast methods using SnO2 as a sintering agent. had considerable influence in the enhanced reaction kinetics of zircon dissociation and subsequent alumina zircon. Presence pro-eutectic transient Al2O3-SnO2 liquid SnO2-SiO2-ZrO2 amorphous phases, densification mullitisation through phase and, mitigated volatilisation (Zr1-xS...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The relationship between myocardial bridging and symptoms is still unclear. The purpose of our study was to assess the relationship between myocardial bridging detected by multidetector computed tomography and symptoms in a patient population with chest pain syndrome. METHODS The study enrolled 393 consecutive patients without previous coronary artery disease studi...

Communities with high levels of social capital are likely to have a higher quality of life than communities with low social capital (Coleman, 1988, 1990; Putnam, 1993, 2000). This is due to the greater ability of such communities to organize and mobilize effectively for collective action because they have high levels of social trust, social networks, and well-established norms of mutuality (the...