The loss of muscle mass is a defining characteristic of malnutrition, and there is ongoing interest in the assessment of lean tissue at the bedside. Globally, bioimpedance techniques have been widely appreciated for their noninvasiveness, safety, ease of use, portability, and relatively low cost compared with other clinically available methods. In this brief update, we review the 3 primary type...

The progress made in the last few years made available a large amount of information that needs to be integrated and ordered by oncologists. Tumor markers are one of the pieces that physicians need to fit into the bigger puzzle. This article will detail the most frequent etiologies for the surges in the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), cancer-related antigen 72-4 (CA 72-4), cancer-related antige...

Peritoneal recurrence after a curative resection of colorectal cancer is less common than lymphatic spread or hematogenous metastasis [1]. Moreover, peritoneal carcinomatosis often develops at a later stage of recurrent disease and is regarded as noncurable. Therefore, being able to predict the possibility of peritoneal recurrence at an early time after the original diagnosis and to prevent its...

Since 2015, legal strategies to end period poverty and achieve menstrual equity have increased dramatically across the United States. Current advocacy for is concentrated in three main areas: litigation based on sex discrimination claims, legislation additional taxes products, increase access products schools. This Article outlines analyzes history of activism legislative initiatives understand...

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) play a critical role in food, agricultural, and clinical applications. The fast growing characteristics of LAB and their metabolic activity have been the key in most applications including food production, agricultural industry, and probiotics. However, the biochemical and biophysical environments have significant effect on the growth and metabolic activity of LAB. Wh...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss ideas used in current chess playing programs. A short history of events leading to the present state of the art is given and a survey made of present day programs. The Newell, Shaw, and Simon program of 1958 is included since it embodies useful ideas that other programs appear not to employ. The possible performance limits for current techniques will be c...

The IT industry is experiencing a considerable shift from proprietary operating systems to Linux. As a result, the features and functionality that people have come to expect of these systems now must be provided for on Linux. An automounter provides a mechanism for automatically mounting file systems upon access, and umounting them when they are no longer referenced. The Linux automounter is no...