BACKGROUND Radiotherapy (RT) has become an important treatment modality in pediatric oncology, but its delivery to young children with cancer is challenging and general anesthesia is often needed. METHODS To evaluate whether a psychoeducational intervention might reduce the need for anesthesia, 223 consecutive pediatric cancer patients receiving 4141 RT fractions during 244 RT courses between...

Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are the standard of care for GBM patients, however, the impact of extent of resection (EOR) and radiotherapy (RT) on patient survival across age groups has not been established. Therefore, we present the current largest study on EOR and RT in GBM over the past three decades. Using the population based Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) registry...

This paper presents an improvement of the Bandwidth Inheritance Protocol (BWI), the natural extension of the well-known Priority Inheritance Protocol (PIP) to resource reservation schedulers. The modified protocol allows for a better management of nested critical section, removes unneeded overheads in the management of task block and unblock events, and introduces a run-time deadlock detection ...

Abstract Objectives Compared to RT-PCR, lower performance of antigen detection assays, including the Lumipulse G SARS-CoV-2 Ag assay, may depend on specific testing scenarios. Methods We tested 594 nasopharyngeal swab samples from individuals with COVID-19 (RT-PCR cycle threshold [Ct] values ≤ 40) or non-COVID-19 (Ct >40) diagnoses. RT-PCR positive were assigned diagnostic, screening, monito...

Olive trees (Olea europea L.) are constantly threatened by many viruses, such as the olive leaf yellowing-associated virus (OLYaV), that belong to Olivavirus genus, family Closteroviridae. In this work, OLYaV incidence in different regions of Italy and Spain, which represent two most important European areas for production, was evaluated through development a real-time reverse transcription-loo...

A field experiment was conducted at Agronomy farm, S.K.N. College of Agriculture, Jobner (Rajasthan) during kharif¸ 2015 on loamy sand soil. The comprising four levels sulphur (0, 20, 40 and 60 kg/ha) sesame varieties (RT-125, RT-127, RT-346 RT-351) thereby making 16 treatment combinations laid out in randomized block design replicated thrice. Results revealed that N, P S concentration seed sta...

Room-temperature (RT) epitaxial growth of ZnO thin films on flexible cyclo-olefin polymer (COP) substrates coated with the exfoliated β-Ga2O3(100) single crystal sheets as a seed layer was investigated using pulsed laser deposition technique. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations and X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements demonstrated that c-axis-oriented ZnO(0001) were obtained at RT b...

In this study we report on the synthesis and characterization of cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) nanoparticles (NPs), synthesized by chemical co-precipitation in alkaline medium. Two samples were at two different temperatures, 35 90 oC. Both characterized Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), room-temperature (RT) magnetization. showed superparamagnetic behavior (SPM) RT. TE...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether short-time, real-time continuous glucose monitoring (RT-CGM) has long-term salutary glycemic effects in patients with type 2 diabetes who are not on prandial insulin. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a randomized controlled trial of 100 adults with type 2 diabetes who were not on prandial insulin. This study compared the effects of 12 weeks of intermittent R...

A multiplex reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR assay was developed for the simultaneous detection of three different fish viruses: infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV), infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV), and viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV). The sensitivity levels of the multiplex RT-PCR assay were 100, 1, and 32 50% tissue culture infective doses/ml for IPNV, IHNV, and...