Following the success of recent endovascular trials, endovascular therapy has emerged as an exciting addition to the arsenal of clinical management of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). In this paper, we present an extensive overview of intravenous and endovascular reperfusion strategies, recent advances in AIS neurointervention, limitations of various treatment paradigms, and provide i...

To compare the effects of 60 Gy/10 fractions (twice a day) with those of 54 Gy/9 fractions in high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy (HDR-ISBT) for early tongue cancer, we performed a matched-pair analysis of patients with early tongue cancer (T1-2N0M0), who were treated with 60 or 54 Gy of radiation between 1996 and 2004. Seventeen patients treated with 54 Gy and 34 matched-pair patients tr...

The managerial revolution in the health services of the Thatcher years included the field of public health: thus from 19891 the DHSS (NI) required each Area Board to designate a consultant in Public Health Medicine as the Board 'Director of Public Health' to oversee 'not only efforts to preserve health ... but also the provision of effective and efficient services to restore the sick to health ...

Evaluation of the pistillate flower abscission (PFA) potential of UC-67-13 and UC-67-11 was continued at two sites. At a high PFA site UC-67-13 PFA was only moderately lower than Serr for the third year. UC-67-11 demonstrated low PFA potential for a seconq year at this site. Higher PFA potential of UC-67-13 than UC-67 -11 was also found at a second site for a second year. No further evaluation ...

Schisandra sphenanthera is widely used as a tonic and restorative in many countries to enhance the function of liver and other organs. Wuzhi tablet (WZ) is a preparation of an ethanol extract of Schisandra sphenanthera. Our previous study demonstrated that WZ exerted a protective effect toward acetaminophen (APAP)-induced hepatotoxicity. However, the molecular mechanisms of this protection rema...

In west Africa, the alarming rate of land use intensification and the assumed deterioration of parkland species calls for assessments of locally valued non-timber forest product (NTFP) yielding populations. This study focused on the baobab tree, Adansonia digitata Linn., in Cinzana, Mali. Here by conducting biological inventories in different land use types and interviews we addressed the follo...

Coling's existence can today be measured in (reasonable fractions of) centuries. After twelve well-renowned international conferences arranged by the International Committee for Computational Linguistics and after an increasing number of publications and local meetings dedicated to the topic one might assume that all of us who care would by now know exactly what computational linguistics is abo...