Patients with nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (nsNSCLC; largely lung adenocarcinoma) are at high risk of developing brain metastases. Preclinical data suggested that anti-VEGF-A therapy may prevent the formation of nsNSCLC brain metastases. Whether non-brain metastases are also prevented, and whether bevacizumab shows a brain metastases-preventive activity in cancer patients is unknown. ...

We present our results on Uniform Price Auctions, one of the standard sealed-bid multiunit auction formats, for selling multiple identical units of a single good to multi-demand bidders. Contrary to the truthful and economically efficient multi-unit Vickrey auction, the Uniform Price Auction encourages strategic bidding and is socially inefficient in general, partly because of a ”Demand Reducti...

for the polynomial planar vector fields with a hyperbolic or nilpotent critical point at the origin, the monodromy problem has been solved, but for the strongly degenerate critical points this problem is still open. when the critical point is monodromic, the stability problem or the center- focus problem is an open problem too. in this paper we will consider the polynomial planar vector fields ...

in this paper direct proofs of some common fixed point results for two and three mappings under weak contractive conditions are given. some of these results are improved by using different arguments of control functions. examples are presented showing that some generalizations cannot be obtained and also that our results are distinct from the existing ones.

‎in this paper‎, ‎by using four functionals fixed point theorem‎, ‎we obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of‎ ‎at least one positive solution of an $n$th-order $m$-point boundary value problem‎. ‎as an application‎, ‎we give an example to demonstrate our main result.