OBJECTIVE Many clinicians limit chemotherapy doses based on a maximum body surface area (BSA) of 2m(2). We sought to determine how chemotherapy-related toxicities compared between groups of patients that varied with respect to BSA. We hypothesized that obese patients receiving weight-based (WB) dosing would not have significantly higher chemotherapy-related toxicities than control groups. MET...

We housed male Mongolian gerbils, their mates, and foster litters of standardized size and sex ratio in enclosures that provided cover in two locations. Males had been gestated in known intrauterine positions: either between two females (2F males) or between two males (2M males). From Days 1 to 20 postpartum, we examined the frequency with which both males and females were in contact with the p...

It is shown that a timelike radial geodesic does not become null at the event horizon. Recently an attempt was made to demonstrate that in the Schwarzschild geometry the radial geodesics of material particles become null at the event horizon [1]. For this purpose, was derived an expression that corresponds to the velocity of a material particle following a radial trajectory as measured by an ob...

In this article we present a low-cost coprocessor for smartcards which supports all necessary mathematical operations for a fast calculation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) based on the finite field GF(2m). These ECDSA operations are GF(2m) addition, 4-bit digit-serial multiplication in GF(2m), inversion in GF(2m), and inversion in GF(p). An efficient implementation of...

Directed sequences have been recently introduced and used for constructing new orthogonal designs. The construction is achieved by multiplying the length and type of suitable compatible sequences. In this paper we show that near normal sequences of length n = 4m + 1 can be used to construct four directed sequences of lengths 2m+1, 2m+1, 2m, 2m and type (4m+1, 4m+1) = (n, n) with zero NPAF. The ...

CD4+ and CD8+ alpha/beta+ T cells of the T helper cell (Th)2 phenotype produce the cytokines IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 that promote IgE production and eosinophilic inflammation. IL-4 may play an important role in mediating the differentiation of antigenically naive alpha/beta+ T cells into Th2 cells. Murine NK1.1+ (CD4+ or CD4-CD8-) alpha/beta+ T cells comprise a beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2m)-depe...