The vast majority of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) are treated successfully with surgery and radioactive iodine ablation, yet the treatment of advanced cases is frustrating and largely ineffective. Systemic treatment with conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy is basically ineffective in most patients with advanced DTC. However, a better understanding of the genetics and biolog...

The air temperature is an essential variable in many applications related to Earth science. Sporadic spatial distribution of weather stations causes a low spatial resolution of measured air temperatures. This study focused on modeling the air diurnal temperature cycle (DTC) based on the land surface temperature (LST) DTC. The air DTC model parameters were estimated from LST DTC model parameters...

BACKGROUND Disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) are detectable in the bone marrow (BM) of patients with primary breast cancer (PBC) and predictive of an impaired prognosis. This large trial aimed to analyze the impact of DTC detection on locoregional relapse (LR). PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with nonmetastatic PBC were eligible for this analysis. BM aspiration (BMA1) was carried out during prima...

The effectiveness of four pretreatment regimens in decreasing succinylcholine-induced myalgias was studied in healthy outpatients undergoing general anaesthesia for ambulatory surgery. Four hundred and forty adult females were randomly assigned to one of four pretreatment groups. Three hundred and ninety-five patients completed the study. One of the following pretreatments was given prior to in...

In a recent edition of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Qian et al. described the sensitivity and specificity of the direct tube coagulase (DTC) test for the presumptive identification of Staphylococcus aureus directly from positive blood culture bottles from which Gram stains were consistent with staphylococci (7). The reported sensitivities of 34% at 2 h of incubation and 65% at 4 h of i...

This paper proposes a new approach to direct torque control (DTC) method for brushless direct current (BLDC) motor drives. In conventional DTC method, two main reference parameters are used as: flux and torque. In this paper, the new approach has been proposed to improve the BLDC motor dynamic performance. A main difference from the conventional method of it was that only one reference paramete...

In this paper, we present a new approach to the Direct Torque Control (DTC) problem of three-phase induction motor drives. This approach is based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) exploiting the specific structure of the DTC problem and using a systematic design procedure. Specifically, by observing that the DTC objectives, which require the controlled variables to remain within certain bounds,...

This paper describes DTC (Documents, Transformations and Components), our approach to the XML-based development of content-intensive applications. According to this approach, the contents of an application and other customizable features (e.g. the properties of its user interface) are represented in terms of XML documents. In DTC, the software of the application is organized in terms of reusabl...

BACKGROUND AND AIM This study aimed at determining whether there is a risk regarding the development of second primary malignancies after patient exposure to the low and medium radioiodine activity used during the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC). METHODS Second primary malignancies that occurred after DTC were detected in 1,990 patients treated between 1970 and 2003. The mea...

To solve the problems of torque ripple and inconstant switch frequency of inverter in the conventional direct torque control (DTC), a novel DTC method using space vector modulation (SVM) is proposed based on input– output feedback linearization technique, where hysteresis controller is substituted by input–output feedback linearization and switch table is substituted by SVM. In order to preserv...