Purpose: Patients affected by neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) have an increased risk of developing gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). NF-1^ associated GISTs are usually wild type for c-KITand platelet-derived growth factor receptor-a (PDGFR-a) mutations and harbor a different oncogenic molecular mechanism. The lack of data on imatinib activity raises the question whether to enroll these pa...

I've heard many women say that the day their child was born best of life, but it worst mine. After laboring for nearly forty hours, my body cut open and son pried from flesh. Earlier in day, his heartbeat had slowed to a dangerous rate while I pushing, still shook with epinephrine burned through veins recognition how fragile we both were, thin curtain between life death.His rebounded emergency ...

The transition rate of the stimulated emission at the higher energy levels of the excited states in a silica-based erbium-doped fiber can be enhanced by introducing fundamental-mode cutoff filtering mechanism. The electrons excited by optical pumping can more occupy the higher energy levels of the excited states when the transition rate for the lower energy levels (longer wavelengths) of the ex...

A wide variety of systems require reliable personal recognition schemes. With the development of biometric recognition technology it is found that iris is one of the most reliable biometric recognition schemes because of its randomly distributed features and unique characteristics. The method discussed in this paper recognized the key local variation points to represent the characteristics of t...

But now start the delightful surprises. Time becomes fluid […] And inside this fluidity a permanence, for person who looks at old face in mirror is same as one shares your earliest memories, when you were two, perhaps less: that child’s core woman’s. ‘Here I still am: haven’t changed all.’ Best of all, not ever predicted nor, think, described, fresh liveliness experiencing. Is it if some gauze ...

Determining which dimensions of social classification are culturally significant is a developmental challenge. Some suggest this is accomplished by differentially privileging intrinsic visual cues over non-intrinsic cues (Atran, 1990; Gil-White, 2001) whereas others point to the role of noun labels as more general promoters of kind-based reasoning (Bigler & Liben, 2007; Gelman, 2003). A Novel G...