Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) are a rare and heterogeneous class of neoplasms. While surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment, non-surgical therapies play a role in the setting of unresectable and metastatic disease. The goals of medical therapy are directed both at alleviating symptoms of peptide release and shrinking tumor mass. Biotherapies such as somatostat...

The paper describes the usage of the fuzzy Mamdani analysis and Taguchi method to optimize the tourism satisfaction in Thailand. The fuzzy reasoning system is applied to pursue the relationships among the options of a tour company in order to be used in Taguchi experiments as the responses. In this research, tourism satisfaction is carried out using L18 Taguchi orthogonal arrays on parameters s...

Patellofemoral instability not only involves lateral patellar dislocation, patellar mal-tracking or subluxation but can also cause a limiting disability for sports activities. Its underlying causes are known as morphological anomalies of the patellofemoral joint or the mechanical axis, femorotibial malrotation, variants of the knee extensor apparatus, and ligamentous insufficiencies often accom...

Black and Scholes (1973) proved that under certain assumptions about the market place, the value of a European option, as a function of the current value of the underlying asset and time, verifies a Cauchy problem. We give new conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the value of a European option by using semigroup theory. For this, we choose a suitable space that verifies some condition...

Options or “privileges” as they were known in early 19th Century America actually appeared on the financial scene around the same times as stocks. Initially, there were numerous problems with the trading of options. The terms of the contract were different from contract to contract, contracts had to be exercised in person, and there really was no secondary market to trade. Options were eventual...

in this study, the nonlinear optical properties and optical limiting performance of the silver nanoparticles (agnps) in distilled water are investigated. the nonlinear absorption coefficient of the colloid is measured by the z-scan technique. the optical limiting behavior of the agnp suspension is investigated under exposure to nanosecond laser pulses at 532 nm. the results show that nonlinear ...

BACKGROUND There is growing concern worldwide about the role of polluted soil and water environments in the development and dissemination of antibiotic resistance. OBJECTIVE Our aim in this study was to identify management options for reducing the spread of antibiotics and antibiotic-resistance determinants via environmental pathways, with the ultimate goal of extending the useful life span o...

" Buy your software from a reputable source " has been used by many as one means of reducing the threat of a computer virus infection. In this article the author explores legal opinions about the options open to the user in the United States. C omputer viruses have become the " hot " topic in the computer security industry. Nearly every computer conference has a session on how to protect your c...

In the last thirty years, there has been a dramatic growth in the trading of options, which are contracts between two parties giving one party the right but not the obligation to partake in a financial transaction with the other party at or before a specified date in the future. The majority of options involve the right to buy or sell an underlying asset at a prescribed price, known as the stri...