BACKGROUND Capecitabine plus oxaliplatin (XELOX) is considered one of the primary chemotherapy regimens for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). Oxaliplatin plus S-1 (OS) has also demonstrated significant efficacy in CRC. We performed this randomized phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of XELOX versus OS as first-line chemotherapy in patients with metastatic CRC. ...

This paper deals with customer identification and access control to personnalized services in the context of multimodal transport services and in-car telematics services. We present a vision or concept of the e-Pass, a universal portable secure object for transport. We illustrate it with the CarSharing service and its use scenarios and discuss the suitability of mobile technologies, contactless...

Abstract Background Typ1 Diabetes (T1D) us a complicated condition that requires constant monitoring and making many decisions. Living with T1D means to check blood sugar levels, inject oneself insulin, be careful what you eat. In the life of young adult there are lot things going on youngsters don't want control themselves all day night. They rebel feel free. Methods Teenagers living actively ...

In most of the missions a mobile robot has to achieve – intervention in hostile environments, preparation of military intervention, mapping, etc – two main tasks have to be completed: navigation and 3D environment perception. Therefore, vision based solutions have been widely used in autonomous robotics because they provide a large amount of information useful for detection, tracking, pattern r...

Environment perception constitutes one of the most critical operations performed by semi-and fully- autonomous vehicles. In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become standard tool for solutions owing to their impressive capabilities in analyzing and modelling complex dynamic scenes, from (often muti-modal) sensory inputs. However, well-established performance DNNs comes at cost incr...

The Lower Cretaceous reservoir core samples from the upper part of Qamchuqa Formation, Baba Dome, Kirkuk Oil Company, show evidence for multistage episodes dolomitization and a complex diagenetic history. Optical microscope reveals muti-phase diagenesis: an early stage diagenesis its alteration, later, by evaporated seawater under near-surface setting conditions, followed different event dolomi...

Daily-deals sites (DDSs), such as Groupon and LivingSocial, attract millions of customers looking for products and services at significantly reduced prices. The challenge of DDSs is to find the best match between deals and customers while generating as much revenue as possible. Hence, successful DDSs need to maximize revenue and increase customer satisfaction. These two problems are investigate...

Xiaohui Xue Dept. of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, P.R.China [email protected] The mainstream of image compression research has been based on the Shannon Information Theory for years. In image data, there exist statistical redundancy, knowledge redundancy and psychophysiological redundancy, and the latter two cannot be handled by Shannon theory. Th...

Recently, the linearization of a class of unknown discrete-time dynamic systems has achieved considerable topics for the controller design. The unknown functions after system linearization have been estimated by several methods including artificial intelligence techniques such as neural networks, fuzzy logic systems and neurofuzzy networks. In a number of published articles, the issues of syste...