OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic value of combination detection of serum cancer antigen 125 (CA125), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA199) and carci noembryonic antigen(CEA) in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer by pooling the open published studies according to meta-analysis method. METHODS Diagnostic studies related to combination detection of serum CA125, CA199 and CEA in patients wit...

BACKGROUND We have shown earlier that inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) administered by oxygen hood reduces pulmonary hypertension in an animal model (J Perinatol 2002; 22:50-6). Our objective in this study was to determine feasibility of iNO by oxygen hood in neonates with elevated alveolar-arterial oxygen gradients (A-aDO(2)). METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Masked randomized controlled pilot trial. In...

Due to the absence of side effects, reasoning about functional programs is simpler than reasoning about their imperative counterparts. However, because of the absence of practical debuggers, finding bugs in lazy functional languages has been more complex until quite recently. One of the easiest to use Haskell debuggers is Hood. Its behavior is based on the concept of observation of intermediate...

Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal online mechanisms. This work generally assumes that the size of the market (number of bidders) is known a priori, but that the mechanism designer has no knowledge of the distribution of bid values. However, in many real-worl...

Disruption tolerant network(DTN)s have been proposed to provide data communications in challenging network scenarios where an instantaneous end-to-end path between a source and destination may not exist. In this paper, we focus on comparing the performance of four recently proposed unicast routing schemes, namely (i) Multihop Routing with Custody Transfer (MRCT), (ii) Two-Hop Relay with Erasure...

Cats deprived of pattern vision with hoods and normal cats were used. During the first 3 months of life some hood-reared cats had visual experience with a three-dimensional cross or a ping-pong ball. Recording were performed in adult cats with a pretrigeminal brainstem transection. Unit responses to the cross and the ball were recorded in area 19 within the projection of area centralis. Stimulu...

Currently the use of new materials is becoming more prevalent in vehicle industry for the lightweight design purpose. The design of engine hood is very important for pedestrian safety during a vehicle-pedestrian accident. In order to improve the pedestrian protection performance of the new material engine hood, the radial stiffening rib structure and trapezium sandwich structure engine hoods we...

The basic role of Jews is defined as creating a motivating contrast between the mass of the people who often get into trouble, and the subsequently arising leader (prophet) who calls for conscience in order to help the people to survive the trouble.

Nitric oxide modulates the expression of matricellular genes involved in fibrosis in renal glomerular mesangial cells Dissertation Submitted for the acquisition of the degree of Ph. Acknowledgements Praise be to Almighty Allah who is worth all the praises and from whom I seek help and guidance. Thanks to the All-Compassionate and the Most-Merciful who gave me the courage and the strength to com...