The year of 1997 witnessed an important regulatory change in direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of ethical drugs. For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permitted brand-specific DTC ads on TV without a ”brief summary” of comprehensive risk information. This led to a three-fold growth of DTC advertising expenditure in four years, followed by an intensive debate about the ef...

Background: X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (XRCC1) gene is a DNA repair gene and its non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) may influence DNA repair capacity which has been considered as a modifying risk factor for cancer development. Methods: A case-control study was conducted to investigate impact of three frequently studied polymorphisms (Arg194Trp, Arg280His and Arg3...

Direct Torque Control with Multilevel Inverter (DTC-MLI) has emerged recently in high dynamics AC drives fields for induction machines or permanent magnet machines application. In this paper, a review on a variety of techniques and concepts of direct torque control of multilevel inverter-fed induction machines is presented. The techniques and concept involved are classified as follows: Look-up ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS DNA HRR pathway and BER pathway play vital roles in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) development, thus we supposed that polymorphisms of XRCC1, XRCC2, XRCC3 DNA repair genes are associated with thyroid cancer risk and progression. METHODS We searched the NCBI database for relevant literatures to determine eight SNPs to be included in our study (XRCC1: rs25487, rs25489, rs17...

introduction: differentiated thyroid carcinoma (dtc) is associated with excellent prognosis and high survival rates. this study was conducted to evaluate the influence of baseline and treatment-related factors on the health related quality of life (qol) in cured dtc. methods:this study was an analytic cross-sectional study on radio-iodine (rai) treated dtc patients during 2011-2012. the data on...

INTRODUCTION Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) in children presents different biological behavior in comparison to adults. Authors presents preliminary results of multicenter analysis concerning incidence, diagnostics and treatment of DTC in children. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study is a retrospective analysis of 107 pediatric patients from 14 academic centers based on the data from 2000 ...

-Among all the speed control techniques for induction motor drives, Direct Torque Control (DTC) method is simple and efficient because DTC is independent of machine rotor parameters and free from d-q transformation. Modern DTC based drives are equipped with estimators, observers, and machine intelligence systems to improve the dynamics and efficiency of the drive. This paper is aimed to focus o...

This paper introduces analysis, control, and comparison of two benchmarking optimization approaches called Genetic Algorithm (GA) Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for Direct Torque Control (DTC) a three-phase Induction Motor (IM). study aims to determine the most efficient robust different metaheuristic techniques including PID-PSO PID-GA DTC IM. The purpose proposed control technique that has...

Hyperthyroidism seems to increase metabolic and cardiovascular risk, while the effects of sub-clinical hyperthyroidism are controversial. We evaluated metabolic and cardiovascular parameters in differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) patients with suppressed thyrotropin (TSH) due to levo-thyroxine (L-T4) therapy. We studied DTC patients and, as a control group, patients with a history of surgery...

It is often accepted as common knowledge that military personnel benefit from decompression time between a war zone and the home station. To capitalize on the potential benefits of a decompression period paired with support services, the U.S. Air Force established the Deployment Transition Center (DTC) at Ramstein Air Base in Germany in July 2010. The DTC provides airmen returning from combat m...