objective(s): this study aimed to evaluate the role of pretreatment suvmax and volumetric fdg positron emission tomography (pet) parameters in the differentiation between benign and malignant mediastinal tumors. in addition, we investigated whether pretreatment suvmax and volumetric fdg-pet parameters could distinguish thymomas from thymic carcinomas, and low-risk from high-risk thymomas.method...

Current methods of cardiovascular risk assessment are performed using health factors which are often based on the Framingham study. However, these methods have significant limitations due to their poor sensitivity and specificity. We have compared the parameters from the Framingham equation with linear regression analysis to establish the effect of training of the model for the local database. ...

A full vector radiative transfer model for vertically inhomogeneous plane–parallel media has been developed by using the successive order of scattering approach. In this model, a fast analytical expansion of Fourier decomposition is implemented and an exponent-linear assumption is used for vertical integration. An analytic angular interpolation method of post-processing source function is also ...

In order to solve the language acquisition puzzle there are two basic problems one needs to address . The first is the so-called "logical problem of language acquisition" and the second is what I will refer to as the "developmental problem of language acquisition." The logical problem of language acquisition is the question, no doubt familiar to you all, of how we account for the richness, comp...

We consider the case of age-specific ring-recovery data obtained only from recovered individual birds and modelled by conditioning a multinomial distribution on the recovery. These models may be appealing when the information about the numbers of marked individuals is missing but they are often analysed by ignoring a large set of nuisance parameters, the recovery rates. We investigate what are ...

This research-in-progress paper deals with service modularization of complex services. The successful creation of powerful modules allow leveraging modularization benefits such as reuse, faster development, module-wide innovation, and rapid reconfiguration. Consequently, service provider efficiencies as well as user centricity can be realized. Therefore, the principles of modularization, i.e. c...

The sensitivity analysis of atomic force microscope (AFM) based manipulation of gold spherical nanoparticles in air medium has been carried out in previous research works. In the AFM-based manipulations conducted in various biological liquid mediums, the new environmental parameters associated with these biological fluids also affect the dynamics of the manipulation process. Therefore in this r...