UGF is a small peptide present in the urines and tissues of patients with gynecologic cancers. Published research (which, at present, mainly comes from our laboratory) on the general application of UGF as a tumor marker, and on its use in the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, is reviewed, and new studies on its use, alone and with CA125, in the management of patients with ovarian cancer, are present...

Purpose : To examine (1) associations between body fat percent (BF) and lifestyle behaviors in children aged 9–11 years (2) the consistency of these over a 10-year period. Methods In this repeat, cross-sectional study, 15,977 completed an anthropometric assessment SportsLinx Lifestyle survey 2004 2013. Body was estimated according to sum triceps subscapular skinfold measurements. Multilevel mod...

This study was conducted to evaluate the analytical performance (functional sensitivity, reproducibility, parallelism, and accuracy) of two recent commercial kits marketed as third generation immunometric assays for measuring serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). One assay is automated; the other is manual. Accuracy by method comparisons was evaluated using 86 patient samples assayed by an e...

Although the cartilaginous autografts are one of the tissues more utilized in nasal surgery, a comparative study does not exist to determine which are better options and their precise indications. It is for this reason that a histopathologic analysis was carried out comparing the characteristics and properties of the four principal cartilages that are utilized in aesthetic functional surgery of...

Following a national mumps outbreak that began in November 2004 and continued into 2005, the number of mumps notifications in Ireland waned in the latter half of 2006 and during 2007 (Figure 1). However, mumps notifications have started to increase again in 2008 (Figure 1). The number of mumps notifications annually between 1988 and 2008 and the number of confirmed mumps notifications by year f...

TCP-nets are an extension of CP-nets which allow the expression of conditional relative importance of pairs of variables. In this paper it is shown that a simple logic of conditional preferences can be used to express TCP-net orders, as well as being able to represent much stronger statements of importance than TCP-nets allow. The paper derives various sufficient conditions for a subset of the ...

1. Low-income preschoolers are least likely to have a mother who is married or who has a high school diploma. Nationally, 60 percent of low-income preschoolers had a mother with a high school diploma, compared to 86 percent of children in families with mid-range incomes, and 97 percent of children in families with upper-range incomes. In 1999, 57 percent of low-income preschoolers had married p...