Optimization of permanent seed implant brachytherapy plans for treatment of prostate cancer should be based on biological effective dose (BED) distributions, since dose does not accurately represent biological effects between different types of sources. Currently, biological optimization for these plans is not feasible due to the amount of time necessary to calculate the BED distribution. This ...

Caroline Dowsett is Nurse Consultant in Tissue Viability, Newham Primary Care Trust, London, and Heather Newton is Nurse Consultant in Tissue Viability, Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, Cornwall Wound bed preparation is now a well established concept and the TIME framework has been developed as a practical tool to assist practitioners when assessing and managing patients with wounds. It is import...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been widely used as a middleware because of its flexibility. Fixed domain is one of the bottlenecks of Information Extraction (IE) technologies. In this paper we present a XML-based domain-adaptable bootstrapping method of pattern acquisition, which focuses on minimizing the cost of domain migration. The approach starts from a seed corpus with some seed patt...

Control of the timing of the inspiratory/expiratory (IE) phase transition is a hallmark of respiratory pattern formation. In principle, sensory feedback from pulmonary stretch receptors (Breuer-Hering reflex, BHR) is seen as the major controller for the IE phase transition, while pontine-based control of IE phase transition by both the pontine Kölliker-Fuse nucleus (KF) and parabrachial complex...

This review provides an overview of the botany and classification of seeds, summarizes recent research examining the health benefits of seeds, and discusses barriers to incorporating seeds into Western diets. Strategies to help practitioners support their patients in incorporating more seed foods into the diet are suggested. Seed foods, including cereals and pseudocereals (whole grains), legume...

This article explores the role of the nurse in wound bed preparation. Wounds cannot be tended to in isolation--many patient factors will influence healing. The nurse needs to have an understanding of the process of wound healing and have undertaken a full patient assessment before focusing on the patient's wound. Recognising and managing problems at the wound bed, for example necrotic tissue an...