gastric cancer has been known as a poor prognosis disease with a high degree of mortality. in iran, it has been increased during the previous two decades, especially in northern part of the country. the aim of this study was to determine the demographic and clinical characteristics of gastric cancer in mazandaran province. all patients with gastric cancer diagnosis treated in the imam khomeini ...

PURPOSE To establish a new fluorophotometric method to quantitate oxidative stress in the retina in vivo with a hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-sensitive fluorescent dye. METHODS For in vitro fluorophotometric study, nonfluorescent 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein (DCFH) was incubated with H2O2 (10 pM to 100 nM), and the production of fluorescent 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein (DCF) was measured with fluorophot...

The upcoming standard for wireless LANs DFWMAC1 developed by the IEEE2 802.11 working group consists of two parts the distributed coordination function DCF that is based on a contention scheme and the point coordination function PCF based on a contention free scheme. The DCF is CSMA/CA like access protocol with several extensions. In this paper, following a short presentation of the elements in...

Existing backoff scheme’s optimization of IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC protocol consider only saturated networks or asymptotic conditions. In real situations, traffic is bursty or streamed at low rates so that stations do not operate usually in saturated regime. In this work, we propose and analyze a backoff enhancement for IEEE802.11 DCF that requires information only about the network size and that is...

Diclofenac (DCF) is a widely used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is regularly detected in surface waters. To support a robust aquatic risk assessment, two early life stage (ELS) tests, compliant with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) test guideline 210, were conducted in rainbow trout and in zebrafish. Population relevant endpoints, such as hatching, gr...

This paper proposes a new protocol called Optimal DCF (ODCF). Inspired by a sequence of analytic results, O-DCF modifies the rule of adapting CSMA parameters, such as backoff time and transmission length, based on a function of the demand-supply differential of link capacity captured by the local queue length. Unlike clean-slate design, O-DCF is fully compatible with 802.11 hardware, so that it...

This study investigated the effects of two types of written feedback – direct corrective feedback (DCF) and metalinguistic explanation (ME) - on Iranian EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of English definite and indefinite articles. Assigned to three groups of DCF, ME, and control groups, the participants took four tests in three testing phases: pretest, posttest, and delayed posttes...

Docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fluorouracil (DCF) significantly improved overall survival in metastatic gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEA). The aim of this study was to assess efficacy of DCF regimen as perioperative chemotherapy compared with surgery alone in patients with resectable GEA. We identified 789 patients who underwent surgery alone and 62 patients who received at least one cycle of ...

39 40 Small intestinal ulceration, bleeding, and inflammation are major adverse effects 41 associated with the use of diclofenac (DCF) or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory 42 drugs (NSAIDs). The underlying mechanisms of DCF enteropathy are poorly understood, 43 but there is increasing evidence that topical effects are involved. The aim of this study 44 was to explore the role of c-Jun-N-term...

Interferon-alpha and the adenosine deaminase (ADA) inhibitor deoxycoformycin (dCF) have each been shown to be efficacious in the treatment of some lymphoid malignancies and to have potent antiproliferative activities in vitro. This study examined whether dCF and recombinant interferon-alpha A (rIFN-alpha A) were additive, synergistic, or antagonistic in their effects on the cultured B lymphobla...