OBJECTIVES Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) provides a minimally invasive means to resect pulmonary nodules (PN). Deep localization of PN may jeopardize VATS lung resection. The aim of this study was to establish the utility of preoperative computed tomography (CT)-guided hookwire localization of PN. METHODS Between January 1993 and September 2001, we performed 151 VATS resections for P...

Water stress is one of the major abiotic stresses in agriculture worldwide. In order to assess photosynthesis response and grain yield of 25 wheat genotypes under water deficit (post-anthesis stress) conditions, a 2-year study (2010-12) was carried out as a split-plot arrangement using randomized complete block design with three replications. The most sensitive gas exchange variable to water de...

Let G be a soluble block-transitive automorphism group of 2 − (v, 10, 1) design D. Then G is point-primitive and one of the following holds: (1)if 5 v, then v = pn and G ≤ AΓL(1, pn), where p = 2 is a prime and n a positive integer, and pn ≡ 1(mod90); (2) if 5 | v, then v = 5n, G ≤ AΓL(1, 5n), where n is a positive integer, and pn ≡ 1(mod18) Mathematics Subject Classification: 05B05, 20B25

BACKGROUND At Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), no specific protocol to stratify patients by body mass index (BMI) exists. This study sought to evaluate outcomes following gastrointestinal surgery. METHODS Patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery attending preassessment screening clinic (PAS) from August to September 2016 at the QEHB were identified. Primary outcome was postoper...

BACKGROUND Partial nephrectomy has been underutilized in the United States. We investigated national trends in partial nephrectomy (PN) utilization before and after publication of the American Urological Association (AUA) Practice Guideline for management of the clinical T1 renal mass. METHODS We identified adult patients who underwent radical (RN) or PN from November 2007 to October 2011 in ...

Inbred Palmerston North (PN) mice are a newly recognized model of systemic lupus erythematosus. In this study PN mice with established autoimmune disease were treated until death with cyclophosphamide (8 mg/kg/day) or hydrocortisone (10 mg/kg/day). These doses had previously been found to prevent or suppress disease in another lupus model, the NZB/NZW mouse. In the PN strain, autoantibodies, se...

CCP program 1 simulation(S):2 Init=[[I1|_], [I2|_], ..., [In|_]], 3 run(1,S,Init) || 4 run(2,S,Init) || 5 ... || 6 run(n,S,Init). 7 run(ID, S, [P1, P2, ..., Pn]):8 getTails([P1, ..., Pn],[T1, ..., Tn]), 9 ask(T1=[_|_]) -> skip + 10 ask(T2=[_|_]) -> skip + 11 ... + 12 ask(Tn=[_|_]) -> skip, 13 getLast([P1, ..., Pn],[L1, ..., Ln]), 14 updatePosition(ID,S,[L1,..,Ln],NP), 15 tell(TID=[NP|_]), 16 ru...

Eating more seasonal food is one proposal for moving towards more sustainable consumption patterns, based on the assumption that it could reduce the environmental impact of the diet. The aim of the present paper is to consider the implications of eating seasonal food on the different elements of sustainability (i.e. health, economics, society), not just the environment. Seasonality can be defin...