A 24 mm COMS-like eye plaque was developed to meet the treatment needs of our eye plaque brachytherapy practice. As part of commissioning, it was necessary to determine the new plaque's seed coordinates. The FARO Edge, a commercially available measurement arm, was chosen for this purpose. In order to validate the FARO Edge method, it was first used to measure the seed marker coordinates in the ...

We evaluated the precision of land surface temperature (LST) operationally retrieved from the Korean multipurpose geostationary satellite, Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite (COMS). The split-window (SW)-type retrieval algorithm was developed through radiative transfer model simulations under various atmospheric profiles, satellite zenith angles, surface emissivity values and sur...

Networks of interacting genes are central to a cell’s ability to sense and process information. Such networks are seldom comprised of simple linear cascades; feedback loops are ubiquitous and are implicated in processes such as cellular differentiation, circadian rhythm, and cell cycle control. Noise, or stochastic fluctuation in network components and the cellular environment, is an inherent f...

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic, food-allergic disease manifest by symptoms of esophageal dysfunction and dense esophageal eosinophilia in which other causes have been excluded. Treatments include dietary restriction of the offending allergens, topical corticosteroids, and dilation of strictures. EoE has become increasingly prevalent over the past decade and has been increasingly re...

The growth of colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) during the past 20 years has been a catalyst for change and has created new challenges in osteopathic medicine. None of these challenges is more daunting than the task of sustaining an osteopathic graduate medical education (OGME) system that has suffered during this period of rapid development. Notable trends within the osteopathic medicine...

In many applications, no linear classifier over the “raw” set of features will perfectly separate the data. One recourse is to find additional features that are predictive of the label. This is called feature engineering, and is often a substantial part of the job of a machine learning practitioner. In some applications, it is possible to “throw in the kitchen sink”—i.e., include all possible f...

Networks of interacting genes are central to a cell’s ability to sense and process information. Such networks are seldom comprised of simple linear cascades; feedback loops are ubiquitous and are implicated in processes such as cellular differentiation, circadian rhythm, and cell cycle control. Noise, or stochastic fluctuation in network components and the cellular environment, is an inherent f...

Introduction: Ophthalmic plaque radiotherapy using I-125 radioactive seeds in removable episcleral plaques is often used in management of ophthalmic tumors. Radioactive seeds are fixed in a gold bowl-shaped plaque and the plaque is sutured to the scleral surface corresponding to the base of the intraocular tumor. This treatment allows for a localized radiation dose delivery to the tumor with a ...

ABSTRACT Determining the level of chemical complexity within dense starless and gravitationally bound pre-stellar cores is crucial for constructing models, which subsequently constrain initial conditions star formation. We have searched complex organic molecules (COMs) in young core L1521E, report first clear detection dimethyl ether (CH3OCH3), methyl formate (HCOOCH3), vinyl cyanide (CH2CHCN)....