There are no validated markers for predicting benefit from angiogenesis inhibitors or classifying tumors with distinct angiogenic phenotypes. In patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with bevacizumab and erlotinib, Franzini and colleagues find that angiogenesis- and hypoxia-associated gene expression signatures predict tumor response and/or clinical outcome, and may define distinct a...

Spontaneous pneumothorax can be divided into two categories: primary and secondary. The management of each one depends on resource availability, physician preference, procedural capability, is broadly based guidelines that are over a decade old. Emerging evidence from three recent randomized controlled trials ambulatory pathways exciting herald new era for spontaneous pneumothorax. These their ...

Abstract Global terrain classification data have been used for various issues related to topography such as the estimation of soil types and ground vulnerability earthquakes creation seismic hazard maps. However, due resolution digital elevation models (DEMs), from previous studies could not discriminate small landforms plains at bottom narrow valleys rises in plains. Owing greater regional var...

Image Compression is the application of Data Compression on digital image. The techniques used for the image compression are broadly divided into lossy and lossless compression techniques. One of the lossless compression techniques is Huffman encoding. In this paper, the new method MH Encoding (Median Filter + Huffman Encoding) is used to compress the images. Here the images are preprocessed us...

INTRODUCTION Excavations at the site of Pievina (Tuscany, Italy) were conducted under the direction of Kim Bowes, Marielena Ghisleni, and Emanuele Vaccaro (under the auspices of Cornell University and Universitá di Grosetto) in 2009. The focus was to examine remains of smaller-scale settlements, presumably those related to peasant (or at least lesselite) occupation. The area underwent periods o...