OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Compare outcomes of concomitant primary thyroidectomy with elective central neck dissection (CND) by the standard open versus minimally invasive video-assisted (MIVA) approach. STUDY DESIGN Case series chart review, single institution, tertiary referral center. METHODS Current Procedural Terminology code 60252 was used to identify patients undergoing CND from February ...

BACKGROUND Postoperative hypocalcemia caused by hypoparathyroidism is one of the most common morbidities of total thyroidectomy. The aim of this study was to analyze the kinetics and factors affecting PTH levels after total thyroidectomy and central neck dissection (CND). MATERIAL/METHODS We performed a retrospective study in 438 consecutive patients who underwent total thyroidectomy between ...

In times of war and rumours of peace, when ‘terrorism’ and ‘torture’ are being revisited and redefined, one of the things some of us should be doing is talking and writing about cultures of peace. In what follows, I ask questions about the place of culture in protest by considering the cluster of issues around the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) from its founding in London in 1958. I loo...

Our previous studies have identified berberine (BBR), an alkaloid isolated from the Chinese herb huanglian, as a unique cholesterol-lowering drug that upregulates hepatic low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) expression through a mechanism of mRNA stabilization. Here, we demonstrate that the root extract of goldenseal, a BBR-containing medicinal plant, is highly effective in upregulation of l...

Traditional approaches to tactical Computer Network Defence (CND), drawn from the lessons and doctrine of conventional warfare, are based on a team of deployed security professionals countering the adversary’s cyber forces. The concept of the adversary in cyberspace does not fit neatly into the conventional military paradigms. Rather than fighting an identifiable foe, cyber adversaries are clan...

Pyrite and calcite are mineral phases that play a major role in acid neutral mine drainage processes. However, the prediction of (AMD) or contaminated (CND) requires knowledge composition mining waste related potential for element release. This paper studies combination acid–base neutralizing capacity (ANC–BNC) with geochemical modeling characterization AMD CND. The proposed approach is validat...

Abstract The problem of unbalanced data classification has gotten extensive attention in the past few years. Unbalanced sample makes fault diagnosis and accuracy rate low, capability to classify minority-class samples is restricted. To address that algorithm machine learning insufficient identify minority class for problems. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved support vector (SVM) method...

While no research study has yet demonstrated convincing evidence for the efficacy of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) in patients with chronic neurological disorders (CND), anecdotal studies have been supportive of its use in improving healing of the damaged brain. The current study hypothesized that (1) individuals with CND show increases in cerebral blood flow and metabolism as measured by Si...

We present the Response-Time Analysis (RTA) method for providing real-time guarantees in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) communication networks, and evaluates its suitability for use in hard real-time factory-type environments. RTA provides an analysis of the network tra c which can be used by an admission control mechanism to determine if the timing requirements of a new connection can be gua...

In the nearby (D=14 Mpc) AGN-starburst composite galaxy NGC 1068, it has been found that molecular gas in Circum-nuclear Disk (CND) is outflowing, which a manifestation of ongoing AGN feedback. The outflowing large spread velocities, likely drive different shock chemistry signatures at locations CND. We perform multi-line study using two tracers, SiO and HNCO, with aim to determine properties t...