BACKGROUND Gastric stump cancer (GSC) is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage, and consequently the prognosis is poor. AIMS To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics of GSC at an early stage to assist in its identification, and thereby improve its prognosis. METHODS Forty three patients with resected early GSC were compared with 156 patients with resected primary early cancer...

BACKGROUND Considerable controversy persists about the biological behavior of gastric stump cancer (GSC). The aim of this study is to clarify if this cancer is just another proximal gastric cancer or if it emerges as a distinctive clinicopathologic entity. METHODS This review of a prospectively collected gastric cancer database identified 73 patients with GSC in a single institution between J...

Supply chain operation with sustainable consideration has become an increasingly important issue in recent years. However, the decision framework with integrated costing and performance evaluation for green supply chain (GSC) has not been well developed so far in the literature. For this reason, this paper is aimed to propose a fuzzy goal programming (FGP) approach that integrates activity-base...

While the noise reduction performance of the Generalized Sidelobe Canceller (GSC) depends on the validity of a priori assumptions about the signal model, the recently developed multi-channel Wiener filter technique does not rely on any such a priori information. This provides a potential benefit of the latter over GSC. However, both techniques also rely on a speech detection algorithm. In this ...

Aging influences stem cells, but the processes involved remain unclear. Insulin signaling, which controls cellular nutrient sensing and organismal aging, regulates the G2 phase of Drosophila female germ line stem cell (GSC) division cycle in response to diet; furthermore, this signaling pathway is attenuated with age. The role of insulin signaling in GSCs as organisms age, however, is also uncl...

25 In this study, we assessed the acute effects of angiotensin II on the albumin glomerular 26 sieving coefficient (GSC) using intravital microscopy. The experiments were performed on 27 Munich Wistar Froemter (MWF) rats. Alexa-Fluor-594 albumin was injected intravenously, 28 and the fluorescence intensity in the glomerular capillaries and Bowman’s space was 29 determined to calculate the album...

Accumulating evidence indicates that glioblastoma stem-like cells (GSCs) are key factors in tumour development, recurrence and chemoresistance. The impairment of stemness and the enhancement of differentiation contributes to the weakening of radiation and chemotherapy resistance of GSCs. We previously found that β-elemene was an effective anti-glioblastoma agent and chemosensitizer. In this stu...

This paper tackles the speech separation problem in a meeting room using a new acoustic beamforming method – adaptive blocking (AB) beamformer. The proposed method is an optimum beamforming with a structure similar to the generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) structure, but simpler. Thus, it inherits the flexibility of GSC and functions well in dynamic environments. We investigate the performanc...