The potential use of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is broadly divided into 5 categories: management of solitary pulmonary nodule, mediastinal lymph node evaluation, detection of metastases, evaluation of response to chemoradiation and detection of recurrence. The purpose of this review is to discuss the current clinical applicatio...

A range of techniques have been established to lock a laser source to an optical cavity [1], or some other external reference (e.g., atomic or molecular transition). An overview of many of these techniques is provided in [2]. Such locking schemes are broadly divided into those which monitor variations in either the transmitted or reflected intensity of some probe beam, and those based on interf...

Introduction Programming languages may be broadly divided into two classes; imperative and functional. The languages typically used in business environments, such as Java and C++, are imperative; a program consists of a series of statements that perform IO, or operate on the data in the computer’s store. Functional languages, on the other hand, such as Haskell and ML, are declarative; the progr...

The number of elders suffering from chronic debilitating disorders increases with increase in lifespan.2 Rheumatic musculoskeletal problems are a major cause of morbidity in elderly population. The prevalence of musculoskeletal problems reported in a study in elderly population from rural and urban areas of north India was 65.7% in males and 75.4% in females.3 The rheumatic diseases in elderly ...

We describe a newborn with neonatal meningitis caused by an enterovirus. The case illustrated how it may be easy to miss these viruses given the limitation of virological tests. Enteroviruses or EV are RNA viruses broadly divided into polio and non polio groups. Non-polio enteroviruses include echoviruses, coxsackie A and B viruses and a number of unclassified enteroviruses (Bennett, 2009). The...

The human eye is a unique part of the human body that has been described as the window to the human soul. The eye being a complex organ is broadly divided into two segments—anterior and posterior segments. Each of these broad segments has specific disease conditions associated with them. This chapter will extensively describe these various components of the eye and the common disease conditions...

Voiding dysfunction usually presents in one of two ways. The first is in the form of symptoms. Symptoms related to voiding dysfunction are broadly referred to as lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). LUTS have classically been divided into obstructive symptoms such as difficulty initiating a stream, decreased force of urinary stream, need to push and strain to void (stranguria), hesitancy or int...

Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is an endoscopic alternative to surgical resection of mucosal and submucosal neoplastic lesions and intramucosal cancers. EMR offers both diagnostic and therapeutic capability. Lesions limited to the mucosa and the superficial layers of the submucosa appear to be the most amenable to endoscopic cure. The techniques for EMR can be broadly divided into two group...

Multistage interconnection networks (MINs) are used to connect N inputs to N outputs. They are mainly used to connect processor to processor and for processor to memory in distributed and shared memory environment. The MINs are broadly divided into three categories Blocking Non Blocking and Rearrangeable networks. A new improved Arbitrary size Benes network has been proposed in this to improve ...

One of the deleterious health consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure is foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), with the most severe form defined as foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). The clinical features of FAS can be broadly divided into: (1) Morphological malformations, especially craniofacial defects, (2) Growth retardation, and (3) Central nervous system (CNS) impairment, expressed mainly...