BACKGROUND To assess the diagnostic value of decreased parathyroid hormone (PTH) in hypoparathyroidism after unilateral operation. METHODS A study was conducted on patients with PTC undergoing total or near-total thyroidectomy plus central neck dissection (CND). RESULTS Postoperative hypocalcemia was found in 42 patients (51.2%). For patients undergoing bilateral CND, those whose tumor inva...

We show Call-By-Value(CBV) normalization forCND (Parigot 92) can be simulated by by cut-elimination for LKQ (Danos-JoinetSchellinx 93), namely q-protocol. For this, a new term calculus was made for each classical logic. A term calculus for CND is a CBV version of Parigot’s λμ-calculus. A completely new term calculus for LKQ is presented in a style of classical extension of λ-calculus with a let...

The concept of classification without discrimination is a new area of research. (Kamiran & Calders, ) introduced the idea of Classification with No Discrimination (CND) and proposed a solution based on “massaging” the data to remove the discrimination from it with the least possible changes. In this paper, we propose a new solution to the CND problem by introducing a sampling scheme for making ...

BACKGROUND Nodal metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) usually occurs in the central compartment of the ipsilateral neck and spreads laterally. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of frozen biopsy for quantitative nodal evaluation of central neck metastasis in PTC. METHODS In all, 252 patients with PTC underwent total thyroidectomy with bilateral central n...

Wc prcscnt a novel methodology for identifying intcrnal iichvork performance characteristics baucd on cnd-to-end mullicnst measuretncnts. The mcthodology, solidly groiinded on statistical cstiination thcory, c a n bc uscd to clifiracterize the internal loss atid dciay lrrcliavior of a nctwork. Measurcnicnts on thc MI3anc havc been uscd tu validate thc approach in the case of Insscs. Extensive s...

Human corneal epithelial cells and stromal fibroblasts in culture were incubated with gamma interferon or with medium conditioned by phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated mononuclear cells. The corneal cells were placed into suspension, assayed for class I (HLA-A,B,C) and class II (HLA-DR) antigens by indirect immunofluorescence, and analyzed with flow cytometry. Epithelial cells treated for 5 da...

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...