This study was undertaken to evaluate the overtreatment rate of women with abnormal cervical cytology undergoing colposcopy followed by loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), the so-called "see and treat" approach. Overtreatment was defined as LEEP specimens containing cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 1 or less. In this study, medical records of 192 women with abnormal Pap smea...

The Bethesda system is a system of terminology for reporting the results of cervical cytology. It was developed in 1988, and is now widely used in the United States. This system was updated in April 2001. The most important modifications are the following: a) elimination of the category "satisfactory but limited by", b) the reintegration of benign modifications in the normal category, c) "atypi...

We report the prevalence and genotype distribution of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) among Japanese women with abnormal cervical cytology using the PGMY-CHUV assay, one of PGMY-PCR-based lineblot assays that was validated and shown to be suitable for the detection of multiple HPV types in a specimen with minimum bias. Total DNA was extracted from cervical exfoliated cells collected from 326 outp...

Cervical cancer is the second most common malignancy in women worldwide after breast cancer (Ferlay et al.). In Thailand, its incidence was 17.7/100,000 of Thai female population during 2004-2006 (Khunhaprema et al., 2012). Cervical cancer incidences and deaths have decreased since the implementation of widespread cervical cancer screening with cervical cytology and/or human papilloma virus (HP...

with the ultimate theory error below percent level [2]. This sets high standards for the determinations of the other two angles, α = arg(−V ∗ tbVtd/V ∗ ubVud) and γ = arg(−V ∗ ubVud/V ∗ cbVcd). In this review we address the theoretical errors for the methods that are used in the determination of α. They represent the ultimate precision at which the angle α can be measured even with unlimited st...

Performing a fit to the available experimental data, we quantify the effect of long-distance contributions from penguin contractions in B0 → J/ψK0 decays. We estimate the deviation of the measured SCP term of the time-dependent CP asymmetry from sin 2β induced by these contributions and by the penguin operators. We find ∆S = 0.000±0.017 ([−0.035, 0.033] @ 95% probability).

Three studies examined automatic associations between words with moral and immoral meanings and the colors black and white. The speed of color naming in a Stroop task was faster when words in black concerned immorality (e.g., greed), rather than morality, and when words in white concerned morality (e.g., honesty), rather than immorality. In addition, priming immorality by having participants ha...

One loop electroweak radiative corrections to left-right parity violating Møller scattering (e−e− → e−e−) asymmetries are presented. They reduce the standard model (tree level) prediction by 40±3 % where the main shift and uncertainty stem from hadronic vacuum polarization loops. A similar reduction also occurs for the electron-electron atomic parity violating interaction. That effect can be at...

We speak a different language, and here our tongue is incomprehensible. The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption... but to this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things,...