UNLABELLED Pretreatment lymphocyte count (LC) has been associated with prognosis and chemotherapy response in several cancers. The predictive value of LC for stage II colorectal cancer (CRC) and for high-risk patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) has not been determined. A retrospective review of prospectively collected data from 1332 consecutive stage II CRC patients who underwent c...

El dolor, que parecería contar entre las emociones más básicas, no integra, sin embargo, el catálogo aristotélico de los páthe acuerdo con libro II Retórica. Es nuestra intención en este artículo analizar, ayuda la crítica, razones tal ausencia y acercarnos a través del léxico dolor al ritual fúnebre como se despliega kommós tragedia euripidea Troyanas (vv. 1287-1332), fin calibrar su presencia...

Three species of parasites of the genus Plasmodium (P. relictum, P. vaughani, P. polare) and 6 species of the genus Leucocytozoon (L. fringillinarum, L. majoris, L. dubreuili, L. eurystomi, L. danilewskyi, L. bennetti) were found in the blood of 1332 wild birds of 95 species (mostly passerines), collected in the period 1997-2001. Data on the morphology, size, hosts, prevalence and infection int...

Results on stress analysis for single-crystal diamonds are presented. Isolated crystals were studied by Raman mapping and depth profiling techniques, using confocal microscopy. Diamonds were deposited on molybdenum and tantalum by hot filament and microwave CVD methods at growth rates between 10 and 30 μm·h. Crystals from 10 to 40 μm size were examined. Local stress was evaluated by analyzing t...

Polarized and depolarized Raman spectra are obtained for a number of synthetic polynucleotides containing adenine, uracil, and thymine bases. The depolarization ratios are determined by two methods: (1) by dividing the 1-spectrum by the 11-spectrum and ( 2 ) after curve fitting. Overlapping bands, isotope splitting, reorientational broadening, and noncoincidence splitting affect the magnitude o...