With the increasing availability of low-cost digital cameras with small or medium sized sensors, more and more airborne images are available with high resolution, which enhances the possibility in establishing three dimensional models for urban areas. The high accuracy of representation of buildings in urban areas is required for asset valuation or disaster recovery. Many automatic methods for ...

OBJECTIVE Despite immune recovery in individuals on combination antiretroviral therapy (CART), the frequency of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HANDs) remains high. Immune recovery is typically achieved after initiation of ART from the nadir, or the lowest historical CD4. The present study evaluated the probability of neuropsychological impairment (NPI) and HAND as a function of CD4 na...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate the relation between the kinetics of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) decline after the initiation of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) and overall survival (OS) in men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC). METHODS The authors' institutional database was used to identify a cohort of men with metastatic HSPC who were t...

Healthy term babies undergo a physiological nadir in serum calcium levels by 24-48 hours of age. The nadir may be related to the delayed response of parathyroid and calcitonin hormones in a newborn. This nadir may drop to hypocalcemic levels in high-risk neonates including infants of diabetic mothers, preterm infants and infants with perinatal asphyxia. The early onset hypocalcemia which presen...

this research endeavors to assess the following questions on the following topic. mohammad khan balouch was one of the political and military elite at the end of safavid dynasty. he was supported by the racial group called balouchs and helped by sunnite sects in southern parts of iran. what were the main factors for his rise? what were the fate and the results of his movement? the rebellion hap...

The effect of an insulin-induced hypoglycemia was examined in 14 type I diabetic patients. After an overnight blood glucose normalization, each patient received an additional intravenous bolus of 3 U regular insulin at 0900 h (time 0). Blood glucose was continuously recorded up to 180 min. Plasma samples were assayed for p-thromboglobulin ((5TG, ng/ml), pancreatic glucagon (pg/ml), cortisol (|x...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the prognostic significance of undetectable ultrasensitive prostate-specific antigen (PSA) nadir in patients who received radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer. METHODS We reviewed records of 384 patients who received RP for prostate cancer and were followed for at least 2 years with ultrasensitive PSA testing. Undetectable ultrasensitive PSA level was defin...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2015;4(S1) www.amepc.org/tau 37 patients (60.7%). The mean time to reach the nadir PSA was 11.6 months after operation. The short-term adverse events after operation included fever in 4 patients, hematuria in 7 patients, and hematochezia in 4 patients. The most common long-term adverse event was urinary irritation (...

Plevral multikistik mezotelyal proliferasyon çok nadir bir serozal patolojidir. Bu yazıda dispne ve göğüs ağrısı şikayetiyle acil servise başvuran ve hemotoraksla prezente plevral multikistik mezotelyal proliferasyon olgusunu paylaşmak istedik. Literatürde plevral multikistik mezotelyal proliferasyon tanımlanan bir olgu bildirilmiştir. Plevral multikistik mezotelyal proliferasyon nadir bir beni...