A child receiving busulphan treatment for adult-type chronic myeloid leukaemia responded well for four years before the onset of complications leading to "busulphan lung'. Pulmonary function tests (PFT) were useful in monitoring the development of this condition and we recommended regular PFT for patient receiving busulphan treatment.

While the field of emotions research has benefited from new developments in neuroscience, many theoretical questions remain unsolved. We propose that integrating our iterative reprocessing (IR) framework with the passive frame theory (PFT) may help unify competing theoretical perspectives of emotion. Specifically, we propose that PFT and the IR framework offer a point of origin for emotional ex...

Hyperthermia (HT) improves the efficacy of anti-cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, HT also inevitably evokes stress responses and increases the expression of heat-shock proteins (HSPs) in cancer cells. Among the HSPs, HSP70 is known as a pro-survival protein. In this study, we investigated the sensitizing effect of pifithrin (PFT)-μ, a small molecule inhibitor of HSP70, when three h...

Reliable information about the geographic distribution and abundance of major plant functional types (PFTs) around the world is increasingly needed for global change research. Using remote sensing techniques to map PFTs is a relatively recent field of research. This paper presents a method to map PFTs from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data using a multisource eviden...

OBJECTIVE Current clinical trials are investigating the role of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) versus sublobar resection for patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and marginal pulmonary function tests (M-PFTs). We compared the outcomes of patients undergoing lobectomy with M-PFTs characterized by 2 accepted M-PFT criteria. METHODS A total of 1,259 consecutive patient...

Research on trajectory tracking is crucial for the development of autonomous vehicles. This paper presents a scheme by utilizing model predictive control (MPC) and preview-follower theory (PFT), which includes reference generation module MPC controller. The could calculate lateral acceleration at preview point PFT to update state variables, generate yaw rate in each prediction point. Since rang...

INTRODUCTION Spirometry is a screening tool for evaluating the degree of restrictive lung disease in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Observations indicated that some patients could not complete the test. The aim of the study was to identify the prevalence, causes and clinical predictors of an inadequate pulmonary function test (PFT) in SSc. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed...

OBJECTIVE Fatty liver disease is the most commonly encountered form of chronic liver dysfunction in routine medical care and is closely associated with type 2 diabetes. We aimed to elucidate how the use of new medications affects the incidence of fatty liver disease and amount of visceral fat, both of which are associated with diabetes. METHODS Abdominal ultrasonography was performed to asses...

Benevolent leadership, a traditional Chinese leadership style generated under the influence of Confucianism, has been under growing discussion since its proposal. However, existing research has focused mainly on the consequences of benevolent leadership, and research probing into its antecedents is scarce. To fill such research gap, the current study aims to explore the effect of the congruence...

The decoupling limit of D3 branes in a Melvin universe defines a sector of string theory known as Puff Field Theory (PFT) a theory with non-local dynamics but without gravity. In this work, we present a systematic analysis of the non-local states of strongly coupled PFT using gravitational holography. And we are led to a remarkable new holographic dictionary. We show that the theory admits stat...