PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between lymph node yield (LNY) from central (CND) and lateral (LND) neck dissections and risk of recurrence in patients undergoing primary surgery for well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma (WDPTC). METHODS Clinical data were reviewed from all patients with biopsy-proven WDPTC who underwent primary total thyroidectomy wit...

The complexity of social-ecological systems (SES) is rooted in the outcomes of node activities connected by network topology. Thus far, in network dynamics research, the connectivity degree (CND), indicating how many nodes are connected to a given node, has been the dominant concept. However, connectivity focuses only on network topology, neglecting the crucial relation to node activities, and ...

BACKGROUND Indications for performing a prophylactic central neck dissection (pCND) in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) remain controversial. It is unclear how identification of lymph node (LN) metastases should impact the decision to treat with radioactive iodine (RAI). The goals of this study were to identify indications for performing pCND and identify factors that predict the use of adjuvant ...

IMPORTANCE Central neck dissection (CND) is considered an imperative part of the treatment of patients with high-risk, well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma. OBJECTIVE To examine the presence of lymphatic tissue and/or metastatic nodes in the upper part of the paratracheal region to determine the need to dissect this region as part of a paratracheal neck dissection. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PAR...

The cold molecular gas in the circumnuclear disk (CND) of radio galaxies provides critical information for understanding mass accretion onto active galactic nuclei. We present first detection and maps HCN J=1-0 HCO+ emission lines from region a nearby galaxy, NGC 4261, using Northern Extended Millimeter Array. Both are detected at radial velocity +-700 km/s relative to systemic they arise CND w...

Objective : to study of the features spread anxiety syndrome in patients with chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCD) outpatient practice. Materials and methods included persons both sexes over 18 years age who visited facilities a large industrial center Eastern Siberia summer 2022. Diagnosis NCDs was established according modern clinical guidelines. The examined were divided into two groups....

Assessing concrete condition is of major interest either for looking at weak or more damaged areas, or for reliability computations. NDT measurements provide an interesting way offering a quick overview on the material condition. One of their main drawback is that their results cannot be directly linked with material properties. This paper presents how a collaborative research program has been ...

BACKGROUND Debates persist around the world over the development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMO). News media has been shown to both reflect and influence public perceptions of health and science related debates, as well as policy development. To better understand the news coverage of GMOs in China, we analyzed the content of articles in two Chinese newspapers that relate to the ...

We show two sets of results applying the theory of extractors to resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity: Most strings in easy sets have nearly optimal polynomial-time CD complexity. This extends work of Sipser Sip83] and Buhrman and Fortnow BF97]. We use extractors to extract the randomness of strings. In particular we show how to get from an arbitrary string, an incompressible string which enc...