introduction: serum c-reactive protein (crp) is believed to be increased in metastatic urothelial cancer of the bladder. however, the changes depend on the stage and grade of the upper tract urothelial carcinoma (utuc). this study aimed to compare low-range and high-range serum crp and haptoglobin in new cases of utuc. materials and methods: blood was collected from newly diagnosed patients wit...

to enhance the certainty of the grade block model, it is necessary to increase the number of exploratory drillholes and collect more data from the deposit. the inputs of the process of locating these additional drillholes include the variogram model parameters, locations of the samples taken from the initial drillholes, and the geological block model. the uncertainties of these inputs will lead...

The Grade of Membership (GoM) model is a hierarchical mixed-membership model used to characterize underlying latent classes based on categorical data. When using GoM models to analyze survey data, the sampling design needs to be appropriately modeled. Linear mixed-effect models (LME’s) easily model the stratification and clustering in sampling designs. This paper introduces a modification of th...

To investigate the composition distribution that develops in continuously-cast steel during a grade change, an efficient, accurate, and user-friendly computational model has been developed. The model is fully transient and consists of three submodels, which account for mixing in the tundish, mixing in the liquid core of the strand, and solidification. The first submodel of mixing in the tundish...

Latent class and the Grade of Membership (GoM) models are two examples of latent structure models. Latent class models are discrete mixture models. The GoM model has been originally developed as an extension of latent class models to a continuous mixture. This note describes a constrained latent class model which is equivalent to the GoM model, and provides a detailed proof of this equivalence....

The synergistic effects of recombinant human tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) and single-chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator (scu-PA) on coronary arterial thrombolysis were investigated in open-chest dogs with thrombosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery and a superimposed high-grade stenosis. A 90% stenosis was generated by external constriction, reducing blood fl...

Although high-grade serous carcinoma involving the ovary historically was thought to originate from the ovarian surface epithelium, a growing body of literature suggests that a large proportion may arise from fallopian tube secretory epithelial cells (FTSECs) and be better termed high-grade pelvic serous carcinoma (HGPSC). The clinical ramifications of clearly understanding tumorigenesis are hi...