BACKGROUND Ischemic complications after nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) have been associated with numerous variables. However, the impact of NSM flap thickness has been incompletely evaluated. METHODS NSM flap thickness was determined for all NSMs from 2006 to 2016 with available pre- or postoperative breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs). Demographics and outcomes were stratified by those...

this study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary nigella sativa meal (nsm) on the growth performance, blood parameters, carcass characteristics, egg yolk cholesterol and meat quality in japanese quail. for this purpose 300 one-day old japanese quail chicks in a completely randomized design was used with five treatments in four replicates )containing 15 birds each(. the experimenta...

This paper discusses the problem of developing the metalanguage for linguistic applications and introduces a tag set for the semantic annotation of verbs for the Tatar National Corpus. At present, there are no generally accepted standards for the development of corpus semantic annotation. In many cases, it is made by individual researchers or teams for one or another research project, and chara...

A pervasive challenge in programming theory and practice are feature combinations. Here, we propose a semantic framework that combines monad-based computational effects (e.g. store, nondeterminism, random), underdefined or free operations (e.g. actions in process algebra and automata, exceptions), and recursive definitions (e.g. loops, systems of process equations). The joint treatment of these...

The paper focuses on the description of the approach, taken within the ESPRIT BRA project ACQUILEX, towards: i) acquisition of semantic information from several machinereadable dictionaries (in four languages), and ii) its representation in a common Lexical Knowledge Base. Knowledge extraction is guided by a) empirical observations and b) theoretical hypotheses. As for representation, we stress...

The IEML research program promotes a radical innovation in the notation and processing of semantics. IEML (Information Economy MetaLanguage) is a regular language that provides new methods for semantic interoperability, semantic navigation, collective categorization and self-referential collective intelligence. This research program is compatible with the major standards of the Web of data and ...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate the incidence of nodal skip metastasis (NSM) to identify the risk factors that influence NSM and to assess the prognostic value of NSM in patients with thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). PATIENTS AND METHODS Between January 2009 and December 2013, 285 patients with ESCC with positive lymph nodes who underwent complete resection were enr...

In this paper, we present a new approach to the syntax and semantics of wh-questions. On the basis of an appropriate type hierarchy whose members model contributions of lexical items to sentence mood, we introduce a head-interrogative schema that licences wh-sentences syntactically and contributes the semantic interrogative operator. This syntactic basis allows the compositional construction of...

An object-oriented language with automatic synthesis of methods (programs) and transformations of OO descriptions using a logical metalanguage (Horn-clause logic) are considered. Automatic synthesis of methods (Proof-As-Program approach) is based on in-tuitionistic propositional calculus. The metalanguage expresses general knowledge related to classes and objects and it is used for describing t...