OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to investigate the frequency of symptomatic radiation pneumonitis (RP) after CyberKnife lung stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and to evaluate predictive factors of symptomatic RP. METHODS 56 patients with peripheral non-small-cell lung cancer were treated using the CyberKnife® VSI™ System (Accuracy Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) between May 2013 and September ...

F1 materials of half-diallel crosses for nine characters in lentils were studied correlation, path-coefficient, and selection index. The phenotypic component variation (σ2p) was higher than the genotypic (σ2g). highest σ2g σ2pwere obtained CAMF. Investigation showed that correlations (rg) respective (rp) most characters. SWPP a highly significant positive correlation coefficient with other exce...

We show that by taking a certain scaling limit of a Euclideanised form of the Plebanski–Demianski metrics one obtains a family of local toric Kähler–Einstein metrics. These can be used to construct local Sasaki–Einstein metrics in five dimensions which are generalisations of the Y p,q manifolds. In fact, we find that these metrics are diffeomorphic to those recently found by Cvetic, Lu, Page an...

Data from 1799 Large White and 1522 Landrace boars were used to obtain genetic correlations between production, carcase and meat quality traits. Variance components were obtained by REML procedures applying an average information algorithm. Traits analysed included average daily gain from 3 to 18 weeks of age (ADG1) and average daily gain, feed intake and feed conversion ratio from 18 to 22 wee...

BACKGROUND Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is primarily a treatment option for medically inoperable patients, who are often elderly. However, few studies report the effects of SBRT in elderly patients. Thus, we retrospectively analyzed clinical outcomes and feasibility following treatment of very elderly patients (age ≥ 85 years) with stage Ι NSCLC a...

To estimate the heritability (h2) of postrigor calpastatin activity (CA), 555 steers were reared and processed conventionally. Breed-types included purebreds (Angus [A], Braunvieh [B], Charolais [C], Gelbvieh [G], Hereford [H], Limousin [L], Pinzgauer [P], Red Poll [RP], and Simmental [S]), composite populations (MARC I [1/4 C, 1/4 B, 1/4 L, 1/8 H, 1/8 A], MARC II [1/4 S, 1/4 G, 1/4 H, 1/4 A], ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the prognostic factors for patients with local or locally advanced prostate cancer treated with external beam radiotherapy (RT) and high dose rate brachytherapy (HDR) according to the RTOG-ASTRO Phoenix Consensus Conference. MATERIALS AND METHODS The charts of 209 patients treated between 1997 and 2005 with localized RT and HDR as a boost at the Department of Radiation Onc...