Background & Objective: Cytogenetic abnormalities in Multiple myeloma (MM) has emerged as the most important factor that determine the prognosis and survival. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) can detect a greater number of cytogenetic abnormalities as compared to conventional karyotyping and hence has become the standard test in determining genetic abnormalities in MM....

Methods For this study, ten subjects with medication-refractory symptoms or side effects of advanced Parkinson’s disease will be enrolled. Each patient will be treated with a “sub-therapeutic” (stage 1) focused ultrasound subthalamotomy and observed for thirty days. Those who develop severe and involuntary movements, such as hemiballismus, will be excluded from the second stage procedure. For t...

In low power wireless sensor networks, MAC protocols usually employ periodic sleep/wake schedule to reduce idle listening time. Even though this mechanism is simple and efficient, it results in high end-toend latency and low throughput. On the other hand, the previously proposed CSMA/CA based MAC protocols have tried to reduce inter-node interference at the cost of increased latency and lower n...

Web applications written in JavaScript are regularly used for dealing with sensitive or personal data. Consequently, reasoning about their security properties has become an important problem, which is made very difficult by the highly dynamic nature of the language, particularly its support for runtime code generation. As a first step towards dealing with this, we propose to investigate securit...

This paper examines the issue of handling outputs in DEA that occur at different stages in time. In some situations, the output set occur at the different period of time, meaning that the produced outputs at the first period of time impact on the production of outputs of next time . This problem setting gives rise to the phenomenon of time-staged outputs. Specifically, the two outputs occur at ...

The traditional approaches of modeling and estimation of highly skewed deposits have led to incorrect evaluations, creating challenges and risks in resource management. The low concentration of the rare earth element (REE) deposits, on one hand, and their strategic importance, on the other, enhances the necessity of multivariate modeling of these deposits. The wide variations of the grades and ...

Trust is a key factor in consumer decisions about website engagement. Consumers will engage with sites they deem trustworthy and turn away from those they mistrust. In this paper we present a framework for understanding trust factors in web based health advice. The framework is derived from a staged model of trust and allows predictions to be made concerning user engagement with different healt...

BACKGROUND This study used receiver operating characteristic curve to analyze Surveillance, Epidemiology and End RESULTS (SEER) Ewing sarcoma (ES) outcome data. The aim of this study was to identify and optimize ES-specific survival prediction models and sources of survival disparities. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study analyzed socio-economic, staging and treatment factors available in the SE...