papillary microcarcinoma of thyroid (pmc) as a variant of papillary carcinoma less than 1 cm in size is a new clinicopathological entity, with high incidence and good prognosis. there are many differences between pmc and clinically apparent papillary thyroid carcinoma. also, there are some pmc case reports with unusual metastasis and aggressive courses. prognostic factors are age, size and morp...

A multi-panel PMC infilled system, using polymer matrix composite (PMC) material, was introduced as new conceptual design for seismic retrofitting. A proposed multi panel PMC infilled system was composed of two basic structural components: inner PMC sandwich infills and outer FRP damping panels. The PMC material had high stiffness-to-weight and strength-to-weight ratios. Therefore, the addition...

The combination of different laxatives at reduced volumes may benefit patients by enhancing efficacy for bowel cleansing and increasing tolerability. However, evidence regarding combined preparations is scarce. This study evaluated whether the combined preparations are associated with enhanced efficacy and tolerability. This randomized phase II study had a single-blind, parallel-arm design. Bet...

The premotor cortex (PMC) is functionally lateralized, such that the left PMC is activated for unimanual movements of either hand, whereas the right PMC is particularly active during complex bimanual movements. Here we ask the question whether the high activation of right PMC in the bimanual context reflects either hemispheric specialization or handedness. Left- and right-handed subjects perfor...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The premotor cortex (PMC) (Brodmann 6) contributes uniquely to proximal upper and lower limb power and plays a role in the organization of motor behaviors. We assessed the degree to which PMC damage affected functional outcome. METHODS We prospectively compared the functional outcome of patients with a first stroke in the middle cerebral artery distribution that either ...

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Probabilistic model-checking (PMC) is a new frontier in model checking verification, useful for checking randomized algorithms, communications protocols with random components, etc. AI techniques have been incorporated into conventional model-checking, with great success. We wish to see if corresponding successes can be found by applying AI techniques to PMC. In this position paper, we introduc...

The parallel model combination (PMC) technique has been shown to achieve very good performance for speech recognition under noisy conditions. However, there still exist some problems based on the PMC formula. In this paper, we first investigated these problems and some modifications on the transformation process of PMC were proposed. Experimental results show that this modified PMC can provide ...