Minimizing metastasis

Minimizing Cumulative

Cumulative error limits the usefulness of context in applications utilizing contextual information. It is especially a problem in spontaneous speech systems where unexpected input, out-of-domain utterances and missing information are hard to t into the standard structure of the contextual model. In this paper we discuss how our approaches to recognizing speech acts address the problem of cumula...

Minimizing Maximality

Judgments about the locus of synchronic personal identity are often guided by the intuition that “I” am the thing that thinks, or minimally, that neither my body nor any part of it is a thinker distinct from me. Ted Sider argues in a series of articles that in order to reconcile this intuition with the principle of microphysical supervenience, we must accept ‘being a thinker’ as a maximal prope...

Minimizing Shortfall

Cancer metastasis at a glance: A brief view of Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis

Cancer initiation and progression is a challenging scenario through developmental processes, which may be more complicated by occurrence of metastasis. Basically, diverse genetic alterations, including mutations, formation of truncated proteins and related pathways play key roles either in diagnosis or the most influential therapeutic purposes. ...

Zosteriform metastasis of ovarian carcinoma

Distant metastases are rare during the course of ovarian carcinoma. Ovarian epithelial adenocarcinomas rarely metastasize to the skin which is seen in less than 4% of patients. It usually presents as subcutaneous nodules and, less commonly, as inflammatory metastases which mimic cellulitis or viral or bacterial skin infections. The histology in most of the tumours is grade 1 or 2 serous p...