0017-9310/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.02 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 215 895 1373; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (Y. Sun). In this study, non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations are performed to determine the effective thermal conductivity of nanocomposites embedded with a variety of nanoparticles. The ...

Background.  The use of suppressive antibiotics in treatment of orthopedic hardware infections (OHIs), including spinal hardware infections, prosthetic joint infections, and infections of internal fixation devices, is controversial. Methods.  Over a 4-year period at 2 academic medical centers, patients with OHI who were treated with debridement and retention of hardware components, with single-...

Dendritic cells (DCs) are key antigen-presenting cells with a potential role in tumor vaccines. We investigated the hypothesis that early reconstitution of DCs after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT) improves survival. We also correlated DC reconstitution with complications of relapse and acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD). Fifty patients underwent transplantation be...

PURPOSE Study goals were to characterize gastrointestinal effects of proton therapy (PT) in a large cohort of patients treated for prostate cancer, identify factors associated with rectal bleeding (RB), and compare RB between patients receiving investigational protocols versus those in outcome-tracking protocols. METHODS AND MATERIALS A total of 1285 consecutive patients were treated with PT ...

Correspondence: Koichi Jeremiah Aoki Department of Applied Physics, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui, 910-0017 Japan Tel +817 7627 8665 Fax +817 7627 8750 Email [email protected] Abstract: The solubility of ferrocene in aqueous solution is known to be approximately 0.04 mmol/dm. The solubility values determined by voltammetry have been overestimated because of adsorption on electrodes...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to assess the impact of weather phenomena on the occurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) in the Plzeň region (Czech Republic). METHODS A retrospective analysis of 450 cases of SP in 394 patients between 1991 and 2013. We observed changes in average daily values of atmospheric pressure, air temperature and daily maximum wind gust for each day of...

We characterize, classify and axiomatize all subvarieties of IMTL(3), the variety of IMTL-algebras given by the equation ¬(x3) ∨ x ≈ >. We also give a canonical set of generators for each one. Introduction and preliminaries An IMTL-algebra is a bounded residuated lattice A = 〈A,∧,∨, ∗,→,¬,⊥,>〉, where ∧ and ∨ are meet and join, 〈∗,→〉 is a residuated pair, ¬ is the associated negation (i.e. ¬x =d...

This work describes a proposal to improve web document retrieval by facing the main problems in document searching: first, traditional web search engines miss documents that are relevant to the user query and retrieve many that are not. Second, the query formulation is not as accessible as it could be, and some users have difficulties in expressing boolean queries. To improve the quality of Int...