BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Gemcitabine is used as an effective drug for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. Serum CA19-9 has been proven as the most sensitive and specific serum marker for pancreatic cancer. This study was to investigate the value of serum CA19-9 in evaluating treatment efficacy and predicting prognosis of patients with pancreatic cancer treated by gemcitabine-based chemoth...

Mechanical seals are the most common means of sealing industrial centrifugal pumps. There are a wide variety of seal options including the use of single or dual seal arrangements. While dual seals provide benefits in leakage containment and monitoring, single seals continue to be widely used due to their lower cost and simpler designs. Newer piping plans however offer options to increase leakag...

According to the United States Census Bureau, 4/10 Americans identified as a race or ethnicity other than Caucasian between 2010 and 2020. Despite this finding, 47% of dermatologists dermatology residents felt their training was deficient in skin color (SoC) content. Prior studies have found that there is paucity SoC images general education; however, are no examining representation dermatologi...

Título libro: Ciudad regular. Manual para diseñar mallas y tramas urbanas Autores: Joan Busquets, Dingliang Yang Michael Keller Edición: Oro editions, 2020. 682 pp. ISBN: 978-1951541491

Citation Format: Nagel, Stefan, and Kenneth J. Singleton, YEAR, Internet Appendix to “Estimation and Evaluation of Conditional Asset Pricing Models,” Journal of Finance VOL, pages, http://www.afajof.org/IA/YEAR.asp. Please note: Wiley-Blackwell is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing material) sho...

Abstract Introduction Sexuality and religion are intricately intertwined. Although is associated with sexual taboos, religious texts among the first most consistent sources to discuss sex, more specifically, dysfunction. Sexual dysfunction has always been widely prevalent, a cause of individual, social, spiritual distress. As sex society continue evolving within frameworks thought practice, it ...

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BACKGROUND Electrical burn is less prevalent in comparison to other forms of burn injuries, however this type of injury is considered as one of the most devastating due to high morbidity and mortality. Understanding the epidemiologic pattern of electrical burns helps determine the contributing factors leading to this type of injury. OBJECTIVES Epidemiologic studies on electrical burn are scar...