Wildfires have affected global forests and the Mediterranean area with increasing recurrency intensity in last years, climate change resulting reduced precipitations higher temperatures. To assess impact of wildfires on environment, burned mapping has become progressively more relevant. Initially carried out via field sketches, advent satellite remote sensing opened new possibilities, reducing ...

Landscapes of oak (Quercus) forests alternated with extensive fields dominated by rockroses (Cistus) are widespread throughout the Mediterranean Basin. Due to recurrency fires and mycological potential both Quercus Cistus fields, adequate management this landscape is a key forest objective. Although species considered super-productive in terms fungal production diversity, diversity productivity...

Abstract Background The incompetent bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) can be replaced or repaired using various surgical techniques. This study sought to assess the efficacy of external annuloplasty and postoperative reverse remodelling cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) compare results subcommissural annuloplasty. Methods Out a total 200 BAV repair performed between 2004 2018, 21 consecutive patients ...

T HIS PAPER considers two-person, zero-sum stochastic games with finite state space = {1, -, N} and in each state i E 2, two finite sets K(i) and L(i) of actions available to player 1 and 2, respectively. The state of the system is observed at equidistant epochs. When the system is observed to be in state i, the two players choose an action, or a randomization of actions out of K(i) and L(i), r...

BACKGROUND In the present retrospective analysis we analysed the therapeutic outcome of a set of patients, who were treated with chemoradiation (CRT) for recurrent pancreatic cancer (RPC) in a single institution. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty-one patients had a history of primary resection for pancreatic cancer. In case of an unresectable recurrency patients were treated with CRT at our institut...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE After the failure of first-line treatment, the clinical prognosis in head and neck cancer (HNSCC) deteriorates. Effective therapeutic strategies are limited due to the toxicity of previous treatments and the diminished tolerance of surrounding normal tissue. This study demonstrates a promising second-line regimen, with function preserving surgical tumor debulking, followe...

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is the most frequently torn ligament in the knee, and complete healing is unlikely due to lack of vascularization. Current approaches for the treatment of ACL injuries include surgical interventions and grafting, however recent reports show that surgeries have 94% recurrency, and that repaired tissues are biomechanically inferior to the native tissue. These nece...

OBJECTIVES Different patterns of invasion (representing different grades of tumor cell dissociation) are associated with prognostic outcome in cancer. We evaluated the prognostic value of different patterns of invasion (PI) in cervical carcinomas (CX). METHODS Six hundred eleven surgically treated CX (FIGO IB to IIB) were re-evaluated histologically regarding the PI, using a three-level scori...

Deep learning has enabled breakthroughs in machine learning, resulting in performance levels seeming on par with humans. This is particularly the case in computer vision where models can learn to classify objects in the images of a dataset. These datasets however often feature perfect information, whereas objects in the real world are frequently cluttered with other objects and thereby occluded...

OBJECTIVES Recently, several authors reported that Tc-99m DMSA renal scan frequently showed cortical defects of the involved kidneys even in the patients with acute pyelonephritis who did not show abnormal findings in the ultrasonography and intravenous pyelography (IVP). METHODS In order to evaluate the utilities of Tc-99m DMSA renal scan and the clinical meaning of cortical defects in the T...