BACKGROUND Transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) of the glottis is increasingly utilized in the current management of early glottic cancer, its advantages being administrative ease, potential to be repeated, ability to keep radiotherapy and open laryngeal surgery available as salvage options, and low complication rates. METHODS A retrospective chart review of prospectively gathered data on all p...

With the increasing complexity of today’s system-on-chip (SoC) designs, taking advantage of transaction level modeling (TLM) is being more widespread. TLM allows better simulation performances and early system prototyping. Therefore, the quality of a transaction level model needs to be assured. In this paper, we present a fully automated runtime verification framework for the assertion-based ve...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the functional and oncological outcomes of patients treated for T3 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Specifically comparing transoral laser microsurgery and radiotherapy/chemoradiotherapy treatment modalities. METHOD A retrospective review of patients treated for T3 laryngeal SCC between 2002 and 2010 was undertaken. RESULTS Forty-nine p...

The current development towards multiple processor cores in personal computers is making distribution and parallelization of simulation software increasingly important. The possible speedups from parallelism are however often limited with the current centralized solver algorithms, which are commonly used in today’s simulation environments. An alternative method investigated in this work utilize...

BACKGROUND T3 laryngeal cancer encompasses heterogeneous lesions whose treatment is still debated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) in management of selected T3 glottic and supraglottic cancers. METHODS Fifty-six patients with selected T3 glottic and supraglottic squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) treated by TLM ± selective neck dissection ± adjuvant t...

Dual scattering channel (DSC) schemes naturally extend the transmission line matrix (TLM) numerical method beyond the lines set up by P.B. Johns and coworkers. Conceptually, DSC schemes retain from TLM the typical formal splitting of the computed fields into incident and reflected components, interchanged and scattered between adjacent cells, without yet a need for transmission lines. They gene...

Without a well-structured system design methodology, it is no more doable to cope with the dramatically increasing complexity in modern embedded system designs. Platform methodology, which often goes with hardware/software co-design with virtual prototyping, is the most popular solution [3]. Although it has been helpful for reduction of engineering costs and the length of design cycle due to th...

in this paper two nodes to model isotropic and anisotropic media in transmission line matrix method (tlm) are presented. by using these two nodes, the permeability and permittivity of an anisotropic media can be modeled simultaneously. another application of these nodes is in modeling media with permittivity and permeability less than one. in the conventional 2 dimensional tlm, the stubs repres...

BACKGROUND The association of obesity and lean mass (LM) has not been examined well in children and adolescents, and it remains controversial. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship of body mass index (BMI) categories and regional obesity with total and regional LM in children and adolescents. METHODS A total of 1408 children and adolescents (boys 58.9%; girl...