Many methods have been adopted by shipping operators to evaluate, analyze and select ports of calls. Majority of these methods are generally based on evaluating different port performance criteria involved. The ports performance criteria are interrelated and are of a complex nature. Comparison of ports by different evaluation methods provides a basis for implementing operating strategies for...

The notion of a scale on a pointset is implicit in the classical proof of the Kondo uniformization theorem for E^ sets and in the uniformization theorem of Martin and Solovay [2] for X3 sets, from the assumption that measurable cardinals exist. It was formally isolated in Moschovakis [3], where it was shown (granting projective determinacy) that all projective sets admit projective scales — and...

The article by Nam and de Groot provides a good overview of treatment options and considerations forglioblastoma. Surgery is a critical mainstay providing diagnostic and therapeutic benefits. The importance of extent of resection for glioblastoma has been debated for decades. Not only important at diagnosis, the relevanceof extent of resection at recurrence is increasing as patients with gliobl...

Materials and Methods: CT scans and spirometry were obtained on 1519 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) subjects, 269 smoker controls, and 184 nonsmoker controls from the Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Indentify Surrogate Endpoints (ECLIPSE) study. CT scanswere analyzed using the threshold technique (%< 950HU) and a low attenuation cluster analysis. Two radiologists scored emphy...