BACKGROUND Measurement of residual disease following neoadjuvant chemotherapy that accurately predicts long-term survival in locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) is an essential requirement for clinical trials development. Several methods to assess tumor response have been described. However, the agreement between methods and correlation with survival in independent cohorts has not been report...

E(u,ut) = f |Vu|2 + m\u\2 + |ut|2 dx — [ |u|"+1 dx, (1.3) 2 JRn a+ 1 JR„ which represents a Lyapunov function of the problem, i.e., it is decreasing along any nonstationary trajectory of (1.1). Employing the potential-well arguments of PAYNE-SATTINGER [16] one observes that any solution of (1.1) emanating from sufficiently small initial data exists globally for all t e R+ and tends to zero with...

Traditional debugging visualizes the execution state at a certain point in time. With omniscient debugging, it is possible to navigate and inspect the execution at different points in time. This demo present a prototype of a live coding environment that makes it easy to navigate the execution and extends omniscient debugging with an additional dimension in order to navigate to different version...

Viduids are African finches that are obligate brood parasites, using other species to incubate their eggs and care for their young (Payne 1996, 1997a, b, 1998). Of 20 viduid species, 19 are indigobirds and whydahs in the genus Vidua, and one is the Cuckoo Finch Anomalospiza imberbis. Recent analysis of mtDNA sequence data supports the idea that Anomalospiza and Vidua are each others’ closest re...

The study deals with the Payne effect (a substantial decrease in the storage modulus of a particle-reinforced elastomer with an increase in the amplitude of mechanical oscillations). The influence of temperature, concentration of filler and amplitude and frequency of strains is analyzed on the mechanical response of filled rubbery polymers. Constitutive equations are derived using the concept o...

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Payne and Jones (1957) presented a useful formula for estimating the abnormality of differences between an individual's scores on two tests. Extending earlier work by Sokal and Rohlf (1995) and Crawford and Howell (in press), we developed a modified paired samples t test as an alternative to this formula. Unlike the Payne and Jones formula, the new method treats data from a normative or control...

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