objective: the current study aimed to determine the efficacy of radioiodine-131 (131i) ablation therapy with thyroid hormone replacement one day before 131i administration in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer (dtc). methods: this retrospective study included 29 patients who underwent 131i therapies twice for dtc during 6-12 months.  since all the patients obviously had residual l...

an in vivo experiment was conducted to determine the effect of dietary betaine supplementation (betafin®) as a replacement for methionine on broiler performance and carcass characteristics. in a completely randomized design (crd) with five treatments of betaine levels (at 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100% in replacement for methionine) and five replicates of 10 birds/replicate, two hundred fifty-day-...

In 1996, a world chess champion was defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue. Early in 2016 a human master of Go, a game considerably more complex than chess, lost to AlphaGo from Google’s DeepMind. As arti cial intelligence (AI) improves, some predict that computers will be able to do any human task. The ctitious “steel-driving man” John Henry died competing against his machine replacement. Will computers ...

Today power consumption is considered to be one of the important issues. Therefore, its reduction plays a considerable role in developing systems. Previous studies have shown that approximately 50% of total power consumption is used in cache memories. There is a direct relationship between power consumption and replacement quantity made in cache. The less the number of replacements is, the less...

there are occasional reports of using the appendix to replace sections of the ureters, and to our knowledge, only a couple of them were in the left side. we used the appendix as a ureteral substitute in two cases in technically difficult parts, the upper left ureter and the first part of the right ureter. follow-ups of8 years and 6 months in right and left side cases, respectively, are impressi...

ly, we may picture an actor with a mail queue on which all . communications are placed in the order in which they arrive and an actor machine8 which points to a particular cell in the mail queue. The end of a communication on the mail queue can be indicated by some special symbol reserved for the purpose.' We represent this pictorially as in Fig. 3.1. When an actor machine Xn accepts the nth co...

Background and purpose - Assessment of potential disparities in access to care is a vital part of achieving equity in health and healthcare. We have therefore studied the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on the rates of knee and hip replacement due to osteoarthritis. Methods - This was a cohort study in Skåne, Sweden. We included all residents aged ≥ 35 years with consultations between 2004...

Machine vision is a superior replacement for human vision in applications such as high-speed verification and testing. We review trends and issues in applying machine vision. In the last few years, machine vision systems have improved dramatically in performance, ease-of-use, intelligence, and cost. Applying machine vision to verification and testing is now relatively easy and inexpensive. Succ...