In this single-center, population-based, and retrospective study, we analyzed the outcome of 49 patients with solitary bone plasmacytoma (SBP) and 28 patients with solitary extramedullary plasmacytoma (SEP), all treated with radiotherapy. Laminectomy was performed in 18/30 SBP patients with vertebral involvement and tumour resection in 10 SEP patients. Overall survival and cause of death for ea...

We analyzed a set of 52 fast and wide, frontside western hemispheric (FWFW) CMEs in conjunction with solar energetic particle (SEP) and radio burst data and found that 42 of these CMEs were associated with SEPs. All but two of the 42 SEP-associated FWFW CMEs (95%) were interacting with preceding CMEs or dense streamers. Most of the remaining 10 SEP-poor FWFW CMEs had either insignificant or no ...

Aqueous suspensions of clay particles, such as montmorillonite (MMT) platelets and sepiolite (Sep) rods, tend to form gels at concentrations around 1 vol %. For Sep rods, adsorbing sodium polyacrylate to the surface allows for an isotropic-nematic phase separation to be seen instead. Here, MMT is added to such Sep suspensions, resulting in a complex phase behavior. Across a range of clay concen...

SEP continuously balances its commitment to geophysical research with its maintenance and improvement of its computing environment. We suggest that SEP could save a significant amount of time currently expended on the computing environment by simplifying its system, in particular, by reducing the number of supported computer platforms. We suggest a conceptually different computer environment in...

3 Some versions of proof-theoretic semantics 6 3.1 The semantics of implications: Admissibility, derivability, rules . . . . . 6 3.1.1 Lorenzen’s operative logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1.2 Von Kutschera’s Gentzen semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.1.3 Schroeder-Heister’s extension of natural deduction . . . . . . . . 7 3.2 The Semantics of derivations as based ...

This letter addresses the problem of finding the inverse symbol-error probability (SEP) expression for coherent detection of -ary phase-shift keying with multichannel reception and maximal ratio combining in Rayleigh fading. To this aim, we derive upper and lower bounds on SEP that are simply invertible and uniformly tight for all values of signal-to-noise ratio. This enables us to obtain tight...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with progression in the health-seeking process for hearing loss. METHOD Logistic regression of data from a cross-sectional survey representative of noninstitutionalized, 50 years and older population of England (ELSA wave 2, 2004). Using self-reported hearing difficulty as starting point, we examined the association betwe...

Objective To provide a comprehensive transnational overview of wait times for epilepsy surgery in Canada and Mexico. Methods We reviewed all cases referred for epilepsy surgery between 2007 and 2015 at the Saskatchewan Epilepsy Program Royal University Hospital (SEP) (n = 70; Saskatoon, Canada) and the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (NINN) (n = 76; Mexico City, Mexico) and c...

BACKGROUND Health disparities exist among and within countries, while developing and low income countries suffer more. The aim of this study was to quantify cancer disparities with regard to socioeconomic position (SEP) in 22 districts of Tehran, Iran. METHOD According to the national cancer registry, 7599 new cancer cases were recorded within 22 districts of Tehran in 2008. Based on combined...

Much has been written about the measurement of socio-economic position (SEP) in high-income countries (HIC). Less has been written for an epidemiology, health systems and public health audience about the measurement of SEP in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The social stratification processes in many LMIC-and therefore the appropriate measurement tools-differ considerably from those in...