In recent years, outbreaks of kiwifruit bacterial canker (Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae, Psa) have caused huge economic losses to two major global producers, Italy and New Zealand. To evaluate the potential risk areas Psa, three modelling methods (MaxEnt, CLIMEX a Multi-Model Framework, including Support Vector Machine or SVM) were used. Current occurrence data for Psa collected from diff...

INTRODUCTION The aim of study was to establish pretreatment and postoperative factors which could predict the early biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHOD 754 patients had undergone radical prostatectomy since January 2002 to December 2008 in our department and were included in this prospective study. Exclusion criteria were: neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment...

INTRODUCTION This study aims to make an indirect comparison between enzalutamide and abiraterone acetate for mCRPC post-docetaxel. METHODS A search for published phase 3 trials was performed with PubMed. Indirect comparisons of enzalutamide (AFFIRM) to abiraterone acetate (COU-AA-301) on outcomes overall survival (OS), time to prostate-specific-antigen (PSA) progression, radiographic progress...

A parameter-self-adjusting Levenberg-Marquardt method (PSA-LMM) is proposed for solving a nonlinear system of equations F (x) = 0, where F : R → R is a semismooth mapping. At each iteration, the LM parameter μk is automatically adjusted based on the ratio between actual reduction and predicted reduction. The global convergence of PSALMM for solving semismooth equations is demonstrated. Under th...

In Japan at present, fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) is recommended for cancer screening while routine population-based prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening is not. In future it may be necessary to increase participation in the former and decrease it in the latter. Our objectives were to explore determinants of PSA-screening participation while simultaneously taking into account factors ...

INTRODUCTION We aimed to determine whether the number and type of risk factors are associated with biochemical recurrence-free survival after radical prostatectomy in men with D'Amico intermediate-risk prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between August 1998 and May 2013, 481 Japanese patients underwent antegrade radical prostatectomy. The relationships between the rate of PSA failure after...

PURPOSE The ability to determine the spatial and metabolic distribution of prostate cancer is essential in assessing initial stage, prognosis, and treatment efficacy. Current markers of tumor progression such as prostate-specific antigen (PSA) do not provide spatial information about tumor extent or regions of high metabolic activity. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN This study used the androgen-dependent...

BACKGROUND Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing is the primary method used to diagnose prostate cancer in the United States. Methods to integrate other risk factors associated with prostate cancer into individualized risk prediction are needed. We used prostate biopsy data from men who participated in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) to develop a predictive model of prostate cance...

The origins of crop diseases are linked to domestication of plants. Most crops were domesticated centuries--even millennia--ago, thus limiting opportunity to understand the concomitant emergence of disease. Kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) is an exception: domestication began in the 1930s with outbreaks of canker disease caused by P. syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa) first recorded in the 1980s. Based on...