2 Preface This thesis is a result of a final graduation project for the courses Business Information Technology and Telematics at the University of Twente. The research project is done in cooperation with Reinder Visser who also graduated on a part of the research project. At the start of this research project in June 2002, MMS and I-mode were just being introduced in the mobile market. Telenor...

Results: The recurrence rate after treatment with MMS was 16% for primary EMPD and 50% for recurrent EMPD. The 5-year tumor-free rates (Kaplan-Meier analysis) were 80% for primary tumors and 56% for recurrent tumors. Using MMS, the salvage rate (and, hence, overall cure rate) was 100%. Margins of 5 cm were required to clear 97% of the tumors. The recurrence rate after non-MMS ( from the literat...

Abstract Micrometeorites (MMs) offer glimpses of the diverse nature parent bodies that accreted during first few million years after formation proto-Sun. The present work explores this by evaluating ablation oxygen from MMs atmospheric entry, and resulting effect on isotopic composition. A Chemical ABlation MODel (CABMOD) combined with measured isotope composition MMs, shows at temperatures bel...

In a Serial-Parallel Multistage Manufacturing System (SP-MMS), identical work-stations are utilized at each stage to meet the productivity and line balance requirements. In such a system, parts could go through different process routes and some routes may merge at certain stage(s). Due to the existence of multiple variation streams, it is challenging to model and analyze variation propagation i...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine if ultrasound (US) measurements of anterior neck soft tissue thickness at hyoid bone (DSHB), thyrohyoid membrane (DSEM), and anterior commissure (DSAC) levels can be used to predict difficult laryngoscopy. MATERIAL/METHODS We included 203 patients age 20-65 years scheduled to undergo general anesthesia in this prospective observational study. ...

Mitotic recombination induced by six alkylating agents has been studied in the wing-spot test of Drosophila melanogaster. The model mutagens chosen have different models of action at the DNA level. These are: the direct-acting small alkylating agent methylmethanesulfonate (MMS), the small promutagens N-dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) and N-diethylnitrosamine (DEN), the bifunctional cross-linking alky...

یکی از مهمترین مراحل در عملیات معدنکاری، انتخاب روش استخراج مناسب برای منبع معدنی است. فرایند انتخاب روش معدنکاری برای استخراج منابع معدنی، mining method selection (mms) نامیده می شود. بعد از انجام فرایند mms و انتخاب روش معدنکاری معمولاً جایگزینی آن با روش دیگر امکان پذیر نیست، زیرا این کار ممکن است آنقدر هزینه بر باشد که کل پروژه را از لحاظ اقتصادی غیرممکن سازد. بنابراین mms یک فرایند تقریباً ب...

Body condition scoring (BCS) systems primarily assess body fat. Both overweight and underweight animals may have loss of lean tissue that may not be noted using standard BCS systems. Catabolism of lean tissue can occur rapidly, may account for a disproportionate amount of body mass loss in sick cats and can have deleterious consequences for outcome. Therefore, along with evaluation of body fat,...

Introduction: We report an elderly gentleman with Extramammary Paget’s disease (EMPD) treated Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) using Toluidine blue staining intraoperatively as to detect the cells. Case Presentation: An man presented erythematous plaque on left inguinal fold which showed in-situ EMPD histopathological examination. Investigations for secondary were negative and patient was MMS. D...