Figure 4. Axial gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of a 63-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma 1month after treatment with IRE. Note the zone of ablation (arrows) extending beyond the unenhanced tumor (#). Asterisk indicates contracted gallbladder. Arrowheads (˄) indicate perfusional changes adjacent to the zone of ablation and not tumor recurrence. Young et al ’ ...

Application programmers increasingly prefer distributed stor-age systems with strong consistency and distributed transac-tions (e.g., Google’s Spanner) for their strong guarantees andease of use. Unfortunately, existing transactional storage sys-tems are expensive to use – in part because they require costlyreplication protocols, like Paxos, for fault tolerance. In thisp...

objective(s) studies have shown that morphine, in addition to its analgesic properties, has several effects on cell proliferation and apoptosis. there is also evidence that opioid receptors are present on chondrocytes. our main objective in the present study was to investigate the effects of morphine on rat femur growth cartilage. materials and methods this research was carried out on 18 4-week...

After myocardial infarction, a poorly contracting nonischemic border zone forms adjacent to the infarct. The cause of border zone dysfunction is unclear. The goal of this study was to determine the myofilament mechanisms involved in postinfarction border zone dysfunction. Two weeks after anteroapical infarction of sheep hearts, we studied in vitro isometric and isotonic contractions of demembra...

PURPOSE To establish the relationship between a subjective (session rating of perceived exertion [RPE]) and 2 objective (training impulse [TRIMP]) and summatedheart- rate-zone (SHRZ) methods of quantifying training load and explain characteristics of the variance not accounted for in these relationships. METHODS Thirty-three participants trained ad libitum for 2 wk, and their heart rate (HR) ...

FGF2 is a crucial mitogen for neural precursor cells in the developing cerebral cortex. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) are thought to play a role in cortical neurogenesis by regulating the action of FGF2 on neural precursor cells. In this article, we present data indicating that glypican-4 (K-glypican), a GPI-anchored cell surface HSPG, is involved in these processes. In the developing m...

The overlapping features of malignant lymphomas create a diagnostic "grey zone" , and lead to the invention of "grey zone lymphomas". There are several major grey zone lymphomas: 1) Lymphomas with overlapping features of Hodgkin lymphoma and large B-cell lymphoma; 2) Lymphomas with overlapping features of Burkitt lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; 3) Lymphomas with overlapping features...

Problems with infusion therapy for correcting fluid and sodium imbalance in decompensated liver cirrhosis (DLC) were investigated by establishing the safety zone of Talbot et al. for parenteral fluid therapy in 4 DLC patients infused with over 900 ml of fluid each day for at least 9 days. The safety zone was different in each case. The safe infusion volume decreased and the safe electrolyte con...

This paper presents an improved zone content class$cation method and its performance evaluation. We added two new features to the feature vector from one previously published method [l]. We assumed different independence relationship in two zone sets. We used an optimized binary decision tree to estimate the maximum Zone content class probability in one set while used Viterbi algorithm to find ...