BACKGROUND Oncoplastic surgery is being increasingly performed in Korean women; however, unlike Westerners, Korean women usually have small to moderate-sized breasts. To achieve better outcomes in reconstructed breasts, several factors should be considered to determine the optimal surgical method. METHODS A total of 108 patients who underwent oncoplastic surgery from January 2013 to December ...

In this paper, the capacity region of the linear deterministic interference channel with noisy channel-output feedback (LD-IC-NOF) is fully characterized. A capacity-achieving scheme is obtained using a random coding argument and three wellknown techniques: rate splitting, superposition coding and backward decoding. The converse region is obtained using some of the existing outer bounds as well...

UNLABELLED Prospective screening for HLA-B*5701 decreases or abolishes abacavir hypersensitivity reaction. In Caucasians, the HLA complex protein 5 gene (HCP5) rs2395029(G) allele is in complete linkage disequilibrium (LD) with HLA-B*5701 (r(2) = 1). AIM To assess the frequency of HLA-B*5701 and its LD with HCP5 rs2395029(G) allele, to extend our knowledge of genetic variants that are of crit...

A single base deletion in HLA-G (1597DeltaC) that is a null allele for the full-length protein is found at frequencies of 6%-11% in populations of African descent. To test the null hypothesis that 1597DeltaC "drifted" to this frequency by neutral evolutionary processes, we compared the pattern of variation and linkage disequilibrium (LD) around this allele and around a conservative amino acid r...

Our previous research showed greatest protection to vertebral bone mineral density and strength in ovariectomized (OVX) rats when lignan- and α-linolenic acid-rich flaxseed (FS) is combined with low-dose estrogen therapy (LD) compared with either treatment alone. This study determined the effects of combined FS+LD on serum and tissue markers of bone turnover and microarchitecture to explain our...

We consider the gradient method xt+1 = xt + γt(st + wt), where st is a descent direction of a function f : �n → � and wt is a deterministic or stochastic error. We assume that ∇f is Lipschitz continuous, that the stepsize γt diminishes to 0, and that st and wt satisfy standard conditions. We show that either f(xt) → −∞ or f(xt) converges to a finite value and ∇f(xt) → 0 (with probability 1 in t...

Theorem 1. If (Xt) is a Brownian motion, then there exist constants μ, σ 2 such that Xt − Xs ∼ N ((t− s)/μ, (t− s)σ). Proof. Without loss of generality take s = 0 and pick some n ∈ Z and write Xt −X0 = (Xt/n −X0) + (X2t/n −Xt/n) + . . .+ (Xt −X(n−1)t/n). Each term on the right hand side is independent and identically distributed. Letting n→∞, by the central limit theorem, the right hand side mu...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A 41-year-old man who was a permanent resident of Uttarakhand, a north Himalayan and sub-Himalayan state of India, presented with bilateral pedal edema and backache. He had no history of fever, hepatosplenomegaly, or lymphadenopathy and was clinically suspec...

Limited polymorphism and narrow genetic base, due to genetic bottleneck through historic domestication, highlight a need for comprehensive characterization and utilization of existing genetic diversity in cotton germplasm collections. In this study, 288 worldwide Gossypium barbadense L. cotton germplasm accessions were evaluated in two diverse environments (Uzbekistan and USA). These accessions...

The Cray XT3 and XT4 have similar architectures, differing primarily in memory performance and in bandwidth between the node and interconnect. This paper evaluates and compares the scalability of the XT3 and XT4. Kernel benchmarks are used to verify and to quantify the performance differences between the systems. Application benchmarks are used to examine the impact of these differences on scal...