Vinyl chloride (VCM) induced angiosarcoma of the liver (ASL) is a rare vascular tumor which might be associated with a wide range of disease states. The possibility that this tumor might be a signal lesion is supported by mortality studies suggesting that cancers of the digestive, respiratory, neurological and lymphatic systems have occurred more often than expected in VCM workers. There is als...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems. As a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) is of enormous importance as one of the types of CM . One kind of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this study, ...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to examine the influences of supplementation of the serum substituents and available period of serum-free Vero cell conditioned media (SF-VCM) manufactured from Dulbecco's modified Eagle medium cultured with Vero cells for in vitro development of mouse preimplantation embryos. METHODS A total of 1,099 two-cell embryos collected from imprinting control region...

Preoxygenation can rapidly improve oxygenation and enhance the security of endotracheal intubation, so it is very essential before endotracheal intubation. The conventional preoxygenation method self-inflating bag (SIB) is not very effective in case of emergency. So our study aims to find a more effective method of preoxygenation in a critical situation.We retrospectively analyzed data of 105 p...

Recent advances in 3D modeling provide us with real 3D datasets to answer queries, such as “What is the best position for a new billboard?” and “Which hotel room has the best view?” in the presence of obstacles. These applications require measuring and differentiating the visibility of an object (target) from different viewpoints in a dataspace, e.g., a billboard may be seen from two viewpoints...

Maitake D-fraction, beta1,6-glucan having beta1,3-branches, has been reported to activate the immune system of the host. To elucidate whether the D-fraction can reduce the clinical effective dosage of antibiotics in the treatment of opportunistic bacterial infection, we examined the effects of D-fraction on the treatment of Listeria monocytogenes-infected mice in combination with vancomycine (V...

Introduction: Radiofrequency current density imaging (RFCDI) measures currents at the Larmor frequency [1]. It is potentially useful for applications such as predicting and monitoring RF ablation treatment patterns or measuring the effectiveness of pacemaker insulators. Currents at the Larmor frequency create magnetic fields that act as an effective B1 field, exciting magnetization. By measurin...

The vibrissal capsular muscle (VCM) of the rat is known to differ from the arrector pili muscle. The purpose of the present study was to characterize the rat VCM morphologically using three-dimensional reconstruction. The rat snout skin was fixed, processed with routine histological methods, sectioned serially at a thickness of 10 µm, and then stained with Masson's trichrome. The sectioned imag...

Little progress has been made toward understanding the relative performance of the two mechanisms most widely used for fundraising: the Voluntary Contribution (VCM) and Provision Point (PPM) mechanisms. This paper provides direct comparisons of the relative performance of variants of the VCM and PPM as they are most commonly implemented in the field. The research makes use of 1296 individual ob...