BACKGROUND Active surveillance (AS) is an attempt to avoid overtreatment of clinically insignificant prostate cancer (PCa); however, patient selection remains controversial. Multiparametric prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MP-MRI) may help better select AS candidates. METHODS We reviewed a cohort of men who underwent MP-MRI with MRI/Ultrasound fusion-guided prostate biopsy and selected po...

Leaf area is among the most important leaf functional traits, and it determines temperature alters light harvesting. The calculation of individual basis calculating index (i.e., total per unit ground area) that directly associated with ability plants to intercept for photosynthesis. It valuable provide a fast reliable approach measuring area. Here, we examined validity accuracy Montgomery equat...

This aims of the study to identify spatial microsplastic pollution sediments in Tallo River Makassar City. type research is descriptive observational. design uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) Statistical analysis using average abundance microplastics presented tables and graphs, then analyzed descriptively quantitatively at each station. Data showing mean ± standard deviation were SP...

With the pervasiveness and ubiquitous distribution of magnetic field in indoor environments, localization using positioning (MP) has attracted considerable attention. This work concentrates on MP pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) method, constructs a fusion system for smartphones PDR based extended Kalman filter (EKF). The mind evolutionary algorithm (MEA) is introduced to search optimal position...

abstract: evaluation of drought tolerance for 20 barley genotypes were conducted under normal irrigation and terminal stress condition by withholding irrigation at the time of 50% flowering. drought effect on grain yield and plant total mass traits was studied and eight of stress indices including stress tolerance index (sti), stress tolerance (tol), stress susceptibility index (ssi), mean prod...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Conventional CT angiography (CTA) is acquired during only a short interval in the arterial phase, which limits its ability to evaluate the cerebral circulation. Our aim was to compare the image quality and radiation dose of conventional single-phase CTA (SP-CTA) with a multiphase CTA (MP-CTA) algorithm reconstructed from a perfusion CT (PCT) dataset. MATERIALS AND METHO...

Burned area is a critical input to biomass burning carbon emissions algorithms and for understanding variability in fire activity due climate change. This study presents the spatial temporal patterns of wildland fires Mongolian Plateau (MP) using Collection 6 NASA MCD64A1 500 m global Area product from 2001 2021. Both inter- intra-annual trends variations two subregions, Mongolia China’s Inner ...

Abstract Background Hereditary transthyretin-related amyloidosis (h-ATTR) is a systemic infiltrative disease caused by single amino acid mutation on the transthyretin (TTR) gene, which destabilizes protein and can determine its deposition multiple organs, including heart peripheral nervous system. Purpose We aimed to characterize compare clinical, instrumental, prognostic features of patients a...

atrial fibrillation (af) is the most common arrhythmia after cardiothoracic surgery. af following coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) is associated with an increase in morbidity, mortality, hemodynamic instability, thromboembolic events, severity of heart failure and icu and hospital stay. corticosteroids have a variety of beneficial effects on recovery after elective surgery. this study was de...

in modern endodontics, vital pulp therapy (vpt) has been considered an ultra-conservative treatment modality. based on the level of pulp preservation, vpt includes stepwise excavation, indirect pulp capping (idpc), direct pulp capping (dpc), miniature pulpotomy (mp), partial/cvek pulpotomy and coronal/complete pulpotomy (cp). the present article reviews the treatment outcomes of 94 permanent te...