BACKGROUND Within the field of oncology, increasing access to high quality care has been identified as a priority to reduce cancer disparities. Previous research reveals that the facilities where patients receive their cancer care have implications for cancer outcomes. However, there is little understanding of how patients decide where to seek cancer care. This study examined the factors that s...

Heart tissue destruction in chronic Chagas' disease cardiomyopathy (CCC) may be caused by autoimmune recognition of heart tissue by a mononuclear cell infiltrate decades after Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Indirect evidence suggests there is molecular mimicry between T. cruzi and heart tissue. In murine models of CCC, antibodies and CD4+ T cells recognize myosin, the major heart protein. We rece...

The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control's National Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) Program oversee CCC programs designed to develop and implement CCC plans via CCC coalitions, alliances, or consortia of program stakeholders. We reviewed 40 up-to-date plans for states and the District of Columbia in order to assess how capacity building and sustainability, two evidence-based practices ...

Canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) is closely related to crop nitrogen status, growth and productivity, detection of diseases pests, final yield. Thus, accurate monitoring in crops great significance for decision support precision agriculture. In this study, winter wheat the Guanzhong Plain area Shaanxi Province, China, was selected as research subject explore feasibility canopy spectral transfor...

CCC is a high-level parallel programming language that aims to provide a coherent integration of various parallel programming paradigms. CCC supports both data and task parallelism. In CCC, data parallelism is specified in SIMD model, while task parallelism is specified in MIMD model. Task parallelism in CCC supports both message-passing communication abstraction and shared-variables synchroniz...

BACKGROUND Antipsychotic medications are not recommended for the management of symptoms of dementia, particularly among persons with no behavioral or psychological symptoms. We examine patterns of antipsychotic medication use among persons with dementia across health sectors in Canada, with a focus on factors related to use among those without behavioral or psychotic symptoms. METHODS Using a...

INTRODUCTION Accurate cancer staging is essential for determining prognosis and treatment. However, only 6.1% of new patient visits (NPV) at our Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) were staged baseline using electronic health record tool (EST). We used Quality Improvement (QI) methods, targeting oncology fellows, to improve fellow-seen NPV rates by the end 2018-19 academic year. METHODS aimed inc...

CR and PU hidden terminals in multi-channel Cognitive MAC protocols result in increased packet drops. This is due to inefficient node synchronization with existing “Control Channel” design. To date, In-band and Out-of-band CCC based MAC protocols are proposed to avoid PU and CR hidden terminals. But, In-band CCC based CR-MAC protocols cannot efficiently resolve the hidden terminal packet drops ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the function of coronary collateral circulation (CCC) in the ischemic myocardium by a two-dimensional strain technique. METHODS AND RESULTS Myocardial segments for all patients were divided into three groups: no coronary collateral circulation (NCCC), CCC, and normal control. We obtained the segmental strain and the strain rate in longitudinal, radial, circumfe...