Tumor diameter or T stage does not reflect the actual tumor burden and is not able to estimate accurate prognosis of gastric cancer. The current study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of tumor volume (V) for gastric cancer. A total of 3409 enrolled gastric cancer patients were randomly divided into training set (n = 1705) and validation set (n = 1704). Tumor volume was calculated by the f...

BACKGROUND We established the Microvascular Research Center Training Program (MRCP) to help trainee surgeons acquire and develop microsurgical skills. Medical students were recruited to undergo the MRCP to assess the effectiveness of the MRCP for trainee surgeons. METHODS Twenty-two medical students with no prior microsurgical experience, who completed the course from 2005 to 2012, were inclu...

This paper demonstrates two methods to improve the performance of instancebased learning (IBL) algorithms for the problem of Semantic Role Labeling (SRL). Two IBL algorithms are utilized: k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN), and Priority Maximum Likelihood (PML) with a modified back-off combination method. The experimental data are the WSJ23 and Brown Corpus test sets from the CoNLL2005 Shared Task. It is...

In the Logan River, UT, USA, exotic brown trout demonstrate a strong allopatric distribution and occur at high densities at low-elevation sites and in tributaries, and in low densities at native trout dominated, high-elevation sites. Summer temperatures and discharge do not appear limiting for growth; adult growth rates were high overall and were greatest when fish were held experimentally at h...

This study evaluated the effect of training pharmacists in the stage-of-change model for smoking cessation and motivational interviewing on smoking cessation outcomes. A training based on the stage-of-change model for smoking cessation and motivational interviewing was introduced to pharmacists. Pharmacists were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. The control group attended ...