OBJECTIVE To validate EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-BR23 questionnaires and to measure the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of women with breast cancer in Singapore during their first 4 years of post-diagnosis and treatments. METHODS A quantitative and cross-descriptive sectional study. All of 170 subjects were recruited in a Singapore tertiary cancer center. The European Organization for...

The purpose of this writing is to tell something about the quite unique and fundamental role of Maurice Nivat, both in launching ICALP and EATCS, as well as in guiding them through the di/cult early stages. Our account is based on personal recollections, as well as some original documents and letters. To preserve the personal character of our recollections, we have not tried to 2ll the gaps in ...

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BACKGROUND We provided preliminary psychometric data for the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire-Head and Neck Module, updated version (QLQ-H&N43) from a group of Serbian laryngectomized patients. METHODS The study included 170 subjects. The QLQ-H&N43 is a 43-item questionnaire, with 12 multi-item scales and 7 single-item symptom sc...

Purpose People with central field loss (CFL) lose information in the scotomatous region. Remapping is a method to modify images to present the missing information outside the scotoma. This study tested the hypothesis that remapping improves reading performance for subjects with simulated CFL. Methods Circular central scotomas, with diameters ranging from 4° to 16°, were simulated in normally ...

We present a novel approach for analyzing biological time-series data using a context-free language (CFL) representation that allows the extraction and quantification of important features from the time-series. This representation results in Hierarchically AdaPtive (HAP) analysis, a suite of multiple complementary techniques that enable rapid analysis of data and does not require the user to se...

We report the synthesis and self-assembly of amphiphilic, nonspherical, polymeric microparticles. Wedge-shaped particles bearing segregated hydrophilic and hydrophobic sections were synthesized in a microfludic channel by polymerizing across laminar coflowing streams of hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymers using continuous flow lithography (CFL). Particle monodispersity was characterized by mea...

We derive the effective Lagrangian for the low-energy massive meson excitations of the color-flavor-locking (CFL) phase of QCD with 3 flavors of light quarks. We compute the decay constants, the maximum velocities, and the masses of the mesons at large baryon chemical potential µ. The decay constants are linear in µ. The meson maximum velocities are close to that of sound. The meson masses in t...

The ground state of three flavor quark matter at asymptotically large density is believed to be the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase. At nonasymptotic density the effect of the nonzero strange quark mass cannot be neglected. If the strange quark mass exceeds m(s) approximately m(u)(1/3)delta(2/3), the CFL state becomes unstable toward the formation of a neutral kaon condensate. Recently, several...