Ovarian carcinomas exhibit extensive heterogeneity, and their etiology remains unknown. Histological and genetic evidence has led to the proposal that low grade ovarian serous carcinomas (LGOSC) have a different etiology than high grade carcinomas (HGOSC), arising from serous tumours of low malignant potential (LMP). Common regions of chromosome (chr) 3 loss have been observed in all types of s...

BACKGROUND Breast augmentation is the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure in the United States. Postoperative striae is a known but incompletely understood complication of breast augmentation. OBJECTIVES The authors investigated their own patient population to discern risk factors for new-onset striae after cosmetic breast augmentation. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed...

BACKGROUND Expected date of delivery (EDD) is estimated from the last menstrual period (LMP) or ultrasound scan. Conflicts between these estimates especially on the part of the physician and his/her patient could pose a challenge to prevention of prolonged pregnancy. The objective of this study was to determine the perception and acceptability of menstrual dating (EDD derived from LMP) with reg...

INTRODUCTION Women run a 4-8-fold greater risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear than men, and especially during the pre-ovulation stage of their cycle. The main study objective was to describe the distribution of ACL lesions according to menstrual cycle in a large population of female recreational skiers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective study was conducted during the 2010-11 ski s...

A disrupted balance of reduced glutathione (GSH) and iron (Fe) and subsequent enhanced susceptibility of lysosomes of lung macrophages (LMs) to oxidants may play a role in lung fibrogenesis. We assessed cellular Fe/GSH, lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP), and cell death in cultures of oxidant exposed LMs. LMs from 7 lung fibrosis patients and healthy subjects were exposed to a physiologi...

The locally most powerful (LMP) tests of the hypothesis H : 6 = 6Q against one-sided as well as two-sided alternatives are compared with several competitive tests, as the likelihood ratio tests, the Wald-type tests and the Rao score tests, for several distribution shapes and for location, shape and vector parameters. A simulation study confirms the importance of the condition of local unbiasedn...

We study the average case complexity of a linear multivariate problem (LMP) defined on functions of d variables. We consider two classes of information. The first Λ std consists of function values and the second Λ all of all continuous linear functionals. Tractability of LMP means that the average case complexity is O((1/ε) p) with p independent of d. We prove that tractability of an LMP in Λ s...

Neste estudo, avaliou-se a fração hidrofóbica de Ca, Fe, Mg e Zn em méis escuros por meio de extração em fase sólida utilizando material à base de sílica gel com grupos ativos fenil ligados monomericamente. Verificou-se que Fe está associado com esta fração, provavelmente compostos polifenólicos, no mais alto grau. A contribuição da fração hidrofóbica no conteúdo total deste elemento nos méis a...

To assess the frequency of malignancy-associated 30-bp deletion variants of the latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) in benign conditions, a comparative sequence analysis was done using samples from 20 American children with acute infectious mononucleosis and 16 Swiss children with chronic tonsillar hyperplasia. The 30-bp deletion variant (LMP-1-del) was present in 66% of patients (12/20 with infe...

The Link Management Protocol (LMP) has been developed as part of the Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) protocol suite to manage Traffic Engineering (TE) resources and links. The GMPLS control plane (routing and signaling) uses TE links for establishing Label Switched Paths (LSPs). This memo describes the relationship of the LMP procedures to ’discovery’ as defined in the International Telecommunication ...