AIM To evaluate whether pathologically early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) exhibited local tumor progression after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) less often than typical HCC. METHODS Fifty pathologically early HCCs [tumor diameter (mm): mean, 15.8; range, 10-23; follow-up days after RFA: median, 1213; range, 216-2137] and 187 typical HCCs [tumor diameter (mm): mean, 15.6; range, 6-30; follow-...

ABSTRACT The betweenness centrality measure has been widely used for detecting community structure in networks, in particular in the “GN” algorithm due to Girvan and Newman. This suffers from low speed because the betweenness measure is computed from the entire network, and it has been largely supplanted by faster algorithms that can detect community structure using more local methods in place ...

The locomotor behaviour of 2 groups of Propithecus verreauxi (Verreaux's sifaka) was studied over an 8-month period in Kirindy Mitea National Park (KMNP), Madagascar. This paper assesses the major characteristics of their locomotion, focusing on the extent that seasonal variation in climate and habitat, and local variation in habitat, is reflected in changes in locomotor behaviour. P. verreauxi...

BACKGROUND Hepatocellular carcinoma is a primary tumor of the liver and involves different treatment modalities according to the tumor stage. After local therapies, the tumor evaluation is based on the mRECIST criteria, which involves the measurement of the maximum diameter of the viable lesion. This paper describes a computed methodology to measure through the contrasted area of the lesions th...

We have constructed tapered fiber-optic microsensors with a tip diameter of less than 10 microm to measure profiles of backscattered light in biofilms, which are thin layers of micro-organisms firmly attached to surfaces. The observed response agrees well with local effective diffusivity microelectrode measurements, with R(2) > 0.85. A strong relation between signal intensity and wavelength has...

The paper deals with mesh-connected massively parallel systems aaected by failures. The complexity of a local diagnostic procedure, based on new deenitions of the local k-diagnosability and the r-fault-tolerance, is analysed. It depends on distances between individual fault clusters and on fault cluster diameters. In particular cases the minimum distance between fault clusters can be enlarged o...

Polar tweed was discovered in mechanically stressed LaAlO3. Local patches of strained material (diameter ca. 5 μm) form interwoven patterns seen in birefringence images, Piezo-Force Microscopy (PFM) and Resonant Piezoelectric Spectroscopy (RPS). PFM and RPS observations prove unequivocally that electrical polarity exists inside the tweed patterns of LaAlO3. The local piezoelectric effect varies...