CONTEXT For most patients aged 65 years or older with cancer, hospice services are uniformly covered by Medicare. Hospice care is believed to improve care for patients at the end of life. However, few patients use hospice and others enroll too late to maximize the benefits of hospice services. OBJECTIVES Because type of insurance may affect use, we examined whether patients with Medicare mana...

Relevance . Road accidents are one of the main causes death and injury among EMERCOM Russia personnel. The objective is to analyze circumstances road traffic occupational injuries deaths Federal Fire Service (FFS) personnel within 2010 2021. Methods level in from 2021, depending on type transport, activity, day week month year, was calculated for 10 thousand firefighters, line duty - 100 firefi...

The basic building blocks of data-path structures are Flipflops. Indeed, data processed by combinational circuits are stored and the operations at a given clock frequency[1] are synchronized in FFs. Speed and energy of FFs affect the overall performance of a data path [2], [3] significantly because of multistage structure, high clock switching activity and increasing portion of clock period occ...

Injured adult tendons do not exhibit optimal healing through a regenerative process, whereas fetal tendons can heal in a regenerative fashion without scar formation. Hence, we compared FFs (mouse fetal fibroblasts) and AFs (mouse adult fibroblasts) as seed cells for the fabrication of scaffold-free engineered tendons. Our results demonstrated that FFs had more potential for tendon tissue engine...

the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of farmer field school (ffs) approach on adoption of biological control by rice farmers. the research population consisted of 72 farmers who had participated in ffs and 346 who had not participated in ffs, selected through randomized sampling method. the methodological approach of the study was twofold: descriptive-correlative and causal-com...

This study is to evaluate the efficacy of additional concurrent chemotherapy for intermediate risk (stage II and T3N0M0) NPC patients treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT).440 patients with intermediate risk NPC were studied retrospectively, including 128 patients treated with IMRT alone [radiotherapy group (RT group)] and 312 paitents treated with IMRT plus concurrent chemothera...

Fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy (FFS) quantifies interactions of fluorescently labeled proteins inside living cells by brightness analysis. Conventional FFS implicitly requires that the sample thickness exceeds the size of the observation volume. This condition is not always fulfilled when measuring cells. Cytoplasmic sections, especially, can be thinner than the axial size of the observa...

We propose a new A-film-enhanced fringe field switching (A-FFS) liquid crystal display whose required dΔn value is only λ/4, which is one-half of a conventional FFS. Fast response time can be achieved by either decreasing the cell gap (d) or choosing a low birefringence (Δn) and low-viscosity liquid crystal. The effect of dΔn mismatch between A-film and FFS cell on contrast ratio is analysed. B...

We design three different layouts of DFFs in a 28 nm thin-BOX FD-SOI process to compare their radiation hardness. We measure them by alpha-particle irradiation. Experimental results show that the soft-error probability of two-fingered inverters is 2.6x higher than that of one-fingered one at 0.4 V when DATA and CLK are 1 and 0 respectively. We also measure the relationship between process varia...

This paper focuses on a Flexible Flow Shop (FFS) problem in a paint company in an attempt to minimize production makespan. The FFS problem is characterized by multiple products being produced in machines in stages with sequence dependent set up times and infinite intermediate storages. As the FFS problem is computationally complex, two heuristic methods are employed to solve the Mixed Integer L...