PURPOSE Additional surgery is commonly recommended in gastric cancer patients who have a high risk of lymph node metastasis or a positive resection margin after endoscopic resection. We conducted this study to determine factors related to residual cancer and to determine the appropriate treatment strategy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 28 patients who underwent curative gastrectomy due to ...

This study reexamined the perceptual equivalence of active and passive touch using a computer-controlled force-feedback device. Nine subjects explored a 6 x 10-cm workspace, with the index finger resting on a mobile flat plate, and experienced simulated Gaussian ridges and troughs (width, 15 mm; amplitude, 0.5 to 4.5 mm). The device simulated shapes by modulating either lateral resistance with ...

Light extraction of GaN-based light-emitting diodes grown on Si(111) substrate (GaN-on-Si based LEDs) is presented in this study. Three different designs of GaN-on-Si based LEDs with the lateral structure, lateral structure on mirror/Si(100) substrate, and vertical structure on mirror/Si(100) substrate were epitaxially grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and fabricated using chemica...

Arboreal locomotion has mainly been looked at to date in the context of investigations into the specialization of primates and other 'arboreally adapted' animals. The feat of moving on branches as small or smaller than the body's diameter was tested in rats (Rattus norvegicus) as they moved on horizontal poles of different diameters. The data were compared with data pertaining to terrestrial lo...

This paper explores the relationship between large-scale vertical exchange and the cycling of biologically active nutrients within the ocean. It considers how the parameterization of vertical and lateral mixing effects estimates of new production (defined as the net uptake of phosphate). A baseline case is run with low vertical mixing in the pycnocline and a relatively low lateral diffusion coe...

A lateral structure for low-cost fabrication of COOLMOS on SOI wafers is proposed and the feasibility of the fabrication steps is verified by simulation in GENESISe environment. The requirement of multiple epitaxy and implantation steps for the growth of voltage-sustaining pillars in conventional vertical COOLMOS is automatically eliminated in the proposed method through the use of the lateral ...

One of the efficient techniques to improve the behavior of the paved road under traffic loads is implementing the geosynthetic material in the sub-base or the soil under the road. In the past years, many researches have been done about this topic, but the study on the effect of soil/load conditions on the performance of the rehabilitated paved road by geogrid in order to investigate the effecti...

Information about self-motion and obstacles in the environment is encoded by optic flow, the movement of images on the eye. Decades of research have revealed that flying insects control speed, altitude, and trajectory by a simple strategy of maintaining or balancing the translational velocity of images on the eyes, known as pattern velocity. It has been proposed that birds may use a similar alg...

The discovery of III-V oxidation and subsequent application of oxide technology to the fabrication of semiconductor lasers are reviewed. Work on lateral oxidation and the application of laterally oxidized layers to form optically and electrically confining apertures is discussed, as well as the commercially-significant use of lateral oxides in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers.