background: the purpose of this study was to investigate the various gantry angle and ssd dependencies of tld and mosfet dosimeters. materials and methods: lif (mg) tld and mosfet were used in this study. dosimeter systems were calibrated and then irradiated at various gantry angle and ssd by applying 6 mv photon energy. results: based on the results, mosfet changes were found to be in 2% range...

Integrating a solid state drive (SSD) into a data store is expected to improve its I/O performance. However, there is still a large difference between the price of an SSD and a hard-disk drive (HDD). One of the methods to offset the increase in cost of consisting devices is to configure a hybrid system using both devices. In such a system, a common method to decide the placement of data records...

Treatment of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis remains a challenging field. Hepatocyte injury and the activation of hepatic stellate cells are the 2 major events in the development of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. It is known that several Chinese herbs have significant beneficial effects on the liver; therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the therapeutic effect of saikosapon...

PURPOSE To evaluate the accuracy of CT angiography of occlusive disease of the carotid arteries using three-dimensional surface-rendered images alone and in conjunction with display of axial source images. METHODS Forty-eight symptomatic patients had conventional angiography followed by CT angiography within 24 hours. Images of 96 carotid arteries were acquired using contrast-enhanced spiral ...

Wounds sustained under battlefield conditions are considered to be contaminated and their initial treatment should focus on decreasing this contamination and thus reducing the possibility of infection. The early and aggressive administration of antimicrobial treatment starting with intervention on the battlefield has resulted in improved patient outcomes and is considered the standard of care. ...

BACKGROUND Most animal species display Sexual Size Dimorphism (SSD): males and females consistently attain different sizes, most frequently with females being larger than males. However the selective mechanisms driving patterns of SSD remain controversial. 'Rensch's rule' proposes a general scaling phenomenon for all taxa, whereby SSD increases with average body size when males are larger than ...

Sexual dimorphism describes substantial differences between male and female phenotypes. In spiders, sexual dimorphism research almost exclusively focuses on size, and recent studies have recovered steady evolutionary size increases in females, and independent evolutionary size changes in males. Their discordance is due to negative allometric size patterns caused by different selection pressures...

A somatic symptom disorder (SSD) diagnosis is made when a person places emphasis on physical symptoms such as pain, exhaustion, or shortness of breath so much that it causes significant suffering and/or functional issues. The individual's thoughts, sentiments, and activities are an overstated reaction to symptoms. Regardless whether the connected diagnosable medical condition, experiences belie...

Abrasion is injury to skin due trauma that affects the surface of epidermis or superficial epithelium, especially from friction depth dermal papillae. The basic principle abrasion treatment maintain moist condition in wound surface. This study aims compare effectiveness silver sulfadiazine (SSD) and gentamicin cream process healing abrasions. A total 30 samples patients who came for at ED were ...