Introduction: Intravenous general anesthetic agents are among the most important and widely used anesthetic drugs in the clinical practice. Many pharmacological studies have shown that potentiation of GABA and glycine on their receptors is the most plausible mechanism. Nevertheless, there is limited information on the effects of co-administration of two or more of these agents. However, expe...

background: intra-operative radiation therapy (iort) is the transfer of a single large radiation dose to the tumor bed during surgery with the final goal of improving regional tumor control. this study aimed to investigate the safety, effectiveness and economic evaluation of intra-operative radiation therapy.   methods : the scientific literature was searched in the main biomedical databases (c...

Breast cancer, the second leading type of cancer in Korean women, has shown increasing incidence over the past 10 years. However, the curves of incidence by age group cast doubt on the birth cohort effect hypothesis. To explain the curves, here I suggest two alternative hypotheses of breast density and viral infection based on pre-existing evidences. Evaluating these hypotheses would require im...

In this paper we address the problem of searching for knowledgeable persons within the enterprise, known as the expert finding (or expert search) task. We present a probabilistic algorithm using the assumption that terms in documents are produced by people who are mentioned in them. We represent documents retrieved to a query as mixtures of candidate experts language models. Two methods of pers...

The current paper critically reviews the conceptualization and relationship between Occupational Stress, Performance and Emotional Intelligence as supported by empirical evidences through a non-systematic narrative review of the existing literature. It was found that the three concepts have been historically developed through different stages. Moreover the empirical evidence shows that complex ...