A 30-year-old man with Ewing sarcoma presented with an enlarging metastatic osseous lesion involving the T10 vertebral body. Percutaneous cryoablation was performed under CT guidance for local tumor control; immediately following, he developed paraplegia. Early and delayed cord imaging show cryoablation-related injury (figures 1 and 2). The procedure involves targeted freezing of tissue to appr...

We study Newton polytopes for cluster variables in algebras \(\mathcal{A}(\Sigma)\) of types A and D. famous property is the Laurent phenomenon: each variable can be written as a polynomial initial seed \(\Sigma\). The are these polynomials. show that if \(\Sigma\) has principal coefficients or boundary frozen variables, then all saturated. also characterize when empty; is, they have no non-ver...

in this study, ice-glazing process of frozen shrimp by chitosan was applied to protect the frozen shrimp from undesirable chemical and physical changes. the effects of 2% chitosan solution glazing on quality of whole, raw and cooked (without head, tail and shell) shrimps stored at -18±2ºc for 6 months were investigated and compared with water glazing, sodium metabisulfite treatment control. gla...

Watermelon is a rich natural source of lycopene, a carotenoid of great interest because of its antioxidant capacity and potential health benefits. Assessment of bioavailability of lycopene from foods has been limited to tomato products, in which heat processing promotes lycopene bioavailability. We examined the bioavailability of lycopene from fresh-frozen watermelon juice in a 19-wk crossover ...

The efficiency of inference in both the Hugin and, most notably, the Shafer-Shenoy archi­ tectures can be improved by exploiting the independence relations induced by the incom­ ing messages of a clique. That is, the mes­ sage to be sent from a clique can be com­ puted via a factorization of the clique poten­ tial in the form of a junction tree. In this pa­ per we show that by exploiting such n...

Evidence-based clinical guidelines for the diagnosis, assessment and physiotherapy management of contracted (frozen) shoulder: quick reference summary Nigel C.A. Hanchard a,∗, Lorna Goodchild b, Jackie Thompson c, Tracey O’Brien d, Dot Davison e, Chris Richardson e a Health and Social Care Institute, School of Health and Social Care, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK b Department ...

We analyze the effect of cultural drift, modeled as noise, in Axelrod's model for the dissemination of culture. The disordered multicultural frozen configurations are found not to be stable. This general result is proven rigorously in d=1, where the dynamics is described in terms of a Lyapunov potential. In d=2, the dynamics is governed by the average relaxation time T of perturbations. Noise a...

Bibliometrics has the ambitious goal of measuring science. To this end, it exploits the way science is disseminated trough scientific publications and the resulting citation network of scientific papers. We survey the main historical contributions to the field, the most interesting bibliometric indicators, and the most popular bibliometric data sources. Moreover, we discuss distributions common...