Abstract Background Inspired air is heated and humidified in the nose before it reaches lower airways. This mechanism bypassed during tracheostomy, directly exposing airways to colder drier from environment, known negatively affect mucociliary transport; however, little about how quickly transport deteriorates. study determines short-term effect of flowing room nebulized hypertonic saline manni...

Abstract Objective To analyze the pattern of failure in relation to pre-treatment [ 18 F] FDG-PET/CT uptake head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients treated with definitive radio-chemotherapy (RT-CHT). Methods materials From 2012 2016, 87 HNSCC RT-CHT, intensity modulated radiation therapy simultaneous integrated boost, underwent (PET pre ), MRI/CT for radiotherapy (RT) planning p...

As digital photography rapidly replacing the traditional film photography as the photography of choice for all but a few devoted professionals, post processing to enhance images such as denoising becomes increasingly an integral part of digital photography. In this paper we propose the multiscale total variation (MTV) and the multiscale anisotropic diffusion (MAD) algorithms for denoising. Both...

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate whether metabolic tumor volume (MTV) measured from [F]-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) predicts short-term outcome to radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy and disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with pharyngeal cancers. Experimental Design: The MTVs of primary sites with or without neck nodes were...

A thorough investigation on the reactions and morphologies of Mg particles Mg/Teflon/Viton (MTV) during oxidation were conducted via thermal gravity-differential scanning calorimetry (TG-DSC) electronic microscopy. The results showed that is fast. It merely changed metallic luster before 550 °C, only a few to white irregular shape at 600 °C. However, all oxidized porous shaped MgO 650 Herein, e...

Advanced technology has made meeting new people less conventional than it used to be. The Internet taken romance into a whole different world and created threat with the idea of online dating. users are faced many threats every day, but dating caused form identity deception called catfishing. Catfishing itself is theme an MTV reality show named Catfish: TV Show. This study aims find out about r...

In this paper a new criterion is introduced for the discrete covering problem. In this criterion the a priori information represented by a possibility measure and a misbelief distribution on alternatives are condensed by aggregation instruments. Using the Dempster-Shafer belief structure and representations of a possibility measure through associated probabilities, a new criterion for discrete ...

Plasmodium berghei ANKA induces a fatal neurological syndrome known as cerebral malaria (CM) in susceptible mice. Host genetic elements are among the key factors determining susceptibility or resistance to CM. Analysis of mice of the same H-2 haplotype revealed that mouse mammary tumor virus 7 (MTV-7) integration into chromosome 1 is one of the key factors associated with resistance to neurolog...

Accurate prognosis in patients with lung cancer is important for clinical decision making and treatment selection. The TNM staging system is currently the main method for establishing prognosis. Using this system, patients are grouped into one of four stages based on primary tumor extent, nodal disease, and distant metastases. However, each stage represents a range of disease extent and may not...