BACKGROUND Maspin expression is a potential prognostic factor for various malignancies but its relation with gallbladder cancer is unknown and needs to be investigated needs to be investigated. We therefore here focused on maspin mRNA expression in normal, gall stone disease and gallbladder cancer subjects, with particular attention to prognostic importance in individuals with malignancies. M...

AIMS Prone and supine positions for percutaneous nephrolithotomy are widely used but have their drawbacks. We report a new positioning method called "flank suspended supine position" (FSSP) for PCNL and describe our experience with PCNL in this position to evaluate its safety and efficacy. METHODS Retrospective study of 150 cases of renal stone patients treated with PCNL in a new position cal...

The inkstone is a specific writing implement in China that was popularized since the Han Dynasty (202 BC–AD 220). A rectangular/round grinding plate accompanied with a grinding stone is considered as a kind of proto-inkstone. However, little scientific investigation has been performed to support this hypothesis. In this paper, a micro-destructive approach, including Fourier transform infrared s...

Administration of nifedipine or tamsulosin has been suggested to augment stone expulsion rates. We aimed to compare the stone expulsion rates and adverse effects associated with the use of nifedipine or tamsulosin as medical expulsive therapy (MET) for the management of lower ureteral stones (LUS) without extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) via a literature review and meta-analysis. Re...

OBJECTIVE To propose alternative models of training for doctors treating patients with stones, and to identify their relative value, as such doctors are trained through urology programmes which sometimes cannot be expanded to meet the need, are short of teachers, too comprehensive and lengthy. This review explores new pathways for training to provide competence in the care of patients with ston...

in this paper, we define the notions of fuzzy congruence relations and fuzzy convex subalgebras on a commutative residuated lattice and we obtain some related results. in particular, we will show that there exists a one to one correspondence between the set of all fuzzy congruence relations and the set of all fuzzy convex subalgebras on a commutative residuated lattice. then we study fuzzy...

Coherent Deformable Model Yusuf Sinan Akgul Chandra Kambhamettu Maureen Stone Department of Computer and Information Sciences Division of Otolaryngology University of Delaware The University of Maryland Medical School Newark, Delaware 19716 Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Abstract We present a system that extracts and tracks 2D midsagital tongue surfaces from ultrasound image sequences produced by a ...

This note contains a Stone-style representation theorem for compact Haus-dorff spaces. The note is very much inspired by some existing representation theorems and is expository in nature. The first representation theorem is by Jung and Sünderhauf in [JS] and there is also a version of it for compact Hausdorff spaces noted by D. Moshier [Mo], the ideas of which were described to us by A. Jung. T...

The motion of a stone skimming over a water surface is considered. A simplified description of the collisional process of the stone with water is proposed. The maximum number of bounces is estimated by considering both the slowing down of the stone and its angular stability. The conditions for a successful throw are discussed. © 2003 American Association of Physics Teachers. @DOI: 10.1119/1.151...