It has been proposed that painful and non-painful referred sensations (RSs) are associated with reorganization of sensory pathways in patients with complete spinal cord injury (SCI). In order to investigate the referred sensation (RS) phenomenon and its correlation with neuropathic pain (NP) 48 patients with complete SCI, 24 with chronic NP and 24 without pain or paraesthesias were studied usin...

AIM Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM) are pathological connections between arteries and veins without capillaries. Stereotactic radiosurgery (RS) is a proven and accepted treatment method for cerebral AVMs. Our objective was to analyze the factors influencing the clinical outcome in patients suffering from AVMs. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 199 patients who were t...

This study presents a novel means of shortening a Reed Solomon (RS) code at the bit level, yielding only shortened BCH subcodes. With the use of a certain basis, an RS codes over ) 2 ( m GF is mapped onto a binary image[4], which contains m concatenated BCH sub-codewords and some glue-vector codewords. With the proposed approach, there only exist some shortened BCH subcode generators in the dia...

Oncogene activation is an established driver of tumorigenesis. An apparently inevitable consequence of oncogene activation is the generation of DNA replication stress (RS), a feature common to most cancer cells. RS, in turn, is a causal factor in the development of chromosome instability (CIN), a near universal feature of solid tumors. It is likely that CIN and RS are mutually reinforcing drive...

Introduction. This study aimed to evaluate whether OncotypeDx test results predict receipt of adjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients who received an OncotypeDx recurrence score (RS). Materials and Methods. Pathology records were used to identify breast cancer patients who had OncotypeDx testing between December 2004 and January 2009 (n = 118). Patient sociodemographic information, tumo...

Explicit self-representations often conflict with implicit and intuitive self-representations, with such discrepancies being seen as a source of psychological tension. Most of previous research on the psychological effects of mindfulness-meditation has assessed people's self-attitudes at an explicit level, leaving unknown whether mindfulness-meditation promotes changes on implicit self-represen...

The presence of ≥ 15% bone marrow (BM) ring sideroblasts (RS) and < 5% blasts is required for a diagnosis of refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts. We examined the phenotypic and prognostic relevance of this "15%" RS threshold in 200 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) without excess blasts and with ≥ 1% RS. The impact of RS% was assessed both as a continuous and categorical variab...

Eduardo Maffini da Rosa1,2,3,4, Bruno Garcia Restelatto1, Verônica Poyer1 Universidade de Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil1; Instituto de Cardiologia do RS Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia, IC-FUC, Brazil2; Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica para Estudos Multicêntricos (IPCEM) do CECS-UCS, RS, Brazil3; Liga Acadêmica de Estudos e Ações em Cardiologia da Universidade de Caxias do Sul4, Caxias do Sul, R...

A number of splicing factors contain extensive regions that are rich in arginine and serine (RS domains). These domains are thought to facilitate protein-protein interactions that are critical in the regulation of alternative splicing. Using a domain swap strategy, we have tested the ability of RS domains from several proteins to substitute in vivo for an essential RS domain in the Drosophila s...