Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the most common malignancy and cause of can‐ cer related death worldwide, with a high prevalence in Asia and south Africa as well as an increasing incidence in the western country. Patients with liver cirrhosis are at highest risk of developing this malignant disease, and the majority of HCC patients will develop the dis‐ ease on the background of preexis...

We propose an amplitude calibration strategy for ALMA which attempts to reach the 1 % precision for absolute calibration. Key points and major difficulties are identified. Polarization is ignored in this first step. We first review the properties of possible calibration sources. Planets and specially giant planets satellites are the preferred reference sources for flux calibration. Asteroids ar...

The first coastal acoustic tomography (CAT) experiment site of the Neko-Seto Channel was revisited to elucidate propagation and generation characteristics M2 M4 tidal currents with a second CAT experiment, which conducted from 3–6 April 2018 (local time). Two-dimensional flow fields residual current were reconstructed using coast-fitting inversion model reciprocal travel-time data five stations...

The use of High Power Amplifiers (HPA) in digital communications is plagued with non-linear (AM/AM and AM/PM) distortion. This is specially acute for those modulations that are not constant amplitude, such as OFDM or MQAM. We present a pre-distortion algorithm that, in contrast to previously researched architectures, is unconditionally convergent.

The Himalayan mountain forest ecosystem has been degrading since the British ruled the area in the 1850s. Local understanding of the patterns and processes of degradation is desperately required to devise management strategies to halt this degradation and provide long-term sustainability. This work comprises a satellite image based study in combination with national expert validation to generat...

Recent critiques suggest family science is operating on a narrow definition of that privileges US/western-centric perspectives and White, heteronormative, nuclear families. Understanding self-assessment key to scientific growth, this study systematically assessed the publication patterns top six journals across 10 years (2008–2018) along two dimensions: socio-demographics (continent/country, et...

Objective(s): There are few reports have demonstrated the effect of a change-in-light experience on the structure and function of hippocampus. A change-in-light experience also affects the circadian pattern of melatonin secretion. This study aimed to investigate developmental effect of exogenous melatonin on synaptic plasticity of hippocampus of light deprived rats. Materials and Methods: The ...

in this study, the notions of homelessness and unhomeliness are studied in 2 novels by naipaul: half a life (2001) and magic seeds (2004). naipaul has been viewed by many postcolonial critics as an imperially complicit writer, for his controversial views of places and societies, particularly his disdain for non-western societies. this study examines whether the imperatives of the postcolonial c...

In order to define a new model of Tunisian foot sizes and for building the most comfortable shoes, Tunisian industrialists must be able to offer for their customers products able to put on and adjust the majority of the target population concerned. Moreover, the use of models of shoes, mainly from others country, causes a mismatch between the foot and comfort of the Tunisian shoes. But every fo...