We describe the cytologic features of chondromyxoid fibroma in fine-needle aspiration biopsy specimens in 4 patients. We analyzed rapid Romanowsky– and Papanicolaou-stained slides with a respect to overall cellularity, the presence of hypercellular chondromyxoid fragments (HCFs), nuclear atypia, cytoplasmic features, and the presence of giant cells. The most consistent and diagnostically useful...

Fertilization is widely acknowledged as being an essential practice to improve forest productivity in ecosystems. However, too little consideration has been given the taxonomic and functional compositions of rhizosphere soil microbes their interactions with root exudates under different fertilizer regimes plantations. Here, we investigated effects four typical (CK, no fertilizer; CF, compound O...

Coupled matrix factorization (CMF) models jointly decompose a collection of matrices with one shared mode. For interpretable decompositions, constraints are often needed, and variations constrained CMF have been used in various fields, including data mining, chemometrics remote sensing. Although such broadly used, there is lack easy-to-use, documented, open-source implementations for fitting CM...

The purpose of this study was to determine the retinotopic organization of rat primary visual cortex (area 17) using optical imaging technology. Stimulating discrete regions of visual space resulted in localised changes in the remitted light during optical imaging of visual cortex in rat. From these localised changes, our results confirm previous electrophysiological studies on the location, si...

Collective matrix factorization (CMF) is a popular technique to improve the overall factorization quality of multiple matrices presuming they share the same latent factor. However, it suffers from performance degeneration when this assumption fails, an effect called negative transfer (n.t.). Although the effect is widely admitted, its theoretical nature remains a mystery to date. This paper pre...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the relative efficacy of doxorubicin versus methotrexate in combination with intravenous cyclophosphamide and 5-fluorouracil (FAC versus CMF) as adjuvant chemotherapy for operable breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Over a 4-year period, 985 women undergoing curative surgery for breast cancer (T1-3 N0-2 M0, stage I-IIIA, UICC) from nine ho...

The rise in marital fertility in East Asian societies with very low fertility has been reported through analyses using the age-specific marital fertility rate (AMFR). Though the measure is often considered related to the average number of children married women have (CMF), we demonstrated that such an interpretation is often erroneous (AMFR problem) and valid only under limited conditions in mo...

Sufficient beams of Highly Charged Heavy Ions (HCHI) have been obtained in conventional electron cyclotron resonance ion sources (ECRIS) but at the cost of simplicity and economy. A cusped magnetic field (CMF) has more plasma-confining feature but a little current of HCHI’s was extracted from ECRIS using it. The CMF has been reconfigured adopting a simple, novel and cost-effective technique. It...

Fluorescence enhancement was studied on silver colloidal metal films (CMFs) using two systems: (1) Langmuir--Blodgett monolayers of fluorescein-labeled phospholipids separated from the surface of the films by spacer layers of octadecanoic acid and (2) biotin--fluorescein conjugates captured by avidin molecules adsorbed on top of a multilayer structure formed by alternating layers of bovine seru...

Women’s contributions to food production and security are often overlooked, thus perpetuating inequitable unsustainable globalized commercial systems. role as producers in the first-food system, breastfeeding, is largely invisible underfunded, encouraging consumption of environmentally milk formula (CMF). This policy brief highlights opportunities for including funding interventions enabling br...