No official stage classification for thymic malignancies has been defined by the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) and the American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC). The International Thymic Malignancy Interest group (ITMIG) has selected the Masaoka system 1 with the modification proposed by Koga et al 2 as the one that will be used 3 , until a scientifically validated system is def...

A.Wambersie(1), P.M.DeLuca Jr(2), R.S.Caswell(3) and H.G.Menzel(4) (1) Université Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium (2) University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA (3) National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA (4) CERN, Geneva, CH International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU), 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 800 Bethesda, Mar...

PURPOSE First, to show that accurate formulas for scattering power T must take into account the competition between the Gaussian core and the single scattering tail of the angular distribution, which affects the rate of change in the Gaussian width and leads to the single scattering correction (SSC). Second, to show that the SSC requires that T(x) be nonlocal: Besides material properties and en...

After several years of revision, the International Commission on Radiological Protection, ICRP, recently published the 2007 Recommendations of the Commission (ICRP, 2007). The revision was carried out in a highly participative manner, offering the possibility to comment on various draft versions and provide input in other manners, to international and national organisations as well as to indivi...

Hermann BRUGGER and Bruno DURRER 1 Mountain Rescue Service provided by the South Tyrolean Alpine Association, President of the International Commission for Alpine Emergency Medicine (ICAR MEDCOM), Europastrasse 17, I-39031 Bruneck, Italy and 2 Alpine Rescue Service, Swiss Alpine Club, Air Glaciers, President of the Medical Commission of the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (...

Objective: to analyze the quality of nursing documentation by comparing the periods before and after the preparation for the hospital accreditation, using the Quality of Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes - Brazilian version (Q-DIO- Brazilian version). Method: observational study of interventions conducted in a university hospital. Nursing documentation of 112 medical records for t...

Introduction Medication errors stem from a variety of causes, including miscommunication between prescribers and pharmacists in the form of misunderstood and/or illegible abbreviations. The potential hazards of certain abbreviations started receiving heightened attention approximately twenty years ago. Most notably, as one of its National Patient Safety Goals, the then named Joint Commission on...

The Commission on the Nomenclature of Biological Chemistry decided in 1958 that an attempt should be made to standardize the abbreviations and symbols used for chemical names of special interest in biological chemistry. A Subcommittee, consisting of L. Hellerman, W. Klyne (Chairman), and E. C. Slater, was set up early in 1959 to deal with this problem. The original draft proposals were based on...

The Commission on the Nomenclature of Biological Chemistry decided in 1958 that an attempt should be made to standardize the abbreviations and symbols used for chemical names of special interest in biological chemistry. A Subcommittee, consisting of L. Hellerman, W. Klyne (Chairman), and E. C. Slater, was set up early in 1959 to deal with this problem. The original draft proposals were based on...