OBJECTIVE To develop a distance measure based methodology to support the morphological evaluation of high grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), a direct precursor of prostate cancer. METHODS Eight morphological and cellular features were analysed in 20 cases of high grade PIN found in radical prostatectomy specimens from patients with adenocarcinoma. The diagnostic distance was eva...

This paper presents simulated and measured phantom results for the possible effects that head worn jewellery may have on the relative levels of energy absorbed in the human head with cellular enabled mobile communication devices. The FDTD electromagnetic code used with simple and complex anatomical mathematical phantoms was used to consider the interactions of metallic jewellery, heads and repr...

Dear Editor These ultrasound images (Fig. 1. Images A–D) convey an enlarged posterior interosseous nerve (PIN) with interruption of the PIN course by dislodgement of the distal of two Mitek anchors inserted 5 years previously for a biceps tendon rupture raising suspicion of PIN transection at the level of the distal biceps anchor. Surgical exploration confirmed complete PIN laceration with the ...

conclusions in treatment of intra-articular distal radius fractures in middle-aged patients internal fixation with locking plates may be prefered to pin and plaster as the treatment of choice. results sf-36 test demonstrated a better general health (p < 0.001), mental health (p = 0.006), physical functioning (p < 0.001), social functioning (p < 0.001) and energy/fatigue (p < 0.001) in lcp group...

High grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) is the most likely precursor of prostatic carcinoma. PIN has a high predictive value as a marker for carcinoma, and its identification in biopsy specimens warrants repeat biopsy for concurrent or subsequent carcinoma. The only methods of detection are biopsy and transurethral resection; PIN does not greatly raise the concentration of serum pr...

PINs are one of the most popular methods to perform simple and fast user authentication. PIN stands for Personal Identi cation Number, which may have any number of digits or even letters. Nevertheless, 4-digit PIN is the most common and is used for instance in ATMs or cellular phones. The main advantage of the PIN is that it is easy to remember and fast to enter. There are, however, some drawba...

Differential signaling has been a major challenge in design automation. The routing of differential pairs requires a suitable pin assignment of the respective nets. However, current automatic pin assignment algorithms lack the ability to consider differential pairs. We present a methodology to include differential pairs during pin assignment. Our solution can be applied to automatic or manual p...

In this paper, we will consider global routing and pin assignment in VLSI building block layout, and present an efficient algorithm which integrates global routing, pin assignment, block reshaping and positioning. The general flow of the proposed algorithm is the same as the one proposed in [1] and consists of two main phases. The first phase is to determine not only global routes and coarse pi...