PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to determine whether the type of operation, sphincter sparing procedures (SSP) or abdomino-perineal resection (APR) for primary adenocarcinoma of the rectum at or below the peritoneal reflection affects survival and recurrence after curative surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective controlled study of seventy nine patients with low rectal carcinoma was ...

As two kinds of solid wastes, waste tires and steel slag have caused serious threats to the environment. Both tire rubber (WTR) powder (SSP) can improve performance asphalt, while indexes modification mechanism modified asphalt are not clear. In this paper, with SSP WTR was prepared, its evaluated. The physical properties WTR, including penetration, softening point, viscosity, were investigated...

In developing algorithms that dynamically changes the structure and weights of ANN (Artificial Neural Networks), there must be a proper balance between network complexity and its generalization capability. SEPA addresses these issues using an encoding scheme where network weights and connections are encoded in matrices of real numbers. Network parameters are locally encoded and locally adapted ...

In this dissertation research, I try to deepen the understanding of the logic and history behind the science of science policy approaches and to substitute for this scientific evidence-based science policy model an evidence-critical and -informed model in which scientific and democratic claims are promoted simultaneously. The science of science policy, or what I call the scientizing science pol...

In recent decades, porous asphalt has been extended for surface drainage in various regions throughout the world. The permeability of porous asphalt has an important role in the performance of asphalt pavements in the rainy weather. The most remarkable problem related to the porous asphalt is its short service time. Considerable efforts have been made to enhance the mechanical properties of por...

In this paper we study the efficiency of Strong Stability Preserving (SSP) Runge–Kutta methods that can be implemented with a low number registers using their Shu–Osher representation. SSP have been studied in literature and stepsize restrictions ensure numerical monotonicity found. However, for some problems, observed are larger than theoretical ones. Aiming at obtaining additional properties ...

While numerous studies on the impacts of COVID-19 university learning and teaching are now emerging, there has been less critical attention focused impact shift to online engagement student-staff partnership (SSP) practices. This article analyses experiences perceptions students staff from an Australian as they shifted their practices during pandemic. It provides valuable insights into specific...

The protein kinase (PK) superfamily is one of the largest superfamilies in plants and core regulator cellular signaling. Despite this substantial importance, kinomes sugarcane sorghum have not been profiled. Here, we identified profiled complete polyploid Saccharum spontaneum (Ssp) Sorghum bicolor (Sbi), a close diploid relative. Sbi kinome was composed 1,210 PKs; for Ssp, 2,919 PKs when disreg...

background: pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb) has recently become a major problem in developed countries especially in immune compromised hiv infected individuals. cytokines, their genes and receptors have been implicated in the protective immunity, pathophysiology and development of tuberculosis.   material & methods: in the present study the genotype frequencies of a number of polymorphic genes co...