BACKGROUND Radical cystectomy (RC) represents the mainstay of treatment in patients with muscle-invasive urinary bladder cancer but how it compares with the best organ preservation approach is not known. MATERIALS AND METHODS The objective of our review is to compare the 5-year overall survival (OS) rates from retrospective and prospective studies of RC and trimodality treatment (TMT), i.e. c...

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are unique smart materials that have many advantages, such as ability to resist large strains without leaving residual strains and ability to recover original form. However, the high costs of SMAs have limited their usage. This paper evaluates the behavior of concrete structures equipped with SMAs in an optimal manner as they are being used along the plastic hinge of ...

Part A. Analysis in the Time Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lecture 1. RC circuits ...................... . 2 Lecture 2. From RC circuits to linear systems ............. 8 Lecture 3. Impulse and impulse response ............... . . 14 Lecture 4. Complex numbers .................... 22 Lecture 5. RCL circuits ..................... . 30 Lecture 6. RCL circuits, convolution, simple composite...

1. RECAPITULATION Part I of this article treats tense in relative clauses (RCs) in English, Russian and Japanese. The temporal centre in RCs can always be Tproi, and sometimes it has to be Tproi. 1. In SOT languages such as English, the Tense in the RC is bound in RC\wollconfigurations, i.e., we find a Tproi bound by woll. The licensing of the morphological tense in the RC is non-local in these...

Taking the frigid outer space as heat sink, a terrestrial body can cool itself to sub-ambient temperature via radiative sky cooling (RC) scheme. However, poor seasonal and regional adaptabilities low power density of RC technology confine its effective applications only in hot seasons regions with RC-friendly ambient conditions. Similarly, solar thermal collector cannot work at night is little ...

CCAAT enhancer binding protein beta (C/EBPbeta) plays an essential role in the cascade that triggers adipocyte differentiation. C/EBPbeta activates transcription of C/EBPalpha and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma, transcriptional activators of genes that give rise to the adipocyte phenotype. Sequential phosphorylation of C/EBPbeta/liver activating protein (LAP) on Thr(188) by MA...

X-ray structures of five bis(N — R-salicylaldiminato)zinc(II) complexes with R — ethyl, «-propyl, /-propyl, «-butyl and 4-thia-rc-hexyl were determined. The N202 coordination geometry is in all cases gwas/-tetrahedral with the dihedral angle between the planes of the two chelate rings ranging from 84 to 89°. Bond lengths and angles in the coordination sphere are not affected by the nature of R ...

In the paper a remote lab experiment RC oscillator used to support Web based learning, to support learning by doing, to learn control design and to minimize the gap between theory and practice is presented. The experiment was designed with a special care for visualisation of important control design parameters in Bode plot and Root-Locus diagram. The experiment is based on MATLAB, LABview and D...

BACKGROUND RC-101 is a congener of the antiretroviral peptide retrocyclin, which we and others have reported is active against clinical HIV-1 isolates from all major clades, does not hemagglutinate, and is non-toxic and non-inflammatory in cervicovaginal cell culture. Herein, film-formulated RC-101 was assessed for its antiviral activity in vitro, safety in vivo, retention in the cervix and vag...