AbstractObjective Eastern European countries are contemplating to introduce the high-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-test as primary screening test for their cervical cancer programme, but its optimal protocol is yet unknown. The aim of this study was compare costs, effects and cost-effectiveness different HPV-screening protocols in Europe, using Slovenia an example with respe...

The problem of Byzantine Broadcast (BB) and Byzantine Agreement (BA) are of interest to both distributed computing and cryptography community. Often, these primitives require prohibitive communication and round complexity. The extension protocols have been introduced to handle long messages at the cost of small number of broadcasts for bit. The latter are referred to as seed broadcasts and the ...

Intracranial atherosclerosis-related occlusion (ICAS-O) is frequently encountered at the time of endovascular revascularization treatment (ERT), especially in Asian countries. However, because baseline angiographic findings are similar between ICAS-O and embolism-related occlusion (EMB-O), it is difficult to differentiate the etiologies before the ERT procedure. Moreover, despite successful ran...

For quantum systems with high purity, we find all observables that, when continuously monitored, maximize the instantaneous reduction in the average linear entropy. This allows us to obtain all locally optimal feedback protocols with strong feedback, and explicit expressions for the best such protocols for systems of size N < or =4. We also show that for a qutrit the locally optimal protocol is...

 Dental implants, as a result of their excellent success rates and advantages over fixed or removable methods, have become the optimal treatment for replacing missing teeth. Surgical and restorative techniques that can reduce the loss of hard and soft tissues that often accompany implant placement are desirable. Achieving an esthetic outcome in tooth replacement and implant treatment requires a...

cow’s milk allergy (cma) is the most frequent food allergy in children and oral immunotherapy (oit) is a promising approach for treatment of patients. the most challenging cases are anaphylactic with coexisting asthma and proposing safe protocols is crucial especially in high risk groups. considering that cma varies among patients, an individualized oit protocol would be beneficial to achieve a...

forty-six cases of patients suffering from acne cystica (conglobata) were treated by low-dose dapsone plus folic acid (1 mg/day). this study has been performed on patients that had no response to other treatments. several essential and careful tests and examinations were performed on patients before and during treatment. ten patients of 46 above-mentioned cases were excluded from treatment prot...