Our objectives were to 1) increase awareness of total laryngectomy (TL) as a treatment for complications of bulbar weakness in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and outline specific surgical indications; 2) educate physicians about the surgical procedure, peri-operative course and benefits from having a TL; and 3) retrospectively review the clinical course of Mayo Clinic-Florida...

BACKGROUND Advances in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) treatment is promoting free disease survival. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) may emerge as an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Pulse wave velocity (PWV), a surrogate marker of arterial stiffness, and telomere length (TL) are considered as potential predictors of CVD and its outcomes. The study aim was to assess PWV, TL in a JIA...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review. PURPOSE A comparison of mini open foraminotomy (MOF) for cervical radiculopathy using either large tubular (LT) or TrimLine (TL) retractors. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Posterior foraminotomy relieves compression of the cervical nerve root in radiculopathy patients. However, invasion of the paravertebral muscle may cause major problems in these patients. ...

Mouse H-2 histocompatibility antigen has been extracted, solubilized, and partly purified from the cells of an A strain spontaneous leukemia carrying TL (thymus-leukemia) antigens. H-2 and TL. 1, 2, 3 activities were measured by inhibition of the cytotoxic effect of the corresponding isoantibodies. TL activity was associated with the H-2 active fraction obtained by solubilization and fractionat...

The generalized maximum satisfiability problem (GMAXSAT) deals with variables taking their values in a finite set. A set of logical clauses is given and the goal is to find an assignment of values to the variables, minimizing the number j3 of unsatisfied clauses. For randomly generated instances of a uniform type we study the distribution of p, as well as the distribution of the maximal size a ...

One of the effects of fisheries on ecosystems is that they tend to remove the larger, higher-trophic-level species and thus progressively lower the mean trophic level (TL) of the landings. This effect is known as “fishing down the food web” (Pauly et al. 1998; but see also Essington et al. [2006] for addition of low-TL fisheries instead of decline in high-TL fisheries, termed “fishing through m...

Epidemiological studies have reported inconsistent associations between telomere length (TL) and risk for various cancers. These inconsistencies are likely attributable, in part, to biases that arise due to post-diagnostic and post-treatment TL measurement. To avoid such biases, we used a Mendelian randomization approach and estimated associations between nine TL-associated SNPs and risk for fi...

The main detectors used for clinical dosimetry are ionisation chambers and semiconductors. Thermoluminescent (TL) dosimeters are also of interest because of their following advantages: i) wide useful dose range, ii) small physical size, iii) no need for high voltage or cables, i.e. stand alone character, and iv) tissue equivalence (LiF) for most radiation types. TL detectors can particularly be...

The competition between nuclear shapes in the lead region below mass 190 has been topical for many years. A recent example is the triple shape coexistence found in Pb (Z = 82) — i.e. the presence of spin 0 states associated with spherical, oblate, and prolate shapes [1]. More recently, such coexistence has been also found in neighboring nuclei with Z 82 viz. Au and Hg (see e.g. Ref. [2]) and in...