BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common malignant neoplasm and the most common cause of death among women. The core needle biopsy is becoming a universal practice in diagnosing breast lesions suspected of malignancy. Unfortunately, breast core needle biopsies also bear the risk of having false-negative results. MATERIAL/METHODS 988 core needle breast biopsies were performed at the Maria S...

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement: What Is the International Consensus? Print ISSN: 0194-911X. Online ISSN: 1524-4563 Copyright © 2013 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Hypertension doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.113.02148 2013;62:988-994; originally published online September 23, 2013...

Ensuring network security in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) indeed is critical. Due to the data-centric multi-hop communication in WSNs, an essential consideration in the security solutions for WSNs is to ensure security features at the link layer. The link layer security can be implemented in hardware or in software. The existing software based link layer security architectures do not offer c...

Developmental biologists eagerly desired to understand the molecular basis of development. The discovery of the Homeo domain in homeotic genes in Drosophila provided the means whereby a new era dawned in the field. Walter Gehring and his colleagues stunned the scientific world by identifying this 60-amino acid domain with DNA binding activity [1]. Soon, homeobox-containing genes were found in a...

The two-step laser excitation scheme of stimulated emission pumping (SEP) induces shifts of a single water molecule between two remote hydrogen bonding sites on trans-formanilide. This reaction can be initiated by selective excitation of either isomer (CO-bound or NH-bound) with different SEP excitation wavelengths. Energy (E) thresholds for isomerization in both directions have been measured [...

In this paper, we propose a new probabilistic approach designed for supervised classification of natural objects (vegetal and mineral) in high resolution aerial pictures. It consists of a two layered hidden Markov models (HMM) based approach which takes into account the spatial correlations between natural objects. The performance of our approach has been tested on real world high resolution ae...

The meq gene was thought to be only detected in Marek's disease virus serotype 1 (MDV 1) including a very virulent strain, Md5, while L-meq, in which a 180-bp sequence is inserted into the meq open reading frame, is found in other strains of MDV 1, such as CVI 988/R6. However, both meq and L-meq were previously detected by PCR in chickens infected with MDV 1, suggesting that MDV 1 may consists ...