Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in Australian women. As most women now survive breast cancer, improving quality-of-life outcomes is increasingly important and major changes are occurring in breast surgery to meet this challenge. Use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy results in lower mastectomy rates, broader surgical options and less surgical morbidity. Oncoplastic breast surgery (OBS) fa...

Five integrative biomarker indices are compared: Bioeffects Assessment Index (BAI), Health Status Index (HSI), integrated biological response (IBR), ecosystem health condition chart (EHCC) and Integrative Biomarker Index (IBI). They were calculated on the basis of selected biomarker data collected in the framework of the Prestige oil spill (POS) Mussel Watch monitoring (2003-2006) carried out i...

Viral diseases like foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), calf scour (CS), bovine viral diarrhea (BVD), infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) etc. affect the growth and milk production of cattle (Bos taurus) causing severe economic loss. Epitope-based vaccine designing have been evolved to provide a new strategy for therapeutic application of pathogen-specific immunity in animals. Therefore, identifi...

The aim of this study was to quantify the variation in doses to organs at risk (ipsilateral lung and heart) and the clinical target volume (CTV) in the presence of breast implants. In this retrospective cohort study, patients were identified through the National Breast Cancer Register. Consecutive breast cancer patients undergoing mastectomy between 2009 and 2011 and completing a full course of...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective, cross-sectional. OBJECTIVE To determine the initial curve correction of the providence brace (PB) and to determine to what extend the in-brace Cobb angle corresponds to the curve seen on supine lateral bending radiographs (SLBR). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA SLBR are used to assess curve flexibility in patients undergoing surgical treatment for adolescent idiopathi...

In this sketch, we propose a novel IBR representation to handle non-diffuse effects compactly, which we call locally reparameterized Light Field (LRLF). The LRLF is based on the use of local and separate diffuse and non-diffuse geometries. The diffuse geometry is associated with true depth while the non-diffuse geometry has virtual depth that provides local photoconsistency with respect to its ...

We implemented the state-specific Brillouin–Wigner coupled-cluster method for the complete model space spanned by four reference configurations generated by two electrons in two active orbitals. We applied the method (together with the previously suggested a posteriori size-extensivity correction) to the calculation of spectroscopic constants of the IBr molecule, using averaged relativistic eff...

انتقال ویروس کرونا به داخل سلول از طریق اسپایک‌های انجام می‌شود پس یکی بهترین راه‌های مقابله با سلول‌های بدن، ایجاد اختلال در روند عملکرد است. بنابراین این تحقیق، چگونگی جذب و انرژی پرتوهای رادیواکتیو سارس کووید2، مرس کووید، یوکی کووید توسط ابزار جینت4- دی اِن اِی شبیه‌سازی شده نتایج حاصل پرتودهی اسپایک‌ها یکدیگر مقایسه آن‌جایی که عوامل کاهش ماندگاری می‌باشد، پژوهش سعی است اسپایک ویروس­‌ها به‌وسی...

OBJECTIVES To identify factors independently associated with surgical complications in oncologic and reconstructive surgery and to examine sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy data, along with variables that are typically known prior to definitive resection, for their ability to impact the prediction of need for postmastectomy irradiation (PMRT). DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING University ...

Diagnostic tests for veterinary surveillance programs should be efficient, easy to use and, possibly, economical. In this context, classic Enzyme linked ImmunoSorbent Assay (ELISA) remains the most common analytical platform employed for serological analyses. The analysis of pooled samples instead of individual ones is a common procedure that permits to certify, with one single test, entire her...