BACKGROUND The outcome of postoperative high- and intermediate-risk oral cavity cancer (OCC) patients receiving helical tomotherapy (HT) remains limited. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between November 2006 and November 2012, 53 postoperative high- and intermediate-risk OCC patients treated with HT were enrolled. RESULTS The 4-year locoregional, local, and regional control rates were 66%, 76.4%, and...

The cerebral reserve hypothesis is a heuristic concept used to explain apparent protection from the onset of cerebral disease and/or cognitive decline in old age. A significant obstacle when investigating the reserve hypothesis is the absence of baseline data with which to compare current cognitive status. We tested the influence of three hypothesized proxies of reserve (education, head size an...

Estrogen deficiency and chronic alcohol consumption may have a synergistic and deleterious effect on bone tissue. Aim: To investigate the effects of estrogen deficiency associated with chronic alcohol consumption on the mandibular condyle in rats. Methods: Fifty-four female rats were first divided equally into two groups: ovariectomized (Ovx) and simulated ovariectomy (Sham). One month after th...

Objectives To evaluate the relationship between the pass rate of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certifying exam and the characteristics of residency programs. Methods The study used a retrospective, cross-sectional design with publicly available data from the ABIM and the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database. All categorical residency programs with reported p...

The compact directed acyclic word graph (CDAWG) of a string T of length n takes space proportional just to the number e of right extensions of the maximal repeats of T , and it is thus an appealing index for highly repetitive datasets, like collections of genomes from similar species, in which e grows significantly more slowly than n. We reduce from O(m log log n) to O(m) the time needed to cou...

Recent reports indicated that nutrition in early infancy might influence later child health outcomes such as obesity and metabolic syndrome. Therefore, we examined the effects of maternal high fat diet (HFD) during lactation on the onset of a metabolic syndrome in their offspring. All offspring were cross-fostered by dams on the same or opposite diet to yield 4 groups: offspring from HFD-fed da...

We present a radically new indexing approach for approximate string matching. The scheme uses the metric properties of the edit distance and can be applied to any other metric between strings. We build a metric space where the sites are the nodes of the suffix tree of the text, and the approximate query is seen as a proximity query on that metric space. This permits us finding the occ occurrenc...

Extension at slow to ultraslow midoceanic ridges is mostly accommodated by large detachment faults that expose mantle peridotite and/or lower-crustal rocks forming Oceanic Core Complexes (OCC). It commonly accepted OCC spreading form during the early stage of crystallization magmatic crust, when are still close their solidus temperature. This observation poses significant problems, as nucleatio...

the properties of alkaline sulfite anthraquinone (as/aq) pulp from old corrugated container (occ)was studied. in each trial 100 grams (based on dry weigth) of occ and 18% active alkali was used.three levels of anthraquinone (0.0.1 and 0.2% based on dry weigth of the occ) and two pulpingtimes (120 and 150 minutes at maximum pulping temperature) were applied. pulping temperature,na2so3/naoh ratio...

The increasing demand for high throughputs in transaction processing systems leads to high degrees of transaction concurrency and hence high data contention. The conventional dynamic two-phase locking (2PL) concurrency control (CC) technique causes system thrashing at high data contention levels, restricting transaction throughput. Optimistic concurrency control (OCC) is an alternative strategy...