background: in this study we evaluated the prognostic impact of metastatic lymph node ratio (mlr) in patients with gastric cancer undergoing curative surgical resection. methods: a total of 121 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma undergoing curative r0 surgical resection in our institutions between 2003 and 2010 were included in this study.  mlr was classified into 3 groups as follows: mlr0; 0...

The values of αs determined from lowand high-energy measurements are in irreconcilable contradiction with each other. The current status of the problem is critically reviewed. Consequences of the αs contradiction, in conjunction with other anomalies detected at the Z peak, are discussed. The write-up is updated in accordance with experimental numbers reported at summer conferences.

The existence of mirror fermions interacting strongly under a new gauge group and having masses near the electroweak scale has been recently proposed as a viable alternative to the standard-model Higgs mechanism. The main purpose of this work is to investigate which specific experimental signals are needed to clearly differentiate the mirror-fermion model from other new-physics models. In parti...

Recently, various unicast routing protocols have been proposed to deliver measured data from the sensor node to the sink node within the predetermined deadline in wireless sensor networks. In parallel with their approaches, some applications demand the specific service, which is based on broadcast to all nodes within the deadline, the feasible real-time traffic model and improvements in energy ...

Underwater acoustic sensor network (UASN) is a promising technique, which will facilitate a wide range of aquatic applications. However, because of adverse underwater environments, UASN faces grand challenges and problems such as limited bandwidth, node movement, long propagation delay, three-dimension deployment, energy-constraint, expensive manufacture and deployment costs. In order to addres...

In this paper we develop a Directional Antenna Multi-path Location Aided Routing (DA-MLAR) scheme with On Demand Transmission Power (ODTP) support. The routing approach is based on multiple objectives. DAMLAR is a reactive routing protocol that minimizes the protocol overhead of other reactive routing protocols. DAMLAR also improves the packet delivery ratio and end-toend delay. The targeted ap...

Wireless networks that operate on batteries are imposed with energy constraints and long distance communications between nodes are not desirable. Implementing Relay Nodes (RNs) can improve network capacity and save communication energy. A two-hop relay routing scheme is considered, in which the RNs are temporarily placed and have energy constraints. This paper investigates a joint optimization ...

Clustering, an energy efficient approach is used in Wireless Sensor Network. Clustering involves cluster formation and Cluster Head Selection. As the Cluster Head is involved in carrying out the entire communication, a high energy node has to be selected as Cluster Head. Current clustering approaches often use two methods: selecting cluster heads with more residual energy, and rotating cluster ...