With an estimated 226,870 diagnoses and 39,510 deaths in 2012, breast cancer remains the most commonly occurring and second most lethal cancer among women in the United States (Howlader et al., 2011). Among those with breast cancer, patients aged less than 40 remain a particular challenge due, in part, to the inherent biologic aggressiveness of their tumors. Young women have tumors that are mor...

Liquid crystal (LC) based photonic devices are important in light modulated applications including amplitude modulation and phase modulation. [Yang et al. (2006)] The anisotropic properties of LC result in employing two polarizers in most of LC devices. The optical efficiency (~3%) and the viewing angle are limited. Therefore, it is highly desirable to develop polarizer-free LC devices. [Yang e...

The present study aimed to investigate the interaction among grade dropping and reflective thinking abilities of the participants and to also check if action research enhances learners’ reflective thinking. A cyclic action research was run for 8 sessions. Kember et al.’s (2010) reflective thinking questionnaire and three in-term quizzes were administered. Students also made questions based on t...

Introduction Low dosage insulin regimens for diabetic "comas" have recently attracted considerable attention (Alberti, Hockaday and Turner, 1973; Page et al, 1974; Kidson et al, 1974; Semple, White and Manderson, 1974). These regimans have all originated from established diabetic centres, however the simplicity of these regimens, especially the intra muscular regimen (Alberti et al, 1973), woul...

Chicken egg white is a perfect source of proteins, lipids, minerals and vitamins. Proteins in eggs are distributed among the egg white (EW) and the yolk. EW consists of water (88%), protein (11%) and trace amounts (1%) of carbohydrates, lipids and ash (Kovacs-Nolan et al., 2005). These proteins are recognized by their functional properties such as nutrition (Abeyrathne et al., 2013; Ko & Ahn, 2...

based studies are conducted, the effects of Al are usually confounded with other factors such as levels of P, Ca, Despite good resistance to acid-soil stresses, white clover (TriMo, Mn, Zn, organic acids, and other soil components folium repens L.) is not found on some acid soils. Our objectives (Edmeades et al., 1995; Villagarcia et al., 2001). An exwere to develop a large-leafed white clover ...

White Perch Morone americana have been introduced into many inland systems throughout the United States. To determine factors affecting White Perch abundance and size structure, we compared White Perch growth, timing of maturity, and trophic level; the abundance of a predator (Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides); the abundance of an ecologically significant mid-level omnivore (Gizzard Shad D...

The analysis of magnetic white dwarfs has made considerable progress since the last white dwarf workshop: 1. It could be shown that neither the magnetic white dwarf Grw +70◦8247 (Jordan & Friedrich, 2001) nor LP 790−29 (Jordan & Friedrich 2002, Beuermann et al. 2002) are fast rotators (P < 10 min) but are rotating slowly (P > 20 years). 2. Automatic fitting procedures have been developed which ...

BACKGROUND Tumor-related white matter change is detected at late stages with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), when mass effect or prominent edema is present. We analyzed if diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) white matter change earlier than conventional MRI. METHODS Twenty-six patients with gliomas (World Health Organization grade II, 5; grade III, 12; and grade IV, 9) within 2 cm from the poste...