BACKGROUND A remote sensing technique was developed which combines a Geographic Information System (GIS); Google Earth, and Microsoft Excel to identify home locations for a random sample of households in rural Haiti. The method was used to select homes for ethnographic and water quality research in a region of rural Haiti located within 9 km of a local hospital and source of health education in...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate computer-aided detection (CAD) performance with full-field digital mammography (FFDM). MATERIALS AND METHODS CAD (Second Look, version 7.2) was used to evaluate 123 cases of breast cancer detected with FFDM (Senographe DS). Retrospectively, CAD sensitivity was assessed using breast density, mammographic presentation, histopathology results, ...

couple of hours later, there was swelling and reddening of the margins of the ulcers, frequently accompanied by fever up to 38°C. These symptoms lasted for a few hours and subsided spontaneously or with the help of minor analgesics. The patients tolerated this inconvenience, because they soon saw a favorable response. In fact, the latter was dramatic in three of them (patients no. 1, 2, and 4) ...

IN MYELOMA, THE ROLE of the bone marrow microenvironment has been shown to be of increasing importance in supporting the malignant plasma cell.1,2 Specifically, nonmalignant stromal cells in the bone marrow from myeloma patients have been shown to promote the growth and prevent the apoptosis of malignant plasma cells largely by the production of interleukin-6 (IL-6).1-3 Recently, a new member o...

This paper addresses the NOE path planning with incomplete information. We first define the path planning for NOE flight. Then we discuss how to divide the problem into several subproblems. For each of the subproblems, we propose a clear definition along with a brief description of the solutions to the subproblem.