background: breast conservation therapy (bct) is the standard of care for early stage breast cancer. the procedure can be a challenge for the surgeon if the lesion is non-palpable. for excision of non-palpable breast lesions, they should be localized precisely before surgery. there are different techniques such as the wgl (wire guided localization), roll (radio-guided occult lesion localization...

localization of sources in patients with focal seizure has recently attracted many attentions. in the severe cases of focal seizure, there is a possibility of doing neurosurgery operation to remove the defected tissue. the prosperity of this heavy operation completely depends on the accuracy of source localization. to increase this accuracy, this paper presents a new weighted beamforming method...

Here, we present the World Trade Atlas 1870-2013, a collection of annual world trade maps in which distance combines economic size and the different dimensions that affect international trade beyond mere geography. Trade distances, based on a gravity model predicting the existence of significant trade channels, are such that the closer countries are in trade space, the greater their chance of b...

wireless sensor networks attracting a great deal of research interest. accurate localization of sensor nodes is a strong requirement in a wide area of applications. in recent years, several techniques have been proposed for localization in wireless sensor networks. in this paper we present a localization scheme with using only one mobile anchor station and received signal strength indicator tec...

A large body of research has established a positive connection between an industry’s productivity and the magnitude of its presence within locally defined geographic areas. This paper examines the extent to which this relationship can be explained by a micro-level underpinning commonly associated with productivity: establishment scale. Looking at data on two-digit manufacturing across a sample ...

conclusions radio-guided localization of non-palpable breast lesions is an acceptable method because of technical facilitation, accurate localization and complete excision with limited complications. so it can be recommended as an alternative method for wire-guided localization. results pathologic results were benign in 90.5% and malignant in 9.5% of patients. post-operative margin of lesion wa...

This paper proposes to investigate the effect of spillovers on firms’ R&D investment decisions. We develop an analysis merging the geographer’s toolbox with standard econometric techniques. For a chosen sample of sectors, we test the existence of positive spatial autocorrelation at the level of R&D investments. We provide results on how far the local environment may influence the firms’ investm...

objectives: the aim of the present study was to assess the auditory lateralization ability in children with (central) auditory processing disorder. methods: participants were divided in two groups: 15 children with central auditory processing disorder (8-10 years) and 80 normal children (8-11 years) from both genders with pure-tone air-conduction thresholds better than 20 db hl bilaterally and ...

a wireless sensor network (wsn) is a wireless decentralized structure network consists of many nodes. nodes can be fixed or mobile. wsn applications typically observe some physical phenomenon through sampling of the environment so determine the location of events is an important issue in wsn. wireless localization used to determine the position of nodes. the precise localization in wsns is a co...