purpose : to develop a guideline for the treatment of incompletely removed histopathologically documented ocular surface neoplasia (ossn) with mitomycin c (mmc). materials & methods : through an interventional case series, 17 eyes of 17 patients presented with incompletely removed ossn were treated according to a protocol using 2-3 alternate 7-day courses of mmc 0.04%. clinical recurrence was r...

dry and wet atmospheric depositions as well as urban surface soil samples were collected in eight different land use zones (during 2010) of the most important and largest industrial city, southwest iran for determining cadmium, chromium, lead and zinc. the average of cd, cr, pb and zn concentrations in the study area for wet precipitation were 17.8 μg/l, 49.97 μg/l, 2.31 μg/l, and 0.53 μg/l, re...

Prostate cancer is the most common solid tumor in American men and is screened for using prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests. We report on a non-stationary partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) for prostate biopsy referral decisions. The core states are the patients’ prostate cancer related health states, and PSA test results are the observations. Transition probabilities and r...

The construction of physics-based models of the simultaneous heat and mass transfer on the air-side surface of aircooled fin-and-tube heat exchangers during dehumidification can present distinct challenges. Because only part of the external surface of a finite length finned tube may be wetted in the radial and/or axial directions, the determination of the wet/dry boundary for this partially wet...

In partially wet granular beds, liquid migrates between particles due to collisions and contacts. This, in turn, influences the flow behaviour of bed. We investigate redistribution moving monodisperse a rotating drum using Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations. For weak capillary forces, re-distribution, induced by continuous particles, leads concentration core bed, where is quasi-static. H...

This article describes 2 cases that showed persistent intracanal exudation (wet canal) even after several visits of antimicrobial endodontic treatment. Histologic and histobacteriologic investigation was conducted for determination of the cause. The 2 cases involved teeth with apical periodontitis lesions, which presented persistent exudation refractory to treatment after several visits. In cas...