OBJECTIVE To investigate any association between renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and paraneoplastic syndromes (PNS). SUBJECTS AND METHODS The retrospective analysis included 1,028 patients of Chinese Han nationality with resectable RCC and PNS. The PNS included elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), hypertension, cachexia, anemia, pyrexia, abnormal liver function, hypercalcemia, polycythem...

Personal need for structure (PNS) refers to individual differences in tendency to structure huge amounts of information into a simplified form, and was frequently examined in previous research in association with strategies for reducing cognitive load and with creativity. The present research developed a new Japanese-translated version of the PNS Scale (PNS-J) and conducted two surveys with sam...

Projection neurons (PNs) with arborizations in the sexually dimorphic "lateral large female glomerulus" (latLFG) in the antennal lobe (AL) of the moth Manduca sexta previously were shown to respond preferentially to antennal stimulation with (+/-)linalool, a volatile compound commonly emitted by plants. In the present study, using intracellular recording and staining techniques, we examined the...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of a second delayed paraneoplastic neurological syndrome (PNS), different from the first, in the same patient, is not well known. However, recognition of this possibility is important in the management of the patient with PNS. OBJECTIVE To describe eight patients who presented with two different PNS with a time delay of months to years. DESIGN, SETTING AND PATIENTS...

BACKGROUND Paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome (PNS) represents the remote effects of cancer on the nervous system. Diagnostic criteria for the syndrome were published by the PNS Euronetwork and form the basis of a database to collect standardized clinical data from patients with PNS. OBJECTIVES To analyze various types of PNS, frequent tumor and antibody associations, clinical characteristics...

Pedestrian navigation systems (PNS) need to incorporate contextual information to achieve a benefit for the user. However, most PNS do not incorporate this information. To study context in PNS we created the PNS ROSE. First we present the pedestrian navigation system ROSE which recommends context-aware events, context-aware routes and allows point-to-point navigation by means of mixed mode tran...

We calculate the unpolarized and polarized three–loop anomalous dimensions splitting functions PNS+,PNS? PNSs in QCD MS? scheme by using traditional method of space–like off shell massless operator matrix elements. This is a gauge–dependent framework. For first time we also PNS±,tr for transversity directly. compare our results to literature.

The aim of this review is to explore the literature relating to the delivery of cervical screening by practice nurses (PNs) in the United Kingdom and Australia. Research relating to PNs began in earnest approximately 15 years ago in the UK context, and more recently, c.2005, in Australia. Although there is scant literature devoted specifically to the role of PNs in cervical screening, literatur...

Negative symptoms are present early on during the first episode of psychosis (FEP). The severity of these symptoms has been linked to cognitive deficits, including memory; however, its relationship with persistent negative symptoms (PNS) remains unclear. Thus, the goals of the current paper were to explore memory profiles in FEP patients identified as having PNS and to delineate this relationsh...