Background: Diagnosis of the early phase of mycosis fungoides (MF) is sometimes difficult. Loss of CD7 expression is considered a distinguishing characteristic of MF. The aim of this study was to determine the range of CD7 expression in MF and compare the results with benign inflammatory dermatosis and equivocal cases of possible MF. Methods: During a period of 30 months, we examined 15 patient...

The magnetic field (MF) is considered as a biophysical treatment to change the growth and development parameters. Current research was carried out to evaluate the effect of different intensities of MF (0, 45, 60, 70 and 75 mT) on seed germination and some morphologic and physiologic parameters of Rudbeckia hirta L. in dry and humid conditions for 30 min. Results showed that the MF trea...

In response to increasing violent crime rates in several U.S. cities over the past year, some have pointed the finger of blame at de-policing, a result of the so-called "Ferguson Effect." Although the Ferguson Effect on crime rates remains an open question, there may also be a Ferguson Effect on other aspects of police officers' jobs, such as willingness to partner with community members. This ...

1 Notation and Definitions 2 2 MF Models 2 3 Latent Factors 3 3.1 L2 regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2 Baseline Predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 SVD++ [4] 6 5 Joint Factorization (JF) Models 7 5.1 Brian’s Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.2 Eliminating...

Although beef demand improved modestly in 1999, 20 years of declining demand has plagued the beef industry. Inflation-adjusted retail beef prices were collapsing at the same time per capita consumption was declining. The result, beef demand declined precipitously from 1980 through the late 1990s. For example, Purcell’s beef demand index indicates 1998 Choice retail beef prices were 50 percent l...

in this paper we introduce an improvement in the path planning algorithm for the humanoid soccer playing robot which uses ferguson splines and pso (particle swarm optimization). the objective of the algorithm is to find a path through other playing robots to the ball, which should be as short as possible and also safe enough. ferguson splines create preliminary paths using random generated para...

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Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most common form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Persistent antigenic stimulation has been claimed to play a role in the development of this malignancy. We aimed to show the role of sulfur mustard in the pathogenesis of MF. A 45-year-old man with MF is introduced herein. He was a victim of chemical exposure in 1987 during the Iran–Iraq war. He developed skin lesions ...