PURPOSE Our study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of adjuvant cyclophosphamide/vinorelbine/5-fluorourail (CVF) chemotherapy as an alternative to cyclophosphamide/methotrexate/5-fluorouracil (CMF) chemotherapy for treating early breast cancer. METHODS One hundred and forty-nine patients were randomly assigned to CMF or CVF adjuvant chemotherapy for treating their early stage breast cancer be...

If the thresholds for detecting sinusoidal amplitude or frequency modulation of a sinusoidal carrier with frequency fc are expressed in terms of the respective modulation indices, m and beta, the ratio beta/m decreases as the modulation frequency increases, and approaches an asymptotic value of unity. The modulation frequency at which the ratio first becomes unity is called the critical modulat...

In the healthy brain, there are close correlations between task-related activation of the primary motor cortex (M1), the magnitude of interhemispheric inhibition, and microstructural properties of transcallosal fiber tracts. After subcortical stroke affecting the pyramidal tract (PT), an abnormal pattern of bilateral activity develops in M1. With this prospective longitudinal study, we aimed to...

We explore whether we can constrain the shape of the initial mass distribution of the star cluster population in M82's ∼ 1 Gyr-old post-starburst region " B " , in which the present-day cluster mass function (CMF) is closely approximated by a log-normal distribution. We conclude that the M82 B initial CMF must have had a mean mass very close to that of the " equilibrium " CMF of Vesperini (1998...

Occipital artery (OA) to the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) bypass is indispensable for the management of complex aneurysms of the PICA that cannot be reconstructed with surgical clipping or coil embolization. Although OA-PICA bypass is a comparatively standard procedure, the bypass is difficult to perform in some cases because of the location and situation of the PICA. We describe...

The five-year results of a prospective randomised trial of radical mastectomy (179 patients) versus radical mastectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy (207 patients) were analysed. Chemotherapy consisted of 12 monthly cycles of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil (CMF). Both relapse-free survival (controls 44.6%, CMF group 59.5%) and total survival (controls 66.2%, CMF group 78.4...

The aim of this study was to investigate the flexural behavior of engineered cementitious composites (ECCs) reinforced by cellulose pulp (CP) and cellulose microfibers (CMF). The reinforcements were obtained from chemical-mechanical treatments of Kraft paper and used in ECC mix design. Results showed that cement reinforced by CP exhibited a strain-hardening behavior in the three-point bending t...

In this paper, we use a fluid–structure interaction (FSI) approach to simulate Coriolis mass flowmeter (CMF). The fluid dynamics is calculated by the open-source framework OpenLB, based on lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). For structural employ software Elmer, an implementation of finite element (FEM). A staggered coupling between two packages presented. mesh created generator Gmsh ensure complet...

Stars form from dense molecular cores, and the mass function of these cores (the CMF) is often found to be similar to the form of the stellar initial mass function (IMF). This suggests that the form of the IMF is the result of the form of the CMF. However, most stars are thought to form in binary and multiple systems, therefore the relationship between the IMF and the CMF cannot be trivial. We ...

Chondromyxoid fibroma (CMF) is perhaps the rarest of all bone tumors. Classically it occurs in the metaphyseal region of the long bones surrounding the knee. The small bones of the feet are also commonly involved. But CMF occurring in small bones of the hand, however, is very uncommon. Tuberculous dactylitis is referred to as spina ventosa. The bones of the hands are more frequently affected th...