Pancreatic cancer is a frequent and lethal disease ranking fourth as a cause of cancer-related death in Western countries. There are patients, though, who respond well to chemotherapy and have a prolonged survival. There is an effort towards identification of specific characteristics of these tumor cells in order to identify those patients who will benefit from chemotherapy and use them as prog...

The essential requirements that hearing protectors need to fulfil as personal protective equipment are evaluated in Argentina through a series of IRAM (Instituto Argentino de Normalización y Certificación) standards. In particular, IRAM 4060-3 (equivalent to ISO 48693:2007) standard specifies a simplified method for the measurement of insertion loss (IL) of earmuff type protectors. This method ...

The Internet and the World Wide Web offer a new solution to the problem of sharing scientific knowledge. Unlike traditional libraries based on print media, these new technologies facilitate the sharing of any information that can be expressed in a binary alphabet. Environmental models expressed as computer codes are instances of such information objects, and codes are the last of a four-stage p...

Marcellus M. Caldas, Matthew R. Sanderson, Martha Mather, Melinda D. Daniels, Jason S. Bergtold, Joseph Aistrup, Jessica L. Heier Stamm, David Haukos, Kyle Douglas-Mankin, Aleksey Y. Sheshukov, and David Lopez-Carr Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506; US Geolog...

A bstract The mass, current coupling, and width of the doubly charmed four-quark meson $$ {T}_{cc}^{+} T cc + are explored by treating it as a hadronic molecule {M}_{cc}^{+}\equiv {D}^0{D}^{\ast +} M ? ...

Calluna vulgaris-dominated heathlands are a priority habitat type in Annex I of the Habitats Directive (92/43/ECC, code 4060). In Iberian Peninsula, landscape Cantabrian Mountain range has great heterogeneity due to human management during last 10,000 years. Another factor that can affect these communities is increase human-induced atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition. During century, there been...

Arecaceae (Palmae) is an ecologically and economically important family characteristic of the vegetation in tropical subtropical regions, with at least 125 species occurring Philippines, most them endemics. We monitored changes stem density, mortality recruitment palm populations for 12 years within a 16-ha Forest Dynamic Plot located northern Luzon, Philippines. recorded total 4060 stems, domi...

Risk assessment before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) provides valuable information for patient’s management. We assessed the predictive value of thrombotic risk criteria proposed in 2020 ESC guidelines non-ST-elevated acute syndrome (NSTE-ACS) Consecutive patients with or chronic undergoing PCI at a large tertiary-care center from 2012 to 2019 were included. Patients grouped into low...

Highly efficient PDMS based membranes with a new type of fluorinated MOF-808 were successfully prepared and used for the first time in pervaporation (PV). Two types ligands i.e. trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) pentafluoropropionic (PFPA) during MOF synthesis. These slightly different size chemical character influenced material properties membranes, roughness, contact angle, surface free energy, ther...