We have constructed a ground-truth database consisting of phase-picks data and other geological and geophysical information in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in central China. The database includes 1,600 regional seismic events with over 40,000 phase picks recorded by the regional seismic network in central China from 1985 to 1994. The distribution of the seismic events covers the area 97E to 108...

BACKGROUND Standard examination of contrast sensitivity under conditions of glare disability is performed with incandescent light. A new halogen glare test that simulates glare as seen with oncoming vehicle headlights was used to measure glare disability in patients implanted with multifocal and monofocal intraocular lenses (IOLs). METHODS 28 patients with an average age of 69 years (SD 12 ye...

High-resolution simulations of the chemical composition of the Arctic stratosphere during late spring 1997 and 2000 were performed with the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS). The simulations were performed for the entire northern hemisphere on two isentropic levels 450 K (≈18 km) and 585 K (≈24 km). The spatial distribution and the lifetime of the vortex remnants formed afte...

BACKGROUND Loss of muscle strength as a result of normal aging is reported to impair functional ability in various communities. The purpose of this study was to determine the age at which loss of muscle strength and functional ability begins, and to establish a preliminary baseline for the pattern of changes in muscle strength and functional ability of aging in adult healthy Saudi Arabian males...

Nearly all biologic tissues exhibit viscoelastic behavior. This behavior is characterized by hysteresis in the response of the material to load or strain. This information can be utilized in extrapolation of life expectancy of vascular implant materials including native tissues and synthetic materials. This behavior is exhibited in many engineering materials as well such as the polymers PTFE, p...

An n-superconcentrator is an acyclic directed graph with n inputs and n outputs for which, for every -<_ n, every set of inputs, and every set of outputs, there exists an r-flow (a set of vertex-disjoint directed paths) from the given inputs to the given outputs. We show that there exist n-superconcentrators with 39n + O(log n) (in fact, at most 40n) edges, depth O(log n), and maximum degree (i...

In the phase III DESTINY-Breast04 trial (NCT03734029), T-DXd significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) and overall (OS) vs TPC in pts with HER2-low mBC regardless of hormone receptor expression. Breast cancers low ER expression (IHC 1-10%) represent a subset that may mimic clinical behavior triple-negative breast cancer. Here, we report analyses IHC 0% 1-10%. Pts (HER2 1+ or 2+/ISH...