BACKGROUND Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common malignancy with increasing incidence worldwide. The tumor invades surrounding tissues in an irregular pattern via subclinical and microscopic finger-like growths known as subclinical extension. Subclinical extension may be responsible for incomplete resection of the tumor. This study investigates the subclinical extension of BCC. METHOD...

The Possibilistic C-Means clustering algorithm, in its original form, is not very suitable for clustering due to the undesirable tendency to create coincident clusters and to converge to a “worthless” partitions in the case of poor initializations, but it provides robustness to noise and intuitive interpretation of the membership values. Recently, an extension of the PCM has been presented by T...

Kelly Cleland1,*, Haoping Zhu2, Norman Goldstuck3, Linan Cheng4, and James Trussell1,5 Office of Population Research, Princeton University, 218 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Minhang Central Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 201100, People’s Republic of China Reproduction Research South Africa, St John’s Rd, Sea Point, Cape Town 8005, South Africa Shanghai Institute of Pl...

Abstract The goal of weed science extension efforts are to encourage and accelerate adoption diverse, effective, economical management tactics. To be most successful efficient, personnel need aware growers’ preferred information sources, delivery format, areas focus for future research. this end, surveys were distributed at crop forage meetings in Virginia. results from 249 responses indicate t...