median follow-up varying between 6 and 28 months [19–23]. Consequently, the LCR ranged from 13.8% at 6 months to 58% at 28 months [19–23]. Only three studies provided data on OS [21– 23]. The 1-year OS varied between 85 and 95% [21–23], whereas the 2-year OS ranged from 68 to 84% [21–23]. Finally, the 3-year OS was only given by two studies and ranged from 47 to 74% [21, 22]. Concerning the mor...

This paper will discuss the necessity for standardizing semantics beyond simply standardizing syntactic and structural (XML) vocabularies in the area of Ecommerce. We will present an ontology-based approach to handle semantics, which enables application developers to raise the level of abstraction from errorprone syntactic manipulations to a conceptual level. This approach has been implemented ...

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have proven to be extremely valuable DNA markers for genetic mapping and population genetic analyses. However, data collected across laboratories or even within laboratories are difficult to combine due to challenges in standardizing allele names, especially for nonmodel systems. Here we provide a new approach for standardizing SSR allele names that combines sever...

We suggest a framework for predicting color appearance of image data. The image data are converted by a series of standardizing transformations into a simpler stimulus with the same color appearance. By working through these standardizing transformations, we can build color appearance models for images without abandoning—or repeating—much of the work that has gone into defining the visual prope...