PURPOSE Renal tumors consist of heterogeneous groups that frequently show complex and overlapping morphology, thus making it difficult to make a correct diagnosis. One of the most problematic differential diagnoses is to distinguish chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (RCC) from oncocytoma. These should be distinguished by differences in their behavior and clinical outcome. Our study was performed...

Method of characteristics (MOC) is a commonly applied technique for solving the Boltzmann form neutron transport equation. In PANDAS-MOC code, MOC used to determine 2D radial solution. However, in whole-code OpenMP threading hybrid model (WCP) PANDAS-MOC, it found that when using classic parallelism, sweeping performance restricted by overhead incurred unbalanced workload and omp atomic clause....

Synchronous languages ensure determinate concurrency, but at the price of restrictions on what programs are considered valid, or constructive. Meanwhile, sequential languages such as C and Java offer an intuitive, familiar programming paradigm but provide no guarantees with regard to determinate concurrency. The sequentially constructive (SC) model of computation (MoC) presented here harnesses ...

BACKGROUND There is still controversy regarding the influence of aging on medial olivocochlear (MOC) system function. The main objective of this study is to measure age-related changes of MOC system function in people with normal hearing thresholds. METHOD Bilateral assessment of the MOC effect for click-evoked otoacoustic emissions (CEOAEs; at 70±3 dB peak sound pressure level [pSPL], click ...

Stability analysis of the numerical Method of characteristics applied to energy-preserving systems. Abstract We study numerical (in)stability of the Method of characteristics (MoC) applied to a system of non-dissipative hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with periodic boundary conditions. We consider three different solvers along the characteristics: simple Euler (SE), modified Eu...

Artykuł przedstawia zjawisko popularności motywów słowiańskich w najnowszej polskiej kulturze popularnej. Jego celem jest pokazanie zmian podejściu do Słowiańszczyzny po 1989 roku. Punktem wyjścia koncepcja krytyki fantazmatycznej Marii Janion i refleksja nad zmianą współcześnie podejścia tradycji romantycznej, by stworzyć nowe narracje o tożsamości, których ważna może być Słowiańszczyzna pojęt...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk of cancer-specific mortality (CSM) versus the competing risk of mortality by other causes (MOC) in patients with localised prostate cancer (LPC) treated with radical prostatectomy (RP). MATERIAL AND METHOD An observational cohort study of 982 patients with LPC treated with RP selected from our department's PC registry database. A competing risk analysis was per...

The Argo-derived background diapycnal mixing (BDM) proposed by Deng et al. (in publish) is introduced to and applied in Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). Sensitive experiments are carried out using HYCOM to detect the responses of ocean surface temperature and Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) to BDM in a global context. Preliminary results show that utilizing a constant BDM, with t...