The aim of this study is to determine the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) with gemcitabine (GEM) in combination with fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) on a pancreatic cancer patient derived orthotopic xenograft (PDOX) model. A PDOX model was established from a CA19-9-positive, CEA-negative tumor from a patient who had undergone a pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma....

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE To test registered nurses' abilities to retain basic or advanced life support psychomotor skills and theoretical knowledge. DESIGN A repeated-measures, quasi-experimental design was used. METHODS Written and performance tests (initial, post-training, and final testing) used scenarios requiring performance of advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) or basic life support (BLS)...

Xylella fastidiosa has been recognized as a pathogen of landscape trees for over 25 years. Collectively, these diseases are referred to as bacterial leaf scorch (BLS). Arborists, property owners, and communities are now beginning to recognize BLS as a serious threat to the urban forest. Although advances in symptom awareness and diagnostic techniques have enabled arborists to diagnose BLS, ther...

The genus Aeromonas comprises Gram negative rods found mainly in aquatical environments that may infect humans and animals (JM Janda 1991 Clin Microbiol Rev 4: 397-410). In humans, some Aeromonas species have been associated with intestinal and extraintestinal infections and enterotoxins, cytotoxins as well as invasive mechanisms have been incriminated in the development of illness in the host ...

Ekman, M. 2005: Modeling and Control of Bilinear Systems: Applications to the Activated Sludge Process. Written in English. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 65. 231 pp. Uppsala, Sweden. ISBN 91-554-6342-8 This thesis concerns modeling and control of bilinear systems (BLS). BLS are linear but not jointly linear in state and control....

Aims. Already from the initial discoveries of extrasolar planets it was apparent that their population and environments are far more diverse than initially postulated. Discovering circumbinary (CB) planets will have many implications, and in this context it will again substantially diversify the environments that produce and sustain planets. We search for transiting CB planets around eclipsing ...

This paper first utilizes annual surveys between the 1981 and 2000 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effect of being overweight on hourly wages. Previous studies have shown that white women are the only race-gender group for which weight has a statistically significant effect on wages. This paper finds a statistically significant continual increase in the wage p...