High-quality postabortion care (PAC) services that include family planning counseling and a full range of contraceptives at point of treatment for abortion complications have great potential to break the cycle of repeat unintended pregnancies and demand for abortions. We describe the first application of a systematic approach to quality improvement of PAC services in a West African country. Thi...

Taxol (paclitaxel, PAC) is a diterpene with antitumor activity against a variety of human neoplasms. PAC cytotoxicity is thought to derive mainly from a stabilization of microtubules as a result of enhanced tubulin polymerization that leads to an accumulation of cells in G2/M phase of cell cycle. In this study, the cytotoxic effect occurred by PAC in tumor cells in vitro were examined. Mouse ma...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary artery catheters (PAC) are used widely to monitor hemodynamics in patients undergoing coronary bypass graft (CABG) surgery. However, recent studies have raised concerns regarding both the effectiveness and safety of PAC. Therefore, our aim was to determine the effects of the use of PAC on the short- and long-term health and economic outcomes of patients undergoing CABG. M...

The carotenoid biosynthetic pathway was genetically manipulated using the recombinant PAC (Phytoene synthase-2A-Carotene desaturase) gene in Korean soybean (Glycine max L. cv. Kwangan). The PAC gene was linked to either the β-conglycinin (β) or CaMV-35S (35S) promoter to generate β-PAC and 35S-PAC constructs, respectively. A total of 37 transgenic lines (19 for β-PAC and 18 for 35S-PAC) were ob...

•Polymeric micellar paclitaxel is a significant breakthrough in the history of chemotherapy.•Polymeric yielded superior objective response rate compared with solvent-based paclitaxel.•Polymeric progression-free survival lower incidence treatment-related serious adverse events should be preferred over first-line treatment advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. BackgroundPolymeric (pm-Pac) novel Cr...

ions and Presentations. The PAC-C3D factory will give each Control one factory for Abstraction creation, and a list (which can be empty) of factories for Presentations creation, corresponding to each kind of existing Presentation on its node. If allowed by its distribution policy, then the Control will ask the Abstraction factory to create a real Abstraction. Next, the Control will ask each Pre...

Plan-subplan matching is an important step in case-based plan recognition. We present RelaxedVF2, an algorithm for plan-subplan matching for plans encoded using the Action Sequence Graph representation. RelaxedVF2 is a subgraph monomorphism algorithm that affords flexibility and error tolerance for plan-subplan matching. We present a study comparing RelaxedVF2 with an alternate degreesequence m...

The main objectives of this study were to remove surface-active agents and to predict the adsorption rejection models.  The effects of surfactant concentration and PAC amount on the adsorption were determined. For both surfactants, It was found that the adsorption values also increased when PAC amount increased. It was observed that the rejection values are different for the adsorption of C...

Procaspase-Activating Compound 1 (PAC-1) is an ortho-hydroxy N-acyl hydrazone that enhances the enzymatic activity of procaspase-3 in vitro and induces apoptosis in cancer cells. An analogue of PAC-1, called S-PAC-1, was evaluated in a veterinary clinical trial in pet dogs with lymphoma and found to have considerable potential as an anticancer agent. With the goal of identifying more potent com...