BACKGROUND According to the Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology criteria, new enhancement within the radiation field on contrast enhanced T1-weighted images within 12 weeks after completion of radiotherapy should not qualify for progressive disease, since up to 50% of these cases may be pseudoprogression (PsP). To validate this concept, we assessed incidence and overall survival (OS) of patie...

Double-gate fully depleted (DGFD) SOI circuits are regarded as the next generation VLSI circuits. This paper investigates the impact of scaling on the demand and challenges of DGFD SOI circuit design for low power and high performance. We study how the added back-gate capacitance affects circuit power and performance; how to tradeoff the enhanced short-channel effect immunity with the added bac...

PSP is a methodology for an individual software engineer's continuous self-improvement. Currently, few PSP experience reports are available from non-US sources, and hardly any from people other than the PSP inventor Watts Humphrey. We describe independent experiences with PSP. We nd that PSP is a viable and useful approach and has quantiiable, positive impact. Problems in teaching PSP are in ke...

OBJECTIVES MRI-based measurements used to diagnose progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) typically lack pathologic verification and are not easy to use routinely. We aimed to develop in histologically proven disease a simple measure of the midbrain and pons on sagittal MRI to identify PSP. METHODS Measurements of the midbrain and pontine base on midsagittal T1-weighted MRI were performed in co...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Early clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) remains challenging. AIM We attempted to identify any sign or symptom to diagnose PSP earlier. METHODS A total of 401 patients, 40 with PSP and 361 with other neurodegenerative disorders, were included. We followed these patients for at least 1 year since 2009. We reviewed the signs and symptoms of patients ...

The clinical features of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) overlap with other parkinsonian syndromes, including multiple system atrophy (MSA). Autonomic dysfunction is a characteristic of MSA, but has also been described in PSP. We therefore report results from a series of physiological studies of cardiovascular autonomic function in 35 PSP and 20 MSA subjects, and 26 age-matched healthy con...

Objective: The current study investigated the neurotrophic and neuroprotective action of a unique formulation of á-PSP which consists of carbohydrate, crude protein, and essential minerals by using pressure and mechanical hydrolysis to make a complex formulation designated alpha polysaccharidepeptides (á-PSP). Methods: Using neuronal cell lines prepared from the LA-N-5 (Los Angeles Neuroblastom...

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a popular handheld game console. The lack of a hard disk unit within the PSP does not imply a lack of stored data. It incorporates an onboard NAND flash memory and a memory card reader. This paper aims to raise awareness of the presence of custom firmware and identify possible data hiding places in the PSP. It discusses PSP forensics issues and proposes a possi...

Female rats modulate the number and interval between the intromissions the female receives during mating. This patterned vaginocervical stimulation (VCS) is critical for triggering long-term changes in prolactin (PRL) secretion necessary for pregnancy or pseudopregnancy (P/PSP). Previous work has shown that NMDA receptor activation in the posterodorsal medial amygdala (MEApd) is required at the...