INTRODUCTION Subcutaneous (SQ) vaccination has emerged as standard of care in children with severe bleeding disorders to reduce unnecessary factor exposure and avoid provoking an intramuscular bleed, but little is known about comparative immunogenicity to intramuscular (IM) vaccination. AIM To confirm immunogenicity of Diphtheria Tetanus acellular Pertussis (DTaP) vaccines administered SQ to ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare the clinicopathologic prognostic factors between patients who underwent lung resection for adenocarcinoma (AD) and those with squamous cell carcinoma (SQ). METHODS A database of patients with lung AD or SQ who underwent surgery with curative intent in our department from January 2008 to December 2014 was reviewed. Associations between various clini...

Anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA), an effective countermeasure against anthrax, is administered as six subcutaneous (SQ) doses over 18 months. To optimize the vaccination schedule and route of administration, we performed a prospective pilot study comparing the use of fewer AVA doses administered intramuscularly (IM) or SQ with the current schedule and route. We enrolled 173 volunteers, randomized...

This paper addresses a multi-stage stochastic integer programming formulation of the uncapacitated lot-sizing problem under uncertainty. We show that the classical (`, S) inequalities for the deterministic lot-sizing polytope are also valid for the stochastic lot-sizing polytope. We then extend the (`, S) inequalities to a general class of valid inequalities, called the (Q, SQ) inequalities, an...

OANA M. DUICU1,2, ILEANA SCURTU1, ROXANA POPESCU3, ADRIAN STURZA1,2, DORINA CORICOVAC4, MARIA D. DANILA1,2, ANDREEA PRIVISTIRESCU1, DANINA M. MUNTEAN1,2,* 1“Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Department of Pathophysiology, 2 Eftimie Murgu Sq., 300041, Timisoara, Romania 2“Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Center for Translational Research and...

CARMEN SOFICA TATU1,2#, CARMEN PANAITESCU1,2#, LAURA MARUSCIAC1#, ALINA MARIA SISU3#, MIRABELA CRISTEA2, DANIELA ANCA PUSCASIU4*, GABRIELA TANASIE1,2 1Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Functional Sciences Department, Physiology Discipline, 2 Eftimie Murgu Sq., 300041, Timisoara, Romania 2OncoGen Centre, 2 Eftimie Murgu Sq., 300041, Timisoara, Romania 3Victor Babes Univ...

For a graph G, let V ar(G) denote the variance of the degree sequence of G, let sq(G) denote the sum of the squares of the degrees of G, and let t(G) denote the number of triangles in G and in its complement. The parameters are related by: V ar(G) = sq(G)/n− d where d is the average degree of G, and t(G) = ( n 3 ) + sq(G)/2−m(n− 1). Let V ar(n) denote the maximum possible value of V ar(G) where...

Amplification of the MYCN gene in neuroblastomas is a potent biological marker of highly aggressive tumors, which are invariably fatal unless sound clinical management is applied. To determine the usefulness of semi-quantitative differential PCR (SQ-PCR) for accurate quantification of MYCN gene copy number, we evaluated the analytical performance of this method by comparing the results obtained...