Selecting a suitable design for lean facility layout has become critical issue manufacturing company aiming to remove waste or non-value-added activities and implement the optimal arrangement. Many quantitative qualitative criteria with different weights need be considered in evaluating designs. To address issue, Best-Worst method (BWM) based on fuzzy ELECTRE I is introduced determine design, w...

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship among umbilical venous volume flow, birthweight and placental share in monochorionic twins with or without selective growth restriction. Having excluded cases complicated with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and one co-twin suffering intrauterine fetal death, a total of 51 monochorionic twin pregnancies were divided into two groups as w...

Conflicting patterns of population differentiation between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes (mito-nuclear discordance) have become increasingly evident as multilocus data sets have become easier to generate. Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) of nucDNA is often implicated as the cause of such discordance, stemming from the large effective population size of nucDNA relative to mtDNA. However,...

OBJECTIVES Determine if ipsilesional primary motor cortex (M1) in stroke patients processes online visuomotor discordance in gain between finger movement and observed feedback in virtual reality (VR). MATERIALS AND METHODS Chronic stroke patients flexed (N= 7) or extended (N= 1) their finger with real-time feedback of a virtual hand presented in VR. Virtual finger excursion was scaled by appl...

OBJECTIVE C-reactive protein (CRP) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) are common measures of systemic inflammation. Our goal was to identify clinical factors associated with CRP/ESR discordance. METHODS We identified patients with ESR and CRP results at our academic hospital over six months. We matched individuals with discordant results (one measure in highest tertile, other in lowest)...

A review of assay results from more than 6000 patients revealed 232 patients in whom multiple breast cancer specimens were analyzed for estrogen receptor (ER). All assays were performed in a single laboratory. Specimens were considered estrogen receptor positive (ER+) if the ER level was greater than 10 fmol/mg protein and estrogen receptor negative (ER-) if the ER level was less than 3. ER val...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of discordant twins in Siriraj Hospital and to evaluate associated factors. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University. SUBJECTS A total of 150 women with twin pregnancy, > or = 28 weeks of gestation, who had deliveries of both live twins at Siriraj Hospital ...

Population genetic theory predicts discordance in the true phylogeny of different genomic regions when studying recently diverged species. Despite this expectation, genome-wide discordance in young species groups has rarely been statistically quantified. The house mouse subspecies group provides a model system for examining phylogenetic discordance. House mouse subspecies are recently derived, ...

BACKGROUND Hormone receptor and HER-2/neu discordance between the primary lesion and first metastasis has been reported. This study was performed to determine further biomarker discordance rates between the first and subsequent metastatic breast cancer lesions. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of paired biomarkers from primary breast cancers compared to first reported and subsequen...