PURPOSE Surgical clips are used as a target for postoperative breast radiotherapy, and displacement of surgical clips would result in inaccurate delivery of radiation. We investigated the displacement range of surgical clips in the breast during postoperative radiotherapy following breast-conserving surgery. METHODS A total of 178 patients who received breast-conserving surgery and postoperat...

Objects, such as food, in the environment automatically activate and facilitate affordances, the possibilities for motoric movements in interaction with the objects. Previous research has shown that affordance activation is contingent upon the distance of the object with only proximal objects activating potential movements. However, the effect of affordance-activating proximal objects on the ab...

Translucent concrete is an alternative material for many building structures. Having a sufficiently high strength, it has minimal values of density, porosity and water resistance, which allows to be used in the construction light road surfaces. Modern technologies make possible improve quality obtain inexpensive with ability transmit light. Promising developments are designed technical characte...

Fig, 1: Structure of phenylaceticacid hydrazones and 2-chlorophenylsemicarbazones. Antidepressant activity was evaluated in albino rats weighing 100 to 120 g, by Porsolt forcecll swimming test (4). Rats were individually placed in plexiglass cylinders (height 40 cm; diameter 18 cm), containing 15 cm of water maintained at 25°C. After 15 minutes they were removed to a 30°C drying room for 30 min...

In this paper we present R-DEVICE, a deductive rule language for reasoning about RDF metadata. R-DEVICE includes features such as normal and generalized path expressions, stratified negation, aggregate, grouping, and sorting, functions. The rule language supports a second-order syntax, where variables can range over classes and properties. Users can define views which are materialized and, opti...

This paper describes PalymSys -an extended version of the CLIPS language that is designed to facilitate the implementation of blackboard systems. The paper first describes the general characteristics of blackboards and shows how a control blackboard architecture can be used by AI systems to examine their own behavior and adapt to real-time problem-solving situations by striking a balance betwee...