The overexpression of gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) in cancer can be used for peptide-receptor mediated radionuclide imaging and therapy. We have previously shown that an antagonist analog of bombesin RM26 conjugated to 1,4,7-triazacyclononane-N,N',N''-triacetic acid (NOTA) via a diethyleneglycol (PEG2) spacer (NOTA-PEG2-RM26) and labeled with 68Ga can be used for imaging of GRPR-ex...

purpose: this study explores the use of and the role of learning strategies in the educational success of iranian undergraduate medical students using an inventory of learning and study strategies. material & method: 412 students in the first to third year of study were selected randomly. a questionnaire based on the lassi questionnaire (developed by weinstein et al which included ten areas of ...

The goals for the first quarter in the timeline defined in the proposal were to run experiments on ESnet and ANI testbed to capture control-connection packets for file transfer applications, and to design new online flow detection algorithms. Both these activities were planned for the first proposed work item, which is to design new online flow detection algorithms because the Hybrid Network Tr...

Sand fields develop different patterns, such as sandbars, sand ridges, sand ripples, sand dunes, and river dunes. These vary in shape from crescent to ridge-like patterns. They are formed in areas such as deserts, lakes and seashores, where winds or fluid flows are strong and tend to blow from one direction or oscillate. There is a great deal of order in these patterns: perhaps a simple model c...

We propose weakening the definition of progress to a branching-time operator, making it more amenable to compositional proof and simplifying the predicates needed to reason about highly asynchronous programs. The new progress operator (“achieves”) coincides with the “leads-to” operator on all “observable” progress properties (those where the target predicate is stable) and satisfies the same co...

T HE various modalities used in the study of the heart and circulation contribute different types of information. Some, such as electrocardiography and fluoroscopic or roentgenographic study, have such broad spheres of usefulness that they are almost routinely employed. Other diagnostic procedures have not gained wide usage either because of expense of equipment, difficulty in clinical applicat...

I wear eyeglasses (you may too) and blow on them when they are dusty.The large dust particles blow off easily but the small particles do not.But why not? This familiar occurrence illustrates the no-slip boundary condition of fluid flow past a solid surface, which states that flowing fluid (air, in this example) comes to rest just at the point where it meets the solid surface.There is no relativ...