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Journal articles on the topic "White Stag Group"
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Perner, Vaclav, and Ludek Bartos. "Integrity of a Red Deer Stag Group During the Velvet Period, Association of Individuals and Timing of Antler Cleaning." Behaviour 95, no. 3-4 (1985): 314–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853985x00172.
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AbstractPrevious studies on a "white" red deer herd at Zehušice, Czechoslovakia showed that a stag's antler casting and cleaning dates were related to his rank in the dominance hierarchy. The relationship was less apparent with antler cleaning than with casting. It was suggested that this is a consequence of disintegration of the bachelor group during the period of antler growth. A group of 14 individually recognised stags in a 1.26 km2 enclosure were observed 77 times between March 15th and August 22nd 1983. The number of stag groups, the distribution of stags into groups and the number of solitary stags was recorded on each occasion. For each observation the "relative dominance index" (RDI, rank position within a group divided by the number of stags in the group) was calculated for each individual. Correlation coefficients between antler cleaning dates and summed RDI values were calculated. As in previous seasons, and in contrast to the period preceding antler casting, the bachelor group disintegrated during the velvet period. As antler cleaning approached the stags tended to disperse into more groups and separate from other deer. The stags associated with others of similar rank and age. There was a close association between summed RDI values for individual stags for the last two weeks of the velvet period and dates of antler cleaning. Among pairs of stags which were closest associates during this period, the higher ranking stag always cleaned earlier. It is concluded that the disintegration of the bachelor group in the period before antler cleaning may be the major factor which causes a less apparent relationship between rank and the date of antler cleaning than between rank and date of antler casting. It is suggested that these two points in the antler cycle are regulated by hormones modulated by agonistic behaviour related to rank.
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Patitucci, L. T., M. V. Azeredo, M. A. Verícimo, N. R. P. Almosny, and M. C. N. Castro. "Electrophoretic analysis (sds-page) of canine urinary proteins according to the stage of chronic kidney disease." Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia 72, no. 4 (August 2020): 1185–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1678-4162-11146.
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ABSTRACT Glomerular proteinuria is characterized by the loss of high-molecular-weight proteins (HMWPs), while tubulointerstitial proteinuria is characterized by the loss of low-molecular-weight proteins (LMWPs). The objective was to assess the molecular weight of urinary proteins (MWUP) in dogs with naturally acquired CKD and determine the proportion of HMWPs and LMWPs according to CKD stage. Twenty-eight dogs with CKD were recruited and divided into 4 groups based on serum creatinine (Cr) levels (group1: Cr<1,4, n=8; group2: 1,4<Cr<2,0, n=6; group3: 2,1<Cr<5, n=9; group4: Cr>5,0, n=5). The control group consisted of 5 healthy dogs. The MWUP was determined by SDS-PAGE. The urinary protein-to-creatinine ratio (UP/C) was used to quantitatively assess proteinuria. The electrophoresis pattern revealed a proportionally greater loss of HMWPthan of LMWP in all groups with CKD and an increased loss of LMWP in group 4 (P<0.05). These results suggest a predominance of glomerular injuries throughout all stages of CKD in these dogs and an increase in tubulointerstitial injury towards the end-stage of the disease. The results of the present study support the recommendation of SDS-PAGE as an effective technique for the qualitative assessment of proteinuria, as well as a method for assessing the severity and location of renal injury.
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Dwi Rahminiwati, Kartika, IGM Antara Hambarsika, and Fitri Handajani. "PENGARUH PEMBERIAN JUS BUAH BELIMBING WULUH (AVERRHOA BILIMBI L.) TERHADAP KADAR KOLESTEROL LDL DARAH TIKUS PUTIH (RATTUS NORVEGICUS) JANTAN GALUR WISTAR DENGAN DIET TINGGI LEMAK." Jurnal Ilmiah Kedokteran Wijaya Kusuma 8, no. 2 (October 12, 2019): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.30742/jikw.v8i2.572.
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A high-fat diet can increase lipoprotein levels, total cholesterol, (Low Density Lipoprotein) LDL, and triglycerides. Starfruit has saponin and flavonoid compounds which are expected to reducing LDL cholesterol levels. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of starfruit juice on lowering the blood cholesterol LDL of Wistar rats fed with high-fat diet. Experimental study with post-test only control group design. As many as 24 male white rats from the Wistar strain were divided into 3 groups: negative control groups (K-) that were given standard feed for 28 days; positive control group (K+) who were given a high-fat diet for 28 days; the treatment group (KP) was given a high-fat diet for 28 days and on the 15th day 28th they were given a starfruit juice with a dose of 4ml / 200grBB / day. Day 29 measured LDL cholesterol. The statistic test showed a significant increase in LDL cholesterol levels (p=0.001) in the positive control group (x=12.125±2.642 mg/dL) compared to the negative control group (x=7.625±1.506 mg/dL). There was no significant different the mean cholesterol level of the treatment group (x=11±1.927) compared to the mean LDL cholesterol level of the positive control group (x=12.125±2.642). A high-fat diet significantly increases the mean LDL cholesterol level. Starfruit juice did not significantly reduce LDL cholesterol level.
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Kojola, Ilpo. "Rutting behaviour in an enclosured group of wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus Lönnb.)." Rangifer 6, no. 2 (June 1, 1986): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/2.6.2.643.
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The rutting behaviour of wild forest reindeer {Rangifer tarandus fennicus Lönnb.) was studied 1981 - 83 in a 15 ha enclosure located in Kivijärvi, Central Finland (63° N). The group consisted of two old stags, 6-9 hinds and their calves and yearlings. The main sections of the study were social structure, social signals, time budget and daily activity. In early September the aggressiveness of the stags towards females concentrated on those individuals which had last dominated them. Adult females were more aggressive to young females than to each other. The proposed aggressiveness of the hinds towards yearlings may be explained by the lower predictability of the hierarchial status of the young animals. The main character of observable social signals seemed to be similar to those described in earlier studies concerning the genus Rangifer. Stags often made snapping-like movements with their mouths during agonistic behaviour. Low-stretch displays and investigation of the urine of the females concentrated on the estrous hind during the day preceeding the pre-copulatory period (which commenced when the hind did not yet avoid the stag). The stag always sniffed at the vulva of the female after copulation. The harem stag did not stop grazing during the peak of the rut. Differences in the time budget between the dominant and subdominant stag as between estrous and anestrous hinds were clear. Mating occurred most often during the 3 hours after sundown. In the dark the old stags often sparred and their activity towards females seemed to be weaker than in the daylight hours. During the peak rut the stags were observed to spar only while the females were resting.
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Solheim, J. E. "Interacting Binary White Dwarf Stars." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 151 (1992): 461–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900122727.
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This group of stars consists of 4 systems, also called helium cataclysmics. Three of them show photometric variations and have been studied by the Whole Earth Telescope (WET), which have revealed multiperiodic light curves showing the signature of g-mode non-radial pulsations on the accreting star. The combination of accretion and g-mode pulsations gives a unique opportunity to test models for the accreator's structural changes in response to accretion. IUE-spectra provide additional physical parameters.
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Milone, Eugene F., Roger A. Bell, Michael Bessell, Robert Garrison, Martin Cohen, Ian S. Glass, Robert L. Kurucz, et al. "Working Group on Infrared Astronomy: (Groupe de Travail Pour L’Astronomie Infrarouge)." Transactions of the International Astronomical Union 24, no. 1 (2000): 336–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0251107x0000328x.
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In 1988, a Joint Commission (9 and 25) meeting on the causes of the well-known limitations on the precision of infrared astronomy led to several suggestions to improve matters (see Milone 1989). These included better reporting of the photometric systems in use by practitioners, redesign of the infrared passbands to be more optimally placed inside the atmospheric windows, and development of a method to ascertain the water vapor content of the atmosphere when the astronomical infrared measurements were being made. An Infrared Astronomy Working Group was formed to look into the matter. Advice and suggestions were solicited from the community at large. All who volunteered information became, de facto, members of the Working Group. A small subgroup composed of Andrew Young, Chris Stagg, and Milone set to work on the central of the recommendations: improvement of the passbands. Young, Milone, k Stagg (1994) (hereafter YMS) summarized the work: existing JHKLMN and Q infrared passbands were found to be both far from standardized, and all too frequently defined, to various degrees, by the water vapor and other components of the terrestrial atmosphere. Following extensive numerical simulations with a MODTRAN 3 terrestrial-atmospheres model package, and Kurucz stellar atmospheres, we suggested a set of improved infrared passbands designed explicitly to fit within, and not be defined by, the terrestrial atmospheric windows; however, we sought to optimize them so as to get the maximum throughput consistent with plausible limitations on precision of manufacture of the filters. In 1995 and again in 1997, a number of improvements were made in the code with which the improved passbands were designed. While they do not much affect the optimization trials and thus the passband recommendations, they have been used to extend the modeling.
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Mishra, Virendra R., Karthik R. Sreenivasan, Zhengshi Yang, Xiaowei Zhuang, Dietmar Cordes, Zoltan Mari, Irene Litvan, et al. "Unique white matter structural connectivity in early-stage drug-naive Parkinson disease." Neurology 94, no. 8 (December 27, 2019): e774-e784. http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000008867.
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ObjectiveTo investigate the topographic arrangement and strength of whole-brain white matter (WM) structural connectivity in patients with early-stage drug-naive Parkinson disease (PD).MethodsWe employed a model-free data-driven approach for computing whole-brain WM topologic arrangement and connectivity strength between brain regions by utilizing diffusion MRI of 70 participants with early-stage drug-naive PD and 41 healthy controls. Subsequently, we generated a novel group-specific WM anatomical network by minimizing variance in anatomical connectivity of each group. Global WM connectivity strength and network measures were computed on this group-specific WM anatomical network and were compared between the groups. We tested correlations of these network measures with clinical measures in PD to assess their pathophysiologic relevance.ResultsPD-relevant cortical and subcortical regions were identified in the novel PD-specific WM anatomical network. Impaired modular organization accompanied by a correlation of network measures with multiple clinical variables in early PD were revealed. Furthermore, disease duration was negatively correlated with global connectivity strength of the PD-specific WM anatomical network.ConclusionBy minimizing variance in anatomical connectivity, this study found the presence of a novel WM structural connectome in early PD that correlated with clinical symptoms, despite the lack of a priori analytic assumptions. This included the novel finding of increased structural connectivity between known PD-relevant brain regions. The current study provides a framework for further investigation of WM structural changes underlying the clinical and pathologic heterogeneity of PD.
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Grebel, E. K. "Star Formation Histories of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies." Highlights of Astronomy 11, no. 1 (1998): 125–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1539299600020190.
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The Local Group contains 37 currently known or probable member galaxies within a radius of 1.8 Mpc (Grebel 1997a). 31 of these galaxies are dwarf galaxies with MB > -17 mag. The most frequent galaxy types are low-mass, gas-poor dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies, which are dominated by old and intermediate-age populations, and more massive, gas-rich dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies with recent star formation. DSph galaxies have been found mostly in close vicinity to the large spiral galaxies in the Local Group, while dirr galaxies tend to be more distant and isolated.
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Liebert, James. "The Origin and Evolution of Helium-Rich White Dwarfs." International Astronomical Union Colloquium 87 (1985): 367–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0252921100090965.
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AbstractWhite dwarfs with helium-rich atmospheres constitute about one fifth of the white dwarfs hotter than 12,000 K. They appear to have a mass distribution similar to the hydrogen atmosphere (DA) stars, and are similar in other properties. However, the temperature distribution exhibits a deficiency of DB/DO stars in the interval 25,000-45,000 K, which implies evolution in the dominant surface composition as the stars cool. The hottest group of transition DO white dwarfs are the pulsating objects of the PG1159 class. The central star of Kl-16 is a related object, as may be the newly discovered very hot star H1504+65, which shows no detected surface features of either hydrogen or helium.
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Shao, Wen, Xuwen He, Xin Li, Wuhai Tao, Junying Zhang, Shujuan Zhang, Lei Wang, et al. "Disrupted White Matter Networks from Subjective Memory Impairment to Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment." Current Alzheimer Research 18, no. 1 (April 28, 2021): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1567205018666210324115817.
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Background and Objective: Subjective memory impairment (SMI) is a preclinical stage prior to amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) along with the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) continuum. We hypothesized that SMI patients had white matter (WM) network disruptions similar to those in aMCI patients. Methods: We used diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging and graph theory to construct, analyze, and compare the WM networks among 20 normal controls (NC), 20 SMI patients, and 20 aMCI patients. Results: Compared with the NC group, the SMI group had significantly decreased global and local efficiency and an increased shortest path length. Moreover, similar to the aMCI group, the SMI group had lower nodal efficiency in regions located in the frontal and parietal lobes, limbic systems, and caudate nucleus compared to that of the NC group. Conclusion: Similar to aMCI patient, SMI patients exhibited WM network disruptions, and detection of these disruptions could facilitate the early detection of SMI.
Books on the topic "White Stag Group"
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Orkaby, Asher. The Anglo-Egyptian Rivalry in Yemen. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190618445.003.0008.
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The Yemen Civil War brought about the end of the British Empire and represented the final stage of an Anglo-Egyptian rivalry that had begun with Lord Palmerston’s 1839 conquest of Aden and the struggle against Muhammad Ali’s Egyptian army. Post-WWII British foreign policy had, until the end of the 1960s, been strongly influenced by the Conservative Suez Group, later renamed the Aden Group, which wasvehemently anti-Nasser. Members of the Aden Group established a mercenary organization to aid the royalist guerrilla war against Egypt, while Nasser supported anti-British nationalist groups in South Yemen during the 1960s. This clandestine war helped bring about the mutual defeat and withdrawal of British and Egyptian imperial designs in Yemen.
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Ezell, Margaret J. M. Seen on Stage: English Operas, the Female Wits, and the ‘Reformed’ Stage. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198183112.003.0022.
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The final decade of the century saw changes and challenges to the London commercial stage, including Jeremy Collier’s attack on it for profanity and immorality. Dramatists including Dryden, Congreve, and Southerne defended their writings as promoting good morality, while a group of female dramatists comprising Mary Pix, Delarivier Manley, and Catharine Trotter became a target of satire, referred to as the ‘Female Wits’. Audiences were increasingly interested in new forms of plays called ‘operas’ that required more singers, dancers and stage effects.
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Holmes, Sean P. The Sock and Buskin or the Artisan’s Biretta. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037481.003.0003.
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This chapter focuses on the problems that organizing in defense of their collective interests posed for the men and women of the American stage and, indeed, for many other occupational groups on the margins of the American middle class. Beginning with an analysis of the work culture of actors, it argues that while the shared experiences of a life on the boards generated a powerful sense of group identity, individual ambition, the fuel that powered the star system, proved difficult to reconcile with the principles of collective action. It goes on to highlight how actors' leaders deployed the vocabulary of high culture and the larger language of class of which it was a part not simply to define their position in relation to the major theatrical employers but also to draw a line between those performers they deemed worthy of the label artist and those they did not. It concludes with a detailed analysis of the debate that raged within the ranks of the Actors' Equity Association over the question of affiliation with the organized labor movement. Paying careful attention to the language that the competing parties employed to articulate their respective positions, it documents the development of a schism within the theatrical community that sprang from two markedly different ways of conceptualizing the process of cultural production.
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Ahmad, Rozila. Human Resource Practice System in Malaysian Five-Star Hotels. UUM Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789670474571.
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Organisations, including hotels, usually have more than one human resource practices system. Thus, this book is written to provide an understanding of the human resource practice system for managerial and non-managerial employees in the context of hotel industry. This book focuses specifically on five-star beach resort hotels in Malaysia. The human resource practices system for managerial employees includes empowerment while the recruitment and selection is more thorough. Their compensation is more attractive and their training is more rewarding. Both groups of employees are provided with a clear job description, orientation, employment security, objective performance appraisal, career development opportunity and effective communication.
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Corrigan, John. Religious Hatred. Edited by John Corrigan. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195170214.003.0019.
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Hate as an emotion, while not exactly the same in all instances, manifests in certain ways regardless of whether the context is religion, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, or other kinds of difference. Religious ideologies and institutions historically have served as backgrounds that condition the performance of hatred by individuals and groups. Some religious hatred arises from intellectual cultures characterized by an absolutizing worldview, in which reality is parsed into clearly bounded categories of holy and unholy, good and evil, saved and damned. Religion is a marker of group identity, and is frequently interwoven with other aspects of identity, including nationalistic, ethnic, and cultural elements. Religious hatred, accordingly, is sometimes mixed with hatred having to do with ethnicity or nationalistic fervor. Religious hatred is most easily observed in violence, and it is through violence that it is most effectively expressed. In the history of religious hatred in the West, Judaism shares the center stage with Christianity and Islam. Religious hatred is not limited to monotheistic religions.
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Abdelaaty, Lamis Elmy. Discrimination and Delegation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530061.001.0001.
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What explains state responses to the refugees they receive? This book identifies two puzzling patterns: states open their borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (discrimination), and a number of countries have given the United Nations (UN) control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory (delegation). To explain this selective exercise of sovereignty, the book develops a two-part theoretical framework in which policymakers in refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. Internationally, leaders use refugees to reassure allies and exert pressure on rivals. Domestically, policymakers have incentives to favor those refugee groups with whom they share an ethnic identity. When these international and domestic incentives conflict, shifting responsibility to the UN allows policymakers to placate both refugee-sending countries and domestic constituencies. The book then carries out a “three-stage, multi-level” research design in which each successive step corroborates and elaborates the findings of the preceding stage. The first stage involves statistical analysis of asylum admissions worldwide. The second stage presents two country case studies: Egypt (a country that is broadly representative of most refugee recipients) and Turkey (an outlier that has limited the geographic application of the Refugee Convention). The third stage zooms in on sub- or within-country dynamics in Kenya (home to one of the largest refugee populations in the world) through content analysis of parliamentary proceedings. Studying state responses to refugees is instructive because it can help explain why states sometimes assert, and at other times cede, their sovereignty in the face of refugee rights.
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Orkaby, Asher. Nasser’s Cage. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190618445.003.0006.
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The 1964 Arab Summit and subsequent Egyptian-Saudi agreements appeared to mark the end of Egypt’s military adventure in Yemen. In 1965, however, Nasser reneged on his commitment to withdraw, declaring instead his “long-breath strategy” to remain in Yemen indefinitely. Nasser’s decision to stay in Yemen was encouraged by financial incentives from US President Johnson and Soviet Chairman Brezhnev, who preferred to keep Nasser’s aggressive foreign policy contained in Yemen. While supporting Egypt’s continued presence in Yemen, the United States, with a large USAID presence, and the USSR, with a group of pro-Soviet Yemeni leaders, were competing for the “hearts and minds” of Yemenis in an effort to secure an independent position in South Arabia.
Book chapters on the topic "White Stag Group"
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Kirsch, Brian James, Shu-Jyuan Chang, Michael James Betenbaugh, and Anne Le. "Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Metabolism." In The Heterogeneity of Cancer Metabolism, 103–16. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65768-0_7.
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AbstractNon-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) are a heterogeneous group of lymphoid neoplasms with different biological characteristics. About 90% of all lymphomas in the United States originate from B lymphocytes, while the remaining originate from T cells [1]. The treatment of NHLs depends on the neoplastic histology and stage of the tumor, which will indicate whether radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or a combination is the best suitable treatment [2]. The American Cancer Society describes the staging of lymphoma as follows: Stage I is lymphoma in a single node or area. Stage II is when that lymphoma has spread to another node or organ tissue. Stage III is when it has spread to lymph nodes on two sides of the diaphragm. Stage IV is when cancer has significantly spread to organs outside the lymph system. Radiation therapy is the traditional therapeutic route for localized follicular and mucosa-associated lymphomas. Chemotherapy is utilized for the treatment of large-cell lymphomas and high-grade lymphomas [2]. However, the treatment of indolent lymphomas remains problematic as the patients often have metastasis, for which no standard approach exists [2].
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von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin, and Bettina Siflinger. "Labor Supply and Well-Being During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Crisis in the Netherlands: Lessons from Microdata." In The New Common, 67–74. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65355-2_10.
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AbstractLike many other countries, the Netherlands shut down large parts of economic and social life in the spring of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Between late March and early May, schools and childcare facilities as well as restaurants, cafes, and bars were shut down; contact-related occupations were closed; gatherings were prohibited; and employees were advised to work from home as much as possible. While these regulations represented a sharp cut in individuals’ personal lives, they were more relaxed in the Netherlands than in many other European countries. At the same time, the Netherlands has enacted large-scale economic relief programs.This chapter gives an overview of how labor supply and well-being have changed in the Netherlands in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that changes in the labor market have affected different groups of people differently and we discuss reasons for these differences. In addition, we illustrate how the consequences of the lockdown have altered the well-being of Dutch workers.
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Vannucci, Giulia, Anna Gottard, Leonardo Grilli, and Carla Rampichini. "Random effects regression trees for the analysis of INVALSI data." In Proceedings e report, 29–34. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-304-8.07.
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Mixed or multilevel models exploit random effects to deal with hierarchical data, where statistical units are clustered in groups and cannot be assumed as independent. Sometimes, the assumption of linear dependence of a response on a set of explanatory variables is not plausible, and model specification becomes a challenging task. Regression trees can be helpful to capture non-linear effects of the predictors. This method was extended to clustered data by modelling the fixed effects with a decision tree while accounting for the random effects with a linear mixed model in a separate step (Hajjem & Larocque, 2011; Sela & Simonoff, 2012). Random effect regression trees are shown to be less sensitive to parametric assumptions and provide improved predictive power compared to linear models with random effects and regression trees without random effects. We propose a new random effect model, called Tree embedded linear mixed model, where the regression function is piecewise-linear, consisting in the sum of a tree component and a linear component. This model can deal with both non-linear and interaction effects and cluster mean dependencies. The proposal is the mixed effect version of the semi-linear regression trees (Vannucci, 2019; Vannucci & Gottard, 2019). Model fitting is obtained by an iterative two-stage estimation procedure, where both the fixed and the random effects are jointly estimated. The proposed model allows a decomposition of the effect of a given predictor within and between clusters. We will show via a simulation study and an application to INVALSI data that these extensions improve the predictive performance of the model in the presence of quasi-linear relationships, avoiding overfitting, and facilitating interpretability.
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Carter, Niambi Michele. "Introduction." In American While Black, 1–7. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190053550.003.0001.
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Using a personal anecdote to set the stage, the author introduces the fundamental argument of the book, which is that black people respond to the “threat” of immigration by critiquing a system of white supremacy that excludes blacks through the exploitation of other groups. In particular the book examines the ways in which blacks use immigration as a lens to evaluate their own status as citizens. In other words, as blacks think about what immigration means for the nation, they are also thinking about what it means for their group. The context within which they look at immigration is through their own group’s racial experience, which has often found blacks struggling for belonging in the American body politic because of white supremacy.
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Fording, Richard C., and Sanford F. Schram. "The Mainstreaming of the White Nationalist Movement." In Hard White, 72–96. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197500484.003.0004.
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Chapter 4 documents the rise of the Tea Party movement (TPM) and how it evolved into an attractive vehicle for the expression of outgroup hostility and the pursuit of racist policy priorities. We show that the TPM not only mobilized a significant number of previously inactive white racial conservatives but also co-opted a significant portion of the white nationalist movement, especially the traditional white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. In many ways the TPM set the stage for Trump by bringing more white racists and racial conservatives into electoral politics. Yet this newly energized constituency lacked a national leader. Trump’s emergence as a presidential candidate thus represents the second critical change in the political opportunity structure. With Trump, white racial extremists and racial conservatives now had a national leader who spoke directly to their outgroup hostility and their anger.
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Worthy, Ben. "The 1997 White Paper: a symbolic victory?" In The Politics of Freedom of Information. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097676.003.0004.
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In the UK FOI policy developed in a series of phases. This chapter covers the first stage of the development covered the first eight months, from Labour entering power in May 1997 to the publication of the White Paper Your Right to Know in December 1997. At this point, FOI appeared to avoid the ‘symbolic’ trap and overt conflict so frequently seen elsewhere. A small, well-connected group of crusaders inside government took advantage of their own power and used a favourable context to neutralise opposition, with a rapid process lending momentum to a far-Reaching policy. Their efforts resulted in a hugely symbolic White Paper, rapidly formulated, that offered one of the most radical FOI regimes yet seen in the world. The vision was of a political redistribution of power opening up even the very centre of government decision-making (Terrill 2000). However, doubts remained over the policy, its workability and the levels of support for it in government.
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Kim, Hee-sun. "Mainstreaming Dance Music and Articulating Femininity." In Vamping the Stage. University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824869861.003.0014.
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Korean pop music, or K-pop, has emerged and taken its dominant place since the turn of this century, but its girl groups can trace their lineage back to the 1990s, while the dance music so characteristic of K-pop began in the dance music boom of the 1980s. This chapter examines the music, image, and performance styles of female dance divas from the 1980s into the 2000s. Its purpose is threefold: first, to properly historicize the female dance singers of Korean pop music within their socio-cultural contexts and trace how the image of sexuality has evolved from those early dance divas to the K-pop girl groups of today; second, to examine the ways in which multi-dimensional cultural meanings and voices are constructed through the music, performance styles, and images, atop discourses of body, gender, and sexuality; and third, to dispute earlier assumptions about Korean female dance singers as being merely innocent victims of the globalized commercial entertainment industry and patriarchal systems. This study seeks to reveal the female dance singers as major subjectivities in shaping modern Korean popular music, a role inevitably overshadowed by the strong critical discourse on K-pop girls that emphasizes their sexuality.
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Smolla, Rodney A. "Cue the Counterprotesters— Stage Left." In Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, 104–11. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0014.
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This chapter discusses the Charlottesville Police Department that prepared for the July 8 rally led by Christopher Barker by gathering intelligence on the groups expected to protest against the Klan. It describes the police department's intelligence gathering, which included harvesting what was openly available on the internet, and interviews by Charlottesville police officers of groups and individuals that are likely to stage counterprotests. It also details how the police tactic backfired after democratic groups accused the police of engaging in an intimidation tactic intended to curtail leftist speech and expressive conduct. The chapter looks into the Antifa and Black Lives Matter national movements as the counterprotest groups planning to oppose the Klan rally. It explains that Antifa is a conglomeration of groups opposed to fascism, while the Black Lives Matter movement arose in reaction to incidents of unjust killings and beatings of African Americans by police.
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Rosenstein, Donald L., and Justin M. Yopp. "Beyond Death and Dying." In The Group. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649562.003.0007.
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In the late 1960s, LIFE magazine was one of the most widely read and influential periodicals in the world. Renowned for its photojournalism, the general-interest magazine covered all aspects of American life. The November 21, 1969, edition was no exception. It included a review of what would be The Beatles’ final studio album, a profile of Ohio State University head football coach Woody Hayes, and an advertisement for a commemorative book on that summer’s moon landing. It also featured an article on a little-known University of Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and her groundbreaking work with terminally ill patients. In an era when public discourse about death and dying was almost non-existent and when many physicians believed that a patient was better off not knowing his or her prognosis, Kübler-Ross was encouraging candid and open conversations with people about their impending deaths. Her innovative approach and courage to challenge the status quo drew the interest of LIFE editor Loudon Wainwright. His captivating story introducing Kübler-Ross and her new book, On Death and Dying, would forever change the national conversation about end-of-life and grief. The article described Kübler-Ross’s seminar teaching clinicians about the experiences of terminally ill patients. Physicians, nurses, chaplains, and medical students watched through a one-way mirror as she interviewed a twenty-two-year-old woman who had been diagnosed just two weeks earlier with leukemia, which at that time was almost always fatal. Large black-and-white pictures of the patient showed a vibrant and beautiful young woman with long hair and a wide smile. She looked nothing like someone close to death, which in some ways was the point. She talked about her diagnosis and understanding that leukemia would almost certainly kill her. Her willingness to openly discuss the prospect of her own death must have been astounding to those observing the interview. Kübler-Ross theorized that people facing their own mortality proceed through five stages prior to their death. In the first stage, the person is unable or unwilling to accept that he or she is going to die (Denial).
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Scaglia, Ilaria. "International Mountaineering while Talking about Emotions." In The Emotions of Internationalism, 83–109. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848325.003.0004.
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By looking at the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA, or International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation), an international organization created in 1932 “to promote mountaineering and climbing worldwide,” this chapter explores the “moral economy” of internationalism, or the dynamics through which internationalist groups used feelings to attribute moral values to specific beliefs and behaviors. It demonstrates that the UIAA used emotions to promote both its image and its mission. It presented alpinism as a means to engender “friendship” among nations, mimicking the League of Nations’ rhetoric and activities in this period. It also employed emotions as a tool to manage its relationships and as an essential ingredient to stage its events (e.g. international congresses and exhibitions). As such, it inaugurated a set of ideas and practices which would become normative in the subsequent decades.
Conference papers on the topic "White Stag Group"
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Shukla, H., K. Batra, R. Sekhon, S. Giri, and S. Rawal. "Over view of clinical presentation, management and outcome of cervical cancer: A tertiary cancer centre experience." In 16th Annual International Conference RGCON. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd., 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1685265.
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Objectives: (a) To understand the profile of cervical cancer patients attending our hospital from January 2011 till January 2015. (b) To audit the type of care given to the patients with respect to their stage at presentation. (c) To compare the outcomes of open v/s robotic radical hysterectomy done for cervical cancer. Methods: We prospectively analyzed all cases of cervical cancer from January 2011 to January 2015 presenting at our institute. Data was retrieved from patient’s records and institute’s tumor registry. We compared all patients undergoing open v/s robotic RH. All the data were analysed using SPSS version 21. Results: A total of 562 patients were treated for cervical cancer during the time period between 2011-2015. Of these there were 316 (56%) cases taken up for surgery-212 robotic RH, 104 open radical hysterectomy and rest 246 (44%) patients received definitive CCRT. Most common age group was 40-54 yrs. IB1 stage was most common presenting stage. SCC was most common histology (75%). Immediate post op complication and oncological safety in terms of local recurrence was same in both groups. However length of stay and post operative blood requirement was significantly lower in robotic RH group. 45% of all patients who underwent surgery did not require adjuvant therapy in post op period while 35% patient required post op RT and 20% CCRT. 2.2% patient had local recurrence and most of the patients were in stage IIA1 at presentation. Conclusion: Cervical cancer is the most common gynecological cancer in our hospital registry. Mostly women were in the age group of 40-54 years. Most common stage at presentation was 1B and the histology being SCC. Not many differences seen in open v/s robotic techniques of radical hysterectomy except for shorter hospital stay and less need of blood transfusion in the robotic group. Local recurrence rates are comparable in both open and robotic groups.
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Vila, V., E. Reganon, J. Aznar, V. Lacueva, and M. Ruano. "EFFECT OF TREATMENT WITH STREPTOKINASE AND HEPARIN ON FIBRINOGEN, FIBRIN AND RELATED PROTEINS IN ACUIE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (/ME) PATIENTS." In XIth International Congress on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Schattauer GmbH, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1644895.
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The properties of fibrinogen and fibrin, the levels of fibrincpeptide A (FPA) and fibrin(ogen) degradation products (FDP) were studied in 34 patients with AMI who were undergoing thrombolytic and heparin therapy. They were classified into 6 groups accordingto their stage of treatment: group 1, before intravenous administration of 800.000 U streptokinase over 30 min; group 2, after a<Mnistraticn of SK but before adninistraticn of heparin; group 3, during 24 h ofthe 5 ng/h heparin continuous infusion; group 4, during 48-72 h of the 16.6 ng/h heparin continuous infhsion; group 5, after 1 week of administration of SK and with a bolus inyection of 50 rg heparin every 4 h; group 6, patients who were undergoing only heparin treatment. The Fg 1/ Fg II ratio varies during treatment with SK and heparin. In group 1 a sligjnt increase (2.5) is observed. Group 2 shows a significantdecrease (0.6) as a result of fibrinolysis. In group3 the ratio reaches normal value (1.8) while in the fourth group it is twice the normal value (4). The value for group 5 is nearly normal (2.1), and in group 6 it reaches values similar to those obtained in group 4, which implies that the rise in the Fgl/Fgll ratio is not a result of fibrinolytic treatment. TheFPA level shows and increase in patients with AMI (group 1,126 ng/ml). When SK treatment is applied (group 2), FPA decreases to 52 ng/ml. Later treatment with heparin (group-3, 82; group-4, 44 and group-5, 81ng/ml) does not neutralize thrcmbinic activity. Patients treated only with heparin (group 6) show an FPAvalue of 19 ng/ml, which is lower than in the other groups. All of this indicates that thrombin is activated after fibrinolytic treatment. FDP values show asignificant increase in the six groups (1, 53; 2, 430; 3, 128; 4, 270; 5, 139 and 6, 141 ug/ml), which indicates that during treatment with heparin the fibrinolytic activity persists. he formation of highly cross-linked fibrin is altered in groups 1,2,3 and 4,as a consequence of circulating FDP effect and fibrincgeno- lysis.The permeability of the fibrin clotdecreases in groups 1 (0.42), 2 (1.3), 4 (1.1) and 5(0.5 ml/s/ng) and increases in group 2 (23.2 ml/s/nig) with respect to the normal plasma value (3.2 ml/s/nrg). The decrease in permeability must be related to the existence of hypercoagulability resistant to heparinization. FPA values, tine Fgl/Fgll ratio, andfibrin permeability can be used to evaluate the degree of thrcmbin activity during thrombolytic treatmentinAMI.
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Chen, Yangzhi, Jiang Ding, Chuanghai Yao, and Yueling Lv. "Polyhedral Space Curve Meshing Reducer With Multiple Output Shafts." In ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2012-86087.
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In recent years, a gear named Space Curve Meshing Wheel (SCMW) has been invented based on the meshing theory of space curves instead of classic space surfaces. Well improved in many aspects after its invention, it has been applied within the Space Curve Meshing Reducer (SCMR). The design method of an invention named polyhedral SCMR is presented in this paper. With single input shaft and multiple output shafts, this SCMR has advantages like compact structure, flexible design and low cost. It is characterized by the application of the SCMW group containing one driving wheel and several driven wheels, whose rotation axes are concurrent at a point and radiate in polyhedral directions. A SCMW group can form a single-stage SCMR, while SCMW groups connected can form a multiple-stage SCMR. In this paper, geometric parameters of the polyhedral SCMR are defined, design formulas are derived, and an example is provided to illustrate the design process.
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Gupta, Vikas, Ashok Kumar Chauhan, Paramjeet Kaur, Anil Khurana, Yashpal Verma, and Nupur Bansal. "Comparative evaluation of concomitant chemoradiation with weekly cisplatin and gemcitabine versus weekly cisplatin in the management of locally advanced carcinoma of uterine cervix." In 16th Annual International Conference RGCON. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd., 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1685264.
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Aim: To evaluate feasibility of concomitant chemoradiation with weekly cisplatin and gemcitabine, and comparing the advantage of using this regimen over cisplatin alone in terms of disease control and toxicities in management of locally advanced carcinoma cervix. Materials and Methods: The study has been conducted on fifty previously untreated, histopathologically proven FIGO stage II B - IV A patients of carcinoma cervix, attending the Department of Radiotherapy, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak for definitive treatment by radiation therapy. The patients were divided randomly in two groups of 25 patients each. Group I received cisplatin 40 mg/m2 and gemcitabine 125 mg/m2 with concomitant external beam radiotherapy 50 Gy/25 fractions/5 weeks, followed by intracavitary high dose rate brachytherapy 7 Gy to point A, for 3 times, once in a week. Group II received concomitant chemotherapy with cisplatin 40 mg/m2 weekly alone while radiotherapy schedule were same as in group I. Results: Total treatment duration in group I and II were 9-11 and 8-10 weeks respectively. Complete response rate in group I and II were 92% and 80%. Grade III skin and mucosal reactions was 20% in group I and none in group II. Diarrhoea was 24% in group I & 8% in group II. Grade II & III leucopenia was seen in 28% and 4% cases of group I & group II respectively. Upper gastrointestinal and renal toxicities were comparable in both arms. After six month of follow up, no evidence of disease was seen in 92% and 80% cases of group I and group II. Conclusion: If the toxicity is managed adequately in platinum based doublet group, it may produce improvement in response. Study is ongoing.
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Joshi, Shraddha, and Joshua D. Summers. "Impact of Requirements Elicitation Activity on Idea Generation: A Designer Study." In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2014-35022.
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This paper presents the findings from an empirical designer study conducted with senior design students to understand the impact of requirement elicitation activity on idea generation. The participants were divided in three groups. The experiment conditions were (1) requirements elicitation (given only problem statement), (2) partial elicitation (given problem and five requirements) and (3) no elicitation (given problem and ten requirements). Participants in the first two conditions were challenged with eliciting requirements first. All participants were also asked to generate solutions. Comparing the requirements addressed in the solutions generated by the participants, it is found that the group that was not primed with the task of eliciting requirements performed better in terms of addressing requirements when compared to other two groups. These findings lead to the inference in conceptual design stage that allowing the students to elicit requirements does not have significant potential benefits while addressing the requirements.
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Ponomariov, B. A., and Y. V. Sotsenko. "Using Contra-Rotating Rotors for Decreasing Sizes and Component Number in Small GTE." In ASME 1992 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/92-gt-414.
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Using the contra-rotating high and low rotors influences effectively on the turbocompressor parameters and configuration and improves its mass-dimension characteristics and reduces in component number if the required level of the fuel efficiency is provided. Two groups of the engines: 400–1000 shp class and 1000–2000 shp class are chosen with allowance for the small GTE specificity. Conformably to first group the influence of the gas generator turbine (GGT) diameter on the possibility of obtaining the optimal combination of the GGT wheel blade gas dynamic loading, clearance losses and flow swirl before the power turbine (PT) is studied. Used for the second group is the approach of which the main point lies in the utilization of a high-loading, single-stage GG turbine, permitting the cooling air flow to be reduced (or the gas temperature to be increased) and the flow swirl before the PT to be profitably realized against the engine having two-stage GGT. The key point while solving the specified problem is the gas dynamic characteristics of the engine hot section and its influence on the engine parameters. The investigations are carried out in the engine system using the experimental data on the losses in the rectilinear turbine cascades of the slightly curved profiles.
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Lata, Kusum, Nutan Agarwal, Neerja Bhatla, and Alka Kriplani. "Clinicopathological review of epithelial ovarian tumors in young females and reproductive and survival outcome: Ten years expierence from a tertiary center." In 16th Annual International Conference RGCON. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd., 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1685302.
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Objective: To find out the prevalence of epithelial ovarian tumors in young females and correlation with reproductive and survival outcome. Design: Retrospective study. Setting: Tertiary referral hospital. Methods: A retrospective analysis of females from 9-35 year of age group treated for ovarian tumors between January 2003 to July 2013 was performed. Variables studied included age, presenting symptoms, imaging, tumor markers, surgical findings, type of surgery, histopathology reports and follow-up. Main Outcome Measures: Histopathological variant, FIGO stage, reproductive and survival outcome. Results: A total of 155 patients were found to have ovarian tumors. Mean age at time of diagnosis was 24.9 ± 1.8 years (range 9-35). Clinical presentation in majority of the cases was abdominal pain in 68 (43.8%), ascites in 13 (8.3%) mass in abdomen in 25 (16%), followed by irregular menstrual cycles in 15 (9.6%), infertility in 18 (11.6%) 12 (7.7%) were found to be incidental on ultrasound examination while 4 women were found to have virilising symptoms. There were 76 (49.1%) cases of epithelial ovarian tumors, 6 (0.03%) of borderline tumors and 30 (19.3%) were of malignant ovarian tumors while 40 (25.8%) were benign. Stage IA (N = 80), Stage I 8 (n = 2), Stage III (N = 6) and Stage IV (N = 12). Females were further subdivided into three age groups 9-15 years, 15-25 years and 25 to 35 years for determining outcome of epitheliail tumors. Reproductive and survival outcome were studied in each stage. Conclusions: Limited data exists about the histological type distribution, surgical treatment and overall survival of epithelial ovarian tumors in women aged below 35 years. Young patients have higher overall progression-free survival and a better clinical outcome than older patients. Any women presenting with pain and nonspecific symptoms should be investigated and evaluated properly.
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Griškevičius, Julius, Vigita Apanskienė, Jurgita Žižienė, Kristina Daunoravičienė, Agnė Ovčinikova, Rasa Kizlaitienė, Ieva Sereikė, Gintaras Kaubrys, Jolanta Pauk, and Adam Idźkowski. "Estimation of temporal gait parameters of multiple sclerosis patients in clinical setting using inertial sensors." In Biomdlore. VGTU Technika, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/biomdlore.2016.21.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most frequent neurological disease causing permanent disability in young adults. Subtle walking difficulties, such as reduced walking speed, step length, cadence and increased step width can be detected at an early stage of the disease. Main goal of this research is by using non-invasive wireless inertial sensors measure gait of MS patients in clinical setting and extract temporal biomechanical parameters that would allow objectively evaluate level of disability in MS patients. Analysis of 25-Foot walk showed that the duration of stance phase is approximately 1.6 times greater in MS group than in healthy control group, while the duration of swing phase in MS group is 1.3 times longer. In general, the MS patients are walking approximately 1.6 times slower.
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Chang, Susan, Shiuann Sheng Lee, Hsieh Ching Chen, Jen Suh Chern, and Shih Shan Chen. "Performance While Crossing Obstacles in Patients With Total Hip Replacement: Comparing Pre-Operation and Post-Operation Performance." In ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2009-206235.
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This study investigated the performance the patients with total hip replacement (THR) and healthy adult whiling crossing obstacles. By using a 3D motion analysis system and force plates, we measured the parameters of: (1) toe-obstacle clearance, (2) heel-obstacle clearance, (3) distance between toe and obstacle before crossing, and (4) between heel and obstacle after crossing. In the healthy adult, the results revealed that except the TD of the trailing leg (p = 0.001), other parameters were no significant difference in every crossing condition. Although the THR-patient also showed insignificant different before operation, but in the phase of 2 weeks after the operation, he could only execute the 10 cm crossing condition because of the self-perceived range of motion limitation of the hip surgery, and the performance was unsatisfied. Until the recovery stage in 6 weeks after the operation, the subject could execute all crossing activities, and there was significant difference in toe-obstacle clearance (p = 0.006) while the obstacle height changed, but the other parameters did not show difference significant, and the performances were almost near the healthy adult, with a stable crossing pattern. This study was the initial study on THR-patient, we hope that we can understand the recovery stage of these groups, and base on these results to set up better rehabilitation program after operation, and finally prevent fall in daily life.
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Mishin, A. A., and V. V. Galchenko. "The Analysis of Influence of Fuel Pellet and Coolant Temperature Distributions on the VVER-1000 Active Core Characteristics." In 2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone21-16387.
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The accuracy and quality of neutron-physical calculations of the active core characteristics depend heavily on the few-group constant preparation procedure. The method, based on using average in the fuel assembly fuel and coolant parameters is currently used for preparing macroscopic cross-sections. The question is what impact would considering the uneven distribution of those parameters, made on the few-group constant preparation stage exert on further analysis of the reactor facility behavior during steady-state and transients operation. The study carries out comparative analysis of the neutron-physical characteristics of the VVER-1000 core using the standard approach and using distributed in the fuel assembly fuel and coolant parameters while preparing few-group constants. It’s revealed that the fuel pellet and coolant radial temperature distributions affect the multiplication factor and temperature reactivity effect values.