BACKGROUND
Under the auspices of the College of American Pathologists, the current state of knowledge regarding pathologic prognostic factors (factors linked to outcome) and predictive factors… (More)
A combination of external accumulation (XA) with electron capture dissociation (ECD) improves the electron capture efficiency, shortens the analysis time, and allows for rapid integration of multiple… (More)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Stroke survivors represent a large group of persons for whom age-differentiated life expectancy tables do not exist. Such tables are vital for many purposes. The aim of the… (More)
A method for increasing the all-optical modulation bandwidth of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) by use of a cross-gain-modulated (XGM) holding signal is suggested and analyzed. The bandwidth… (More)
We present a 40Gb/s DPSK receiver module with athermal free-space DLI. It has a FSR of 43GHz, PDFS of 350MHz and a differential output voltage-swing of 550mVpp. 43Gb/s NRZ-DPSK back-to-back… (More)
Prenatal nicotine exposure (PNE) is a risk factor for developing an addiction to nicotine at a later stage in life. Understanding the neurobiological changes in reward related circuitry induced by… (More)
Vas occlusion and vasectomy for contraception were compared in a trial with 79 patients, median age 36. Operation time, consumption of analgesics in the 1st postoperative week, and postoperative… (More)
One hundred ninety patients with peritonitis at the time of abdominal surgery were allocated at random to systemic antibiotic treatment alone or systemic antibiotic treatment combined with topical… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate current laboratory practices and rates for atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS), a category of epithelial cell abnormality in the Bethesda System.
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