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Chapter and Conference Paper
Applying the Disruption Index Procedure to Evaluate the Urban Seismic Risk in the Mt. Etna Area (Italy)
The Disruption Index is used here for the assessment of urban disruption in the Mt. Etna area after a natural disaster. The first element of the procedure is the definition of the seismic input, which is based...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Content-Based Classification of Digital Photos
Annotating images with a description of the content can facilitate the organization, storage and retrieval of image databases. It can also be useful in processing images, by taking into account the scene depic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Primary Chemotherapy for Resectable Breast Cancer
Primary (neoadjuvant, preoperative) chemotherapy for surgically curative breast cancer is a novel treatment approach. The sequentially combined strategy derives from prior experience achieved with locally adva...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Changes in Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction During Arterial REM Sleep Desaturation and Exercise in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Sleep Apnea Syndrome
Exercise and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep are two important states during which oxyhemoglobin desaturation may occur in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [1, 2]. Sleep apnea also leads to oxygen d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Salvage Treatments in Relapsing Resectable Breast Cancer
There is convincing evidence that the natural history of resectable breast cancer can be perturbed by adjuvant medical intervention. In fact, a highly significant reduction in the recurrence rate has been docu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Milan Experience with Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Premenopausal Breast Cancer
In spite of the many scientific and clinical debates which have involved adjuvant chemotherapy for high-risk resectable breast cancer, there is general agreement that polydrug regimens, in particular, CMF (cyc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adriamycin Used in Combination with Conventional Agents in the Treatment of Solid Tumors
Among the effective agents recently introduced in cancer chemotherapy, the antibiotic adriamycin (ADM) has been shown to play an almost unique role in the treatment of neoplastic diseases. In its initial clini...