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Evaluation of two modalities of perioperative treatment in the management of extremity and truncal soft tissue sarcomas: neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy and sequential treatment
Patients with locally advanced grade 2–3 extremity/truncal soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are at high risk of recurrence. The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy and feasibility of neoadjuvant concu...
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Open AccessNarrative enhancement and cognitive therapy (NECT) to improve social functioning in people with serious mental illness: study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial
Self-stigma is highly prevalent in serious mental illness (SMI) and is associated with poorer clinical and functional outcomes. Narrative enhancement and cognitive therapy (NECT) is a group-based intervention ...
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Subventricular zone involvement at recurrence is a strong predictive factor of outcome following high grade glioma reirradiation
We aimed to assess the efficacy of stereotactic irradiation for patients with recurrent high-grade glioma (HGG) and identify predictive factors of progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) foll...
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Évaluation de la mise en place d’un fast-track pour les personnes âgées de plus de 85 ans dans un service d’urgence
L’accroissement du nombre de personnes âgées (PA) s’accompagne d’une augmentation du nombre de consultations aux urgences. Les structures d’urgences (SU) doivent répondre à leurs besoins spécifiques. Les longs...
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La fibromyalgie est-elle une maladie psychiatrique ?
La prévalence du trouble sur la vie entière en France est estimée entre 1,4 et 2,2 %. Le sex-ratio est de sept femmes pour un homme, les symptômes apparaissent habituellement entre 30 et 50 ans.
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Recent Advances in near Field Acoustics with Resonating Horns: Near-Field Acoustics with Resonating Horns
Horn shape ultrasonic sensors can be an alternative service with respect to acoustic integrated units in AFM-like microscope. In contrast to most other sensors, the hornlike one is self-consistent and does not...
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Results of a phase II trial of a combination of oral cytarabine ocfosfate (YNK01) and interferon α-2b for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia patients in chronic phase
Cytarabine ocfosfate (YNK01) is a prodrug analogue of cytarabine which is resistant to systemic deamination after oral administration. Following initial studies indicating significant anti-tumour activity of Y...
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Local measurements of viscoelastic properties of fluids using near-field ultrasonics
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Assessment of Irradiation Damage on Stainless Steel by Acoustic Microscopy
The plan to increase the life cycle of nuclear power stations opens up a new field of investigation for methods of characterizing materials. One of the main problems encountered by the operator is knowing how ...
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Nearfield Scanning Acoustic Microscopy
The resolution of a Scanning Acoustic Microscope is directly related to the used wavelength. The practical limit at room temperature is situated around 2 GHz. The main limitation comes from the excessive atten...
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New Developments in Scanning Acoustic Microscopy
The Scanning Acoustic Microscope (SAM) has become a useful new instrument for non destructive testing applications by its ability to penetrate optically opaque materials on a microscopy scale. Quantitative mea...
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Scanning Acoustic Microscopy as a Non-Destructive Technique for Process Monitoring of High Power Semiconductor Devices
The purpose of this work was to use Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) for identifying and characterising defects in power semiconductor devices1,2. Power semiconductor devices are a special class of active solid...
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Characterization and identification of berlinite crystals by acoustic microscopy
Berlinite crystals grown in H3PO4, HCl, H3PO4/HCl, H2SO4/HCl, or H3PO4/HCl/H2SO4 solvents are characterized by acoustic microscopy techniques. Surface and subsurface defects can be visualized via acoustical image...
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Some Aspects of Lateral Waves Generation and Detection by Acoustic Microscopy Using V(z) Technique
In the non scanning configuration, the characteristic response V(z) of the acoustic microscope treated as a signature is a valuable method for measuring quantitatively on a microscopic scale the elastic proper...
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Acoustic Microscopy: Deep Focusing Inside Materials at Gigahertz Frequencies
Another way of imaging inside materials using transverse modes generated at the liquid-sample interface is shown. These modes can be highly focused for a given depth by means of aspherical lenses which apodize...
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Transmission acoustic microscopy of tissue sections (1 GHz)
The acoustic microstructure of mouse small intestine has been studied with a transmission acoustic microscope working at 1 GHz and the influence of the histologic processing on the microacoustic pattern has be...
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The Characteristic Echostructures of the Different Components of Mammary Tissue
A mammographic picture is a plain picture in gray scale made up from the various geometric projection of the volume of mammary elements which has a heterogenous structure. It has to be considered according to ...
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Imaging Interior Planes by Acoustic Microscopy
It has been recently demonstrated that the acoustic microscope can visualize image planes relatively deep beneath the surface with a lateral resolution approaching one acoustic wavelength in the solid. This ha...
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The Acoustic Microscope: A Tool for Nondestructive Testing
Historically the microscope has proved to be one of the most powerful scientific tools. This has been especially true in the biological sciences where many of the most significant advances have been founded on...
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Examens morphologiques, caryologiques, physiologiques et pathologiques de boucs stériles sans cornes