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Factors related to accurate clinicians’ prediction of survival: an international multicenter study in East Asia
Recent guidelines for prognostic evaluation recommend clinicians’ prediction of survival (CPS) for survival prediction in patients with advanced cancer. However, CPS is often inaccurate and optimistic. Studies...
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Adaptive cloud resource allocation for large-scale crowdsourced multimedia live streaming services
For the global-scale multimedia live streaming services, both of the cost-efficiency at the service provider side and the Quality of Experience (QoE) satisfaction at the viewer side need to be achieved. This i...
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Prevalence and severity of symptoms and signs in patients with advanced cancer in the last days of life: the East Asian collaborative cross-cultural study to elucidate the dying process (EASED)
Few large-scale studies have focused on the prevalence of symptoms and signs during the last days of patients diagnosed with advanced cancer. Identifying the patterns of specific symptoms according to cancer t...
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Comparison of the accuracy of clinicians’ prediction of survival and Palliative Prognostic Score: an East Asian cross-cultural study
No study has been conducted to compare the clinicians’ prediction of survival (CPS) with Palliative Prognostic Scores (PaP) across countries. We aimed to compare the performance of the CPS in PaP (PaP-CPS), th...
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Physical and psychological symptoms and signs in dying digestive tract cancer patients: the East Asian collaborative cross-cultural Study to Elucidate the Dying process (EASED)
Well detection of the symptoms and signs of dying patients is essential for providing proper palliative care. Our goal is to evaluate the predominant symptoms and compare the changes in dying patients with dig...
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Open AccessCombining virtual model and cone beam computed tomography to assess periodontal changes after anterior tooth movement
Orthodontic force may affect not only periodontal ligaments, but also the alveoloar bone and the gingiva according to the type of tooth movements. The authors assessed changes in gingival thickness (GT) and al...
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Distinguishing social contacts and pass-by contacts in DTN routing
The heterogeneity of the application data size needs to be considered in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) routing. Depending on the size of data, certain node contacts may not be long enough for complete data for...
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Delay-tolerant sensing data delivery for IoT network by using signal strength information
Conventional cellular technology is being extended for Internet of Thing(IoT) network, which needs to support relatively small amount of traffic generated by a large number of devices. This so-called Machine-T...
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Open AccessErratum to: Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among asthma
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WSB1 overcomes oncogene-induced senescence by targeting ATM for degradation
Oncogene-induced senescence (OIS) or apoptosis through the DNA-damage response is an important barrier of tumorigenesis. Overcoming this barrier leads to abnormal cell proliferation, genomic instability, and c...
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Open AccessSuicidal ideation and suicide attempts among asthma
The present study aimed to investigate the mental health status in patients with asthma and assess the effects of asthma on suicidal ideation and attempts using a representative sample from Korea.
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Globular adiponectin induces leukocytosis and mobilizes hematopoietic progenitor cells in mice
Adiponectin (APN; ACRP30, AdipoQ), one of the best characterized adipokine, is a multifaceted, pleiotrophic cytokine that plays important roles in the regulation of lipid metabolism/obesity, inflammation/autoi...
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Adiponectin inhibits mouse mammary tumor growth and reduced tumor-induced hematopoiesis
Adiponectin, one of the most abundant plasma protein produced in adipose tissue, has been shown to be decreased in the plasma of patients with various types of cancer suggesting that adiponectin may be involve...
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Open AccessAssociation between cardiorespiratory fitness and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Korean adults: a cross sectional study
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), measured by a simple step test, and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Korean adults, in a c...
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Predictors of response to palliative care intervention for chronic nausea in advanced cancer outpatients
Nausea is a frequent and distressing symptom in advanced cancer patients. The objective of this retrospective study was to determine predictors of response to palliative care consultation for chronic nausea in...
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Concepts and definitions for “supportive care,” “best supportive care,” “palliative care,” and “hospice care” in the published literature, dictionaries, and textbooks
Commonly used terms such as “supportive care,” “best supportive care,” “palliative care,” and “hospice care” were rarely and inconsistently defined in the palliative oncology literature. We conducted a systema...
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Molecular cloning and characterization of a major egg antigen in Paragonimus westermani and its use in ELISA for the immunodiagnosis of paragonimiasis
A recombinant protein of a Paragonimus westermani egg antigen was produced and tested as an antigen for the serologic diagnosis of P. westermani infection. The P. westermani egg antigen gene contains a single ope...
