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Extended nodal radiotherapy for prostate cancer relapse guided with [11C]-choline PET/CT: ten-year results in patients enrolled in a prospective trial
To report long-term outcomes of relapsed prostate cancer (PC) patients treated in a prospective single-arm study with extended–nodal radiotherapy (ENRT) and [11C]-choline positron emission tomography (PET)/com...
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Physics and Radiation Dosage Issues in Neuroradiosurgical Treatment of Meningiomas
Radiosurgery is a special therapy technique in which intracranial targets are treated using ionizing radiations, delivering the dose to the lesions and sparing at the same time the surrounding organs at risk. ...
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Analysis of Intramuscular Motor Unit Coherence in the Tibialis Anterior Muscle as a Tool for the Assessment of Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation
Robot-assisted rehabilitation has emerged as an advantageous tool in the recovery of patients suffering from abnormal motor conditions. The assessment of the electrophysiological behavior of the muscles involv...
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Corticospinal Coherence During Frequency-Modulated Isometric Ankle Dorsiflexion
In this paper we analyze the role of corticomuscular transmission for the time-varying force control. Corticospinal coherence is assessed during frequency-modulated isometric ankle dorsiflexions. Our prelimina...
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Le Norme di Buona Pratica Clinica e le responsabilità dello sperimentatore
Le norme di Good Clinical Practice (GCP) — ovvero di Buona Pratica Clinica — sono linee guida predisposte dalla International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceu...
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Template bleeding times of 240 neonates born at 24 to 41 weeks gestation
The template bleeding time is a test used to assess the hemostatic effectiveness of platelet/endothelial interactions. A modified template bleeding time, described over 15 years ago by Andrew et al., has been use...
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67 Abnormal Oral Mucosal Light Reflectance in Achondroplasia
Background: Approximately 90% of achondroplasia (ACH) cases are caused by a de novo mutation. No phenotypical or genotypical markers for the unaffected ACH parents are known to date. Here, we assessed the value o...
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148 Intubation Length as A Predictor of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Background: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) continues to be one of the most common long-term complications associated with preterm birth. Although its pathogenesis is changing, BPD is very often preceded by the ...
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146 Abdominal Organ Growth in Intrauterine Growth Retardation: Fetal “Programming” Causing “Metabolic Syndrome” In Adult Age
Background/aims: Fetal growth retardation may be associated with diseases and disorders in later life. This risk may be due to some impairment of the development of such organs as liver and kidney. In addition to...
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66 Evaluating Illness Severity for Very Low Birth Weight Infants: Crib or Crib-II ?
Background: The clinical risk index for babies (CRIB) is a risk-adjustment instrument used worldwide to determine illness severity in infants born at less than 31 weeks' gestation, or having 1500 g birth weight o...
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147 Abdominal Organ Growth in Intrauterine Growth Retardation: Fetal “Programming” of Diseases Later in Life
Background: Fetal growth retardation has been associated with diseases and disorders later in life. It has been suggested that this is caused by the impaired development of abdominal organs. Besides general malnu...
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Cognitive impairment in old rats: A comparison of object displacement, object recognition and water maze
The behavioral performance of young and aged rats was studied in a repeated-trials test. Young animals reacted to both spatial displacement and novelty, whereas most aged rats lost the ability to react to nove...
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Glancing-incidence X-ray characterization of Nb/Pd multilayers
The study of periodic metallic multilayers in which one of the two constituent layers is a superconductor has attracted considerable interest. The structural configuration and quality of the interfaces is of f...
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Superconducting and structural properties of Nb/Pd(Mn) multilayers
Nb/Pd(Mn) multilayers have been fabricated by sputtering and Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE). The samples were characterized by X-Ray analyses which showed in the case of sputtered samples oxygen contamination at...
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Structural investigation of YBCO films and bicrystal grain boundary junctions
We present a structural analysis of YBCO superconducting thin films fabricatedin situ by Inverted Cylindrical Magnetron (ICM) sputtering on commercial SrTiO3 single-crystal and bicrystal substrates. A detailed st...
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The use of expert systems in the design of multi-echelon production distribution systems
Strategic decision making within multi-echelon production distribution systems is a difficult task due to the complex chain structures and inherent operating uncertainties of such systems. Hence there is a nee...
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Depressing Activity of Meprobamate on the Reticulo-Endothelial System
DATA in the literature point to tranquillizers as drugs having a certain influence on the responsiveness to infections. Patients treated with reserpine or chlorpromazine have decreased resistance to infectious...