BackgroundThere is increasing interest in applying image texture quantifiers to assess the intra-tumor heterogeneity observed in FDG-PET images of various cancers.Use of these quantifiers as prognostic indicators of disease outcome and/or treatment response has yielded inconsistent results.We study the general applicability of some well-established
Rivers around the world are drying with increasing frequency, but little is known about effects on terrestrial animal communities.Previous research along the San Pedro River in southeastern AZ, USA, suggests that changes in the availability of water resources associated with river drying lead to changes in predator abundance, community composition,
Lung harbors the growth of primary and secondary tumors.Even though numerous factors regulate the complex signal transduction and cytoskeletal remodeling toward the catherine lansfield ombre rainbow clouds eyelet curtains progression of lung cancer, cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5), a previously known kinase in the central nervous system, has raise
The accurate description of fracture distributions is a crucial prerequisite for fracturing design and the evaluation of fracturing effects in tight reservoirs.We employed a fractal L-system to establish a tree branch model and derived a planar simulation method to characterize the distribution of natural weak discontinuities in rock.Weak discontin
This paper proposes an approach for impulsive formation maintenance tailored to distributed synthetic aperture radar, i.e., a spaceborne system composed by several antennas working together to provide enhanced remote sensing capabilities.The analyzed configuration is designed to guarantee the presence of a safety tube surrounding each satellite as