Background Options for women at high risk for breast cancer include surveillance,
chemoprevention, and prophylactic mastectomy. The data on the outcomes for surveillance and …

In stochastic systems, quantiles indicate the level of system performance that can be
delivered with a specified probability, while probabilities indicate the likelihood that a …

Background: In women with a family history of breast cancer, bilateral prophylactic mastectomy
is associated with a decreased risk of subsequent breast cancer of approximately 90%. …

A definition of discrete Markovian random fields is formulated analogously to a definition for
the continuous case given by Lévy. This definition in the homogeneous Gaussian case leads …

Purpose : The efficacy of shock wave lithotripsy and percutaneous stone removal for the
treatment of symptomatic lower pole renal calculi was determined. Materials and Methods : A …

Identification of individuals in a free-ranging animal population is potentially hampered by a
lack of distinguishing features (eg, scars, unique color patterns), poor visibility (eg, densely …

Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon
uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic carbon …

This paper describes a video coding system based on motion-compensated three-dimensional
(3-D) subband/wavelet coding (MC-3DSBC), which can overcome the limits of both 3-D …

Human-Computer Speech is gaining momentum as a technique of computer interaction. There
has been a recent upsurge in speech based search engines and assistants such as Siri, …

Patterns of hepatitis C prevalence and seroconversion in hemodialysis units from three
continents: The DOPPS. Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains a problem within …