Few prospective studies of smoking initiation have investigated a wide range of time-varying
and invariant predictor variables at the individual and contextual levels concurrently. In this …

Several of the cancer immunotherapies under investigation or in clinical use target the
programmed death-ligand 1/programmed death-1 (PD-L1/PD-1) signaling axis. PD-L1 expression …

Purpose To evaluate a random forest model that counts silicone oil droplets and non-silicone
oil particles in protein formulations with large class imbalance. Methods In this work, we …

Adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) is an important part of breast cancer management but the dose
and fractionation schedules used are variable. A total of 50 Gy in 25 daily fractions delivered …

Introduction Anemia has long been associated with poor prognosis in patients with cervical
cancer. Recently, additional hematologic parameters have emerged as potential indicators of …

We consider the modeling of individual batting performance in one-day international (ODI)
cricket by using a batsman-specific hidden Markov model (HMM). The batsman-specific …

BACKGROUND: Treatment of glaucoma is aimed at reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) to
prevent further damage to the optic nerve. For patients who do not respond to monotherapy, …

Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of low-dose salmon oil for the treatment of highly
active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)-induced dyslipidemia in HIV-infected patients. Method: …

Purpose This study evaluated long-term, population-based, breast cancer–specific outcomes
in patients treated with radiation therapy (RT) to the breast/chest wall plus regional nodes …

The spectral dependence of natural light transmittance on ice algae concentration and snow
depth in Arctic sea ice provides the potential to study the changing bottom-ice ecosystem …