Update on Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Urothelial Carcinoma by Carrie Costantini, Frederick Millard

“…Bladder preservation utilizes a trimodality approach with maximal transurethral resection followed by concurrent chemotherapy and radiation and is appropriate for select patients. Gemcitabine and cisplatin is the current standard of care for first-line treatment in fit patients with metastatic disease. …”
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Imaging, Histopathologic, and Treatment Nuances of Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma by Tyler Gleason, Michael Haas, Brian H. Le

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A Compact RFID Reader Antenna for UHF Near-Field and Far-Field Operations by Lai Xiao zheng, Xie Zeming, Cen Xuanliang

“…Its linearly polarized radiation pattern provides available far-field gain. …”
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Compact Multiband Slot Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX Operations by Jianhui Bao, Qiulin Huang, Xinhuai Wang, Xiaowei Shi

“…The numerical and experimental results show that acceptable radiation characteristic is obtained over the operating bands.…”
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EL ROL DEL ANTICICLÓN PACÍFICO EN LA CAÍDA DE NIEVE EN LOS ANDES ÁRIDOS by Arnobio G. Poblete, Mariela C. Hryciw

“…For this reason, the incidence on the ratio of precipitation, the SST in the South Pacific Ocean, precipitable water, wind zonal, Radiation in Outgoing Long Wave and Omega were analyzed. …”
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Tuning the Refractive Index and Optical Band Gap of Silk Fibroin Films by Electron Irradiation by S. Asha, Y. Sangappa, Sanjeev Ganesh

“…It was found that the reduction in optical band gap and increase in refractive index with increasing radiation dosage was observed. It is also observed from results that there is increase in dielectric constants with increasing photon energy. …”
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Emerging Technologies to Control Oocyte Apoptosis Are Finally Treading on Fertile Ground by Jonathan L. Tilly

“…As a consequence, the inappropriate destruction of female germ cells (oocytes) following exposure to chemotherapeutic drugs and radiation is irreparable, often leading to premature menopause and infertility [1]. …”
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Noncommutative Correction to the Entropy of BTZ Black Hole with GUP by M. A. Anacleto, F. A. Brito, B. R. Carvalho, E. Passos

“…To determine the Hawking radiation in the tunneling formalism, we apply the Hamilton-Jacobi method by using the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approach. …”
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Oxide Nanolayers in Stratified Samples Studied by X-Ray Resonant Raman Scattering at Grazing Incidence by Juan José Leani, Héctor Jorge Sánchez, Carlos Alberto Pérez

“…Nanostratified samples of Fe oxides were studied at the Brazilian synchrotron facility (LNLS) using monochromatic radiation and an EDS setup. The measurements were carried out in grazing incident regime with incident photon energy lower than and close to the Fe-K absorption edge. …”
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Physicists in Cracow – on the 70th anniversary of the First International Cosmic Rays Conference by Maria Pawłowska

“…The achievements of Polish physicists, especially Cracow scientists, who were involved in the study of cosmic radiation in the 1930s and 1940s are reminded of in this article. …”
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Ultrasubwavelength Ferroelectric Leaky Wave Antenna in a Planar Substrate-Superstrate Configuration by G. Lovat, P. Burghignoli, R. Araneo, S. Celozzi

“…The performance of the proposed antenna is investigated in terms of power density radiated at broadside and directivity in the principal planes, pointing out the main limitations and tradeoffs associated with the reduced thickness.…”
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Review of Factors Related to the Thyroid Cancer Epidemic by Yihao Liu, Lei Su, Haipeng Xiao

“…However, the effect of environmental/lifestyle factors remains speculative other than that of radiation exposure at a young age. This review tries to give a balanced view of debated factors leading to the thyroid cancer epidemic, to offer some alternatives in understanding the controversies, and to suggest potential directions in the search of modifiable risk factors to help reduce thyroid cancer.…”
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Computational Treatments of Cavitation Effects in Near-Free-Surface Underwater Shock Analysis by Michael A. Sprague, Thomas L. Geers

“…As an alternative, truncated CAFE fluid meshes with plane-wave radiation boundaries are shown to give good results. …”
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Photophysical characterization of chosen Ln(III) macromolecular complexes by Krzysztof Staninski, Stefan Lis

“…It was found that the excitation and fluorescence spectra of DHDA in water and methanol after being exposed to ultraviolet radiation, show very obvious photochromism. The formation of 1 : 1 complexes between 4,4′,4″,4‴-(porphine-5,10,15,20-tetrayl)-tetrakis benzoic acid, (TCPPH2) and La(III), Eu(III) and Yb(III) in methanolic solution, with the use of the spectrophotometric and spectrofluorimetric methods. …”
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Broadband RCS Reduction of Antenna with AMC Using Gradually Concentric Ring Arrangement by Fuwei Wang, Yuhui Ren, Ke Li

“…The simulated and measured results show that the radiation performance of antennas is preserved when the GCRA-AMC is used. …”
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An Analytical Seismic Response for Rigid Underground Rectangular Tunnel Subjected to Incident P Waves by Yang Liu, Chun Bai, Hexiang Li

“…One particular advantage of the model is that the effects of vital factors such as the rigid scattering, radiation scattering, as well as the two-dimensional scattering effect, and the wedge diffraction during movement are fully considered. …”
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About the theory of relativity by V. Y. Stetsenko

“…The atmospheres of stars absorb photon energy, which is recorded as a red shift in the radiation spectrum. The displacement of the perihelion of Mercury occurs due to the precession of the axis of Mercury’s orbit under the influence of the gravitational forces of the Sun.…”
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Study of Microwave Tomography Measurement Setup Configurations for Breast Cancer Detection Based on Breast Compression by Alvaro Diaz-Bolado, Paul-Andre Barriere, Jean-Jacques Laurin

“…The different configurations are compared based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the radiation operator for a 2D TM case. This analysis allows determining under which conditions the image quality obtained from the reconstructions can be enhanced. …”
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Simplified Printed Log-Periodic Dipole Array Antenna Fed by CBCPW by Guohua Zhai, Yong Cheng, Qiuyan Yin, Shouzheng Zhu, Jianjun Gao

“…The PLPDA antenna has the merits of wide bandwidth, low profile, and stable radiation pattern, which should be fed by the balanced line. …”
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Comparison of the photoactivities of two commercial titanium dioxide powders in the degradation of 1,4-dioxane by M. Mehrvar, W. A. Anderson, M. Moo-Young

“…This was found both experimentally and also by mathematical modeling of the radiation within the photoreactor zone. The photoactivity of UV 100 titanium dioxide was found to be twice that of Degussa P25 at optimum loadings.…”
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