Application of ANN techniques for estimating backwater through bridge constrictions in Mississippi River basin

Bridge backwater data were collected for 92 different floods at 35 bridge sites in the Mississippi River basin in 1960s [Neely BL. Hydraulic performance of bridges, hydraulic efficiency of bridges-analysis of field data. Unpublished Report Conducted by US Geological Survey, June 30; 1966]. This major field data showed that the backwater computed both by the United States Geological Survey's method (USGS) and the United States Bureau of Public Roads' method (USBPR) averaged approximately 50% less than the measured backwater. Therefore, in the current work, a new bridge backwater formula based on the three different artificial neural network approaches (ANNs), namely FFBP (Feed-Forward Back Propagation), RBNN (Radial Basis Function-Based Neural Network), and GRNN (Generalized Regression Neural Networks) are proposed and compared with the methods mentioned above. The results showed that the FFBP produced slightly better estimations than those of the RBNN and these two was significantly superior to the GRNN, USGS and USBPR methods when applied to Neely's field data. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Bilateral proptosis as the initial presentation of systemic nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma [8]

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Isolated central nervous system relapse during cytologic and molecular hematologic remission in two patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia

Extramedullary involvement in the absence of bone marrow disease is rare in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). We report two patients with APL who had central nervous system (CNS) relapse without evidence of cytologic and molecular disease of bone marrow after all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) treatment. Both of the patients were treated successfully with combination of intrathecal chemotherapy and radiotherapy with or without systemic chemotherapy. Although increasing number of cases with extramedullary involvement of APL after ATRA including therapy have been reported, further studies with a large series of patients are necessary to determine whether ATRA increases the risk of development of extramedullary involvement of disease in patients with APL

Evaluation of adjuvant chemotherapy-induced anemia in colon cancer patients (pts)

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Head and neck reconstruction with dorsoradial forearm free flap: a preliminary clinical study

Head and neck reconstruction with dorsoradial forearm free flap: a preliminary clinical study. Problems/Objectives: The most common criticism of the radial forearm free flap (RFFF) is donor site morbidity. Delayed or defected integration of split thickness skin graft (STSG) is the most commonly encountered complication. Defective healing or excessively thin skin coverage of important forearm structures, such as the median nerve and ulnar artery-nerve bundle, places these structures at increased risk of injury. The current study aims to modify the RFFF to utilize a dorsoradial skin island in order to protect the volar tissue aspect of these structures

An unusual case of spontaneous acute tumor lysis syndrome associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A case report and review of the literature [3]

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The Aquilegia genome: adaptive radiation and an extraordinarily polymorphic chromosome with a unique history

The columbine genus Aquilegia is a classic example of an adaptive radiation, involving a wide variety of pollinators and habitats. Here we present the genome assembly of A. coerulea "Goldsmith", complemented by high-coverage sequencing data from 10 wild species covering the world-wide distribution. Our analysis reveals extensive allele sharing among species, and sheds light on the complex process of radiation. We also present the remarkable discovery that the evolutionary history of an entire chromosome differed from that of the rest of the genome --- a phenomenon which we do not fully understand, but which highlights the need to consider chromosomes in an evolutionary context