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Measuring Demand Factors Influencing Market Penetration and Buying Frequency for Flowers in the U.S.
floriculture, consumer preferences, ornamentals, horticulture, environmental, Consumer/Household Economics, Demand and Price Analysis,
Development of high-performance light-weight electrodes for hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells Second quarterly report, Jul. 6 - Oct. 5, 1965
High performance lightweight electrodes for hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell
Development of high-performance lightweight electrodes for hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells Third quarterly report, 6 Oct. 1965 - 5 Jan. 1966
High performance, lightweight electrodes for hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell
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Complete response of skull base inverted papilloma to chemotherapy: Case report.
BackgroundInverted papilloma (IP) is the most common benign sinonasal neoplasm. Endoscopic techniques, improved understanding of pathophysiology, and novel surgical approaches have allowed rhinologists to treat IPs more effectively, with surgery being the mainstay of therapy. Frontal sinus IP poses a challenge for surgical therapy due to complex anatomy and potentially difficult surgical access.ObjectivesWe reported a unique case of a massive frontal sinus IP that presented with intracranial and orbital extension, with near resolution after chemotherapy.MethodsA retrospective case review of a patient with a frontal sinus IP treated at a tertiary academic medical center.ResultsA 75-year-old male patient presented with nasal obstruction, purulent nasal discharge, and a growing left supraorbital mass. Endoscopy demonstrated a mass that filled both frontal and ethmoid sinuses, with orbital invasion. There also was substantial erosion of the posterior table, which measured 1.73 × 1.40 cm. A biopsy specimen demonstrated IP with carcinoma in situ. The patient was deemed unresectable on initial evaluation and, subsequently, underwent chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel). The tumor had a dramatic response to chemotherapy, and the patient elected for definitive surgery to remove any residual disease. During surgery, only a small focus of IP was found along the superior wall of the frontal sinus. No tumor was found elsewhere, including at the site of skull base erosion. The final pathology was IP without carcinoma in situ or dysplasia.ConclusionThis was the first reported case of chemotherapeutic "debulking" of IP, which facilitated surgical resection, despite substantial intracranial and orbital involvement. Although nearly all IPs can be treated surgically, rare cases, such as unresectable tumors, may benefit from systemic chemotherapy
The First Fermi-LAT SNR Catalog SNR and Cosmic Ray Implications
Galactic cosmic ray (CRs) sources, classically proposed to be Supernova
Remnants (SNRs), must meet the energetic particle content required by direct
measurements of high energy CRs. Indirect gamma-ray measurements of SNRs with
the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) have now shown directly that at least
three SNRs accelerate protons. With the first Fermi LAT SNR Catalog, we have
systematically characterized the GeV gamma-rays emitted by 279 SNRs known
primarily from radio surveys. We present these sources in a multiwavelength
context, including studies of correlations between GeV and radio size, flux,
and index, TeV index, and age and environment tracers, in order to better
understand effects of evolution and environment on the GeV emission. We show
that previously sufficient models of SNRs' GeV emission no longer adequately
describe the data. To address the question of CR origins, we also examine the
SNRs' maximal CR contribution assuming the GeV emission arises solely from
proton interactions. Improved breadth and quality of multiwavelength data,
including distances and local densities, and more, higher resolution gamma-ray
data with correspondingly improved Galactic diffuse models will strengthen this
constraint.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures; in Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic
Ray Conference (ICRC 2015), The Hague (The Netherlands
Concatenating dynamical decoupling with decoherence-free subspaces for quantum computation
A scheme to implement a quantum computer subjected to decoherence and
governed by an untunable qubit-qubit interaction is presented. By concatenating
dynamical decoupling through bang-bang (BB) pulse with decoherence-free
subspaces (DFSs) encoding, we protect the quantum computer from
environment-induced decoherence that results in quantum information dissipating
into the environment. For the inherent qubit-qubit interaction that is
untunable in the quantum system, BB control plus DFSs encoding will eliminate
its undesired effect which spoils quantum information in qubits. We show how
this quantum system can be used to implement universal quantum computation.Comment: 6 pages,2 figures, 1 tabl
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