Abstract Background Pancreatic cancer (PC) is among foremost causes of cancer related deaths worldwide due to generic symptoms, lack of effective screening strategies and resistance to chemo- and radiotherapies.The risk factors associated with PC include several metabolic disorders such as obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T
Juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a significant and urgent problem in the practice Silica of pediatricians and rheumatologists in both verifying its diagnosis and choosing treatment policies, by taking into account the features of the onset, the types of the disease course, and the high probability of an unfavorable prognosis.Des
Abstract Background In many places, health workers at the sub-national level are on the frontlines of disseminating information about coronavirus (COVID-19) to communities.To ensure communities are receiving timely and accurate information, it is vital health workers are kept abreast of the most recent recommendations, and guidance.Methods An elect
Forests and forestry have been recurrent topics in Finnish environmental poetry since the 1970s, reflecting the importance of the cultural meanings of forests and forest-related livelihoods in Finland.Despite the recent forest boom in Finnish contemporary art and literature, contemporary sylvan poetics in Finnish poetry has remained an understudied
This article presents a new scheme to extract impervious surface area from RangeCooker synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) images exploiting auxiliary user-generated content (UGC).The presented scheme includes the automatic generation of training samples based on the combination of UGC and SAR data, and SAR data preprocessing, leading to impervious surf