Search results for "Modality"

Multimodal accomplishment of alignment and affiliation in the local space of distant meetings

2017

Technology-mediated (i.e. distant) meetings are complex settings that involve distributed participation frameworks and the coordination of actions in multiple interactional spaces. This paper examines how problems with hearing, speaking, or understanding in the overall meeting space enable the negotiation of alignment and affiliation by co-present participants in the same local meeting space. Conversation analysis is used to investigate the local accomplishment of alignment and affiliation achieved through the sequential and temporal organization of verbal, embodied, and material resources of interaction in three types of situations: during technological trouble, silences, and disagreements…

Tumors of the central nervous system in children and adolescents.

2011

Multimodal treatment approaches for children with tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) have markedly contributed to improved survival. Before 1970, the survival rate among children with medulloblastoma, the most common malignant CNS tumor in children, was about 20%. At present, in contrast, cure can be achieved in more than 75% of children with a favorable constellation of risk factors. In this review article for clinicians, we give an overview of the current understanding of the pathology, presenting manifestations, early diagnosis, and treatment of CNS tumors in children and adolescents.We report the research findings of the German Treatment Network "HIT" and selectively review the …

Digestive Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (NEN): French Intergroup clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (SNFGE, GTE, RENATEN,…

2020

Abstract Introduction This document is a summary of the French Intergroup guidelines regarding the management of digestive neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN) published in February 2020 ( www.tncd.org ). Methods All French medical societies involved in the management of NEN took part in this work. Recommendations were graded into four categories (A, B, C or D), according to the level of evidence found in the literature until May 2019. Results The management of NEN is challenging because of their heterogeneity and the increasing complexity of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Pathological analysis is required for their diagnostic and prognostic characterization, which mainly relies on differ…

Generative Adversarial Networks in Cardiology

2021

A B S T R A C T Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are state-of-the-art neural network models used to synthesize images and other data. GANs brought a considerable improvement to the quality of synthetic data, quickly becoming the standard for data generation tasks. In this work, we summarize the applications of GANs in the field of cardiology, including generation of realistic cardiac images, electrocardiography signals, and synthetic electronic health records. The utility of GAN-generated data is discussed with respect to research, clinical care, and academia. Moreover, we present illustrative examples of our GAN-generated cardiac magnetic resonance and echocardiography images, showin…

Analyzing American Public Diplomacy: The case of Brand USA. When Tourism becomes an Ideological Tool

2016

This paper aims to study the communicative strategies used in the American campaign of public diplomacy.Our objective in this work is twofold: first, to verify whether behind the action of rebranding the image of the U.S.A. there is an ideological agenda; second, to identify the communication dynamics - both textual and semiotic - which have contributed to make the campaign successful and whether they are in line with the communicative profile of the U.S.A., adopting a handful of current models in intercultural studies.

Modalità orientata sul partecipante in siciliano contemporaneo: i dati dell'Atlante linguistico della Sicilia (ALS)

2021

Il contributo descrive lo spazio semantico-funzionale codificato dalle costruzioni del siciliano contemporaneo che coinvolgono aviri a, putiri, sapiri e vuliri: (a) aviri a (avere da/dovere) + infinito; (b) putiri/sapiri (potere/sapere) + infinito; (c) vuliri (volere) + infinito; (d) vuliri + participio passato. In particolare, si farà riferimento a due domini funzionali intimamente connessi: la modalità orientata sul partecipante e la direttività. Il corpus di analisi è costituito dagli etnotesti e dalle produzioni a codice bloccato siciliano della sezione sociovariazionale dell’Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS), nonché dalle risposte ai quesiti traduttivi (italiano/siciliano, sicili…

Chromosomal and genetic changes produced in tumoral progression of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma

2013

Letter Position Coding Across Modalities: The Case of Braille Readers

2012

BackgroundThe question of how the brain encodes letter position in written words has attracted increasing attention in recent years. A number of models have recently been proposed to accommodate the fact that transposed-letter stimuli like jugde or caniso are perceptually very close to their base words.MethodologyHere we examined how letter position coding is attained in the tactile modality via Braille reading. The idea is that Braille word recognition may provide more serial processing than the visual modality, and this may produce differences in the input coding schemes employed to encode letters in written words. To that end, we conducted a lexical decision experiment with adult Braille…

Influence of Perioperative cis-Platinum on Breaking Strength of Bowel Anastomoses in Rats

1985

Adjuvant and perioperative chemotherapy is increasingly being used in the treatment of malignant disease. Therefore, the influence of cytostatic drugs is of interest and is being investigated experimentally. The influence of various drugs is well known and has been described elsewhere (Shamberger et al. 1981). Recently, cis-platinum, an inorganic complex that inhibits DNA synthesis by cross-linking DNA strands, has been introduced. In urology it has shown a surprisingly good effect on testicular tumors and has been used in bladder cancer for palliative treatment, being one of the most potent drugs for this purpose (Yagoda 1979). It is now being combined with cystectomy for curative therapy …

Safety of the current drug treatments for vitiligo

2020

Introduction: Vitiligo is an acquired depigmenting skin disorder adversely affecting the patient's quality of life. Despite the presence of several treatment modalities, ranging from medical to physical to surgical options, none is curative. Each modality has its own drawbacks and side effects. Thus, the treatment modality needs to be tailored for each individual patient taking into consideration the disease characteristics and also its efficacy and safety to obtain a favorable risk-benefit ratio.Areas covered: This review highlights the different treatment modalities utilized in vitiligo up until 4 November 2019 along with their adverse effects and contraindications, if any.Expert opinion:…