From the most prevalent cancers, breast and lung cancers have a meager survival rate for both men and women. These two cancers are related to each other. Breast cancer can possibly spread to the lungs or the region between the lung and the chest wall.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMastitis is a multi-etiological disease that significantly impacts milk production and reproductive efficiency. It is highly prevalent in dairy populations subjected to intensive selection for higher milk yield and where inbreeding is common. The issue is amplified by climate change and poor hygiene management, making disease control challenging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Surgical resident autonomy in procedures has been eroding over time, due to multiple factors that include duty hour restrictions, focus on operating time, complication rate, and trust among supervising physicians. This study examines whether urology residents at the Veterans Affairs hospitals (VA) have experienced decreased surgical autonomy and contributing factors.
Methods: The national VA Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP) was queried for the most common urologic procedures between 2004 to 2019 with resident involvement.
Characterizing current fluctuations in a steady state is of fundamental interest and has attracted considerable attention in the recent past. However, the bulk of the studies are limited to systems that either do not exhibit a phase transition or are far from criticality. Here we consider a symmetric zero-range process on a ring that is known to show a phase transition in the steady state.
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