Adjuvant Radioactive Iodine Ablation in Tall Cell Subtype Papillary Thyroid Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Introduction: Tall cell subtype papillary thyroid cancer (TCS-PTC) is associated with aggressive disease features and worse patient outcomes. It remains unclear whether adjuvant radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation following thyroidectomy is associated with improved survival in TCS-PTC. The purpose of this review and meta-analysis was to determine whether adjuvant RAI was associated with improved survival in patients with TCS-PTC.

Perceptions of Urban Father Support in Early Parenthood: A Critical Incident Analysis.

Becoming a father is a common transitional event, however men are often not adequately prepared for their fathering role. The United States (U.S.

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on French-Canadian adolescents' academic motivation: A follow-up study.

We previously shared results suggesting that the academic motivation of a sample of French-Canadian adolescents remained stable from few weeks before the first wave to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We here examine if this pattern persisted using data collected at a third time point.

Improving Data Security with Blockchain and Internet of Things in the Gourmet Cocoa Bean Fermentation Process.

Brazil was one of the largest cocoa producers in the world, mainly supported by the South of Bahia region. After the 1980s, the witch-broom disease demolished plantations, and farmers were forced into bankruptcy. The worldwide search for gourmet cocoa has rekindled interest in this production, whose fermentation process is a key step in obtaining fine cocoa, thanks to the fact that many processing properties and sensory attributes are developed in this phase.

Transmission of rogue wave signals through a modified Noguchi electrical transmission network.

A distributed electrical transmission network with dispersive elements that consists of a large number of identical unit cells is considered. Using the reductive perturbation method in the semidiscrete limit, we show that the voltage for the network is described by a nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation with an external linear potential. Using such a NLS equation, the propagation of the first- and second-order rogue waves in the system is predicted and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.

Management of matter-wave solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates with time-dependent atomic scattering length in a time-dependent parabolic complex potential.

In this paper, we consider a Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation with a time-dependent nonlinearity and a spatiotemporal complex linear term which describes the dynamics of matter-wave solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with time-dependent interatomic interactions in a parabolic potential in the presence of feeding or loss of atoms. We establish the integrability conditions under which analytical solutions describing the modulational instability and the propagation of both bright and dark solitary waves on a continuous wave background are obtained. The obtained integrability conditions also appear as the conditions under which the solitary waves of the BECs can be managed by controlling the functional gain or loss parameter.

Solitonlike pulses along a modified Noguchi nonlinear electrical network with second-neighbor interactions: Analytical studies.

A modified lossless nonlinear Noguchi transmission network with second-neighbor interactions is considered. In the semidiscrete limit, we apply the reductive perturbation method and show that the dynamics of modulated waves propagating through the network are governed by an NLS equation with linear external potential. Classes of exact solitonic solutions of this network equation are derived, proving possible transmission of both bright and dark solitonlike pulses through the network.

UNMIX Methods Applied to Characterize Sources of Volatile Organic Compounds in Toronto, Ontario.

UNMIX, a sensor modeling routine from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was used to model volatile organic compound (VOC) receptors in four urban sites in Toronto, Ontario.

Factorization methods applied to characterize the sources of volatile organic compounds in Montreal, Quebec.

Objectives: The study objective was to assemble emission characteristics of the sources of the ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and to elaborate methods of organizing them into the sources' chemical profiles.

Material And Methods: The UNMIX--sensor modeling method from the U.S.

Association between patterns of leisure time physical activity and asthma control in adult patients.

Background: Physical activity has been shown to have various health benefits in patients with asthma, especially in children. However, there are still limited data on the nature of the association between physical activity and asthma control in adults.

Objective: The objective of the current study was to determine the nature of the association between physical activity and asthma control, with particular emphasis on the intensity of the activity and seasonal variations.

Dynamics of modulated waves in a lossy modified Noguchi electrical transmission line.

We study analytically the dynamics of modulated waves in a dissipative modified Noguchi nonlinear electrical network. In the continuum limit, we use the reductive perturbation method in the semidiscrete limit to establish that the propagation of modulated waves in the network is governed by a dissipative nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation. Motivated with a solitary wave type of solution to the NLS equation, we use both the direct method and the Weierstrass's elliptic function method to present classes of bright, kink, and dark solitary wavelike solutions to the dissipative NLS equation of the network.