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Among G12C patients, median (95 % CI) rwOS was 12.0 (9.6-15.3), 9.5 (8.1-13.1), and 6.7 (5.9-10.7) months after first, second, and third line of therapy, respectively; median (95 % CI) rwPFS was 5.0 (4.4-5.8), 4.0 (2.8-5.3), and 3.1 (2.4-4.3) months. Outcomes for the G12C subcohort were similar to those for all patients (All Advanced NSCLC cohort). Mutations in STK11/KEAP1 were associated with poorer survival across all cohorts.
The poor outcomes associated with KRAS p.G12C mutated advanced NSCLC indicate an unmet need for more effective novel treatments.
The poor outcomes associated with KRAS p.G12C mutated advanced NSCLC indicate an unmet need for more effective novel treatments.Closed form expressions for the prediction of retention times and peak widths for gradient liquid chromatography are particularly useful in understanding, rationalizing and optimizing separations. These expressions are obtained by integrating differential equations, in conjunction with a model of the variation of the retention factor as a function of mobile phase composition. Two of these models, the linear solvent strength (LSS) model and the Neue-Kuss (NK) model are explored in the present work. Here, we expand on these closed form expressions to account for effects of sample volume overload and a mismatch between the sample solvent and the initial mobile phase composition for the gradient. We show that there have been errors in expressions reported in the literature, and we have evaluated the accuracy of the predictions from the closed form expressions reported here using a recently developed liquid chromatography simulator. VX-11e ERK inhibitor The expressions assume a constant plate height and consider elution across four zones of the gradient profile - elution in the sample solvent, elution in the initial (isocratic) mobile phase caused by the gradient delay volume, elution during a linear gradient, and elution post-gradient at the final (isocratic) mobile phase composition. The expressions generally give reasonably accurate predictions for retention times and peak widths, except for cases where the solute elutes during transitions between the different zones. The average magnitude of the prediction errors for retention time and peak width relative to simulation were 0.093% and 0.40% for the LSS expressions for ten amphetamine solutes at 36 different separation conditions, and 0.22% and 1.8% for the NK expressions for eight alkylbenzene solutes at 36 different separation conditions, respectively.Both mathematical and narrative abilities are considered critical dimensions of children's kindergarten readiness skills and are emphasized in developmental standards and readiness assessments during the prekindergarten period. Yet, despite considerable opportunities available to educators to leverage potential cross-domain associations in their instruction, little is known about how component math skills are associated with narrative skills. The current study extends prior theoretical and empirical work on cross-domain associations by examining the extent to which component math skills, constituting a kindergarten readiness assessment battery, are associated with narrative comprehension skills in children aged 4-6 years. Two geographically distinct samples of children enrolled in a summer kindergarten readiness program in the United States (N = 108) were used to explore how early numeracy skills (e.g., counting, cardinality), math language, and patterning skills individually and together contributed to variance in narrative comprehension skills. Zero-order correlations indicated that math and narrative skills were significantly and moderately correlated, with cardinality and math language skills showing the strongest associations, followed by patterning and counting skills. Furthermore, results from a multiple regression analysis indicated that cardinality and math language each explained a significant and substantial proportion of variance in narrative comprehension skills when controlling for the other math skills. Implications for theoretical models of cross-domain development of children's cognitive skills are discussed.
To review all high quality available evidence regarding the effect of intraoperative bupivacaine 24 hours (or 8.9 half-lives) after intraoperative administration at time of gynaecologic surgery and to ascertain whether a second mechanism of action, beyond the initial prevention of sodium channel depolarization and blockade of nerve impulses, may be occurring.
We searched all major databases with an algorithm designed to include all randomized trials that used any form of local bupivacaine, regardless of dose or route of administration, at the time of any gynaecologic surgery and compared its use with saline placebo.
As expected, we found that bupivacaine showed a significant improvement for all gynaecologic surgeries with respect to pain intensity at 6 hours after surgery when compared with a saline group (mean difference [MD] -1.28; 95% CI -1.96 to -0.61], P = 0.07). We also found a significant difference at 24 hours after surgery, giving evidence to the possibility of a second mechanism of action (MD r surgery, giving evidence of a second mechanism of action following the initial sodium channel blockade.
This study evaluated the impact of chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT) on clinicopathological parameters, prognostic outcome and initial treatment responses in patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC).
A retrospective review was made of 1409 patients with PTC, comprising 443 pathology proven PTC patients with CLT and 447 PTC patients without CLT.
The median follow-up time was 58 (8-380) months and the median age at the time of diagnosis was 43 years. The diagnosis age was significantly lower in patients with CLT (42 vs. 45 years, p0.001). The preoperative TSH level was found to be significantly higher in CLT patients (1.71 mIU/L vs. 1.28 mIU/L, p<0.001). Multifocality, capsular, lymphovascular and perineural invasion were detected at a higher rate in the group with CLT than in the group without CLT (p0.015, p0.024, p0.004, p0.039, respectively). link2 No difference was found between the two groups in terms of tumor size, bilaterality, extrathyroidal invasion, lymph node metastasis, disease stage and response to treatment (p>0.05).
The results of the present study demonstrated that coexistence of PTC and CLT is very frequent. It was found that patients with PTC and CLT coexistence were diagnosed at an earlier age and the TSH level was higher. Contrary to previous studies, no positive effect of CLT and PTC combination was detected on any clinicopathological factor. In addition, lymphovascular and perineural invasion, which had negative effects on prognosis, was more common in the CLT group.
The results of the present study demonstrated that coexistence of PTC and CLT is very frequent. It was found that patients with PTC and CLT coexistence were diagnosed at an earlier age and the TSH level was higher. Contrary to previous studies, no positive effect of CLT and PTC combination was detected on any clinicopathological factor. In addition, lymphovascular and perineural invasion, which had negative effects on prognosis, was more common in the CLT group.
Cognitive-behavioural models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suggest that maladaptive beliefs about perfectionism play a key role in the development and maintenance of OCD. Cognitive-bias modification for interpretation bias (CBM-I) is an experimental procedure that can test this proposed causal relation.
As such, the current study investigated whether multiple CBM-I sessions administered in different contexts can modify perfectionism biases. Undergraduate students high in OCD-related perfectionism beliefs were randomly allocated to either an experimental (n=44) or control (n=44) training condition and completed self-report and behavioural measures of perfectionism and OCD symptoms.
As predicted, relative to the control condition, participants in the experimental condition exhibited a significant decrease in perfectionism beliefs, from baseline to after one CBM-I training session, which was maintained at one-week follow-up. Contrary to hypotheses, there were no significant differences between conditions on measures of OCD symptoms and perfectionistic behaviour.
Issues with the current study's behavioural measures may have precluded any differences between conditions.
Results underscore the need to further refine cognitive-behavioural models of OCD to understand the precise causal relation between beliefs and symptoms.
Results underscore the need to further refine cognitive-behavioural models of OCD to understand the precise causal relation between beliefs and symptoms.This paper presents a novel natural gradient and Hessian-free (NGHF) optimisation framework for neural network training that can operate efficiently in a distributed manner. It relies on the linear conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm to combine the natural gradient (NG) method with local curvature information from Hessian-free (HF). A solution to a numerical issue in CG allows effective parameter updates to be generated with far fewer CG iterations than usually used (e.g. 5-8 instead of 200). This work also presents a novel preconditioning approach to improve the progress made by individual CG iterations for models with shared parameters. Although applicable to other training losses and model structures, NGHF is investigated in this paper for lattice-based discriminative sequence training for hybrid hidden Markov model acoustic models using a standard recurrent neural network, long short-term memory, and time delay neural network models for output probability calculation. Automatic speech recognition experiments are reported on the multi-genre broadcast data set for a range of different acoustic model types. These experiments show that NGHF achieves larger word error rate reductions than standard stochastic gradient descent or Adam, while requiring orders of magnitude fewer parameter updates.We propose a micro-data ( less then 10 trials) sensorimotor learning and adaptation (SEED) model for human-like arm inverse dynamics control. The SEED model consists of a feedforward Gaussian motor primitive (GATE) neural network and an adaptive feedback impedance (AIM) mechanism. Sensorimotor weights over trials are learned in the GATE network, while the AIM mechanism is used to online tune impedance gains in a trial. The model was validated by periodic and non-periodic tracking tasks on a two-joint robot arm. As a result, the proposed model enables the arm to stably learn the tasks within 10 trials, compared to thousands of trials required by state-of-art deep learning. This model facilitates the exploration of unknown arm dynamics, in which the elbow joint requires much less active control compared to the shoulder. link3 This control goes below 3% of the overall effort. This finding complies with a proximal-distal control gradient in human arm control. Taken together, the proposed SEED model paves a way for implementing data-efficient sensorimotor learning and adaptation of human-like arm movement.
The use of ocular plaques is a promising treatment option for eye melanoma brachytherapy. Although several studies have been done on various ocular plaques, little is known about the dose characterization of
Au plaque.
The full mathematical model of the eye phantom, tumor,
Ru/
Rh CCA, and
Au plaque were simulated using the Monte Carlo MCNPX code. The dose distribution was measured in the plaque's central axis direction, and a dose profile was also measured at a distance of 2.5mm from the plaque surface.
The findings showed that
Au plaque has superior dosimetric characteristics than CCA plaque for tumors with a thickness of greater than 3.5mm, while CCA plaque is better for tumors with a thickness of less than 3.5mm. The dose to the sclera and choroid is higher in the case of CCA plaque, while the dose to the organs at risk (lens and optic nerve) is greater in the case of
Au applicator. In the case of
Au plaque, however, the dose to sensitive organs was within their permissible dose range.
In the treatment of medium and large tumors,
Au plaque is more successful than CCA plaque.
