Nearly all of what is now British Columbia and adjacent areas were covered by an ice sheet at the maximum of the Last Glaciation (MIS 2) about 18,000 years ago.By 11,000 years ago, the Cordilleran Ice Sheet had disappeared, a victim of warming climate, eustatic sea-level rise along its western margin, and perhaps a reduction in precipitation.Deglac
Background and purpose: The impact of respiratory motion management strategies for abdominal radiotherapy, such as abdominal compression (AC) and breath hold (BH), on abdominal organ at risk (OAR) delineation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unknown.This feasibility study compared the inter- Camera and intra- observer delineation variation on
Collaborative filtering (CF) approaches, which provide recommendations based on ratings or purchase history, perform well for users and items with sufficient interactions.However, CF approaches suffer from the cold-start problem for users and items with few ratings.Hybrid recommender systems that combine collaborative filtering and content-based ap
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received considerable attention from regulators, industry and research community, due to rapid growth in a broad range of applications.Particularly, UAVs are being used to provide a promising solution to reliable and cost-effective wireless communications from the sky.The deployment of UAVs has
Objective(s): Although tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) can selectively induce apoptosis in tumor cells, more than half of tumors including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) exhibit TRAIL-resistance.The purpose of this study was to determine whether subtoxic-dose cisplatin and TRAIL could synergistically enhance apop