Background/purpose: Radiotherapy for head and neck cancer often causes severe oral mucositis.The purpose of this retrospective study was to further examine the risk factors for developing severe oral mucositis in patients with oral cancer undergoing radiotherapy as a compliment to a previous study performed by our group.Materials and methods: A tot
Focused on the issue that conventional remote sensing image classification methods have run into the bottlenecks in accuracy, a new remote sensing image classification method inspired by deep learning is proposed, which is based on Stacked Denoising Autoencoder.First, the deep network model is built through the stacked layers of Denoising Autoencod
Obesity is a major public health problem, and its prevalence is progressively increasing worldwide.In addition, accumulating evidence suggests that diverse nutritional and metabolic disturbances including obesity can be transmitted from parents to offspring via transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.The previous reports have shown that paternal o
Devolution and the New Public Management has increased the privatization of government service and enhanced the role for the nonprofit sector in the United States.Performance contracts are viewed as a method for holding service providers accountable for outcomes.This paper outlines the findings of a two year study which took place at the University