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Thursday, April 5, 2018

A Promising Outlook for Imaging Radar: Imaging Flash Radar Realized Using Photonic Spatial Beam Processing - IEEE Journals & Magazine

A Promising Outlook for Imaging Radar: Imaging Flash Radar Realized Using Photonic Spatial Beam Processing - IEEE Journals & Magazine

C. A. Schuetz et al., "A Promising Outlook for Imaging Radar: Imaging Flash Radar Realized Using Photonic Spatial Beam Processing," in IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 91-101, May 2018.
doi: 10.1109/MMM.2018.2801639
Abstract:
Since their conception in the early 1900s, radar systems have mostly
used a single RF beam to probe the environment in search of objects of
interest. Traditionally, this is accomplished by scanning the beam over a
defined region and using time of flight to determine the range of
objects located within the beam. As such, a key figure of merit is the
spatial extent, or angular divergence, of the RF beam because it defines
the lateral (or cross-range) resolution of detectable objects, while
the operational bandwidth (BW) of the radar determines the range
resolution of detectable objects. In combination, these two metrics
often define the overall capability of the radar system.
keywords: {Array signal processing;Optical amplifiers;Optical fibers;Optical imaging;Optical receivers},
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8331339&isnumber=8331286

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

#ProstateCancer News - 2018 -02

Prostate Cancer News - 2018-02

General News

About prostate cancer research, cases and public awareness:

Prostatepedia Weekly 2.9.18
Genitourinary Cancers Symposium |: Translating Evidence to Multidisciplinary Care

Case Management

Planning a campaign against prostate cancer:

What to do first for men with mCRPC | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK: The currently "great unanswered" question in the management of advanced prostate cancer is the order of agents to be used in the treatment of men who are receiving first-line therapy for metastatic prostate cancer after it becomes castration-resistant. …

Life Choices

can influence the odds in your favor:

nothing new yet

Diet

can starve the cancer

nothing new yet

Exercise

can give you strength to fight the cancer and treatment side effects

nothing new yet

Screening and Diagnosis

early detection is important because symptoms appear too late for treatment:

nothing new yet

Treatment

Why is this debate still going on at all? | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

Active Surveillance AS

Surgery RP

frequently the first choice for localized PCa, robotic assist dominates:

nothing new yet

Radiation RT

nothing new yet

Hormone ADT

nothing new yet

Chemo

nothing new yet

Immunotherapy

Promise of novel combinations in CRPC | Biotech Strategy Blog: A look at targeted therapies and immunotherapies in advanced prostate cancer and where future directions might lie with novel combination approaches in development/

New Techniques

Circulating tumor cells and survival in abiraterone- and enzalutamide-treated patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer - De Laere - 2018 - The Prostate - Wiley Online Library
Two Drugs Offer Hope Against a Tough-to-Treat Prostate Cancer: Two cancer drugs can stall the progression of a particularly hard-to-treat form of prostate cancer, a pair of new trials shows.
Apalutamide delays spread of certain prostate cancers in trial | Cancer Research UK: An experimental hormone therapy delays the spread of prostate cancer that has stopped responding to standard treatment, according to new clinical trial results.
FDA Approves Abiraterone/Prednisone for Metastatic Prostate Cancer | Cancer Network | The Oncology Journal: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) tablets in combination with prednisone for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer patients with high-risk, castration-sensitive disease. 1

Side Effects

nothing new yet

Advanced/Recurrence

What to Know About Advanced Prostate Cancer: Advanced prostate cancer is an often-misunderstood description of later-stage prostate cancer. Learn how it is diagnosed and how it can be treated.
Time to Metastasis Prolonged in Castration-Resistant Prostate Ca | Medpage Today: Researchers found a 22-month improvement with enzalutamide
The prognosis of different distant metastases pattern in prostate cancer: A population based retrospective study - Shou - 2018 - The Prostate - Wiley Online Library

Monday, January 22, 2018

BOLD PICTURES of our World History

BOLD PICTURES of our World History

Below are some of the most fascinating photographs ever captured on camera. Thanks to these great images, we now have before us a rare window to some of the most interesting moments of our world history.

1. A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897

2. An airman being captured by Vietnamese in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967.

The airman is John McCain.

3. Samurai warriors taken between 1860 and 1880

4. A shell-shocked reindeer looks on as war planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941.

5. Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios

6. Che Guevara enjoying a drink

7. The Microsoft staff in 1978

8. The last known Tasmanian Tiger (now extinct) photographed in 1933

9. German air raid on Moscow in 1941

10. Winston Churchill out for a swim

11. The London sky after a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940

12. Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.

13. Google begins.

14. Nagasaki , 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945

15. The only photograph of a living Quagga (now extinct) from 1870

16. Hitler's bunker

17. A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

18. The original Ronald McDonald played by Willard Scott

19. The first photo taken from space in 1946

20. British SAS back from a 3-month patrol of North Africa in 1943

21. Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961

22. The first McDonalds

23. Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.

24. George S. Patton's dog mourning his master on the day of his death.

25. California lumberjacks working on Redwoods

26. Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961

27. Bread and soup during the Great Depression

28. The 1912 World Series

29. The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.

30. Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil

31. Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907

32. Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren in 1909

33. The construction of Disneyland

34. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship

35. 14-year-old Osama bin Laden (2nd from the right)

36. Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884

37. Albert Einstein's office photographed on the day of his death

38. A liberated Jew holds a Nazi guard at gunpoint.

39. Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908

40. Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888

41. Dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989

42. Titanic leaves port in 1912.

43. Adolf Hitler's pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf's Lair in 1944

44. ENIAC, the first computer ever built

45. Brighton Swimming Club in 1863

46. Ferdinand Porsche (yeah, that Porsche) showing a model of the Volkswagen Beetle

to Adolf Hitler in 1935

47. The unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb

48. Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left this family photo behind on the moon in 1972.

49. The crew of Apollo 1 practicing their water landing in 1966. Unfortunately, all of

them were killed on the launch pad in a fire.

50. An aircraft crash on board during World War II

51. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA ), and

Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) talking together