Purpose: Giant mediastinal germ cell tumor (MGCT) requires a well-planned advanced surgical approach.We retrospectively reviewed our surgical strategy for giant MGCT.Methods: Five children (median age, 5 years) with giant MGCT were treated in our institute from 2012 to 2016.Results: The initial diagnosis was made by tumor markers and image inspecti
Probabilistic programming allows for automatic Bayesian inference on user-defined probabilistic models.Recent advances in Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling allow inference on increasingly complex models.This class of MCMC, known as Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, requires gradient information which is often not readily available.PyMC3 is a new open
Computers have been used for language teaching since the 1960s (Warschauer & Healey, 1998), and several recent studies suggest that there is still a strong need to experiment with technology and digital tools in both education and language learning (Godwin-Jones, 2012; Goertler, 2009; Levy, 2009; Reinhardt & Ryu, 2013; Zhao, 2003).Because o
ABSTRACT Shigellosis has been a menace to society for ages.The absence of an effective vaccine against Shigella, improper sanitation, and unhygienic use of food and water allow the disease to flourish.Shigella can also be transmitted via natural water bodies.In the absence of a good animal model, the actual nature of pathogenesis and transmission r