PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE-This trial was designed to test the hypothesis that TAS and WP radiotherapy (RT) followed by a prostate boost improves progression free survival (PFS) by at least 10% compared to TAS and PO RT. This trial was also designed to test the hypothesis that neoadjuvant hormonal therapy (NHT) followed by concurrent TAS and RT improves PFS compared to RT followed by adjuvant TAS (AHT) by at least 10%. METHODS/MATERIALS-Patientseligible for the study included those with clinically localized adenocarcinoma of the prostate and elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) < 100 ng/

Reaction mechanism analyses performed with a 4pi detector for the systems 208Pb + Ge, 238U + Ni and 238U + Ge, combined with analyses of the associated reaction time distributions, provide us with evidence for nuclei with Z=120 and 124 living longer than 10(-18) s and arising from highly excited compound nuclei. By contrast, the neutron deficient nuclei with Z=114 possibly formed in 208Pb + Ge reactions have shorter lifetimes, close to or below the sensitivity limit of the experiment.

The particle internal clock conjectured by de Broglie in 1924 was investigated in a channeling experiment using a beam of ∼80 MeV electrons aligned along the 110 direction of a 1 μm thick silicon crystal. Some of the electrons undergo a rosette motion, in which they interact with a single atomic row. When the electron energy is finely varied, the rate of electron transmission at 0°shows a 8% dip within 0.5% of the resonance energy, 80.874 MeV, for which the frequency of atomic collisions matches the electron's internal clock frequency. A model is presented to show the compatibility of our data with the de Broglie hypothesis.In a previous publication [1], we showed data which can be interpreted as a manifestation of the particle internal clock postulated by L. de Broglie in 1924. In the present paper we shall report again this result in the light of a phenomenological calculation that we used as a guide to design the experiment and understand its significance.At the beginning of quantum mechanics, L. de Broglie [2, 3] associated a particle of mass m 0 in its rest frame with an internal frequency ν 0 = m 0 c 2 /h and a wave