Given a passage with a question and an answer to that question, classify if the answer actually answers the question into 'yes' or 'no'. Output 'yes' if the answer answers the question and output 'no' if the answer does not answer the question.

Question: Has survival after recurrent esophageal carcinoma improved over the past 18 years?
Answer: Survival after recurrent EC in patients who undergo FU without routine imaging after esophagectomy is approximately 3months and has not improved over the past 18years.
no

Question: Is l-arginine , the natural precursor of NO , effective for preventing bone loss in postmenopausal women?
Answer: We conclude from these results that supplementation with L-arginine hydrochloride is not effective for improving bone mass in humans.
no

Question: Does cryptosporidium parvum rhomboid1 have an activity in microneme protein CpGP900 cleavage?
Answer: Our results showed that CpROM1 is an active protease that is involved in microneme protein CpGP900 cleavage, which lay the foundation for further research on the mechanisms of C. parvum invasion.
yes