The diagnosis and management of bronchopleural fistula (BPF) remain a major therapeutic challenge for clinicians. It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis and localisation of BPF is sometimes difficult and may require multiple imaging and bronchoscopies. Successful management of a fistula is combined with treatment of the associated empyema cavity. The first step, th...

Activated carbon monoliths (ACMs) were fabricated by H2O activation using powdered fast pyrolytic char (PFPC) as a raw material and bio-oil phenol-formaldehyde (BPF) resin as a binder. The effects of the ratio of BPF resin to PFPC on textural and chemical-surface properties of the ACMs were investigated using elemental analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (...

Synthesis, structure, and physical properties of a novel 11-methylbenzo[d]pyreno[4,5-b]furan (BPF) and its self-assembly in water have been reported. The performance of nanowire-based films in organic light-emitting diodes is much better than that of the thin film deposited by directly drop-coating BPF molecules in THF solution. SEM study indicates that the well-organized structure (nanowires) ...

Modern enterprises may be in need of developing the right application programs in a rapidly changing business environment for a fast time to market. However, most enterprises without a business process mechanism find it difficult to develop applications in time when they need to change their business. To solve this problem, we proposed a business process framework (BPF) based on closed architec...

In this paper, a novel compact band pass filter (BPF) is proposed for Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. The proposed BPF configuration is composed of a low pass filter (LPF) section formed by the coupled line transformer connected with a radial stub and two short circuited stubs embedded within the 50Ω microstrip line connecting the input/output (I/O) port of LPF. The lumped equivalent...

All examined Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius isolates of the clone associated with Brazilian purpuric fever (the BPF clone) produced type 2 immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1) proteases encoded by identical iga genes that were distinct from the iga genes of other Brazilian H. influenzae biogroup aegyptius isolates. A partial nucleotide sequence analysis revealed close similarities to the iga gen...

We read with interest the paper by Bai et al. [1] regarding the efficacy of surgery, mainly pneumonectomies, in the treatment of tuberculosis (TB)-destroyed lungs and we congratulate them on their results. One of the most dreaded complications after pneumonectomy is the bronchopleural fistula (BPF), and this is particularly true for pneumonectomies performed for infectious diseases including TB...

Graph matching aims at establishing correspondences between graph elements, and is widely used in many computer vision tasks. Among recently proposed graph matching algorithms, those utilizing the path following strategy have attracted special research attentions due to their exhibition of state-of-the-art performances. However, the paths computed in these algorithms often contain singular poin...

Current applications of helical cone-beam computed tomography (CT) involve primarily a constant pitch where the translating speed of the table and the rotation speed of the source-detector remain constant. However, situations do exist where it may be more desirable to use a helical scan with a variable translating speed of the table, leading a variable pitch. One of such applications could aris...