BACKGROUND Desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) may represent the early stage and usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) the late stage of the same disease. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the computed tomographic (CT) features of DIP, to evaluate the changes in pattern and extent of disease over time, and to determine whether the appearances of DIP on the CT scan change to those of ...

Abstract Clustering analysis is fundamental for determining dominant discontinuity properties in rock engineering. Orientation has commonly been considered the only factor when performing clustering, which ignores contributions of other to deformations and strengths masses. This study proposes an improved netting algorithm identify sets based on multiple properties. The method takes ten as clus...

Cell movement is driven by the coordinated regulation of cytoskeletal reorganization through Rho GTPases downstream of integrin and growth-factor receptor signaling. We have reported that mDia, a target protein of Rho, interacts with Src and DIP. Here we show that DIP binds to p190RhoGAP and Vav2, and that DIP is phosphorylated by Src and mediates the phosphorylation of p190RhoGAP and Vav2 upon...

Acute cardiac rejection, syndrome X, and arterial hypertension can induce small vessel damage and, therefore, restriction of coronary reserve in the presence of normal epicardial coronary arteries. A characteristic response pattern to dipyridamole (DIP) infusion has been previously described in syndrome X and arterial hypertension: ST segment depression without any measurable systolic dysfuncti...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship of the IL-6 promoter variants G-597A, G-572C and G-174C (rs1800797, rs1800796 and rs1800795, respectively), which have been shown to affect both the transcription and secretion of IL-6, to symptomatic distal interphalangeal (DIP) osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS A total of 535 women aged 45 to 63 years were included. Rad...

Starting from a 2-D interpolation scheme presented elsewhere in this report, we develop an algorithm for interpolation of 3-D data. Spatial prediction lters are used to estimate the apparent dip between pairs of traces. These dip estimates are combined to give a local estimate of the true dip in 3-D, which is then used to perform interpolation.

Building on the notions of time-variable filtering and the helix coordinate system, I develop software for filters that are smoothly variable in multiple dimensions, but that are quantized into large enough regions to be efficient. Multiscale prediction-error filters (PEFs) can estimate dips from recorded data and use the dip information to fill in unrecorded shot or receiver gathers. The data ...

[1] We use teleseismic P and S delay times and shear wave splitting measurements to constrain isotropic and anisotropic heterogeneity in the mantle beneath the southern East Pacific Rise (SEPR). The data comprise 462 P and S delay times and 18 shear wave splitting observations recorded during the Mantle Electromagnetic and Tomography (MELT) Experiment. We estimate the mantle melt content (F) an...