Figure 2: Tractography of the corticospinal tract (CST) for SE and SSFP with identical thresholding (1000 fibers). Tracts reach the cortex more reliably in SSFP, whereas the SE tracts end where the CST crosses the superior longitudinal facsciculus (SLF) and CC. Signal (% M0) Readout efficiency SNR efficiency DW-SE 5.15 % 6.73% 1.33% DW-SSFP 3.45 % 32.65% 1.97% Table 1: Signal for optimized DW-S...

Introduction: It was recently shown that a diffusion weighted Single-shot Stimulated Echo Acquisition Mode (DW ss-STEAM) pulse sequence is an alternative to the standard DW EPI at high fields [1-3]. By designing variable flip angles (vFA) for centric k-space acquisition without RF spoiling, more signal is utilised than usual. The iterative vFA-algorithm is based on the Extended Phase Graph form...

During aging, chronic systemic inflammation increases in prevalence and antioxidant balance shifts in favor of oxidant generation. Avenanthramide (AVA) is a group of oat phenolics that have shown anti-inflammatory and antioxidant capability. The present study investigated whether dietary supplementation of avenanthramides (AVA) in oats would increase antioxidant protection and reduce inflammati...

The effects of rice bran extract (RBE) on browning in potato, banana and apple slices compared with distilled water (DW) were investigated by measuring the changes of color values. Potato slice treated with RBE had lower browning value than that treated with DW during storage 9 to 12 hrs (p≤0.05). The browning values of potato treated with RBE and DW stored for 12 hrs were 4.72 and 7.64, respec...

The dynamics of magnetic domain wall (DW) in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Pt/[CoSiB/Pt]N nanowires was studied by measuring the DW velocity under a magnetic field (H) and an electric current (J) in two extreme regimes of DW creep and flow. Two important findings are addressed. One is that the field-driven DW velocity increases with increasing N in the flow regime, whereas the trend is inve...

A Data Warehouse (DW) can be abstractly seen as a set of materialized views de ned over a set of remote data sources. A DW is intended to satisfy a set of queries. The views materialized in a DW relate to each other in a complex manner, through common subexpressions, in order to guarantee high query performance and low view maintenance cost. DWs are time varying. As time passes new materialized...

DW-224a is a new broad-spectrum quinolone with excellent antipneumococcal activity. Agar dilution MIC was used to test the activity of DW-224a compared to those of penicillin, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, gatifloxacin, moxifloxacin, gemifloxacin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, cefuroxime, and azithromycin against 353 quinolone-susceptible pneumococci. The MICs of 29 quinolone-resistant pneumococci wi...

Business Intelligence (BI) fosters proper decision-making in organizations, mainly by providing the means to analyze historical data stored in repositories called Data Warehouses (DW). However, formal representation of which concepts are implemented in a DW rarely exists, which would be important to clarify and semantically describe the domain concepts behind the data stored in a DW, as well as...