Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is associated in about half of the cases with behavioral and cognitive disorders, including impairments in socio-emotional processing, considered as key-features for the diagnosis of the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bv-FTD). The neurostructural bases of emotional deficits in ALS, however, still remain largely unexplored. Here we aim to asses...

This thesis presents a novel approach to obtain characterisations of microstructures of materials in two and three dimensions, starting from morphological information that can be obtained from a conventional microscope. The reconstructions obtained can be used as starting configurations of computer models of various kinds and used to help predict the properties of the materials. The method empl...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Small vessel disease is a major cause of neurocognitive dysfunction in the elderly. Small vessel disease may manifest as white matter hyperintensities, lacunar infarcts, cerebral microbleeds, and atrophy, all of which are visible on conventional MR imaging or as microstructural changes determined by diffusion tensor imaging. This study investigated whether microstructural...

In situ reaction was activated in the powder mixture of Al/5 wt.%Fe2O3 by using selective laser melting (SLM) to directly fabricate aluminium metal matrix composite parts. The microstructural characteristics of these in situ consolidated parts through SLM were investigated under the influence of thick powder bed, 75  μm layer thickness, and 50  μm layer thickness in various laser powers and sca...

The genus Delphinium L. is rich in diterpene alkaloids, which exhibit a pronounced curare-like, anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antidote and insecticidal action. content of alkaloids the aboveground unde-ground vegetative organs flexuosum Bieb., promising medicinal plant flora Georgia, diagnostic features internal structure were studied order to determine identity experimental raw mat...

Selective laser melting (SLM) has shown to be an attractive manufacturing route to produce Ti-6Al-4V components. In the present study, the relation between the texture evolution and a particular set of process parameters adopted for the production of near fully dense components was investigated. The aim of this investigation was to understand which microstructural features can be tailored durin...