In the present study, the thenar muscles were evaluated using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in addition, the correlations between thenar muscle changes, clinical findings and electrodiagnostic results from patients with carpal tunnel syndrome were investigated. The subjects were 13 patients (17 wrists) who were clinically diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. In all patients, a medical his...

This work discloses similarity properties of a high aspect ratio pulsating jet with lateral confinement exhibiting axis switching in a region close to the jet exit. The analysis is conducted separately within the major and minor planes of the jet source. The similarity relations derived from the in-plane flow equations are combined with experimental data collected in a recent threedimensional v...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is making something of a comeback because it remains a paragon of efficacy amidst other relatively disappointing treatments. The dexamethasone suppression test (DST), once the poster child for a laboratory test in psychiatry, is of minor theoretical and historical interest. Edward Shorter and Max Fink1 intertwine the stories of ECT, DST, and the hypothalamic-pitu...

In this chapter a particular image processing problem existing in quality assurance for steel industry is addressed. Since the quality standards in steel industry are ever increasing, even steel industry starts to use machine vision systems to monitor their product quality. In case of steel coils a particular figure of merit in quality is the roundness (ellipticity) or lack thereof of the coil....

In this paper, we introduce a new method for ellipse detection. This method takes the advantages of major axis of an ellipse to find ellipse parameter fast and efficiently. It only needs an one-dimensional accumulator array to accumulate the length information for minor axis of the ellipse. This method does not require the evaluation of the tangents or curvatures of the edge contours, which are...

I report on an ongoing programme of proper motion measurements in the Galactic Bulge, using HST images. As a first application, the data are used to derive the vertical gravitational acceleration on the minor axis of the Galaxy. Implications of the measurement for the flattening of the Galactic potential are discussed.

We have used Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope to conduct a V and I-band imaging survey of fields sampling the spheroid of the Andromeda galaxy along its south-east minor axis. Our photometric data are deep enough to resolve stars down to the red clump. Based on a large and reliable sample of red giant stars available from this deep wide-field imager, we have derived metallicity distributions...

Changes in the size of anastomosis were experimentally evaluated at oblique (O-group) and right angle (S-group) anastomoses of the bronchus to the lateral wall of the trachea. In addition, the resistance to air current was assessed by the measurement of the intraluminal pressure. 1) Difficulty in right angle anastomosis was assumed from the results of the survival time within 7 days after surge...

OBJECTIVE A relationship between schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia has been documented in behavioral genetic studies, and there are similarities in the cognitive deficits and brain abnormalities associated with these disorders. Adolescents with schizotypal personality disorder are of particular interest because the postpubertal period is a critical one for the development of a ...