Thirty-eight enhancing intracranial neoplasms were evaluated with a dual kilovoltage technique to measure the change of effective atomic number (delta Z), and linear attenuation coefficients with the use of iodinated contrast material. The change of effective atomic number was found to separate intracranial neoplasms into three major groups: gliomas, meningiomas, and metastases. Other parameter...

the interaction between dmso and alkaline earth perchlorates in anhydrous acetonitrile was investigated by ft-ir spectroscopy. a quantitative study was performed to determine the average number of bonded dmso molecules using v (so) and v (c-s) vibrations. changes in coordination numbers were observed both with increasing atomic numbers and the solvent composition. none of the investigated syste...

The goal of this work was to improve the efficiency of early detection of isolated clustered microcalcifications, the earliest indicators of breast cancer. The presence of isolated clustered microcalcifications in the mammary gland significantly increases the range of variation of effective atomic number and significantly changes the form of its distribution. Isolated microcalcifications may no...

The snapshot object is an important tool for constructing wait-free asynchronous algorithms. We relate the snapshot object to the lattice agreement decision problem. It is shown that any algorithm for solving lattice agreement can be transformed into an implementation of a snapshot object. The overhead cost of this transformation is only a linear number of operations on atomic single-writer mul...

We study theoretically a Fermi-Dirac atomic gas in a one-dimensional optical lattice coupled to a coherent electromagnetic field with a topologically nontrivial soliton phase profile. We argue that the resulting fractional eigenvalues of the particle number operator can be detected via light scattering. This could be a truly quantum mechanical measurement of particle number fractionalization in...

Two-photon Laser induced fluorescence diagnostics system for atomic oxygen has been installed at the 750kW arc heated wind tunnel in JAXA in order to obtain velocity, translational temperature, and number density of atomic oxygen simultaneously. It was observed that the center of excitation wavelength is shifted in the shock layer. The Doppler shift due to the free stream velocity has a same or...