The appearance of severe signal drop-outs in abdominal imaging at 3 T arises primarily from areas of very low B1+ transmit field in the body, and is problematic in both obese as well as very thin subjects. In this study, we show how thin patient-friendly pads containing new high permittivity materials can be designed and optimized, and when placed around the subject increase substantially the B...

A new model was developed to predict head loss in sand media filters. Sand filters with six different using reclaimed water were used measure losses at flow rates the laboratory. The parameters influencing considered be uniformity coefficient, effective diameter, mass, filtration velocity, pollution load, and viscosity. dimensional analysis method develop model. comparison between predicted mea...

OBJECTIVE to develop indicators for the nursing outcome Swallowing Status and the respective conceptual and operational definitions validated by experts and in a clinical setting among patients after having experienced a stroke. METHOD methodological study with concept analysis and content and clinical validations. The Content Validation Index was verified for the scores assigned by 11 expert...

PURPOSE To elucidate differences between glioblastoma (GBM) and primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) with MR image-based texture features. METHODS This was an Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved retrospective study. Consecutive, pathologically proven, initially treated 44 patients with GBM and 16 patients with PCNSL were enrolled. We calculated a total of 67 image texture fea...

Amorphous carbon hard mask (ACHM) films are widely used as etching masks in 3D-NAND flash memory, which has put forward higher requirements the film deposition rate, transparency, uniformity, and selective etching. In this work, ACHM processing is engineered optimized by comparatively studying acetylene (C2H2) propylene (C3H6) sources at different temperatures of 300 °C, 350 °C 400 °C. By incre...

Feature point (FP) detection is a fundamental step of many computer vision tasks. However, FP detectors are usually designed for low dynamic range (LDR) images. In scenes with extreme light conditions, LDR images present saturated pixels, which degrade detection. On the other hand, high (HDR) no pixels but algorithms do not take advantage all information in such frequently relies on differentia...

The welfare of a country depends on its economic development. In order to have the impact it, we should possibility quantitatively assess situation at desired point in time. Economic development, as multifaceted and complex phenomenon, is reflected two dimensions – intensity uniformity. These mentioned above can be viewed partial indicators dynamics. Two main approaches measuring development un...

Chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) is an important vegetable and spice crop belongs to Solanaceae family which grown all over the world. Dried pods contain 36 gms of carbohydrates, 18 proteins, excellent source vitamin A C together provide roughly 160 calories energy per 100 (Narayanan et al., 1999). Area, production productivity in India was 7.43 Lakh ha, 19.14 Tonnes 2576 kg/ha, respectively (Anonym...

A horizontal distributor for biogas slurry application was proposed to explore the distribution performance through CFD analysis and verified by field test. The rheological properties of were analyzed at first, key parameters obtained next simulation. effects modes, inlet direction, outlets number on velocity flow mass rate horizonal investigated simulations. Results indicated that a non-Newton...

Introduction: One of the major causes of image non-uniformity in MRI is due to the existence of  non-homogeneity in RF receive and transmit. This can be the most effective source of error in  quantitative  studies  in  MRI  imaging.  Part  of  this  non-homogeneity  demonstrates  the  characteristics of RF coil and part of it is due to the interaction of RF field with the material being  imaged...