BACKGROUND Previous data has shown that patients in the indeterminate form of Chagas disease may present myocardial fibrosis as shown on through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, there is little information available regarding the degree of severity of myocardial fibrosis in these individuals. This variable has the potential to predict the evolution of Chagas' disease into its cardiac ...

A neutrosophic number (NN) presented by Smarandache can express determinate and/or indeterminate information in real life. NN (z = a + uI) consists of the determinate part a and the indeterminate part uI for a, u ∈ R (R is all real numbers) and indeterminacy I, and is very suitable for representing and handling problems with both determinate and indeterminate information. Based on the concept o...

The Burrows-Wheeler Transformation computes a permutation of a string of letters over an alphabet, and is well-suited to compression-related applications due to its invertability and data clustering properties. For space e ciency the input to the transform can be preprocessed into Lyndon factors. We consider scenarios with uncertainty regarding the data: a position in an indeterminate or degene...

Leguminous plants in symbiosis with rhizobia form either indeterminate nodules with a persistent meristem or determinate nodules with a transient meristematic region. Sesbania rostrata was thought to possess determinate stem and root nodules. However, the nature of nodule development is hybrid, and the early stages resemble those of indeterminate nodules. Here we show that, depending on the env...

In this paper at the beginning, we make a short history of the logics, from the classical Boolean logic to the most general logic of today neutrosophic logic. We define the general logic space and give the definition of the neutrosophic logic. Then we introduce the indeterminate models in information fusion, which are due either to the existence of some indeterminate elements in the fusion spac...

The problem due to the statically indeterminate contact forces arising in indeterminate frictional enveloping grasps is addressed in the paper. First of all, we show that the statical model for the contact forces is incomplete in the sense that the mathematical frictional forces may have an infeasible component. To resolve this infeasibility, we directly derive the enveloping grasp infeasibilit...

To the Editor: Alexander et al. (Aug. 23 issue)1 report findings from a prospective, multicenter gene-expression classifier validation study that raises several questions. For the 265 indeterminate fine-needle aspirates they tested, the geneexpression classifier had a sensitivity of 92%, a specificity of 52%, a positive predictive value of 47%, and a negative predictive value of 93%. Why the ob...

It is important to distinguish liver metastases from incidental benign liver lesions which may be present in patients with cancer. In a minority of cases, sonography or CT may be sufficient to characterise benign lesions, but the range of sequences and contrast media available for liver MRI provides the opportunity for more specific diagnosis in the great majority of cases. Biopsy is rarely nee...

Indeterminacy in an economic growth model arises whenever the stable manifold has dimension greater than the number of predetermined initial conditions. The stability (indeterminacy) of transition paths in the Benhabib and Farmer (1996) model of growth is investigated, using both the Lyapunov method and numerical simulation techniques. The sensitivity of transient dynamics is analyzed with resp...