We investigate the behaviour of the mean size of directed compact percolation clusters near a damp wall in the low-density region, where sites in the bulk are wet (occupied) with probability p while sites on the wall are wet with probability pw. Methods used to find the exact solution for the dry case (pw = 0) and the wet case (pw = 1) turn out to be inadequate for the damp case. Instead we use...

PURPOSE To determine whether kidney sizes were changed after ureteral stents were instilled, and if so, what parameters were significant. METHODS Parenchymal width (PW) of 98 patients with unilateral ureteral stents was measured from the coronal view of CT scans for both stented and unstented contralateral kidney. The mean PW and % change of mean PW were calculated before stenting and at the ...

The authors quantify the relationship between the location of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and the atmospheric heat transport across the equator (AHTEQ) in climate models and in observations. The observed zonal mean ITCZ location varies from 5.38S in the boreal winter to 7.28N in the boreal summer with an annual mean position of 1.658Nwhile the AHTEQ varies from 2.1 PW northward in...

A special subphenotype of the fragile X syndrome is reported which is characterised by extreme obesity with a full, round face, small, broad hands/feet, and regional skin hyperpigmentation. It resembles the Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and might therefore be named 'Prader-Willi-like'. Unlike the PWS, these PW-like fragile X patients lack the neonatal hypotonia with feeding problems during infanc...

Most soil moisture sensor systems (SMSs) marketed for landscape irrigation respond to the dielectric permittivity of the soil. Compared to potable water (PW), reclaimed water (RW) may contain more salts, which can modify the dielectric permittivity of the soil and, hence, alter the readings of SMSs when measuring the soil water content. The main objectives of this experiment were to evaluate th...

The main role of the thalamus is to relay sensory inputs to the neocortex according to the regulations dictated by behavioral state. Hence, changes in behavioral state are likely to transform the temporal and spatial properties of thalamocortical receptive fields. We compared the receptive fields of single cells in the ventroposterior medial thalamus (VPM) of urethane-anesthetized rats during q...

Quantitative sparse array vascular elastography visualizes the shear modulus distribution within vascular tissues, information that clinicans could use to reduce the number of strokes each year. However, the low transmit power sparse array (SA) imaging could hamper the clinical usefulness of the resulting elastograms. In this study, we evaluated the performance of modulus elastograms recovered ...

BACKGROUND Ultrasonic tissue characterization (UTC) has been widely used to investigate left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in various cardiac disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between functional capacity and UTC in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM). METHODS AND RESULTS Treadmill test according to modified-Bruce protocol was performed in 48...

Abstract The Paschos-Wolfenstein (PW) relation joins neutraland charged-current (anti)neutrino cross sections into an expression that depends on the weak mixing angle sin θW in a straightforward way. Contrary to the traditional approach with partonic degrees of freedom, in this work, we adopt a model built on hadronic degrees of freedom to perform a study of the PW relation at intermediate ener...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of hydrogen water (HW) on the severity of atopic dermatitis (AD) and elucidate the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. METHODS For this experimental study between March 2015 and December 2015, NC/Nga mice characterized by mild AD severity were given either HW (n=11) or purified water (PW) (n=9) ad libitum; specific-pathogen-free mice (n=9) were used as A...