The Markov chain hypothesis is the discussed in stochastic interactions, and has several applications. This strategy always coordinated with future situations whose whereabouts cannot be known certainty, so community tries to carry out exercises directions full of vulnerabilities. Hypotheses are numerical ways dealing competitive planning struggles between different interests. designed examine ...

This study investigated the effects of continuous moderate-intensity exercise (MIE) and high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) in combination with short exposure to hypoxia on appetite and plasma concentrations of acylated ghrelin, peptide YY (PYY), and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). Twelve healthy males completed four, 2.6 h trials in a random order: (1) MIE-normoxia, (2) MIE-hypoxia, (3) H...

Two Different Entities Sharing the Same Metabolic Pathway? We read with interest the recent article by Kim et al on MR imaging features of metronidazole-induced encephalopathy (MIE). They described MR findings from 7 patients treated with metronidazole, 5 of whom suffered from gastrointestinal tract disease. All of the patients showed symmetric signal intensity alterations in the dentate nuclei...

For the case of a simple face-centered-cubic photonic crystal of homogeneous dielectric spheres, we examine to what extent single-sphere Mie resonance frequencies are related to band gaps and whether the width of a gap can be enlarged due to nearby resonances. Contrary to some suggestions, no spectacular effects may be expected. When the dielectric constant of the spheres εs is greater than the...

In this work, we report an original experimental approach for measuring the two-dimensional distribution of the droplets Sauter Mean Diameter (SMD) using the SLIPI-LIF/MIE technique. A hollow-cone spray is formed by continuously injecting water mixed with a non-toxic fluorescing dye at 20 bars injection pressure. The spray is illuminated using a continuous wave laser. The illumination wavelengt...

Light trapping in planar ultrathin-film solar cells is limited due to a small number of optical modes available in the thin-film slab. A nanostructured thin-film design could surpass this limit by providing broadband increase in the local density of states in a subwavelength volume and maintaining efficient coupling of light. Here we report a broadband metasurface design, enabling efficient and...

The possibility of immersing a user into a virtual environment is quickly becoming a reality. At the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) we are exploring the unique challenges presented by such systems in the context of our own implementation, the Media Immersion Environment (MIE). A challenging aspect of immersive environments is the persistent storage of vast amounts of heterogeneous data....

Purpose Anastomotic leakage is the most feared postoperative complication after esophagectomy. Omentoplasty, wrapping the omentum around the alimentary tract anastomosis, is thought to decrease the anastomotic leakage rate. The purpose of this clinical study is to investigate the use of omentoplasty to reinforce cervical esophagogastrostomy after minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE). Patien...

BACKGROUND To compare surgical outcomes of thoracoscopic and laparoscopic esophagectomy with open esophagectomy in order to study the learning curve of minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancers. METHODS Among 109 esophageal cancer patients retrospectively studied, 59 patients underwent minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) and 50 underwent open surgery (OE). In the MIE group, the fir...

Uniform asymptotic approximations for the positions and widths of Mie resonances are reported . The results improve the accuracy of previous approximations, typically, by several orders of magnitude . They are suitable for fast numerical evaluation, allowing every resonance to be located well within its width, for all resonances of practical interest . The relative errors are very small even fo...