[1] Two of the most popular mechanisms for thickening the crust beneath the Tibetan Plateau are (1) pure shear with faulting and folding in the upper crust and horizontal shortening below and (2) flow of lower or middle crust without significant shortening of the upper crust. To help discriminate between the relative contributions of these two mechanisms, well-constrained estimates of upper cru...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate optical coherence tomography (OCT) measurements and methods of analysis of OCT data in studies of diabetic macular edema (DME). DESIGN Associations of pairs of OCT variables and results of 3 analysis methods using data from 2 studies of DME. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred sixty-three subjects from a study of modified Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study (mETDRS) ver...

1. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Brasil. 2. Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre (RS) Brasil. A 63-year-old female patient presented with a 1-year history of recurrent polyarthritis and a 3-month history of dry cough. Her laboratory test results were normal. Physical examination revealed deformity in both ears, with inflammatory s...

Background. In previous studies comparing regional 20MT1 (201Tl) and 18fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) activity in patients with chronic coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction, we hypothesized that regions with mild-to-moderate reduction in FDG activity and regions with mild-to-moderate irreversible 2`Tl defects after 3to 4-hour redistribution represent viable myocardium. In the pres...

The pathology of arteriosclerosis has been much studied in recent years: but the clinical aspects have had little attention. A small book on diagnosis written by Parkinson in 1898 had more space devoted to examination of the arteries than Saville's " Clinical Medicine" of 1939, which has six times the number of, pages. Even Cowdry's symposium on arteriosclerosis does not say much on the clinica...

the effect of weak shear thickening and shear thinning on the stability of the taylor-couette flow is explored for a carreau-bird fluid in the narrow-gap limit. the galerkin projection method is used to derive a low-order dynamical system from the conservation of mass and momentum equations. in comparison with the newtonian system, the present equations include additional nonlinear coupling in ...

A solution method is developed for a linear model of ice shelf flexural vibrations in response to ocean waves, which the thickness and seabed beneath vary over distance, shelf/sub–ice-shelf cavity are connected open ocean. The combines decomposition displacement profile at prescribed frequency motion into mode shapes free vibrations, finite-element water non-local operator connect An investigat...

INTRODUCTION Inflammatory diseases of the maxillary sinus favour the thickening of the sinus mucosa. Therefore, it might be possible to establish a radiological, pathological threshold of mucosal thickening. Furthermore, there is an association between common anatomic variants of the nose and maxillary mucosal thickening. AIM To define the pathological thickening of maxillary sinus mucosa and...

OBJECTIVES Heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) have a higher predisposition to select for VISA with thickened cell walls upon vancomycin exposure, but the pharmacodynamic relationship of this occurrence with clinical doses is unknown. This study investigates the impact of clinical vancomycin dose simulations on cell wall thickness (CWT) and the emergence of resis...