Introduction: MR compatible spirometer is needed for (i) monitoring of anaesthetized patients and (ii) sequence synchronization and/or image reconstruction. Patient motion is likely to induce motion artifacts (ghosting) in image thus reducing its quality during MRI acquisitions. When breath-hold acquisitions are not possible, as for uncooperative children, an alternative technique is proposed, ...

Trading goods online has numerous advantages. One that is particularly compelling is that online merchants can offer their goods at lower prices compared to their offline counterparts. The physical distance between buyers and sellers, however, also leads to problems of trust. Consider the online auction site eBay as an example: its procedure is such that the winning bidder (henceforth the buyer...

Topically applied tretinoin (a retinoid) has been used for over 25 years to treat acne and disorders of keratinization. Now, tretinoin emollient cream, 0.05% (Renova®), may be prescribed for the treatment of photodamaged and chronologically aged skin, in conjunction with appropriate skin care and sun protection routines. Mild to moderate cutaneous side effects to topical tretinoin, such as xero...

A proper coarse variable set for Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) solvers can be constructed using Compatible Relaxation (CR). For a given coarse set, CR is a modified relaxation scheme that keeps the values of the coarse variables intact. Its convergence factor is a predictor of the potential AMG efficiency, similarly to the smoothing factor in geometric multigrid. A practical CR-based coarse set con...