Introduction: Despite aggressive surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, malignant gliomas remain fatal. As these tumors are highly angiogenic, therapies directed against tumor vasculature or preventing angiogenesis have been developed. Monitoring changes in structural and functional microvasculature should help to evaluate the efficiency of these therapies. Previous results suggest that MRI fo...

Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation both in the rotating frame and in the laboratory frame is used to investigate the slow and fast molecular motions of phospholipids in oriented bilayers in the liquid crystalline phase. The bilayers are prepared from a perdeuterated phospholipid labeled with a pair of 'IF atoms at the 7 position of the 2-sn acyl chain. Phospholipid-cholesterol or phospholipid-gram...

The gigantic network that makes up the human cerebral cortex is dynamically and unceasingly reorganizing itself. This continuously changing entity is not easy to track, but we can glimpse the living brain by observing the organization within zones representing the first stages of sensory input from the outside world. Primary auditory, visual and somatosensory cortices mirror the spatial arrange...

One of the most efficient non-destructive techniques for finding hidden faults in a plate is the use of ultrasonic Lamb waves. These waves are reflected by faults, and from this reflection, we can locate the faults. For that, we need to know how the Lamb waves propagate. Their propagation is determined by the dynamic elastic constants C 0 pq , so we must find these constants. These constants ca...

A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. Unsustainable and illegal wildlife trade (IWT) threatens species plants, animals fungi worldwide, making reduction IWT a global conservation priority. Reducing IWT, while also strengthening legal, sustainable supply chains, requires an in-depth understanding consumer behaviour, which is growing focus a...

Scab, caused by Cladosporium cucumerinum Ell. et Arthur, is a prevalent disease of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) worldwide. Scab can cause serious losses for cucumber production, especially in protected culture such as high tunnel production. Resistance to cucumber scab is dominant and is controlled by a single gene, Ccu. Breeding for resistant cultivars is the most efficient way to control the...

There are 339 combinatorial types of generic metrics on six points. They correspond to the 339 regular triangulations of the second hypersimplex ∆(6, 2), which also has 14 non-regular triangulations. 1 The Metric Fan We consider the cone of all metrics on the finite set {1, 2, . . . , n}: Cn = { d ∈ R(n2) : dij ≥ 0 and dij + djk ≥ dik for all 1 ≤ i, j, k ≤ n } . This is a closed convex pointed ...