AIM To investigate the value of the gamma-glutamyltraspeptidase (GGT)-to-platelet (PLT) ratio (GPR) in the diagnosis of hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). METHODS We included 390 untreated CHB patients in this study. The GPR, aspartate aminotransferase (AST)-to-PLT ratio index (APRI), and fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) of all patients were analysed to determine if these paramete...

Amplitude death (AD) is an emergent phenomenon whereby two or more autonomously oscillating systems completely lose their oscillations due to coupling. In this work, we study AD in nonlinear oscillators with mixed time-delayed coupling, which is a combination of instantaneous and time-delayed couplings. We find that the mixed time-delayed coupling favors the onset of AD for a larger set of para...

We use pump-probe spectroscopy and continuous wave cross-phase and cross-amplitude modulation measurements to study the optical nonlinearity of a hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) nanowire waveguide, and we compare the results to those of a crystalline silicon waveguide of similar dimensions. The a-Si:H nanowire shows essentially zero instantaneous two-photon absorption, but it displays a...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been widely used in geologic, hydrogeologic, and civil engineering purposes. Correlated with geological exposures and trenches, GPR data can offer detail subsurface information to past earthquakes investigation. McClymont et al. [2][3] show very good performance of GPR for fault characterization. In this paper, we show an example of practical application of GP...

The Hilbert Transform (HT) and its properties, applied to the analysis of linear and non-linear vibrations, are discussed at great length in [1]. The application of the HT to a signal provides some additional information about amplitude, instantaneous phase and vibration frequency. This information is valid when applied to the analysis of non-linear vibration motions [2]. Moreover, it has been ...

this paper presents a novel method to calculate the reference source current and the referencecompensating current for shunt active power filters (sapfs). this method first calculates theamplitude and phase of the fundamental load current from a recursive algebraic approach blockbefore calculating the displacement power factor. next, the amplitude of the reference mains currentis computed with ...

Attributes remain to be of the utmost importance for the characterization of seismic data. Especially in the scale-range where tuning effects play, the understanding of what is happening, and the subsequent technology to extract the proper attributes from the huge seismic data-volumes remains current. This study starts with the analysis of a set of typical petrophysical log shapes. These log sh...

We propose a methodological tool for examining the layout and revealing the concealed characteristics of urbanwater supply systems (WSS). For this purpose,we use underground images obtained with ground penetrating radar (GPR) as a method that does not alter the system conditions and environmental characteristics (non-destructive methods). The study focuses on wave amplitude and uses intensive m...