PURPOSE To determine the effect of transition to digital screening mammography on clinical outcome measures, including recall rate, cancer detection rate, and positive predictive value (PPV). MATERIALS AND METHODS Institutional review board approval and the need for informed consent were waived for this HIPAA-complaint study. Practice audit data were obtained for three breast imaging radiolog...

Pulse pressure velocity measurements (PPV) may be a source of useful information on artery state. A 2007 guideline of the European Society of Hypertension recommends assessing arterial stiffness in patients with arterial hypertension, by measuring the PPV. Mechanical changes in the cardiovascular tree involved in the blood ejection have been measured at the thorax level and on the wrist using i...

background :this paper explores the gender-related bilateral differences of extensor and flexor torques of the knee joint at low and high angular velocities in iranian healthy males and females.   methods : 70 healthy subjects (29 males (26.61±4.34 yrs and 41 females with average age of 23.07±3.70 yrs)) were participated in this study. isokinetic peak torque values for knee extensors and flexor...

Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) originally have been established for velocity field visualization. In the meantime flow fields of interest in classical and applied fluid mechanics are essentially inseparable from thermal effects in the majority of cases. Different physical phenomena are involving for temperature field mapping depending on physical proper...

We study the effects of fluid–particle and particle–particle interactions in a three-dimensional monodispersed reactor with unstable fluidization. Simulations were conducted using immersed boundary method for particle Reynolds numbers 20–70 an Archimedes number 23 600. Two different flow regimes identified as function number. For low ( $20 < Re_p 40$ ), porosity is relatively dynamics are do...

We used speckle visibility spectroscopy to measure the time-resolved dynamcis of avalanching down the inclined surface of a granular material in a half-full rotating drum operating in the slumping regime. The distribution of the avalanche period, t(d), rest time between them, t(r), and peak particle velocity fluctuation, δv(p)(2), are all normally distributed. While the distributions of the two...

Herein, the incorporation of TiO 2 nanoparticles (NPs), SiO NPs, and their nanocomposite (STNC) to enhance optoelectronic properties hybrid poly[9,9′‐di‐ n ‐octylfluorenyl‐2,7‐diyl] (F8), poly[2‐methoxy‐5(2‐ethylhexyl)‐1,4‐phenylenevinylene)] (MEH‐PPV), poly[2‐methoxy‐5‐(3,7‐dimethyl‐octyloxy)‐1,4‐phenylenevinylene]‐end capped with dimethylphenyl (MDMO–PPV–DMP) are revealed. The tune donor (F8)...

Shock wave experiments have been conducted on San Gabriel anorthosite and San Marcos gabbro to peak stresses between 5 and 11 GPa using a 40-mm-bore propellant gun. Particle velocity wave profiles were measured directly at several points in each target by means of electromagnetic gauges, and Hugoniot states were calculated by determining shock transit times from the gauge records. The particle ...

Positive-pressure ventilation (PPV) is widely used for treatment of acute cardiorespiratory failure, occasionally at the expense of compromised cardiac function and arterial blood pressure. The explanation why has largely rested on interpretation of intracardiac pressure changes. We evaluated the effect of PPV on the central circulation by studying cardiac chamber volumes with cardiac magnetic ...

Preliminary measurements and numerical predictions reveal that simple, and relatively small, horns generate remarkable amplification of acoustic particle velocity. For example, below 2 kHz, a 2.5 cm conical horn has a uniform velocity amplification ratio (throat-to-mouth) factor of approximately 3, or, in terms of a decibel level, 9.5 dB. It is shown that the velocity amplification factor depen...