INTRODUCTION During adrenal venous sampling (AVS) procedure, radiologists administer a contrast agent via the catheter to visualize the proper catheter position. MATERIALS AND METHODS A patient with primary aldosteronism diagnostic-hypothesis was admitted for AVS. A venogram was performed to
confirm the catheter's position with 2mL of Iopamidol 300 mg/mL. Samples were collected with syringe c...

We study the problem of deleting the smallest set S of vertices (resp. edges) from a given graph G such that the induced subgraph (resp. subgraph) G \ S belongs to some class H. We consider the case where graphs in H have treewidth bounded by t, and give a general framework to obtain approximation algorithms for both vertex and edge-deletion settings from approximation algorithms for certain na...

The characterization of separators for Li-ion or Li-metal batteries incorporating hydrophobic ionic liquid electrolytes is reported herein. Ionic liquids made of N-butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium (PYR14+) or N-methoxyethyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium (PYR12O1+), paired with bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (TFSI-) or bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (FSI-) anions, were tested in combination with separators hav...

Nowadays, the increasing demand for energy in the world is one of the main concerns for energy supply. In fact, the required energy can be obtained by increasing the production rate of fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas. However, improving the efficiency of the equipment and facilities might have a significant impact on production from hydrocarbon resources. With respect to this subject, ...

Increasing worldwide demand for mammalian cell production capacity will likely be partially satisfied by a greater use of higher volumetric productivity perfusion processes. An important additional component of any perfusion system is the cell retention device that can be based on filtration, sedimentation, and/or acoustic technologies. A common concern with these systems is that pumping and tr...

The traditional multi-commodity ow problem assumes a given ow network in which multiple commodities are to be maximally routed in response to given demands. This paper considers the multi-commodity ow network-design problem: given a set of multi-commodity ow demands, nd a network subject to certain constraints such that the commodities can be maximally routed. This paper focuses on the case whe...

Given a weighted planar graph, we construct a simple separating cycle C whose interior and exterior both weigh at most 2/3 of the total weight. The cycle C uses k jumps across the faces and ordinary edges with cost O(1=k) of the total edge cost. This theorem is the main component of a PTAS for the weighted TSP problem 4].

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are highly attractive for future generations of portable electronics and electric vehicles due to their high energy density and potentially low cost. In the past decades, various novel electrodes and electrolytes have been tested to improve Li–S battery performance. However, these designs on electrodes and electrolytes have not fully addressed the problem of low ...

A vertex separator of a connected graph G is a set of vertices removing which will result in two or more connected components and a minimum vertex separator is a set which contains the minimum number of such vertices, i.e., the cardinality of this set is least among all possible vertex separator sets. The cardinality of the minimum vertex separator refers to the connectivity of the graph G. A c...