We present a rare case of rapidly enlarging inflamematory hepatocellular adenoma (IHCA) in a 60-yearold Japanese man. Screening abdominal computed tomography (CT) for the fatty liver patient revealed a 1.7-cm liver mass in the anterior segment of the liver. After 19 months, the lesion had rapidly enlarged to 6 cm in diameter and the patient was referred to our hospital. On perflubutane microbub...

We measured binocular rivalry between dichoptic, orthogonal, sinusoidal gratings both having spatial frequencies of 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 c deg-1 in fields ranging from 0.5 to 8 deg of visual angle in diameter. Total time that one or the other grating was exclusively visible had an inverted U-shaped relationship with spatial frequency, with the peak shifting to coarser spatial frequencies as th...

This paper presents a joint speech and audio coding algorithm combining sinusoidal modeling and a perceptually adapted Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT). The input signal is limited to the band of 50-7000 Hz, and sampled at 16 kHz. The sinusoidal modeling uses a Sinusoidal Similarity Measure (SSM) to find stable sinusoidal components. A novel pitch harmonics based encoding is applied to encode the...

Sinusoidal signal can be used as stimulus to test static and dynamic parameters of ADC. A sigma-delta modulation based sinusoidal signal generator for ADC testing in SOC was introduced. The generator was built on the same chip with ADC. A numerical resonator generated a sinusoidal signal which was converted to a single bit stream by a sigma-delta modulator. Due to oversampling, the quantization...

Models of the dipper effect seen in contrast discrimination experiments predict that small amounts of noise should facilitate detection of a subthreshold sinusoidal grating. Although facilitation of chromatic sine waves has been measured with chromatic or luminance noise, a facilitory effect of luminance sinusoidal gratings has not been measured, most likely because the stimulus characteristics...

A method for evaluation of parasitic frequency modulation (wow) in archival audio is presented. The proposed approach utilizes sinusoidal components as their variations are highly correlated with the distortion variations. The sinusoidal components are extracted from audio signal by means of sinusoidal modeling procedures being often severely distorted and in case of wow also significantly modu...

Optical fiber is increasingly popular and appreciated as a modern sensor technology in various sectors, one of which for medical functions. This study was conducted to detect human diaphragmatic breathing flow using theoretical experimental approaches. Initially, the lung model formed finite element method Navier-Stokes equation by applying principles momentum continuity. Furthermore, Bragg gra...

Liver repair after acute liver injury is characterized by hepatocyte proliferation, removal of necrotic tissue, and restoration of hepatocellular and hepatic microvascular architecture. Macrophage recruitment is essential for liver tissue repair and recovery from injury; however, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Signaling through vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 (VEGFR1) is s...

This paper describes a novel analysis-synthesis method based on estimation and comparison between spectral methods that are specifically designed for modeling of random signals. These methods are an alternative to the discrete Fourier transform, providing high-resolution, smooth and easily interpretable spectral estimation over short signal frames. It is generally acknowledged that musical sign...

Microvascular changes during the development of follicles in bovine ovaries were studied by scanning electron microscopy of corrosion casts. A clear vascular plexus of ovarian follicles appeared at the stage when secondary follicles were 200-400 microns in diameter. The plexus consisted initially of a thin, roughly structured and single-layered capillary network. During follicular development, ...