Inspired by the cross-ratio proposed Clayton, we study a new risk ratio to describe relation between components of random vector (T1,T2). It is conditional hazard rate function T1 at t1, given that T2≥t2 and T2<t2. A nonparametric estimator its asymptotic distribution obtained using Bernstein smoothing for survival copula (T1,T2) derivatives. The finite sample performance studied via simulation...

Introduction This clinical report assesses the feasibility of 3-D ultrashort echo time enhanced T2* (UTE-T2*) mapping of cartilage in vivo and examines the sensitivity of UTE-T2* to early cartilage degeneration compared to arthroscopic grading as the standard. UTE-T2* mapping is sensitive to changes in short-T2 signal (T2 <10ms) and may provide improved sensitivity to subtle matrix alterations,...

Introduction: A number of CMR imaging approaches have been proposed for detecting myocardial edema accompanying acute myocardial infarctions (AMI). T1 [1] and T2 [2] maps, T2-prepared SSFP [3] and cine SSFP (bSSFP) [4,5] are potential alternatives to the most commonly employed T2-weighted STIR (T2-STIR) [6] imaging. However, the relative sensitivities of the various approaches in relation to th...

Background Transfusion-induced iron overload leads to many complications in patients with β-thalassemia major. This study aimed to compare the level of iron stored in the liver and heart measured by MRI T2 * with ferritin levels in these patients. Materials and Methods This study was done on 52 patients with β-thalassemia major aged 7 to 29 years. Serum ferritin level was checked and heart and ...

MRI has recently been applied to study the retina in vivo. Measurements of relaxation time constants (T1, T2, and T2*) and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of the retina would be useful to systemically optimize structural, physiological, and functional MRI contrasts. MRI studies were performed on 12 anesthetized and paralyzed rats. High-resolution T1, T2, T2* and ADC of the rat eyes wer...

This paper discusses the decidability of determinacy and subsumption for tree transducers. For two tree transducers T1 and T2, T1 determines T2 if the output of T2 is identified by the output of T1, that is, there is a partial function f such that [[T2]] = f ◦ [[T1]] where [[T1]] and [[T2]] are tree transformation relations induced by T1 and T2, respectively. Also, T1 subsumes T2 if T1 determin...

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of iron fertilization on growth, yield and quality groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) during kharif, 2016 (June September at instructional farm, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. Twelve treatments viz. T1: control (water spray); T2: FeSO4 basal @ 25 kg ha-1; T3: Foliar spray citric acid 0.1% 45 75 day...