OBJECTIVE Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) using Transient Elastography (TE) for liver fibrosis assessment is difficult to be performed in obese and overweight patients by standard M probe, thus the XL probe was developed. The aim of our paper was to assess the usefulness of the XL probe in daily clinical practice. MATERIAL AND METHOD Our study included 216 patients (mean BMI 30.1+/-4.1 kg/m...

The runsolver tool was designed for the 2005 edition of the pseudo-Boolean competition in order to solve the problem of correctly measuring the resources used by solvers, especially solvers with multiple processes. Since then, it has been improved in several directions and adopted by several other competitions or frameworks. This paper presents the inner working of this tool and the technical p...

The chimeric anti-CD20 antibody rituximab (Rituxan, IDECC2B8) is widely used in the clinical treatment of patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Rituximab sensitizes NHL B-cell lines to drug-induced apoptosis via down-regulation of Bcl-xL expression. We hypothesized that the mechanism by which rituximab down-regulates Bcl-xL may be, in part, due to inhibition of constitutive nuclear factor...

1 The Optima XL-I integrates both absorbance and interference optics on a single instrument; the Optima XL-A has absorbance optics only. 2 This optical system is called by a variety of names (Rayleigh optics, interference optics, and refractive optics). The names can be used interchangeably but it will be referred to here as Rayleigh interference optics. Choosing Which Optical System of the Opt...

Extremely large-scale massive MIMO (XL-MIMO) is a promising technique for future 6G communications. However, existing far-field or near-field channel model mismatches the hybrid-field feature in practical XL-MIMO system. Thus, and estimation schemes cannot be directly used to accurately estimate channel. To solve this problem, we propose an efficient scheme by modeling Specifically, firstly rev...

An efficient finite volume approach has been used to develop a three dimensional Helmholtz acoustic solver for complex geometries. This acoustic solver was utilized to obtain characteristic mode shapes and frequencies of a baffled combustion chamber. An experimental setup, including stationary and moving sensors, has also been used to measure these quantities for the same model combustion chamb...