Domain wall (DW) pinning in ferromagnetic nanowires is in general a complex process. Distortions of the DW shape make quantitative agreement between modeling and experiment difficult. Here we demonstrate pinning using nanometer scale localized stray fields. This type of interaction gives well-characterized, tailorable potential landscapes that do not appreciably distort the DW. Our experimental...

In the past few years, the data warehouse (DW) has regained experts’ interest due to the paradigm shift from data storages to data analysis. During the development of DWs data passes through a number of transformations and are staged in multiple storages which might lead to data corruption and/or manipulation. Hence, testing DWs is a vital stage in the DW development life cycle. In this paper, ...

Web Data Warehouses have been introduced to enable the analysis of integrated Web data. One of the main challenges in these systems is to deal with the volatile and dynamic nature of Web sources. In this work we address the effects of adding/removing/changing Web sources and data items to the Data Warehouse (DW) schema. By managing source evolution we mean the automatic propagation of these cha...

Introduction Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) provides a non-invasive method for in vivo evaluation of tissue water mobility. Most DWI studies employ single-shot DWEPI techniques which can suffer severe artifacts and image distortion in abdominal imaging applications. Multi-shot TSE-based DW-PROPELLER [1] may overcome these limitations. DW-PROPELLER for brain [2] and abdominal [3] imaging has demon...

3D diffusion-weighted steady-state free precession imaging (3D DW-SSFP) with isotropic resolution was performed to delineate structures of the human lumbosacral plexus (LSP). 3D DW-SSFP clearly revealed detailed anatomy of the LSP and its branches. Our data suggest that the sequence based on 3D DW-SSFP can be used for high-resolution MR imaging of the peripheral nervous system.

The data warehouses (DW) are proposed to collect and store heterogeneous and bulky data. They represent a collection of thematic, integrated, non-volatile and histories data. They are fed from different data sources through transactional queries and offer analytical data through decisional queries. Generally, the decisional queries execution cost on large tables is very high. Reducing this cost...

We investigate current-driven domain wall (DW) propagation in magnetic nanowires in the framework of the modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with both adiabatic and nonadiabatic spin torque (AST and NAST) terms. By employing a simple analytical model, we can demonstrate the essential physics that any small current density can drive the DW motion along a uniaxial anisotropy nanowire even i...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Wallerian degeneration, the secondary degeneration of axons from cortical and subcortical injury, is associated with poor neurologic outcome. Since diffusion-weighted (DW) imaging is sensitive to early changes of cytotoxic edema, DW imaging may depict the acute injury to descending white matter tracts that precedes Wallerian degeneration; this injury is not visible on con...

We evaluated the correlation between the periodic sharp wave complexes (PSWC) on EEG and the spreading lesions on diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance images (MRI) in two cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). In Case 1, DW-MRI showed increased signal intensity in bilateral caudate, bilateral parietal, and right temporo-occipital cortex at 7 weeks after onset. EEG showed PSWC of 1Hz fr...