conclusion in breast cancer after nac, the lesion t2 relaxation time was reduced in the responders, and this finding is potentially useful to assess the response to nac. results in 26 cases with nac, the mean lesion t2 relaxation time before nac was 81.34 ± 13.68 ms, compared with 64.50 ± 8.71 ms after nac. significant differences in the lesion t2 relaxation times existed between the pre- and p...

The structural relaxation behavior of aqueous solution of poly(ethylene glycol) and methoxy-capped poly(ethylene glycol), both of mean molecular mass 400 g/mol, is investigated by Brillouin scattering experiments. In both cases non-Debye relaxation processes have been detected, proceeding on the picosecond time scale. The average values of the detected relaxation time distributions fail to foll...

The Mn cluster complex [Mn 12 O 12 (CH 3 COO) 16 (H 2 O) 4 ] ) 2CH 3 COOH ) 4H 2 O exhibits macroscopic quantum tunneling of magnetic moment, as evidenced by pronounced steps in the magnetization curve at low temperatures. The magnetization of Mn 12 acetate single crystals, and the slow relaxation of the magnetic moment, was measured in the temperature range from 3 K down to 60 mK with a very s...

Slow magnetic relaxation is observed for [(tpa(Mes))Fe](-), a trigonal pyramidal complex of high-spin iron(II), providing the first example of a mononuclear transition metal complex that behaves as a single-molecule magnet. Dc magnetic susceptibility and magnetization measurements reveal a strong uniaxial magnetic anisotropy (D = -39.6 cm(-1)) acting on the S = 2 ground state of the molecule. A...

A small salt gradient solar pond with an average surface area of 1.8 m2 and depth of 0.8m has been tested. The depths of storage, gradient and surface zones are 0.3, 0.27 and 0.07m, respectively. The temperature of the storage zone for the summer days reaches its maximum of 65˚ C after about 8 days. Daily variation of the storage zone temperature was about 8˚C which is due to small volume of th...

Low-temperature muon spin-lattice relaxation measurements in the non-Fermiliquid heavy-fermion alloys UCu5−xPdx, x = 1.0 and 1.5, indicate inhomogeneously distributed f -electron spin fluctuation rates, and exhibit a time-field scaling of the muon relaxation function indicative of long-lived spin correlations. In UCu4Pd the scaling exponent γ is small and temperature independent. In UCu3.5Pd1.5...

We study spin relaxation in n-type bulk GaAs, due to the Dyakonov-Perel mechanism, using ensemble Monte Carlo methods. Our results confirm that spin relaxation time increases with the electronic density in the regime of moderate electronic concentrations and high temperature. We show that the electron-electron scattering in the non-degenerate regime significantly slows down spin relaxation. Thi...

For steady state H-mode operation, a relaxation mechanism is required to limit build-up of the edge gradient and impurity content. C-Mod sees two such mechanisms-EDA and grassy ELMs, but not large type I ELMs. In EDA the edge relaxation is provided by an edge localized quasicoherent electromagnetic mode that exists at moderate pedestal temperature T< 400 eV, high pedestal density and high edge ...