Renal pelvic dilation refers to excessive of the fetal intrarenal collecting system. Although a different terminology is used, pelviectasis or pyelectasis most often mild dilation, and hydronephrosis reserved for severe cases that are more likely be clinically significant. Normal measurements anteroposterior renal pelvis diameter <4 mm at 16 27 weeks gestation <7 ≥28 gestation.1Odibo A.O. March...

A relation on a hypergraph is a binary relation on the set consisting of all the nodes and the edges, and which satisfies a constraint involving the incidence structure of the hypergraph. These relations correspond to join preserving mappings on the lattice of sub-hypergraphs. This paper introduces a generalization of a relation algebra in which the Boolean algebra part is replaced by a Heyting...

Abstract: This paper presents sufficient conditions based on dilated LMIs to analyze and synthesize controllers that minimize the L2-norm of the the closed-loop system for spatially varying interconnected polytopic systems. The approach presented here searches for a parameter dependent Lyapunov function (PDLF) by dilating the original LMIs. This dilation not only helps in the search for a PDLF ...

We show that a refinable function φ with dilationM ≥ 2 is a ripplet, i.e., the collocation matrices of its shifts are totally positive, provided that the symbol p of its refinement mask satisfies certain conditions. The main condition is that p (of degree n) satisfies what we term condition (I), which requires that n determinants of the coefficients of p are positive and generalises the conditi...

Smoothness and symmetry are two important properties of a refinable function. It is known that the Sobolev smoothness exponent of a refinable function can be estimated by computing the spectral radius of a certain finite matrix which is generated from a mask. However, the increase of dimension and the support of a mask tremendously increases the size of the matrix and therefore makes the comput...

Let Pf(x) = −if ′(x) and Qf(x) = xf(x) be the canonical operators acting on an appropriate common dense domain in L2(R). The derivations DP (A) = i(PA−AP ) and DQ(A) = i(QA−AQ) act on the ∗-algebra A of all integral operators having smooth kernels of compact support, for example, and one may consider the noncommutative “Laplacian” L = D2 P + D 2 Q as a linear mapping of A into itself. L generat...

In this article we want to introduce first the Gabor wavelet network as a model based approach for an effective and efficient object representation. The Gabor wavelet network has several advantages such as invariance to some degree with respect to translation, rotation and dilation. Furthermore, the use of Gabor filters ensured that geometrical and textural object features are encoded. The feas...

Data from clinical studies, cell culture, and animal models implicate the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA)/uPA receptor (uPAR)/plasminogen system in the development of atherosclerosis and aneurysms. However, the mechanisms through which uPA/uPAR/plasminogen stimulate these diseases are not yet defined.We used genetically modified, atherosclerosis-prone mice, including mice with macrophage-...

Data from clinical studies, cell culture, and animal models implicate the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA)/uPA receptor (uPAR)/plasminogen system in the development of atherosclerosis and aneurysms. However, the mechanisms through which uPA/uPAR/plasminogen stimulate these diseases are not yet defined. We used genetically modified, atherosclerosis-prone mice, including mice with macrophage...